In essence, as Spirit we are One – whilst retaining an ‘identity’.

In effect, as Souls and people we are individuals – whilst retaining our Spirit ‘identity’.

Whether stated by a Christ, a Buddha or a five-year-old child a Truth is a Truth, so ignore the human source.

Note: Unfortunately I cannot here link this table of contents to the entries. If you wish you may go to http://www.themilkiswhite.com/smf/index.php for linked entries.

Perception and the Truth.     

One's perception is one's truth until the arrival of wisdom.

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Civilization. 

Civilization is not necessary for the spiritual progress of the individual. However, it does provide the opportunity to learn that the empty pleasures and apparent benefits that civilization brings are actually worthless - mere illusion - and the opportunity to eliminate the desire for (the attachment to) these. The only progress that matters in the long run is spiritual progress.
Historically, all civilizations have collapsed as a result of their own excesses; they are impermanent.
(See Wisdom in The Milk Is White - Part One, Chapter 9 - The "Quo Vadis?" File.)

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The Voice of Conscience & The Voice of Mind. 

The voice of one's conscience is often eclipsed by the voice of emotion, or the voice of emotion comes into play first and is followed by the surfacing of the voice of conscience after one has reacted to the voice of emotion.
The voice of conscience is of the Spirit and the voice of emotion is of the mind, hence the importance of cultivating the ability to subjugate the mind - to make it one's servant instead of one's master.

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The Nature of Mind. 

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual
nature".

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Litigation and Karma. 

To resort to litigation is to deny or avoid karma.

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Acting According to Your Conscience. 

Act according to your conscience and disregard possible consequences to yourself. The mind will feed you with all sorts of things, but it is surprising how often the consequences are quite unexpected and quite unlike the often fearful warnings of the mind. Be aware that the results of acting according to your conscience are precisely what you need. These can be postponed but not avoided (in the normal course of life, that is.)

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The 'World'. 

The 'World' at any time accurately reflects the collective human consciousness, and is in harmony with it.

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Sublime Patience. 

This is the patience with life as it unfolds for one, not the patience of waiting for some thing. Sublime patience comes from the understanding of the purpose of life as we know it and accepting our responsibility for that life.
To hand over this responsibility to 'God', or anything or anyone else, is to duck one's own culpability.
Sublime patience comes from acceptance of one's self as the cause - and, therefore, one's self as the 'cure' - and acceptance of what life brings, whilst being aware that the remedy lies with one.
Hence, the Edgar Cayce Reading, "Be content, but be not satisfied."

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The Seed of Truth. 

The seed of the Truth (Reality) lies within every one. All that is required is to cultivate the soil, sow the seed and nurture it growth. The harvest follows. Hence, one aspect of "As you sow, so shall you reap."

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Love and Relationship. 

The emotion generated by love i.e. the emotion of love, depends for its existence on there being a relationship of one kind or another. However, a relationship is not dependent on love.
By understanding relationship itself one is aware that, whereas the emotion of love requires relationship, relationship does not require either love or emotion because love and emotion are merely aberrations, or "overlays", of relationship.
Hence, without love and emotion, relationship acquires its true value - that of being only the foundation, the basis, on which either emotion or love stand either alone or combined.
NB. The same applies for any other emotion.

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Pleasure and Rewards. 

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

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Blind Eyes & Ignorant Minds.

In 'time', as blind eyes will regain sight so will ignorant minds regain wisdom.

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The Body as a Vehicle. 

This was written on Feb 25 2006 at a time when I had cancer of the tongue with possible metastasis elsewhere and had decided, in line with my philosophical understanding, to either cure it myself or succumb to it.
"Not surprisingly, I am detached from what is happening to my body. Yes, I do feel the pain and discomfort but there is no emotional reaction to them or the situation as such. Taking the analogy in "The Milk Is White" of the body being as a vehicle, it is now as if I were driving my car which has developed rust that is weakening its structure. As the driver, I am aware of the effect of this but I accept it for what it is and what it means, without emotional reaction - that is, with detachment. When the car falls apart I will scrap it and get a new one - one more suitable to me, should that be necessary."
In 'time', as blind eyes will regain sight so will ignorant minds regain wisdom.

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A Dream. 

Following the entry The Body as a Vehicle I decided to attend the meeting referred to below.

