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I have just watched your video-clip entitled "Sadness

from Spiritual Seeking" and it struck a chord with me
because I have seen much of it. Have visited many
ashrams and witnessed the put-on bliss smiles and the
veneer of holiness. Why is that so common among
spiritual seekers?
The answer is simple -- there is no such thing as a spiritual
seeker who lives in true joy. The very act of seeking
creates the block to joy. Joy, which is the nature of pure
being, is an innocence...the very ground of the spiritual
life. Spiritual seeking implies there is something to find or
get. In other words, we seek to find freedom, joy, peace,
love and inner fulfilment combined with the concept of
time. The very idea of attaining the awakened state
implies a future time. The awakened state is this 'NOW'
itself.
'NOW' beyond time is the feeling-knowing of our true
nature, which often scares us. Ask yourself right now, "Who
are you?" and in sincerity won't be able to answer it. Why?
Simply because there is no answer because there is no
'you.' In this moment, without your past memory of name
and form, there is only aware-space. You are that awarespace without an image or visible forms of locality. This is
scary to the average ego. And so, pretend to know that we
know by having read, studied and practiced for years. The
result of this pretence is sadness brought about by
unconfessed disillusionment, disappointment or the
thought of not measuring up. All this, of course, is deeply
hidden even from our own sight.
I have known so many Advaita followers throughout the
years who know enough to write a book and answer all
questions -- however, when it comes to the truth, there is
no true joy and innocence in one's life which are the
hallmarks of the awakened knowing. It takes humility to
acknowledge one doesn't know the truth when the
pretence had gone on for so many years. At the same time,
it is this humility that can bring a breakthrough in clarity.
Clarity is all that's needed for awakening.
I have heard so much about spiritual awakening but I
still don't know what it means. I'm a novice, can you
help me to understand?
Spiritual awakening is waking up to the truth of your being.
Assagioli, the founder of Psychosynthesis said that 95% of
our energy is spent defending, protecting and maintaining
our self-image -- and it's all an image, imagination! When
you ask yourself, "Who am I?" you don't get an answer
because there is no one to answer that question.

Ordinarily you become confused, dumbfounded or

frightened. You are awareness itself and therefore all you
are left with when you ask, "who am I?" is just pure
awareness and that's it. The mind will want to make
something concrete out of that but there's nothing
concrete about our true nature because it is not something
that comes and goes like matter. It is spirit-consciousness.
This spirit-consciousness produces thoughts out of itself
and we live from these thoughts (beliefs, ideas,
conditioning, imagination and emotions. We make them so
real that we identify totally with them. However, we miss
something greater that never changes and is both unborn
and undying known as pure awareness. It is Presence. It is
Being.
Therefore what awakens us from our spiritual sleep is
knowing the difference between pure awareness and what
you are aware-of. Until we see clearly this great difference
we shall remain confused, unclear and have a multitude of
questions. We perceive two ways when we read spiritual
literature -- we understand either intellectually or
emotionally. Both create barriers in our understanding.
Emotional listening is very personal and so we can't see
what is deeper than the personal beliefs and thoughts.
Intellectual listening, on the other hand, is literal and
listens to the words.
Here's an example of each -- an emotional person would
relate everything they hear to themselves where they feel
that the whole world revolves around them. They often
say, "He must be talking about me when I read him." They
are easily hurt, offended and upset at the slightest 'thing'
that seems to point to them. The intellectual or literal
person take words to mean something separate according
to their thinking. Here's an example...
Someone asked me once to explain what ego is and I said,
"Ego is resistance. It sees as it conditioned to see them
rather than how they actually are. Anger is resistance. Fear
is resistance to what-is. Upsetness is resistance to
something seen or heard. Depression is resistance to the
moment as it is and feel hopeless to control it, and so on.
Resistance and control make up the ego. I emphasized to
her that ego doesn't really exist at all, it is just resistance.
One day this person wrote me and said that she's caught in
her ego and there's nothing she can do about it (of course
not!) Resistance resists itself. So, I said to her, "Since you
cannot control the ego since ego is control then accept it
fully." Some time after she wrote back and said that I
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doesn't exist!" Now that's literal thinking (intellectual) and
so fails to see what is obvious.
In asking her to accept the ego I was really saying, "there is
no ego" which is using different words meaning the same
thing. However, she took the term literally that acceptance
was something for her to do. If she looked deeply into it
she would have realized that accepting something that
resists, automatically removes the resistance. When the
ego's resistance is gone, where's the ego?
Spiritual awakening is usually a slow process because
people are divided into two groups ordinarily -- intellectual
and emotional. Some are both. When we can see the
difference between PURE AWARENESS and what you are
AWARE-OF then that's awakening and both the intellectual
and emotional take a back-seat and finally see clearly what
is actually obvious. In fact, awakening is like waking up
from a bad dream and realize it was all a dream. It is
seeing what is obvious here and now.

