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Subject: A Ray of Light
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 06:49:28 -0700
"The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind is, of what stuff it is made; whether it is an entity or just a process; whether it is substantial, or just dreamlike. And unless you know the nature of the mind, you will not be able to solve any problems of your life."
-- Osho
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Subject: Present Moment Presence
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:16:12 -0700
"For true perception, you must see right on the spot. As soon as you begin to ponder and reflect, you miss it!"
-- Daowu
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Subject: A Clue
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 06:36:59 -0700
"And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb."
-- Khalil Gibran
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Subject: Keys to The Kingdom
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 07:41:47 -0700
May it be offered that beliefs do not "hang on" -- WE "hang on" to them. Regardless of their *mixture*, beliefs are the chains that keep us cobbled and shackled to the control and manipulation of the whims of the world at large. More aptly stated as the Causes of our Suffering by another. Awakening IS the Freedom from these conditioned contents of our memory and thinking and behavior. Is not *no beliefs* a conviction of no beliefs? Why settle for a belief when we can just as easily Directly Experience? To believe is to be in a state of *wishful thinking*. Reality is not in wishful thinking, but rather in the Direct Experience of Truth AS the very instant Present Moment -- Free of the delusion of wishful thinking. A bird in hand is worth far more that even many in the bush. Are we to wish our lives away clinging to beliefs, or Directly Experience Life for all it IS as it IS? YOU, and you alone, hold the Keys to that Kingdom!
Yay or nay gang?
Namaste, ej
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Subject: *Mystical Experience*
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:12:51 -0700
Greetings Community,
Good? Bad? Pleasurable? Long? Short? Learning? Indeed, we do Learn from our experiences. May I offer, that Experience IS Experience and by projecting conditioned notions into/onto the Experience is missing the Experience. As thoughts arise as to whether Experience is good or bad or pleasurable or long or short or some sort, the Experience Totally AS the Moment of the Experience is history -- and history is not part of NOW. To Totally Experience the Moment (whatever it is) we have no time to be considering, but rather must Purely unconditioned and unconditionally Experience -- and nothing more. May I offer, consider nothing, simply Experience. Sitting on a rock next to a tree, to Dwell in Peace and Harmony and One with the rock and tree is nothing short of what some term a *Mystical Experience* -- nothing good, nothing bad, nothing pleasurable, nothing long, nothing short, nothing learned, nothing some sort, just Experiencing Oneness with All AS the Moment. Experiencing, Experience to Experience, Moment to Moment, Unconditioned, Unconditionally, Purely, our whole Life be quite Mystical.
Does that make sense?
Metta, ej
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Subject: Quotable Quotes
From: "Frank Morrow" <FMorrow@Mail.com> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:45:27 -0700
Hey, here's some quotes:
Love is a serious mental disease. --- Plato
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. --- Thomas Robert Dewar
Love is a friendship caught on fire. --- From Northern Exposure
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. --- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. --- Robert Frost
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. --- Sappho
Frank
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Subject: What Problem?
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:21:25 -0700
Greetings All,
Thank you for the quotes Frank, Love is my favorite subject {8-)
It is True that most of our so called *problems* are of our own contrivances, and all of our *problems* we create through our conditionings. Endeavoring to "eliminate a problem" solves nothing and most times increases and complicates the originally perceived problem. At best, *band-aided*. In being one with the problem, Directly Experiencing all aspects of the problem, the Cause of the problem is revealed and that is what we must endeavor to eliminate. When there is no Cause there is no problem. Awakening AS the Present Moment, all is an Experience and all is simply responded to -- so no problem Simply situations needing solutions. It is in our conditionings that we *react* to the situations of the Moment establishing the experience as what we are conditioned to *think* is a so called problem.
As long as there is the Darkness of conditioned Blindness, there will always be a Mission to Shine forth the Light of Awakening. And we must not hide that Light under a bushel, but rather let it Shine.
True?
Namaste, ej
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Subject: All-Night Drugstore
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 16:57:16 -0700
Greetings,
God's Will? My Will? Your Will? Will Rogers? Why must it be someone's? Why must it be one in lieu of the other? What is other? Is not Will, Will? May I offer, that if there is a Will, BE that Will and pay no mind to *possessing* it or that someone else possesses it. Will IS, why not let it BE as it IS rather than projecting our own conditioned notions into/onto it. Just do it while the Iron is Hot, whatever it takes, and do not think about it. If Will could be possessed, it would be bottled and could be purchased in the all-night drugstore -- so have no fear as long as there are all-night drugstores.
