I HOW TO APPROACH
No answer is also an answer
This section is to clarify the intention and the unique presentation of this book and how to approach it. Upon first approach to this read there may be a natural adjustment of comprehension or familiarity to be gained before the depth of the material is revealed. It’s not necessary to directly understand the meaning of the words but to receive the opening of understanding and availability of self-reflection. The words are only pointers. Realize the treasures within the words are not in the deciphering and ownership of the language but rather accessed through an intention behind the words that transfers wisdom and truth. This deeper exchange and information arises from the nameless field that persists and we all share as the source of life and human potential. Here within lies a space of openness and clarity, an expansive perspective of true love of the human condition as we explore
All things and All that things arise from‌
Here within is the substance to stir and awaken a joyful enthusiasm for further exploration and revealing of liberated Self. Awaken is best used as a source of reflection and to provide keys for individual expansion and growth. It is intended as a gateway to contemplation and allowing inner potential rather than attempting to provide set answers when the very process of exploration itself provides relevant answers to each individual’s position. Answers may also come outside of language by presenting themselves as acceptance, a trusted knowing or arrive by grace.
The insight within these pages entices the reader and invites opening to a new paradigm of intelligence, connection, priority and position (location) of self. The very format of the book supports this message in that the content is given in a flowing and non-linear style compared to the more traditional style with its strict geometric and self-validating structure of introduction, body, conclusion or answer. What is gained by embracing the concepts to come are:
o greater connection to clearer reality o a lessening of physical tension, anxiety and emotional unease o grace in action & speech, lightness in body o release from a cycle of disappointment of attachment to outcomes o avoidance of regret and release of fear o letting go of the illusion of control while gaining a deep trust we can all share (support in alignment with totality over individual perspective) o dissolution of worry through realization of support within totality o sensations of possibilities & natural purpose o a relaxing of mental and physical heaviness and entrapment o genuine and deeper relationships o radiant energy o vast lasting happiness and liberation
The intention here is that all the answers are not plainly given: Concepts are not always just summarized in a neat package. The sharing of perspectives and perceptions elicits introspection and self-exploration within the reader that allows
growth into temporary conclusions that are aligned with your experience, your intellect, your heart and your openness. Contemplation and realization shifts within each individual from the point of any particular reading. What one reads and experiences today is not what one will perceive several years in the future.
When inner peace, reflection, radiance connection, expansion or silence comes, follow that gift, be with it close the book to honor the inner state and arisings
You may view this writing as an expanded version of a Zen saying where the question itself provides no hard answer in language, but rather opens a portal to inner silence, essence and self-reflection. This perception of openness or space from thought is a strong pointer to the concept of and connection with the “primary perspective� which is the main principle to be explored.
Unless you come with emptiness, how can you expect to receive?
Simply put: feel the essence of these words to follow from aliveness, with your conscious being [your heart] instead of thinking about it in your head. This is the path of the heart, not the reduced anatomical heart that is only a muscle that pumps blood but the metaphorical center of love and aliveness (life). Images, quotes and creative text are meant to provide support to the reader by reminding you that the viewing should stem from a place of humility, openness and lightness that allows the beauty to be seen and new ideas to be entertained. If heaviness, irresolution or furrowed brow persists, it is best to laugh it off, connect with beauty around you (music, art, loved one, nature, anything) smile or go outside and play!
The reader is not simply asked to gain ownership over the concepts given here, rather you are empowered to decide for yourself and provided an opening for introspection. Some content is best left unanswered and only heard and felt or as a wise man once said, “Just let the words hit your being and sink in as they may”. Everyone is allowed to believe what they will and walk through the World the way they will.
Daily Reflection Breathe inspiration
This teaching may also be used in a browsing fashion where the text is just randomly opened, perused and that area is illuminated. This is akin to when we put aside controlled thought for trust (with amazing results) as in being in the “zone,” painting, listening to music, intimacy and other timeless experiences. Often it is found that whatever you open to at a particular time is exactly what was needed to be heard. As each phrase, quote, image and even some words are sources of inspiration and illumination if they are so received and honored.
When the approach is OPEN The available depth is VAST
Using this book as daily inspiration for a simple self-reflection spark will provide the reader with acknowledgement and encouragement for adding greater depth into your way of being. This light use is highly recommended when macro (cover to cover) reading becomes laborious, the mind resists or time to read feels short. Approach the content in smaller sections and close the book often while you allow and witness what arises and honor it with silence and awareness or contemplation.
As new material, this penetrates the comfort zone of preconceptions. Whenever one mentally comes to a conclusion or ownership of a concept, in a sense another “brick of limitation� has been added to the structure of yourself (the self). This brick structure is normal and natural; however, human potential is not the house but the space within and without the house. This is like considering the universe that contains the land that supports the house where the miraculous energy, action and life unfolded to build it.
Any mental structure or object allows for the awareness of space because the form itself could not exist without the space for it to be. This mirrors how the human mind (structure) allows for perception /awareness of a space or short lapse in time before language and thought come in. An example is when you view something beautiful like a rainbow, wave, sunset or wild animal; there is an intense and timeless moment of connection between you and the subject before distractive thoughts, labels, time pressure, distance and ownership come into the mind.
The sky does not need the clouds nor does it create or destroy them. They arise within its all-encompassing, boundless space. The sky does not judge, retaliate or punish clouds. The sky provides equality to all clouds as well as the context for their formation of perceptual appearance and disappearance. Dr David Hawkins
Resistance to allowing the inherent human sun of our full potential to blaze fully and naturally can stem from the cloud of unknowing, fear of change or fear of loss of control and cognition (or lack of belief more potential is available). Anyone who has had these awakening and expanding experiences will relate this is not the case. Nothing is lost by allowing in trusting totality and treating our mental structures with humility and some space from personal attachment and identification with those thoughts. What is allowed is as natural as breath; actions are automatic and graceful with just the right amount of energy required without the control of thought. Expanded awareness dissolves limitations, problems, pain, confusion and disconnect, and reunites us with a loving that cannot be believed was ever lost.
