I feel good…

April 20, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“No matter what your body’s appearance is on the outer level, beyond the outer form it is an intensely alive energy field. If you are note familiar with “inner body” awareness, close your eyes for a moment and find out if there is life inside your hands. Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment; it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.” Ekchart Tolle (from The Power of Now)

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When I watch videos from the 50s and the young people surrounding Elvis Presley and Jame Brown, I can see how imprisoned we were in the mind’s (collective and individual) exile from its own body. Music that was below the crooner’s throat was an intensely alive energy field. The cultural separation between mind and body was metaphorically manifested in race: white is mind, black is body. The mind must keep the body under control, or else, chaos will be released. Nature must be controlled and attention must be directed upward and not towards the flesh and its “inner body.” The outer body of the mind is the only permitted reality. I remember when the world “pregnant” was not allowed in movies. Up until the 60s, the body was taboo. The body’s entombment in the mind was ending.

The Ego is a tension

April 18, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“Nothing strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position—a perspective, an opinion, a judgment, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, and so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right. Not only a person but also a situation can be made wrong through complaining and reactivity.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of now)
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The Ego is a tension. Period. We can feel a tension in the body. A massage therapist can feel it, press on it, and release it. But the Ego since its birth from infancy is experienced as a tension between me and the external world. This tension rises and falls, small and great, mild to a panic. We thing this is normal. If we were to have a mystical experience of absolutely no tension—the peace that passes understanding—it would be transformative because from then on we would know our sense of separate self is a painful tension. That is the motivation for the spiritual path to remove the tension permanently. But what we settle for usually, is temporary relief through short lived conquest or achievement of desire, which itself is a tension.

Here comes the sun

April 17, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“The moment you become aware of the ego in yourself, that emerging awareness is who you are beyond ego, the deeper “I”. The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now)
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The mythic symbolism of the moon and sun are helpful to me in getting a handle on the dynamic here. The moon is reflected light of the Sun, the Ego that circles around the Mother Maya, the dying and resurrected Ego that is constantly changing its states of mind. Thinking it’s light is the eternal sun, the ego moon chases itself in search of its source.

All the while the Sun is lighting up the moon, but the moon cannot see the sun because to see the sun would be the end of moon light. When the pain of its constant birth and dying reaches a saturation point, the Sun breaks through as sees the truth. Just one break through of sun light is enough for consciousness to begin shifting from the moon to the sun and the end of seeking the light.

See through the pattern

April 16, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“What really matters is not what function you fulfill in the world, but whether you identify with your function to such an extent that it takes you over and becomes a role that you play. When you play roles, you are unconscious. When you catch yourself playing a role, that recognition creates a space between you and the role.” Ekchart Tolle (from The Power of Now)

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A popular book in the 60s was Games People Play. I like the word Patterns because a pattern is like a algebraic formula that one fills in the the content of the present moment. We can’t see the formula because we are decided by the novelty of the present moment. This can’t be a pattern, we think because it is a brand new moment in time.

The only way to see a pattern is to connect dots and infer from the connected dots a larger picture. The more dots, the more certain the picture. With just a few dots, we often leap to premature conclusions and invent patterns or conspiracies. Nevertheless, there is a pattern behind every movement. Otherwise, everything would be random events and there would be no continuity. That would be like having Alzheimers.

So we really can’t do away with patterns, but we can make then transparent to the transcendent, or the dynamic unity that is always creating itself in the present moment. An unconscious pattern avoids that dynamic unity because the pattern holds our sense of a permanent self in place. When the pattern becomes transparent, so does our Ego. We are then liberated to dance.

The end of Yang

April 15, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or role, but as a field of conscious presence.” Ekchart Tolle (from The Power of Now)

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Right here we see the end of the Newtonian Universe that was born at the death of the Middle Ages where the universe is seen as a mathematically governed mass of separate things, a universe of bits, everything reduced to bits. This is the Yang universe of where individuals clash and rub against each other for supremacy.

A field of conscious presences in the rising Yin view of reality as a organism, as a whole, a field, a nesting of holons. The reference in the yang universe is the individual; the reference in the Yin paradigm is the whole. Everywhere, this shift is happening. We can see this in our political parties: Right is Yang, Left is Yin. Women are rising.