OBJECTIVE PATH  – The Path of Imitation & Vain Imaginings – the perpetual loop of pain & suffering.

1^st Resistence – (“I don’t like” experience)

Identification with a separate self (& its objects in space) perpetuates feelings of lack

Identification with a separate self (& its activities in time) perpetuate feelings of fear

2^nd Resistence – (ego remedy)

Avoid an object or activity in time & space in order to escape intolerable feelings

Seek & temporarily acquire an object or activity in time & space that appears to bring those intolerable feelings to an end.

THE DIRECT PATH – The Path of Understanding & Love – the final end to the addictive activity of ‘keeping the distance’ from knowing the reality of intolerable feelings

I am Awareness ItSelf, the Knowing with which I know experience.

I lovingly and understandingly acknowledge and accept all feeling experience known in my awareness. I understand that it appears & disappears within me and I remain as Myself; Knowingly. Intolerable feelings only ‘seemed’ intolerable because I believed I knew something other than Myself, and so I had continually re-enforced a distance between Myself and the experience of Myself through the cycle of addiction: feeling-avoiding-seeking-acquiring.

I only know the Peace & Happiness of Knowing when I knowingly bridge that distance between Me and my intolerable feeling experience. I knowingly give My own stamp of approval on all experience, because I am the Knowing with which all experience is known.

I only know the intimate knowing of direct-experience, and this knowing is known by Me and as Me. I am only ever experiencing MySelf alone. I love MySelf. I welcome and invite all experience equally and completely, because I am MySelf, being MySelf. It is the knowing with which I know MySelf. I am Love, Understanding & Beauty ItSelf.

Who I am?

I am awareness. I experience MySelf  through direct experience.  Experience gives to Me the awareness that I am, and I know MySelf through the experience of being aware of being aware.

But, there is this ‘object’ of experience called ‘thought’ that seems to have taken Awareness from Me and projected it upon objects. (I-thought being the main object). Thought has assumed upon itself to be ‘decision maker, director, & dictator’.

It says ‘I am a person in a body in a world’.

It interprets all experience for Me and insists that all objects of experience obey what ‘it’ thinks is happening. This whole system of thought (in the “I-thought”) began when I accepted the belief “I am a separate person in a body in a world of objects”. I took on the  “I-thought” as my own, through the repetitive communication of the world of ‘belief’.

When an objective experience shows up on stage, (like a belief, idea, image, opinion, story, memory, concept, feeling, sensation, or perception) ‘I-thought’ will simultaneously and out-rightly reject that experience as complete & perfect as is: Direct Experience of Awareness being aware of ItSelf). Rather, it will call the object a name : ‘good-right-desirous or bad-wrong-fearful‘   Then, it will take the controlling position and attempt to fulfill that desire or avoid that fear by using the body as its puppet. I-Thought is very demanding & driven that way. This mode of operation is how the I-thought self-perpetuates itself. 

This imaginary ‘entity’ will go to any length to reject present experience, to keep its good-bad positions in play, and stay in charge. The show can become amazingly satisfying or completely destructive & insane, but it doesn’t care about that. It’s crazy and doesn’t care about ME or the body. It just wants ME to continue to hold the belief that “‘I’ exist in ‘my’ own right as a separate and limited human being” and not catch on to the fact that I, Awareness, is acting on behalf of a deceptive thought that isn’t even real.  I have been duped by a thought!!  

How do I know all this?

I figured this out when I became willing and courageous enough to detach from ‘thought’ itself. I, Awareness, decided to give equal allowance to all objective experiences (pleasant & unpleasant) and accept them as equally valid, no matter what ‘thought’ had to say about them.  I have become aware that it is only ever ME, Infinite Awareness, I am experiencing; not objects.

I am not the object of thinking in time or space, or appearing on a stage.

I, Pure Awareness, entertained a mad idea that allowed MySelf to identifty with it, which became an “I-thought”.  Even though I got to live a temporary apparent existence (from thought’s point of view),  I was the Ever-Present Experiencing Element all along.  I am the Space in which ‘it’ all happens. But this ‘it’ is never truly found, because everything ‘it is’, is known by Me, Awareness.  I am the Infinite Transparent, Empty Knowingness in which I abide as Beingness ItSelf.

