RAINBOW WORDS
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Evolutionary Progress
As a personality scales the evolutionary heights of many lifetimes, some places along the path have viewing points. From here, one is able to look backwards at the heights already scaled, and one is also able to look forwards to the peaks towering overhead. There comes a point very early on the path where we realise that there is no going back. Things will never be the same again. The back door is closed. Changes have taken place, and are taking place, everywhere except in our memory. This is why the memory can be such a dangerous tool; because it remembers things how they used to be, which is not of much benefit to a newly evolved situation.
At school, we are taught how things used to be as if they are still the same scores of years later. The only benefit in going to school is to find out how others have been conditioned. By finding out how others have been conditioned, we are able to find out how we ourselves have been conditioned.
This was the aim of the Buddha's teaching - to discover our own pre-conditioning, and to remove it.
At first, we feel that the preconditioning is "us" - as if it is a part of our inner selves, but later we find that our inner selves are far more subtle than the coarseness of the conditioning of the material world.
We find that many of our habits and personal traits have come about as a result of avoiding something, as opposed to coming about by reasoned or intuited choice. Prior to realising this, we cling to these traits as if we were clinging to our arm, not realising that it is these very habits and traits which are preventing our evolutionary progress.
Never eating
We may come to the point where we feel that any action we take to satisfy any of our senses is wrong. This is most definitely not the case.
Whilst dwelling mindfully in a sphere of understanding, we are still able to recognise whether an experience is pleasurable or otherwise. There is no reason to avoid pleasurable sensations, as long as we are aware that for every pleasure sensation, there must be an equivalent unpleasurable one. Natures law dictates this.
However, as we are aware that we have to eat in order to survive, we become concerned about food. There are those who say that food should be considered as medicine only. I will not disagree with that concept, but would add that if I am about to take medicine, then I will make sure that it is the most efficacious for the present illness. If the present illness is created by a desire for chocolate, then I will eat chocolate (if available), but whilst eating it, I will examine why I need to eat it.
Travelling in Circles
In the west we have been taught to manipulate others in order to obtain satisfaction for ourselves. In the east we have been taught to manipulate ourselves so that we do nothing to disturb the satisfaction of others.
When we in the West try to learn the ways of the east, then we struggle because we apply western thinking. If we are to succeed, we must first make space for eastern thinking by disposing of erroneous western thinking. The reason for the error is that those who have already become proficient in manipulating others, have already succeeded in manipulating our thinking. We must first remove this manipulated, or controlled thinking, before we can open our mind to a truly different set of concepts.
Concern for others
We should not trouble our mind with concern for others. Their mind is for use by them in concern for them, as our mind is for use by us in concern for us. When we are in the presence of others, then we must observe and respect their needs, and we must be careful to fulfil any promises which we may make. However, as we are unable to completely guarantee our own actions, due to the effects of outside forces, then we should not make any promises lest we are unable to fulfil them, thereby creating negative karma for ourselves. No promise is far better than a broken promise.
Additionally, if we ponder the problems of others in preference to pondering ourselves, then we are failing to learn about ourselves.
No matter how much we learn about ourselves, I doubt that we will ever know everything. Therefore, by pondering over others, we are failing to use that time pondering ourselves, and therefore we progress more slowly than might otherwise be the case. If we can once get some sort of sense of urgency instilled into our inner being, without bringing along the usually accompanying impatience, then we can begin to avoid the interminable time wasting of the masses. When in company, they talk in frivolous and non-beneficial ways, and when alone, they fill their minds with mindless non-progressive twaddle, hence the permanent travelling in circles.
We have convinced ourselves of the need to relax, and we have decided what relaxation consists of, and in most cases it consists of switching off the mind. This is another way of saying behaving in a mindless manner. It is a crying shame that we have not been introduced at an early age to the finest entertainment available, and free too. Meditation, when performed mindfully (and how can one meditate unmindfully), provides more entertainment, more suited to our own personal needs than any other man-made invention. No other man can ever be aware of the full machinations of our own mind. Some may be able to be aware of what we are thinking now, but they would have no idea of why we think that way, whereas we do have the capability of working out why we think that way. That is what meditation is all about. The result of a successful meditation is that we work out a little more of why we think the way we do, and by realising this "little more", then we are able to decide whether this particular piece of conditioning is desirable or unhelpful This is how we improve ourselves.
