Satori Flow

[CoolDreamThanks]

Keith: 

 

If you're trying to become anything, a holy ego miracle worker, a do-gooder, you're dreaming, trapped in the matrix of the mind, dreaming useless absurdities about a dream.  This is about unbecoming.
Everything you think you are.
All of which is fiction.
To find out what you've been all along.
THAT'S the purification that's necessary first.

"Through Him you learn how to forgive the self you think you made, and let it disappear. Thus you return your mind as one to Him Who is your Self, and Who can never sin."
Lesson 121

You can't polish a turd. 
 

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The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego. 

Wu Wu Wei 

 

There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. 
 

Wu Wu Wei 

 

Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.

 
https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/weiwuwei.htmlWei Wu Wei, alias Terence Gray (1895-1986) 

[CoolDreamThanks]

When I woke up, I didn't feel that great, but I just continued meditating in bed, and I think because I deepened the level of silence, I entered the realm of bliss. So now, even when speaking, I'm connected to not only this vast, boundless silence, but that silence is now filled with bliss. It's not the ultimate, like God's love, but it's quite satisfying. So I'm happy about it. I've been laying in bed for now, like, three, four hours, just enjoying that bliss. I also thought maybe when I'm connected to this bliss, I can get inspired ideas on how to make millions or who to text, but I found zero such inspiration. I thought, okay, maybe the lesson is to stop seeking and asking for such specific things, because Jesus says asking for specifics is praying for destruction. So I thought, okay, let me check. Is this silence and love really fully satisfying? Is it completely true that I need nothing else? And I saw that, wow, yeah, I could spend the rest of my life in this silence and be completely satisfied, considering that it grows deeper and deeper the more I spend time here. So I really don't need a partner, money, or anything else. This silence is everything. This love is everything. There is nothing I need. I can just relax, be in my bed, and have everything. Everything that I ever wanted. The satisfying love that's at the root of all desire. I have it as long as I don't seek for it in externals. I can enjoy externals, but when I begin to seek and search, instead of just doing nothing, it goes away paradoxically.

 

[CoolDreamThanks]

Actually, it's not true that this state is perfectly satisfactory, because if it was, I wouldn't have any other desires, like when I was on psychedelics. If I'm truly, deeply in God, in love, then I don't have any other desires for food or sex or video games. Why? Well, because I'm truly satisfied, fulfilled, full of love. Now, I'm happy that this state is coming up, where I'm not only spacious and peaceful, but also there's some bliss, but at this level, it's not completely satisfactory. It's okay, I'm grateful, but it could be like a hundred times more, and maybe then I would be satisfied, because now it's just okay, it's just pleasant peace.

 

[CoolDreamThanks]

I wonder if believing you have no free will at all is happiness, because you then don’t resist anything and don’t want to change anything since you believe that’s not even an option? So you’re like a bottle in watter simply carried wherever currents take you.

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