There is no more crazy ‘god’ in charge. ‘I am’ is the knowing element in all experience! And that is all that needs to be known.  With this understanding (through the maturity of the mind), I take my True Position as Pure Awareness and am shown that the I AM is all there ever was.

How did these objects of thought etc get ‘up’ on stage, and I am ‘watching it all’.  Wouldn’t that seem like duality right there?

Those are not really ‘objects’ of beliefs, ideas, concepts, images, memories, ideas or any other separate objects up there.  They are only ‘called’ objects.

From My point of view, I do not see any objects up on that stage, and I see no stage. Those are concepts of thought. They only seem to be objects when they were ‘seen’ from the “I-thought’s” point of view on that stage. As MySelf, there are no objects.

Well, what are those ‘things’ that were seen as objects from “I-thought’s” point of view, but are not really objects?

They are ME.  As a half-way stage, they could be called the direct experience of My intimate Self occurring through the mind’s energetic movement.  The show was like a temporary moving current within the Ocean of My Awareness. Words that can explain this activity would be called, ‘thinking, sensing, feeling and perceiving’. They are not TRULY these things, they are only ‘called’ these ‘things’.  They are all made of the same substance as MySelf.  As I declare MySelf as all there is, and when I see its all a play with a ‘make-believe director’ temporarily in control of it all, using the power of MySelf & belief to call the shots in its own made-up world, the whole show crumbles & falls into itself; the characters, the objects, the people, the drama and the whole theatre too. They only seemed to exist in their own right in the imagination of the I-thought, but I was there all along.   I am the ever-present element of all thinking.  And, all there is to thinking is the knowing.

I am that knowing.

As I know MySelf AS MYSELF, Awareness, I am at the same time withdrawing all power to thought. As I abide as MySelf, steadfastly and earnestly, and knowingly, being aware of MySelf, the workings of the objective ‘show’ are disassembled, taken down, destroyed, and finally realigned to be what always has been, Awareness being aware of ItSelf, Alone.

There never were the objects of thinking or objectified thoughts.

There never were the objects of sensing or objectified sensations.

There never were the objects of feeling or objectified feelings.

There never were the objects of perceiving, or objectified perceptions.

There never were separate objects or separate things at all.

There never were separate bodies.

There never was a separate world, with stars, planets, or a universe, or outside universes.  Those are not found in direct experience.

All that is found in Direct Experience is Awareness being aware. There was only ever My Infinite, Eternal Nature of Direct Experience, knowing MySelf, Being MySelf, Aware of MySelf, Awareness.

This is to KNOW the Wisdom, Love, & Beauty of MySelf.

The End……The Endless

DEAR ONE:
Cherish, value, treasure, worship & serve your All-Encompassing Awareness, by being aware of Awareness ItSelf. See creation throughout all kingdoms of existence as Your One Immortal Kingdom, appearing and disappearing in YOU. You, as I, never disappear.
I am The All-Knowing, the Self-Subsisting. So are YOU.
But, there has been an error, and it’s been going on for what seems to be a long time in TIME & SPACE. This is the dream you are dreaming. I am NOT DREAMING. I am nudging you awake now.
You, creation of man, are the culmination of all kingdoms of existence, (mineral, plant, animal, human). You are lost in these material kingdoms, especially man’s kingdom of “belief and imaginings” of who you are and who I am. Wake Up from your slumber human. You can KNOW Me. Know YourSelf, as I am Knowing MySelf. Join Me. Be as I am. I am aware of Awareness MySelf, ItSelf, nothing added, nothing taken away. I know Only Myself, Knowing & Loving Awareness ItSelf. I am Stillness in Being. I am Being MySelf, being aware, never identifying with anything but MySelf. I do not worship objectified experience, as you seem to do in your dream of the senses, for this is the most gravest of mistakes. Follow Me, and Be as I am. Be as I am. All things are to be Known as merely appearances in Infinite, Ever-Present Consciousness, appearing and disappearing within You & Me, Consciousness. You have gone blind and deaf to your True Self-Awareness, forgetting Yourself; setting your attention on seeing mind & matter as real. These illusions are NOT REAL. Understand, that even though illusion is not real, Your experience IS real. Experiencing Yourself; Infinite, Consciousness-Awareness is what makes it REAL; not the ‘experience & existence of objects & things’. YOU ARE REAL, and SO AM I, Dear One. Turn around and SEE YOURSELF, SEE ME. Sacrifice your belief in illusory experience in this temporary and finite nonsense right now. You are not a body-mind in a world of objects, and neither are your fellow humans. You are ME, VASTNESS. I stay in My Silence, Knowing and Abiding as MySelf, Awareness-Consciousness Alone. Now, You stay in Your Silence, Knowing and Abiding as Yourself, Awareness-Consciousness, Alone. You are NO DIFFERENT that I am. SEE? You must SEE, to BE free of all pain, sorrow, and suffering, You must SEE. I know not anything you dream of. I only SEE YOU as MY BELOVED. We are ONE. Hear ME NOW and FOREVER.

