TIPS FOR SHARE MARKET

 

                         GROW A SMALL PLANT INTO A BIG BANYAN TREE

                       HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED A PLANT GERMINATING? HAVE YOU SEEN A BANYAN TREE AND A BANYAN SEED IN YOUR LIFE? THE BANYAN SEED IS SMALL AS A MUSTARD SEED. CAN THIS GROW INTO A FULL-GROWN BANYAN TREE IN A SINGLE DAY?

                   

                    OF COURSE NOT! THE BANYAN SEED FIRST GERMINATES INTO A SMALL PRETTY SPROUT. NEXT DAY, THE SAME GROWS FURTHER A BIT. GRADUALLY, THAT SMALL SOFT SPROUT GROWS INTO TWO LEAVES. THOSE SMALL REDDISH LEAVES LOOK SO PRETTY. NATURE IS TRYING TO TEACH YOU TRADING THROUGH THE SAME. IT'S A DIFFERENT MATTER HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE REALLY INTERESTED TO LEARN FROM THE SAME!

              THERE IS NO PLACE FOR HURRY IN NATURE. THAT BANYAN PLANT KEEPS GROWING GRADUALLY. WITHIN A FEW YEARS, THIS BECOMES CAPABLE OF PROVIDING SHELTER TO BIRDS. AFTER FEW MORE YEARS, THIS BECOMES CAPABLE OF PROVIDING SHADE TO TRAVELLERS. AND VERY SOON THIS TURNS INTO A HUGE BANYAN TREE. WOULD YOU PREFER TO CREATE A TRADING STRATEGY SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO THAT WHERE THE BUSINESS OF YOUR TRADING STRATEGY SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO THAT WHERE THE BUSINESS OF YOUR TRADING DEVELOPS LIKE A BANYAN TREE? OR, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE SOME GOOD MONEY OUT OF ONE TO SEVEN EXCITING TRADES AND THEN, AFTER LOSING ALL YOUR MONEY, RUN AWAY FROM STOCK MARKET AND CURSE THE SAME FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?

               YOU MUST HAVE BY NOW UNDERSTOOD MY SECOND TIP OF THE DAY. YOU SHOULD INVEST A SMALL AMOUNT FOR YOUR FIRST TRADE, JUST LIKE A BANYAN SED. GRADUALLY, AS YOU KEEP MAKING PROFITS, YOU SHOULD KEEP INCREASING YOUR TRADING AMOUNT ACCORDINGLY.

               LET ME EXPLAIN THIS IN DETAIL. SUPPOSE YOU HAVE A CAPITAL OF $5LAKHS. YOU WANT TO USE THAT MONEY FOR TRADING IN STOCK MARKET AND EARN A LARGE PROFIT THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO GENERATE A MONTHLY INCOME OF 40 TO 50 THOUSAND OF RUPEES. THEN, YOU JUST NEED TO START TRADING WITH A SUM OF $10,000 ONLY. HAVE AN AIM IN YOUR MIND - IF I AM ABLE TO MAKE A PROFIT OF $2,000 WITH THIS $10,000, I.E., I AM ABLE TO CONVERT MY INVESTMENT OF $10,000 INTO $12,000 , I WOULD INCREASE MY WORKING CAPITAL USED FOR TRADING TO $20,000, JUST LIKE A BANYAN TREE. WHEN I EARN A PROFIT TO $4,000, I WOULD INCREASE THE WORKING CAPITAL TO $30,000. WHEN I EARN A PROFIT OF $6,000, I WOULD INCREASE THE SAME TO $40,000. THUS, FOR EVERY $2,000 MADE AS PROFIT, THE WORKING CAPITAL MAY BE INCREASED BY $10,000.

                YOU MAY SAY, "WHAT IF I AM NOT ABLE TO MAKE PROFIT?"

              AS SUCH, I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU WOULD SUFFER LOSS IN TRADING IF YOU GO THROUGH THIS BOOK FULLY. YOU CAN SURELY MAKE PROFIT. IT IS ALSO NOT SO DIFFICULT TO MAKE MONEY IN THE STOCK MARKET WITH DISCIPLINED TRADING. ON THE CONTRARY, IT IS EASIER TO MAKE MONEY FROM TRADING AS COMPARED TO INVESTING, AS YOU MAY BE ABLE TO EARN ON YOUR INVESTMENTS ONLY IN A BULL MARKET, WHEREAS TRADING PROVIDES EARNING OPPORTUNITIES IN BOTH BULL AND AND BEAR MARKETS.

              EVEN OTHERWISE, YOU DON'T NEED TO INVEST YOUR ENTIRE 10,000 REPEES IN A SINGLE STOCK. YOU ARE READING A BOOK FROM MAHESH KAUSHIK AND I CAN'T SEE MY READERS LOSING. I NEVER ADVISE YOU TOINVEST YOUR ENTIRE MONEY IN A SINGLE TRADE TRANSACTION. WE WOULD TRADE BY DIVIDING THAT AMOUNT INTO 10 SMALLER PARTS. AFTER ALL, HOW SMALL IS THAT BANYAN SEED THAT GROWS INTO A PLANT! SIMILARLY, IN ORDER TO GROW LIKE BANYAN TREE, WE ALSO WOULD HAVE TO START WTH TRADES IN SMALLER LOTS AND THEN, AS SOON AS WE EARN A NET PROFIT OF $2,000, WE WOULD INCREASE OUR CAPITAL TO $20,000. THIS WAY, WE WOULD HAVE $22,000 FOR TRADING - $20,000 FROM OUR BASE CAPITAL AND $2,000 FROM OUR PROFITS.

               HERE, I AM REPEATEDLY REFERRING TO "NET PROFIT", AS A BUSINESS GENERALLY INVOLVES BOTH PROFIT AND LOSS. INCURRING LOSS IN NOT A BADTHING  FOR A BUSINESS, ACTUALLY AN ENDEAVOUR CANNOT BE CALLED A BUSINESS IF IT DOES NOT INVOLVE ANY KIND OF LOSS. AND A BUSINESSMAN IS REGARDED AS SUCCESSFUL WHEN PROFITS IN HIS BUSINESS EXCEED LOSSES. "NET PROFIT" HERE REFERS TO THE AMOUNT LEFT AFTER ADJUSTING ALL THE LOSSES AGAINST ALL THE PROFITS, AND YOU HAVE TO INCREASE YOUR CAPITAL ONLY WHEN YOU EARN TO NET PROFIT OF $2,000.

              THUS, THE SECOND TIP TO THE DAY IS - START YOUR TRADE WITH 1/50TH OF YOUR TOTAL CAPITAL AND KEEP ON INCREASING YOUR WORKING CAPITAL WITH 1/50 TH OF ORIGINAL CAPITAL EVERY TIME YOU EARN 20%  'NET PROFIT', THUS GROWING YOUR TRADING BUSINESS LIKE A BANYAN TREE.

                                              MAKE SMALL TRADES ONLY

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                      YOUR BROKEN GENERALLY PROVIDES YOU FACILITY TO MAKE TRADES IN INTRADAY TRADING WITH A VERY SMALL MARGIN, I.E., IF YOU MAKE TWO TRADES - BUY AT A MARGIN AND SELL WITH AN APPROPRIATE 'STOP LOSS' - SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE BROKER ASSUMES THAT YOUR LOSS IS LIMITED BECAUSE OF YOUR 'STOP LOSS'. HENCE, HE PROVIDES YOU FACILITY TO BUY-SELL STOCKS FOR AMOUNTS ANYWHERE BETWEEN 50,000 AND ONE LAKH RUPEES WITH A MARGIN OF JUST $1,000. THIS IS REFERRED TO AS 'MARGIN PLUS' OR SIMILAR NAMES.

