How to be Free of Ego
Thursday, 26 March, 2009 9:32 AM
"If you ever watch
a documentary on wild animals,
it will become very clear
that life is all about survival.
You are either eating another
or doing your best
not to be eaten yourself.
In the wild animal kingdom,
it is those that live in extreme separation,
which survive the longest.
If you do not live in fear
you will be eaten.
If you have any feeling for the one
that is your dinner,
you will starve.
It is the biggest and strongest
that survive and earn the right to
reproduce.
This is the function of the ego,
to look out for the survival
of the individual.
As human beings,
we have pretty much beat this system
and separated ourselves from this natural
cycle.
Regardless of judgement
most of us find ourselves in a unique
position
where we are safe enough
that we can go beyond
instinctual separation.
Still the ego
is all about survival
through dominating everything
outside of yourself.
The ego tendency is to
be bigger, tougher and better looking,
richer and more successful,
intellectually superior,
to be the one that judges
not the one that is judged,
to dominate others
to be the most popular.
To be right.
All of these things
are the egos instinctual tendency
to survive.
Yet meditation
and spiritual life
means to do the opposite.
You still look both ways
before you cross the street,
but it is when you stop
trying to dominate others
and submit to life,
you grow in awareness
and move closer to experiencing
unity with the whole.
It is in accepting all of these things
in our lives that we resist
where we actually
have the greatest opportunity
to be free of the ego
and attain unconditional peace.
When you truly surrender
and experience hurt, loneliness,
rejection, humility, confusion,
weakness, vulnerability,
When you accept that
you cannot understand life
and all of it's mysteries
yet you allow it to be as it is
that you find freedom
from separation
and dissolve into
unconditional peace.
You experience yourself
as part of the whole of life
rather than an ego
separate from it.
You are nourished by the whole
as love itself, peace itself
and perfect contentment.
As long as you try
and dominate life,
you will be separate from it.
As soon as you submit to life
as it is in this moment,
you live as life itself
and that is bliss.
 while being distracted and consumed
This is the secret by the thoughts.
to being free from the ego.
This is normal.
Blessings, And there is a certain amount
of spiritual growth
Kip" that comes from just
enjoying the peace that is there.

Meditation & Samadhi Explained But true meditation

Thursday, 19 March, 2009 9:05 AM
means to let go
This one is a bit long & specific, of this tendency
but should bring clarity to a lot questions of being distracted
that have come in lately. by your thinking.

"Meditation To little by little,

is a combination have moments
of both witnessing where you are not distracted
what is happening by your thinking
in the moment but are present with
(as opposed to identifying what is here beyond thinking.
with what is happening)
You want to surrender
and surrendering to allow the thoughts &
to what is here emotions to arise,
(as opposed to trying to control because if you try
or resist your experience.) and stop them,
or control them,
you will increase your stress.
So you want
to allow your experience
in this moment You want to surrender
to be as it is so that you can
but without identifying with it. allow yourself
to experience what is here
beyond the thinking.
You want to experience
this moment as sensation
without trying to define it, Yet at the same time,
describe it, judge it, you want to witness the thoughts arising,
or say 'this is me.' so that you do not become lazy
and habitually
get lost in your thinking.
The main obstacle
in meditation is the mind.
You want to be completely focused
in the moment
Thoughts arise
to see the thought arising
And the tendency is to identify
and instantly let it go.
with the thoughts,
to become involved with the thinking.
So there is this balance
that is always the aim:
To think you are the thinker
witnessing and surrender both at once.
and that the thinking is important.
At first, these two seem to be opposites,
And then one thought leads to another
but through practice
and before you know it,
you realize witnessing and
meditation time is up.
surrender are one & the same.

Many will spend their

When you reach this point
entire meditation
life will become very blissful.
simply enjoying a certain relaxation
 this moment
Eventually, and are present in what is,
both aspects are transcended there is no important one.
into a state of perfect stillness
where only pure formless It is all of the present.
consciousness remains.
There is nothing
This is the beginning of Samadhi, but the present.
where the personal 'I has vanished
and meditation happens effortlessly. One life radiating
without cause.
Blessings,
You find yourself smiling
on the inside
Kip" and there is
no reason for it.
Bliss
Friday, 13 March, 2009 10:24 AM There are no words
or opinions
"What can be said or revelations,
when you are blissful. there is just bliss.

You cannot talk about bliss Blessings,

when you are blissful.
It is all just a happening.
Unserious and unimportant.
All of the ideas, opinions
and knowledge of spirituality
keep you separate from bliss.
Kip"
Getting to The Zero Point
Friday, 6 March, 2009 10:01 AM
"You cannot do meditation.
Meditation happens.

Because there has to be a you That does not mean

to have the knowledge and opinions.
There has to be someone important there,
that knows something important
that is going somewhere important.
But where are you ever going?
Where are you leaving to go?
There is only ever here.
If there is something else besides here
then it is the resistance to here
the avoidance of here.
This illusion
of an important one
that is going somewhere
in it's own idea
of a future
just to try
and escape this moment.
But if you give up trying to leave
you grab a beer,
put your feet up
and wait for meditation to happen.
You have to learn
to be aware
and this requires practice.
You can use whatever technique
or method that works for you.
But it is all to get you
to the zero point,
the point of inaction.
The point where you have
taken your hands off the
wheel completely
and allowed meditation to take over.
You can recognize
the zero point,
the state of absolute stillness.
(There is a complete It's program is to always
absence of ego entice you
and subsequently with some future fulfillment.
a complete absence of stress.)
That once you reach
And through recognition a certain understanding,
and practice, attain a certain goal,
allow it to become quench a certain desire,
your normal state. then you will be happy.

