We can be present for a variety of reasons. To listen carefully, to not make a noise, to observe something, to drive home safely for example, are all instances where we use presence.
What are we present for is a good question to ask.
Before presence there is attention and alertness. Attention first followed by alertness.
Once we are present we can bring what we are going to be present to.
Say we are going to be present to the essence - to the soul. We would remember the soul in our mind and direct our attention, alertness of perception and presence to it.
Then we can be present for our essence, i.e. self-remembering through presence.
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We save so much energy when we stay out of other's business. We have to practice it to see just how much.
It also frees up much mental space.
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When we need to dissolve pride because something within us needs to die in pride, the following happens: we are seldom right and while others are impeccably right, all falls apart when we are proud, tension won't leave us until we apologise and the more we fight back the worse it gets...
The game to play when we need to dissolve pride is to forget about being right. There is a higher cause to serve with a much greater purpose than being right.
To remember that humility is a great power and the circumstances causing pride grief, are the way to develop humility and free ourselves from the aweful bottle of angry pride - having to be right even we are wrong.
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Can we remember how we have died in our past lives? We actually can. Anyone of us can.
Dying physically is always a metaphysical experience.
When we are about to die, some moments before dying, an angel of death is present, just as Master Samael says, and in those critical moments they can comfort and help us.
Saying: "It's not so bad, it will be quick, it will be all over soon...".
Knowing this, to die physically just really not be as bad as we may think.
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This post presents some practical tips to help us stay out of our abyss (subconscious).
The foundational knowing is that nothing too good comes from our abyss.
Another foundational knowing is that the less time we are there, the better.
We do need to descend into our abyss to see and know, and as soon as we have seen, leave!
The best way to study our abyss is with light and separation.
We may go into our abyss. With awareness, purpose and above all separation, we can take away precious gems in disguise that when polished, will shine beautiful colours of light.
To know what the abyss in ourselves feels like is important because then we can know we are there and can make an effort to leave.
The above knowing gives our awareness and alertness direction. The direction is to detect when we have slipped into our own abyss and then we have a moment of choice to leave or stay.
Cultivating the will and yearning to always be outside of our abyss is the power that helps us to leave.
The foundations of the above power is the knowing expressed in the first two points of this post.
Our abyss is ours. We created it, not anyone else. No one makes us slip into it. We do that. Therefore blame no one and make it your right, your choice and your benefit to leave it.
It benefits no one especially not ourselves, slipping into our abyss. When we rise out of our abyss we give ourselves a huge relief!
Want to feel good, we always feel good outside of our own abyss.
If we slip in, there is a point where it is difficult to get out. Then external help is needed. Often this is others, our own body instincts and or the circumstances of our life.
When in our abyss we emit radiations that are contagious that draw out the abyss in others, in the same way or in different ways...
Two abysses never make a height.
Our purpose with our abyss is to transform it into light. As we transform it into light, with the help of our Divine Mother we empty it.
Our purpose is not to justify, solidify or become stuck or lost in our abyss but to see it, know it and transform it.
Our best defence is psychological separation!
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Comparison does not solve the current situation. It may make it worse...
It may give an idea or two, but it won't solve anything.
It won't help us to accept what is going on either.
It will give us arguments to protest and fight, but not to be at peace, accept and get on with what is in front of us.
It will give us an unsolvable puzzle.
We will use a lot of mental energy coming to the conclusion that our life is our life and their life is their life and that's all that can be seen or understood...
We will create a pattern of making ourselves unhappy and others too, when we bring comparison to them as a protest or point of argument.
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This is the best question to ask ourselves when we get annoyed by the reactions and response of others.
It could be that we are provoking their replies that annoy us so much...
We can ask ourselves" "what we do to annoy them?" instead of always asking ourselves and others: "why do they always react that way?".
We get more light asking ourselves: "what do I do that annoys them?".
This is much better for slef-discovery.