Yesterday I was due to be at the hospital at 8 a.m. for examination by the team of "Head & Neck" surgeons and consultants and before I awoke I had this dream:
Note - In Australia we drive on the left side of the road.
I was driving on a two-way, two lane street, approaching a T intersection at which I was going to turn right. I 'knew' that the road I was approaching was clear. However, I was approaching the intersection in the right lane instead of in the regulation left lane and was a little uncomfortable with this.

INTERPRETATION: 1. In dreams, right = the 'correct' way. 2. The road ahead was clear. 3. I was approaching 'illegally' = not according to required practice or standard principles (in this case, my spiritual guidelines).
So, I was approaching a decision/choice, the road ahead was clear and I would make the right choice although it was against 'my principles'. After the examinations and deliberations the surgeon gave me the diagnosis, the proposed surgical procedure and the prognosis; the last mentioned subject to post surgical pathology. I immediately gave him the "go ahead" and a week later the surgery was carried out with complete success, the pathology was clear and no follow-up chemo/radio therapy was required.

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Life's Events.

In each life there are things that will happen, things that will not happen and things that are optional.

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Knowledge and Knowing. 

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

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Success & Failure. 

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

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Creation - the Big Bang. 

There was no Big Bang. The Big Bang theory stems from the fact that the human mind thinks in terms of time and space. As a consequence, for the dispersal of energy/matter around the universe of time and space it requires an impelling force - in this case an explosion, a big bang. However, Creation is soundless and occurred/occurs 'outside' time and space. It ,therefore, does not require "dispersal" and, therefore, does not require a big bang. The Big Bang is a misconception.

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The Mind and Enlightenment. 

The chatter of the mind blocks enlightenment. Many seekers of enlightenment set the mind to a myriad of tasks and the only result of this is 'ments'* like flies in a bottle - a lot of noise and activity going nowhere. Remember that the path to enlightenment involves subduing the mind, subjugating it.

*My word for thoughts. To differentiate between Thought and mental activity I use these words: Thinking/mental activity = mentivity; think = ment; thinking = menting.

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On The Path To Enlightenment. 

This could be you.

Imagine an actor who is wearing all the costumes he has worn on stage in the past looking at himself in the mirror and trying to decide who or what he is. If he goes to the dressing room and strips down to his skin he will see himself clearly.

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Expressing One's Creativity. 

Far too many of us get so caught up in the whys and wherefores of things that we get all knotted up, with the result that the creativity lacks the freedom which is essential for creative expression. Just go with the flow!

As a teenager I drew and painted and continued this expression till my late twenties when drawing and painting was replaced by poetry. This continued for about twenty years although accompanied by landscape design for the last five years or so. Finally, all this ended and I started writing, and have written two books since. At no stage did I do anything other than just let it happen.

If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?

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Love - The Three kinds. 

One kind of love is affection - normally considered to be love in a less intense form. Affection is variable according to the factors influencing it - it is a 'worldly' phenomenon and impermanent.
The second kind is that which stems from the emotions and/or the sensations. Thus, at times it may seem to be sensational, but it is still emotional because it is an emotional reaction to one's sensations. This we can term emotional love. Emotional love is variable according to the factors influencing it - it is a 'worldly' phenomenon and impermanent.
The third kind of love is undefineable; it is an 'aspect' of the Great Spirit or Thought - and, therefore, an 'aspect' of us as Spirit. In us it is our subconscious awareness of our Oneness with our absolute state - the Great Spirit. This we can call fundamental love and fundamental love is a constant - it is not a 'worldly' phenomenon but has a worldly influence and is permanent.
Affection and emotional love are universal phenomena whereas fundamental love just is.

Note: See also Love - what is it? in The Milk Is White p 100.

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A Startling and Uncomfortable Awareness. 

Accompanying the awareness of the reality of karma can be the difficulty of coping with the awareness that there is no such thing as a "tragedy", an "innocent", an "accident" et cetera; of coping with the necessity of saying to oneself, "These people have brought these things upon themselves." Fortunately, we can express sadness that this is so, to empathise, to sympathise and to help in any way we can.

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Attachments and Enlightenment. 

In our normal state we Spirits have no attachments. It is only when we entered the Phenomenal World, or Earth Plane, that we developed the numerous emotional attachments, and those of other types if there are any, that burden us and without which we feel naked and incomplete. These we guard zealously.
However, in order to end the cycle of death and rebirth we have to eliminate these attachments - and that is what spiritual growth and full enlightenment is about.