It just is
Western culture holds the view that extreme feelings should be controlled, and not displayed in public.
My culture holds that it is best to live in a community where these feelings can be expressed; where the rest of the community are sufficiently loving and tolerant to allow the expression to be used as a way of freeing the expresser from his restricted state. In return, the expresser learns tolerance and patience.
Tolerance is not, as I once believed, forcing oneself to accept the actions of others, whilst not approving of them. It is not the acceptance of the action which is the crux of the matter. The crux is the approval. By spending our lives approving or disapproving of everything we come across, we colour our opinions to the the point of non-reality. Tolerance is learning to not judge. The line in the Dao Te Ching reads: "It's not good; it's not bad; it just is".
This idea of things just being, without being categorised, is foreign to most westerners. This is why easterners appear to be more tolerant than westerners - because they do not create so many intolerable situations. Those beings who are fully aware of their shortcomings are able to avoid situations which highlight the shortcoming, and thus to fail only rarely.
Those beings who have an erroneous or inflated idea of their capabilities, consider themselves to be better than others, and therefore refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions. They blame all errors on someone or something else, and by convincing themselves that they are not at fault, they fail to learn.
One of the first things we learn once we enter the path is that we are responsible for everything that happens to us, whether it be consciously, or subconsciously. The vibrations generated by our mind/body/spirit complex operate in the same way as other vibrations. Like attracts like, and therefore our particular set of vibrations act as a magnet to those with similar vibrations, and we become drawn together, with no conscious knowledge of why.
Who am I?
In the search for meaning, the discovery of our true selves, the following notes may be of assistance.
We will begin at the end, as they are both the same when discussing infinity. We, you and me, and each entity which considers itself to be separate, is an infinitely small fragment of The One.
The One is the subject of which religion, politics and all things is made. If a member of a large family states that he has no brothers and sisters, then all of his brothers and sisters know that he is deluded. Yet he does not know. This is how it is with the world. We are denying our integration with the rest of creation, and as a result have considerable difficulty in understanding reality. We are all a part of The One.
Unfortunately, because very few of our ancestors were aware of this fact, then the world into which we incarnated was already in turmoil. Our institutions had been founded on fallacy, and were sure to crumble before too long.
The actual process of birth, as conducted in a Western hospital, is an incredibly traumatic thing. The equipment of modern childbirth is more akin to the equipment of a torture chamber than that of a loving environment. We were even born in an unnatural way - what chance do we really have of ever becoming in touch with nature?
As if that's not all, we are given a series of vaccinations against the imaginations of our ancestors, with untold results on our future health. By the time we exit the torture chamber and arrive "home", we are already traumatised.
How's that for an entry into a new incarnation - its almost enough to not want to bother much with another one, and that's just the eleventeenth point of misunderstanding, which we will cover in more detail later.
So, we arrive home, and gradually begin to sleep off enough of the trauma to be able to see and hear. What do we see? What do we hear? We are being programmed already into the misconcepts of many generations. We hear so much twaddle that we are lucky not to be unable to make any meaning out of it. But we do make meaning out of the vibrations it creates. We very rapidly learn to differentiate between pleasant sounds, and unpleasant sounds. We also become aware that our trauma increases whenever we hear a loud noise. As we are almost permanently surrounded by loud noise, then we never lift our trauma, and suffer with it for the remainder of the incarnation, never actually waking up at all.
It sounds patronising to suggest that we never wake up, but this is because we all believe that we are awake, just as we believe that we are separate, or have one life only. Would a fully awake person not know that vaccination is of many times more danger than it is of benefit? Would a fully awake person not know that the biggest drug dealers are the governments? Would a fully awake person not know that there is a secret world government which has been orchestrating events for several centuries? Would a fully awake person not be aware that they are being conditioned to be competitive, obedient and simple-minded?
We are given e-mail, when we could be using telepathy. We are given Internet when we could be mentally on-line to The Hall Of Records. We are given electronic music to make sure that our minds are rarely clear, and we are given alcohol, just to rub it all in well. What chance of being awake?
No, not patronising - just truthful.
