What is this?
Who am I?
To all those world-wide embodied souls and truth-seekers who might or have visited and viewed this spiritual and philosophical contemplative blog -
This will be my last and final additional article to this blog 'The Many Faces of the One'.
ALL THINGS COME TO PASS
As an embodied self and temporary physical self-aware construct I have personally reached the end of all that I have to say on this esoteric matter of fully realizing and knowing the ultimate truth of reality, identity and experience. This being the complete and final unity of Reality and all creation as one.
I'd like to think that my so-called embodied personal and impersonal rambling has finally played itself out. Hoorah, Allah! Praise be to God! I can finally rest in complete contemplative silence on this much debated and carefully considered spiritual and philosophical matter. I may add some additional notes here and there after re-reading and reviewing any of the uploaded articles and notes but I can assure you that the compiled body of written work and collected material is now here in full to read, consider, examine, explore, challenge, ignore and maybe even contemplate and realize.
One with God. Identified with God. Complete unity with God. All One!
Post-article 2024 note *Please always keep in mind and remember, that what is written and presented here on this esoteric and philosophical blog is only the spiritual ramblings and present revelations and conclusions of one embodied and spiritually inquisitive self-aware soul and committed truth-seeker and they must definitely be approached, viewed, read and treated as such. These spiritual and contemplative compiled unpublished philosophical writings and works do not represent a universal or collective opinion, view, belief or ideology. These are my own collected insights and present spiritual revelations and conclusions on the true nature of reality, experience and identity, although I am fully aware that some of them are certainly shared historically and universally by other like-minded embodied souls, esoteric and religious thinkers, truth-seekers, philosophers and yogis, both past and present.
These carefully compiled spiritual and philosophical writings and works are not here to oppose or dispute any other religious or spiritual teachings, ideologies, beliefs, views or philosophies. In fact, they are not here to oppose anything or anyone. This is my ultimate Truth as I presently know it to be. It is my own on-going direct and intimate relationship with God and Reality as I live and know it to be and what is presented here should be approached, viewed, read, investigated, challenged, examined and treated as such. I view and consider my temporary embodied self as a single-minded person and construct of God. One who fully identifies with God. What I, rightly or wrongly, consider to be an Atman-yogi - an embodied spiritual seer and lover of the highest Truth - Oneness. A lover of God. Of, Allah. Of, Krishna. Of, Truth.
"The one true miracle we all seek is Reality itself. Despite all its seeming chaos, cruelty and darkness, existence and to exist is the miracle we all embody and share. We are all the miracle, lived and played out, right here and now. This is the inexhaustible beauty, unity and perfection of all things, dramas and creations. All creations and phenomena have their existence and time with God alone The present is the past and the future. You are all the past has been and you are all the future will be. All one."
WALKING THE PATH OF THE DEATHLESS
These carefully compiled unpublished esoteric writings and works are simply here for any or all spiritual and philosophical inquisitive mind, thinkers and truth-seekers to view, read, consider, dismiss and perhaps even examine, investigate, explore, challenge and self discover. On my part there is no personal or intended hidden agenda or expectation attached to them. They simply are what they are, as directly guided and given. I only do and serve as intuitively guided and directed. This is what I consider to be a personal and heartfelt recorded and stated testament of my every-day relationship with God and Reality as I presently live, view and know it. Nothing more and nothing less. All is as it is. One Reality. One Truth. One enduring Identity. The present is the past and the future. All One.
I have lived and I am presently living this as my own experiential realized and embodied Truth.
Wrongly or rightly, I see it all as an selfless and embodied guided and directed personal and impersonal attempt at an emotional rewarding act of love, gratitude, grace and kindness in total honor and respect of all universal spiritual, religious, transcendental and philosophical teachings, ideologies, dogmas, beliefs, views and practices, both past and present, potentially and purposely pointing to the one ultimate, perennial, unchanging, timeless and unsurpassable Truth. What I personally see and know as esoteric medicine for the soul. This one universal and perennial Truth and medicine being the complete and final unity and knowing of Reality and all creation and forms as one - Oneness. For me, the Self and the universe are one and the same. Reality and the universe are one and the same. All one. Oneness.