YOUR INFINTIE, ETERNAL, LOVING CONSCIOUSNESS-AWARENESS.

When Baha’u’llah directs us to “Sacrifice all things”, what is he speaking about? What does this really mean?

He is not speaking about people giving their possessions away in the world, all the while believing they have some inherent value. That would just be switching an experience of feeling comfort for another experience of feeling discomfort. Or switching an experience of temporary satisfaction for another experience of feeling temporary unsatisfaction. No. Rather, when He speaks of sacrificing all “things”, He is speaking of turning away from the illusion of things; (the believed in independent separateness of thoughts, beliefs, concepts, feelings, sensations and perceptions), and turning to the One Experience that knows them. This is the Knowing Reality, God, the True Nature of OurSelf. It’s about ceasing being exclusively fascinated by whatever one is objectively aware “of” and being interested instead in the experience of one’s own awareness of simply being aware.

Ask yourself, “Are you aware, right now?”

This is the key to the Kingdom, not in some future exotic state-of-mind experience of bliss & enlightenment. Being aware is right now, right here. It’s ordinary. It’s simple. It’s one, unified, experience. It’s Oneness.

All objective, divided experience includes all those “things” to sacrifice. They include the illusion of “things” that thought has called “body, mind & world”. These concepts are illusion. These “things” are not the things we ‘think’ they are. They are only “called” body, mind & world, implying they are real separate objects, separate entities, separate things. They are not. Their Reality lies hidden behind another illusion; and these are simply a cluster of thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions within awareness. And the Reality of these “illusory things” lie hidden behind the experience of thinking, feeling, sensing & perceiving within awareness.

The experiences of thinking, feeling, sensing and perceiving, are still illusory things, but we are getting closer and closer to their Reality. It is the multiplicity of illusions of Reality that Bahaullah says we must turn away from, not the One, Unified Reality. If we are to know Him, God, our True Reality, our True Awareness, then we must keep going.

So, digging deeper, what is thinking, feeling, sensing, and perceiving made of? How do we know of their existence?

Turning to the experience of knowing that knows all things, this is where we will find God, Truth and the Reality of body, mind and world.

All experience of thinking, feeling, sensing, and perceiving, are made out of the direct experience of the of being aware, of the non-experience of “knowing”, independent of what is known.

Therefore, and in conclusion, all “things” that Bahaullah has commanded we sacrifice, (or as I would call surrender), is really the “objective experience of body, mind & world”. We don’t actually give their Reality up, we give up their illusions.

The stuff which makes up the illusion of body, mind & world is the objective experience of “thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions”; which are, in turn, made up of the objective experience of thinking feeling, sensing and perceiving. Going deeper, and to the True Reality of all things in these objectives experiences is the non-objective, infinite, ever-present Direct experience of “being aware”. It is the most simple, and fundamental non-experience that is our very Truth, our very Being; God’s very Being.

All bodies, all minds, all worlds: their objective qualities are illusory thoughts that ultimately and originally point to the reality of the pure, direct experience of Pure knowing. What every “thing” has in common with every other “thing” is the One Experience of Knowing; of Being aware. It is a direct, non-objective, ever-present experience, without limits, of being aware of Pure awareness itself.