And so begins an exploration of self and ways to find yourself shifting into lightness, coming home and expanding beyond the previous limits of the shell of your body. Expanded access or being in the flow (with a greater reality) is truly the goal here: If you desire to know more of your True Self, be free of judgment, limitation and suffering, have clarity of thought and action, access to collective or universal wisdom and freedom from emotional upheaval, no matter what the World around you looks like; read on with openness and humility.
The Sun is always shining even if partially or completely obscured by environmental conditions. The same can be said for the human condition
II FURTHERANCE
All its life that self has been measuring its candlelight by other candles. Now for the first time it is out in the open air and sees the sun. Mysticism – Evelyn Underhill
Available human potential is expressed in the unfolding of the inertia of the miracle of human perspective which reflects upon the origin of its creation and can experience union or reunification with it. Absolute human potential is ultimately available to all. Spiritual progress is the process of removing limitations individually and thus collectively.
While our life cycles from innocence to physical demise, the furtherance of self is not about going somewhere other than you are, it is less about effort and about relaxing into being and refinding that which you are at the core. Within one’s lifespan there is
the potential for awakening and spiritual growth at each and every moment. This is where time and conceptualization stops and the opportunity of shifting one’s entire way of being in the World is found.
Self-reflection provides a simple acknowledgement that life is not living up to its potential in fulfillment, harmony, inner content and purpose. This results in the realization that external sources do not bring lasting, completeness and liberation but dissolution of lack and finding self-love of inner-acceptance does.
By understanding how forms, language and perceptions lend themselves to creating a World of smoke and mirrors within totality we become free of the confusion, disharmony and feeling of isolation that entangles us. We can then walk aligned with an expanded inclusive reality rather than a way of being that often struggles and forces against the unforceable.
Subtly Underneath Feeling alone, unsupported, lacking purpose and living point to point from conditional happiness and conditional love experiences are symptoms of unfulfilled human potential. Life this way can be lead striving for the next goal or date in hopes of relief or even just living as the passing of time, going from distraction to numbing of suffering through external devices like TV, drama and altering substances. In an awakened sense, the most entertaining thing is being with oneself and lost in the wondrous expansive beauty and aliveness that initially lay subtly underneath the noise of the World.
The noise of the World can be loud or soft and can hold one in disharmony and disconnect. A mammoth soft disconnect is expectation. Anytime we have an expectation of someone or a desired or predicted result we are not aligned with reality. Once completely incommunicable and not fulfillable expectations upon life are imposed then invisible divides (or separation from the Primary) are created that result in disappointment, feeling of isolated me and lack of control.
There is not really a single path in Human potential for all other than knowing that it is available and immediately accessible. There is much variation in the need and importance of the process, devotion, relative speed of trust and openness and simply the Will of or unfolding of totality.
Human potential is a relative term. When we walk through the World of illusion and mirrors
srorrim dna noisulli fo dlroW
one’s projected self is not aligned with the complete reality of all else. We are born into the World as an unconditioned spirit in relation to what we are subjected to as we age through the World. A key to glory is to not be concerned with changing oneself to meet external demands but rather to completely love and allow oneself to be naturally and observe all things (especially those externally unacceptable) with humility and disinterest. By not diverting energy into control and diffusing our light out into past and future we come home into brightness and clarity.
Isolation Unfolding is a concept of looking at the creation and presence of forms and passage of time in a non-linear way rather than all bound to the measured ticking of human generated time. It is like watching a thunderhead form and billow and shift and release rather than timing it, measuring it’s size and how much wind or rain it may singularly produce. How can that cloud be isolated from the sky it is within? From where does it draw its energy and its moisture? To what does its moisture and power reach? A single isolated cloud only exists in the mind and within language? Does the word “cloud” have different value than the word “me”?
Show me a single cloud without relation to anything else…..
In relation to the process of revealing Human Potential; beginning and end are conceptually irrelevant, a distraction for the control and ownership of understanding and over identification with linear time that only exists for humanity (nowhere else does it exist). Where life began is a question that can be explored for understanding your source but as a point of positionality (rooted or defended individual perspective) or opinion will be delusional to what is ultimately true. The end? The end of what?
Where is the beginning? The concept of beginning and end only exists in the mind or to the observer of a mind. Where does the seed begin? What is the seed created from? Is not there always something present to unfold / reveal the next form? If this mental exercise is exhausted, what remains is non-form or the invisible or the immeasurable field of energy that is the source of form and life. As a tree dies and dissolves, where does it end? What is the moment that tree no longer exists? While highly debatable in the mind or between opinions yet the tree just changes shape and the energy of the live tree cascades into other forms and back into the field. So ultimately the form changes from the human perspective while from the perspective of totality the energy of the
tree from, where it temporarily stood (expressed itself) and an imprint of having existed remains.
Where is the end? If your conceptual awareness as you know it blinked out or switched off right now, would a problem remain? Is there discomfort, regret, or a loss of what to do next? Visualizing the future and asking for strengthening outcomes are valuable for the appearance of pull or alignment with intention. There is no contract and no entitlement. If anything we are only entitled to the Will of totality and alignment with what is and what we ultimately are. Picturing, intuiting or planning the future of one’s life is natural but positioning yourself unknowingly in an unattainable reality through expectation and time distortion [time outside of your present body] is disconnected and results in suffering. There should be no lament or attachment or placement of individual identity to being where you are not. This gives the sensation of space and expansion, allows clarity and diffuses suffering from placement of Self into a mind made projection. “I wish I were” or “I wish I was” is limitation, sense of lack and denies completeness. There is no true beginning and end to anything, only flow.
What lies beyond what is possible currently (go into realities of “the potential�) is purely a mental exercise other than recognizing the momentum and inertia from an animalistic (natural flow) way of being into one of self-awareness and expansion (reconnection, source, origin, viewing oneself as the sameness as the energy of creation (of form).
Awaken is for looking into the human condition through perception as the conceptual teacher and it reveals both limitation and liberation as we have great access to a state of boundless being that is pre-thought and beyond exertion of control. Exploration of human potential takes aim at the highest principles and potentials, where people are aligned, fulfilled, strengthened, and contributing to the excellence of humankind, as liberated and awake.
