Awareness requires dedication and commitment, but then the intuitions come, and the rewards of peace and beauty are worth the effort. One was...
Enter into death to meditation_ Manoj
Awareness requires dedication and commitment, but then the intuitions come, and the rewards of peace and beauty are worth the effort. One way to put ourselves into this frame of mind is to cease making comments or judgments about things we see happening or being talked about, even internally and mentally. We find that we can pull back out of any personal involvement or self-interest as a participant into the observer state, seeing the overall rather than the detail, feeling no need to jump in and arrange specific details. Instead, we just observe the complete view, which includes everyone's physical forms and egos acting out in their specific arenas. We just make a point of seeing the overall aspects due to the spiritual Selves within us and everyone and everything else. We see only the highest and best, not the lesser. And we can see the creativity of God in all of it. This type of detachment helps us get away from the concept of "my thoughts" and "my opinions" as it keeps things in a dispassionate nature. It also helps us see the picture in context, rather than just specific and limited points. Thoughts and opinions are just spiritual vanities anyway. You cannot rationalize or think your way into higher levels of consciousness; rather, you have to let go, let God, and just experience things, "being" rather than "learning about." We actually need to empty out the mind, rather than put more thoughts into it. We deal in a non-linear, non-cause-and-effect state of oneness with God. We do not flounder about in the ego's world of separation and cluttered thoughts about specifics. Ideas tend to flow following the paths of propensity created by intention according to the level of consciousness, and we try to keep such high levels of consciousness that feelings of love and support exist instead of thoughts from the materialistic world of conflict. If we remove importance and attachment from worldly mental operations, they tend to stop, and then we can meditate on the intuitions that come from God. Note that the mystical person is indeed aware of receiving intuitions directly from God. Anyone can receive such intuitions, but often the noise of the world or of mind chatter covers up the necessary awareness, or it is just not the right path for people at that moment. Whatever the reason, many people seek religious teaching from other sources such as from groups or from a strong leader. Some such leaders and ministers are spiritually strong and guide their people well. Others put barriers between people and God, and generally, any element that separates man from God or puts any barriers between him and the sensing of the Presence is a man-made fallacy. Being a mystical person, therefore, requires no memberships (either in churches or in special groups), rituals, secret knowledge, special clothing, specific worship practices, classes, approvals, or codes of conduct, especially when there is the implied threat of punishment or suffering if these are not rigidly adhered to. And certainly, there is no money involved at all. A true spiritual teacher already possessing everything of importance in life does not need to deal with money. Naturally, religious ministers and other such dedicated folks need to support themselves in the physical world as they deal with church affairs since religions are organized businesses, after all. But spirituality, someone dealing directly with God, is a different matter, and many ministers do give of themselves freely in purely spiritual affairs. But the mystical person, having no such responsibilities to others, is happy to share insights with everyone within the harmony and oneness of life in God with no thought of remuneration. EMILY what is needed is a firm desire to achieve this wonderful awareness, a commitment to carry through, and a guide. A living guide would be preferable, but it is difficult to tell true ones from imposters, so instead, one good guide is EMILY. EMILY can be a constant companion, inspiration, and source of guidance, giving greater happiness, comfort, and peace than any other guide. EMILY is, of course, an acronym, a complete package, representing: Enlightenment - the goal Meditation - the medium of preparation Intention - the way we treat ourselves LOVE - the way we treat ourselves and others Yielding - the way we treat ourselves, others, and God. EMILY is a compact but thorough way of organizing our efforts to follow our chosen path. Each step has a different function. The first, Enlightenment, establishes the goal and keeps it steadily before us. It should be the first thing we think of in our spiritual activities each day. We all remember the story of the farmer teaching his son to plow, but the boy's rows wandered all over the place. His father explained that he had to keep his eye on a distant object and go toward the same object in each row, and they would be straight. However, at the end of the day, the boy's rows were as crooked as ever. When his father was upset, the boy explained: "Well, I kept my eye on the same distant object like you suggested, but the cow kept moving." EMILY provides a firm, unmoving, yet flexible goal of Enlightenment for us to keep us straight. We remember that such Enlightenment is being aware of God in everyone and everything and receiving intuitions directly from God. So we fix ourselves on living lives of high spirituality, as we remember from the last chapter. We focus on God and on the God-like attributes of others. And we keep ourselves open to receiving intuitions through the inner Self that actually is one with God. There is a non-duality between the Self and God, and, therefore, the Self can be the source of bliss and peace, for when we realize that we are one with the Presence, nothing more can be needed or imagined as we lose ourselves in Its indefinable joy. The second step, Meditation, is really two: Meditation and Contemplation. Meditation, the time we spend quietly and alone, is the best method for receiving inspiration and intuition directly from the Source. It involves becoming aware of the spirituality latent within us that presents itself when we turn inward in peacefulness, getting our worldly egos out of the way. In meditation, we replace the constant chatter of everyday thoughts running almost unchecked through our brains, with impressions from the Self about spiritual creation, positive relations with others, happiness, and peace, and allow Intuition to bring us inspiration directly from the Source in the silence. We let the Self be our teacher through its communion with God. Through it, we are all-inclusive, experiencing the overall picture of life and its spiritual side rather than everyday worldly details, and seeing everything in the oneness of love, therefore appreciating and enjoying all things due just to the fact that they are. Contemplation is the way we live those realizations in daily life among others. It keeps us in a high level of consciousness as we leave our sanctuary and go out into the world in our daily activities so that we continue to see the spiritual side of everything and receive ongoing intuitions from the Source. It is our way of looking at and living life in our actions, thoughts, and relationships with others and with nature. Meditation helps us plan our way of life; contemplation is the actual living of it.