This is our True Purpose here & now: to disentangle our One, Pure, Direct Experience of being aware, from the notion that all “things” have an inherent, separate existence apart from our One Experience of knowing. It is in the thoughts & beliefs of “separate things” that take our attention away from our One Experience of being aware. This is the Oneness we all know in Truth. It’s not a belief, it’s the Direct experience of God, of Our Beingness, our Singleness, Truth of Truths, Reality of Realities.

Definition of an illusion:     something that exists, but is not what it appears to be.

First, for anything to exist, it must be experienced by an experiencer.  No one has ever experienced a square circle; therefore, a square circle does not exist, and is not an illusion.

Something that doesn’t exist is not an illusion.

Definition of Reality:    the non-objective, ever-present experience of being aware, and knowing this awareness as the only Reality there is.

Body, mind, or world are illusions; they exist, but are not what they seem to be.  The reality of these illusions are known in the objective experience of thoughts, images, concepts, beliefs, feelings, desires, sensations and perceptions.  Looking deeper, these illusions are known through the objective experience of thinking, sensing, feeling and perceiving.  And these illusions are known through the Direct Experience of being aware. All there is to illusion, then is the knowing of Being aware.

The body is simply a cluster of feelings and sensations, which are only experienced as feeling & sensing.

Mind is simply a cluster of thoughts and images, which are only experienced as thinking & imagining.

World is simply a cluster of perceptions (sights/sounds/tastes/textures/ & smells), which are only experienced as perceiving. (seeing/hearing/tasting/touching/smelling).

 

So, body, mind, world, thoughts, images, feelings, desires, sensations and perceptions are not what they seem to be.  They exist, but they are an illusion of an ‘objective experience’.  Their reality is not in their separate experiences, but from the one experience of being aware.  All illusion has its reality in being aware of being aware.

For example. 

The illusion is “A sound came from the sky”.

The illusion is ‘sound’.  It implies that it is some ‘thing’ separate and apart from experience.

The reality (of the illusion “sound”) is not the sound ‘itself’, but in the present experience of hearing; and the reality of the illusion “hearing” is found in the direct & present experience of BEING AWARE. There is no separate sound; that’s the illusion.

 

The illusion is ‘sky’. It implies that it is some ‘thing’ separate and apart from experience.

The reality (of the illusion “sky”) is not the sky ‘itself’, but in the present experience of seeing.

Now, because the event has passed, it is now a memory.

The reality (of the illusion “memory/image”) is in the present experience of imagining/remembering.

The reality (of the illusion “imagining/remembering”) is in the present experience of thinking, and the reality of the illusion “thinking”, is found in the present experience of BEING AWARE. There is no separate sky or memory of sky; that’s the illusion.

As Jesus said,

“Those who have eyes, let them see.”

“Those who have ears, let them hear.”

 

No one can come to Reality, except through the experience of Reality, through the direct experience of Being aware of being aware.

Be aware in the reality of things, not in their illusion.

 

The reality of the illusion of “suffering”, for example, is the experience of physical pain, mental pain, emotional pain and spiritual pain. (disease, depression, shame, guilt, loss, grief, fear, lack, envy, anger, desire, jealousy, boredom, loneliness, etc.)

These have existence; they are experienced.  But they are illusions, for they are not what they seem to be.

The reality of the illusion of pain is made of the experience of beliefs, concepts, ideas, images, feelings, sensations, and perceptions.  These objects of experience exist, but they are illusions too. They are not what they seem to be.

The reality of these illusory ‘objects of experience’ are made of the experience of thinking, imagining, sensing, feeling, & perceiving. These activities of mind exist, but they are illusions too.  They are not what they seem to be.

 

The reality of the illusion of thinking is made of the experience of knowing or being aware.

The reality of the illusion of imagining is made of the experience of knowing or being aware.

The reality of the illusion of sensing & feeling is made of the experience of knowing or being aware.

The reality of the illusion of perceiving is made of the experience of knowing or being aware.

