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Subject: Happy Birthday !
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 19:33:11 GMT
Greetings Community,
Happy Birthday !
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday !
From: "Rhonda" <maydean@nexicom.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 18:37:35 -0400
> Greetings Community, > > Happy Birthday !
Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday dear Light List May you shine on ever True! :)
For the billionth time....THANK YOU EJ !
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday !
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 23:31:24 GMT
Greetings Rhonda, you wrote: ->Happy Birthday to you ->Happy Birthday to you ->Happy Birthday dear Light List ->May you shine on ever True! ->:) ->For the billionth time....THANK YOU EJ !
Thank you for your Wonderful words Dear Friend. But..... it is you YOUR Birthday. In fact, it is everyone's Birthday. And I was just wishing everyone to have a Happy Birthday, since it is everyone's Birthday. Today, as the Present Moment, IS the very first day and Moment of the rest of your Life. A Re-Birth from yesterday and thus the preceding Moment, as yesterday and the preceding Moment are dead and gone. We must die each Moment and again Birth AS the Present Moment from Moment to Moment. A continual death of the past and Re-Born anew each Moment. There is no other Moment like the instant Present one and there never will be another like it, so Live it -- BE it. Just Do it ! So, to use your words: Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday dear you May you shine on and ever BE the True Nature you ARE this very Eternal Infinite Present Moment !
Every day, every Moment, must BE our Happy Birthday ! True ?
BE Well and Mindful Wonderful Friend, Shanti, Namaste, Metta, Zikr --
As Shanti is to say *may the Humility AS me Embrace the Humility AS you as a Humility of One*, so too Namaste is to say *may the Divine Essence AS me Embrace the Divine Essence AS you as a Divine Essence of One*, so too Metta is to say *may the Loving Kindness AS me Embrace the Loving Kindness AS you as a Loving Kindness of One*, so too Zikr is to say *may the Self-Remembering AS me Embrace the Self-Remembering AS you as a Self-Remembrance of One*. So *may the True Nature AS me Embrace the True Nature AS you as a True Nature of One*.
It is in the Inner Embracing of each other that we Realize that we are all cut from the same bolt of cloth, yet most do not Realize it YET.
Subject: Re: What are we here for ?
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 03:25:26 GMT
Greetings Community,
"The third attention is attained when the glow of awareness turns into the fire from within.... At the moment of dying all human beings enter into the unknowable and some of them attain the third attention, but altogether too briefly.... The supreme accomplishment of human beings is to attain that level of attention while retaining the life-force, without becoming a disembodied awareness." -- Carlos Castaneda
Subject: Re: What are we here for ?
From: "Ram Varma" <ramvarma1@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 22:24:27 -0400
Greetings E.J.
You quoted Carlos Castaneda
> "The third attention is attained when the glow of awareness turns into the fire from within....
What is third attention in simple words and its impact on day to day life affairs? Is this awareness beyond the physical, emotional, and intellectual awareness? What are the first two attentions for the sake of clarity? What is this inner fire? Is it the knowledge of the unknown that burns all the karmas to ashes? or What?
>At the moment of dying all human beings enter into the unknowable and some of them attain the third attention, but altogether too briefly....
If we enter the unknowable, how do we really know some of us attain the third attention? Or is it the knowledge of some at the Near Death Experience?
>The supreme accomplishment of human beings is to > attain that level of attention while retaining the life-force, without becoming a disembodied awareness." --
Of course, looks like a super duper awareness during the living of life. As it is claimed a great accomplishment and rightfully may be so......but how do we go about it and how do we cultivate it during the life cycle? Pointer?
Thanks...........Ram
Subject: A Ray Of Light
From: Ray.of.Light@light-mission.org
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 04:50:41 GMT
Greetings Ye Seekers of Truth and Understanding,
These "Ray of Light" are supplemental to all of the other Light Mission endeavors to distribute information to Help in the Unfolding of Inner Awareness -- The Awakening. I hope that you find them helpful, interesting. Dwell on them WithIN and See what Realizations Unfold. /|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\
And what might be an opinion, other than a personalized belief ? Awakening is about letting go of the Chains, not casting aside one set of Chains and affixing another set. Ah, but have you Observed the Observer Observing the Observed AS the Observer Observed. You see, we can not use the same criteria for Observing another as we do Observing ourself. Observing another there is an other, yet in Observing ourself we must Observe ourself AS ourself and not as an other Observing. Self Observation is always useful and helpful in Working on ourself, but when we Observe ourself as the Observer AND the Observed as One the result is an Open Honest Introspection of who we are and who we have become. Dwelling in that Introspection will reveal the means by which we can go from who we have become back to who we are.
