- Layers of Reality -

best of all luck to you. i truly hope you have success and come to the beauty of truth :dance:

in my case, i have given up the "trying" and the "maybe someday" philosophies, as i re-discovered that they are themselves merely a distraction. they are the mind's procrastination to put off the allowing of "being" "right here now," which is the only place and time my ever-unfolding life ever was, is or will be. that life is meditation.

the mind adores chasing some brightly-coloured future, when all strife and attachment have somehow fallen away, only reachable after some sort of dedicated and long-lasting spiritual activity. this has its place and function too.

duality is thus kept at play, arising in all its myriad wonder in oneness, and it is beautiful. when this is seen, all striving (and thus, all inner strife) fall away.

what is already present cannot be striven for. in the words of a very wise lady
"it is not so much that you cannot reach god. it is more a case of you never left god. you just thought you did"

(the word god could be any word people use to describe the source, truth, ultimate reality, call it what you like. it is beyond what the mind can describe - yet "it is closer to you than breathing")

:love:

 

Denise I agree that the trying to find God bit is
useless because you ARE God, we are God.
But the attachment business is something that
needs to be eradicated through proper sadhana
including life style changes.
I cant just give up on the challenge of over
coming my desires because I would thus give in
to that which harms the mind and body.
Maybe someday is the idea that if I keep working
my karma yoga, I will be liberated.
I am not now perfect, no where near it, so
maybe someday I will be free of the karmic
ties that bind myself to this plane. Thats all I
meant by it

 

god is unconditional love - so it probably considers you perfect as you are. who can say?

but anyway, i think you are now perfect - warts, sankhara and all. and in "future" years you will be now perfect too, as you were now perfect in the "past"

XX :love:

 

What a beautiful words, as beautiful as words can be! But the feeling is devine and who understand, they understand, who doesn't....... sorry but we as one love you!

 

dont know how to say it but i think that there must be something in our mind that we can work to control that can make everything how we need it to be. I think there is something that sorrounds us that makes us do what we do and that we could somehow unlock its secrets.
idk if any if that makes sense. doesnt really to me but just throwing it out there. anyone have any ideas off that?