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All experiences have an in nite “depth” to them and it totally depends
on your level of consciousness as to how much of its depth is accessible
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to you. A human being who has very little depth of awareness in
him/her is usually only at the “surface” of an experience and hence Programming Your Subconscious
misses out on really savoring the deeper dimensions available in every Mind
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Most humans are perpetually hinged on “waiting” for the next thing to Law of Attraction (10)
happen in their life, for them all moments become a means to an end –
Living Abundance (53)
an end which never arrives, and thus keeps them constantly in a
restless and stressed out mode. When they are alone they want a Living in the Now (7)
relationship, when they have a relationship they want to be alone,
when they are free they want some work, when they have work they Power of Thoughts (18)
want to be free – there is never any time when they really savor what
Pure Consciousness (24)
“is” but are always focused on what should be. It’s ne to project into
the future and desire scenarios that you wish to experience, it’s part of Relationships (7)
the mind’s job to do this – but if there is no part of you that is “aware”
The Mystery of Life (41)
of accessing the depth of whatever “arises” in this moment, your whole
life just becomes a movement on the “surface” with no real dimension Understanding the Mind (125)
of depth in it, making you feel empty all the time with rare moments of
aliveness. Wisdom in Daily Life (57)
If you are constantly restless, frustrated and feeling “empty” it’s an ABOUT
indication that you are missing out on the depth of this moment and
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are looking for “something” (which you can’t gure out yourself) that
you think is missing. If you access the wholeness of this moment as it is, Contact
you will know that nothing is missing – every moment has a beauty of
its own, even those moments that feel “negative” to the mind have a Donate
When you read some books you can sense the depth in the way
“reality” is described, and in some other books you get a sense that it’s
just a surface-level treatise of reality. When you listen to some music
you can sense a depth in its movement, whereas in some other music
you may not get the same experience of depth. One painting can evoke
a sense of surreal depth, while another painting just leaves you cold. A
certain movie can evoke deep emotions in you while another movie
would just feel empty. The depth present in the composer of the words,
music and art, is what gets re ected in their expression – it can evoke a
sense of depth even in an observer who is not aligned with his/her
depth.
There are people who go to visit spiritual teachers, not because they
get to hear anything new, but because they enjoy the experience of
feeling the depth that emanates from the words and expressions of
this teacher. The truth is that there is no end to our depth and our
awareness can keep moving into deeper and deeper depths of our
being – there is no end point to the depth that can be allowed in our
awareness. It’s an in nite exploration.
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19 Comments
Ki
November 14, 2011 at 10:21 pm
vinod arora
November 15, 2011 at 3:03 am
The bottom line is that any negative feeling (like the feeling of isolation
that you talk about) arises from the mind’s interpretations of the
moment. However, the mind is not at fault because it’s natural for the
mind to have fears of isolation and deprivation. Don’t try to resist this
movement of the mind, rather just bring a field of open awareness to
these thoughts in the mind, allow yourself to observe it’s thinking
patterns while staying as a field of passive awareness. The mind can
seem to get bored, it can feel lonely and depressed all of a sudden,
and it can contemplate that ordinariness of your existence – allow it the
freedom to go deeper into this contemplation of life, this allows the
mind a “depth” in its understanding of reality. It’s not required that the
mind be cheerful all the time, that’s not the point.
As you allow the mind the freedom to stay with these feelings of
isolation, it will gain deeper insights on life and about its own reality –
this allows for a mind that’s receptive to depth of physical life rather
than just be focused on surface-level movements of entertainment.
Just stay as a space of awareness and allow the mind to go deeper
into any feeling/thought that arises. The contemplation of the negative
feelings is what allows for freedom from its influence – in fact negative
and positive are just two faces of the same coin as far as “physical” is
concerned, one cannot exist without the other, the body will always
have its highs and lows – but you can find a permanence in the peace
that’s present in your being (as this silent space of awareness) no
matter what happens on the surface. All feelings and thoughts are like
ripples/waves on the surface of the ocean, the depth is always at
peace. Stay as this depth and allow the movement of physical
feelings/thoughts without resistance, this allows for a wisdom and
harmony to operate in your life.
Nikki
November 16, 2011 at 5:38 am
Love it!
pun
November 20, 2011 at 4:56 pm
luka
December 11, 2011 at 10:43 pm
you truly are a genius… how long did it take you to discover this information,
and then to apply it to your life succesfully?
luka
December 12, 2011 at 12:16 am
So it really didn’t take you that long at all…? I have always thought that
enlightenment or whatever you want to call it was a life long process. So what
helped u to speed through this process? Lots of meditation?
luka
December 12, 2011 at 1:40 am
Well there was a time in my life a couple years ago I became very successful
with meditation and actually had a very deep and life changing experience with
it. Unfortunately I have ruined it(through reasons I would rather not reveal) and
for the past couple years have tried on and off to achieve it again. For some
reason now I find it very difficult to see any constant progression with it like I
did in the past. I think that maybe its because I have expectations of the the
way it should feel and the way it should happen, unlike when I first
experimented with it I had no expectations of it and just let what happen
happen, thus I saw constant progression and started to feel the magic in life. I
want to achieve this freedom from the ego, and discover my true self. I pray
every night for help with finding my soul, and discovering my true happiness. I
believe fiinding your website is literally an answer to my prayers. Anything you
say I am listening to with an open heart and ears.