When The Buddha was asked if he was a god, he said "I am not a god".
When he was then asked what he was , he said "I am awake".
In this context, enlightenment and awakening can be considered synonymous. You would not be offended if we suggested that you were not yet enlightened, would you? So, why be offended at a suggestion that you are sleeping? Because of the trauma caused by the belief in separation. How could I ever be wanting to say anything to hurt you, when I know that you and I are one. I would be hurting myself, and that is not a sensible thing to do, is it? So, whenever you register that I might be trying to hurt you, you are actually registering the root of one of your childhood traumas. The first step is to be able to overcome the embarassment or anger, created by finding out a little more about ourselves. Most of us are so traumatised that we run in the opposite direction as soon as we think we might discover something nasty. We just do not want to know about our nasty side, and we become very adept at hiding from it. The only way to overcome this type of problem is in a loving and understanding environment, hardly any of which are known by us. How many of us truly felt able to discuss any and all subjects with our parents, or teachers, or anyone?
This is how it is meant to be. It is meant to be up to us to gather enough gumption to be able to climb out of the morass of misunderstanding, and then to be able to look back and feel the relief of escaping. Our first reaction is to go back and get our friends, but they do not want to listen. They have to do it themselves, as we did, and all we can do is make ourselves available if they request assistance.
We lie awake at night, almost weeping at the memories of the incidents which had closed down our minds, and seeing how the minds of our friends and colleagues have also been closed.
How can we ever understand ourselves enough to think straight when we are taught that disease comes from invisible things floating around in the air. What confounded rubbish will they be wanting us to believe next. How much money is made by selling medicines and hygiene products to people who do not know that all disease originates in the mind?
There has been a solid body of true information, in oral and written form, unchanged for at least twenty centuries, and yet it is not readily available to the general public. How can we ever understand?
The curriculi at our schools and universities are carefully chosen so as to avoid this body of truth, as if it is too complicated for a normal human being to understand. It is far simpler than trying to understand the concoction of misinformation provided by governments who knock down their own World Trade Centres, and then shout "foul".
The media is owned by the same secret government, and therefore is designed to portray the same "competitive, obedient, simple-minded" message.
Much of the secret government control was started when the Romans had problems with controlling the barbarians whose lands they had conquered. They therefore devised a method of creating fear amongst these fearless people, and this method has perpetuated until this very day. We can tell you now that there is no such thing as a devil, and if you do not agree, then you are confirming that you are still dreaming.
THE REAL WORLD IS FULL OF LOVE - THERE IS NO HATE - THERE IS NO MISUNDERSTANDING
Look at nature in the real world - see how everything co-operates with and assists each other in its quest for light and consciousness. The only fear which exists is created by man and his frightening machines.
So the fear of death becomes so strong that we do not talk about the subject in polite circles. If only polite circles were aware that they were living something like their six hundredth incarnation as a human being, then they would have something very interesting to talk about - alas, even polite circles are traumatised.
So, you take offence at the "simple-minded" term. Why are we not all aware of and able to understand Einstein's theory of relativity? Because we are programmed to disbelieve this relativity, and therefore the truth is not presented to the public. This keeps us simple minded. It is not a statement that there is something wrong with us. It is a statement of fact, no matter how unsavoury. (The truth shall set you free, but first it shall piss you off).
Are you aware that most of the food you eat has been in contact with dangerous chemicals, and/or is genetically modified to comply with another of our ancestor's imaginings. How can we achieve our potential when we are fed on unnatural produce?
Would a fully awake person allow this to happen?
Enough of why we are the way we are - yes maybe much of that has come from the outside - we are what we eat - we are a product of our environment - all of that has been true until today. Now fortunately or otherwise, we have achieved the first step in waking up. We have become aware that we are asleep!
The four steps of learning are:-
Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious Incompetence
Conscious Competence
Unconscious Competence
Having read the above you have already left step one, and are standing on step two.
Reaching Conscious Competence.
The result of reaching conscious competence is that we are able to observe ourselves in detail, and to discover exactly why we think, say, and behave the way we do. A tall order maybe, and not to be achieved overnight.