I was told by a teacher that emotions are not pure

feelings. Could you clarify this point?
Pure feeling is the 'now' itself where time is not an issue.
For example, pure feeling is pure awareness. When you
listen to your favorite piece of music you might literally
forget yourself. In this 'self-forgetting' there is joy and
innocence -- the true spiritual qualities. In other words,
the qualities that we cherish such as freedom, love, joy,
peace, happiness and inner fulfilment are not qualities at
all -- they are the 'NOW' itself.
Did you ever feel so drawn to something or someone where
you actually disappeared? In that moment you were 'real'
and 'egoless.' Did you ever watch performers perform
incredible feats of focused energy? In that moment there
was no ego (no personal 'I') but pure action emerging from
the focused 'now.' Did you ever laugh so heartily that tears
ran down your cheeks? In that moment there was
spontaneous action from pure awareness. Pure feeling is
always 'positive' because it brings out our true natural
being of love and oneness.
On the other hand, emotions emerge from thought. The
moment we make a thought real it affects the body and
creates motion of energy labelled as 'e-motion.' These
emotions can literally make us sick and even kill the body
when they become too dramatic. Emotions are rarely
positive because they are not pure and often tinged with
expectations and desires. This is why so many people
become psychotic, for example, manic depressives are

people who love the high energy of emotions, which by its

very 'high' works towards a 'down-spiral.' Anything that goes
up must come down. Whereas pure feelings are balanced
aspects of being. The pure state is who you are but the
emotions try to emulate the 'aliveness' of being through
dramatization and create nervous exhaustion.
Of course, we can't help feeling the power of emotions but
we can allow ourselves to experience them in the body
without their story or memory. Then as we observe the
sensation in the body without the story in our head, we
neutralize the effects on our nervous system and unfreeze
the energy that was stuck in our center. It is this unfreezing
that restores our mental health. Unfortunately, most
people take drugs to deal with strong emotions but the
result is NOT healing but coping while tampering with the
life-force energy. Fears, which create strong emotions, are
to be faced and not escaped from. Every time we escape a
fear, we are merely re-inviting its occurrence. Fears are
not something bad but signposts showing us where we are
missing the mark.

I heard somewhere that spiritual waking up is called the

3rd Listening. Could you elaborate on that?
The "3rd Listening" is the most sacred, highest and noblest
'practice' in clear seeing. In fact, it is the awakening itself.
In order to understand what the 3rd listening is there has
to be the clarification of what the first and second
listening are.
There are two kinds of listening initially and they can't be
helped. They are not wrong anymore than 'not
understanding' is wrong! One is emotional-listening and the
other is intellectual-listening. Most people stay in that
groove for most of their life never knowing any better.
Emotional listening is listening in a personal way as if the
world revolves around you. You hear only what is personal
to you. To this listener everything pertains to emotional
feeling. When you listen there is often this type of
listening... "He/she knows how I feel." "He/she feels as if
they are talking about me."
Emotional listeners are apt to nod their heads in
agreement, which of course means they are NOT listening
at all. An emotional listener often exclaims, "Yes, I know!"
and they feel good temporarily believing they have learned
something. However, soon find out the opposite and
complain how they are 'caught' in their ego again.

