Aware of the Setbacks of Suffering - (5626)

Even though all of us suffer so much we are not really fully aware of the setbacks of suffering.

If we just meditate on the setbacks of suffering, we will find that the knowledge of the setbacks, does not easily surface.

What does come up is how we waste time, waste energy, waste money and waste the time and energy of others... 

Those are really only physical things. Realising this we say suffering makes us to feel awful - which is obvious. Then it's difficult to extract more....

But really there is much to discover yet.

How about one setback of suffering to be the loss of light. When we suffer we lose light. When we lose light we lose sight of our Inner Being, the teachings, the values that have always served us, the well-being of others....

The loss of light is one setback of suffering, There are many more that we need to discover adn know to be able to have the light and strength to free ourselves from suffering.

Feelings of ill and contraction follow when we lose light.

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Studying the "I" is of the Heart - (5625)

We have to study our "I's" from and with the heart.

Not with the mind!

It is a shift. A worthwhile shift to make. IF we study from the heart we will go deep and we will find joy in it.

We won't get bored, tired or stuck.

To study our "I's" is a work of the heart!

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The Lunar Intellect - (5623)

Using the intellect for everything, one day makes us intellectual. 

To be intellectual does not really make us intelligent or smart. 

Becoming intellectual makes us, sooner or later, to become empty. The interesting thing is we don't think we are empty, but we feel empty.

There is a good reason behind the feeling of being empty. 

The reason is that the intellect gathers, or better said, borrows concepts, information and reasons. It does not generate anything of its own. It simply borrows from others.

After a while of continuously borrowing information and reasons, we end up bankrupting the natural intelligence of our own consciousness. This happens because we stop using our natural intelligence, and our capacity to access our natural intelligence atrophies.

When we stop using our natural intelligence we end up being parrots, empty tin cans making all sorts of sounds that lack substance.

This is very much like the Moon. The intellectual is lunar is nature. With one side visible and the other invisible - unknown and unaware.

When we are intellectual, the borrowing of information turns against us and we don't know it. Using the information in our intellect, we critique and analyse others with the same information we have collected from others. 

Being unaware of critiquing using borrowed knowledge us more unaware, and the next step is to critique while being the same. 

The constant critiquing makes us to feel 'full' as it is constant. It is a simple compensation. However, by the law of entropy, the critiquing follows the tendency to become negative. Then we slowly start to fill ourselves up with negativity. 

By the Law of cause and effect, that inner negativity spills out into our relationships and external life, and still not being aware it, we criticize-blame it on others. 

Then one day the karma takes the form of inner bitterness, loneliness and sadness that is really difficult to shift. As the unawareness continues, we feel 'life owes me happiness' and of course life does not deliver, and so we become needy, while still criticising...

The remedy to all of this is to be quiet both outwardly and inwardly and begin to disassemble all that we have borrowed.

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Consciousness Activation Formula - (5620)

Introduction

There are many formulas I believe to activate the consciousness.

Here is one that can be used to activate our consciousness for a specific task.

Formula

1.) Quieten the Mind.

2.) Set your intention.

3.) Focus attention on the task.

4.) Wait in relaxation, with a quiet mind and with alert attention.

Example

Task: Remember our childhood.

1.) Quieten the mind for however long it takes. This is a mind that is mostly quiet, thoughts are easily noticed and let go of.

2.) Bring to mind and emotion the intention to remember our childhood.

3.) Focus our attention on chanting the mantra: MAMA PAPA.

4.) Gently bring to mind one scene from our childhood or some memories of our childhood and just stay there gently moving slowly from one scene to another if available and wait. Giving ourselves a decent amount of time.

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Finding a Way to Work During the Day - (5622)

A Good Start 

To have a more conscious day is very important for our work! A conscious day is where we can do some inner work.

A good way to start is to start with: Passive Personality.

To do this be quiet. When we have to speak, speak with our personality passive. 

We can have an active or a passively active personality. Whatever our personality, make it passive. Do this by saving words and speaking correctness in both content and tone.

Doing this saves lots of energy, makes our mind quiet and does not bring the ego so easily. Giving us vital time and space to work within ourselves.

Pay a Price

To have a conscious day there is always a price it seems. The price is to sacrifice the first few egoic reactions of the day.

It hurts to do that, but that is the price. When we want to react and say this or that, hold our tongue and feel the burn for a few minutes and then we will have entered our chance to have a conscious day.

It always better to sacrifice the egoic reactions. The two or three minutes suffering makes us feel that it is not better but it is better. We all know this.

