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Persona’s can’t change

May 6, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“Unless you know the basic mechanics behind the workings of the ego, you won’t recognize it, and it will trick you into identifying with it again and again. This means it takes you over, an imposter pretending to be you.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now)

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Watched a documentary on Bob Hope last night, and the conclusion was that Hope over his years of trial and error in the spot light, created a successful comedic Persona. He was always ON. He was always performing. And his Personal reaped huge rewards of fame and wealth. But no one knew who the real Bob Hope was. He never broke the con. Once your successful Persona becomes crystalized, the free flowing awareness that is you takes on the shape of the persona, the role.

The Hope Persona was a clever characterization of everyman: Hope’s character was always full of bravado, but when challenged, he ran for the door. He was always full of Hope that one day he would win the Oscar, and always successful incorporated his weaknesses into his persona. With Hope you always knew what you were going to get.

But Hope’s Persona didn’t change with the 60s and the anti-war movement. A persona is a role, and roles can’t change to fit a new play that wasn’t written for the character.

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Who is it that believes?

May 4, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

 

“How “spiritual” you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now)

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It is very difficult to separate spiritual from religious because we are conditioned by Christianity’s 2,000 year history in the West that right Belief is the admission ticket to salvation or right relationship with God.

Christianity is a credal or belief religion, not an ethnic religion like Judaism, which you are born into. Christianity is open to anyone who believes in its creeds. Belief makes it so.

Belief is not a practice but a refuge from uncertainty. Spiritual practice is the practice of uncertainty, of asking what the Truth is. Spiritual practice is questioning belief. While religion creates security in belief and the end of questioning, spiritual practice invites disbelief so that you discover that which is beyond belief. Who is it that believes?

 

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I THINK I CAN

May 3, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“At the heart of the new consciousness lies the transcendence of thought, the newfound ability of rising above thought, of realizing a dimension within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought. You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are, from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness you take to be yourself.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now).
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Thought is like a train that runs on circular tracks through the mind, perhaps a circus train full of odd characters, clown shows, wild demon animals, and freaks.
 
Thought is like a revival tent where the same sermon goes on without end. Once I enter, I can’t get out.
 
Thought is an active volcano spewing smoke into the clear air. Rising out of the mind, the thought volcano constructs an island upon which I am confined.
 
Thought is a gladiator with net and trident that is constantly snaring and stabbing me.
 
Thought is the Tar Baby of Bre’ Rabbit: only the thorns of the briar patch will save me.
 
Thought is a worm squirming on a hook dangling in the ocean of awareness. Taking the bait, I am reeled in.
 
Thought is the Inquisition judge condemning me to torture until I confess my unknown sins.
 
Thought is a white board marker without an eraser.
 
The cars to this thought train never end. The engine I THINK I CAN is always going up a mountain. I am always the last thought added to the end.
 
Each car on the Through Train is full of emotion. When I jump from one car to get off, I add another to land on.
 
The engine I THINK I CAN tries to swallow its own caboose, thinking that will stop the train. Thought is the coal that drives the train.

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Release the butterfly

May 2, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“When everything thought absorbs you attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in very thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of the ego.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now)

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“OH, no, now I’m in the grip of the Ego!” Now this thought absorbs me completely. Thinking is a sponge and my mind is water. The hand that tries to squeeze the sponge of thought is the hand of thought. When I see this through and through, that seeing is not thinking. Thinking comes in and comments on what I see. But the actually Seeing is not thought. So the question is how can I create a gap between seeing and thinking? The answer is Meditation…..I must meditate.

From the wise seeing comes wise intention, and from wise intention comes wise effort. I go online and get some instruction on how to meditate. I do it. I start listening to Eckhart Tolle talks. The hand of thought begins to open and release me like a butterfly.

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Pain is my guru

May 1, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the is-ness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now)
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Buddha says Life is suffering. Zorba says life is trouble. Life is pain, life’s Tabasco Sauce. Everything has loss or pain in it. Loss is pain. Everything is impermanent, everything is dying, breaking up, running through our fingers like sand. Where can I go that pain is not, that loss is not?
 
Accepting means allowing myself to feel pain and loss. When I allow myself to feel the pain of loss, I don’t blame the pain on another. When I don’t blame the pain, nothing is left but Just This. I. have no argument with myself. Accepting is healing.

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