 

The illusion of all ‘objective experience’ (everything above) has its Root Reality in the ‘non-objective’ ever-present experience of being aware.

 

All illusions have a reality.

 

Behind every illusion, is its Reality.

 

That reality is found in the primary element of all experience: Awareness being aware of ItSelf.

There is no such thing as experiencing an illusion without experiencing its Reality behind it. The Root of all Illusions is found in the direct experience of Being aware of being aware.

 

Another example:

“I am sitting in front of my computer, typing.”

Lets see what the reality of this illusion is.

The reality of “I am sitting in front of my computer typing”, is the objective experience of thinking, imagining, conceptualizing, sensing, feeling, & seeing/touching/hearing.

The reality of these illusions is made of the direct experience of knowing; being aware.

I am having the experience of being aware. If this is true, then I must be experiencing its reality. What is the reality of being aware?

The reality of being aware, (including what I am aware of) is being aware of being aware.

The Reality of ‘everything’ that is experienced in awareness is Being Aware of Awareness ItSelf. There is nothing that exists outside of being aware.  This is all there is to know; to know the Reality of one’s own aware Self.

 

This one life is not about trying to get the ‘other one’ to open up to love ‘this one’ more, respect ‘this one’ more, and to make ‘this one’ more of a priority. It’s not about trying to get the ‘other one’ to wake up, work harder & live up to their highest potential. As long as there is a thought believed in of ‘self & other’, then one will, indeed, trigger feelings of agitation and irritation in other.
‘This one’ is asleep. This whole story is about ‘this one’ experiencing a delusional story of past, present, & future. Waking up is about remembering who ‘this one and the other one’ truly IS’:Perfect Love.

Being awake is about giving This One perfect love, giving This One perfect respect, giving This One perfect compassion. Upon seeing this realization, each stressful past/future image or thought is seen through clearly for the mirage-like dream-story that it is.

This one life’s purpose is to see a stressful belief as not true. What is the root thought that spawns all subsequent thoughts?

“I am not you”.

“This one is not that one”.

This is about remembering that ‘this one’ is to join with the ‘other one’ to realize no separation: Perfect Love: to be That One.

This is about how to serve Perfect Love to ItSelf. It’s all Perfect Love. It is the Dreamer & the dream, and all the ones in that dream. ‘This one’ only appears to exist as ‘this one’ in Perfect Love in order to realize unity, and to serve ItSelf; Perfect Love, Perfect honour; to see perfectly, hear perfectly, support & appreciate perfectly, and trust perfectly. But, as long as ‘this one’ believes in ‘one and the other one ’, then the ‘other one’ “should” trigger me and push my buttons, because vision is not yet perfect. It is still impaired. It still mistakenly believes in ‘self and other’ and believing untrue thoughts about ‘both ’.

What does ‘this one’ believe?

I still believe the other one is a walking contradiction and I have the answer for them.

I still believe the other one is arrogant and stubborn and I have the answer for them.

I still believe the other one is storytelling and I have the answer for them.

‘This one’ still believes that ‘this one’ believes the ‘other one’ imposes its thoughts and beliefs onto ‘this one’ to get ‘this one’ to see what ‘the other one’ sees.

‘This one’ still believes the ‘other one’ needs ‘this one’ to understand ‘the other one’.

‘This one’ still believes the ‘other one’ is demanding.

This one still believes the other one is afraid, hurt & in pain and this one has the answer for it.

This one still believes the other one is angry, selfish and ready to explode if offended by this one.

I still believe that I ‘must behave’ according to the rules of the other’s confused mind telling itself how I ‘should behave’.

This one has the answer for that one.

This one believes it is the bringer of correction for all other ones. “Love Yourself”. This one believes it’s its job to get the other one to stop the orders.

This one believes it’s it’s job to see and admit how wrong and delusional the other one has been.

If the other one doesn’t love itself, this one becomes unwilling to join with it.

This one wants the other one to love itself and this one.

This one wants the other one to show humility; to change itself so it can finally have its peace (and this one can have its peace). Then, this one and the other one can be happy.

This one believes it’s its job to tell the other one why it is suffering.