Desires *should* have no value to us for such desires are mere attachments that keep us clinging to matters of the physical realm. For if one is healthy, one would simply BE healthy and mindful of whatever it takes to maintain BEing healthy. No need for a desire or attachment to this healthiness, simply BEing healthy and maintaining this health.
May I offer that the *watchdog* is our body's autonomic system that lets us when it requires some sort of attention to maintain it's health. No desire for healthiness has to be driven into our subconscious because the watchdog is already built into us.
Desire is a Veil to Realizing Truth, so as long as we cling to the desire Truth will always elude us. We can not find what we look for, any more than we can Realize Truth by desiring to do so. Truth can not be possessed any more than it can be found or given, whereas desires are of the physical realm of possessions and findings and givings. The Realization of Truth and Reality IS Awakening to What-IS AS the instant Present Moment without any projections of our conditioned notions into/onto the experience of that Moment. In order to do that we must work on discarding What-IS-NOT Truth and Reality, which is our conditioned notions and desires.
I would only add, that there is much physical realm Suffering in the world at large, but the Suffering that is at the root or Cause of the outer Suffering IS the Inner Suffering of Sleeping. When we manifest who we are in the various aspects of our lives, and when we manifest our Inner Suffering we will manifest Suffering in every aspect of our lives. Short periods of relief will come and go, but if we Suffer Within we will Suffer in everything that we do. Treating the outward Suffering of the world is futile until we treat the Inner Suffering of our conditionings and desires. These are the Causes and this is the Suffering that I am speak of. I have not been the first to speak of such Causes and such Suffering and I will not be the last.
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Subject: Re: What are we here for ?
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 06:46:49 GMT
Greetings Ram, you wrote: ->You quoted Carlos Castaneda -> -> > "The third attention is attained when the glow of awareness ->turns into the fire from within.... -> ->What is third attention in simple words and its impact on day to day life ->affairs? Is this awareness beyond the physical, emotional, and intellectual ->awareness? What are the first two attentions for the sake of clarity? What ->is this inner fire? Is it the knowledge of the unknown that burns all the ->karmas to ashes? or What?
What Castaneda calls "attention" is, the "first attention" being the awareness as animalistic basic dualistic sense survival. An understanding that we are something other than something else and the fittest will survive. The "second attention" is basically the start of conceptualization, being able to *think* about our reactions instead of simply reacting to our environment. Thus also the awareness that there is *something* beyond the known, termed for lack of a better word the "unknown". So naturally what Castaneda calls the "third attention", we may call *Enlightenment* or *Awakening*, which is what you call *Present Moment Presence*. So, obviously, this "third attention" is not "physical, emotional, and intellectual" but rather doing what must be done AS the Present Moment without projecting our conditioned notions into/onto Whatever-IS that Moment. The "fire from within" is nothing more than the Evolved/Involved Urge of our True Nature beckoning acknowledgement/Recognition. Karma may be likened to the Scales of Justice (the symbol of America's judicial system) that is quite Blind in Drive/Force to maintain Balance of that which ISNOT and that which IS, the Balance of doing what is conditioned and doing what must be done. Nothing to "burn" but ourself, our *personhood*.
-> >At the moment of dying all human beings enter into the unknowable and ->some of them attain the third attention, but ->altogether too briefly.... -> ->If we enter the unknowable, how do we really know some of ->us attain the third attention? Or is it the knowledge of some at the Near ->Death Experience?