              MOST OF THE NEW TRADERS LOSE THEIR MONEY BECAUSE OF THIS ONLY. WHY SO?

             HAVE YOU EVER GOT CAUGHT IN A TRAFFIC JAM? YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT SMALL VEHICLES LIKE BICYCLES AND MOTORCYCLES ARE ABLE TO WEAVE THROUGH THE JAM, BUT HEAVIER VEHICLES LIKE TRUCK CAN'T.

           IN THE SAME WAY, YOU ALSO WOULD GET CAUGHT IN THE JAM JUST LIKE THAT TRUCK IF YOU MAKE TRADES OF THAT SIZE IN THE MARKET. 

          THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE THIS IS A MARKET. A 'BUY' TRADE FOR A SPECIFIC QUANTITY OF STOCK WOULD GET EXECUTED ONLY WHEN A SELLER IS AVAILABLE WITH THE MATCHING QUANTITY OF THAT STOCK. SIMILARLY, A 'SELL' TRADE FOR A STOCK WOULD GET EXECUTED ONLY WHEN A BUYER IS AVAILABLE FOR THE MATCHING QUANTITY OF THE SAME STOCK.

           HAVE A LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING SNAP. I AM JUST SHOWING YOU THE MARKET DEPTH FOR TCS STOCKS AS DISPLAYED ON NSE WEBSITE.

           YOU MAY OBSERVE THAT MARKET PRICE OF THE STOCK IS $2,362.35. LOOK AT THE ORDER BOOK - SOMEBODY IS READY TO BUY 5 STOCKS AT $2,362.15 PER STOCK. ON THE OTHER SIDE, 9 STOCKS ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT $2,362.35. PER STOCK. SUPPOSE YOU PLACE AN ORDER TO BUY 100 STOCKS  IN INTRADAY TRADING USING A GOOD AMOUNT OF MARGIN. YOU MAY ASSUME THAT YOU ARE BUYING AT $2,362.35, BUT WHEN TRADE GETS EXECUTED, YOU WOULD GET 9 STOCKS AT $2,362.35. AND 48 STOCKS AT $2,362.60 - THE RATE INDICATED FOR THE NEXT SELLER ABOVE. NEXT 10 STOCKS WOULD BE BOUGHT AT $2,362.65. THUS THE PRICE OF THE STOCK WOULG GO UP BECAUSE OF YOUR ORDER ITSELF, AND WHEN YOU SELL THIS BIG LOT, YOUR SALE ORDER ITSELF WOULD RESULT IN THE STOCK PRICE GOING DOWN. THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE FOR TCS THATIS A LARGE-CAP AND LIQUID STOCK. THUS, YOUR ORDER BRINGS A CHANGE IN STOCK PRICE BY SOME 40 TO 50 PAISE. IF YOU PLACE A SINGLE BUY ORDER OF 2 TO 3 LAKHS OF RUPEES FOR A LOW-VOLUME STOCK, THAT ITSELF MAY TAKE THE STOCK TO UPPER CIRCUIT, AND WHEN YOU SELL THE SAME LOT, STOCK PRICE WOULD JUST CRASH.

              YOU MAY GET SURPRISED TO OBSERVE ALL THIS. YOU RECEIVED STOCKS AT PRICES HIGHER THAN THE PRICE AT WHICH YOU HAD PLACED THE 'BUY' ORDER, AND YOUR STOCKS GOT SOL AT PRICES LOWER THAN THE PRICE AT WHICH YOU HAD PLACED 'SELL' ORDER, AND YOU INCURRED A GOOD AMOUNT OF LOSS.

            YOU MAY THINK YOU COULD HAVE PLACED A 'LIMIT' ORDER INSTEAD OF A 'MARKET' ORDER. BUT, IN THAT CASE, YOUR ORDER MAY NOT GET EXECUTED IF NO SELLER OR BUYER COULD BE FOUND SELLING OR BUYING AT THE 'LIMIT' RATE QUOTED BY YOU.

            HENCE, YOU SHOULD NOT BUY OR SELL STOCKS ON MARGIN FOR MORE THAN 40 TO 50 THOUSAND OF RUPEES IN A SINGLE TRADE, USING MINIMUM BROKERAGE CHARGES FROM YOUR BROKER. DO CHECK THE MARKET DEPTH OF A STOCK BEFORE SELECTING THE SAME FOR TRADE. SELECTED STOCK SHOULD BE A HIGH VOLUME STOCK SO THAT SELLERS OR BUYERS ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR 'BUY' AND 'SELL' ORDERS, ELSE, YOU MAY END UP BUYING STOCKS AT PRICES CLOSE TO UPPER CIRCUIT AND SELLING AT PRICES CLOSE TO LOWER CIRCUIT. EVEN 'STOP LOSS' DOES NOT WORK HERE AS IN THE CASE OF A LOW-VOLUME STOCK, BUYERS AND SELLERS ARE GENERALLY NOT AVAILABLE AT YOUR QUOTED 'STOP LOSS' PRICE.

             THUS, HERE IS MY THIRD TIP - USE SMALL TRADERS TO EARN SMALL PROFITS.

             IT TAKES DROP BY DROP TO FILL A PITCHER. IF YOU MAKE A PROFIT OF 200 TO 500 RUPEES IN A SIGLE TRADE AND IF 7 OUT OF YOUR 10 TRADES IN A DAY ARE PROFITABLE, YOU END UP MAKING A PROFIT OF 2,000 TO 2,500 RUPEES, BUT YOU SHOULD MAKE ONLY SMALL TRADERS.

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THE CARE OF YOUR BODY

 

                                                         

                               👀👀TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY 👀 👀

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                       WHAT YOU PERCEIVE AS A DENSE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE CALLED THE BODY, WHICH IS SUBJECT TO DIEASE, OLD AGE, AND DEATH, IS NOT ULTIMATELY REAL - IS NOT YOU. IT IS A MISPERCEPTION OF YOUR ESSENTIAL REALITY THAT IS BEYOND BIRTH AND DEATH, AND IS DUE TO THE LIMITATIONS OF YOUR MIND, WHICH, HAVING LOST TOUCH WITH BEING, CREATES THE BODY AS EVIDENCE OF ITS ILLUSORY BELIEF IN SEPERATION AND TO JUSTIFY ITS STATE OF FEAR. BUT DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM THE BODY, FOR WITHIN THAT SYMBOL OF IMPERMANENCE, LIMITATION, AND DEATH THAT YOU PERCEIVE AS THE ILLUSORY CREATION OF YOUR MIND IS CONCEALED THE SPLENDOR OF YOUR ESSENTIAL AND IMMORTAL REALITY. DO NOT TURN YOUR ATTENTION ELSEWHERE IN YOUR SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH, IT IS NOWHERE ELSE TO BE FOUND BUT WITHIN YOUR BODY.

                  DO NOT FIGHT AGAINST THE BODY, FOR IN DOING SO YOU ARE FIGHTING AGAINST YOUR WON REALITY. YOU ARE YOUR BODY. THE BODY THAT YOU CAN SEE AND TOUCH IS ONLY A THIN ILLUSORY VEIL. UNDERNEATH IT LIES THE INVISIBLE INNER BODY, THE DOORWAY INTO BEING, INTO LIFE UNMANIFESTED. THROUGH THE INNER BODY, YOU ARE INSEPARABLY CONNECTED TO THIS UNMANIFESTED ONE LIFE- BIRTHLESS, DEATHLESS, ETERNALLY PRESENT. THROUGH THE INNER BODY, YOU ARE FOREVER ONE WITH GOD.