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Mind and Thought. 

As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

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Observe, Observe, Observe. 

Observe others and learn, observe nature and learn but, above all, observe self and learn, for this is one of the main keys to spiritual perfection.

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Meditation. 

One cannot “meditate on something”. This is because to “meditate on something” is to focus the mind on something, whereas meditation is the process by which the mind is stilled, not activated.
However, one can focus the mind on something in a state of quiet contemplation or, as a means to achieving a state of meditation, concentrate on one's breathing or, for instance, a spot on the wall or the flame of a candle.

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Telepathy/Thought Transference. 

Be it from human to human, animal to animal or human to animal how does telepathy [thought transference] work? We all know that we sometimes feel something when we meet or see someone, or even, sometimes, hear of someone. We call this feeling “vibes”. We also know, for instance, that animals are sometimes aware of danger even though this danger is outside the spectrum of their senses. On many occasions I have talked gently to houseflies that have found their way into my house, told them that I did not intend to harm them but only put them outside; then told them to move to my open hand which I held near them, and when they did this took them to the fly wire screen door, opened it, and released them from my still open hand.

We talk of “feeling vibes” of “giving off vibes” et cetera but there are no discernable vibrations. So what is happening?

To understand this we need to understand that this is telepathy or thought transference and we have to know what thought is. So, what is thought, or as I refer to it in this context, Thought? The answer to that lies in what I have written and will have to be sought by the reader by reading all I have written, for a proper appreciation, or using a computer's Search facility for bits and pieces. For the present I will quote the encapsulation of what Thought is i.e. “Thought creates, creation manifests, (therefore) Thought manifests.”

Thought (an Intelligence if you like) is the cause, the first cause, the creator, of all energy - that of which the entire universe is comprised. It follows, therefore, that everything 'on Earth', whatever it's form, is a manifestation of Thought. At the same time everything is Thought itself. To illustrate this to some extent we can use the example of water, ice and water vapour co-existing in one place - the one substance is present as a liquid, a solid and a gas.

Now, thought is known to exist as an entity; it is also known that it 'travels' from one point to another instantaneously, irrespective of distance - in other words, it transfers but does not travel; it does not travel because travel takes time, even a minute distance of travel. Thought does not have to travel because it exists everywhere or, to put it simply, it exists.

Since it exists in this way it is where you are, where I am and where anything and everything is. Also, being you, me and everything else, what each feels everything else can feel. I say “can feel” because to feel requires being 'tuned in', and if the tuning in is askew there is either poor communication or no communication. And since it exists in this way there are no 'waves' or other phenomena involved. Hence, telepathy is communication within something (Thought) without the presence of any phenomenon.

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Thought. 

Thought is still - there is no motion. Thought acts but there is no activity.

Thought is the Great Spirit, the First Cause, the Creative Force, God; and, whatever name it is given, the Great Spirit, the First Cause, the Creative Force, God is Thought.

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Seeing & Evaluating in Context. 

Most commonly we see events in a superficial context and the evaluation that follows is, therefore, also superficial. This is because our common mindset is superficial i.e. Earthly, three-dimensional etc.

To view and evaluate events in their true context we have to view and evaluate them in the context of life being continuous i.e. involving thousands of lives.

Where people, particularly children, are concerned it pays to reflect on the fact that they are souls in a human body, with the former being the predominant influence.

It takes practice to eliminate the mindset and clear the vision.

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Meditation. 

There are no shortcuts to enlightenment but meditation could reduce the time it takes by many lifetimes.

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New Words Coined. 

In the past, so as to differentiate between mental activity [commonly called thinking] and thinking [by which I mean those thought processes that do not involve the mind], I coined the word mentivity. Today, as a result of something new that is happening with me, I have coined another word. The word is swec, the acronym from 'Seeing' With Extreme Clarity. It does not involve the mind.
As a reference to readers I am starting this topic as a record of such new words.
mentivity: n. mental activity commonly called 'thinking'.
ment: v. think; adv. to think; n. a thought.
menter: n. one who ments.
menting: v. thinking.
[Note: the word mentality, meaning state of mind, already exists in the English language.]
swec: n. something 'seen' with extreme clarity - a superconscious event not involving the mind; v. swec or sweccing; adv. to swec.

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Enlightenment. 