Why should anyone be concerned with being happy or unhappy? Awakening is a state of BEing that is neither happy or unhappy -- it simply IS and we simply ARE.
Just a little Snack to Chew on {8-) ej
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Subject: Ordinarily Ordinary
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:47:01 -0700
Greetings Community,
Just a bit on the so called 'ordinary'. Awakening is not in what is "un-ordinary" or "extraordinary" but rather in Truly Experiencing What-IS without the encumbering conditionings. Is not Pure Unconditioned Observation quite 'extraordinary'? Do these marvels that others see compare to Seeing Truth and Reality? But why compare? Do others see one depth of Truth and Reality and you another? Could it be the very same Truth and Reality, at varying depths, or could there be Illusion afoot? May I offer: instead of straining to see what others say they see, our attention must be Focused AS our own Awakening that each of us See. This is a most Wondrous Experience, 'ordinary' though it may be. Ah yes, the *Ordinary* (as if there is such a thing) -- indeed the most Wondrous of Direct Experiences.
Om Shanti, ej
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Subject: Imagine
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:02:03 -0700
"Imagining is like feeling around in a dark lane, or washing your eyes with blood. You are the truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?"
-- Rumi
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Subject: Re: Imagine
From: "cyrille.simone.andrieu" <cyrille.simone.andrieu@wanadoo.fr> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 03:51:58 +0200
Greetings E.J,
So sorry for not answering your mailings though I read them all. Please forgive me but for the time being I'm in an atmosphere where I hear my mother screaming from pain, though the pain killer she's taking is really a drug & it doesn't seem to work as well, she's needing it more & more but I'm afraid for her heart. So much anxiety going on & I honestly don't know how to put all the things you suggest into action. So much so though I'm in the next room, I cannot sleep having always an eye or ears open in case there's a need to help my mother, though I try to let her do things for herself, if not she'll become too dependant & I guess that's not so good either though I'm also worried about her heart. For the time being I don't know what to do, & also I'm not even answering all those mails you've been sending, please forgive me. I'm just trying to explain why I've been absent, but somehow if I answered your lessons you send I might not do so well?
Namaste my dear friend,
Simone
Le 26 mai 09, à 21:02, E.J. a écrit :
> > > "Imagining is like feeling around in a dark lane, > or washing your eyes with blood. > You are the truth from foot to brow. > Now, what else would you like to know?"
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Subject: Re: Imagine
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:16:18 -0700
->On Wed, 27 May 2009 03:51:58 +0200, you wrote: ->Greetings E.J,
Greetings Simone,
->So sorry for not answering your mailings though I read them all. ->Please forgive me but for the time being I'm in an atmosphere where I ->hear my mother screaming from pain, though the pain killer she's taking ->is really a drug & it doesn't seem to work as well, she's needing it ->more & more but I'm afraid for her heart.
Thank you for sharing this with us, we know that you are going through trying times founded in stress and worry. And all of your attention must be focused on your mother. We understand. That you read the posts, and hopefully get something from them, is a wonderful step forward to begin with. We understand that the time and effort you can contribute is limited so do not worry about not contributing regularly. Now we know why you have not been around lately {8-) We miss you, but we also understand that you have responsibilities that have to take top priority. Make sure the home responsibilities are taken care of and AFTER THAT contribute when you can. IF you still have some energy left after taking care of home responsibilities.
WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE, so we will be here for you. And we are going to put your family on our nightly Healing List to send correspondence healing energy to you in the south of France. You are on our mind and in our hearts, so do not worry, just take care of what you have to take care of and we will be patient. And we are going to support you in these trying times.
->So much anxiety going on & I ->honestly don't know how to put all the things you suggest into action. ->So much so though I'm in the next room, I cannot sleep having always an ->eye or ears open in case there's a need to help my mother, though I ->try to let her do things for herself, if not she'll become too ->dependant & I guess that's not so good either though I'm also worried ->about her heart. For the time being I don't know what to do, & also I'm ->not even answering all those mails you've been sending, please forgive ->me. I'm just trying to explain why I've been absent, but somehow if I ->answered your lessons you send I might not do so well?