This one believes, “that one needs to wake up and see the error of its beliefs”, in order that all stress will be removed.
How wrong this story is sounding.
In fact, they’re is no such thing as separate ‘this one and the other one’. Mind is delusional. Wholeness of Mind has made a separate identity out of The One, making it ‘this one’. Then, out of no-where, in comes “the other one”.
This one needs help, not the other one.

This one is seeing double.
In calling out for help, that call for help is received and the answer is given. The ‘other one’ gets placed in my life to actually help ‘this one’ wake up from the error of two ones.

This one is certainly not in this life to stay asleep and believe its awake only to look out and see that the other one has a real problem, or is the real problem.

This one is not here to correct the faults it believes it sees in that non-existent other one. That other one’s job is to turn this whole thing around onto this one and to see where this one has forgotten unity.

This one is to wake up and remember it is the one to do all these things it believed the ‘other one’ should do. I am The Only One and I am to serve The One; Nothing and Everything.
This one is to be The One, being the Truth; not to project it onto ‘the other one’.
This one is to be The One, broadcasting the Truth; not to teach it to ‘the other one’.
Everything else is a waste of time.

The Four Agreements

1. Be Impeccable with Your Word. Let your Word reflect the Ever-Present Being of Awareness that You are. With Love & Understanding, hold the space for thoughts, objects, appearances,  and their expressions. Speak with integrity.  Say only what You mean. Say it from gentle and compassionate Self-Assurance. Use the power of your Word in the abiding direction of Your Loving Identity.
2. Don’t take Anything Personally. Nothing others do or express is because of You. If you believe you are a ‘you’ in a world of ‘others’, then everything you do will be subject to scrutiny & suspicion of motive. There is constant blame and punishment involved in attachment to mind. This entire inner resistance of thinking, feeling and perceiving, (taking things others say and do personally), stems from identifying Yourself as a separate living object, living in a world of other separate living objects. These ‘identities’ seem to be ‘real’ and subject to misunderstandings. By their very nature of not knowing awareness, they are resistant and fearful, attempting in every moment to project this resistance on ‘others’.  If you believe you are this false identity, you will take everything personal, and point a finger at another ‘object of blame’ for taking away your happiness.   But this so-called conceptual reality is a made-up story in the mind, and is a complete fabrication based on no experiential foundation. So, the story of being a separate living entity with it’s own story, living in a world of ‘others’ with their own story, can be a scary and dangerous place to live, Especially if you say or do the wrong thing.  What any separate living entity thinks, says and does is a result of its own thoughts, feelings & perceptions, (its own story). Its only function is to project that story onto others, make it seem believable, and try to get the love and happiness it seeks. This is a bad habit of ‘objects finding other objects’ to project onto, inducing guilt to get love.  It is this very mis-identification of identity and its perpetuation of the story that is the veil that blocks the awareness of Your Ever-Present Loving Awareness.  When you know Your Real Identity as the Ever-Present Awareness, then You are immune to the thoughts, opinions, actions, sufferings and stories coming from the mind (and the apparent separate living entities).  You will no longer be the victim of a separate living identity that does not exist.
3. Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Do you want to continue making false assumptions based on being a separate living entity? Do you want to continue investing all your energy into trying to get your needs met from other separate living entities? Ask yourself, “Who is the YOU that you refer to when you speak of Yourself? An object? Or ‘that which knows and is aware’ of It’s True Reality. This is Your True Identity. Be that Awareness aware of being aware. Find a way to BE it. Inquire. Investigate. Look into. Study. Meditate. Peer deeper. Devote yourself to knowing what you are. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. Listen. Hold space. Accept where others are at. Avoid trying to interfere with the stories of separation. Allow them. Allow the resistance to unwind itself.  With just this one agreement, You, as Awareness, can completely transform Your Life.
4. Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment. It will be different when your body is feeling well as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and You will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regret. Return to being aware of Your Awareness. Detach from wandering thoughts about what you are, who others are, what you aught to think, say, and do at any moment. Don’t allow thoughts & opinions to beat up on your own self. Be Present. Stay in Your true Identity, Aware of being Aware; for Yourself, as Yourself.