Importance Goddes worde, outher wretyn or spokyn, is licnid to a mirour. Goostly, the ighe of thi soule is thi reson; thi concience is thi visage goostly. And right as thou seest thatyif a foule spot be in thi bodily visage, the ighe of the same visage may not see that spotte, ne wite wher it is, withoutyn a myrour or a teching of another than itself: right so it is goostly. Withouten redyng or heryng of Godes worde, it is inpossible to mans understondyng that a soule that is bleendid in custom of synne schuld see the foulespot in his concyence.
Cloud of Unknowing ~ Unidentified Author 14th Century
The above passage relates that without reflection of oneself there is no realization of what is undesirable or what is possible within. Only recognizing oneself as a disconnected individual perspective blocks reflection and available potential to be revealed. The key is finding some space between opinion and individual perspective and allowing for an observer presence that sees the individual as something reduced that is within something greater. Like the goldfish in the small glass bowl being released into the sea‌. Understanding the field of the Primary where within all things human unfold, gives us the space to not only bring awareness to ourselves but to reveal the blazing potential we are that expands eternally beyond the human form.
Recognition There is a single firefly living in a container without awareness of the World outside. It does not have awareness of its own brilliance, other fireflies nor the magnificence everything exists in. Now there is a moonlit meadow, crackling with sounds of aliveness, full of glowing fireflies whose radiance overlaps and tickles one another. There is sharing of the glow and recognition of not only the others beauty but the love of one’s own glow and the miracle of the meadow itself that supports them and allows them to be.
There is no interest or momentum to turn back from the revealing of human potential. It is an experience wherein we realize we were previously {living life} half asleep to aliveness. The numbness fades as the silent mind relaxes and allows expansion into being radiantly fully alive without the confusion and restriction of mental control or non-acceptance to life’s unfolding. As the spirit {soul} shines brighter and human potential is allowed, stepping back in progress and into greater density, pain and confusion would be intolerable. Simply put we are exploring what always persists at the core of life as experienced when human limitation is removed to benefit Self, relationships, community, future of humanity or the expressions of life, and individual sensation of completion, love, happiness and purpose.
Why Why aspire and awaken? Through the revealing process there is an accepting and honoring of all points in one’s life but also a knowing that the growth process itself is preferable as it continually outshines previous points in life (outside of Bliss). The awakened experience resolves, lessens or dissolves; anxiety, worry, lack of purpose, confusion, self-doubt, (lack of genuine relationships) blockage, anger, depression, self-confirming need for external love, emptiness from gain, lack of will. This process reveals, allows and increases, radiance, inner peace, abundant joy, supportedness /
trust in life, wisdom beyond thought, vibrancy of aliveness, non-verbal connection and understanding of others, manifestations or co-creations of form. With the realization of true self love and acceptance the qualities and experience of love is forever changed. One is allowed to relax into themselves and accept still ~ blissful ~ silence. Nothing needs to be done.
Inner silence not in competition with being in the mind or filled with thought. When thought arises out of silence it is pure and direct and when thought arises out of another thought it can become complicated and clouded with layers. Language based thought and mentalization is always a part of being human, the scope of it ranges from being identified with a highly reductionist and non-inclusive (opinionated) view or one that is connected to the silence from which thought arises. There is a trust and completeness in just knowing a situation or experience without having to over-verbalize or reduce it. We all have the opportunity to know a true rainbow when we see it alone and there is no one to immediately comment to. Rootedness in self brings clarity; identification outside of self brings fabrication. Without breakdown or owning the meaning the rainbow remains at full power and beauty. Mentalization instantly translates and weakens any experience with a loss of vibrance, beauty and life as it turns it into a sentence {a life sentence for that experience}.
Put your hand on your heart, feel the warmth, the beat, the vibrance The perfection
Allow yourself to leave this book, to leave thought and just be.
Close your eyes‌‌..
Blank page.
You have permission to go back and hold your heart in peace and complete love‌ The intent of this writing is to not distract you from yourself and your flawless living glow‌
*Our spiritual pursuit in a simple sense is reaching a point where we expand beyond self-centeredness and defense of an individual position / opinion. In expansion we leave isolation and join the vibrant connection space that brings clarity, love flows and we gain trust in unseen energy and wisdom that guides us with perfection (every time) without fail.
Inertia There is inertia of consciousness as form. It appears linear to the time based and labeling human mind where life marches from some unexplained start to animal and progresses into humankind where language and self-recognition arise as does the ability to contemplate, experience and unite with the source itself. Evolution of life in terms of environment and survival does not account for the continued energy towards life and the divine to unite on new terms. By analogy it appears as if “all that is”, “oneness”, “divinity” or “god” has an interest in viewing or perceiving itself but cannot. So an infant of sorts (life) arises out of non-form and energy to gaze back into its parents eyes but it takes time for the infant’s eyes to relay (work) and understand what it is seeing. This is just to express that unfolding and creation of life is continual like smoke billowing into the sky, linear progression is the human mind taking still snapshots of the smoke at regular time intervals and reducing a more chaotic and random unfolding into a trend. From an awakened perspective “progression” only exists as a concept with no personal investment in it, the same goes for evolution, creation or smoke which can be contemplated and relayed but they are not Self nor a position of identification.
These concepts and visuals exist but not in relation to the expanded awareness (heart) of the awakened that is the field these things arise in, so they are more like dust in the wind or a bubble in the sea.
Human eyes gazed into the waters and the self-reflection arose “Who am I�, what presence is there that allows me to have awareness of myself? This availability allows for false use of the mirror to self-reflect the unrealistic and deficient or to see oneself as the mirror and the light that illuminates both by accepting both for what they are, loving them and embracing it all.
It is important to realize that individuals and groups of people perceive and think and experience from a different place. A percentage of the human experience is done from a perspective of survival, another is that thought and language is concrete and absolutely true, another is there is a distance from form, a connection with energy and wisdom before thought. Looking at the path of mankind from primitive man survival (life and death) to present man’s struggle with stimulus, distraction and connection there is inertia to revealing the clear potential of the human experience. [This potential is revealed through allowing what already is and not a working towards or adding to] We see inertia towards an increase in “quality of life� at least for a portion of humanity and a shift from life and death survival to a challenge and barrage of choices, options, information and distraction.