As long as one desires enlightenment one will not achieve it, for one of the qualities of the enlightened state is that of being without desire.

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Regarding Choices. 

What choice would you make if you knew that no one would ever find out?

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The Purpose of Life. 

What started with my wanting to comment about “The essence of all spiritual wisdom.” led me to want to define “The essence of all spiritual wisdom.” and the result, after a bit of sorting out, is:

We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.

This seems to me to be “The purpose of life.” in one simple sentence.

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 Carnivores, Herbivores & Omnivores. 

It is a normal and natural tendency for a spiritual teacher, or the followers of a particular teacher or teaching, to feel or claim that theirs is the truest truth and, therefore, make its instruction exclusive. From the point of view of teaching, this exclusivity is understandable, even necessary, as to do otherwise would create confusion in the 'classroom'. However, it is best to include in the instruction that the pupil has the freedom of seeking elsewhere because the truth comes in different packages and all paths lead to the top of the mountain.

The fact is that, irrespective of the path taken, enlightenment remains the same - it cannot be otherwise; the path itself is merely the means to the end.

Take the analogy of animals. There are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores yet, despite their varied diet, they each grow well, mature and die and, on death, return to that from which they came.

 

So, should we be a carnivore, a herbivore or an omnivore? We can choose any one or all.

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Money. 

Thought sees money for what it is.
Mind sees money as a means to happiness.
Hence, when we think about money we see just money
and when we ment* about money we see Utopia.

 

*See Thought & Thinking in The Milk Is White.

 

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Regarding Yourself. [Refer to the next topic: Life is a Stage.]

Regarding yourself, who do you see living your day to day life? Is it the actor or the character in the play?

If it is the character you see it helps to remind yourself, as often as possible, that you are really the actor, and you can do this by a quick reminder like "I am!" or "I am Spirit!" - or whatever suits you.

When it is the actor you see, or see most often, you are well on your way to the top of the mountain.

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Life is a Stage. 

“Life is a stage ……………” said Shakespeare. Well, it really is.

On a stage people get dressed up in costumes, change their appearance, suppress their true character and take on the part of another character. They then act the stage part using what they learned and practiced in preparation for the play.
So it is in spiritual life because each life is a play wherein we dress up as a character, change appearance, suppress our true character, take on the part of a new character and act out what we learned in the period/s between other lives.

 

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Enlightenment.

 

1. Enlightenment is stopping the rainbow from moving away as you approach.

2. Enlightenment is when all one's insights have completed the jigsaw.

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Criticism and Awareness.

 

If we tell someone that something they do needs correcting, that is criticism.
If someone sees that something they do needs correcting, that is awareness.
However, it is best that, if unemotional assessment reveals warranted criticism, it be converted to awareness and acted upon.

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Fighting Wars Is Only Natural.

 

It seems as if there is more fighting in the world today than there has been in known history, and a large proportion of us agree with this or go along with it. But why do we fight so much?
We fight so much because it is natural. In nature, animals fight to defend their territories, their nests and their homes - it is natural; and we are animals, or rather, we have taken on the physical and mental characteristics of an animal - hu-man, and are in the process of jettisoning these characteristics.
However, we are Spirit, and it is spiritual not to fight or defend anything*. Behaving spiritually, if another comes to take our home or territory, we would gladly hand it over and there would be no fight. There would also be karma accruing to one party only.
So, we fight because our animal instincts are still stronger than our inherent spiritual qualities.

*We defend things because of attachment to the things, and attachment is not of the Spirit.

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Joy, happiness, fun, laughter etc. and the Reality.

Joy, happiness, fun, laughter etc. are all of the mind; the equivalent - and I use the term loosely - of these emotions in spiritual terms is very difficult to describe; it is a stillness yet it is not still, it is like an indescribably beautiful understanding that is the very substance flowing in the 'blood vessels' of the Spirit - circulating, but still, for there is no motion in Spirit.

This is not to denigrate joy, happiness, fun, laughter etc. They are what make life here worthwhile and, therefore, worth pursuing until one comes to the Realisation of what surpasses them.

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Enlightenment.

 

1. Enlightenment is stopping the rainbow from moving away as you approach.

2. Enlightenment is when all one's insights have completed the jigsaw.

 

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The Joy of the Spirit.