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                                                 HAVE DEEP ROOTS WITHIN

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                  THE KEY IS TO BE IN A STATE OF PERMANENT CONNECTEDNESS WITH YOUR INNER BODY - TO FEEL IT ALL TIMES. THIS WILL RAPIDLY DEEPEN AND TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE. THE MORE CONSCIOUSNESS YOU DIRECT INTO THE INNER BODY, THE HIGHER ITS VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY BECOMES, MUCH LIKE A LIGHT THAT GROWS BRIGHTER AS YOU TURN UP THE DIMMER SWITCH AND SO INCREASE THE FLOW OF ELECTRICITY. AT THIS HIGHER ENERGY LEVEL, NEGATIVITY CANNOT THE FLOW OF ELECTRICIT. AT THIS HIGHER ENERGY LEVEL, NEGATIVITY CANNOT AFFECT YOU ANYMORE, AND YOU TEND TO ATTRACT NEW CIRCUMSTANCES THAT REFLECT THIS HIGHER FREQUENCY.

              IF YOU KEEP YOUR ATTENTION IN THE BODY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, YOU WILL BE ANCHORED IN THE NOW. YOU WON'T LOSE YOURSELF IN THE EXTERNAL WORLD, AND YOU WON'T  LOSE YOURSELF IN YOUR MIND. THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS, FEARS AND DESIRES, MAY STILL BE THERE TO SOME EXTEND, BUT THEY WON'T TAKE YOU OVER.

            PLEASE EXAMINE WHERE YOU ATTENTION IS AT THIS MOMENT. YOU ARE LISTENING TO ME, OR YOU ARE READING THESE WORDS IN A BOOK. THAT IS THE FOCUS OF YOUR ATTENTION. YOU ARE ALSO PERIPHERALLY AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS, OTHER PEOPLE, AND SO ON. FURTHERMORE, THERE MAY BE SOME MIND ACTIVITY AROUND WHAT YOU ARE HEARING OR READING, SOME MENTAL COMMENTARY. YET THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANY OF THIS TO ABSORB ALL YOUR ATTENTION. SEE IF YOU CAN BE IN TOUCH WITH YOUR INNER BODY AT THE SAME TIME. KEEP SOME OF YOUR ATTENTION WITHIN. DON'T LET IT ALL FLOW OUT. FEEL YOUR WHOLE BODY FROM WITHIN, AS A SINGLE FIELD OF ENERGY. IT IS ALMOST AS IF YOU WERE LISTENING OR READING WITH YOUR WHOLE BODY. LET THIS BE YOUR PRACTICE IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS TO COME.

                   DO NOT GIVE ALL YOUR ATTENTION AWAY TO THE MIND AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD. BY ALL MEANS FOCUS ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING. BUT FEEL THE INNER BODY AT THE SAME TIME WHENEVER POSSIBLE. STAY ROOTED WITHIN. THEN OBSERVE HOW THIS CHANGES YOUR STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE QUALITY OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

                WHENEVER YOU ARE WAINTING, WHEVER IT MAY BE, USE THAT TIME TO FEEL THE INNER BODY. IN THIS WAY, TRAFFIC JAMS AND LINE-UPS BECOME VERY ENJOYABLE. INSTEAD OF MENTALLY PROJECTING YOURSELF AWAY FROM THE NOW, GO MORE DEEPLY INTO THE NOW BY GOING MORE DEEPLY INTO THE BODY.

               THE ART OF INNER- BODY AWARENESS WILL DEVELOP INTO A COMPLETELY NEW WAY OF LIVING, A STATE OF PERMANENT CONNECTEDNESS WITH BEING, AND WILL ADD A DEPTH TO YOUR LIFE THAT YOU HAVE NEVER KNOWN BEFORE.

             IT IS EASY TO STAY PRESENT AS THE OBSERVE OF YOUR MIND WHEN YOU ARE DEEPLY ROOTED WITHIN YOUR BODY. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS ON THE OUTSIDE, NOTHING CAN SHAKE YOU ANYMORE.

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             UNLESS YOU STAY PRESENT - AND INHABITING YOUR BODY IS ALWAYS AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT OF IT - YOU WILL CONTINUE TO BE RUN BY YOUR MIND, THE SCRIPT IN YOUR HEAD THAT YOU LEARNED A LONG TIME AGO, THE CONDITIONING OF YOUR MIND, WILL DICTATE YOUR THINKING AND YOUR BEHAVIOR. YOU MAY BE FREE OF IT FOR BRIEF INTERVALS, BUT RARELY FOR LONG. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE WHEN SOMETHING "GOES WRONG" OR THERE IS OME LOSS OR UPSET, YOUR CONDITONED REACTION WILL THEN BE INVOLUNTARY, AUTOMATIC, AND PREDICTABLE, FUELED BY THE ONE BASIC EMOTION THAT UNDERLIES THE MIND IDENTIFIED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS FEAR.

                SO WHEN SUCH CHALLENGES COME, AS THEY ALWAYS DO, MAKE IT A HABIT TO GO WITHIN AT ONCE AND FOCUS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN ON THE INNER ENERGY FIELD OF YOUR BODY. THIS NEED NOT TAKE LONG, JUST A FEW SECONDS. BUT YOU NEED TO DO IT THE MOMENT THAT THE CHALLENGE PRESENTS ITSELF. ANY DELAY WILL ALLOW A CONDITIONED MENTAL-EMOTIONAL REACTION TO ARISE AND TAKE YOU OVER.  WHEN YOU FOCUS WITHIN AND FEEL THE INNER BODY, YOU IMMEDIATELY BECOME STILL AND PRESENT AS YOU ARE WITHDRAWING CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE MIND. IF A RESPONSE IS REQUIRED IN THAT SITUATION, IT WILL COME UP FROM THIS DEEPER LEVEL. JUST AS THE SUN IS INFINITELY BRIGHTER THAN A CANDLE FLAME, THERE IS INFINITELY MORE INTELLIGENCE IN BEING THAN IN YOUR MIND.

                AS LONG AS YOU ARE IN CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH YOUR INNER BODY, YOU ARE LIKE A TREE THAT IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE EARTH, OR A BUILDING WITH A DEEP AND SOLID FOUNDATION. THE LATTER ANALOGY IS USED BY JESUS IN THE GENERALLY MISUNDERSTOOD PARABLE OF THE TWO MEN WHO BUILD A HOUSE. ONE MAN BUILDS IT ON THE SAND, WITHOUT A FOUNDATION, AND WHEN THE STORMS AND FLOODS COME, THE HOUSE IS SWEPT AWAY. THE OTHER MAN DIGS DEEP UNTIL HE REACHES THE ROCK, THEN BUILDS HIS HOUSE, WHICH IS NOT SWEPT AWAY BY THE FLOODS.

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SPACE

 

                                                         SPACE SOUND

                        JUST AS NO SOUND CAN EXIST WITHOUT SILENCE, NOTHING CAN EXIST WITHOUT NO-THING, WITHOUT THE EMPTY SPACE THAT ENABLES IT TO BE, EVERY PHYSICAL OBJECT OR BODY HAS COME OUT OF NOTHING, IS SURROUNDED BY NOTHING, AND WILL EVENTUALLY RETURN TO NOTHING. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT EVEN INSIDE EVERY PHYSICAL BODY THERE IS FAR MORE "NOTHING" THAN "SOMETHING". PHYSICISTS TELL US THAT THE SOLIDITY OF MATTER IS AN ILLUSION. EVEN SEEMINGLY SOLID MATTER, INCLUDING YOUR PHYSICAL BODY, IS NEARLY TOO PERCENT EMPTY SPACE - SO VAST ARE THE DISTANCES BETWEEN THE ATOMS COMPARED TO THEIR SIZE. WHAT IS MORE, EVEN INSIDE EVERY ATOM THERE IS MOSTLY EMPTY SPACE. WHAT IS LEFT IS MORE LIKE A VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY THAN PARTICLES OF SOLID MATTER, MORE LIKE A MUSICAL NOTE. BUDDHISTS HAVE KNOW THAT FOR OVER 2,500 YEARS. "FORM IS EMPTINESS, EMPTINESS IS FORM". STATES THE HEART SUTRA, ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN ANCIENT BUDHIST TEXTS.  THE ESSENCE OF ALL THINGS IS EMPTINESS.