Relax, Accept the Day and Attention Here and Now

The rest follows. Keep relaxing and bringing our attention to the moment. To help us do this, accept profoundly that this is our day, we have to do this and that and I am with this and that person and that's my day and the work on myself has to happen within the course of that day.

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Death as Supreme Value - (5621)

Mystical Death has to be our supreme value.

The thing that we value the most. When it is such a high value we can die extensively. 

When we value death and what comes from it, such as freedom, liberation, free will, transcendence and free consciousness we are ready to die instead of being right, being loved, being understood and being justified...

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To Help Us Change we Must Take Conscious Notice of the Setbacks - (5619)

Frankly, it is too difficult to change if are not properly aware of the setbacks and difficulties that our defects put us through and bring to our lives.

Suffering is a major setback. We must also be aware of the setbacks of suffering.

If we are not aware of suffering and its setbacks what motivation is there to change?

The benefits! But the benefits are only really another way of saying no more suffering or less suffering.

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'To Have' Replaced by the 'Incarnating the Spirit Of' - (5618)

In each instance of 'having' there is a value there deep within it that we are wanting and feel we lack. 

We often ignore this value and go about acquiring/having the physical thing.

We can liberate ourselves from 'having' by looking deeply inside the the thing we want to have and find the value.

Then work to incarnate thet value. To incarnate theat value means to understand and embrace the spirit of the value. 

The spirit of the value is the psychology of it and the beingness of it that blends into our own Being.

Examples to follow in later posts.

End (5618).

The Seven Amigos - (5609)

Introduction

This post presents some writing about the seven amigos (missionaries).

Each of the amigos has a distinguishing difference and octave to their nature and priorities.

Beginning Missionary

The missionary that after being a student decides to teach, completes an instruction course of some kind and begins teaching. 

Such a missionary would have entered the path, and we infer, would be somewhere in the minor path, aspiring to enter the major path. 

I write this because to be a missionary one has to love the work. To love the work, one has had to have worked on oneself, and one has had to have come to understand the Gnostic doctrine through direct experience. 

It's not really possible to consider teaching Gnosis if one lacks love and real knowledge of what they are going to teach.  

To be a missionary one has definition enough to change their life and lifestyle, to be able to devote themselves to teach. To teach Gnosis is not a hobby, it is a way to live life.  

Considering all these points, missionaries who begin, have at least entered the path at some level.

This missionary though, still has many defects and "I's" alive, and makes many mistakes. Such a missionary still has some gaps in their life where they think, feel and act in a way that is not inline with the teachings. However, these gaps are of lesser consequence, they are not major contradictions that are  in stark contrast to the spirit of the teachings. In other words, loose ends to tie up.

They do their best to teach by example and to be a living example of the teachings. They are not perfect and sometimes a closer look into their life reveals these gaps. It is all a matter of time and work. With both the latter, all these gaps close.

 

Initiate Missionary

This is the missionary that has awakened the fire and has arrived at the path. One who is walking the path and is able to help others to walk towards starting the path. One whose teachings have the seal of the fire. One who teaches with direct knowledge of the ways of the path and is unveiling its mysteries.   

The initiate missionary may know that their Being is working within the initiations of fire, or they may not know. In any case, the inner urgency of advancing towards, and on the path is an ever present priority and he/she urges others to do the same.

Missionary with Intimate Christ

The missionary that has incarnated the intimate Christ. This makes a distinguishing difference. As the the Intimate Christ is present and actively working within, and inspiring the missionary. 

The active presence of the Intimate Christ gives the missionary depth in the works of mystical death and makes the missionary more expanding in loving and giving to their students in their mission, and  also those not in their immediate mission.

Almost Dead Missionary

The missionary in the second mountain whose main works are devoted to mystical death. A missionary that is fully capable to help others to profoundly die psychologically. One who is incarnating as their work advances, the different parts of the Being.

This missionary is very visibly refining their personality and is divesting him or herself of many egoic interests and desires. The death of the ego is very clearly visible in such a missionary. Such a missioanry vibrates unmistaklenely differently.

In this state, the profound degree of death liberates much energy making them capable of near super-human sacrifices.

Such a missionary receives a lot of light and has much direct experience of the path to teach from. Such a missionary never stops teaching about the need to die in oneself.

Free Missionary

The missionary who has finished the three mountains and has dissolved the ego and paid all human karma. 

This missionary does not have to make such great efforts to help humanity anymore. But decides to still do so.

