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Did you ever try this exercise ...
1. Give a group of persons in a room thirty seconds to memorize all red objects in that room.
2. Then ask them to close their eyes.
3. Then ask one of them (eyes still closed) to list all the blue objects in that room.
Just a way to prove a number of things. One of those things is how our own focus blocks us from seeing what is there ... What Is.
To explain certain things we sometimes have to use language and names in a different way than what people are used to in order to get certain things across.
Likewise, what the following words will give to you will depend primarily on the extent to which you will permit yourself to be open-minded. As always we ourselves are our own greatest handicap and as always we offer ourselves the reality of our own choosing and, in doing so, deny to ourselves what we exclude.
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At birth there is this body and this mind ... and the two are moulded into becoming this somebody who uses this mind and this body ... this equipment ... to compete and to operate from what he believes to be his strengths ... to become what he believes is his identity ...
And as long as this somebody will sojourn in that realm and as long as he will operate "from strength" (rather than from the opposite) and as long as he will compete and as long as he will seek to SEE and as long as he will NEED to understand, he will accomplish ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in Being.
One has to experience Being to become another kind of Doer.
But we don't have to DO anything ...
The circumstance that we may think so doesn't necessarily imply that this is indeed how it is and also the circumstance that hitherto we may always have done it neither implies that this is indeed how it is.
That body and that mind which became this somebody with this perceived identity may have himself believing that he has all these thousands of things to do .... this tiresome, never ending and ever growing list of things that he HAS TO do to be able to get to that place where he will finally have created all these safeties and all these protections for himself ... a place where he can finally like himself and where finally others may like him too ...
But ...
there is desire and there is desire. One desire is a deep longing which comes from our very core. It is innocent and it is pure and it merely longs to merge. This desire may indeed lead to merging and to Being ... being what it will merge with.
The other desire is a want and experiencing that want originates in a presumed lack.
This want ... this need ... constitutes clear proof that one cannot see/accept/embrace the perfection of Reality (Reality or, if you like, Truth or Being are merely other names of God). It proves that one does not accept Reality as it is and that one wishes to adapt it to one's preferences ... to the will of one's ego ... rather than to accept it as an expression of God's Will. This want ... this need ... is what leads to doing ... is what leads to us using our "strengths" and to us residing in those strengths and to us being the doer in the rat race. This desire is a need to control. And for some of us even the attainment of enlightenment is merely a means to gain more control.
This want ... this need to DO things ... is what will keep the door to Being firmly locked.
When you are in Being, you will not NEED to do anything and your doing - consequently - will be a different kind of doing ... the doing of Being.
"The Lord is my shepherd. I SHALL NOT WANT."
You can read these words as a promise ... as the simple promise that e.g. your physical needs will be met or, if you like, that God will satisfy your every need.
You can, however, as would appear to be the case with more scripture than most of us expect, also read them as a kind of commandment with an underlying promise ... as a way to say that residence in God's flock is subject to you not wanting ... as a way to say that you will be granted residence in Being as long as you shall not operate (DO) from a place of WANT/NEED.
Whenever "you" WANT, observe ...
And you will find that it is the ego which is FOUND WANTING.
The ego cannot prevent the Light of the (((((((Holy One))))))) to shine on you.
But it CAN prevent His Light to shine through you.
"The Lord is my shepherd. I SHALL NOT WANT."
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1. Give a group of persons in a room thirty seconds to memorize all red objects in that room.
2. Then ask them to close their eyes.
3. Then ask one of them (eyes still closed) to list all the blue objects in that room.
Just a way to prove a number of things. One of those things is how our own focus blocks us from seeing what is there ... What Is.
To explain certain things we sometimes have to use language and names in a different way than what people are used to in order to get certain things across.
Likewise, what the following words will give to you will depend primarily on the extent to which you will permit yourself to be open-minded. As always we ourselves are our own greatest handicap and as always we offer ourselves the reality of our own choosing and, in doing so, deny to ourselves what we exclude.
~
At birth there is this body and this mind ... and the two are moulded into becoming this somebody who uses this mind and this body ... this equipment ... to compete and to operate from what he believes to be his strengths ... to become what he believes is his identity ...
And as long as this somebody will sojourn in that realm and as long as he will operate "from strength" (rather than from the opposite) and as long as he will compete and as long as he will seek to SEE and as long as he will NEED to understand, he will accomplish ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in Being.
One has to experience Being to become another kind of Doer.
But we don't have to DO anything ...
The circumstance that we may think so doesn't necessarily imply that this is indeed how it is and also the circumstance that hitherto we may always have done it neither implies that this is indeed how it is.
That body and that mind which became this somebody with this perceived identity may have himself believing that he has all these thousands of things to do .... this tiresome, never ending and ever growing list of things that he HAS TO do to be able to get to that place where he will finally have created all these safeties and all these protections for himself ... a place where he can finally like himself and where finally others may like him too ...
But ...
there is desire and there is desire. One desire is a deep longing which comes from our very core. It is innocent and it is pure and it merely longs to merge. This desire may indeed lead to merging and to Being ... being what it will merge with.
The other desire is a want and experiencing that want originates in a presumed lack.
This want ... this need ... constitutes clear proof that one cannot see/accept/embrace the perfection of Reality (Reality or, if you like, Truth or Being are merely other names of God). It proves that one does not accept Reality as it is and that one wishes to adapt it to one's preferences ... to the will of one's ego ... rather than to accept it as an expression of God's Will. This want ... this need ... is what leads to doing ... is what leads to us using our "strengths" and to us residing in those strengths and to us being the doer in the rat race. This desire is a need to control. And for some of us even the attainment of enlightenment is merely a means to gain more control.
This want ... this need to DO things ... is what will keep the door to Being firmly locked.
When you are in Being, you will not NEED to do anything and your doing - consequently - will be a different kind of doing ... the doing of Being.
"The Lord is my shepherd. I SHALL NOT WANT."
You can read these words as a promise ... as the simple promise that e.g. your physical needs will be met or, if you like, that God will satisfy your every need.
You can, however, as would appear to be the case with more scripture than most of us expect, also read them as a kind of commandment with an underlying promise ... as a way to say that residence in God's flock is subject to you not wanting ... as a way to say that you will be granted residence in Being as long as you shall not operate (DO) from a place of WANT/NEED.
Whenever "you" WANT, observe ...
And you will find that it is the ego which is FOUND WANTING.
The ego cannot prevent the Light of the (((((((Holy One))))))) to shine on you.
But it CAN prevent His Light to shine through you.
"The Lord is my shepherd. I SHALL NOT WANT."
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