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We need to know the different types of trust and when to use them.
To stay using one can mean that miss out on taking the action that was needed.
Often trusting in the Inner Being alone rolls over to the trusting in ourselves, and if we don't make that transition we stop the flow of further opportunity coming to us by not acting.
Sometimes we trust only in ourselves and we make a mess trying to control things.
Sometimes we only trust in Life and we make many wrong decisions.
The different types are:
1.) Trust in the Being
2.) Trust in ourselves
3.) Trust in the Greater Scope Life
4.) Combination of the trust in the Being, ourselves and in the greater scope of life.
When there are things out of our grasp then it is to Trust in the Being as the major effort. These things could be the path, others adn relationships, certain circumstances of life...
When there are possibilities for us to take some kind of action towards a result, it is to trust in ourselves as the main effort.
When the distant future is in question and there is uncertainity and worry, then to trust in the kindness and the greater scope of life is the main effort.
As soon something falls in our hands even to very small degree, to trust in a combination of the Inner Being, Life and ourselves is right.
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This post presents some notes on the very common and necessary experience of the spiritual night.
A necessary stage we must all pass through.
We all pass through it differently, depending on our degree of misalignment with our Inner Being.
For some it is longer and for some it is more intense.
A stage of purification.
It burns away all expectations and concepts of the path.
In many cases the spiritual night can begin due to several concepts been showed to be false.
It also purifies us of false bases and sets us off an inner journey to find what and where the real, solid and unmutable bases are within us.
It's main objective is to turn us towards taking foot in our own experience, consciousness and Inner Being.
It helps us to develop trust in our consciousness and Inner Being.
It makes us to wrk harder to find our own light.
It makes us to continue working on ourselves, for and with our Inner Being out of love, leaving behind the notion of reward, merit, powers, faculties initiations etc.
It brings emptiness and darkness for us to work deeper and more inwardly to find light and fill the void with light.
It develops within us endurance, patience, grit, tenacity, yearning, love and transcendence.
It frees us from the false to make us empty to receive the real.
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To die in an aspect of our egoic self is by far worth more than holding onto a few dollars.
The freedom and peace dying gives us has to be worth much more than a few dollars. We can even pay hundreds of dollars for a few hours of peace and relaxation.
But we surprise ourselves, we find that we are bottled up in something that in the end is only a mtter of a few dollars, yet before the option to die in a small facet we chose the few dollars.
Often justifying it, saying to ourselves it is my choice, my decision, my right etc. etc.
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This post is a collection of points around the psychological work and learning.
If we are the same back to someone, we are not going to ever develop anything new or different within us. We are just going to strengthen our reactions for as long as we decide to be different.
We don't have to agree with others and we can certainly respect their opinions or points of view.
We can calmly take ourselves out of the line of fire to breathe, calm ourselves, pray and appeal to a new persective before returing.
We can with help from the work and its higher values respond differently.
When we are arrogant, we have forgotten ourselves. We have forgotten our Inner Being. Compassion and understanding then can be called forth to understand that arrognace is a natural consequence of having forgotten oneself.
We maybe tough to others who seem to be arrogant so as to shock their consciousness and lower their arrogance. To be tough is not the only way to shock a person's consciousness.
To learn is the same as to bring to balance. Learning has the aim of bringing us to balance by correcting through education our inbalances.
We learn from the following:
1.) From the abyss. This happens at the begining of our work and for a long time afterwards.
2.) From the awakening. When we start to work in the awakening.
3.) From the consciosuness. When we are waking up.
4.) From the Being. When we are awake and have incarnated the Being or Its parts.
The best gymnasium for pride is the one where A needs to die in pride and the other or others think that their work is to correct and make A to change.
To die in pride it does not matter if the person correcting us is not living their corrections. It is knowledge that we can when pride is absent, take advantage of, for our inner growth.
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Pretty true right? What we judge, we end up finding it in our life over and over again.