This inertia from an awakened point of view from a more expanded field of context is a strong pull from animalistic way of being into > realization of self-awareness > intellect, contemplation, reduction into >reconnection with pre-thought, expansion of trust and love > experience of and unification with the one Primary reality.
Human Eclipse
A common human eclipse is one of “me versus them” with “outside you” importance or “everyone else is watching” instead of the liberated potential of allowing your internal excellence / radiance to freely shine through you. Lasting love is within you, fleeting love is outside and conditional. When your self-reflection (mirror) is projected from external sources such as those close to you: i.e. a competitor, employer, relation, self-perception or your community how can you be consistently true? The key is to know what your real intentions are and what is important to you. It is weakening to yourself and to others to always just go along and nod with expectation. !
Through the progression of self-perception, society generated mental structures on how the Self should be perceived in relation to the mirror in that people saw themselves in fear, non-acceptance, meek and anticipating wrath and judgment or even hell. This whole concept relates to duality where the mental structures and concepts do not align with the reality of what exists. The human impositions become a clouded beast of their own and are not sustainable or ultimately embraceable or
complete. Whereas when the mirror is seen for what it is, a clear self-reflection and awareness of oneself as perfect, unified as awareness – being – totality – sameness.
Love is What Reflects
Walk past the heaviness of expectation, fear, rules, external wrath (and even death). There is no fault in being wholly human. Judgment, sense of lack or incompleteness, blockage of self-acceptance are all secondary structures that do not relate to with the perfect Self or the mirror of self-awareness. Love what reflects from the mirror, accept yourself and love is what reflects from the mirror, embrace it and walk together without added cloudiness into clarity and expansion.
“I am that” Not “I want to be that”
Accept yourself as complete perfection. What dare subject you to otherwise? Only the commentary, labeling and control of the human mind….
Spread your wings into the space before thought, where language and concepts and comments do not exist. It is the energy and wisdom that is always there so the only true answer is to be there and be in experience. That is the true power of the human condition and it can be trusted completely. In the space before thought comes in, a true and aligned relationship with human potential and totality. Once thought (words, labeling) comes in then there is disconnection between “what is” and “what we think it is”.
So here we are integral amongst the inertia of the expression of totality. By fully accepting and loving being completely connected beyond the human label we allow for a really beautiful clarity and support of all others. We are moving beyond fear, power over others and the walking hell of contraction and small identification. There appears to be a conditioning and importantly a choice of how connected, expansive and loving each of us will be in this bodies lifetime. There is no lack in Self, only the concept of lack.
You are complete right now. Nothing added, nothing hidden.
Celebrate your gifts and your vibrance of being alive as we explore human potential‌ Regardless, love yourself as complete, miraculous, and beautiful and allow yourself to relax into being as you are.
What would you have the future of humankind be?
lll ~ DEPTH
Silent mind Deep Water Flitting mind Splashes
Depth is a concept of dropping into the Primary; a clearer, and timeless dimension of the human state of being. Sinking down into what is true, letting go of effort and control of a singularity of self. Entering depth could be looked at as the “zone of being�. To envision depth we start with a horizontal line / the linear dimension a human metered succession of time, progress, location, cause and effect. Anywhere along that line of secondary (mind stuff) perception the bottom can drop out and instantly dissolve all the rules of time, language and location into the realm of depth. The secondary linear line is the World of measurement, education, economy, technology, history and so forth and it has a human thought structure of relatively
consistent and measurable increments as observed and labeled (and believed) by the human mind. Tension, anxiety, miscommunication, discord and relative forms of destruction (criticism, negativity, labeling, harm as a result of gain) are all potential aspects on the surface of being. Qualities of depth include harmony, receptivity of possibilities, inner peace, healing and liberation.
Objects do not separate and time does not really pass in equal stair step like blocks The human mind reduces an observation into that
Depth can be pictured as more of a dam holding endless, loving and knowing water with an opening that may start as a relatively small leak, a powerful geyser or a completely immeasurable flood. Artists, athletes and all humans alike share the common experience of depth where rejuvenating / high levels of energy becomes available, thought stream and problems subside, time pressure / anxiety lessens or dissolves. Creativity flows and channels and solutions to “problems� often arise spontaneously from within a silent mind not a grinding and calculating one. Also
the awareness of the physical body expands to unify with the surrounding environment or even the energetic fabric of all things.�
A flower does not apply logic or put forth an opinion, only human observation and then translation into language applies and projects logic onto anything. This is far removed from the flower, that which it is created and held within and the flowers true relevance itself.
Elaborate, explain, clarify graphic HERE.
Dropping out of time and mind Naked human being Without addons Without name Without titles Without status Without expectation Without entitlement Without structure
Revel from Self-love in glorious pre-thought connection with vibration of Aliveness and Awareness of All
Addition / lack
Neutral
Expansion
Content
NAKED
Light
Material
As is
Unity
Dense
Accept
Love
Identification
Relatable
Contraction
Balanced
Distraction
Free
Complicated
Simple
All as One
Expense Complicated
This graphic does not guarantee with linear time that access to depth and the primary is neither granted nor more available. The “pull into density of content” and “lightness of expansion” both have a pull, attraction and availability though it is as though density pulls the mind from lack and expansion invites through trust and beauty. The World certainly has enough available distraction and numbing to keep
one from expanding without intervention and activation of individual or divine will. Openness and permission to receive grace encourages the process as one lives and experiences what they tend to truly believe. The labels, perspectives and content that we identify with creates the circles that we dwell within and the potentials we have available to us. Dropping into depth happens of its own as well as when relaxes into the acceptance of being the naked Self, your own true self. Releasing time pressure, desire of alternate location, external expectations and identification with any words or thoughts combined with a physical relaxing into grace or acceptance of being unified with one’s innocent self (prethought) opens the floor‌.