Here we outline some practices which have helped us, some now abandoned, and some avidly practiced daily. We hope that one or two might vibrate with you, and that we can help you to set your sights on step 3. We have had the good fortune to spend several years in a loving environment, with the time to learn and practice. Most people do not have these facilities, and we are attempting to distill our own experiences into a few words so that assistance is available. We are aware that each path is unique, personal yet shared, and that the way along the path is fraught with the discovery of hundreds of childhood and adult traumas. We hope to provide navigation aids, which are useful to you.
We consider our "being" as a tripartite entity, which we call mind body and soul. We have little knowledge of any of the three.
The mind
The mind is our driving force. We are able to generate positive or negative thoughts. We are able to make choices, and to apply free will. we are able to increase will power. We are able to imagine and be creative. Our mind is so capable of so many things that keeping it under control is difficult. This is why the greatest of our teachers all participate in and recommend meditation. This calms the mind, and enables us to take control of it. If we allow others to manipulate our mind, then we are not controlling it to the best effect. In the process of waking up, we dispose of much of the conditioning which we have allowed others to place there. When we realise that the majority of citizens are not yet awake, then we realise that we have been believing the thoughts and words of short-sighted people. Once we dispose of this short sighted narrow thinking, then we have space for the broader thoughts of the awakened mind. We become less petty, and less involved with trivia. We are able to concentrate for longer periods on things that we really enjoy.
We are open to more reality, and able to learn faster.
The body
The physical body, of flesh, blood, bone, hair, and water is formed around seven main energy centres called Chakras.
These seven chakras appear in every sentient being, and differentiations occur only in the range of openings available. The human being is more able to open more chakras to a greater aperture than any other sentient being. Simple machines (eg a pendulum) can be used to locate and analyse the chakras, in the hands of a trained and loving person. Please do not doubt the truth of these words, as incredible as it may seem to our conditioned reasoning mind. Try it for yourself, there are hundreds of books on the subject of chakras.
Having a knowledge of the existence of our chakras helps us to better understand some of the things which happen to us. Would an awake parent be pleased with a school which taught human biology, managing never to mention the chakras? (Curriculum exclusion). Here we see how we have "missed out" as a result of the superstitions of our ancestors, and we feel the energy arising in us. This energy may originate in anger, or frustration, or impatience, or jealousy or just plain hate.
The soul is more difficult to understand, and therefore more difficult to explain. I think of it as the glue which holds everything together. When our body dies, we do not die. The real "I" or"me" is far more than our body and mind. The real I is immortal, and is the base from which each incarnation is generated. The real I is what many refer to as god, or at least a part of god. God is the sum of all the "I"s of all things.
The realisation of the existence of the soul is the starting point in waking up.
The truth shall set you free..........but first it will p you off
Don't take the second bit too lightly.
The revelations which come about as we learn the truth are so deep rooted that coming to terms with them often involves tearing out what feels like whole parts of ourselves. If we are pre-prepared, having reached this situation by throwing away a little at a time, then we are already familiar with the sensations of another removal of waste matter.
Every time we remove some of this rubbish, we really do lighten our load. Not only do we dispose of the cumbersome weight generated by the erroneous negative thought, but we also benefit from the freedom and lightness generated by the truthful positive thought. A bit of the ego dies, and allows the true, hidden self to be revealed. We remember that the ego has been created by the conditioning around us, positive and negative. The ego is not the real "us" which was in us when we were born. In order to find the real us, we have to break through all of the conditioning which we have wrapped ourselves in, in order to protect ourselves from bumps and knocks along the way. All of these things were useful in their time, but if we fail to dispose of things when their usefulness has passed, then we begin to carry too much weight with us. In our mind's eye, we can witness scenes like a person crawling down the road, wearing Pampers, with a dummy in his(her) mouth, a school bag on his(her) back, and a school tie around his(her) neck, an American football helmet on his(her) head, with a shirt to match, a bunch of red roses sticking out of a sheath on his(her) belt, a laptop in his(her) left hand, and a plastic toy gun in his(her) right, wondering why he(she) is unable to be successful.
We are aiming for a sharp clear mind which is able to process data faster than before, and therefore able to penetrate deeper into the truth of any particular subject. This can only happen if the thought paths are free of irrelevant and unhelpful debris, and we can only dispose of this debris after we have disposed of the little piece of ego which collected it in the first place.