What we judge disappears from our life as soon as we stop judging.
To stop judging, what we judge has to intersect with our life so that we can get to really know it, understand it and see that we are not above it, as we supposed that we were when we were judging it.
Love does not really judge. It is what helps us to overcome judgement nad our expectation.
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In separating ourselves psychologically there are two fronts to consider. One is the effects of the impressions coming from outside and the other is the effects of the impressions coming from our subconscious.
When we do separate ourselves psychologically we are there present as essence and we should start to feel the plenitude or happiness of our essential nature.
If we don't feel the happiness of our essential nature, we then are not fully separated or isolated.
Being fully separated from the effects of the impressions from outside and separated from our subconscious is how we can be calm in an envirnoment that is getting very heated with irritation.
We can often separate from the effects of the impressions coming from the outside but not be separate from our subconscious.
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If a person is hit and they hit back then the karmic cycle is complete. Either the debt is paid or more debt is created.
However if a person is hit and they do not retaliate a debt with the person's (who got hit) Monad is created. With more hits this debt increases and the Monad Itself administers justice.
This justice may take many forms. Often it is the form most appropiate to the life circumstances of the person and the will of the Monad.
Overall we can always have faith in the justice of the Monad.
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Master Samael speaks a lot about the path of the razor's edge.
Why is it the path of the razor's edge? This post answers this question. Through the answer to this question we will see how profound a description 'razor's edge" is.
The razor's edge indicates a very fine line. Such a fine line is the line of balance.
Balance is an exact line. It is the mathematical meeting point between two opposite qualities. There is a spectrum to the left and a spectrum to the right but balance is a line, between the two spectrums.
Any conscious quality is a fine line. A little to the left or to the right and the conscious quality is lost.
A razor has no surface to rest upon, unless we are perfectly balanced.
It is far too sharp to entertain any illusions, fantasies, stories and it has the ability to divide us from ourselves, that is to cut away the untrue veils covering our consciousness.
The razor's edge is also called the direct path.
Delay and sabotage is not the nature of the direct path. Neither is self-deception and delusions.
The direct path bypasses symbolic detours, gradual step-wise accumulation and the formation of false spiritual identities.
To walk the razor's edge one needs intense presence and awareness to not fall off. Radical humility to discard the false about ourselves at every moment and service to others over our self.
It is the line between give and take, projection and reception, masculine and feminine and so on...
The direct path path is walked with balance as stabilised state. If we veer off the straight and narrow we have fallen into some kind of distortion or false notion of reality.
It is a razor becasue it cuts away illusions and what it costs to walk it, is to pay the price of cutting away illusions and everything that is untrue.
It is a path that is not safe for the ego or for our fantasies, concepts, illusions and false identities.
The razor's edge is there to strip us of all aggregates and leave the essential, that is the essence, the Real Being...
It requires intense piercing honesty, coherence and devotin to reality.
We are ready for the razor's edge when we would rather lose eveything false and have nothing, than have everything and live in our own fiction.
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We have to know how to relate to the things that we do that work out and to the things that we do that don't work out.
We get angry with ourselves for doing or saying things that don't work out. That's one thing, now, when what we said or did that didn't work out is brought to our attention our emotion amplifies. Basically due to frustration.
When we don't know how to deal within ourselves in relation to the things that we did that didn't work out, we get angry going outside of ourselves directing our frustration at the person bringing our shortcomings to our attention.
If we can accept our shortcomings, not feel less or humiliated abut them, be patient with ourselves, apologise, look to understand where things didn't align, we are not going to get angry with ourselves and not get frutrated at the person bringing what didn't work out to our attention.
In this case anger is showing us that we have not made that area of our life consciousness yet. This area is the area where we make what is commonly called a mistake, misjudgement, a poor decision, etc. etc.
Anger is like pain in the body. When it appears it is telling us that there is something that needs to be made conscious.
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