You may have touched the sky... but have you met the Earth?

[Ramasta9]

I wish to share a little story with you about this entire journey most of us are on... I will start with my own to make the connection.

Every since i was born I intuitively felt something was quite off about this world, growing up in a western way of life, everyone seemed very disconnected from what truly is, disconnected from the natural being or true self or nature of who we truly are, but I could never clearly make sense of it all until my 21st birthday.

I had my reawakening back around 2011, this was even before stronger plant-medicines came into my life, and I am very grateful I realized who I truly was before I jumped onto the other trains, for I had my true-ground or source-within or center to revert back to, that I am never shaken by these experiences or the mystica of substances and neo-spirituality, for they only tickle and enchant the mind that does not know, rather "thinks" it knows, especially after an experience or trip, yet the true self (which does not trip or hallucinate, which is awareness itself) remains untouched and phased. And its been quite wild ever since, and one of the biggest lessons for me and for many I am noticing (especially those who glimpse enlightenment prematurely) mostly through substance abuse, is that there is a severe lack of grounding or connection / understanding of the earth, rather purely working from a mentally internalized perspective and projection of consciousness, which speaks the truth conceptually, yet fails to land in the hearts of men, for it has no (true-ground) from which its roots have developed to be reverberated effectively and recognized as true wisdom.

I see a lot of energy today is being pushed, especially (online) keeping people away from the Earth or Mother aspect, so they put more energy into the (artificiality) or online world, or the religious "Father" or "God" who is invisible and never to be reached, and thus they are met with half-baked enlightenment or astral / mental bliss, caught in a never-ending cycle, that is toxic to themselves and others around them, (that many of us can see now, especially on these forums) for they are illuminated only through the mind, and not awakened through the heart. They remain un-grounded and never truly accessing heart-centered awareness and being fully with the people and life on earth, to be truly of service and using our entire bodies more so than just our minds, and so they remain quite distant and disconnected from being with body and truly feeling what it is to be truly alive and experience life in its very essence here on this beautiful earth.

They spend far more time online and disconnected from the natural world, and thus almost completely disembodying and contradicting what they preach. At the same time it is not anyone's fault, its just that they have never touched upon a taste of the divine in other ways, so when they touch upon it or glimpse through one way, they are convinced that "this is it", when in reality, it is only partly it. Rather it is one side of a three-sided coin, the third being the merge of the opposing two.

These last 10 - 15 years I have been exploring the earth and body more, all over the world, before that I was exploring the mind and higher realms, and what i have learned is that neither is the full picture, yet the merge of the two is what Enlightenment truly is, for Awakening is the opening, seeing, recognizing, and Enlightenment is the embodying, rooting, stabilizing, being. I realized that there are also those, especially in the native and indigenous cultures who can also be (too earthly) and not open to a higher light or true due to eons of tradition, culture and rigid beliefs, that what the Buddha taught as (the middle way) was the very Tao or Truth or Way in a nutshell. It always comes back to balance, and when you are in total balance in all aspects of self, supreme beingness can be.

I realized something observing children especially, and how they connected and meditated, was interesting because it reminds me of when I was a child too and what happens during intense experiences or states where everything becomes overwhelming, we naturally revert back down to the ground, (think of when we are sick, or drunk or too high), the body naturally knows what to do. And this goes back to ancient times were people were found often lying down on their backs by a tree or in the bushes somewhere, with hands and feet spread apart, almost like a star or a cross, and that is how they connected to God or "the Father", so to speak... They intuitively knew only through (the Mother) the connection will be stable, grounded and secure.

If we deny the Mother (the earth), we deny the very medium that allows the Father to be known. In essence, you cannot reach the Father without the Mother. The Divine is immanent in the earth and body; we experience God through life, matter, and presence. And this is the issue with modern spirituality and neo-non-duality and the words and teachings people are sharing online, they are missing the full picture. Remember what is natural is home, god-thought materialized, divine or infinite intelligence, what is artificial is borrowed and secondary, a tool. We built temples to connect-with-god not realizing the very temple of nature itself God had already provided, then we wondered why we felt disconnected and struggle to see, hear, feel God's presence and guidance. And this is the very essence of Buddha and Christs teachings, but many have become distorted over-time by the hand of man.

