Heard Anything New?
We go round in circles, not realising that we’ve been here before and heard it all before. Same theme of deception, with different packaging. Illusionists fool humanity into believing in a selected reality that has been pumped out daily throughout the centuries – from hearsay, to town cryer, to books, to electronic devices … and eventually, direct via a chip in the brain! Someone wants to control us; they don’t want us to know what we are, making us believe we are just a body and mind.
When we are tired of this charade,
we look for something new
in the hope of finding what’s behind it all.
Unfortunately, there are upgraded diversions at every twist and turn.
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We miss the vital point of what is searching for the truth. The absolute truth is what we are – pure consciousness – and never something out there.
‘Seeking’ the truth is the age-old trick of keeping people looking away from the truth.
There is nothing new under any sun, throughout the infinite universe.
All unenlightened beings (anything that can move, and decide to change direction) are driven by attraction, aversion and ignorance, not knowing why they do what they do.
For millennia, evil minds have fed off our confusion, using intermediaries who have a ‘suitable’ level of information to carry out suppression. We can see this today, as they make up stuff ’till the cows come home.
A considerable amount of effort is made to sell ideas
that are detrimental to human well-being.
We are the answer we seek.
We are unconfined pure consciousness.
They never talk about that, do they?
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Have you any experience / understanding of what this could be:- A strange feeling that sometimes suddenly appears out of nowhere: It is intense and vague at the same time…to put it in words, it is closest to a feeling of bewilderment and a recognition, as if I am caught by surprize that “I am still here”!! Essentially, it is a strong feeling of surprize that I am still here…I seem to know it has something to do with my spiritual interests, but beyond that I know nothing. I don’t understand it mentally or logically. But it has happened many times, so I thought I will ask others who may have some clue?
Hello Ramble,
Great question.
Is there a feeling that something isn’t right, but there is a knowingness presence that see this? This is before words can describe it.
Our problem is finding those words, and this is where we have to settle on definitions from some tradition, or the essence of all traditions, but being aware of different interpretations.
Is it suddenly just being there, but being unable to describe what that is? I would call that pure consciousness, or surprise by joy … and sadness.
Tony
Yes, it is like you say! Suddenly there (out of nowhere), but can’t be described in words exactly, only approximately. In this specific case, it has been coming occasionally for many years (perhaps since childhood), and I am always surprised. One of my ‘interpretations’ for this is that at some point I must have experienced something that was very close to a sense of absolute ‘freedom’ and occasionally, when I touch that state again, and then fall back out of it, I am surprised to discover that I am ‘not’ free ‘now’ (‘I am still here’).
I don’t know if it makes sense…Thank you for your reply!
It’s always there, it’s just thoughts getting in the way, or obscuring the experience.
The practice is becoming familiar with seeing the affect of thoughts and letting go.
it’s quite a shock to realise how much of our life is up with thoughts, which a product from our past memories.
Thinking is spontaneous in the moment now.
The practice of meditation is seeing this activity and letting go – that is the freedom you spoke of.
Tony
Yes, Thank you!