Encounter the Lacking in Ourselves from the Negative - (5926)

Knowing what we lack is an encounter with ourselves. Some may say it is an encounter with our shadow side. Either way it is to encounter ourselves.

Anyhow the point here is that what we lack will only come to our attention via the negative side of things.

Often the negative side of things could be a sarcastic comment, criticism, a reprimand, a fine, something not working out etc. etc.

All of those things are just helping us to encounter ourselves, that is, to see what we lack. At the end of the day it is all about ourselves and seeing ourselves.  

Whatever people say about ourselves is always reminding us of ourselves. The happier we are to meet ourselves and make some adjustments, the less and less of a problem it is.

The more we see that we are not perfect and we are working and working on ourselves, the less upset we will be about having to see ourselves and the more we will appreciate it.

(If we are forced to see ourselves, that shouldn't really a problem because it is our own selves. We see ourselves every waking minute. We could have a problem being forced to see someone else that we are not interested in. That is fair enough. The problem is that we don't really want to see ourselves and we are not really that interested in ourselves. To love ourselves consciously is the key to dissolve self-love.)

This bit of understanding can really help us to weaken self-love and anger. Be happy to see the lack in ourselves through the negative, is the start to transform the negative and the lack into a strength and the into the very positive.  

To see ourselves perfect is to love ourselves way too much in the impractical and painful sense. To see we are a huge work in progress is to love ourselves consciously.

To see others as a work in progress and we are all working towards fixing ourselves is to love other more consciously also. Expecting them to be perfect is insane and is a lack of maturity.

To see something as our fault when it truly is, is to see ourselves. Many of the lacks we have are our fault and the negative that comes our way is often our fault.

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Are We Giving in Every Area? - (5925)

The Divine is that as we give we will receive.

If we are not receiving what we need, it has to be that we are not giving.

But we usually all say: "But I am giving!".

We are giving, it could be though not in every area and especially not in some important areas that for some reason or another really count.

Often these areas that we are not giving in are blind spots and they really count more than we think and accept.

The best policy is to be giving in all areas and be giving more than receiving.

An simple audit of our giving and receiving balance in all areas of our life: spiritual work, health, physical work, home, family, relationships (friends), finances, environment, community, will reveal a lot to us.

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Rushing is a Very Negative State - (5922)

Rushing is a state that opens us up to many other negative states. Rushing is also something very characteristic of a low level of the Being.

I don't want to be judgmental. I so often see people in the city who are mentally unbalanced rushing here there and everywhere yelling this and that. Where are they going in such a hurry?

Generally people of a high level of being don't rush.  

Anyway getting back to ourselves when we are rushing it is because we have been irresponsible and we are worried, stressed and impatient. Such a combination leads to anger and an angry state leads to brash action.

Rushing also alters our nervous system and affects our energy levels and state of energy within our body. Especially our sexual energy.

Rushing leads to unwanted accidents at all levels, not just physically...

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Using Transparency to Die in Ourselves - (5866)

Introduction

Master Samael spoke to us about knowing how to die, how to suffer and I think about how to be silent.

To know how to die can mean to know the many ways that we can die, and when to apply those ways.

A really good way to die is to do practices that displace the whole 'myself'. Meaning to put aside the whole personal identity of myself.

A good way to do this is to be awareness, which is to embrace the following qualities: transparent, formless, invisible knowing.

This post lists some of the ways that we can die in ourselves by embracing some the qualities of awareness, namely transparency. 

If we know some of these ways we can apply them in the many different parts of our day and life.

Here is the list and some of the events in which they can be applied.

The key of this post is that for each of these situations there are particular attributes of the consciousness for us to embrace, and by being those attributes, we help ourselves to die with precision and to a very deep level within those events.

List

Listening

Listening with full attention brings much opportunity to die in ego-centric based distraction, and be only awareness with no personal interests.

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Paying Attention

When consciously paying attention there is much that we can die in. 

Be like a still clear lake.

Essentially our attachment to ourselves and selfishness, which resists us giving over our full attention to the moment.

Focus on awareness, be formless in identity and be present. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Speaking

When speaking consciously we can observe much of our vested interests, much of our ill-will, much of our subjectivity (biases), much of our memory and much of the mechanical nature of our psyche.   

Be like a crystal knife cutting and shaping our words as they are being formulated. The knife of the consciousness.

Focus on alert awareness using it to see the consequences of what we are going to say and using it to correct to the process of forming our speech by formulating speech that adheres to reality.

Taking note of the ill-will, vested interests, applying on the spot letting go and taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Difficult Situations

Difficult situations as Master Samael said give us the best chance to die. That is totally true but we always have a tough time accepting that in the moment. 

Be like a river. The consciousness is like a clear river that flows ever onwards taking us to continuously through learning experiences and to experiences of new states of consciousness.

Focus on awareness, allowing ourselves to be like a river that flows, and flow with what we have to accept and do. Be consciousness repeatedly, helping ourselves to separate from the storm inside our centres.  

