I am tired of words. They are merely objects.
Want to view reality?

A crow and a cat?
Friends?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZjZQ6KkiUk

Any further questions regarding oneness?

Namaste

Hanuman

I've seen some great satsangs in my life, but this takes the cake.

Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuro- anatomist from Harvard, shares the remarkable story of her stroke and the sudden awareness of reality that she was blkessed with.

This video is not to be missed.

Take a 10 minute break for a breath of Fresh Air by clicking here and watching her unfold her sudden awakening:


http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229


OM And Prem,

Hanuman

 That which is held in the invisible will be expressed in the
visible; as radical as that seems to human thinking, it is God's
reality. Not a god that is an individual concept made in the image and
likeness of man, but God that is the life and substance of the universe,
the mysterious force or Isness of all that we can know, and everything
we still don't know.

The life that lives us as the miracle of individual consciousness. The
great spiritual leaders and sages of history have revealed to us that
God is One. How quickly we forget that when we look out at the world and
perceive multiplicity and separateness. We can know it is true with
conviction through our own experience, our own inner authority, that
which does the knowing, and knows itself; not a dogma, but a direct
realization of What Is... Life knowing itself.

Oprah recently called him a prophet. When asked what he thought about this, Eckhart Tolle replied: "That's an interesting concept."

Here is powerfrul guidance from Eckahrt:

"Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves. Until this happens, however, most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form."

from: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Page 4

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment."

from: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Page 41

"The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego."

from: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Page 42

"Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and it is secondary. Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity. Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success. Without that alignment, you can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endevor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering."

from: A New Earth : Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Page 258

Love Flowing Thru Me. Here is Adya, spilling out pearls:

"Awakening reveals that there is no personal self, and that everything is myself. It appears to be a paradox. We find we are nothing and absolutely everything simultaneously. When we see this, we realize there is nothing more happening other than love meeting itself -- or we could say you are meeting yourself, or the Truth is meeting itself, or God is meeting itself. Love meets itself each moment, even if it's a rotten moment. This will never happen through the egoic state of consciousness, filtered through the mind. But from the innocence, love is simply meeting itself. If you love me, it meets that. If you hate me, fine, it meets that, too. And it loves meeting that. I am talking about the One meeting itself, realizing itself, experiencing itself.

There is a love that includes the good feelings that we associate with love, and also far transcends good feelings. It is a love that's much deeper than an experience. Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening. The egoic state of consciousness is always closing the doors. Emotionally and intellectually, it's always slamming things shut as soon as the moment isn't the "right" kind of moment, which is about ninety-nine percent of the time. But the innocence and the love do not slam the door shut, even in the face of something that is very unpleasant.

Notice that the more you see past your sense of personal self, the more innocence creeps in. And the more innocence is known, the more love sticks its head out and starts to experience life, live this life, and move within this life. The wisdom becomes available now because one is open. So the wisdom deepens, and the innocence deepens. And the innocence allows for more love, and the more love there is, the more room there is for wisdom, and so it goes. These qualities of love and innocence are what make liberating wisdom possible. They are not only outcomes of the blooming of your true nature, they are also what make awakening and the embodiment of it, possible.

In Zen, one of the definitions of enlightenment is the harmonization of body and mind. This also means the harmonization of spirit and matter. When spirit and matter are in harmony, it's as if a third entity is born -- that's really the Buddhist "Middle Way." The Middle Way has nothing to do with the notion of being halfway between two opposites. The Middle Way is when spirit and matter are in harmony -- when the inherent oneness is realized. Spirit and matter are not two different things, they are two aspects of the One. This is the realization of our true nature.

As humans we become identified with matter. Matter includes every subtle and gross manifestation. Matter is anything that can be touched, seen, felt, perceived, or thought. A feeling is matter and emotion is matter, as is a body, a car, or a floor. The essence of matter is spirit. Matter is animated by spirit, by the life force, and they cannot be separated. Although we can speak about them as if they are two things, if we take away the life force, there is no matter. It's not as if there is dead matter. There is no matter. Part of realization is moving from identification with matter (which manifests as personality or "me") to identification with spirit. True enlightenment is when matter and spirit are in harmony. We could call this harmony nondifferentiation or oneness.

When we realize that we are spirit, there may be a much deeper harmony than there was before that realization, but there can still be some disharmony. So it is helpful to understand the value of exposing ourselves to the teaching, which is the same as exposing ourselves to what is, each and every moment. We need to expose ourselves as we would to the sun if we want to get a tan. Instead of putting on clothes, we take them off. If we want to be free, then we don't clothe ourselves with our concepts, ideas, and opinions; we take them off. Then something happens quite by itself. In order to deepen this harmony, we cannot hold on to concepts just like we cannot stay partially dressed and get a full tan. We will not get transformed. But once we are really naked and completely exposed, we can become transformed or awakened in a very natural way.

- Adyashanti, from Emptiness Dancing

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment

are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance is the key to your limitless nature.

Attachment is the lock that binds you to limitation.

Our aversions and preferences create the boxes we willingly choose to live in.

That which is, the now, is the portal to Freedom.

It is finally available to those who allow, who welcome, all that we perceive.

We welcome not for the sake of "relief" from that which we experience, we welcome so that we are one with that which creates the experience.

Allowing

Welcoming

Accepting

Surrendering

These forms of "beingness" all reflect the perfected quality of our watching, witnessing. They all say" Yes" to what is. For what we are encompasses all things and nothing: "Yes" is the green light allowing it all to flow thru the instrument we call "ourselves."

These are all the same instruction, born of our deep desire for liberation, the final understanding.

Each moment presents a new gift, an invitation we frequently are unwilling to face or an invitation we love so much we hold onto it.