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Then we have the intellectual listening. Intellectual
listening is listening to the words literally. They usually
have an arsenal of words they use to make themselves
believe that they know. And, they usually want you to know
that they know. Intellectual listening is also a 'doing' type
of listening so that initially they ask... "How do I do it?"
"What am I supposed to do about that?" When these basic
questions of 'doing' are satisfactorily answered then he/she
feels that they 'know' until a crisis in their family life or
relationship arises and find themselves dumbfounded.
Then we have the 3rd Listening which is awakening itself.
Here one realizes that there is nothing to know or seek -there is only 'Being.' All listening is 'being' listening. There
is no agreeing nor disagreeing because in truth there is no
person to do either. The 3rd Listener listens to the
possibilities of what is implied. There is nothing to 'do' but
understand it is all about BEING. For instance, listening is
not a 'doing' but an openness of heart in the moment seeing
the deeper possibilities beyond the personal and
intellectual.
3rd Listening is a mixture of love and 'knowing' that there
are no opposites but that which is all-encompassing as the
moment of NOW itself. When the 'teacher' says, "accept" it
is clearly seen as a non-doing whereas to the emotional and
intellectual is something one does. BEING, which is the 3rd
listening, is non-doing. BEING is known as allowing,
accepting, loving, surrendering, forgiving and seeing
clearly. Here's an example of non-doing as Being...
When you were a child brought up playing in the street
with all kids from different races, the question of
acceptance never did arise simply because you were not
prejudiced. This 'no need to accept' is real acceptance.
This is important to understand. Similarly with forgiveness
-- when you recalled a bully who abused you and saw
clearly how he was abused by his own father, you suddenly
see that there was nothing to forgive -- that's true
forgiveness.
Again, the word 'allowing' is a non-doing but a 'being.' You
realized that 'letting-go' was not something to do but an
allowing of the moment to be itself just like the child
allowing itself to sleep effortlessly. Therefore, in the 3rd
Listening you see clearly that there is no 'doing' in
awakening but allowing, surrendering, forgiving, loving and
Being here-now. There is no past to forgive because it's
gone (it's history). There is no ego to surrender simply
because ego is resistance (ignorance of Being).
NOW is not a present-happening but the content of the
present. Therefore, while the present is based on the

present time, NOW is timeless. This timeless NOW is known

as LOVE. Did you ever forget yourself in the moment of
loving your dance or singing or being in love? In that BEINGmoment there was no time but pure joy.
In brief, the 3rd listening is seeing no opposite. It is all
there is -- just presence of awareness experienced as
oneness (pure love).

I listen to your talks and they are simple and effective;

what makes you know what you know?
If we were to listen to our own spiritual heart we would
also know beyond any doubt. We, as humans, are trained to
think about things; to figure things out, to make sense of
what we see and experience and to reach logical
conclusions based on what we know intellectually. We do
not realize two things initially...
a. We can never be fully convinced through the conditioned
mind.
b. By using the mind to figure things out we block our
natural gift of knowing.
We are conditioned by our five senses and miss the most
important sense of all called the sixth sense -- the sense of
spiritual intuition. We know more than we realize but do
not listen to what we already know intuitively and so we
block it from recognizing its obviousness. For example,
"how do you know that you exist?" -- It is not a thought nor
an emotion, nor a belief or memory. It is a knowing beyond
doubt. Ask yourself how you know this? Isn't it your own
intuitive knowing because you are an aware being?
Your very awareness that is now reading these words
KNOWS beyond any doubt about your true nature. Let's
take another example -- people ask, "How do you know God
exists?" and never LOOK at the word 'God' but merely
respond to their conditioned beliefs about it and then
resolve to continue believing in it or not based on logical
conclusions (which are viewpoints of conditioning).
When someone asks me, "Do you believe in God?" I answer
by raising the question, "Do you believe in awareness?"
Since everyone knows awareness is a fact then I say, "God is
the Presence of Awareness." In other words, since
awareness is universal it is oneness. In that oneness is
LOVE. Therefore God is Love.
There is nothing you cannot know unless you are not willing
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world to the extent that they have lost the ability to
LISTEN within.

analysis or belief. It is clear-seeing as something actually

IS!

Spiritual intuition is your higher sense known as the sixth

sense. When you know intuitively it is certain without any
doubt and nothing could make you budge from it. Intuition
is not a belief nor an experience but a knowing beyond any
doubt. In fact, if you doubt your intuition then it is NOT
intuition. When you met your present spouse didn't you just
know he/she was the one for you?