One post was that it is the *ordinary* that we must pay attention to, that the ordinary things of everyday life stand out so we can experience every Moment of those ordinary everyday things. Instead of looking for the miraculous we should be looking for the ordinary. It is about being Mindful about the ordinary things in life that make up our life. Because actually, being Mindful of the ordinary is really quite miraculous {8-) So the best thing you can do right now, given your present situation, is be Mindful of all things (which are mostly ordinary). Stay focused, and do not worry about us because we will always be here for you.
->Namaste my dear friend, ->Simone
BE Well and Mindful Wonderful Friend, ej
->> "Imagining is like feeling around in a dark lane, ->> or washing your eyes with blood. ->> You are the truth from foot to brow. ->> Now, what else would you like to know?" ->> ->> -- Rumi
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Subject: Ups and Downs
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 19:30:26 -0700
Greetings All,
Relying on our conditionings we are always in a flux of ups and downs, it is the Nature of Sleeping. Are these continual ups and downs not a major Cause of our Suffering? Are not these ups and downs controlled and manipulated by our conditionings? Are we *tested* by Fate or are there needed circumstances established for our continual Awakening? Is our Awakening an *Experience AS the Moment* or a *lesson Learned* or a *test passed*? Further, these ups and downs will not simply "fade away" or "become" anything other than what they are. Our conditionings, resulting in the ups and downs, being the Causes of our Suffering, the Key is to Directly Experience these ups and downs as What-IS at that Moment and Realize the Illusion of them. Realize the conditionings of them. Realizing how our conditionings control and manipulate our ups and downs, and discarding these conditionings -- which would eliminate the ups and downs. Not an easy task to be sure, but a necessary one.
Namaste, ej
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Subject: Ram Tzu Knows
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:54:05 -0700
"Ram Tzu knows you - All of your Dirty little secrets Are tattooed on your forehead For him to read. You cling so tenaciously To your history Sensing correctly that to let go Would set you adrift in a present In which you cannot survive. Here and now is the great evaporator Poof - you're gone. Surprising isn't it? All that time you thought you were You really weren't. Poof - back again so soon? Guess the illusion wasn't finished With you after all. If you learned anything You'll know it doesn't Make any difference. Ram Tzu certainly doesn't care." -- Ram Tzu
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Subject: On Empathy
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 06:41:55 -0700
Greetings All,
Empathy is the capacity for *experiencing* as one's own the feelings of another. We can empathize with another's plight either due to the fact that we ourselves have experienced the same plight OR our sensitivity level is such that the sensations of the experience of another can be experienced by us without experiencing the experience. That is, we experience the sensations of the experience. In this way, we Understand the experience and what the other is experiencing. Thereby establishing a connection of the basic foundation that all manifested form dwells as. This is the level that is referred to as "All IS One and One IS All." Indeed not a common every day occurrence, that in fact can be experienced by but a few. AS the Unfolding of one's Awakening we tend to stabilize or *balance* our sensitivity level to all manifested form. Have you not felt sorrow for the sight of a fallen sparrow? Have you not sensed pain when holding a puppy with a broken leg? Have you not followed the jump of a legless frog?
Be Well and Mindful, ej
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Subject: Causes of Suffering
From: "E.J." <ejLight@Light-Mission.org> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 11:01:52 -0700
A couple tid-bits to Consider:
I would like to address the Illusion of *IF*, the Illusion of *JUDGMENT*, the Illusion of *EITHER-OR*, the Illusion of *CHOICE*. Sleeping, we can *Judge* and we can *Choose* -- Awakening, there is only What-IS. Which is neither ups nor downs. Which is, I would say, Freedom from the burden of the ups and downs and very Beautiful. So why deal with ups and downs? For you see, what was, was, thus is not any longer. What will be, is not yet. What-IS is really all there IS, so BE it.
May I offer too, that Truth can not be "interpreted" but rather can only be Realized AS the Direct Experience at the Moment of the Direct Experience and resulting Realization. AS the Present Moment there is no one to interpret and nothing to interpret, only the Direct Experience of What-IS -- without our conditioned projections that we interpret with, conditioned to *think* that we are an *interpreter*. An age-old Cause of our Sufferings.
Metta, ej
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