Before one can understand life, one must understand death. For it is at the point of dying that we finally let go of our folly and enter a realm of total non-existence, a realm where nothing exists to cling to. Total Freedom from existence, thus total Awakening/Enlightenment. Yet only for a fleeting Moment, this "third attention" at the point of physical death. Yet understanding death we can thus apply this very condition of non-existence to ourselves this very Present Moment thus BE this "third attention" for the rest of our days while existing. Death is not "Near Death", as very few Near Death Experiences Truly get a glimpse of *Death* but rather there conditioned notions about death. Our fascination with this experience shows that basically we want to understand death but our Fear of non-existence prevents us from Truly understanding it. From birth, death is our closest Friend. And will never leave us while we are in this realm of existence. It is the Fear of death that ever pushes us closer to it. It is always breathing down our neck. So it would behoove us to understand it. THEN perhaps we could actually Live Life AS it IS. Live each Moment as though there will be no next Moment, and anew as though there never was a Moment before this one. BE as though you will never BE again, yet BE as though you have never BEEN. You can only BE for a Moment, Moment by Moment.
-> >The supreme accomplishment of human beings is to ->> attain that level of attention while retaining the life-force, without ->becoming a disembodied awareness." -- -> ->Of course, looks like a super duper awareness during the living of life.
Not really, just Awakening. Nothing "super duper" about that. Just a Moment to Moment *Happy Birthday*.
->As ->it is claimed a great accomplishment and rightfully may be so......
Siddhartha and Jesus and Muhammad and a number of other Wise Sages thought so.
->but how ->do we go about it and how do we cultivate it ->during the life cycle? Pointer?
Simple: Just Do It ! Clean out the Attic, Empty the conditioned contents that the mind processes, let go of all Desire and Attachment, BE the True Nature you ARE. The more you let go, the more you ARE. When you get to the point of nothing left to let go, you ARE the Freedom to BE Awakening/Enlightened/ThirdAttention. As long as you harbor conditioned notions you only fool yourself, because you can not BE Present AS the Present Moment until you ARE Empty of ALL defilements (conditionings). They are the Causes of our Suffering and the lack of such Causes being the Cause of our Awakening. Simply do it, simply BE, simply let go. One notion after another, one step after another, one Insight after another, and you may get out of the basement. And it is a One Way street. You either do it or stay in bed, dreaming that you did.
Subject: Re: What are we here for ?
From: "Ram Varma" <ramvarma1@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:37:09 -0400
Greetings again E.J.,
Thanks for calrity and beautiful explanations as usual. I have another comment though.
In the course of explanations, you wrote:
>> Karma may be likened to the Scales of Justice (the symbol of America's judicial system) that is quite Blind in Drive/Force to maintain Balance of that which ISNOT and that which IS, the Balance of doing what is conditioned and doing what must be done.
You may have any suggestions/recommendations how the current imbalance, as you see, can be corrected to the benefit to all the Americans in particular and the overall humanity in general. If so, what are they and how to go about correcting them? And also how that balancing technique be applied in volatile situations, i.e. Isreal -- Palestine and India--Pakistan etc to bring peace,confidence and stability?
Thanks.........Ram
Subject: Re: What are we here for ?
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 17:28:43 GMT
Greetings Ram, you wrote: ->You may have any suggestions/recommendations how the current imbalance, as ->you see, can be corrected to the benefit to all the Americans in particular ->and the overall humanity in general. If so, what are they and how to go ->about correcting them? And also how that balancing technique be applied in ->volatile situations, i.e. Isreal -- Palestine and India--Pakistan etc to ->bring peace,confidence and stability?
Not as "I" see it Dear Friend, but rather AS it IS. Not Americans in particular, but rather all of humanity. No one Saves us but ourself, no one can and no one may, others can Point to the Path, but we ourself must Walk the Way. Whether it be in a Peaceful hamlet in the Alps or in the thick of war and violence, you have to drop the added Baggage of conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts BEFORE any Balance can occur. As long as we harbor our dearly beloved conditioned notions, our way is *our way* and our path is *our path* thus The Way and The Path will never be taken. The world can be Saved ONLY one person at a time. So, Save yourself and the world is one closer to being Saved.
Subject: Re: What are we here for ?
From: "Ram Varma" <ramvarma1@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:40:13 -0400
Thanks Liz for your kind and sweet words. We are all learning together. EJ's rays of light are great reminders/pointers in this awakening/Present Moment Presence process.
Regards.........Ram
Subject: Re: What are we here for ?