2. Start by treating all emotional reactions as the first

voice of the conditioned mind. Let this first voice vent
itself without 'buying' into it. Allow yourself to see that no
matter what the story is -- it is a conditioned response
without reality. If you have reached this point of allowing,
then you are ready for the real voice.

Here are the points about Spiritual Intuition.

* Spiritual intuition is a sense of knowing. It is

spontaneous and NOT a question of analysis.

* If we give the slightest intellectual or emotional

effort to understanding it blocks intuitive knowing.

* Spiritual intuition is your gift and birthright and it

will enhance every aspect of life. It is your choice to use it.

* You know it is spiritual intuition when you simply

have no more doubts. If there is the slightest doubt then it
is not intuition but either intellectual or emotional
knowing.

* Body discomforts are signs to be inwardly quiet

and listen. For example, any guilt, fear or anger is a sign
you are not listening and instead 'caught' in what the mind
is feeding you -- a story!! I find that when words don't
come during a conversation it is time to shut up.
* When something is not right for you there is a
subtle or obvious feeling of discomfort. When something is
right for you no effort is needed.
HOW TO LISTEN
Train yourself in the following steps and you will awaken
spiritual intuition.
1. We have three kinds of feelings -- emotional feelings
based on personal attachment. These feelings have to do
with your egoic idea of self. The words that hurt and
offend you are the words that enslave you from direct
knowing. Then we have intellectual feelings based on
literal translation and viewpoint of life. In other words, we
take words literally without direct experience of their
meaning like the word 'God' in conventional religion.
Finally, we have true feeling which is awareness itself. This
is a feeling-knowing without judgement, comparison,

3. Having allowed yourself to vent with the knowing that it

is just an emotional reaction or intellectual conclusion,
now you are ready for the Real Inner Voice of Intuition...
4. Sit still and relax by watching your breath for a minute
or two without thinking. Then listen to the sounds around
you without judgement until you feel quiet inside. Then
feeling tranquil and relaxed ask yourself the question that
bothered you. Do not reach for an answer but just sit with
the question allowing your intuitive voice to guide. Having
done that, smile and get up. Sooner or later you will get an
intuitive feeling-knowing what is the 'right' thing to do or a
revelation of how it actually IS!
The more you use this discipline, the sooner you awaken
your natural inner voice of truth. People will soon start
asking you, "How do you know so much?" and you'll say,
"Everything I know you also know if you apply yourself. This
is the REAL LIFE of the SPIRIT.
In 30 years of hypnotherapy
Mon May 05 2008
I may seem a little forward but I am a very curious
fellow. I would truly appreciate sharing what you have
learned in your 30 years of conducting hypnotherapy
sessions with hundreds of people one-on-one?
I may have mentioned this before in satsangs -- in the 30
years I have conducted one-on-one sessions (which I now
call 'Supersentience.') I have witnessed our oneness. Every
person is unique with a different personality, gender,
desires, hopes and fears, and yet, behind the outer
appearance is the same longing for happiness, peace, love
and fulfilment. In other words, every human is seeking,
consciously or unconsciously, Self-fulfilment. The trouble
starts when we believe we are separate and different in
our needs. We all want to awaken spiritually but don't
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When we finally discover that it is spiritual awakening that
we need (and this is already a giant leap in awareness)
then we believe two things...
1. We believe that awakening is something we are going to
attain instead of seeing how things are.
2. We believe that there is something wrong with us that
needs to be overcome or resisted.
Awakening spiritually is realizing this NOW itself beyond
our past and future. It is seeing that time and space as we
know it only exists in our sensual world. We try to grasp
spiritual knowledge through books and teachings alone as if
information is going to do it. We fail to see that awakening
is seeing what is obvious here and now.
Then, something else happens when we fail to realize NOW
as all there is, we start blaming our childhood, our
conditioned state, our environment and the world in
general. We do not see that how we see the world is our
mind-set and viewpoint.

So why do most people go through this process initially?

The problem is not our weaknesses or vices that block us
but our illusions. We are haunted by the images we have
placed instead of Reality. For example, anyone with
average intelligence knows that only NOW exists, yet we

hang on to the illusion that we are the past.