One Reality. One Truth. One enduring and timeless Identity. All One.
This esoteric Truth and Reality that I communicate and speak of being one inexhaustible and enduring supreme Intelligence and Identity known, expressed, celebrated, praised, shared and served in many different names, forms, beliefs, views, ideologies, practices, dogmas and ways. Be it God, Krishna, Allah, the Tao, 'emptiness', Buddha-nature or simply Reality as it is. Personally I make no distinction. To me, it is all one unchanging, ever-present, timeless and enduring Truth, Identity and Reality, despite whatever name, label or conceptual dogma, opinion, belief, construct or view we might give or attach to it. It is as it is. Unchanging, boundless, ageless, timeless, inexhaustible, without attributes, untouched, ever-present, immaculate and eternal. Of this, I remain mindful.
All is Eternity seeing, recognizing, realizing and knowing Eternity. All One.
"He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings no longer hides in fear. For the man of wisdom, in whom all beings have become his own Self, how can delusion, how can sorrow befall the seer of oneness? He is all-pervading, shining, bodiless, unscarred, without sinews, pure, untouched by sin. He is the seer, wise, encompassing all, self-existent." - The Upanishads
WHAT IS REAL?
What is openly and freely offered, delivered, communicated and presented here is one man's messy and genuine guided and directed attempt and on-going committed endeavor to make complete peace with death and the on-going demands, changes, conditions, challenges and needs of living and playing out this somewhat seemingly weird but beautifully strange and ever-changing embodied self-aware transitory existence. It is one man's genuine spiritual and philosophical on-going and committed search and need for absolute Truth and the complete return back to Godhead. What I see and know as the true ageless and timeless Self, realizing, knowing, respecting, serving, celebrating and loving the Self so to speak. Reality fully as it is. Here and now and always. One Reality. One Truth. One enduring Identity. This is the one universal and absolute Truth that unites us all, totally free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, self-importance, separateness, difference and intolerance. A timeless and ever-present Truth that fully recognizes and acknowledges that we are all born of 'emptiness', have our being in 'emptiness' and we all return to 'emptiness', having never really left 'emptiness'. As stated, the Self and the universe are one and the same. Reality and the universe are one and the same. All One.
There is no-where from which I came.
And there is no-where to which I go.
I never arrived therefore I never really leave.
I am the ever-present and all-knowing enduring Self.
Ageless, limitless, boundless, timeless and deathless.
THE GRACE AND BLESSING OF GRATITUDE
I would like to personally and continually acknowledge and thank all the unexpected world-wide visitors and souls who have so far intentionally or unintentionally visited, graced and viewed this esoteric and philosophical blog on the timeless Truth and unity of all creation, forms and existence.
You have all unknowingly helped and encouraged me as a temporary embodied self and self-aware transitory construct to fully commit and complete this on-going guided and directed earthly endeavor to continue to closely question, examine, explore, challenge and investigate the truth of reality, experience and identity. To ask, 'what is real?' It has certainly also helped me, the embodied mind-body construct, find my own genuine and so-called worthy place in the ever-changing and challenged sensory world of transitory things, dramas, constructs, forms, beliefs, opinions, views, creations and phenomena, whilst all the time residing and continuously identifying with ultimate Truth. Be it God, Krishna, Allah, the Tao, 'emptiness', Buddha-nature or simply Reality as it is. This Truth being the oneness and unity of all creation, existence and phenomena. Our one true and real enduring, deathless and timeless nature.