From: <furst@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 03:28:19 -0700
Greetings Community,
E.J.,
I am grateful that Ram is at the forum! He puts a different angle to the same Path. I am here to know & understand who I AM as well as learn,accept,apply & do the best I can.For the good of all humanity.This gives me peace,love, happiness,& joy...yet there is more!
All is Perfect
Liz
Subject: RE: What are we here for ?
From: "Ragland, Thomas" <TRagland@UMCOM.ORG>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:31:03 -0500
There is no current imbalance. There is no such thing as money. There are no holy lands to fight for. There are no gods to die for. There are no saviours and none to be saved.
For we are already balanced, already are it all, it is all holy, we are all divine, and we are all our own saviours, though we have never been anyplace but home.
Subject: Re: What are we here for ?
From: "Ram Varma" <ramvarma1@rogers.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 08:03:32 -0400
Greetings EJ,
Reflecting back on Carlo Castenado's profound quotation, are we missing something:
1. The inner urge (the fire within) to know the "Unknown". Is the inner urge only related to "Enlightenment/Awakening" or does it also signify a deep-rooted aspiration to know the Unknown? May be it is beyond the physical death? May be it is both? Is this aspiration to know the unknown worth following? Is so, how? If not, why not?
2. What is "Disembodied Awareness" in context of the subject quotation? How does it fit in context of both: awakening and the unknown? What do we need to know about it in living of life?
My apologies if I am making a mountain of a mole...!!
Happy Birth Day to you too!!............Ram
Subject: Re: What are we here for ?
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 19:14:25 GMT
Greetings Ram, you wrote: ->Reflecting back on Carlo Castenado's profound quotation, are we missing ->something: -> ->1. The inner urge (the fire within) to know the "Unknown". Is the inner urge ->only related to "Enlightenment/Awakening" or does it also signify a ->deep-rooted aspiration to know the Unknown? May be it is beyond the physical ->death? May be it is both? Is this aspiration to know the unknown worth ->following? Is so, how? If not, why not?
No, the Point was missed, the "inner urge" is not to know the "unknown" but rather the True Nature Pushing for Recognition/Realization/Acknowledgement that there is something other than the conditioned "known". And it has nothing to do with Enlightenment/Awakening but rather has everything to do with us BEing the True Nature we ARE. Enlightenment/Awakening is merely a byproduct. We cling fast to the conditioned known Seeking the so called unknown, cling to existence *thinking* we can fathom non-existence, turning out to be our Folly. Death is as much a part of life as life is, yet Sleeping we are stalked by death and run away from life as a result. To Truly Understand life you must Truly Understand death, and to Truly Understand death you must let go of life. To Truly Understand the known you must Truly Understand the unknown, and to Truly Understand the unknown you must let go of the known.
->2. What is "Disembodied Awareness" in context of the subject quotation?
That fleeting glimpse of Reality at the point of dying.
->How ->does it fit in context of both: awakening and the unknown?
It IS both Awakening and the so called unknown.
->What do we need ->to know about it in living of life?
Drop the Stick.
->My apologies if I am making a mountain of a mole...!!
Indeed when we complicate the simple, neither the simple nor the complex is Truly Understood.
Subject: Now I am pissed
From: Sharlene <sharlene@light-mission.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 07:47:27 -0700
Greetings all,
It seems I have gotten myself into a deli-ema. What is unusual about that? Probably nothing. I have run into sexual harassment, if that is what it is called now a days. To me it is a little more than harassment though. I am doing this job up in the Nass Valley, which is an hour plus drive with delays due to the new Nishga Highway construction. So we decided to take a trailer and spend the nights there instead of doing the drive on a daily basis. That way we can work longer hours and perhaps get the job done in less days. A little background- my boss has been a friend for twenty years. He is a good friend of a cousin, which we met when they would come up and go fishing every May. I started working for him over a year ago now and things have been going fine. Then this stay over happened. I woke up at three am, with him crawling into my bed and he suggested a way to spend an hour of our time. I said no I am not into that, my conscience wouldn't like it and I would like to continue liking myself in the morning. He says, well why would bother you if we did something we would both enjoy. Now, this statement picks me. Who in the hell knows what I would enjoy or wouldn't? I am not sure what part of this whole thing bothers most. The part that he made a move on me, or the part of him telling me what I would enjoy or not. I got up, made coffee, had breakfast and went to work before 5 am. Needless to say we finished the first stage in three hours. The next stage of the job is suppose to start in a couple of days. To do this part, we were going to stay for a couple of nights and work longer hours again. I don't mind this part as I get OT instead of regular time. So, do I go and stay again. do I quit my job, or do I have to do that drive twice a day and get no sleep.
