Consciousness

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Different?

Different?

Everything brought you here
reading this
sitting in this chair
with these feet on the ground
living on this planet
hearing the rain
feeling the wind
seeing the stars
having this body

You can’t be different
than you are right now

You can’t be anywhere else
than here in this place

You can’t have different worries
than you have right now

You can’t have different joy
than you have right now

You did everything right
You never made a mistake

If God is everything
and God makes no mistakes
then you are Good
then you are God …

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Spirituality?

Spirituality?Spirituality?

What is the opposite of spirituality?
What is spirituality?

What is the opposite of spiritual?
What is spiritual?

Is spiritual better than non-spiritual?
Is non-spiritual better than spiritual?

Every word we use is a concept.

Lost in words and concepts
I make my own world
untill I open my eyes,
see the sun, blink,
and am amazed by all the outside colours
that I see inside

Without words and concepts
I am the world.
And with my eyes closed
I see the beauty
of emptiness …

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Survival?

Survival

Every thought
Every action
Every belief
Is about survival
Of the human species

Did you ever ask yourself:
Is, beyond any doubt, on the long term, the survival of the human species, the best that can happen to the earth, the universe?

I sat with that question for a very long time: in stillness and the only answer that came up was: I don’t know…

David Attenborough said about Humans exploiting the environment and the planet earth more and more:

“Perhaps the time has now come to put that process into reverse. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it is time to control the population to allow the survival of the environment”.

On the link below a part of this documentary can be watched.

http://omtersaaist.net/2007/07/29/speciaal-voor-de-nederlandse-vrienden-wat-ze-niet-mochten-zien-van-de-eo/

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Mystery

Mystery

To know the mystery of life
that is what we want

Who told us there is a mystery?
When did we start to believe that there is a mystery?

When we stop wanting to know the unknowable
Then, what we wanted to know, will unfold

And then we realize
That there is no mystery
That it is all so obvious
That we didn’t see it

We realize
That life has no purpose
That the purpose of life is life
And that no words are needed for That …

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Guilt and shame

Guilt and shame 
My dear child, 
There never was a "me" to suffer the pain of life 
and all there has ever been is "I", the Source 
from which the manifestation has emerged, 
and it is "I" alone who has been functioning 
through the billions of human beings. 
Ramesh Balsekar in Confusion no more.

Shame and guilt originate from the same belief: I did something wrong. Or, to rephrase it: I shouldn’t have done that.

Ask yourself: “With the knowledge I had at that time, with the state of consciousness I had at that time, with my past, with my pain, did I do the best I could at that time?”

And when you walk with this question
And meet the forest and the trees
Stand still and look
Let the answer surface
And let the trees tell you
What you knew already
And then you wonder
About your own wisdom
Infinite
Wise
Pure
Whole …

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Wisdom

Wisdom

Ignorance and knowledge are opposites.
If you  had all the knowledge in the world, would you be happy?
Would you know then what is the purpose of life?
Would you know yourself?

Wisdom transcends ignorance and knowledge.
Wisdom and joy of life are one and the same.
Wisdom lets you realize that the purpose of life is life.
Wisdom whispers to you that you are wisdom …

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Ego or no-ego

Ego or no-ego

With the help of ego we can see a me and a you and we can differentiate between “me” and “you”. How wonderful. Now I can see the world. 

When you have the desire to “let go” of the ego, to “kill” the ego or whatever words you use to get rid of the ego, did you ever ask yourself: “Who created ego with what purpose and who wants to get rid of ego?”

When it is time, for Grace or God or the Evolutionary Impuls or whatever name you give that primal energy, then it can happen that your ego totally accepts that everything and everyone is always what it is and that everyone does what he does. 

And what will that give you? Just peace of mind. That’s all. That peace of mind will make you feel comfortable with yourself and everyone else.

What a wonderful world. What a wonderful manifestation. What a wonderful you and me …

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Tears

Tears

Away now are the tears
that lived inside my heart
The wind took all the stories
And sometimes comes a little breeze
And brings them back again

The deep unmovability
In wich I live and am
Let waves wave up above
And deep still silence be

This deep and silent water
is what I am made of
It is the same still water
as tear and wave and wave and tear …