I am deeply and genuinely grateful to all world-wide and embodied souls and constructs for this gracious and worthwhile blessing. My only own genuine and personal earthly wish would be for this perennial and timeless Truth to reach, touch and influence as many expressions, creations and forms of Reality as humanly possible. Despite the large volume of unpublished esoteric works and writings offered, compiled and presented here, it is a simple and selfless intended nudge and reminder of the true unity, nature, oneness and interconnectedness of all creation, phenomena, constructs, dramas, creations, worlds, realms and forms. As it is. All One. An ever-present, timeless and enduring universal Truth totally free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, division, self-importance, difference and intolerance. As I see and know it, we are all born of the Self, have our temporary embodied existence in and of the Self and we all return to the Self, having never really left the Self. Here by the grace of God, Reality, am I and all creations. The Self and the universe are always one and the same. This is our one true and real enduring, deathless and timeless nature. Reality as it is.
This is the absolute unity I live, celebrate and speak of. All One. Oneness.
WHO AM I?
As I see and know it, we are all born and made of the Self, have our being in and with the Self and finally returning to the Self, having never really left the Self, and having always been the Self. Our sole existence as the fleeting and transitory song, dance and play of it all is simply to fully realize, love, serve, honor, know, respect, see, serve and celebrate the true Self in all creation, things, constructs, dramas, phenomena and forms. As I see and know it, this is the only lasting and genuine way to complete enduring universal unity, love, freedom, kindness, tolerance, respect, wisdom, immortality and peace. What I see as us simply fully realizing and knowing that the Self and the universe are one and the same. It is the transcendental and complete realization and knowledge of our true nature, identity and essence. Our Buddha-nature. The past is the present and the present is the future. The future is the present and the past. All one.
One Truth. One Reality. One immaculate Identity. All One.
"Those who have believed and whose hearts have rest in the remembrance of Allah. Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest. Those who believe and do right: joy is for them and bliss their journey's end. The East and the West belong to Allah: wherever you turn there is His face. Allah is all pervading and all knowing." - The Qur'an.
I openly admit and acknowledge I am no Mooji, Eckhart Tolle, Sadhguru or Rupert Spira but I do take great joy in the knowing that such influential and trusted embodied spiritual thinkers and committed truth-teachers as these are reaching and influencing such a large and world-wide interested spiritual and philosophical thirsty audience. I also appreciate that the human condition, for what it is, presents us all with a variety of individual, different and collective inward and outward challenges, changes and obstacles to overcome and it is easy to want to create strong personal and collective stories, ideas, views, opinions, beliefs, ideologies and conclusions as to why things are the way they are in order to find and have lasting acceptance, relief, happiness, freedom, security, certainty, immortality and comfort. We all know with time, as embodied self-aware transitory forms and constructs, that our created and conditioned lives will come to pass, cease and end. As embodied souls and self-aware constructs we are all here for a limited time only. It is very clear and perhaps unsettling and painful in the vast strangeness and beauty of it all to know that in one way or another we are all temporary bodily visitors on an ever-changing, transient and ever-challenged planet.
My own personal and impersonal embodied spiritual and truth-seeking commitments have certainly been one of endlessly trying to understand and fully accept death and all the loss, cruelty, hatred, confusion, pain and disappointment that can come with simply living, ageing and dying, both individually and universally. What you will find, examine and read here are the unfolding findings, revelations and messy spiritual and philosophical conclusions of one man's on-going genuine spiritual and worldly endeavor to overcome the feeling and impact of suffering and what it is to be fully awake and identified with the concept, identity, truth and idea of God. To directly know what it is and means to be fully in the conceptual world of dramas, constructs, appearances and stuff but not to be identified with it or attached to it. To finally and purposely make peace with the transient and ever-changing anomaly of living , ageing and dying, totally free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, self-importance, separateness and intolerance. To fully know what it is to be truly God-conscious. To be fully awake and free of ignorance and suffering. An Atman-yogi. One who has fully realized that the Self of the individual is totally identical to the Self of the universe. One Identity, One Reality. Truly and fully knowing the bliss of Self-knowledge. The Self and all creations as one.
"Be still and know I am God. I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world." - Psalm 46:10 The Bible
KNOWING TRUTH
As a personal note, I'd like to think the one thing or insight anyone can take really from all these compiled unpublished spiritual and philosophical writings and works is some genuine awareness and clarity into the impermanence and emptiness of it all - the simple transcendental truth and life-affirming acceptance of the way things really are - the perennial and unchanging Truth of reality, experience and identity - Oneness. Fully and directly recognizing, realizing and knowing one's true deathless nature and essence.