I don't know, I hate the idea of being forced into this type of situation in the first place. I liked my job and I liked my boss, and now, I just like the job.
Sheeeesh, Sharlene
Subject: Now I am pissed
From: <furst@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 14:04:02 -0700
Greetings to you Sharelene,
It seems to me that this fellow is very carnal or old nature!Does he value anything...such as respect for others as well a himself? We all have are boundaries & does he have any realization of the meaning?As well as to abide by them & can you trust him? If the answer is no to any of these questions go within & bring out the proper action to be taken then let go!.In other words leave do not react though as you are doing now.This seems to be an experience to learn & grow from.So do what is good & right for you & never look back things will be fine!
Love You from the Heart Peace
Liz
Subject: Re: Now I am pissed
From: "Ram Varma" <ramvarma1@rogers.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:38:24 -0400
Hi Sharlene,
I am sorry to note the rough spot you got landed in. Situations are situations. Use the golden formula: Be still and Know... There is nothing you cannot know in your own silence. Take time and reflect in your serenity and effortless response is bound to come to address this situation. You will be able to grow much stronger out of this dilemma.
Kind regards and Best Wishes.........Ram
Subject: Re: Now I am pissed
From: Ozbod02@aol.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:47:08 EDT
Sharlene, I really don't know how you will be able to work with him now. I think he may give you a bad time over it. Something like that happened to me years ago and I left. These day they can be taken to court for sexual harrassment. He is an absolute cur putting you in this position. I hope you will be able sort things out.....Love and Blessings, Maureen Harris
Subject: Re: Now I am pissed
From: Sharlene <sharlene@light-mission.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 06:20:26 -0700
Hi Liz and Ram,
Thank you both for your reply. Both with a good message. I use this space to vent many of my frustrations and problems on. Usually when I am silent, I am that space of the moment and lately too busy doing other things to get involved.
This threw me a curve. I laugh though, the horoscope mentioned something along this nature and now can't find it to reread. Usually I keep it and check it after to see if was close to the truth or not, but not this time, I read it first and dumped it.
I am not sure what to do at this point. The thing is, in most of these cases, the offender gets away with it and the other loses their job. Other than severance pay if taken to court which is just a slap on the wrist to most.
When one door closes, another opens. There is no doubt that this door will be closed. And no doubt another will open. When I vent, it is because within my moment, I need to vent. I usually get over it just as quickly. Guess my attachment was to the enjoyment of the job and to the people I meet through it. It also appears that I vent to release and then remember not to question or wish things to be different.
It also appears that experiences of all kinds never seem to evade me. Has a good one a few weeks back. Rode to Vancouver with my daughter to help her with siding her place, not knowing how I would get back. The phone rang and my nephew needed someone to help him move to the north. He had a van that he wanted up here and he didn't drive a standard. So I said sure, no problem. HA, was that an understatement of the year. I never saw the van until I was ready to leave. I opened the door and wondered if I was sane. There were no insides other than metal and it was loaded with furniture to the very top. The seat didn't move and the seatbelt wasn't even the right one for the seat. I have to breathe in to buckle up and drive tip toed on the gas. It was noisy, the exhaust had a leak and I had to drive with the windows open. Then to top it off, it wouldn't go over 50 km an hour. And I had two days to drive. It was an adventure to be sure. I needed ear plugs.
First big hill between Boston Bar and Lytton(which is the hot spot in BC) I had to pull over and add oil. Gas was fine, got good mileage. And yet, every hour I had to stop and add oil. Needless to say it was a long day and it even got longer the next.