Taking note of what appears psychologically, repeatedly applying on the spot comprehension, and if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Walking

To walk like glass. Being only awareness, not attaching to anything and not giving attention to anything but that which is awareness. 

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Social Events

There is so much that we avoid and get identified with in social events, 

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Shopping

Be like a spotlight where we are focused on finding what we are there to buy, and where the impressions of all the interesting things in the shop do not enter our mind. 

Focus on a focused awareness, a line of light that illuminates essentially what we need. 

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension of need vs wanting as well as what is behind the sensation of having. If required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Praying

Be a fire, a source that radiates warmth which is life and light which is consciousness.

Focus on the heart as a source of light and love for the higher part of ourselves and others. Be the consciousness so that we can perceive all that comes into our awareness and not get distracted from continuing to direct our light and love inwards and upwards.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Remembering the Past

Be like air, something that is everywhere and something that does not get stuck. That sees yet does not become and does not get stuck.

Focus on awareness, be formless, transparent and invisible. Seeing all that comes into awareness and reacting.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Physical Job

Be focused awareness and caring for things done right. 

Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Gnostic Class

Be awareness in its qualities of openness, inwardly explorative and transformative. Looking to bridge gaps and transform impressions through knowledge of ourselves.

Driving

Be both focused and peripheral awareness.

Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate.

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Eating

Be transparent transforming awareness. Extracting the best substances from the food we are eating and moving our awareness all through the body from the stomach to take the most advantage of the food being eaten.

Seeing all that comes into awareness and acting as appropriate (eat less maybe).

Taking note of what appears psychologically, applying on the spot comprehension, if required taking this for further comprehension later on and presenting it to the Divine Mother for dissolution.

Meditating

Be a mobile light that moves in our interior and sees all that arises, witnessing it all and letting it pass while seeing into it to become more aware of what is in our mind and how our mind works.

Meditation gives us the model of what it is like to be our consciousness and what's more important is the way to repeat keep on being pour consciousness.

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Understanding It is Not Right is Enough to Start - (5921)

Just understanding that our reactions are not right is enough for us to die. 

I think we all have inroads into how our reactions work or don't work out for ourselves. 

If we focus on elimination that's all we need to start. Don't wait for more to start.

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Later We Reverse the Order - (5920)

Die first in all that we can and then go back to knowledge and comprehension to deepen death

The order has to be placed such that death is a priority and use all else to help the process of elimination along.

Often we follow the opposite order, and things can take so long and if things take a long time there is always the danger of stalling.

It's in the beginning when we are starting that the order of knowledge, comprehension and elimination is helpful but later this order has to be reversed.

If we focus on getting past those feelings and eliminating them, we will find this to be helpful.

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Loaned and Returned to Mother Earth - (5919)

Something that we could lose in nature was something that we were only ever loaning from Mother Earth. 

Mother Earth gives us the raw materials and we give those materials a form. We enjoy those materials for a while then as it was only ever a loan we must return them to Mother Earth.

Nature works that way with retribution. Mother Nature gives and later takes back. We are given a body and later it is taken back to return to the Earth from where it came.   

When we lose something to nature it is wonderful to say thankyou Mother Earth for loaning that object to us and may you take it back into your Earthly body. Then our part is to feel joy that Mother Earth has back what she loaned us.

This attitude transmutes the feelings of loss or anger at having lost the object.

It has been returned to the rightful owner. It has found its way home.

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Subtler Energetic Side of Money - (5918)

Money is not just a piece of thin coloured plastic it is a representation of a living law. Therefore it is has a reality on three levels: physical, psychological and esoteric.

Money can be seen to be energy. In fact when we think about it, it really does all boil down to be energy. 

If something is an energy, it naturally will have a particular feeling or quality. The quality of the energy of money is that of joy, happiness, abundance and freedom.

That is what people seek from money and that is essentially in many ways what money gives us.

We don't have to be degenerated to think that the energy of money is that of joy. If we had a lot of money look at all that we could do to help others. The true energy of money comes from the Sun out of the Cosmic Common Trogoautoegocrat Law, that is the continuous exchange or give and take of all things. 

The energy in the cosmos is infinitie and so the energy of money is also infinite. Hence it is related to abundance. 

Money is also related to the sexual energy as they both possess the quality of abundance. That is why when a couple practice Alchemy their economic situation can change as do many other things inside of themselves do before the external changes (finances).

Somehow we think money is evil yet if we relate to it correctly, that is relate to it with joy and flowing freedom (generosity) we can see that it is not really evil. Because we will use it to bring ourselves joy and others joy as well.

If we feel joy towards money we will magnetically attract money and opportunities to do with improving our financial situation, becasue we are of the right quality to serve the energy the energy of money which is to bring joy, happiness, freedom and abundance.  

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What is the Best Spiritual Image to Meditate On? - (5917)

Really good question. To know it would be great as that is what one can visualize and focus stable attention on and thus receive much internal benefit from. 