Osho: You do not exist even in a dream. You must sometimes have dreamed a dream within a dream. You dream that you are going to bed, you have fallen asleep and you are dreaming a dream.
There is an old Chinese story: A woodcutter was cutting wood in a jungle. He was tired, so he came down from the tree and fell asleep. He dreamed that nearby lay buried a great treasure of diamonds and gold in huge pots that were lightly covered with dirt. In his dream, he thought that he would come at night and remove the treasure quietly.
If he removed it in the daytime he might be caught. He was a poor man and the treasure was worth millions. When he awoke, he buried a stick to mark the place and returned home. When it became dark, he went back to the spot. He found the stick in place but the pots had been removed. He went back and told his wife, “I don’t understand whether I dreamed about the treasure or actually saw it. The stick is there all right, and there are holes where the pots were, so it is certainly not just a dream. But someone has removed the pots.”
His wife replied, “It must be a dream. You must also have dreamed that you went out at night and saw the stick in the ground and that there was an empty place where the pots were supposed to be. So go back to sleep and sleep in peace.” But it happened that another man also dreamed that he saw these very pots buried in the same place and that a woodcutter had buried a stick to mark the place. When he got up from his sleep he ran to the place. He found the stick in the ground and also the vessels underneath!
He removed the pots and brought them home. He told his wife, “I cannot understand whether I dreamed a dream or I actually saw a vision. Whatever it is, I have brought the pots home. They are proof that it is not just a dream. I must actually have seen the woodcutter burying the stick and therefore I knew where the treasure was.” His wife said, “The pots are here. That much is clear. But if you actually saw the woodcutter marking the spot, it isn’t right that we should keep this treasure.
Take the pots to the king and let him decide.” He was an honest man, so he took the pots to the king’s court where the woodcutter had already lodged a complaint. The king was perplexed. Finally, he told them, “It is very difficult to decide whether you were asleep or awake, so I shall divide the treasure equally between you both, for the pots are very much there.” So he divided the treasure between them. That night the king told his wife,” A very strange thing happened today: Two men dreamed the same dream.
Now it is difficult to decide whether they dreamed or whether they really saw the treasure. But the pots of treasure were actually there, so I divided them equally between them.” The queen said, “Go to sleep, you must be dreaming.” For thousands of years this was discussed in China – did they dream it or not? Who actually dreamed? But this is what happens by the time we reach the end of life. All of life seems like a dream. It is difficult to decide whether the stick was really there and whether the pots were really buried; whether the wife and children ever existed or friends and foes; whether there was poverty or riches; whether there was conflict and competition; whether we really lost or won, were successful or unsuccessful. At the time of death, all events pass before a man like a dream. Did we really live, or was it only a dream? Those who have known say, “This is a dream dreamed with open eyes.” It is a dream because it has no relation to that which is. This is an intermediary state of imagination; it is merely a thought.
It makes no difference whether you saw it when asleep or when awake. The characteristic of a dream is that it is here one moment and gone the next.
At the time of death, all is lost. Within this dream, you see another dream that is called the ego. You consider yourself the doer, the author of the dreams.
You are filled with conceit, which all the world can see; only you do not see it. Everyone else is in the same state, never seeing their own, but seeing
Everyone else’s ego
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