Left Prince George at 8 am. Couldn't get them moving before that. I usually leave on trips before 6 am. About half way, we stopped to let the dogs do their thing and have a break. I insisted I needed a break and that he would have to drive the van for an hour anyway. So he did sort of. He took the keys to the truck with him in his pocket. His wife heard me honking the horn and stopped, then she drove back to where I was. I told her what happened and we sat there and laughed wondering how long it would be before he noticed we weren't behind him. I called my brother on the cell and told him he may have to meet him on the road and bring me the keys. But shortly after he came back. When I got back into the van to drive the river part of the road as he was nervous driving the van and of the river. The engine started knocking real loud. We stopped again and added extra oil. IT was slow after that. about 25 kms per hour nursing it along. I stopped again and flagged someone down and gave them my brothers phone number and told him to drive out and meet us as I knew we weren't going to make it, or just barely. So he met us about 50 kms from town and we put the load in his truck to ease the burden. And went crawling down the road at 25 km per hour. Dave and Kelly came out to find us as well. Dave is a mechanic and he figured he could assist in the making of the drive. Well, no sooner did he get there and turned around, 5 kms later the motor blew up and we had to call a tow truck. We were 31 kms out of town. And it was 10:30 pm before we made it to the newly rented home. So my day started at 5 am and ended at midnight. We had to set up the bed and stuff for them to sleep on.
So life is full of experiences. Whatever would we do without them. Always said I had more guts than brains and the universe keeps on proving it to me. Ha ha . As it has been said, never say whoa in a bad spot. Ahhhhh, life has it experiences and none of them are really bad with the right attitude. If life wasn't a big adventure what would we do? May I never get beyond having them.
Good day to all, thanks for listening to my prattle.
Love and blessings
Subject: A Ray Of Light
From: Ray.of.Light@light-mission.org
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 04:35:00 GMT
Greetings Ye Seekers of Truth and Understanding,
The "love" of things is not Love, but rather our attachment to them. When we Love, we simply Love, with no particular *thing* in mind. Another Illusion of the conditioned mind, of the Grand Trickster. The Direct Experience of that which you mention is not Illusion, but rather the Direct Experience of that which is mentioned. The Illusion is that we cling to those memories as though they were still experienced. Each Moment is anew from Moment to Moment, thus each Direct Experience is anew each Moment that those Direct Experiences are Directly Experienced. Memories Bind us to the past and distract our Attention from the Present Moment. The past is not Real for it has come and gone. Yet though we Realize that we Directly Experienced it is the Wonder of True Life. But we forego the opportunity to Directly Experience the Present Moment by Dwelling in memories. They were not Illusions when they were Directly Experienced, but they are Illusions as memories. True Life is to be Truly Lived each and every Moment from Moment to Moment, THAT is Life and Living, all else is but Illusion of memories. The picture is not the Experience, as the memory is not the Experience. The Illusion is that they are one in the same.
Manifested form IS manifested form, and is not an Illusion but rather quite Real. The Illusion is that it is permanent and is of some importance other than Directly Experiencing it, and that *it is all there is*. The Illusion is that we hold on to it and cling to it as some anchor so we will not float away. And anchor us, it does. It anchors our attention to it, and therefore prevents us from Truly enjoying the Wonder of it. We must Directly Experience all of manifested form to it fullest each and every Moment as though it will not be there to Directly Experience in the next Moment. And Openly and Honestly Experience it as though it has no power over us, for it's impermanence is not worthy of our clinging to it. We must jump into the Fire to Live, for to dwell only in memory is merely to survive.
True, death is but an illusion for manifested form is but a *day in the Life*. We are but Visitors in this particular stage of evolving manifested form -- this is it's impermanence. Real as it might be, it is not all that there IS. And in the evolution and involution of manifested form, it's impermanence is in it inherent disposition to entropy. Manifested form springs forth, entropys, and returns to it's Natural element. This is the Nature of manifested form. And in it's various stages of evolution, all manifested form will return to spring forth again and again and again to further it's evolution/involution. The more we Directly Experience in any given *return*, the fewer times we will have to *return*. We Evolve to Involve, and so as we progress as manifested form we also progress as unmanifested form -- a Return to the Source. We keep evolving, but if we do not Directly Experience each opportunity in this evolution (incarnation) we *have to keep returning until we get it right*.
Indeed judgment is our destruction, so do not judge yourself any more than you want others to judge you.
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