Both Resistance and holding are the prison guards of our self created limitation. We are our own jailers.

All that is resisted, persists.

But, many of us do not see the hidden resistances we take into every moment.

Each fear and each desire stop the one, the love, from flowing thru us.

Allowing permits us to rest leaving us in a continuous state of awe, love, amazement and gratitude.

Our bowing to that which is unchains us, frees us and releases us to our limitless nature.

Consider this simple exercise, complements of Nirmala. Uncover the hidden holding and resisting that blocks your access to abidance.

We do this holding and this resistance because we love those things we are attached to. We do not realize our impersonal universal nature, which gifts us with everything we become aware of. We fail to notice the underlying choices driven by the false belief in duality and separation.

Here, then, is Nirmala:

"A great way to get in touch with your resistance to what is, is asking the following questions: Am I willing to have the experience I am having right now? and Am I willing to not have the experience I am having right now? If the answer is even slightly no to either of those questions, then suffering is present. This is a very high standard because it means that you have to say yes to every experience you're having right now and yes to every experience you're not having right now. One of our favorite ways of saying no to our current experience is fantasizing about all the other experiences we're not actually having. We often think we should be having some other experience than what we're having.

Fantasizing about the past is another way we keep ourselves outside of our present experience. The truth is that every experience you've had you've managed to lose. You're already losing the experience you're having right now, and a new one is taking its place. Are you also willing to lose every experience you have?

These questions help to broaden our focus so that we're not just noticing what's happening but also our relationship to what's happening. They broaden your focus to also include what's moving in you in response to whatever is happening-is it willingness or unwillingness? Is it a yes to this moment or a no?

When you ask these questions, what you quickly discover is that basically the answer is almost always no. Either grossly or subtly, there is usually a no there. For example, you might be willing to have a lot of money, but you aren't willing to lose it. Or you might be willing to have an experience end, such as an illness, but you're not willing to have it.

If you pay attention, you'll discover that trying to manage your experience is what your life is about. We are always trying to have the right experience by saying yes to the right ones and no to the wrong ones. When you practice this inquiry, you begin to see how much of the activity of your mind is caught up in resistance, in saying no to something. Even wanting something is a form of saying no to the way things are. When you are wanting something to be different, are you willing to have it be the way it is? No.

Nevertheless, there are moments when we experience an aspect of our Being that says a big yes to it all, to whatever is happening. In those moments, willingness is present, but it doesn't feel like you had anything to do with that. The suffering goes away, but we didn't do it. In hearing this, we may get excited: "I get it-I just have to stop resisting"; But this is just another way of saying no-this time to resistance-and this will cause you to suffer as much as ever.

What I'm pointing to with the inquiry question "Am I Willing?" is not so much this dilemma (which you can't do anything about, because anything you try to do would just be more resistance) but another way of being with your resistance. Can you ask this question simply to see what's there?

We're not very familiar with being with our experience in this way. Most of the time, our questions are in service to trying to get something to be better. What about asking this question just to find out what's there? Just touch your experience without any added push or pull, without a sense of trying to change your experience. This isn't a denial of your experience or an attempt to transcend it so that you don't have to experience your suffering. You're bringing your experience into focus but not doing anything about it. You're just experiencing it with an openhearted curiosity about it as it is.

What's it like to have the experience of resistance? In the space that this inquiry opens up, it's possible to discover a surprising thing: This big yes even shows up for our resistance. There is a place in our Being that is perfectly willing to have any experience and perfectly willing to resist and therefore suffer. In touching our resistance this gently, just letting it be the way it is, it's possible to touch more of our experience. To whatever extent we can touch our resistance, it's possible to see what else is present. Space is given to our whole experience, beyond the struggle and dissatisfaction created by our various strategies and ideas about what we should and shouldn't resist, what we should and shouldn't allow.

This question, Am I willing? illuminates the endless flow of unwillingness that is our conditioning. This is what we were all taught to do. We've all been programmed to say no to this and yes to that.

It can be helpful to realize that none of your conditioning is your fault.

All of it is inherited. Our parents, our teachers, our spiritual teachers, our friends, TV, and the books we've read have all contributed to the ways we resist. They've all been telling us what to say no to. The beauty is, if you've been around long enough, you've been taught to say no to everything, to opposite things: Don't be poor and don't be rich, don't be proud and don't be self-effacing, and on and on. If you get to know your own conditioning, you discover how contradictory it is. That's why you never got it right-because when everything is wrong, nothing is right.

In the midst of this conditioning is the big yes that you can't make happen.

There's no technique or process for bringing you to a place of that wholehearted yes. And yet, just by being willing to experience your suffering and struggle in this moment, you can discover that this big yes is also present. Nothing has been gotten rid of: Your conditioning is still present, but the view has broadened to include this Presence that has no problem with any experience nor with the resistance to it. Paradoxically, you discover that being willing to see all the ways you say no, opens the door to experiencing what is always saying yes. "

Nirmala,

Nothing Personal

All "Yeses" are born of "Nos."

As the witness,

it is only the discovery and awareness of our "No's" that is necessary,

For that which sees the "No's" is the one who releases them:

It is our true Self.

It is only the distance created by the witness,

The One who sees the "No's",

Which is necessary.

Then, the iceberg releases yet another chunk back into the ocean,

where it.....

Dissolves.......

           Into

                The Peace...........

                                   You Always............

                                                       Were.

Om Shanti Shanti

How can the mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal?

We are using the neurons, our memory, constantly to maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep or dreaming, this process is carried on. But, it is wearing you out. That is why I say that the tragedy that mankind is facing is not AIDs or cancer but Alhzeimer's disease.

From India, these kind words: