Supersentience Teaching of One Essence #10p

True Seeing!
The Awareness Foundation
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To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.
~~ William Blake ~~ Someone wrote: The last script, The Wonder of This! was a revelation to me. It seems there are two blocks to spiritual understanding either we think we know, which means we dont know because it is a belief rather than heart knowing; Or, there is the belief that we dont know, despite the fact that the Truth is NOW itself, since we do not live it. It is all about seeing in the moment, isnt it? The spiritual life is the simplest thing there is, all it requires is the eyes to see what-is! When we say, The Wonder of This! we are saying that this moment is truly divine. It is both a miracle and a great wonder. Seeing is seeing with awe and wonder at the life we have taken for granted. Living in wonder and awe instead of taking it for granted is what True Seeing IS!

To the statement, This is it! most people would respond Is that all? and then conclude with whatever their conditioned mind has told them about this moment. We fail to see what actually IS! Why do we fail to see what actually IS here and now? Ordinarily, we do not see because the mind is ready to conclude, judge and interpret from its conditioned memory without having any awareness of what is happening. We have come a long way from feeling natural in our natural world and one of the things that most ignites the heart is to see and feel our relationship to the naturalness of all that is around you and in you. Stop for a moment and feel this question -- What does it mean to see the sun rising every day? There are deep meanings that come alive in your psyche when you see the clouds and feel the power that moves them, when you feel the wind taking you and pushing you into som e kind of formation. These events speak to your heart (essence of being), to places inside you where the mind cannot reach. Some of you go on holidays and really believe that it is the alcoholic drinks, skiing and boating that delights you. The delight comes because you and the wind are there and the sun is there and the naturalness is there, and all of those inner symbols that you have carried with you since you began your earth journey are ignited. In your embracing of the moment you feel the Power, Freedom, the Love, the Life of that which you call the Divine. The delight of feeling the sand under your feet and the sun in your face, of hearing the waves are the symbols your essence remembers of your naturalness and pure awareness. We have lost our naturalness through sophistication, where we cannot relax without a cigarette or getting a tan or just wanting to look good. One of the difficulties with being sophisticated is the negation of the simple and natural. Can we experience the natural in the city and our apartment? Each and every moment is rich with naturalness if we remember who we really are. Our bodies are made up of the natural elements and our beingness is Life itself. If you ever feel bored, depressed, then be aware of this cloud coming over you and that its okay. Just start to feel what life is about. Open yourself to listen and smell and feel and see the aliveness of everything you experience. It is all made up of that same magic that lives and breathes as you. Ignite the Presence of awareness inside you and see how you have a purpose by simply being.

Did you know that the very awareness you are (which you believe is yours) is the absolute Allness? The awareness you are is the trigger that connects you with worlds that are NOT physical, and when you start feeling this awareness thats the beginning of your freedom and wonder and the cessation of suffering and sorrow.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~~ William Blake ~~ You are not kept alive by the physical senses, even though you believe that this is the limit of what you are. Deepak Chopra made this statement about the body that we take to be so tangible, You may think you are the body that your senses can locate in space and time, but the body is a field of invisible vibrations that has no boundaries in space and time. Take the viewpoint of awareness, even if only for a moment right here and now as you read this, and to see that there might be some truth in the statement that you are a spherical state of awareness, beautifully, wonderfully empowered, that has NEVER left the point of Source from which all THIS came. The Source (Comforter) interacts with you constantly The Source is not hidden but rather obvious when we just stop and LOOK at who it is that is seeing and looking. We need to activate this point of contact with the Divine Essence and thats the reason for the satsangs. This means the willingness to shift your attention to that wh ich is attention itself. Become aware of the awareness itself. Did you know that this is all the knowing you need? Did you know that it teaches you everything? This awareness that you are is illimitable pure intelligence and when you have the courage to empty your mind, even for a moment, just your pure awareness alone will reveal itself as the answer. It will emerge as either a revelation, a recognition or a spontaneous action.