                    THE UNMANISFESTED IS NOT ONLY PRESENT IN THIS WORLD AS SILENCE, IT ALSO PERVADES THE ENTIRE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE AS SPACE - FORM WITHIN AND WITHOUT. THIS IS JUST AS EASY TO MISS AS SILENCE. EVERYBODY PAYS ATTENTION TO THE THINGS IN SPACE, BUT WHO PAYS ATTENTION TO SPACE ITSELF?

               YOU SEEM TO BE IMPLYING THAT "EMPTINESS" OR "NOTHING" IS NOT JUST NOTHING, THAT THERE IS SOME MYSTERIOUS QUALITY TO IT. WHAT IS THIS NOTHING?

                YOU CANNOT ASK SUCH A QUESTION. YOUR MIND IS TRYING TO MAKE NOTHING INOT SOMETHING. THE MOMENT YOU MAKE IT INTO SOMETHING, YOU HAVE MISSED IT. NOTHING - SPACE - IS THE APPEARANCE OF THE UNMANIFESTED AS AN EXTERNALIZED PHENOMENON IN A SENSE-PERCEIVED WORLD. THAT'S ABOUT AS MUCH AS ONE CAN SAY ABOUT IT, AND EVEN THAT IS A KIND OF PARADOX. IT CANNOT BECOME AN OBJECT OF KNOWLEDGE. YOU CAN'T DO A PH.D. ON "NOTHING". WHEN SCIENTISTS STUDY SPACE, THEY USUALLY MAKE IT INTO SOMETHING AND THEREBY MISS ITS ESSENCE ENTIRELY. NOT SURPRISINGLY, THE LATEST THEORY IS THAT SPACE ISN'T EMPTY AT ALL, THAT IT IS FILLED WITH SOME SUBSTANCE. ONCE YOU HAVE A THEORY, IT'S NOT TOO HARD TO FIND EVIDENCE TO SUBSTANTIATE IT, AT LEAST UNTIL SOME OTHER THEORY COMES ALONG.

                 "NOTHING" CAN ONLY BECOME A PORTAL INTO THE UNMANIFESTED FOR YOU IF YOU DON'T TRY TO GRASP OR UNDERSTAND IT.

                ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE?

                 NOT AT ALL. I AM GIVING YOU POINTERS TO SHOW YOU HOW YOU CAN BRING THE DIMENTION OF THE UNMANIFESTED INTO YOUR LIFE. WE ARE NOT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT. THRE IS NOTHING TO UNDERSTAND.

                SPACE HAS NO "EXISTENCE". "TO EXIST" LITERALLY MEANS "TO STAND OUT". YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND SPACE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T STAND OUT. ALTHOUGH IN ITSELF IT HAS NO EXISTENCE, IT ENABLES EVERYTHING ELSE TO EXIST. SILENCE HAS NO EXISTENCE, IT ENABLES EVERYTHING ELSE TO EXIST. SILENCE HAS NO EXISTENCE EITHER, NOR DOES THE UNMANIFESTED.

                SO WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU WITHDRAW ATTENTION FROM THE OBJECTS IN SPACE AND BECOME AWARE OF SPACE ITSELF? WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF THIS ROOM? THE FURNITURE, PICTURES, AND SO ON ARE IN THE ROOM, BUT THEY ARE NOT THE ROOM. THE FLOOR, WALLS, AND CEILING DEFINE THE BOUNDARY OF THE ROOM, BUT THEY ARE NOT THE ROOM EITHER. SO WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF THE ROOM? SPACE, OF COURSE, EMPTY SPACE. THERE WOULD BE A "ROOM" WITHOUT IT. SINCE SPACE IS "NOTHING". WE CAN SAY THAT WHAT IS NOR THERE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT IS THERE. SO BECOME AWARE OF THE SPACE THAT IS ALL AROUND YOU. DON'T THINK ABOUT IT. FEEL IT, IT WERE. PAY ATTENTION TO "NOTHING".

               AS YOU DO THAT, A SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS TAKES PLACE INSIDE YOU. HERE IS WHY. THE INNER EQUIVALENT TO OBJECTS IN SPACE SUCH AS FURNITURE, WALLS, AND SO ON ARE YOUR OBJECTS, THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, AND THE OBJECTS OF THE SENSES. AND THE INNER EQUIVALENT OF SPACE IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT ENABLES YOUR MIND OBJECTS TO BE, JUST AS SPACE ALLOWS ALL THINGS TO BE. SO IF YOU WITHDRAW ATTENTION FROM THINGS - OBJECTS IN SPACE - YOU AUTOMATICALLY WITHDRAW ATTENTION FROM YOUR MIND OBJECTS AS WELL. IN OTHER WORDS.YOU CANNOT THINK AND BEWARE OF SPACE - OR OF SILENCE, FOR THAT MATTER. BY BECOMING AWARE OF THE EMPTY SPACE AROUND YOU, YOU SIMULTANEOUSLY BECOME AWARE OF THE SPACE OF NO-MIND, OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, THE UNMANIFESTED. THIS IS HOW THE CONTEMPLATION OF SPACE CAN BECOME A PORTAL FOR YOU.

                 SPACE AND SILENCE ARE TWO ASPECTS OF THE SAME THING, THE SAME NOTHING. THEY ARE AN EXTERNALIZATION OF INNER SPACE AND INNER SILENCE, WHICH IS STILLNESS, THE INFINITELY CREATIVE WOMB OF ALL EXISTENCE. MOST HUMANS ARE COMPLETELY UNCONSCIOUS OF THIS DIMENSION. THERE IS NO INNER SPACE, NO STILLNESS. THEY ARE OUT OF BALANCE. IN OTHER WORDS THEY KNOW THE WORLD, OR THINK THEY DO, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW GOD. THEY IDENTIFY EXCLUSIVELY WITH THEIR OWN PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FORM, UNCONSCIOUS OF ESSENCE. AND  BECAUSE EVERY FORM IS HIGHLY UNSTABLE,THEY LIVE IN FEAR. THIS FEAR CAUSES A DEEP MISPERCEPTION OF THEMSELVES AND OF THEM HUMANS, A DISTORTION IN THEIR VISION OF THE WORLD.

               IF SOME COSMIC CONVULSION BROUGHT ABOUT THE END OF OUR WORLD, THE UNMANIFESTED WOULD REMAIN TOTALLY UNAFFECTED BY THIS, A COURSE IN MIRACLES EXPRESSESS THIS TRUTH POIGNANTLY. "NOTHING REAL CAN BE THREATENED. NOTHING UNREAL EXISTS. HEREIN LIES THE PEACE OF GOD".