Such a missionary can teach fully if they want to in the name of their Being as their Being is incarnated and their Being is not going to contradict the doctrine with strange egoic interests. That is no longer possible.

Immortal Missionary

The missionary immortal, who has obligatorily left the scene of  public human life, and appears and disappears when needed, in order to help humanity. The one who does not belong to any physical institution and works elusively and usually alone fulfilling missions and projects of the white lodge and those of his or her Being in order to help humanity. They usually work in obscurity and in silence and possess extraordinary powers and knowledge. They do not belong to any organised association as such.   

Guardian Wall Missionary

The missionary with the consciousness and psychology at the galactic or infinite level, who is capable and ready to join a group of others of the same level, called the Guardian Wall. 

The Guardian Wall are those who travel to other solar systems and worlds in order to help humanities far beyond the planet Earth.   

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To Be or To Be Seen - (5617)

To actually be something such as 'smart' is totally different to 'to be seen as smart'.

To be smart is liberating and free and develops practically and advances infinitely.

To be seen as smart for example, is limiting, there are many parameters and references made up by the mind, that cause suffering when trying to obey them.

There is also the fact that there is no guarantee, that being seen as something is the same as actually being something. 

This applies to any quality of being that we can think of.

A real quality is one where it is about being, not 'being seen to be'.

The difference is that being something is for you and your Being, while being seen as something, is for others and your mind/personality combination.

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Practice of Presence Solves Better than an "All Over It" Mind - (5616)

To be concentrated and present is always better. This allows our consciousness to be present so that it can expand and cover all the details in our life needing and waiting to be taken care of.

We usually have our mind actively roaming and scanning, trying to do this. Consequently making us unable to concentrate and of course hardly present.

We also feel 'scattered' and become more readily tired and overwhelmed. 

To awaken, it is better to be present and use our consciousness to expand and reveal.

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To be Present we Need to be Empty - (5615)

To be present here we have to empty of the inattentive and chattering part of ourselves. 

To relax our subconscious is the key here. 

To deeply accept that I am here in this place doing this is also another key.

Aligning our three brains with the place and the activity quietens the subconscious and brings our attention to the present.

When we are present our Being is in us. We are our true selves and can access our best.

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The Turtle - Contraction and Expansion - (5612)

What happens with us after certain 'learning' events is that there is either contraction or expansion. 

We usually contract after we told somebody a secret and they told others. We say to ourselves we won't tell them anything anymore. That's contraction. After a while that contraction doesn't feel good and in many ways it goes against the nature of sincere friendship.

So then we realise the answer is in still sharing but with more awareness. This is expansion.

Expansion without awareness is not expansion it is exaggeration which produces imbalance.

It is selfish to overburden someone with so many things to be 'kept quiet'.

The turtle brings its head in when there is danger, but waits for the coast to be clear, then brings its head out again and continues walking.

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Holding the Identity of the Essence - (5614)

There is a definite awakening to assume even for a minute or half a minute our true identity which is that we are an essence.

To assume our true identity as the essence requires transcendental learning and understanding. 

There is another awakening and book of knowledge to be able to hold onto that identity.

Truly to be able to hold onto that identity is not easy and soon enough becomes extraordinarily difficult. 

Why, because to hold onto it we need to have created something to hold onto. It must be something emotional and we have to create it.

Basically, it is created by the clear and acute knowledge of the serious drawbacks of us losing our true identity and becoming identified with an "I".

For example, a person may go into a negotiation with the clear mission of saving a person's life. With that mission in hand, that person can not allow themselves under any circumstances to forget their purpose and do anything that would jeopardise that mission. Because to jeopardise that mission would mean the death of a person and that would mean great grief for many.

A deeper octave of the message in this post is to: "Give up your PAIN and HOLD onto God!". 

Suffering is what generally makes us forget presence and our Inner Being. If we give a little bit of suffering we can start to empty ourselves and hold onto our true identity.

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Rarely Living in the Physical Always Internally Up or Down - (5613)

To live and be here physically means to be only conscious of the five senses and respond based totally on the five senses. 

We really can't live like that. It would be so difficult and limiting. Actually impossible.

We actually live physically and internally. When we go into observing ourselves and directing our attention inwards we live in the internal superior worlds that links us with the superior worlds of nature.

When we allow our attention to be taken by an ego, a false "I" we live in the inferior worlds. 

We actually use the physical world as a launch pad to dive into the inferior worlds or either to launch into the superior. 

We always live internally. We just need to change where internally we live. We tend to live too much in the inferior regions and that is why we get so connected to egoic and negative side of things in life.

End (5613).