Sunday, April 12, 2009
Truth of Love
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Mind-Bypass
In proportion to your fascination with thought you will leave the contentment of the Heart for the imagination of the Mind. In proportion to your fascination with Beingness you will rest in the Heart and ignore the seduction of thought streams which take you always away from Being into metaphors conceptualized by Mind.
Being is always implicated with thinking, with concepts - implicated because it is the very source of concepts, the very source of conception for all appearance that comes into existence as Consciousness Itself. Being is the very source of one’s sense of self, one’s sense of being alive, of existing; and furthermore, Being is that alone through which existence is known by a thinker.
This stops a cycle we call time. This means that instead of living in time - in our thoughts - we are living NOW, spontaneously.
An individual, the ego, arises in each moment we forget to be in Love, our true nature. When a cord is struck within, and this fills us with inner joy, this is out of time, out of ego, out of thought. We do not need thought to interpret joy - it just is. Love just is. We don’t have to run it by our mind to know when Love is present. It's a mind-bypass. Most people are conducting a Heart-bypass, relying on their minds to figure It out.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Reply to a Young Girl
Jyoti .. i do not know why am sending this email to you maybe cause i feel that you will be a real reflection.. i feel that i do not have any desire to read about the beloved ..i just want to be sooo simple have a simple life .. i want to know how i am .. why i came here.. and this readings which make my mind and heart open i feel that it makes me more thirsty and sometimes i feel that it makes a kind of rules even if it is right .. i want to live more than reading even if i get lost .. sometimes really it is soooo good to be alone to find god find ur self before fallen in love with a person that u see god in him ..but if that happened what
Yes, to be like "a river" is good - not hanging on to the river bank, but letting go and letting yourself be lived by life itself! But, when you think that you are separate, an individual, it is like hanging on to the river bank - getting stuck in ideas about who you think you are does not allow you to be free. So true freedom is really freedom from ideas you have about yourself and the world. Letting go of fixed beliefs.
When you are free from limiting ideas (and ALL thoughts are limiting), love fills your life. Love radiates from you, you become the expression of love.
You have heard already from your readings I am sure that you are already what you are seeking. Even though the clouds cover the sun, the sun is still there - yet not visable. Even though our thoughts veil Absolute Consciousness, the Absolute is still there - yet not seen by the mind.
With love,
Jyoti
with loooove ...
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