The concept of depth appears to be a loss of control and to the control and importance centers of the individual this may be true. There is a different quality in action and direction from depth. One not heavily influenced or delayed by layers of mind and expected outcome. The effort that comes of grace is experienced differently than the scramble and force of unrealistic control and what emerges from the grace and automatic dimension of depth are often amazing and beautiful beyond words.
Greater Access As limitations or blockages are dissolved and belief systems are opened, there is greater access to a more connected way of being. The concept of depth could be looked at as how it appears we can fall out of or shift out of an individually believed / manufactured reality and unify to a varying degree with the one reality (primary) without human separation. It is the difference between moments where one feels anxious, distracted and contracted into a state of being where energy is high / boundless, focus is peripheral / inclusive and there is a relaxed completeness in the body and relative silence in the mind (also non-identification with thought). This heightened state is not perceived as anything achieved or added to Self but it is more like an allowing of a birthright potential to shine forth. We are in our fullness and aligned with totality. The constant ticking of human measured time desists, pressure of expectation dissolves, love of oneself and all things is complete, thought stream agitation and limiting identification dissolves, purpose flows, energy is unbound‌
The transformative beauty of a flower or sunbeam is denied to someone collapsed in a fit of rage
Invisible Sum Proof in form, language, data or widespread agreement is also unrealistic for realms of depth and embracing the innocent naked human being (core Self pre Add-on). Mind tends to reduce forms and block non-forms while spiritual realms are of inclusion and expansion. Proof is always in content of language and form and is invented from observation after reality, the primary reality is all of what there is before proof comes in yet includes the concept of verification as the minute (tiny) aspect of totality that it is. Trust, allowing, wisdom, isness and love are the aspects of proof in depth. What is believed has greater potential to happen naturally {unfold} when absolutely realistic (divine) and is seemingly tied to a level of trust given over to the invisible sum of all things and personal control of the World surrendered.
Perfect Naked Being How far do you have to strip down external forms to find yourself, the perfect naked being, the awareness that never changes? These inherent qualities always persist in ALL of us and cannot be removed yet they are often not embraced and lay obscured and unrealized. One does not have to actually be a mindless naked being without a name, label, material adornment or story as it is a symbol for the state of being and
not being attached and identified with anything non-naked. Then your truest Self as a naked being is connected clearly to an expansive reality basically free of suffering, confusion and wrong doing. Seeing oneself as one is is one step and then in the next step the floor drops out of being and into supported, flowing, all-knowing, loving DEPTH‌
Sight itself gives us a window depth when we realize that what we see is limited and its effect on the viewer is directed by the state and content of the individual. People in similar states see similar things; and those that are in different states do not. Something that is logical to view is not framed that way with someone illogical or filled with emotions. We cannot see love, we cannot see what others are seeing and we
cannot see non-form so sight is not the Allness of reality. We also cannot see other than the moment, if sight was all that was real would past and present not exist?
The way to deep happiness and liberation in the human condition is by not forcing what you think IT is or how IT should be but by softening your position to include all other positions and the non-position of Primary. We all play roles, consume and sell ideas and things in this World, the key is to realize if your state of being is dependent on the outcomes in the world of form.
What is your state of being dependent on?
Picture a single blade of grass in an expansive prairie jumping up and down screaming, “wait don’t lean that way. I think that…!” in a little isolated perspective resisting within an immeasurable space. There is the split, thinking something that only exists in relative isolation of the mind whereas the total reality is different, or omni-dimensional (registering an individual perspective as one in unlimited and registering all individual perspectives as similarly important). That battle of “I” versus “ALL” cannot be won in a lasting manner as the mind continually rearranges content, experience, learning and information into a shifting Self which results in a
temporarily sufficient {satisfied} state of believing that position to be the center (whereas in expansion there is no center or control).
Visage Take a moment to picture yourself or gaze into a mirror‌. How old are you?
Now, prepare to close your eyes
Find the pulse and fullness of ALIVENESS which always persists Feel the warmth, vibration and cognition Be the space before anything is revealed
Close your eyes
How old is that?
There is a (contentless) answer of no answer from depth that reconnects. To awaken means that forms, language, actions are all vibrantly alive and benevolent as they arise from that field of silence grace, the untranslated, they all flash within the cradle of aliveness and non-fluctuating love like a shooting star before fading back into the silent grace.
An expanded field of love and silent grace or a fenced in field of frustration, confusion, contraction and control‌.
llll REALITY & IDENTITY
“Reality is a unified whole, thought cuts it up into fragments and gives rise to fundamental misperceptions‌ Consider the sunrise and sunset. When we say the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening that is true but only relatively. In absolute terms it is false. Only from the limited perspective of an observer on or near the planet surface does the sun rise and set. If you were far out on space you would see that the sun neither rises nor sets but that it shines continuously and yet, even after realizing that we can continue to speak of sunrise or sunset, still see its beauty, paint it, write poems about it even though we know that it is a relative not an absolute truth.
Eckhart Tolle ~ The New Earth
This quote above points to the core of this teaching of realizing one’s place and purpose within the web of life. An individual’s reality is based on how they perceive or clearer yet, where they place their identity. Identity can be placed in a small individualized (isolated) location or firmly rooted in opinion or emotions like anger and hatred which can even transform perceived reality into a weapon of sorts. Others have their identity placed in logic and reason where their reality is based in form and has requirements of mind created systems for verification and widespread acceptance. From a primary human perspective, identity merged in totality where reality is not experienced as one’s own but more of a non-personal totality as it expands and includes beyond the familiar neighborhood of the senses. The sensation of perceiving the World from the focal point of “me” is known to be an illusion and limitation and to be approached with humility of the smallness of that perspective. All varieties of perspectives are accounted for, allowed and honored. Personality, action, emotion and experience seem to happen naturally and gracefully rather than as the result of desires, fears, agendas, expectations, forced effort or goals.
Perspectives
This leads us into clarifying the concepts of primary, secondary and tertiary perspectives. For the intent of this teaching it is crucial to understand these concepts as they lay the foundation for seeing one way of being in the World and allowing for another. These are not to be considered rules or solid delineations, but as tools to reveal a clearer picture of human motives, relationships, understanding, state of being and potential.