For me, our true essence, nature and identity is with God and God alone. For me, this is the enduring and changeless Truth that establishes and unites us all regardless of appearances, form, opinions, views, beliefs, attitudes, differences, ideas, dramas and behavior. For me, all is the one Absolute, regardless of the name we might use, give and attach to it. Be it God, Krishna, Allah, the Tao, 'emptiness', Buddha-nature or simply Reality as it is. This one universal Truth is our true ever-present and enduring essence, origin, presence and nature, completely free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, self-importance and intolerance. It is a Truth that recognizes and acknowledges that we are all born of the Self, have our being in and with the Self and we all eventually return to the Self, having never really left the Self. This is the ever-present and timeless Seer of all. In this Self-knowledge all creation and creations are celebrated as this one Truth.
One Reality. One identity. One enduring and changeless Truth. All One.
As I see and know it, there is no forever in the worldly things, conditions, constructs, events, creations, views, opinions, projections and dramas of this ever-changing and transient conceptual world of the senses. All these so-called happenings, dramas, situations, constructs, phenomena and events will eventually come to pass, cease and end. It is unavoidable. Only pure Reality is eternal and real.
For any of us as a physical and embodied self-aware construct and transitory form there might not be a next year, a next month, a next week or even a next day. This is the uncertainty, certainty and truth of having an embodied self-aware existence. This is a mortal and humanitarian position that we all embody and share regardless of our personal circumstances, fortunes or misfortunes, gains and losses, views, opinions, status, ideologies, wealth, self-importance, culture and beliefs. For me, certainly precious and deserving are all living things, creatures, creations and forms. For me, all appearances and constructs are a moment of eternity temporarily embodied here for a limited time. This is what I mean by the 'emptiness' of it all. For me, our true identity, essence and nature is always with the one true and enduring inexhaustible Self. What you might call or know to be 'God', 'Krishna', 'Allah', the 'Tao', or simply Reality as it is. One ultimate Truth or Reality as it is known and served by many names, beliefs, views, ideologies, opinions, dogmas and interpretations. One Reality. One Truth. One inexhaustible Identity. All One. I am within you and you are within me. We are one and the same. The Self and the universe are one and the same. Reality and the universe are one and the same. The past is the present and the present is the future. All One.
You are Eternity seeing, recognizing, realizing and knowing Eternity.
"All is change in the world of the senses, but changeless is the supreme Lord of Love. Meditate on him, be absorbed in him, wake up from the dream of separateness."
- The Upanishads
KNOWING THE TRUE SELF
Let me also make this point absolutely clear: this is not a blog about becoming or being religious or spiritual, or blindly following a well presented esoteric ideology, view, opinion, belief or philosophy. This is one person's individual and messy guided attempt to examine, explore, understand and accept the truth and struggles of the human condition and the ever-changing vicissitudes of birth, ageing, pain, loss, grief, restlessness, worry, confusion, insecurity, hatred and death. In some small way it is a genuine attempt to fully come to terms with the human condition and experience and not to shy or hide away from it. It is an on-going attempt to explore, understand and accept what it is to be fully human and what it is to not be bound, limited, paralyzed, fooled, hindered, confused and entangled by it. To know what it is to be totally fearless in both living and dying.
I am always asking of my embodied self-aware self, who or what is the one having all these spiritual revelations? What is it to be fully in the world and yet not imprisoned, entangled or limited by it? This is what has personally inspired me and brought me back to Godhead. This being the Truth and identity with one ever-present and enduring Reality as it is. The one true essence, source and origin of all transitory creation, forms, experiences, names, dramas, phenomena and things. For me, it is the one Truth that universally unites us all regardless of appearances, circumstances, status, beliefs, culture, ideologies, views and behavior, free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, self-importance and intolerance. Reality truly as it is. Of this we can all become completely mindful - the Self of the individual is identical to the Self of the universe. One Reality. One deathless and unchanging immaculate Self.