It is all about feeling. Our initial feelings (the ones we are familiar with) are crude emotional feelings. It is in their full acceptance that we can go deeper to the real pure feelings that empower our recognitions of this miraculous moment we had taken for granted. It is all right to feel sad, lonely or scared; that you can understand it, and become one with it. Your misery and suffering comes when you tighten up and resist what you feel believing it is wrong. In other words, you do not allow your agony to move. Start by welcoming all feelings whether they are miserable or scary. Be courageous enough to experience them directly, within yourself, your negative polarity. Remember this one fact your job is to be aware of what is really going on within you. Many spiritual seekers believe that the spiritual life has to be positive all the time, which is nonsense. The spiritual life is total and based on Oneness of everything. Whether there is anger or even depression, keep it moving. It is when you are not moving that you become stuck, afraid and take that fear into your body, which becomes rigid, stiff, constricted and old. You are holy the moment you stop trying to be holy. You become positive when you stop trying to be positive. When you try to be what you already are, you create a conflict called separation. When, on the other hand, you allow the negative and move through it then you start SEEING, maybe for the first time, that the negative is just another movement and is not wrong. When you become untouched by negative or positive then you start feeling free. It is this freedom that connects you to the true pure feeling awareness that you are.

How to start feeling yourself

Do you know what is fear? Fear is a form of protection against insecurity and lack of safety. Yet, what is lack of safety and insecurity, arent they fear itself? Unless we see the vicious circle of fear we shall not see truly. What does the voice of fear whisper to you? Fear speaks to you in logic and reason. It assumes the language of love and caring. It tells you, I want to keep you safe! and blocks us from seeing that beyond the fear we are already safe and secure. Therefore, just as fear keeps you in fear through caution and false protection, love is already safety and security itself. Fear says, Give me symbols and images like a good self-image. Give me something I can rely on. Love, on the other hand, gives us what is real and unchanging and says, Give me only this moment.

Understand your fear

Take a few brief moments daily to pay attention to your areas of resistance, the things that bother you or dislike, the feelings that you ordinarily run away from. Then address the issue by feeling what it is that you are resisting. Look at it and why it is so repugnant to you. The wonder of being human is that you are not only the computer (human part) but also the programmer (being part). You have the power to feel and understand instantly what is going on within you just by LISTENING to what is taking place. When you think you dont know, it means that you are not willing to listen. Many people come to satsang but few become regular. Initially most people know why they come either from curiosity, to learn something or feel good. However, the regulars if asked, Why do you come? cannot really answer simply because something deeper is pulling them to come beyond the mind. It is all about learning to LISTEN, to FEEL how the Life within you is living you. The more you ask questions, the greater the spontaneous pull simply because it is through exhausting the mind that the heart is left open to FEEL and RECOGNIZE. The real juice of a satsang happens when the teacher is asked questions. The teacher who is in tune with the Silence of Being receives the question and spontaneously answers from that Silence. It is through such interaction that recognitions happen.

Listen carefully what is being implied beyond the words when you understand you, you will discover there is no you as you thought but a vastness that is inexplicable. And then, paradoxically discover, there has never been anything else but YOU the Cosmic Self. The You in Oneness and the you in duality seem to be vastly different. Yet they are not. You might view duality as a series of individual boxes, however, they are like the waves of the ocean. All the boxes are expressions of Life and are therefore Oneness itself. Within that Oneness is the world of the seeming separate boxes (world of illusion) still created from Oneness. Your world (individual box) is not opposed to Oneness. It is embraced by it. Please review this again until it is clear. What can we do to awaken greater FEELING to know the questions that are restricting our daily lifes freedom and joy? Please try the following experiment that will start triggering deeper feelings to emerge 5

The understanding of you.

Find a place where you can be quiet and undisturbed. Turn off your cell phone and concentrate on the color pink. It is the color of love, softness, tenderness, calmness, sweetness and joy. See it dynamically filling your heart space and be with that glow. When you are walking, feel it; when you are sitting, feel it; when you are talking, feel it. Snuggle with it. Feel wonderful about it. And you will feel alive. I mean that literally, you will feel that inner sparkle. Pink is the color of love. Just remember when there is the slightest discomfort such as boredom, fear, anger, depression or any stress it is because love is missing at that moment. Love is complete. Love is whole. Love is the only answer. This means seeing love in the wonder of This! If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~~ William Blake ~~

Experiment in feeling