I don't know the absolute best, and maybe there is not an absolute best, it could vary between stages. I definitely know that a good start is to use the image of the Sun to meditate on.

Please do leave in the comments section what you think may be the best image for inner development to meditate on.

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Boomerang of Psychic Attack - (5916)

There is a principle in the world of psychic energies that when someone attacks knowingly or unknowingly a person who is stronger energetically, the energy of the attack bounces back clashing against the one who issued the attack.

That is why so often people who become negative and attack their spiritual master with gossip, judgement, slander and criticism in the end, become so negative that they wind up being very disappointed and upset and leave their spiritual studies.

This happens everywhere and all the time. It's good to know that just even scientifically energetically, that this is what is going to happen to us if we send negative waves to anyone who is more advanced than us. The negativity we issue will rebound and we will end up more negative.

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Control Inner States Control Life - (5915)

If there be a method to change our inner states, with that method we will control our life.

It is always the wrong inner states that spin the events of our life out of balance.

If we can change our inner states to the right ones we will benefit from the better side of the events.

In the end if we can control our inner states we will be able to control our life.

There are methods and methods. Conscious breathing is the first method that we use to influence our inner world. 

It is the first method because it begins from the outside. 

Conscious breathing can definitely change our inner states which gives us access to our inner world which then helps us to approach the outer world from the centre of the inner world, and that is where we can control ourselves from within the events of our life.

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What's the Cat Doing? - (5914)

Being a cat!

When we ask what's so and so doing? We get the reply: 'being a pain, being a jerk, being silly, being lazy" etc.

The best complement is being him or herself.

Cats when we observe them can teach us something about being. They are really being themselves a cat.

Not trying to be anything else, and not doing anything that a cat doesn't do.

We are so different we be and do all these things that we are not.

In fact, esoterically speaking we are not really humans and much more often than not, do things that are not really fully human, in the spiritual sense that is.

Our maximum job for this life is to be what we are, be a human and that implies tremendous transformations and knowledge of our true nature.

What stops us the most from being, is the feeling that we have to be and do more. Look at the cat, it does not have that problem at all!

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Lemon - (5910)

To be like a lemon. Sometimes we need to be. But never all the time.

Our essence is not a lemon...

Who do we really know is like a lemon? Not many right and who really wants to be a lemon. So why do we really have to be a lemon. When needed yes but not as a second all the time nature. 

What is it to be a lemon? To make people cringe (like when we bite a lemon) in interactions and not have much to do with us except in small doses.

When we are upset we are all like lemons. That is the unconscious lemon. The best is the conscious lemon that we use selectively when we consciously have to be.

The thing is that it is much better to be a lemon internally in front of our own silly or overexcited unbalanced states.

That is the why we use the lemon to bring unbalance or overexcitement into some kind of order that is better for us to make wise decisions.

To be a lemon before our greedy and lustful states is interesting...

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Key to Understanding the Abyss of Lust - (5913)

With the following key you will be able to understand lust, and the how and why of the abyss of lust.

Lust is sexuality without love. The most accurate and synthetic definition I have come across.

Without love there is a void, and if there is a void, something must always fill it. So what comes to fill that void? Force fills that void. 

The reason why force comes to fill that void is becasue of desire. 

When the desire of sexuality can not be fulfilled by what is normal and just - love, force is used to bypass love.

We can see this clearly as lust is always about using some kind of force to skip over love.

Sexual assault shows this clearly. Typically a man can not get by ordinary means a lady to like him and  because of accumulated desire he uses force to seduce or coerce her to like him.

The use of fantasy, is another example. Fantasy forces the brain to entertain something that is not reality and make the sexual energy and organs to obey stimulation that has a false origin.

The use of external means such as Viagra, and all the other things is in the end are all about the use of force to force something that should appear with love but becasue there is no time for love or love has not been created, force is used.

Force used unconsciously is anger and there is the key as to why infra-sexuality begins with the appearance of the use of force in sexuality.

Because of the fact that force comes to fill the void of love, the abyss of lust opens up and we can understand every aspect of infra-sexuality with this key, knowing that all the deviations of sexuality all have to do with the addition of force being used on sexuality.

Test the above statement for yourself and you will see that this simple key unlocks it all - force replaces love. 

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Spiritual Food in Prana - (5912)

We need nourishment to work all day in the garden. This nourishment supplies the energy for mostly our motor centre to do the work. This nourishment is physical food and drink.

To do spiritual work we need food of a more subtle or spiritual nature. Which we can find in prana. 

We can energise ourselves with the spiritual food of prana from outside of ourselves and from within ourselves.

Prana yama blends the pranic energy from outside with the pranic energy from inside to spiritually nourish ourselves so that we can carry out spiritual work during the day.

To not nourish ourselves with subtle energy is to deprive ourselves of the ability to do spiritual work.

The subtle energy we energise ourselves with, with prana yama makes it easier for us to observe ourselves, know ourselves, separate from our mind and to not get tied down by pessimism and laziness.

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