Enlightenment

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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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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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Mirror

Mirror

The world in all its splendor
With all amazing sounds

The creatures in all their life forms
And all their weardest shapes

The nature with its colours
Beyond what you can think of

Are just the miror image
Of all you have created

Are just the mirror image
Of all that lies in you

Are just the mirror image
Of who you really are …

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Now

Now

I searched for you in the past
and couldn’t find you
Not with the dead, in history,
Not in the old stories

I searched for you in the future
and couldn’t find you
Not with the living, in plans,
Not in new dreams

I searched for you in the now
and couldn’t find you

Realizing that
the now does not exist
That I always was
That I never was

I found me
Just like that
Suddenly …

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Thoughts

Thoughts

Without time, no thoughts
Without thoughts, no time
Without time, no thoughts
Without thoughts, no personality
Without thoughts: freedom
what a gift
To You …

This morning, when the cat crawled at my feet, something came to me, gently. The cat purred, stroke me, saw a fly and miaowed. The thought came: a cat doesn’t know time. And an insight unfolded in me from my head to my toes: time is thought and thought is time.

Without time, no thoughts. Without thoughts, no time.

The past is a bunch of memories, stored in the brain. The future is a bunch of thoughts originated from the past. Even NOW is always a story of the past.

Without time, no thoughts. Without thoughts, no personality.

To realize that deeply for yourself is freedom.

That doesn’t mean that you stop thinking. It means that you can see the thoughts for what they are: ripples at the surface of the depth that you are. Then you know you beyond all thoughts about you.

What a gift
To You …