Direct experience is here
Thursday, August 9, 2012 at 6:32AM As a human you are conditioned from birth to structure your life around ideas, beliefs, and attitudes. You develop an identity based on perceived memories of the past. This is what grounds you and acts as a reference for a sense of direction to or away from. Yet, what are you really telling yourself about reality, fulfillment and direction?
As you allow the conditioned mind to control your attention, you are unconscious, sort of asleep at the wheel, not noticing signs that you pass by on the road. When mind is already thinking about what is around the corner, you do not see potholes as you traverse them. If you focus on the future, you are not present. Wake up out of the idea that you must awaken.
To be awake is to take responsibility for and transcend selective awareness of the present moment. Its as if you recognize conditioned impulses to avoid or fear and let this dissolve in an instant. To sense power of vibration is to feel something within simply clicks. No need arises to explain or understand it. Needs are figments of the mind or imagination.
From a pure state of being, you allow yourself to notice what is obvious. This is being open to direct experience. Awareness is who you are. Awareness organizes the self. Who is the person who responds, "me" or "I"?Regardless of what you read or hear about, direct experience speaks for itself. What you call love is God, it is here and now. To focus on this moment is to stop seeking. You relax in your being. This is not a concept. It is not personal yet everything is contained within it.
Reader Comments (2)
When you say that "needs are a figment of the mind or imagination," do you mean all needs? I don't think you could. Most obviously, we have physical needs that insure survival. Beyond that, the unevoled and unexamined person will retain immature emotional and relational needs, but they are still real. And I believe we all have spiritual needs. What is your opinion?
Peace,
Michele