When the deep realization comes that
Consciousness looks through your eyes
Consciousness listens through your ears
Consciousness smells through your nose
Consciousness tastes through your tongue
Consciousness feels through your skin
then you Know:
Consciousness is all there is
Consciousness is what you are …
What is simplicity?
It points to
gratitude
fullfilment
love
emptiness
It points
to
YOU
to who you are
in essence
Simplicity is YOU
disguised as
simplicity …
When you feel freedom
lurking and pointing
pushing and knocking
When you feel
freedom is so near
and almost swallowing you
When you feel
the fear of falling in
and disappearing
Then you know
freedom is on her way
to find you …
And for me?
Freedom has found me on her way …
I already was
before
I knew it …
I already knew
before
I was it …
“What we do is to snap the brain out of it”: that is a frequent used quote by Cesar Millan, the dogwhisperer.
I sat with that quote for somehow I felt there was something so deep and true in it. “We snap the brain out of it, before it escalates; before it goes to the red zone”. The red zone is most of the time the state in which the dog attacks and can not be controled any longer.
I began translating this quote to what I do with people, when they come to me for help. In most cases the people who come to me, want help with the on going thoughtstream in their head. They feel stressed and often they suffer from burnout symptoms.
What could be the case is this.
The brain receives impulses and produces thoughts and the mind, as identified consciousness, attaches to those thoughts and takes them for real. When the mind is stopped in that identifying process by being confronted it with the reality of the moment, the “mind is snapped out of it”. The mind has this identifying habit and is conditioned to do so for thousands of years. It is not personal. It comes with the human species. So when we confront the mind with itself and when we hold up the mirror so the mind can see itself, then it is possible that the mind stops and “is snapped out of it”.
Finding the absolute truth in ourselves by asking ourselves if it is true what we believe and waiting for the heart, intuition, cosmic intelligence, or whatever, to answer from the depth of our being, stops the identifying process. And when we do that often enough, the mind will gradually get used to the conditioning of investigating thoughts , before believing thoughts.
Cesar Millan is the whisperer for dogs. We can all be the whisperer for people. Holding up the mirror, asking if it is true, is what we can do. It takes time to get used to this new way of looking at our thoughts. I think the time is right to dive in the depths that are waiting inside of us. And what I found is that that depth has no ending …
Blessing on the journey into yourself; the journey without end and without distance …
When Wisdom touches you,
receives you,
nurtures you,
and welcomes you
in her arms of Light
Confusion will melt,
the darkness,
the pain
And words can be heard
and be held
in the infinite wisdom
that you always are …
When the thought comes to mind:
I want to have him or her or you …
Sit with this little quote:
You can not “have” me, for you ARE me …
When there is a word
there is a world
No words, no world
When there is the I
there is a world:
the I experiencing the world
No I, no world
The world comes and goes
Everything that comes and goes
is not real
What is real, is what doesn’t come or go
What is it that doesn’t come or go?
When you have found the answer in you
you have found You …
When there is no “I” who listens
there is no “I” who reacts
Then there is only: listening
What a precious enormous gift
to the other
to yourself …
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less. If you want to help him to correct his perception, you wait for another time. For now, you don’t interrupt. You don’t argue. If you do, he loses his chance. You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less. One hour like that can bring transformation and healing.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Nothing happens to me
nothing ever happened to me
nothing will ever happen to me
All that is happening
is happening, has happened and will happen
to the body-mind mechanism
with a name, a sexe, a bankaccount, and so on
That ultimate understanding
gives peace and joy and rest …
Wonderwalk 