 

Joy, happiness, fun, laughter etc. are all of the mind; the equivalent - and I use the term loosely - of these emotions in spiritual terms is very difficult to describe; it is a stillness yet it is not still, it is like an indescribably beautiful understanding that is the very substance flowing in the 'blood vessels' of the Spirit - circulating, but still, for there is no motion in Spirit.

This is not to denigrate joy, happiness, fun, laughter etc. They are what make life here worthwhile an, therefore, worth pursuing until one comes to the Realisation of what surpasses them.

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An Unsustainable Civilization.

 

Western civilization is driven by economics dependent on consumerism and materialism. Both consumerism and materialism are created by craving.
Because spiritual progress is dependent upon the elimination of craving, any civilization

dependent on craving is not sustainable.

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Killing.

 

It matters not what side you are on when you kill or cause killing - death is death; there are no degrees of death.
Make no mistake about it, “As you sow, so shall you reap.”

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Knowing The Truth.

Student monk: How do I know that what you tell me is the Truth?

Teacher: As long as you ask, “Is it the Truth?” you do not know.

Student monk: When will I stop asking?

Teacher: When you see it yourself.

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Menting, Thinking & Emotion.

 

Regarding something one does, menting creates a perception of good, bad or neutral and a corresponding emotion, whereas with thinking it simply is, and there is no emotion, only clarity.

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Mind & Conscience.

 
Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.

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Enlightenment.

 
Enlightenment is knowing what one is and behaving accordingly.

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Forgiveness.

 

It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.

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 Karma - the Gender Blender.

 

Some years ago I had been talking a lot to a friend and co-worker of mine about the philosophy of Life. One day he told me that the night before he had been having an argument with his wife when he suddenly realised that, if he did not change his attitude in the argument, he could reincarnate as a woman and be in the position he was putting his wife in at that moment. He stopped the argument!

Note: It is worthy of note that we seldom think outside our 'gender mindset'. Just walking in the shoes of another is often enhanced by walking in the requisite 'gender shoes' of the other - and to my female friends I say, “Hold the cheers girls, this applies both ways!”

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The 'unbearable' Truth of Non-violence.

 

“Nonviolence,” says an Indian proverb, “is the supreme law of life.”

This is absolutely true and, believe it or not, deny it or not, this even applies to “defending” that which we hold dearest.
However, we do have freedom of choice [and until we come to the realisation of the Truth in the proverb, and act accordingly we will not attain enlightenment].

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The Illusion that is all things. 

 

To say that life and all that comprises it is an illusion is easy to say but extremely hard to comprehend. This is to assist that comprehension.

Look around you. Look at anything that you can smell, taste, touch, see or hear and be aware of it. In your mind reduce it, step by step, to its smaller and smaller components until you come to sub-atomic particles and then energy. What next? You are now at the point of creation of that thing which you are aware of - on 'your side' of the point of creation is the energy whilst on the 'other side' is nothing. Be aware that at the very moment that you are aware of this thing you see, it is actually nothing.
If something is nothing, it is an illusion.

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The Sunbeam and Sunlight.

 

“As the sunbeam is to sunlight, I  am.”

(from The Milk Is White.)

 

The sunbeam is there because one or more things are blocking the sunlight.
Remove what is doing the blocking and all you have is sunlight.
The Soul is there because one or more things are blocking the Spirit.
Remove what is doing the blocking and all you have is Spirit.

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Blowing Bubbles.

 
Have you seen children in a garden having fun blowing beautifully coloured bubbles and chasing them to catch them? If you look carefully you will see, sitting at the side somewhere, a beautiful child, happier than the others, with a serene look of perfect joy on its face. This is the one who knows.

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 Synchronicity.

 

The word 'synchronicity' is generally used in the context of two things/events occurring at the same time (coincidence). Carl Jung used it in a slightly different, spiritual context for which I would like to suggest a brief and simple definition viz.

Synchronicity is the coincidence of a need and an event.

Note: Often the term/word 'serendipity' is used when what is meant is 'synchronicity' and the above should clarify that.

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Our Civilization.

 

Our civilization is like a snake which, being unaware of its tail, has got hold of it and is devouring itself obsessively.

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 Joy.

 
There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.

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Enjoy. 

 

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

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Understanding the bud.

 
To fully understand a bud on a tree one needs to first understand the tree.
So it is with life.

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Human Gender Differences.