It is important to approach these concepts considering that what is held in mind tends to be possible and is more likely to be experienced as true for that individual.
“Someone not being able to experience something does not exclude that someone else does experience it�
It is false to conclude what one has not experienced for themselves does not exist. This discussion appears to form different realms of being human in the World but only in human terms as when all things in creation are added up into Totality there is only one reality (or field from which all arises) that includes all perceived paradox and separation as false.. Not everyone can be or see the same reality as the next person. It is crucial to realize this and have an awareness of the full spectrum of human perception (as a starting point); otherwise confusion, opinion, disharmony and polarization have a dominant presence in human experience. It takes strength, trust and self-love to go beyond the desire to change others and to accept them as perfect.
Every concept, idea, image, memory or fantasy is the product of projection or perception. It is not "what is" for anyone else.
Judgments and positions can be obstacles to lightness, inner peace, purpose, pure love and fulfillment. In truth everyone has an individual perspective and there is a "perspective" of totality that includes all things. This helps to give a relative context
for “self�. Any idea or word is a translation or expression of one’s true self. The true self is experientially the uncomplicated field that holds our aliveness and awareness and is the field that ideas and words arise within. Thus words, thoughts, ideas and language are like paint splatters on the uniform and bright wall of the field.
Secondary Perspective We begin with the Secondary Perspective concept as it is familiar to all as the dominant human perspective where language, thought, information and time form the foundation of reality. When individual identification is placed in name, location, time, language / labels, then the reality will be based from the secondary. Whereas primary identification is placed nowhere, or perhaps exploded back away from all content so far that only silence, wisdom and energy of totality remain, all while your
physicality and function remains in the same location. Secondary is individual I and Primary is ALL of totality (form and non-form).
The reality you perceive is independent of the reality that exists Descartes
Secondary perspective is form identification with a slightly or deadened quality of connection to the inherent potential of the human experience. An example is when holding on tightly to the meaning of language as compared to uniting with the aliveness and intention of the words. Perceiving your being as a name, physical location, non-naked add-ons, time and status as compared to the radiant, vibrant and love filled you that expands beyond the biology of the body. The secondary perspective is a reduction of the source into a compartment that is then identified with as complete when it is only an aspect (such as anatomy, parts, organ systems, genetics). Complete reduction and labeling of things cannot completely explain the whole but rather creates a map to work within. Primary or totality is an expansion to embrace and allow all things and beyond that unlimited field of non-form, energy,
consciousness potential and unfolding. It is the field that all things secondary arise within. Inner peace results when secondary noise and illusion shifts into the background with a level of disinterest and there is reunification, prevalence and acceptance of totality.
In language we often use terms such as improve, empower, enlighten and growth to show upward progress and that can be helpful but it also feeds the limited mindset of ME, and how I compare to others (I am above them). Working towards change is a temporal illusion as the allowing of clarity, beauty and grace does not lie in the past or the future. We plan in the secondary on how we visualize the future or personal growth or even our wants, we can only love ourselves and be content in acceptance now in this moment that never expires. When connected the moment becomes eternal and the gates are wide open and radiate human potential.
Nothing needs to be added to Awaken, original innocence just needs to be allowed and revealed
Lofty terminology such as expansion, liberation, enlightenment and heavenly serves its purpose yet it provides a misleading tone of destination above you where you have not arrived. Awakening and realization is not a place to get to but a way to be as in relaxing into being or (sitting down in the chair of being and letting go of physical tension which is an expression of expectation). Doing this to cause or achieve that is the domain of the linear mind which has little or no power in domains of trust, radiance, essence and love. No throne, no elevated position above others, no titles, no selling or justification to others, just alignment with what is and a peaceful and powerful flow to your energies.
Organization from the mind is not the all-inclusive Reality. It is merely the observation of sensory and conceptual reality The human wingspan may not be enough to embrace all totality while the heart comes close‌.
Primary
All that is Primary is not a human perception it is all that is and it cannot be directly seen, taught or described as it is the source of life source of n0n-life source of form source of the space that forms arise from source of unmanifest energies that is so vast and ever-present that mind (language) cannot begin to hold it
The ultimate concept of Primary is absolutely deep, all inclusive and not dependent on the human observer. For clearer exchange, we will relate to it in human terms that will form a bridge between Secondary perspective, the human perspective aspect of Primary and Primary as totality (not requiring yet at the same time including human experience, observation and contemplation). On the other hand, all Secondary perspectives are completely human generated and have no other reality. The essential concept of this teaching is the one of having awareness of varying perspectives from person to person and realization of the field that all things human come from and occur within.
The familiar saying, “until you walk a mile in their shoes” is only a start. When we walk a mile in someone else’s shoes or treat others as we wish to be treated there is expansion of awareness of the “secondary” (perspective) in that we are increasingly aware of other perspectives and is an entry point into that which everyone is naturally composed of and born with. There are currently over six billion (6,800,000,000) secondary human perspectives on Earth. When each person sees, experiences, thinks and feels with their own compilation of knowledge, experience,
agenda, emotion state, memories, traumas, conditioning, community and so on, these perceptions are instantly and automatically translated / filtered through that individual. A single polarizing word can elicit hatred or salvation in the individual audience. This is the secondary perspective and it relates to accounts of events varying between the witnesses present or stories and gossip changing shape as they pass from person to person. We debate, argue, try to prove and convince, sell, explain and describe within the secondary perspective where opinion and often rightness / defensiveness dominates. There is no true separation between these conceptual perspectives nor is there any fault in thoughts and emotions and words, they can just be held with heaviness or surrounded by lightness and humility, ownership or allowance, contraction or expansion, fear or trust.
There is only one Primary (perspective). This is the “source� of perspectives and the field in which they occur (the energy of vibrance of life) and is more elusive to point to as it is pre-thought, pre-language, pre-label, and pre-form. You cannot take a photo of Primary nor can it be reduced under a microscope. The truest primary could be pointed to as what (emptiness and energy) forms, objects, thoughts,
creation, life and language arise from and includes all forms within its field. It is the energy of consciousness or the aliveness that allows life to perceive itself. The primary is always there and is perceptually ever present like a ground floor (or more like the space that holds the ground floor). If we attribute a visual quality to connecting with the primary it would be the instant someone views something, where all things are perfectly beautiful and we are connected to them before thought and projected subjugation intrude‌
The Heart In that moment there is a space before language and label come in. We begin with that “Ahhhhhh� moment where time stops, color is vibrant, deep love connection presides (where viewer and viewed unify), language and distraction are not present as if we are processing viewing from our heart / spirit rather than our brain.
The connection and unification of a distant object thought to be separate of self (us) is a very accessible portal to expanded awareness and unconditional love
The heart here refers to the experience of aliveness that embodies love and trusts and expands into the timelessness and vibrant energy field pre-mentation. What comes next? Thought, “I have seen a rose before; I know what it looks like.” The secondary perspective may even BLOCK the entire primary experience down to a brief flash due to identification with the label and position that “I” already know what that is. It is as if the word “rose” and the beautiful vibrant miracle of a flower to be seen and smelled and touched are the same. They are not. The thought is secondary and lacking connection and aliveness; the viewing of the rose pre-thought is primary. The example of the rose leaves the potential for entering a timeless, radiant, unified primary human experience or to have an edgy misaligned secondary experience.
There are variations within these macro levels of primary, secondary and tertiary yet this teaching elects for simplicity over unnecessary content and breakdown. This is an example of dualistic nature, taking the one primary reality (totality) and adding a second mentalized reality to it.
The primary flows and fills with endless energy, the secondary takes energy through constant attention and correction to be sustained
Mentalization includes concepts such as: opinion, labels, expectation, fear, anxiety, worry, indecision, guilt, blame, criticism, judgment, domination from some sense of ownership and strong positionality (position of identification which is often unbending).
Duality Duality is a root limitation in the unification of mind and spirit. Duality is a concept where the logic, language or human experience does not match up with Totality or Primary or the Divine. The definition of a cypress tree in an encyclopedia is NOT a cypress tree. The memory of a rainbow is not a rainbow. The manmade concept of evolution is not creation of life, it is human observation. What appears to be limitation within duality is actually expanded awareness that forged individual or human perspectives often struggle to breathe on their own, yet is swimming within something greater and complete. The sense of inner peace and love that engulfs
when one expands and enters into totality is a great blessing of the human experience. We shift from being drained, confused, isolated and struggling to
flying, embraced, accepted and free‌
Secondary and Primary
Primary reality is UNIVERSAL Secondary reality is dependent
A separated individual existence or forcefulness knows only the secondary, dissects and repeats each isolated part and owns and identifies with them. From timeless depth, the inventor, the cook, the gardener, the builder, the athlete, the mystic, the healer, the teacher, the lover, the artist or musician or anyone being in the timeless
flow without effort is being in the primary and using form as a tool of expression. A person in creative or loving flow has the secondary as a tool of the primary. As is one who is not “doing� anything but being connected in a primary and core state of being in trust rather than struggling to justify and cling to a manufactured or mentalized state of being. Action out of a primary presence is not passive (though it will not engage at the same triggers as a secondary and tertiary perspective will) it is clear, powerful, effective with a balanced energy output. These flowing actions have an automatic quality to them, occur without linear time and always express an appropriate amount of energy. These differences are subtle even invisible to observe in someone else except for the grace, the presence inner completeness, clarity and openhandedness.
What changes from secondary to primary in terms of experience?
o Thought stream shifts from loud, near constant and “yours� to soft, occasional and impersonal o Opinion releases from something to subject and defend to an expanded and inclusive way of communicating. o Loss of anxiety, worry and disconnect from temporal displacement of identity in the constructed future or past. o Confusion and lack of true purpose becomes trust in totality and self-love in the inclusion of totality. o Blocked energy and contraction becomes liberated and boundless energy outside of learned concepts / belief systems of vitality. o A position shift that human witnessing and labeling of unfolding / arising of
forms (creation) is not ultimately unfolding / creation itself. Does life progress in a manner because of the way it is understood in the mind? They used to think the World was flat and believed that to be true. The form of evolution, time demarcation or any concept comes after the unfolding when it is witnessed by the human senses and processed in mind.
o Victim identification. “I wish I could” becomes the non-verbal “I am” acceptance of reality into release of suffering and allowing intention and divine will for growth and expansion and even peaceful dissolution. o Inner heaviness, hopelessness and depression dissolve as one expands through identification with isolated me (and thought fragments).
Judgment Judgment is also a rooted positionality in non-acceptance of others reality. Anytime anything or anyone is seen as not aligned with your perspective is a symptom of a contracted, superior and polarizing point of view with collapsed awareness of totality. There can be an opening as judgment occurs if it is observed with space around it as one realizes and observes themselves judging others. Often first there is a comprehension of another way to approach a situation or communication, then a space of observation while the undesirable still habitually occurs and then finally resolution and integration of a new way. We can relate to others and encompass differences rather than attack them. During spiritual process there are periods of
unknowing / ignorance, acknowledgement, habitual adjustment and then release. It is as if it just takes time to wire new connections in the nervous system to compensate for changes in perspective or way of being in the World. This is part of the sensation of growth.
Threshold of Mind The whole process of perceptual expansion and spiritual growth is a never ending journey. New experiences, states of being and perspectives fluctuate and deepenings can be tiny steps or giant jumps. There is also a pulse of growth progress / elation and stagnation to sense of loss of growth gains and qualities. Nothing is eternally static. So outside of a numerical scale or certification process (like earning titles, degrees or levels) the gauge of progress or value is purely of individual return and increase happiness, liberation, radiance, inner clarity and love all of which are experientially preferable in spite of difficulties that may / will present themselves along the way. One threshold that represents a massive shift in being is the shift of
self as mind (thought) to the self of the heart (knowing and trust). The mind tends to be content with spiritual or expansive knowledge on a subject even if it has no immediate shifting effect or deeper reality in relation to the individual. A person will eventually find that loading up on information alone does not have the power to awaken, expand or liberate. Where the mind stops when deadened information is grasped, the heart leaps in with trust, vibrance and acceptance without a requirement of mental ownership of language based understanding. Try to describe in language how you feel when spinning fantastically in love, taking in a breathtaking and vast natural scene. That connection outside of mind to the brilliance of the vibrance of the source of life and awareness itself cannot be justified or transmitted through language, label and reason. The language alone cannot convey and language is not isolated, it is connected to intention and wisdom of the heart and collective (knowledge) connections that is totality. There is an aliveness and emotion and transmission into information and language that reveals a truer communication. Again it is one’s placement of value and self-identification that can deaden not only language but the life experience itself.