              IF YOU REMAIN IN CONSCIOUS CONNECTION WITH THE UNMANIFESTED, YOU VALUE, LOVE, AND DEEPLY RESPECT THE MANIFESTED AND EVERY LIFE FORM IN IT AN EXPRESSION OF THE ONE LIFE BEYOND FORM. YOU ALSO KNOW THAT EVERY FORM IS DESTINED TO DISSOLVE AGAIN AND THAT ULTIMATELY NOTHING OUT HERE MATTERS ALL THAT MUCH. YOU HAVE "OVERCOME THE WORLD", IN THE WORDS OF JESUS OR, AS THE BUDDHA PUT IT, HAVE "CROSSED OVER TO THE OTHER SHORE."

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THE POWER OF PRESENCE (UNMANIFESTED)

 

                              

                                       THE POWER OF CONSCIOUSNESS

                                    WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRESENCE AND THE INNER BODY?

 

                 PRESENCE IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS - CONSCIOUSNESS THAT HAS BEEN RECLAIMED FROM THE MIND, FROM THE WORLD OF FORM. THE INNER BODY IS YOUR LINK WITH THE UMNANIFESTED, AND IN ITS DEEPEST ASPECT IS THE UNMANIFESTED, THE SOURCE FROM WHICH CONSCIOUSNESS EMANATES AS LIGHT EMANATES FROM THE SUN. AWARENESS OF THE INNER BODY IS CONSCIOUSNESS REMEMBERING ITS ORIGIN AND RETURNING TO THE SOURCE.

 

                       IS THE UNMANIFESTED THE SAME AS BEING?

                            YES, THE WORD UNMANIFESTED ATTEMPTS, BY WAY OF NEGATION, TO EXPRESS THAT WHICH CANNOT BE SPOKEN, THOUGHT OR IMAGINED. IT POINTS TO WHAT IT IS BY SAYING WHAT IT IS NOT. BEING, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS A POSITIVE TERM. PLEASE DON'T GET ATTACHED TO EITHER OF THESE WORDS OR START BELIEVING IN THEM. THEY ARE NO MORE THAN SIGNPOSTS.

                  YOU SAID THAT PRESENCE IS CONSCIOUSNESS THAT HAS BEEN RECLAIMED FROM THE MIND. WHO DOES THE RECLAIMING?

                    YOU DO. BUT SINCE IN YOUR ESSENCE YOU ARE CONSCIOUSNESS, WE MIGHT AS WELL SAY THAT IT IS AN AWAKENING OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE DREAM OF FORM. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOUR FORM WILL INSTANTLY VANISH IN AN EXPLOSION OF LIGHT. YOU CAN CONTINUE IN YOUR PRESENT FORM YET BE AWARE OF THE FORMLESS AND DEATHLESS DEEP WITHIN YOU.

                 I MUST ADMIT THIS IS WAY BEYONG MY COMPREHENSION, AND YET ON SOME DEEPER LEVE I SEEM TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. IT'S MORE LIKE A FEELING THAN ANYTHING ELSE. AM I DECEIVING MYSELF?

                    NO, YOU ARE NOT. FEELING WILL GET CLOSER TO THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE THAN THINKING. I CANNOT TELL YOU ANYTHING DEEP WITHIN YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW. WHEN YOU HAVE REACHED A CERTAIN STAGE OF INNER CONNECTEDNESS, YOU RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH WHEN YOU HEAR IT. IF YOU HAVEN'T REACHED THAT STAGE YET, THE PRACTICE OF BODY AWARENESS WILL BRING ABOUT THE DEEPENING THAT IS NECESSARY.

                                              ATTENTION TO THE INNER BODY

                    IF FELT VERY UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN I TRIED TO PUT MY ATTENTION ON THE INNER BODY. THERE WAS A FEELING OF AGITATION AND SOME NAUSEA. SO I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO EXPERIENCE WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

                    WHAT YOU FELT WAS A LINGERING EMOTION THAT YOU WERE PROBABLY UNAWARE OF, INTIL YOU STARTED PUTTING SOME ATTETION INTO THE BODY. UNLESS YOU FIRST GIVE IT SOME ATTENTION, THE EMOTION WILL PREVEN YOU FROM GAINING ACCESS TO THE INNER BODY, WHICH LIES AT A DEEPER LEVEL UNDERNEATH IT. ATTENTION DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU START THINKING ABOUT IT. IT MEANS TO JUST OBSERVE THE EMOTION, TO FEEL IT FULLY, AND SO TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPT IT AS IT IS. SOME EMOTIONS ARE EASILY IDENTIFIED, ANGER, FEAR, GRIEF, AND SO ON. OTHERS MAY BE MUCH HARDER TO LABEL. THEY MAY JUST BE VAGUE FEELINGS OF UNEASE, HEAVINESS, OR CONSTRICTION, HALFWAY BETWEEN AN EMOTION AND A PHYSICAL SENSATION. IN ANY CASE, WHAT MATTERS IS NOT WHETHER YOU CAN ATTACH A MENTAL LABEL TO IT BUT WHETHER YOU CAN BRING THE FEELING OF IT INTO AWARENESS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. ATTENTION IS THE KEY TO TRANSFORMATION - AND FULL ATTENTION ALSO IMPLIES ACCEPTANCE. ATTENTION IS LIKE A BEAM OF LIGHT - THE FOCUSED POWER OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS THAT TRANSMUTES EVERYTHING INTO ITSELF.

               IN FULLY FUNCTIONAL ORGANISM, AN EMOTION HAS A VERY SHORT LIFE SPAN. IT IS LIKE A MOMENTARY RIPPLE OR WAVE ON THE SURFACE OF YOUR BEING. IT IS LIKE A MOMENTARY RIPPLE OR WAVE ON THE SURFACE OF YOUR BEING. WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN YOUR BODY, HOWEVER, AN EMOTION CAN SURVIVE INSIDE YOU ARE IN YOUR BODY, HOWEVER, AN EMOTION CAN SURVIVE INSIDE YOU FOR DAYS OR WEEKS, OR JOIN WITH OTHER EMOTION CAN SURVIVE INSIDE YOU FOR DAYS OR WEEKS, JOIN WITH OTHER EMOTIONS OF A SIMILAR FREQUENCY THAT HAVE MERGED AND COME THE PAIN BODY, A PARASITE THAT CAN LIVE INSIDE YOU FOR YEARS, FEED ON YOUR ENERGY, LEAD TO PHYSICAL ILLNESS, AND MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE.

                SO PLACE YOUR ATTENTION ON FEELING THE EMOTION, AND CHECK WHETHER YOUR MIND IS HOLDING ON TO A GRIEVANCE PATTERN SUCH AS BLAME, SELF-PITY, OR RESENTMENT THAT IS FEEDING THE EMOTION. IF THAT IS THE CASE, IT MEANS THAT YOU HAVEN'T FORGIVEN. NONFORGIVENESS IS OFTEN TOWARD ANOTHER PERSON OR YOURSELF, BUT IT MAY JUST AS WELL BE TOWARD ANY SITUATION OR CONDITION - PAST, PRESENT OF FUTURE- THAT YOUR MIND REFUSES TO ACCEPT. YES, THERE CAN BE NONFORFORGIVENESS EVEN WITH REGARD TO THE FUTURE. THIS IS THE MIND'S REFUSAL TO ACCEPT UNCERTAINLY, TO ACCEPT THAT THE FUTURE IS ULTIMATELY BEYOND ITS CONTROL. FORGIVENESS IS TO RELINQUISH YOUR GRIEVANCE AND SO TO LET GO OF GRIEF. IT HAPPENS EXCEPT TO STRENTHEN A FALSE SENSE OF SELF. FORGIVENESS IS TO OFFER NO RESISTANCE TO LIFE - TO ALLOW LIFE TO LIVE THROUGH YOU. THE ALTERNATIVES ARE PAIN AND SUFFERING A GREATLY RESTRICTED FLOW OF LIFE ENERGY, AND IN MANY CASES PHYSICAL DISEASE.