This is where meditation happens. The problem is that there is

It is where Shakti takes over no end to understanding,
and does what it needs to do. no end to desire,
no end to attainment.
There is nothing for you to do
beyond this point, It is not like the movies
it is all taken care of. where the conflict
comes to a climax
But as long as you think and everyone lives
you are doing meditation, happily ever after.
Shakti has to sit in the back seat,
until you are tired enough Anticipation itself
or willing enough exists
to get out of the way for it's own survival.
and allow meditation to happen.
Conflict, desire, understanding,
exists for it's own survival.
So it is not that you do meditation,
but you are doing so much already But if you can take a step back
you have to practice to get to inaction. and see this tendency
and acknowledge that
You have to practice there is no end to anticipation,
until you get to the point
where awareness and surrender then suddenly
are one and the same. this whole reality based on
some future happening
It is too subtle to comprehend collapses,
with the mind, and you are left
only by experience in this moment.
do you learn inaction,
You are alive for the first time,
do you learn how to get the heck instead of resisting life for some
out of the way future fantasy.
and allow unconditional peace
to take over. You are alive
in the full acceptance
Blessings, of life as it is in this moment.

This addiction
to seeking ceases
Kip" and there is unconditional peace.

Freedom From Anticipation You see everything is taken care of.

Saturday, 28 February, 2009 8:19 AM That you are held and nurtured
by life itself.
"The mind maintains Blessings,
it's existence
through anticipation.
Kip"

How to Awaken to True Living
Thursday, 19 February, 2009 7:44 AM
"Life, existence
is happening
all by itself in this moment.
It is a flow of energy.
Stress arises
because you try and control
this moment.
You resist this moment.
And the greatest way
you resist this moment
is through the identification
with thinking.
Thinking is always about the past
or the future.
By being involved
with the thoughts,
you avoid
the present moment all together.
You avoid life itself.
You live in a mental world
that only exists in thought.
It is a dream world
And it is a completely
different reality
to life in this moment.
If you let go of control
through the acceptance and awareness
of what is
in this moment,
suddenly the mental world
and all of it's conflicts and desires
stops being real,
and you experience life itself.
There might be
a brief moment of fear
because the 'you'
as the controller
does not exist
outside of this mental world.
But when you realize
this 'you' as the controller
is the source of all stress,
you become willing to give it up.
Then you truly feel alive,
as life itself,
nourished in the eternal radiance
of unconditional peace.
Nothing dies
in this process.
Rather it is an awakening
to true living.
You discover
what you truly are.
Blessings,
Kip"
Freedom from Your Past
Friday, 13 February, 2009 8:28 AM
"If you look
at your problems logically,
you will see that the past
is not your problem.
Whatever hurtful things happened
to you a minute ago,
a year ago,
a decade ago,
are no longer here.
But what happens
is the mind replays
the situation
over and over.
And you end up chewing on it,
being totally involved
and identified with it
without ever even
being conscious of it.
All of these incidents build up
& get replayed over and over
and it becomes your identity,
the program that determines
your experience.
By witnessing your thoughts,
and letting them go as they arise,
the thoughts still may come,
but they no longer
determine your experience.
They no longer
have any power over you.
If you are not
identifying with the thoughts,
then the whole thought process
loses it's power over you.
Everything slows down,
conflict dissipates,
and your identity as your past
falls away.
The memories can still be accessed,
but they no longer define who you
are in this moment.
Blessings,
Kip"
Perseverance
Friday, 6 February, 2009 10:13 AM
"I often get emails
from people saying
'My mind is too busy,
my ego is too strong
to meditate and find peace'
But such a statement
is only an idea,
it has no validity
beyond what you choose to give it.
The mind will always tell you why
you cannot meditate,
why you cannot be free of it.
The mind will always
choose to stay in control,
to stay in power,
it does not want you to be aware
because awareness is it's undoing.
The mind will either play the trick
of stating that
you are unworthy
or that you know it all
and attained it all
and you do not need to be present.
There really is no difference
between arrogance
and insecurity.
They both are means
for the ego to maintain it's power.
It is through perseverance
in awareness
that you break through this trap.
Because the mind is not going
to be of help to you.
It is those
that are humble enough
and courageous enough
to persevere day after day
in meditation
practicing awareness
that break through mind identification
and find freedom.
For them it is not about
attaining some title or
pleasure.
Eventually it is the practice itself
that becomes the reward.
The delight in being free
of the identification with the mind.
The delight in enjoying
that which cannot be comprehended
in words or definitions,
in philosophical teachings,
understanding
or attainments.
It all comes down
to be present
here and now.
Because thinking about exercising
is not going to make you fit.
Blessings,
Kip"
Freedom from I Concept
Friday, 30 January, 2009 9:29 AM
"Beyond thinking,
beyond body,
you exist.
This is easy to see:
Simply close your eyes
and notice your experience
beyond thought.
 with this thinking 'I.'
Stop thinking for a
second or two Because once
and notice you wake up from a dream
what is here. that you were being chased
by a monster,
You will realize you don't have to run anymore.
you still exist,
without definition, Blessings,
without description,
without limitation,
separation Kip"
or conflict.

It is the identification
with the thinking 'I'
that causes all of the trouble.

All of your problems

worries and desires
are about this thinking 'I.'

But what is this 'I'

with problems to solve?
Does this 'I' exist beyond
the idea of it?

Is there really a you

that you define
by a memory of a past
and an anticipation
of a future?

Beyond thought,
does this 'I'
exist?

You assume it does,

because you choose
to identify with
thinking.

But if you look to validate

it's authenticity
beyond thinking,
it is not here.

The moment
you bring your attention
to the experience of existing
in this very moment,
you are free of this thought of 'I'.

You rest as awareness itself.

Meditation is the means

to break this habit
of constantly identifying