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Archive for July, 2016
My poem “Tasting Stillness” was published yesterday on (appropriately enough!) StillnessSpeaks.com…
July 26, 2016
What is always silently looking… new MJ Awakening pic quote
July 24, 2016
What is always silently looking out your eyes is not a thought. A thought can’t see.
–Michael Jeffreys
Noticing what is Always Looking… New MJ Awakening pic quote
July 22, 2016
What’s being looked for is what is looking.
And what is looking is never not present.
Remove attention from thoughts and remain still.
See if you can silently NOTICE the next thought that arises.
Now notice the next one. And the next. Keep noticing.
Soon it will dawn that ALL thoughts are an appearance.
An appearance in/to what??
Michael Jeffreys
How would you explain to a wave that its sense of separation from the ocean was an illusion? new MJ Awakening Blog
July 17, 2016
Q: Why is what you post about so seemingly hard to see?
MICHAEL: Because it’s all there is. It’s the source of everything and as such there is nothing to compare it to. Imagine if a sense of separation arose in a wave and it thought it was separate from the ocean. How would you explain to the wave that the sense of separation is an illusion? That even though it thinks/feels itself to be separate from everything, that does not make it so.
What’s needed is some serious investigation by the wave to see if it is truly separate or if the sense of separation is an illusion.
Q: Ok, so how would a wave go about doing this?
MICHAEL: By being quiet and noticing that thoughts have no ability to divide anything. They are a superimposition on that which is not claiming any division.
Q: Yes, but everything looks and feels so different!?
MICHAEL: The classic Vedanta example is that although a gold ring, necklace and bracelet all look different in form, they are all made of exactly the same substance, gold. It’s the one appearing as the many, but only in appearance, not realty.
Q: How will seeing this help the wave?
MICHAEL: Because it will realize its belief that it was a separate wave in the first place was never correct, never the actuality of things. And when it truly sees that it was only ever ocean, those thoughts that used to stir up so much doubt and confusion will no longer hold any power. And in the absence of doubt and confusion, causeless peace and happiness are revealed to be ever-present, but was not noticed/experienced due to attachment to/identification with illusory thoughts.
See for yourself… can you have a problem without a thought?
Nothing in time can alter your intrinsic Wholeness… new MJ Awakening Blog
July 14, 2016
The fuel for seeking is believing the mind’s story that something is presently lacking, or deficient, or wrong, or should be different, or not as good as it could/should be. And the mind claims to know this as a fact with a perfectly straight face!?? Please honey child!
The reason seeking doesn’t work is because what you ALREADY ARE is without limits. Wholeness is your nature and so no word, no particular, no separation, no activity, no action, no ANYTHING has any ability whatsoever to affect, change, alter or modify Your impersonal inherent-Wholeness because it’s not in time.
Michael Jeffreys
Is happiness/love/peace really located in objects? new MJ Awakening Blog
July 11, 2016
If happiness/love/peace were actually in objects, then once you had the desired object, you should always experience those states. But as we’ve all experienced, repeatedly, eventually the object “loses” its ability to make us feel happiness/love/peace.
And so the ego seeks for a new object so that it can regain those feelings that it believes the object will give it. Wash, rinse, repeat. Endlessly.
Q: How do we break the cycle of seeking objects?
First, notice it doesn’t work. Secondly, we can begin to question the underlying assumption that objects have the ability to actually bring us what we truly desire.
Q2: Am I sure that happiness/love/peace actually
comes from ANY object in the first place?
For example, yes, I am happier when I get the new car, but is the happiness/love/peace really located in the car??
Q3: And if it isn’t “in” the object, where does
the happiness/love/peace come from??
Michael Jeffreys
Confusion over our true position in Life brings suffering… new MJ Awakening Blog
July 3, 2016
Confusion over our true position in Life brings suffering. Everything is an object to You. If you see a chair, you somehow understand that you are not the chair. Chair is an object to You. Same with a tree, or a mountain, or the sky or a bird or a river. But what is missed (and yet makes ALL the difference!) is that YOUR BODY IS ALSO AN OBJECT TO YOU!!!
If you are your body, then what is observing, aware of, or knows of “your body”??? Is it not the same “thingless thing” that observes, is aware of, or knows of the existence of the chair?
What is it that “knows” ANYTHING???
What “Knows” is not knowable. Why? Because it’s NOT an object.
So now the “cause” of my suffering is finally revealed: I am identifying, taking myself to be my body. And so, when body character wants something, I mistakenly believe I want it!? And when it doesn’t get it, I suffer because I believe I am the body character. And when it does get something it wants, I feel momentary pleasure. But it never lasts.
Become STILL and observe your body and any accompanying thoughts, feelings, memories or sensations that may be presently arising.
Q: If you can see them, be aware of them, know of them, can they REALLY, TRULY be You???
Michael Jeffreys