                    THE MOMENT YOU TRULY FORGIVE, YOU HAVE RECLAIMED YOUR POWER FROM THE MIND. NONFORGIVENESS IS THE VERY NATURE OF THE MIND. JUST AS THE MIND-MADE FALSE SELF, THE EGO, CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT STRIFE AND CONFLICT. THE MIND CANNOT FORGIVE, ONLY YOU CAN. YOU BECOME PRESENT YOU ENTER YOUR BODY, YOU FEEL THE VIBRANT PEACE AND STILLNESS THAT EMARATE FROM BEING. THAT IS WHY JESUS SAID, BEFORE YOU ENTER THE TEMPLE, FORGIVE." 

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THE PAIN OF LIFE

 

                                     THE LIFE WITH PAIN AND SORROW

  

                        NOBODY'S LIFE IS ENTIRELY FREE OF PAIN AND SORROW. ISN'T IT A QUESTION OF LEARNING TO LIVE WITH THEM RATHER THAN TRYING TO AVOID THEM?

      

                      THE GREATER PART OF HUMAN PAIN IS UNNECESSARY. IT IS SELF-CREATED AS LONG AS THE UNOBSERVED MIND RUNS YOUR LIFE.

                    THE PAIN THAT YOU CREATE NOW IS ALWAYS SOME FORM OF NONACCEPTANCE, SOME FORM OF UNCONSCIOUS RESISTENCE TO WHAT IS. ON THE LEVEL OF THOUGHT, THE RESISTENCE IS SOME FORM OF JUDGMENT. ON THE EMOTIONAL LEVEL, IT IS SOME FORM OF NEGATIVITY. THE INTENSITY OF THE PAIN DEPENDS ON THE DEGREE OF RESISTENCE TO THE PRESENT MOMENT, AND THIS IN TURN DEPENDS ON HOW STRONGLY YOU ARE IDENTIFIED WITH YOUR MIND. THE MIND ALWAYS SEEKS TO DENY THE NOW AND TO ESCAPE FROM IT. IN OTHER WORDS. THE MORE YOU ARE IDENTIFIED WITH YOUR MIND, THE MORE YOU SUFFER. OR YOU MAY PUT IT LIKE THIS, THE MORE YOU ARE ABLE TO HONOR YOU SUFFER. OR YOU MAY PUT IT LIKE THIS, THE MORE YOU ARE ABLE TO HONOR AND ACCEPT THE NOW, THE MORE YOU ARE FREE OF PAIN, OF SUFFERING - AND FREE OF THE EGOIC MIND.

                WHY DOES THE MIND HABITUALLY DENY OR RESIST THE NOW? BECAUSE IT CANNOT FUNCTION AND REMAIN IN CONTROL WITHOUT TIME, WHICH IS PAST AND FUTURE, SO IT PERCEIVES THE TIMELESS NOW AS THREATENING. TIME AND MIND ARE IN FACT INSEPARABLE.

                   IMAGINE THE EARTH DEVOID OF HUMAN LIFE, INHABITED ONLY BY PLANTS AND ANIMALS. WOULD IT STILL HAVE A PAST AND A FUTURE? COULD WE STILL SPEAK OF TIME IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY? THE QUESTION "WHAT TIME IS IT?". OR WHAT'S THE DATE TODAY? - IF ANYBODY WERE THERE TO ASK IT - WOULD BE QUIET MEANINGLESS. "WHAT TIME?" THEY WOULD ASK, WELL, OF COURSE IT'S NOW. THE TIME IS NOW. WHAT ELSE IS THERE?

                  YES, WE NEED THE MIND AS WELL AS TIME TO FUNTION IN THIS WORLD, BUT THERE COMES A POINT WHERE THEY TAKE OVER OUR LIVES, AND THIS IS WHERE DYSFUNCTION, PAIN AND SORROW SET IN.

                 THE MIND, TO ENSURE THAT IT REMAINS IN CONTROL, SEEKS CONTINUOSLY TO COVER UP THE PRESENT MOMENT WITH PAST AND FUTURE, AND SO, AS THE VITALITY AND INFINITE CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF BEING, WHICH IS INSEPARABLE FROM THE NOW, BECOMES COVERED UP BY TIME, YOUR TRUE NATURE BECOMES OBSCURED BY THE MIND. AN INCREASINGLY HEAVY BURDEN OF TIME HAS BEEN ACCUMULATING IN THE HUMAN MIND. ALL INDIVIDUALS ARE SUFFERING UNDER THIS BURDEN, BUT THEY ALSO KEEP ADDING TO IT EVERY MOMENT WHENEVERTHEY IGNORE OR DENY THAT PRECIOUS MOMENT OR REDUCE IT TO A  MEANS, NEVER IN ACTUALITY. THE ACCUMULATION OF TIME IN TH COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUALS HUMAN MIND ALSO HOLDS A VAST AMOUNT OF RESIDUAL PAIN FROM THE PAST.

                IF YOU NO LONGER WANT TO CREATE PAIN FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS, IF YOU NO LONGER WANT TO DO ADD TO THE RESIDUE OF PAST PAIN THAT STILL LIVES ON IN YOU, THEN DON'T CREATE ANY MORE TIME, OR AT LEAST NO MOE THAN IS NECESSARY TO DEAL WITH THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE. HOW TO STOP CREATING TIME? REALIZE DEEPLY THAT THE PRESENT MOMENT IS ALL YOU EVER HAVE. MAKE THE NOW THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF YOUR LIFE. WHEREAS BEFORE YOU DWELT IN TIME AND PAID BRIEF VISITS TO THE NOW, HAVE YOUR DWELLING PLACE IN THE NOW AND PAY BRIEF VISITS TO PAST AND FUTURE WHEN REQUIRED TO DEAL WITH THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE SITUATION. ALWAYS SAY "YES" TO THE PRESENT MOMENT. WHAT COULD BE MORE FUTILE, MORE INSANE, THAN TO CREATE INNER RESISTANCE TO SOMETHING THAT ALREADY? WHAT COULD BE MORE INSNE THAN TO OPPOSITE LIFE ITSELF, WHICH IS NOW AND ALWAYS NOW? SURRENDER TO WHAT IS. SAY "YES" TO LIFE - AND SEE HOW LIFE SUDDENLY STARTS WORKING FOR YOU RATHER THAN AGAINST YOU.

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LOVE AND HATE RELATIONSHIPS

 

                                                                  RELATIONSHIP

                    UNLESS AND UNTIL YOU ACCESS THE CONSCIOUSNESS FREQUENCY OF PRESEMCE, ALL RELATIONSHIPS, AND PARTICULARLY INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, ARE DEEPLY FLAWED AND ULTIMATELY DYSFUNCTIONAL. THEY MAY SEEM PERFECT FOR A WHILE, SUCH AS WHEN YOU ARE "IN LOVE", BUT INVARIABLY THAT APPARENT PERFECTION GETS DISRUPTED AS ARGUMENTS, CONFLICTS, DISSATISFACTION, AND EMOTIONAL OR EVEN PHYSICAL VIOLENCE OCCUR WITH INCREASING FREQUENCY. IT SEEMS THAT MOST "LOVE RELATIONSHIP" BECOME LOVE /HATE RELATIONSHIPS BEFORE LONG. LOVE CAN THEN TURN INTO SAVAGE ATTACK, FEELINGS OF HOSTILITY, OR COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL OF AFFECTION AT THE FLICK OF A SWITCH. THIS IS CONSIDERED NORMAL. THE RELATIONSHIP THEN OSCILLATES SWITCH. THIS IS CONSIDERED NORMAL. THE RELATIONSHIP THEN OSCILLATES FOR A WHILE, A FEW MONTHS OR A FEW YEARS, BETWEEN THE POLARITIES OF "LOVE" AND HATE, AND IT GIVES YOU AS MUCH PLEASURE AS IT GIVES YOU PAIN. IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR COUPLES TO BECOME ADDICTED TO THOSE CYCLES. THEIR DRAMA MAKES THEM FEEL ALIVE. WHEN A BALANCE BETWEEN THE POSITIVE/NEGATIVE POLARITIES IS LOST AND THE NEGATIVE, DESTRUCTIVE CYCLES OCCUR WITH INCREASING FREQUENCY AND INTENSITY, WHICH TENDS TO HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER, THEN IT WILL NOT BE LONG BEFORE THE RELATIONSHIP FINLLY COLLAPSES.