The self-image we carry with us is so powerful, so
overwhelming that we do not even see it. Assagioli, the
Founder of Psychosynthesis said, "We spend over 95% of our
energy protecting, defending and maintaining our selfimage and it is all an image -- imagination." When we ask,
"who am I?" in this moment we become dumbfounded and
that's as it should be. We are NOT who we think we are at
all -- we are this moment itself. You are this NOW and
therefore pure being capable of spontaneous existence
filled with laughter, innocence, joy, happiness and
fulfilment. Yet the thought of being 'spiritual' (spirit) is
scary to our ego (past).
This fear of NOW is so common that we would rather
believe we are the past and feel guilty for it then be
without an individual identity. The word 'spirit' cannot be
computed by the mind and so it creates a substitute, which
is an image. This image, based on the past, is also known
as unconscious guilt filled with self-doubt. And, it can't be
any other way because the greatest illusion is the belief
that we are the past. Granted that the past happened and
it is history, but 'it happened' and it is not NOW (the only
Reality we have).

This self-doubt, better known as 'unconscious guilt' is so

strong that we keep favoring it over awakening (of course,
this is all unconscious). This guilt manifests as the following
feeling...
"There is something wrong with me." "I am not good enough
as I am." "I am missing something but I don't know what."
This self-doubt (guilt) blocks any ability to see the moment
as IT actually IS! It blinds us utterly and even creates
emotional and health problems.
This guilt surfaces in various ways...
* playing victim of circumstances (I was brought up
this way....)
* Pretend to be somebody special to make up for
inadequacy feelings...
* Become an over-achiever to hide misgivings...
* Become overly intellectual to hide the inability to
love...
* Overly sensitive to protect a fragile ego...
* Restless, listless and always 'doing' to fill a void...
* Become a perfectionist...
...and hundreds of others. In other words, we are
protecting an image that doesn't exist in order to
compensate for an emptiness in the center of our being.
This emptiness is the resistance of our spiritual Reality
believing that if we can be 'something' we can override our
incessant feeling of emptiness.
Emptiness is a natural feeling of anyone who is escaping
their spiritual essence. Of course, there is no awareness of
this escape and so we are often unhappy or depressed for
no apparent reason. All unhappiness is the unconscious
need to maintain our illusions and not face our spiritual
Reality.
It is not easy for a conditioned ego to accept its spiritual
nature as being NOW. It keeps choosing fear, control and
past to give itself an identity.
Awakening happens when we are willing to see that
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spirit. It is joy, happiness, love and peace derived from the
falling away of fear. Fear is the result of the belief in
death. If you are the fullness of NOW how can death
happen? Can NOW die? Awakening sees clearly that you are
not being in the NOW -- you are the NOW itself? Do you see
the difference?
How can we awaken this knowing despite our egoic
conditioning? There is a way and it is not difficult provided
you are willing to 'do' it. The simple solution is called
'Quantum Forgiveness.' This is how it is done... The
moment you see yourself getting angry, upset, hurt,
offended, defensive, depressed or feeling the need to
control or fear loss of control, just forgive it by saying,
"There is this low energy and I forgive it."
When you start 'doing' this from 10 to 30 times a day, then
something starts to happen. You realize that you are
egoically conditioned and see clearly why you have been so
miserable and unfulfilled. Once you see this clearly then
you are ready for the next recognition -- you start to see
that all that forgiveness didn't have a culprit. There was
nothing and no one to forgive. It was all an illusion. It is at
this point (Quantum Forgiveness) that awakening starts
happening.
Most people start to forgive fully when they realize there
was no one to forgive. It was all a process of seeing what is
real.
What is real? The Reality is that you are this NOW itself and
therefore an eternal being. This being, having discarded
most of its egoic karma, finds that it hasn't lost anything in
its shedding but gained so much more. The personality is

the same, the 'person' has not vanished into nothingness

and still is intact. There is the seeing that much has been
gained especially a sense of intuitive knowing that only

LOVE is real. God is LOVE.