Our aim is to be able to live "here and now", with no reference whatever to incidents from the past. These incidents have no bearing on what is happening right now under our noses. We are unable to understand the enormity of what has been done to us because we are all so busy hiding behind our colossal egos which have been encouraged to grow by the powers that be.
If only we could draw aside the heavy dark curtain which these bloated opinions create, then we would understand the truth in seconds. They say the ignorance is bliss, and it is certain that any bliss currently being experienced by the human race is through ignorance.
This now begins to sound like one of those alarmist "The end of the world is nigh" messages, and in some ways it is. But this message goes further, by telling you that it is only the end of the world as we have previously experienced it. The "new" world will bring new experiences, and if we have learned and practised being open to accept new sensations and experiences without fear or doubt, then we are in for a most wonderful time.
If, however, we attempt in any way to hang on to anything at all from the "old" world, then we automatically attach ourselves to the old world, and we die with it.
Best of luck in your search for the truth.
If there are different reasons for incarnating, then these probably relate to the further raising of consciousness, or the balancing and opening of the chakras. The people whom we seek are not going to be a part of the usual crowd, although they probably will have been at some time. They are more likely to fit the term Wanderer, in that they have rarely, if ever, felt as though they belong where they are - it is always as if they have not yet reached the point that they are supposed to be at, so they are wandering around hoping to discover their real identity. We are here to try to help them to remember, like we too are remembering, who, and what we really are. The minute that we once step outside the veiled world, then our compassion for those still entombed increases. We see every minute of the day, everywhere, people speaking and acting in exactly the ways we acted before we knew. How can we criticise - we know that we and they are parts of the same whole. We know that with a little assistance, they too can step outside the veil. We also know that we must not attempt to preach. If they ask, then we may answer, otherwise, we must remain silent.
The process of evolving the mind has been studied by many, who all agree that the conditioning received in earlier life is what determines our personality today.
Each one of us has a desire to be a better person, and we all do our best to improve whenever we have the opportunity. Psychoanalysis is the method used by many in today's frantic world, and this has the effect of occasionally drawing out some old memory, and the relevant conditioning, and has the effect of removing a blockage allowing progress to be made.
Meditation also has the effect of removing blockages, but has several significant benefits over and above psychoanalysis.
Firstly, it is free. Secondly, it can be done any time, any where, without an appointment, meaning that it can be done more often, like daily, or even several times per day. Thirdly, it does not target one specific element of conditioning from the past, but allows all conditioning to eventually rise to the surface, and to escape and disappear.
If anyone is able to use their will power to get themselves started on this path, then they will find that not only does it get easier within just a few hours, but that they progress measurably and quickly, until such time that the enjoyment acheived is greater than any other form of enjoyment.
Instead of wandering around the planet hoping to experience some catalyst which will advance our lives, we can stay just where we are, and begin to discover ourselves.
I clearly remember when I was the managing director of a software house, having a desire to understand myself. I read books like "The Naked Ape" by Desmond Morris, in an attempt to discover why I behaved in the ways I did.
Now, some twenty or more years later, I discover a technique which has bee around for OVER FIVE THOUSAND YEARS, which appears to work for anyone and everyone who has a strong enough desire to learn about themselves.
There are a few simple steps, which I will outline as follows:
1 - Find a comfortable position with the spine straight, in which you can sit without moving for several minutes.
2 - Concentrate on the breath entering and leaving the nostrils, until such time as the concentration is steady.
3 - Begin to sense different parts of the body in a systematic way, until such time that the different sensations are noticed arising and passing in each part of the body.
4 - Whenever a problem arises with sensing parts of the body, then return to the sensation in the nostrils, and work outwards from there.
5 - Repeat daily as often as possible until enlightenment is achieved.
It seems as though this is just too good to be true.
It is very good, but it is also true. What is written above is the central core of Buddhism. This is the inner teaching of the Buddha, with all of the other stuff simply being a way of avoiding foul-ups during "sitting-and-sensing". If we are able to stick to the routine, then we are sure to achieve enlightenment eventually.
We are all enlightened already, except for the fact that there are scores of blockages preventing us from the realisation of that truth. If we can remove the blockages, then we are home and dry.