You can be in the most spectacular temple full of psychedelic artwork, gems, stones, incense and chants and nothing will provide a more solid and divine connection as what nature already had since the beginning. You can try it yourself, go into a forest floor and lay there, compare that to some man-made place. In 5 minutes you can tap in deeper than 50 minutes in a room full of artificial walls and electronics / noises / discordant frequencies. Otherwise these things would of been created first, and life on earth would be supreme brilliance, garden of eden, paradise, not what it appears to be today.

Now don't get me wrong, I know this can be triggering to those who rely on the artificial matrix and online world, more so then they'd like to admit, I have nothing against using a tool, but remember its a "tool" and remember that the tool needs to be put down every once in a while and look up, there's a whole world out there, more real and beautiful and alive than any tool ever created by man, the tools only tickle the mind, yet the hearts remain empty... These teachers may teach that the world is an illusion, but does that really give you peace? No, you see most of these people miserable, depressed and suicidal, because life is meant to be lived, not observed. If you are not (participating) in the world you are a dead-letter, you may see through the illusion but if you are not alive and "living"...

See the illusion, but enjoy the play, because the play is whats truly alive, the essence of it, the experience of it, that's needed for a rich quality life. Its like looking at a rose saying "this rose is an illusion" rather the child smells the rose, feels the sensations, doesn't know that its to be labelled or called a rose, rather its simply being a natural extension of nature or divine intelligence itself, interacting with itself in a most intimate way, and that is what enlightenment truly is, to be intuitively aware of the Oneness, yet fully immersed in the experience of separateness. In a nutshell...

Remember you are Nature and Nature is you, so its always both, its not one or the other.

I woke up with the energy to share this, I trust it may spark something within you.

Blessings ~ 

Edited 13 hours ago by Ramasta9

[Yimpa]

Nice!!

[Malkom]

It seems like we're all talking about the same thing in different words. It reminds me of the history of science when quantum mechanics was just emerging—it didn't exist in the form it does today. There were debates, and people wrote in different languages—not just debates, but heated arguments. That happens in the inner workings of academic circles; not everything proceeds peacefully. And then Paul Dirac came along and said, "Listen, it's all the same thing," and he offered some interesting perspectives.
I think we're all overly immersed in knowledge. Even here on the forum, there's a trend of people expressing their own interpretations of what awareness is, what God is. We need to remember how we knew nothing and simply experience it ourselves. Wisdom isn't in knowledge, but in silence. And silence isn't emptiness, it's your I AM, your strength, if you will, your light within, if you will. Knowledge is always survival; knowledge doesn't seek peace; knowledge has a survival strategy. The more we know, the more we see the depth of the abyss, and how impossible it is to control everything, and this knowledge brings anxiety, just as if a tiger were standing in front of you. Because the mind doesn't care whether the tiger standing in front of you is genuine, or whether you're reading news about a disaster, or simply reading a notification on social media—it's a stimulus to worry, it's manipulation, gentle manipulation. For the mind, there's no time for what happened many years ago or what's happening now. When you remember something, you don't just remember it, you reconstruct it anew, then it becomes your awareness, then a habit, then a conviction, and then a part of your personality. Wisdom doesn't deny knowledge; it makes knowledge fearless, not risk aversion . Knowledge is no longer afraid of ignorance. Knowledge is control, wisdom is agreement. Knowledge divides, but wisdom makes it whole. Knowledge serves wisdom; wisdom adds the Self-Presence to knowledge, adds life, adds the Self. This is closer to true Awakening.

Now I'm going to play the Mortal Kombat video game. I'm just going to do this idle thing. What's the purpose and what's the benefit? Benefit NONE It's simply an act of creativity and self-expression, Pure Joy. I want anger, I want primal rage, I want to see and feel the beauty of this brutal force. I don't want to judge my actions, whether right or wrong, let my "lower self" rejoice. There is no such thing as a higher or lower self. There is only YOU and the energy that manifests through You, and this Simply YOU is not someone or something separate, it is precisely YOU. Give yourself freedom, just be and be present. And even if there were, if the Higher Self denied its lower self, it would clearly be something wrong.

It is impossible to speak about Non-property, it is only a finger

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Malkom