Guilt -- greatest spiritual block

Most people carry a burden of guilt. If it is deep seated

enough, it can be like an insidious virus that infiltrates
every aspect of your life, so that all your responses to life
and others are filtered through the guilt feelings.
When we are difficult or heavy handed and reactive, these
are signs of guilt. If the guilt is just a nagging ache then it
could translate into sadness.
In my work as hypnotherapist people have been helped by
seeing the cause of it through traditional religious belief in
sin and punishment.
For instance, a young woman, who suffered deep sadness
from no apparent reason, came to see me. Her parents
were warm and loving and her childhood had been normal.
During a regression into a past life she was burned alive for
being a witch, which meant she was psychic. Before
burning her people hurled insults for her evil ways that she
would burn in hell. When she discovered the fact that she
wasn't bad at all, after all, what she wanted was to help
people. This realization healed her guilt permanently.
After a few years of conducting hypnotherapy I became
acutely aware of the heavy burden of guilt that most
people carry.
Guilt prevents us from having a healthy
relationship with other people.
Guilt causes us to punish those around us for our
problems.
Guilt makes you live in the past and blocks your
soul's purpose.
Guilt often creates life-threatening pathologies as
our bodies attract ill health.

Guilt causes us to hurt people closest to us.

Mon May 12 2008

Is unconscious guilt a result of ignorance of our true
nature or some indiscretion in this or past life?
Lets understand by asking, "What do we mean by guilt?"
Guilt is the feeling that we have, somehow, done
something wrong and/or the feeling we are bad. This
feeling can be either due to something we've done or from
believing you are just a body that is separate from others.
Guilt can also escalate into deep loneliness or emptiness.

Traditional Christian religion encourages guilt for

our sins instead of seeing them as lessons for greater love,
compassion and forgiveness.

Do we get punished for our acts of greed,

selfishness and need for power?
The interesting fact about LIFE is this -- we are all
ONE! Since oneness is a fact and any intelligent
being knows this in their heart, then whatever you
give you receive. For example, let's say you harm

someone, then no one punishes you but yourself.

Why? Simply because it is all one.
Now suppose again, you love someone then that
love returns to you automatically by the very act of
loving itself. If you make someone happy, you feel
happy, period. You get back what you give out and
exactly to that extent. The more you give, the
more you get!! Once you realize Oneness as the
Truth of you then you are free and at peace.

What happens when the body dies? Is the dream

of an individual reconfigured into alternate
universes? Or does honestly no one know...even
awakened "ones"?
When the body dies we are still just as alive as
before but with an astral form rather than a
physical one. I was always afraid of death and the
subject fascinated me. I started researching the
possibility of life after death. I studied psychology,
philosophy, metaphysics and an experience led me
to hypnotherapy.
In my thirty years of hypnotherapy I discovered
that most people's problems started at their birth
through transgressions done in a past life. These
regressions in past lives through hypnosis opened
up a whole new world for me. Cases even of cancer
were getting healed. People with panic problems
started feeling wonderful.
Let me give you an example, I had a Jew come to
see me and he wanted to know why he is being
treated so badly by people. All his life he played a
victim of people's insults and abuses. Then during a
hypnotherapy session he relived a life where he
was a gentile abusing Jews. He was so cruel to
them that he was born a Jew to re-experience his
own abuses on himself.
I also had a young gay guy who was ashamed of
being gay being ostracized by his own family.
During a regression into a past life he discovered he
was a woman in his last life and died being raped.
His sudden reincarnation into this life brought him
into a male body with female characteristics. After
our third session he was completed healed from his
shame and now he is a successful designer. These
are not isolated cases.
So, to answer your question on death -- there is
absolutely no death except our fear of losing our
body believing that the body is who we are. This is
why most people need to wake up spiritually. There
is no death my friend but eternal life. The truth is

