Revealing the Esotheric Journey

To each moment, in the spiritual path to Awakening, is the space of either forgetfulness or wakefulness. You are either absent or present to what is in the  Now. Both cannot occur concurrently.

“What is in the Now” is not what you are experiencing, but rather how the mind is experiencing it. When you are in the experience, it is when you are in the space of Absence – you got identified, entangled in it. It does not matter whether you are identified with your thoughts and feelings or with what is out there. You’ve lost yourself at that moment, so to speak and taken in to what the mind has conjured.

Whereas when you take notice that what is in the Now is simply how the mind is relating to each experience, that the mind has a nature of its own, doing its time, you are now Present to that.

Only when you are awake can you see the reality of your mind, the great conjuror that makes all your experiences seemingly real. Absence to the mind only makes what is unreal real. Thus when you are stressed  by an event or situation outside your control, you think it is that thing that is causing you the stress. The matter of fact is that the world cannot give you stress except your mind’s relationship to it. Thus what is thought or felt real is merely conjured by the mind, by its relationship to it. When you don’t have the wisdom to see this reality, you may try to change your relationship but that does not work as your mind’s nature of relationship to each issue is something pretty ancient to your space. It is being built up and conditioned by the past of Absence – where holding on or resistance is the way it responded accumulatively.

Thus, when you are able to notice the pattern clearly as not yours, but simply ancient, that is when the Great Masters like Jesus, QuanYin, Archangels or any Bodhisattas become important to your space. You can request from them assistance to clear those patterns. Not that their presence to your life is necessary but they are simply helpful in providing you the guidance in assisting you to accelerate and transcend all the old patterns once and for all. You are in actuality able to transcend all those patterns with wisdom for them to be uprooted entirely. But it is also potentially possible not to wait for those moments but to trust what you realize is sufficient for it to be transcended. Your only job is to no longer see those nature as necessary and also not truly “you” but merely old conditioning playing itself up again and surrendering or rather giving them up to the Masters whose function is to support you in that. For that is what they are offering you irrelevant whether you are a believer in them or not. Your only job is to trust their presence and what they can do for you – surrendering these patterns to them what is no longer necessary in your mind. Explore for yourself – do not take what is written here at face value. Your experience will bring you to your realization of their potential in your spiritual journey. You can only realized it by yourself, alone – hence whatever doubt, be it of your own or others can only be resolved through direct experience.

In accelerating your journey of awakening, your only job in this lifetime is to be aware, to take notice of the nature of the mind, without any  meaning of self in it, transient, and merely doing time, until you wake up to it. Then Mara, or the illusionist of the mind, will not bring you back to experience it again and again, lifetime after lifetime. :)

The Ring of NOW

There is this magical ring
an invisible doorway you call Now
where past conditioning comes to arise
and perception takes precedent
of ignorance or wisdom
with followup of feelings
hence new ideas are created
perpetuating new conditioning
either for karma to continue
or to finally end

Thus within this ring
is where great potentials are
where past conditioning comes to arise
with ignorance continuing it
or wisdom ending its dance

The Now moment so, so, precious
to die and to be born again
generously being offered repeatedly to you
for a bane or a boon
for you to to sleep once again
or to wakeup once and for all
and thus Samsara or Nibbana comes to be.

its all in the Now!
its all in the Now!
where else do you need to go?

The Only Relationship You Are Having

There is no world. There is only your relationship with the world. Without you the world does not exist on its own. Your suffering is in your relationship. Not the world. If you give attention to your relationship, without the world in the picture for the moment, you are now relating to your relationship. Your relationship with the world is one, your relationship to that relationship is another altogether. When we give our attention to the way we relate with the world, the journey of awareness or mindfulness begins.

We begin to notice the dysfunctional pattern of that relationship. We don’t notice it in the beginning as our attention is towards the world, rather than towards our relationship with the world. Our ability to notice the way we relate with the world is the only intimate relationship we have with ourselves. We can be having a loving or hateful relationship outside of us, to mean the world, and we think those are the best or worst relationships we have ever had with the world; yet when we get closer to how we relate with the world, we will be amazed and surprised by the fact that there is truly no relationship with the world except the way we relate to it.

How we relate gives us the meaning of love or hate. It just ends there and has never gone out to the world. The world is only exactly reflecting this relationship and makes you think there is someone or something outside there to get, to reject, to have. It is a big delusion and madness of ignorance. As J puts it beautifully – nothing can be hidden unless you ignore it and what is seen cannot be hidden anymore.

Your relationship with the world is hidden from you simply because you are not observing the obvious except the look at the world without “your relationship” to it. When “your relationship” to it is not being taken notice, ignorance breeds like wild fire. You think there is something out there that you can be attached to or to resist, yet there is nothing except the way you relate to it. Thus the Buddha was wise when he pointed out that suffering is when you resist what you are getting and you want what you don’t get. The truth in this profound statement is not what you think it is, perceiving that what comes to you is what you have to accept since there is no way you can reject or resist it, though in the form level it seems to be true.

But the reality is that nothing actually comes to you. Do you say the floor comes to you? Do you say the garden comes to you? Nothing comes to you except your relationship to it. When you relate to it personally it seems like it is attacking you or defending you. That is what special relationship is all about. You don’t give special relationship to the road you travel on except the destination you are attending to – that is your special relationship; unless the road has a big pothole and you got into it. At that moment you have a special relationship to it and it can be hell! Otherwise, everything is merely passing by all the time. Hence you are merely a passerby if you wish to be happy. Otherwise when you give meaning to it, as in relating to it personally, you have to eat what you give to it.

Your relationship is where clinging occurs. Without that specialness, life is merely a show, a movie just as nature comes and goes. No right or wrong except what is being presented to you, like the roads, the trees, wind, house etc. Can you too relate it in this manner when you take notice of your relationship with the world? Your relationship with the world is just nature of the past doing its time again and again until you wakeup to it and no longer give it due power. Only then the world becomes your space of compassion, for love to exist, for peace to be experienced – all within, and without, the capsule of the mind.