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Is the world a projection of your longing to be free?
Yes, you are the master of imagination who has enslaved himself through forgetfulness.
We, being truly all, cannot resonate with any fragment.
Don’t you remember?
Picture this:
A man walking in a thick fog, he can only see one meter ahead on all sides. His senses reflect impressions to his mind, his mind is aware of the landscape within a one-meter radius. He carries his sphere of knowledge and the horizon of knowledge with him wherever he goes.
The fog is invisible to him because it is made of tiny floating particles endlessly reflecting his sphere of limited clarity. He is the reflective centre of this tiny self-reflecting world.
The Tiger, the Baba, The Guru. Interview for A Curious Yogi
“The whole thing is for you to know you are outside of the mandala looking in. You are not caught. You’re not struggling your way out of the mandala, you are transcending the idea that you are even caught in the first place.”
Trust is the lubricant. Doubt is the brake.
We know this road, we have walked it forever, but we have lost our trust—and by that, our wisdom. We have forgotten who we are. We think we must let go of the hand of grace and take control ourselves. We forget that helping hand. We think we become the lonely spot of the ego. We live in solitude. We live in pain. We know deep down that our source is peace and oneness. This unbearable contrast drives us to despair. We begin to look for a fix for this pain. Just a short relief. We find something that gives a temporary joy. A temporary fix.
Are We Confused About Confusion Itself?
Mankind is forever asking: “Am I doing the right thing?” Even in dreams he seeks and analyses, ever trying to ascertain the right course of action.
It is not the world that is confusing, and you are not actually confused. You are actually seeing truth. You call it confusion because you expect reality to be different from what it is. You expect the distorting human perception to become clear. Though, by dropping the conditioned mind you naturally come into the state of knowing, you come into harmony with the experience of knowing that clarity is indeed permeating the swirling world of unpredictable phenomena. That clarity is your observing consciousness.
Everything is Alive, Are You?
Are you Alive?
Are you alive? You would probably reply: Yes I am.
Are you conscious? Since you are reading this you are most likely not in a coma and so you would say: Yes I am conscious”
Who is this “I” you refer to? Do you point to yourself?
Is your body conscious?
Is all of it conscious, or only parts of it? Your left big toe? No?
Is your brain conscious? Is the fat lining the nerves conscious?
If Meditation is the Answer, then What is the Question?
Nobody wants to suffer. Everybody wants to pinpoint the problem and to know the solution. Only a few ask themselves why they perceive something as a problem. Fewer still have the clarity to perceive the deep knowledge that can be learned from their fearless experience of a “problem”.
What we perceive as a problem is based on how we like our world to be. The spectrum of what we like goes from wanting to simply be alive, to wanting the tiniest of superfluous trifles to be according to our specific expectations. How we like our world to be is highly individual and a lot of what we expect to get from the world, is based on unconscious desires and fears. Never-the-less we do not hesitate to construct empires based on those imaginary and fragile foundations.