the Eternal NOW that only changes in form but not

in essence. NOW is always NOW beyond time.
You wrote and misquoted me...
It has been seen or understood that there really
is no defecative person within my body, but,
rather it is just thoughts that come and go. I
have heard you say in your Videos your true
essence is what you are aware of.
Yes, it is true that there are thoughts that come
and go but you are pure awareness. Your true
essence is NOT what you are aware-of. Your true
essence is pure awareness. Please review my video
and really listen...
So, to repeat, your true nature is Pure Awareness,
which is timeless and always NOW beyond life and
death. It is what you are aware-of that lives and
dies, comes and goes and creates the world we
experience. When the body drops as in 'death' then
we are still fully aware just as much as before BUT
what we are aware-of changes.
What never changes is Pure Awareness. If you
watch the clip a few times with great attention you
can get quite an insight. Please know the
difference between AWARENESS and THOUGHT.
Awareness is undying and eternal essence. Thought
is what you are aware-of and always changes, shifts
and alters.
You asked...
If the universe is in me. I have no locality in
time and space. That's fine, then how come this
non-local awareness is only aware of the
thoughts in this body called Mike at this present
moment? Are we just "holes" for awareness to
peak through?
There is only one 'I' often referred to as 'me.'
However, initially when there is no spiritual
awakening, we take this 'I' to be personal and local
and also as the body. When we start seeing that our
awareness has no boundary except through
thought, then we start realizing that 'others' have
the same essence as you. In fact, you are a human
being. There are 6 billion humans on this earth but
only One Being.
Each human says, "I am John or Mary" but in Reality
there is only one 'I' known as God or LOVE (true
pure awareness known as love). Spiritual
awakening happens when we realize that this 'I'
which we had taken to be 'me' is the true 'I' in its
expanded state beyond the body. What I am giving
you are words and cannot explain the inexplicable,
however, as your heart opens you will begin to see
what is obvious here and now.
With love always, Burt

What chooses to be less ego & more witness?

Sat May 17 2008
What chooses to be less ego and more witness? Does the
ego decide, in essence being complicit with it's own
demise? Is it the witness itself? that doesn't seem right
as the witness just witnesses. So is there some other
part of myself that "chooses" who is behind the wheel?
Nothing chooses to be less ego and more witness. Witness
is our true nature as pure awareness. However, we are
caught ordinarily in what we are aware-of -- awareness of
separation from others; awareness of the world; awareness
of wars and news and so on. We can put it this way -- you
are a human being. The human is what you are aware-of
(mind). 'Being' is pure awareness itself (the witness). Since
Being is what creates and makes manifest the human, it is
also its controller.
When we start recognizing who is the driver (pure
awareness) then we automatically become more aware of
the witnessing part of us. This greater awareness of itself
becomes a major fulcrum of our daily life and thus
becomes more prominent. This greater focus on the
witness automatically minimizes our ego's control thus
there is less ego as we see that the witness is our reality.
There is no chooser or 'doer' but only 'seeing' more and
more into what truly IS!
The ego doesn't decide, it simply chooses automatically
from its past experience of fear. For example, you see a
very attractive girl and you are drawn like a magnet. The
ego will remind you that such an encounter in the past
ended in disaster and it might happen again and all of a
sudden there is hesitation, uncertainty, even fear.

Our natural tendencies get thwarted by the ego's past

experiences. Thus, when we do not learn from ego's past
we tend to let the ego 'decide' for us. However, when we
SEE clearly that the ego is just fear then it loses its
influence and we are freer. The ego never decides for
greater love or joy but only offers protection.
Here's another example, let's say you love dancing and the
last time you were the only one on the floor and for some
reason you made a fool of yourself. Next time you try to
get up to dance and be the first one, the ego will try to
protect you against embarrassment. Whereas your true
spirit of BEING is more spontaneous and egoless in its pure
enjoyment and therefore takes chances. The ego only
seems to decide when there is fear of being fully yourself
and then tries to protect you by increasing your uncertainty
and lack of self-confidence. The ego protects to increase
its power and also protect itself from dying. The ego dies
when confidence, courage and love take over.
The witness is the driver but sometimes gets twisted by the
ego's interpretation. For example, let's say you want the
truth of your being and therefore sit still, relax and enter
the vast space within you. It will feel peaceful and gentle
at first, then the ego gets frightened of its own demise and
starts protecting itself by turning this vast space within
into a very dark emptiness and a frightening abyss.
Actually no one is behind the wheel doing the driving but
Oneness itself. Everyone of us gets driven according to our
capacity and readiness to see. The more we see, the
greater becomes our freedom and joy. There are over 6
billion humans on this earth, but there is only One Being,
One Awareness, One Witness playing all the roles of the 6
billion humans. Each human evolves at its own pace
according to its ability to 'see.' It is all quite perfect in its
grandeur.