Primary is ever available and is everything whether recognized or not
Tertiary Perspective
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees.
William Blake ~ Mysticism Evelyn Underhill
A tertiary (perspective) is one used just to refer to when the human condition becomes unconscious, collapsed, emotionally overrun, violent (destructive), deeply depressed and so on. It is deterioration of the secondary. It’s conceptually further from the primary because liberation, happiness and strengthening others are devoid in a tertiary state as are love and even reason. This is the realm of a contracted and heavily self-rooted state of being incapable of expansion to genuinely or benevolently include the needs and perspectives of others.
Examples of tertiary could be when someone throws a chair across the room in a fit, feels rage or disgust at someone because of a label projected upon them, when someone creates pitiful drama or directly assaults someone. Occurrences of violence, stealing, directly causing harm to others or oneself are tertiary. Some aspects of tertiary can be short lived and intense habitual occurrences while others can be chronic and represent the ground one walks life upon.
In a depressed expression there could be just a complete loss of hope and energy or deep identification with victimhood (What can I do?) as compared to acceptance or
constructive optimism. There is a chronic absence of the unlimited energy that can fuel someone who is inspired, full of purpose and / or joyful. What is held in mind has a greater potentiality to become physical reality. Thus an open outlook to possibility, acceptance and love fills and fuels while a collapsed self constricts and pushes out vitality. It is experientially well known that the hopes, outlook and spirit of a medical patient have great influence on their recovery. Tertiary is not a major concept here, just an expanded reference to being more contracted and “unconscious� and is a valuable tool for self-reflection and awareness of our conditioning and state of being.
What Remains? If the variances in human perspectives are stripped away, what remains? What always remains is the unclouded and unlimited vibrant energy of the source that fills life yet does not require life.
Essence Energy Connection Radiance Clarity Being
At first connecting with the Primary field, forms appear to drop away and one unites with a vibrant energy, but ultimately the experience wraps back around to include all things and embrace you and include your thoughts and actions, nothing is lost
except contracting, confusing or painful human experiences. There is always a pulse in the way of being, it can be looked at year by year, decade by decade or
transcendence > bliss > integration >neutrality >reflection > inclusion. It is valuable to know this in advance of growth and shifts as one does not realistically cling to the highest highs and grapple with the confusion and loss when it lessens or shifts into a new phase.
ALight Understanding these perspectives gives a good map as to how placement of identification or self allows for an expanded human condition and greater access to the primary, where liberated movements, thoughts, creativity and awakening are to be found. A common modern human limiting perspective is that for growth or improvement we always need to change or add something to ourselves, eat better, to
have a body other than it is, have more resources, more love, better relationships, more time, additional vacation and so on. The idea of a vacation is nice but the actual experience could also be a regretted nightmare, whereas awakened happiness is not
conditional on a vacation or other external influences. It is a different type of joy that radiates out of self-love whereas fleeting happiness or “I win” is caused by external
circumstances and are never sustainable. Realizing that WE ALL already are and have everything needed lessens or removes the anxiety and control out of decision making. “I knew the other vacation spot would have been much better!” How does such a comment serve or strengthen anyone? Complaining about what cannot be weakens yourself and those around you. There is no blame or projecting anger on a
situation or a person when one reconnects in humility with self-love and their unified role in totality. This “addition” cycle and feeling of lack is actually a root of
disharmony between objects, expectations and the primary. Satisfaction and success from adding to ourselves is fleeting relative to the soul. Humankind is potentially innocent, energetic, eternal and radiates love. Once this is trusted, then those inherent properties can be allowed more readily and limitations can be addressed, released or bypassed.
Bypassing limitation happens when one identifies a concept or blockage as false or not aligned with totality. Once identified as false and having no meaning or not serving oneself, it can simply be sidestepped or walked through rather than being understood or resolved. There is no mental conclusion or conceptual mastery; the expansion is made through trust and love. Working through a limitation when taken
as the natural course of action should be accepted even though it may become intense, even unbearable and have a lasting prominence before dissolution. There is a paradox in that this relates back to the idea of lack or need to add something to ourselves to restore harmony. It is useful to consider that we are originally restored and unified so nothing needs to be added to us but rather a thought, belief system,
influential communication, event or trauma needs to be reshaped, accepted, removed or dissolved. There is a difference between being too much in the head or
overanalyzing and doing such with awareness. With observation there is reflection which gives context and also space to allow some disinterest and openness to remain through periods of collapse, seriousness and suffering. It is valuable to be aware that as creatures of habit and conditioning, limitations that are recognized and remain disharmonious have the potential to establish roots in identification with that
pattern that result in further entanglement and obstacles in release. Inspiration,
desire for expansion (unity, deep self-love), inspiration and an inner devotion (request) for release are all empowering aspects of the process.
When a perspective of unwavering correctness presents itself and there is a tone of forcing others into alignment, or “You are either with us or against us�. How can something so polarizing be true as it does not consider any perspective but a single narrow one and one that only occupies one seat? How does it account for all the other seats in all of creation? Should one dissenting voice ever be completely discounted? It maybe by human consensus but it will be heard in totality.
In the space before thought, where language and concepts and comments do not exist. It is the energy and wisdom that is always there the true answer is to be there and trust in the experience.
That is the true power of the human condition and it can be trusted completely.
In the space before thought comes in, there is still a true and aligned relationship with humanity and totality.
Once thought (words, labeling) comes in then there is conflict between “what is” and “what we think it is.”