MEDITATION is another name of witnessing

February 1, 2017 by admin

MEDITATION is another name of witnessing.

Witnessing is the tool of consciousness, used to disconnect itself from the mind and reconnect with ultimate awareness. This ultimate awareness is the transcendence of consciousness—spaceless space beyond the mind.

We can’t talk about consciousness and unconsciousness as two separate states, but more like in degrees: you can be more or less conscious. There’s no such a thing as darkness, only different degrees of light. Witness without any judgment, without any evaluation.

When your consciousness become conscious of all that is to be conscious in outside reality, and there are no more unconscious traces in your perception of being, no more conscious witnessing of objects and subjects, so that two realities becomes one reality, your old mind is no more, but is clear of all thoughts. All vibrations in the mind become only one conscious vibration, so that there’s nothing to witness anymore. Consciousness turns its total attention to itself, witnessing one vibration—that of the witness, that of the consciousness. When your consciousness becomes conscious of itself you become awareness.

Understand this. The more you become conscious, the more you come to be a witness. So consciousness is a method to achieve witnessing, and witnessing is a method to achieve awareness.

Ivan Rados ATMA

GRATITUDE

February 10, 2015 by admin

Life is a gift, but we forget this and end up not being grateful. Observing life via the ego, we feel unhappy, hurt, and confused because we aren’t getting what we want. However, when we drop the ego, we are no longer in conflict with life, which allows the infinite whole to flow through us and us to flow with the whole.

To be whole, we have to be grounded on the outside—centered on earth—and at the same time flow freely in our inner world. Allowing the inner to flow and being grounded in outer reality is the blueprint for wholeness.

Life is a beautiful adventure to live in all its “unknowable knowingness.” The mind prompts us to erect barriers to protect us from the unknown, yet none of us know what’s going to happen next because freedom is unpredictable.

The capacity to be surprised is a great blessing. It enables us to move into the unknown with courage and feel the thrill and wonder of an extraordinary existence. We are simply asked to flow freely with it, weightless, trusting our inner reality. Then our outer expression becomes a reflection of this flow. Open to the unknown, we are excited and surprised by every moment, each of which ushers us into a greater life.

On the surface, it may seem as though life is full of suffering, pain, and misery, for which we can’t feel thankful. But at a deeper level, each moment unfolds for our spiritual growth. Once we understand this, we embrace every situation without resistance or complaint. Whether something is seemingly positive or negative, we feel grateful. Gratitude always arises when we align with the essence in all things. Experiencing and loving each moment means realizing nothing is lacking, nothing left out, and everything is as perfect as possible at this moment.

If we doubt the moment, we are too attached to outside phenomena and separated from existence. By trusting in the here and now, we automatically find ourselves in the universal flow. Gratitude spontaneously accompanies such spiritual maturity. Our whole being fills with the glory of it.

We do not “practice” gratitude. Rather, it’s a consequence of our trust in the whole. True gratitude cannot even be expressed because it’s beyond words. It’s an ecstasy of our being, the music of our stillness. When we feel the divine inside our One Self, gratitude floods our being, followed by a deep humility and peace.

The more we feel grateful for all of life, the more joy and creativity flow to and through us. Gratitude binds us in closer harmony with the creative energies of the infinite universe.

Middle Point Discipline

February 1, 2015 by admin

Teaching people enlightenment is useless, because how can you teach No-Thing? You can only teach something. The middle point guides you to disconnect from all some-things; and in the removal of some-thing-ness, you are left with no-thing-ness, which is the primordial source of All-That-Is.

Can you do No-Thing? Can you teach people how to do No-Thing? When you do something, there’s a distance between you and each thing. Doing meditation, doing love, or doing the middle point assumes that enlightenment is a separate state from you, which requires you to make a tremendous effort to obtain it.

Even if you manage to “have it,” you’ll still be in separation from it. That’s because “having” is all about possession. Can you possess health, truth, bliss, peace, freedom, God, enlightenment? No, you can only be these things. In order to be what is, doing needs to be removed, which allows distance to evaporate from your awareness.

The whole of existence is one, taking care of everything, from the smallest flower to the largest star. If this is the case, then it will take care of you, too. Why worry and why be possessive? To possess your existence or your enlightenment shows simply one thing: that you doubt existence. You are existence, so you doubt One-Self. In order to live in some kind of peace, you have to arrange separate security for yourself, safety for yourself. This is the reason for attachment to the non-existential mind.

The middle point is a non-possessive attitude. Non-possessiveness is the unmotivated midpoint in total trust in existence.

Teaching Is the Mind Indoctrinating Another Mind

Teaching can reach the mind but can never reach the heart. Teaching can satisfy the mind’s curiosity, but not the heart’s thirst for the truth. Teaching is self-cultivation, going on and on in a circular manner, never realizing, never actualizing One-Self, never settling down into being. To settle into being is the highest peak of existence, with no paths or methods to attain it.

However, to attain what is already yours, you need a discipline—and to be disciplined, you need a practice. What should you practice? Nothing!

This is the real practice: to be aware of the illusions and projections coming from your mind. The mind tries to take your attention away from the present moment where your enlightenment is. Not going with the mind and doing nothing to the mind—not identifying with or attaching to the mind—is the practice of nonattachment, and with this practice you are exercising discipline. You aren’t disciplining mind, however: you are reminding consciousness to focus in the now.

Who is disciplining consciousness? Consciousness is disciplining itself by being increasingly aware of itself.

If you try to discipline the mind, you are going to be lost in thought. A disciplined mind is still the mind, only more stubborn and adamant. Real discipline comes from the innermost core of your being. It isn’t forced, imported, or All Postsborrowed. It’s the spontaneous, organic growth of your consciousness.

Discipline is a methodology for becoming more present, alert, and conscious—a response from the core of your being in the moment, to the moment. To be disciplined, you have to be a mirror, mirroring All-That-Is through thoughtless awareness.

Teaching gives you the answers; discipline gives you the consciousness to be aware. The ultimate peak of enlightenment is when there’s no more need for disciplining, no more need for practice. This isn’t philosophy; it’s a transformational, practical way of looking at life, being existence, and living each moment of the now by sharing oneness with One-Self.

Through discipline, you come into an alert state of awareness, which allows you to see the truth more clearly. Teaching supplies you with the answers to your thirst, while discipline gives you the eyes to see that thirst was an illusion that was necessary in order for you to settle in your own infinite being.

Enlightenment always dispenses with doing. If you are involved in doing something, you are on the periphery of existence, and every periphery is controlled by the mind. To be an enlightened being, one has to go beyond boundaries, peripheries, and all confinements—all techniques and all methods. One has to stop doing, seeking, and journeying. One has to settle into nothingness.

Meditation is you, love is you, truth is you, and enlightenment is you. You cannot “do” the One-Self. You can only be the One-Self. This truth can’t be conveyed, though it can be indicated, guided, and practiced as a discipline.

Ivan Rados – The Middle Point