                       

                        

                 IT MAY APPEAR THAT IF YOU COULD ONLY ELIMINATE THE NEGATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE CYCLES, THEN ALL WOULD BE WELL AND THE RELATIONSHIP WOULD FLOWER BEAUTIFULLY - BUT ALAS, THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE. THE POLARITIES ARE MUTUALLY INTERDEPENDENT. YOU CANNOT HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER. THE POSITIVE ALREADY CONTAINS WITHIN ITSELF THE AS YET UNMANIFESTED NEGATIVE. BOTH ARE IN FACT DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE SAME DYSFUNCTION. I AM SPEAKING HERE OF WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED ROMANTIC DYSFUNTION. I AM SPEAKING HERE OF WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP - NOT OF TRUE LOVE, WHICH HAS NO OPPOSITE BECAUSE IT ARISES FROM BEYOND THE MIND. LOVE AS A CONTINUOUS STATE IS AS YET VERY RARE- AS RARE AS CONSCIOUS HUMAN BEINGS. BRIEF AND ELUSIVE GLIMPSES OF LOVE, HOWEVER, ARE POSSIBLE WHENVER THERE IS A GAP IN THE STREAM OF  MIND.

               THE NEGATIVE SIDE OF A RELATIONSHIP IS, OF COURSE, MORE EASILY RECOGNIZABLE AS DYSFUNCTIONAL THAN THE POSITIVE ONE. AND IT IS ALSO EASIER TO RECOGNIZE THE SOURCE OF NEGATIVITY IN YOUR PARTNER THAN TO SEE IT IN YOURSELF. IT CAN MANIFEST IN MANY FORMS, POSSESSIVENESS, JEALOUSY, CONTROL, WITHDRAWAL AND UNSPOKEN RESENTMENT, AND NEED TO BE RIGHT, INSENSITIVITY AND SELF-ABSORPTION, EMOTIONAL DEMANDS AND MANIPULATION, THE URGE TO ARGUE, CRITICIZE, JUDGE, BLAME, OR ATTACK, ANGER, UNCONSCIOUS REVENGE FOR PAST PAIN INFLICTED BY A PARENT, RAGE AND PHYSICAL VIOLENCE.

              ON THE POSITIVE SIDE, YOU ARE "IN LOVE" WITH YOUR PARTNER. THIS IS AT FIRST A DEEPLY SATISFYING STATE. YOU FEEL INTENSELY ALIVE. YOUR EXISTENCE HAS SUDDENLY BECOME MEANINGFUL BECAUSE SOMEONE NEEDS YOU, WANTS YOU, AND MAKES YOU FEEL SPECIAL, AND YOU DO THE SAME FOR HIM OR HER. WHEN YOU ARE TOGETHER, YOU FEEL WHOLE. THE FEELING CAN BECOME SO INTENSE THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD FADES INTO INSIGNICANCE.

               HOWEVER, YOU MAY ALSO HAVE NOTICED THAT THERE IS A NEEDINESS AND A CLINGING QUALITY TO THAT INTENSITY. YOU BECOME ADDICTED TO THE OTHER PERSON. HE OR SHE ACTS ON YOU LIKE A DRUG. YOU ARE ON A HIGH WHEN THE DRUG IS AVAILABLE, BUT EVEN THE POSSIBILITY OR THE THOUGHT THAT HE OR SHE MIGHT NO LONGER BE THERE FOR YOU CAN LEAD TO JEALOUSY, POSSESSIVENESS, ATTEMPTS AT MANIPULATION THROUGH EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL, BLAMING AND ACCUSING- FEAR OF LOSS. IF THE OTHER PERSON DOES LEAVE YOU, THIS CAN GIVE RISE TO THE MOST INTENSE HOSTILITY OR THE MOST PROFOUND GRIEF AND DESPAIR.

                IN AN INSTANT, LOVING TENDERNESS CAN TURN INTO A SAVAGE ATTACK OR DREADFUL GRIEF. WHERE IS THE LOVE NOW? CAN LOVE CHANGE INTO ITS OPPOSITE IN AN INSTANT? WAS IT LOVE IN THE FIRST PLACE, OR JUST AN ADDICTIVE GRASPING AND CLINGING?

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SEARCH YOUR WHOLENESS

 

                                               THE POWER OF PRESENCE

                                  MAN AND WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS

                        WHY SHOULD WE BECOME ADDICTED TO ANOTHER PERSON?

                 THE REASON WHY THE ROMANTIC LOVE RELATIONSHIP IS SUCH AN INTENSE AND UNIVERSALLY SOUGHT-AFTER EXPERIENCE IS THAT IT SEEMS TO OFFER LIBERATION FROM A DEEP-SEATED STATE OF FEAR, NEED, LACK, AND INCOMPLETENESS THAT IS PART OF THE HUMAN CONDITION IN ITS UNREDEEMED AND UNENLIGHTENED IS PART OF THE HUMAN CONDITION IN ITS UNREDEEMED AND UNENLIGHTENED STATE. THERE IS A PHYSICAL AS WELL AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENTION TO THIS STATE.

              ON THE PHYSICAL LEVEL, YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT WHOLE, NOR WILL YOU EVER BE, YOU ARE EITHER A MAN OR WOMAN, WHICH IS TO SAY, ONE-HALF OF THE WHOLE. ON THIS LEVEL, THE LONGING FOR WHOLENESS - THE RETURN TO ONENESS-MANIFESTS AS MALE-FEMALE ATTRACTION, MAN'S NEED FOR A WOMAN, WOMAN'S NEED FOR A MAN. IT IS AN ALMOST IRRESITIBLE URGUE FOR IS A SPIRITUAL ONE, THE LONGING FOR AN END TO DUALITY, A RETURN TO THE STATE OF WHOLENESS. SEXUAL UNION IS THE CLOSEST YOU CAN GET TO THIS STATE ON THE PHYSICAL LEVEL. THIS IS WHY IT IS THED MOST DEEPLY SATISFYING EXPERIENCE THE PHYSICAL REALM CAN OFFER. BUT SEXUAL UNION IS NO MORE THAN A FLEETING GLIMPSE OF WHOLENESS, AN INSTANT OF BLISS. AS LONG AS IT IS UNCONCIOUSLY SOUGHT AS A MEAS OF SALVATION, YOU ARE SEEKING THE END OF DUALITY ON THE LEVEL OF FORM, WHERE IT CANNOT BE FOUND. YOU ARE GIVEN A TANTALIZING GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN, BUT YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DWELL THERE, AND FIND YOURSELF AGAIN IN A SEPERATE BODY.

              ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LEVEL, THED SENSE O LACK INCOMPLETENESS IS, IF ANYTHING, EVEN GREATER THAN ON THE PHYSICAL LEVEL. AS LONG AS YOU ARE IDENTIFIED WITH THE MIND, YOU HAVE AN EXTERNALLY DERIVED SENSE OF SELF. THAT IS TO SAY, YOU GET YOUR SENSE OF WHO ARE YOU FROM THINGS THAT ULTIMATELY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHO YOU ARE, YOUR SOCIAL ROLE, POSSESIONS, EXTERNAL APPEARANCE, SUCCESSESS, AND FAILURES, BELIEF SYSTEMS, AND SO ON. THIS FALSE, MIND-MADE SELF, THE EGO, FEELS VULNERABLE, INSECURE, AND IS ALWAYS SEEKING NEW THINGS TO IDENTIFY WITH TO GIVE IS LASTING FULFILLMENT. ITS FEAR REMAINS, ITS SENSE OF LACK AND NEEDINESS REMAINS.

              BUT THEN THAT SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP COMES ALONG. IT SEEMS TO BE THE ANSWER TO ALL THE EGO'S PROBLEMS AND TO MEET ALL ITS NEED. AL LEAST THIS IS HOW IT APPEARS AT FIRST. ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT YOU DERIVED YOUR SENSE OF SELF FROM BEFORE, NOW BECOME RELATIVELY INSIGNIFICANT. YOU NOW HAVE A SINGLE FOCAL POINT THAT REPLACES THEM ALL, GIVES MEANING TO YOUR LIFE, AND THROUGH WHICH YOU DEFINITE YOUR IDENTITY, THE PERSON YOU ARE "IN LOVE" WITH. YOU ARE NO LONGER A DISCONNECTED FRAGMENT IN AN UNCARING UNIVERSE, OR SO IT SEEMS. YOUR WORLD NOW HAS A CENTER, THE LOVED ONE. THE FACT THAT THE CENTER IS OUTSIDE YOU AND THAT, THEREFORE, YOU STILL HAVE AN EXTREMELY DERIVED SENSE OF SELF DOES NOT SEEM TO MATTER AT FIRST. WHAT MATTERS IS THAT THE UNDERLYING FEELINGS OF INCOMPLETENESS, OF FEAR, LACK AND UNFULFILLMENT SO CHARACTERISTIC OF THE EGOIC STATE ARE NO LONGER THERE-OR ARE THEY? HAVE THEY DISSOLVED, OR DO THEY CONTINUE TO EXIST UNDERNEATH THE HAPPY SURFACE REALITY?

               IF IN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS YOU EXPERIENCE BOTH "LOVE" AND THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE-ATTACK, EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE, AND SO ON- THEN IT IS LIKELY THAT YOU ARE CONFUSING EGO ATTACHMENT AND ADDICTIVE CLINGING WITH LOVE. YOU CANNOT LOVE YOUR PARTNER ONE MOMENT AND ATTACK HIM OR HER THE NEXT. TRUE LOVE HAS NO OPPOSITE. IF YOUR "LOVE" HAS AN OPPOSITE, THEN IT IS NOT LOVE BUT A STRONG EGO-NEED FOR A MORE COMPLETE AND DEEPER SENSE OF SELF, A NEED THAT THE OTHER PERSON TEMPORARILY MEETS. IT IS THE EGO'S SUBSTITUTE FOR SALVATION, AND FOR A SHORT TIME IT ALMOST DOES FEEL LIKE SALVATION.

                 BUT THERE COMES A PONT WHEN YOUR PARTNER BEHAVES IN WAYS THAT FAIL TO MEET YOUR NEES, OR RATHER THOSE OF YOUR EGO. THE FEELINGS OF FEAR, PAIN, AND LACT THAT ARE AN INTRINSIC PART OF EGOIC CONSCIOUSNESS BUT HAD BEEN COVERED UP BY THE "LOVE RELATIONSHIP" NOW RESURFACE. JUST AS WITH EVERY OTHER ADDICTION, YOU ARE ON A HIGH WHEN THE DRUG IS AVAILABLE, BUT INVARIABLY THERE COMES A TIME WHEN THE DRUG NO LONGER WORKS FOR YOU. WHEN THOSE PAINFUL FEELINGS REAPPEAR, YOU FEEL THEM EVEN MORE STRONGLY THAN BEFORE, AND WHAT IS MORE, YOU NOW PERCIEVE YOUR PARTNER AS THE CAUSE OF THOSE FEELINGS. THIS MEANS THAT YOU PROJECT THEM OUTWARD AND ATTACK THE OTHER WITH ALL THE SAVAGE VIOLENCE THAT IS PART OF YOUR PAIN. THIS ATTACK MAY AWAKEN THE PARTNER'S OWN PAIN, AND HE OR SHEN MAY COUNTER YOUR ATTACK. AT THIS POINT, THE EGO IS STILL UNCONSCIOUSLY HOPING THAT ITS ATTACK OR ITS ATTEMPTS AT MANIPULATION WILL BE SUFFICIENT PUNISHMENT TO INDUCE YOUR PARTNER TO CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR, SO THAT IT CAN USE THEM AGAIN AS A COVER-UP FOR YOUR PAIN.

                 EVERY ADDICTION ARISES FROM AN UNCONSCIOUS REFUSAL TO FACE AND MOVE THROUGH YOUR OWN PAIN. EVERY ADDICTION STARTS WITH PAIN AND ENDS WITH PAIN. WHATEVER THE SUBSTANCE YOU ARE ADDICTED TO - ALCOHOL, FOOD, LEGAL OR ILLEGAL DRUGS, OR A PERSON - YOU ARE USING SOMETHING OR SOMETHING OR SOMEBODY TO COVER UP YOUR PAIN. THAT IS WHY, AFTER THE INITIAL EUPHORIA HAS PASSED, THERE IS SO MUCH UNHAPPINESS, SO MUCH PAIN IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS. THEY DO NOT CAUSE PAIN AND UNHAPPINESS. THEY BRING OUT THE PAIN AND UNHAPPINESS THAT IS ALREADY IN YOU. EVERY ADDICTION DOES THAT. EVERT ADDICTION REACHES A POINT WHERE IT DOES NOT WORK FOR YOU ANYMORE, AND THEN YOU FEEL THE PAIN MORE INTENSELY THAN EVER.

            THIS IS ONE REASON WHY MOST PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM THE PRESENT MOMENT AND ARE SEEKING SOME KIND OF SALVATION IN THE FUTURE. THE FIRST THING THAT THEY MIGHT ENCOUNTER IF THEY FOCUSED THEIR ATTENTION ON THE NOW IS THEIR OWN PAIN, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY FEAR. IF THEY ONLY KNEW HOW EASY IT IS TO ACCESS IN THE NOW THE POWER OF PRESENCE THAT DISSOLVE THE PAST AND ITS PAIN, THE REALITY THAT DISSOLVES THE ILLUSION. IF THEY ONLY KNEW HOW CLOSE THEY ARE TO THEIR OWN REALITY, HOW CLOSE TO GOD.

             AVOIDANCE OF RELATIONSHIPS IN AN ATTEMPT TO AVOID PAIN IS NOT THE ANSWER EITHER. THE PAIN IS THERE ANYWAY. THREE FAILED RELATIONSHIPS IN AS MANY YEARS ARE MORE LIKELY TO FORCE YOU INTO AWAKENING THAN THREE YEARS ON A DESERT ISLAND OR SHUT AWAY IN YOUR ROOM. BUT IF YOU COULD BRING INTENSE PRESENCE INTO YOUR ALONENESS, THAT WOULD WORK FOR YOU TOO.

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