A LADDER TO THE DIVINE
BE AWARE OF YOUR THOUGHTS !
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AWARE?
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW LIFE IN ITS IMMENSITY,
YOU NEED SOMETHING MORE THAN YOUR THOUGHTS,
YOUR LOGIC, OR YOUR INTELLECT".
"AWARENESS" IS A VERY VAGUE TERM. IT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. WHEN WE SAY "AWARENESS" DO NOT MISTAKE THIS FOR MENTAL ALERTNESS. MENTAL ALERTNESS WILL HELP YOU SURVIVE BETTER. IF WILL HELP YOU CONDUCT YOUR SURVIVAL PROCESS IN A SLIGHTLY SUPERIOR FASHION. AWARENESS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU DO. AWARENESS IS ALIVENESS. YOUR ALIVENESS IS ONLY BECAUSE OF YOUR AWARENESS. IF YOU WERE COMPLETELY UNAWARE, WOULD YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE ALIVE? YOU ARE ALIVE ONLY TO THE EXTENT YOU ARE AWARE. AND TO WHAT EXTEN YOU ARE AWARE, ONLY TO THAT EXTENT SOMETHING IS IN YOUR EXPERIENCE.
HOW DO I PRACTICE AWARENESS? YOU CANNOT PRACTICE IT. HOW CAN YOU PRACTICE LIFE? IF YOU WERE DEAD YOU COULD PRACTICE LIFE. IF YOU ARE ALIVE, HOW CAN YOU PRACTICE LIFE? IT IS JUST THAT RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE NOT GIVING MUCH ROOM FOR YOUR ALIVENESS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE YOU HAVE GIVEN TOO MUCH SIGNIFICANCE TO WHAT YOU THINK AND FEEL. YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS HAS BECOME FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAT YOUR LIFE PROCESS. WHY AWARENESS SEEMS TO BE SO DIFFICULT IS SIMPLY BECAUSE WE HAVE LET OUR MINDS GO INTO ENDLESS CHATTER. IF YOUR MIND IS NOT CHATTERING, AWARENSS IS THE NATURAL WAY TO BE.
ONCE IN A WHILE, IF I JUST CLOSE MY DOORS AND SIT IN A PLACE FOR FIVE DAYS , I DO NOT HAVE SINGLE THOUGHT FOR FIVE DAYS. I DON'T LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW, I DON'T READ, I DON'T DO ANYTHING. I AM SIMPLY BEING ALIVE. THIS IS SUCH A HUGE PHENOMENON HAPPENING WITHIN YOU, WHAT IS THERE TO THINK ABOUT? HEING ALIVE IS A FAR BIGGER PROCESS THAN YOUR STUPID THOUGHT PROCESS.
ANYWAY, WHAT CAN YOU THINK? YOU ARE JUST RECYCLING THE NONSENSE THAT YOU HAVE GATHERED. CAN YOU THINK SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE NONESENSE THAT HAS BEEN FED INTO YOUR HEAD? YOU ARE JUST RECYCLING THE OLD DATA YOU HAVE GATHERED. THIS RECYCLING NONSENSE HAS BECOME SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU CAN EVEN DARE TO SAY, " I THINK, THEREFORE I AM". AND THAT BECOMES THE WORLDS WAY OF LIFE. EXISTENCE IS, EVEN WITHOUT YOUR SILLY THOUGHTS.
IF YOU CHOOSE, YOU CAN FULLY BE AND STILL NOT THINK. PLEASE SEE, THE MORE BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS IN YOUR LIFE ARE THOSE MOMENTS WHEN YOU WERE NOT THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING. WHAT YOU CALL MOMENTS OF BLISS, MOMENTS OF JOY, MOMENTS OF ECSTASY, MOMENTS OF UTTER PEACE, THESE WERE MOMENTS WHEN YOU WERE NOT THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING BUT WERE JUST LIVING.
WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT, LIVING OR THINKING? YOU MUST DECIDE THIS - DO YOU WANT TO BE LIVING BEING OR A THINKING BEING? RIGHT NOW, NINETY PERCENT OF THE TIME, YOU ARE ONLY THINKING ABOUT LIFE, NOT LIVING LIFE. AS YOU HERE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE OR TO THINK ABOUT LIFE? YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE LIFE, AND YOU CANNOT EXPERIENCE LIFE IF YOU ARE LOST IN YOUR THOUGHT. IT IS ONLY THROUGH PERCEPTION THAT YOU EXPERIENCE. YOU CANNOT EXPERIENCE THROUGH THOUGHT. WITH THE PAST EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, YOU ARE COOKING UP SOMETHING IN YOUR HEAD - THAT IS A THOUGHT PROCESS. WHATEVER YOU THINK HAS NO SIGNIFICANCE BECAUSE YOUR THOUGHTS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH REALITY. THEY DO NOT MEAN ANYTHING. EVERYONE CAN THINK UP THEIR OWN NONSENSE WHICHEVER WAY THEY WANT. IF NEED NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH REALITY AT ALL.
YOUR PSYCHOLOGIC PROCESS IS A VERY SMALL HAPPENING COMPARED TO THE LIFE PROCESS. ISN'T BEING ALIVE RIGHT NOW MORE IMPORTANT FOR YOU THAN THINKING? BUT IF I TRAMPLE UPON YOUR THOUGHT EVEN A LITTLE, YOU ARE EVEN WILLING TO DIE FOR IT. PEOPLE DIE FOR THEIR IDEAS. PEOPLE DIE FOR THEIR THOUGHT. PEOPLE DIE FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN. THOUGHT HAS BECOME FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE LIFE PROCESS BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE NOT REALIZED THE IMMENSITY OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE. BECAUSE LIFE HAS BEEN RESTRAINED WITHIN THE SURVIVAL ACTIVITY, THOUGHT LOOKS GRANDER THAN LIFE. BUT IT IS NOT SO. THOUGHT IS JUST A SMALL HAPPENING COMPARED TO THE LIFE PROCESS.