 

In response to a joke about the difference in human male and female idiosyncrasies:

So, like all of us, we are female in some lives and have to experience the idiosyncrasies of males, we are male in some lives and have to experience the idiosyncrasies of females and, throughout all this, in Reality, we are Spirit which is neither female nor male!
Beautiful, is it not?

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Science & Psychological Illness.

 

Scientists are increasingly claiming to discover connections between brain function and psychological problems. This is erroneous because all psychological problems are rooted in the psyche (the Soul). Hence, because all psychological problems are rooted in the psyche that is where they have to be treated. The brain is merely the organ that is designed to 'connect' the physical 'person' with the psyche, the conduit, and all its magnificent capability and versatility are purely mechanical - the “servant of the soul”. To correct something in the brain perceived to be the cause of something in the person/persona is like repairing a part of a car and pronouncing the job done when the malfunction is with the driver!

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The Wise Mariner.

 

While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it moves forward; be aware of the prevailing winds and currents that influence your progress as the master of the ship.

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Perceived Elitism in Enlightenment.

 

A lot of us suffer from the delusion that only a select elite amongst us, like the Buddha and the Christ, can attain enlightenment. We idolise or put on a pedestal those who have done so and thereby paint ourselves out of the picture where this is concerned, waiting perhaps for the time when we will don holy robes and other perceived symbols of holiness and be candidates for this, to our minds, hitherto unattainable goal. It is time now for those of us thus deluded to wake up to the fact that anyone can attain enlightenment - and that everyone will.

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On Loving God.

 

On television tonight I was watching individuals with various religious and philosophical beliefs talking about God and trying to define God when they started talking about loving God. At this point I found myself saying, “But you cannot love that which you are!” This was a swoc[1]

I then started to try and explain this impromptu statement of mine in words and this is the result some considerable time later; it is not easy to put into words:

One can love another only if the two are separate, because to love another is to project the love from one to the other. For this there have to be two entities, in this case there is one's self and God. However, when two entities are one and the same thing nothing is, or can be, projected - but there can be an ‘awareness' of oneness and this ‘awareness' may be termed “fundamental love” - if we wish to use the term love - as opposed to “human love” in all its manifestations. This human love is an emotion and an emotion is a creation of the mind[2] and, since the mind does not exist in Reality,[3] this love does not exist except as a figment of the imagination [the non-existent mind].

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Spiritual Growth and Attitude.

 

The only thing involved in one’s spiritual growth is one’s attitude – the continual improvement of one’s attitude. Knowledge of material things is irrelevant, merely of intellectual interest to some.

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Spare thoughts of compassion and joy.

 

Where karma is concerned many of us are keen to be aware of what we are doing but how many of us are aware of what others are doing?
Spare thoughts of compassion for the vast number of us who are daily creating terrible negative karma for themselves by their inhumanity to their fellows, by designing, manufacturing and distributing arms, by fighting wars (often whilst asking for  “God's” blessing!!), by condoning the exploitation of the disadvantaged (often in “the national interests”) et cetera.
Spare thoughts of joy, and raise a cheer, for those of us who in their own ways care for others and all things - who love others and all things.
Be aware!

Note: The karma attracted by soldiers is not necessarily negative. What affects their karma is their attitude to what they are doing. For many it is an opportunity to demonstrate many positive attributes.

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Finding the Truth.

 

The Truth is really very simple but cannot be described in its fullness with the tools of human communication. Often, aspects of it can only be experienced. This is why so much is written by so many, in so many different ways, presenting a complex and confusing spectrum. In such an environment we can only seek the Truth on what are called “higher levels”, or outer 'levels', those that are 'outside' the confines of the mind. Despite this it is surprising that the majority of seekers seek through the mind only and are not even surprised that they get nowhere!

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The Pilgrims' Way.

 

All things on the pilgrims' Way are the same yet each one of us smells these things differently, tastes these things differently, feels these things differently, hears these things differently and sees these things differently - until that is, we find enlightenment!

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Without Emotion.

 

Emotion is a creation of the mind, and the mind is not a reality; however:

Without the emotion of compassion
One can be compassionate.
Without the emotion of love
One can be loving.
Without the emotion of joy
One can be joyous.

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Circling the Truth.

 

Many souls circle the Truth happy to enjoy its periphery, until suddenly the circle breaks and they are drawn to the Centre to see the Truth, to be the Truth - and they are still at last!

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Rivers, Streams and Oceans.