What does silence have to say about this moment?
Michael Jeffreys
Archive for May, 2018
Whatever arises… the constant is that YOU are AWARE of it. New MJ Awakening Blog
May 29, 2018
Whatever arises… thought, feeling, perception, inspiration, idea, question, complaint, insight, agitation, joy, boredom, celebration, doesn’t matter… the constant is that YOU are AWARE of it.
YOU are never not AWARE.
Get in touch with THAT.
BE with THAT.
BE with YOURSELF.
Michael Jeffreys
EGO is the activity of IDENTIFYING… New MJ Awakening Blog
May 26, 2018
EGO is not a thought. Ego is not a feeling. Ego is not a story. Ego is the activity of IDENTIFYING with a thought, feeling or story.
Michael Jeffreys
Every THOUGHT is a conclusion. New MJ Awakening Blog
May 25, 2018
Every THOUGHT is a conclusion.
Michael Jeffreys
Comments
CHANNANAGOWD: Only when it is possessed.
MICHAEL: 
JAZ: Yes.. 
Oh.. my “Yes” is conclusion too 
MICHAEL: Exactly Jaz! It’s quite stunning when you actually see this, because when that habitual/unconscious addiction of needing to conclude anything about anything is seen through, there’s just what IS.
The simplicity of what IS is so simple that conclusions no longer apply or make any sense… I mean, what can you honestly conclude about something that never stops changing?
Heaven IS eternally Now… hell, but a thought away. New MJ Awakening Blog
May 24, 2018
(I was looking for a photo to go with my quote below when I came cross this one from Byron Katie!)
Heaven IS eternally Now… hell, but a thought away.
Michael Jeffreys
Mind can only ever give you a perspective, but no TRUTH… New MJ Awakening Blog
May 22, 2018
Mind is another word for perspective.
TRUTH is not in any perspective.
Michael Jeffreys
FEELING, rather than thinking about, THOUGHTS. New MJ Awakening Blog
May 20, 2018
FEELING, rather than thinking about, THOUGHTS
The energy of a critical or judgmental thought is the same, whether it’s directed at ourselves or someone else. Either way it’s a movement away from LOVE, away from PRESENCE, away from BEING, away from our timeless TRUE NATURE.
Michael Jeffreys
CONSCIOUS BREATH Awareness Throughout Your day… New MJ Awakening Blog
May 18, 2018
CONSCIOUS BREATH AWARENESS THROUGHOUT YOUR DAY
Where is your breath right now?
Silently tune in to your chest as your lungs slowly inflate and deflate with life giving oxygen.
Now that you’ve found the breath, stay connected to it as often as possible as you move through your day.
As soon as you notice you’ve forgotten about your breath, come back and re-connect to it.
Staying connected to our breath keeps us grounded in the body, and the body is always effortlessly PRESENT.
Michael Jeffreys
Almost everybody’s life goes BIRTH… thought, thought, thought… DEATH. New MJ Awakening Blog
May 14, 2018
It occurred to me that almost everybody’s life who has ever been born on this planet goes something like this:
BIRTH… thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought, thought… DEATH.
Michael Jeffreys
Comments
KATIE: CLICK… tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick… BOOM 
💥 Somehow this all translated to me like a ticking time bomb. 
MICHAEL: Great visual Katie! Yes, whatever time your body has left (before it goes KABOOM! 
) , do you want to spend it in/as Presence or more thought?
SHELLY: Brings sadness to read that. I don’t want that for myself and yet feel trapped in that.
MICHAEL: Yes, I felt sadness around this too Shelly! But also heartfelt gratitude for seeing it.
CHANNANAGOWD: I am sure even the Birth and the Death are thoughts themselves.
MICHAEL:
Noticing PRESENCE never goes anywhere… New MJ Awakening Blog
May 11, 2018
Noticing PRESENCE never goes anywhere
Does any word, sound or thought alter, add to or take away from the Presence you have always been and are right now?
Are you not already Presence before the next word, sound or thought shows up?
Are you not already Presence during the word, sound or thought?
Are you not already Presence after the word, sound or thought leaves?
Have you ever been anything besides Presence?
Michael Jeffreys
Comments
ERIC: No but it does feel to me like it is possible to be more or less present. And more presence comes with more feelings of aliveness and joy. I could be using the wrong words to describe this though…
MICHAEL: Since there is only Presence that is ever truly present, anything after “no but…” (and including “no but”!) is a mental imagining or exploration that we are interested in, as Nazarah says. Nothing wrong with it… but it’s not Presence only knowing itself.
RICK: “Isness”……..is not the mind, as some “teachers” have not clarified this distinction.
MICHAEL: That’s it Rick… there is nothing else to clarify. ISness is not mind and mind is not ISness. The noticing of this is the discrimination that vedanta is always going on about… noticing what changes versus what doesn’t. Thoughts are never not changing, so they are never truly Present.