Meditation, when used as a practice to detach from the mind, can give
you a “taste” of your wholeness because you will achieve moments of
“no thought” (or no mind) that allows you to sense the aliveness and
joy of your being. But the mind will return, it’s part of physicality, and
thus thoughts will return, and then it becomes a “fight” to constantly
want to get back to that state of “no thought” and thus we start trying to
get rid of the mind which we “think” is the block to us attaining the bliss
that we tasted through meditation. Meditation techniques can give you
a “taste” of your wholeness but it would only be a fleeting taste – it can
last for a few weeks or even a few months, but it will pass away and
the mind will return, because you are in this physical realm and you
cannot avoid the physical realm by getting into the cave of meditation.
True freedom does not come out of techniques, but out of
“understanding” the truth of existence of who you are. Every technique
only makes you a prisoner to it eventually, like it happened in your case
that you spend 2 years trying to re-create that “taste” that you had
when you first meditated – so unconsciously you’ve become no
different from an addict who wants to get back to that bliss that he got
from the drug, in your case the drug becomes meditation. But if you are
really honest with yourself, you will know that you are trying to “escape”
the mind, you want to escape its noise, its insecurities, its conflicts –
and you are hoping that meditation would somehow take you to some
place that keeps you away from the mind. This is exactly the mindset of
most people who become stuck in “spiritual practices” without ever truly
experiencing the freedom of their being for a lifetime.
The first step for you would be to stop running away from the mind and
bring your awareness “into” it. The mind is not your enemy, and the
only reason its agitated is because it does not have clarity about life.
The mind, or your physical being, wants to manifest certain desires,
and that’s the creative expression of your physical form – but it doesn’t
know how to manifest it so it tries to “escape” it, using techniques to
suppress its movement. The more you suppress the mind, the more
suffering you endure because you are opposing the very movement of
your life force. There are several posts on this blog relating to
understanding your potential as a creator of realities, the science of
creation, identifying the momentum of negativity in you (in all forms)
and thus letting go of it, aligning with your life-stream and allowing your
natural expression to unfold as this human being. The “taste” of
wholeness that you had when you first meditated, will return back to
you as the permanent state of being when you let go of the negativity
of the mind, not by escaping it, but by dissolving it through
understanding and self-realization.
luka
December 13, 2011 at 1:02 am
So when you say to bring my awareness into the mind, do u mean that when
thoughts come and go you just accept them the way they are? Thats alot
easier said then done. Because when negative thoughts come, even though
I’m hardly putting my attention to them, they still take a stranglehold and
manage to ruin my mood. I’m definitely not an overly negative person by any
means, but I feel my fair share of it to the point that at I can’t say I love life.
What are some of the daily practices you used to achieve freedom from your
ego?
JENNY
February 2, 2012 at 2:40 am
Hi Sen!
Sometimes I find myself “indifferent” with life and my mind produces thoughts
like “What’s the point of doing all this inner work and growth and experiencing
the growing pains for the mere “ordinariness ” that is life??” Yeah there are
good times in life, but there are “bad” times too – and times that are downright
dull and sometimes it feels as if I am just trying to “get through” my
days/weeks. I know this is just a mechanism of my mind and I need to just
allow it without attaching to it – but there really is no inherent “point” to life – so
sometimes the “pain” that accompanies physical life or just merely trying to “get
through the day” doesn’t seem worth it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suicidal or
anything – I just get complacent. Does that make sense….?? Have you ever
experienced this?
Thank you for helping us all
I really do appreciate you..
Jenny, it’s very natural to reach this phase where the brain (with its ego
structure) sees through the ordinariness of life so fully that it’s no
longer holding on to any “delusions”, or fantasies, about reality. This
just means that you’ve come really deep in your journey of awareness
and have now been able to see through all the delusions, all the unreal
perceptions, that your brain was holding onto (which was defining its
personal expectations and meaning). The path forward is to allow this
sense of meaninglessness to be there fully, don’t try to suppress it by
using some distractions. Allow this feeling of total meaninglessness to
arise fully in your brain, in your ego, and you will see that it shakes
loose some subtle resistances you had towards allowing your natural
expression (your life-stream) fully. Once this resistance is gone, you
will be able to merge fully with the pull of your life-stream and hence
start becoming an expression of your life’s intent (the intent that
created you).
nvibes
February 2, 2012 at 11:27 am
It’s funny – I was thinking exactly the same thing last night around the
same time- about the meaningless of life. I’d experienced this
meaningless intensely about one and a half years ago – deep feeling of
what’s the point of life, but I guess i still had many delusions to let go
of.
This time, it feels almost like apathy, like giving up, like “whatever”, like
you describe Jenny. I no longer feel that any travel experience, work,
relationship etc is going to fulfil me for long, even achieving/getting
things that I’ve desired. I feel almost dull. I thought I was
regressing,.Thank you Sen for your response.
JENNY
February 2, 2012 at 8:33 pm
Thanks Sen! I am definitely getting to know my “brain” better these days. One
thing my brain tends to do is question everything haha – (aka why this? why
that?) It’s fun to just allow my brain to do what it wants without attaching much
to it – I should have “known” that I need to allow the complacency as well.
Thanks so much for all your help!
Joy
February 7, 2012 at 6:47 pm
So grateful for this page at this moment. I did knew mind was unnecessary
worried (normally) for feeling meaningless, but this just helped so much.
Thanks for post and comments.
Ritu
February 8, 2012 at 6:10 am
I too can relate at this moment. Its like nvibes states – have the
confidence that desired reality will manifest, but lost interest in
manifestation or desiring. Does not seem like anything can be fulfilling.
Like Sen says, allowing this too
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