I AM WITHIN AND YOU ARE WITHIN ME
What is this?
Who am I?
What is here to read and contemplate has all mostly been driven by the past personal embodied fear and confusion of death and the sense of meaninglessness and hopelessness that can appear at times to permeate the ever-changing strangeness, challenges and restless waters of birth, ageing, pain, loss, grief, worry, lack, disappointment, insecurity, uncertainty, hatred and death. The what, why, how and the who. Nothing particularly special or new in esoteric, religious and philosophical thinking and thought although I feel it to be totally worthy and valuable to the human experience and condition. Especially when so many embodied souls and forms are constantly trying to overcome and change the injustices and hardships caused by those in a grossly privileged, affluent and self-important position of status, power, entitlement, authority and financial superiority. I know how easy it is to feel limited, bound, paralyzed, fearful, fooled, weak and threatened by the things, dramas, conditions and events of this ever-changing and transient conceptual world especially when we are strongly identified with them or feel hindered and burdened by them or attached.
Of course I know this embodied self-aware form and transitory construct will die. It will disappear and end sooner or later. It might remain a temporary memory or impression in the mind of others for a short or long period of so-called conceptual time. People might speak of it or not, but it will be no more. For me, this is the strangeness, beauty and emptiness of it all and this somewhat material dis-ease and dis-content of the human condition and experience resulted in one man's messy but genuine committed attempt and struggles to make sense of it all and to fully understand and overcome suffering. To be awake.
What is written and presented here has been one man's inner and outward struggle and on-going spiritual pursuit to fully realize and establish a genuine understanding and knowledge of reality, experience and identity and a need for real and enduring peace, acceptance, love, satisfaction, truth, purpose and freedom in the chaos, uncertainty, cruelty, weirdness, beauty and messiness of it all. The simple and frank realization that however much we, as an embodied form and construct, might create, build, consume, acquire, have, achieve, control, desire and accumulate, death will certainly win out in the end. For me, the only real permanence is 'emptiness'. It is an unchanging Truth that endures all and is ever-present. It is the one true indestructible and enduring essence, source, presence and origin of all things, forms and creations. It is a Truth that sets us free of all that is limiting, changing, fleeting, false and binding. It is the one enduring and indestructible source, origin and essence of all creation and the one same boundless source to which all creations return, free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, self-importance and intolerance. Of this we must all be mindful - the Self and the universe are one and the same.
One Truth. One Identity. One enduring Reality. All One.
I'd like to think that this universal and perennial Truth is clearly present here in these collected spiritual and philosophical unpublished writings and works even if my interpretations of it are a bit all over the place, which is not surprising because my embodied life has been a bit all over the place too. Genuinely, the truth and enduring nature of reality, experience and identity is all that matters to me and to this I remain fully committed and identified. Of course there is always the possibility that I am completely wrong, but I stand firm by the Buddha's teaching on 'impermanence'. For me, seeing the emptiness of it all is to embrace it all for what it is, free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, self-importance, separateness, bondage and intolerance. It does not necessarily change what things are but our identity and experience can be one of freedom rather than bondage. One of acceptance rather than denial. One of truth and honesty rather than one of ignorance and confusion. One of kindness rather than ill-will and hatred. One of inclusion rather than exclusion. One of Truth rather than ignorance. One of love rather than shame, blame, hatred, ill-will and anger. I'd like to think in some small way that what is written and presented here can help us all embrace, tolerant and respect our differences and unite us all in the ending of all suffering. This being a fully awake and united world that acknowledges, embraces, respects and celebrates all its diversity and multitude of differences, beliefs, views, ideologies, ideas and cultures.
I am within and you are within me. We are one and the same. The Self of the individual is identical to the Self of the universe. The Self and the universe are one and the same. This is the absolute Truth of Oneness. Of this, I am certain. In this transcendental knowledge the 'I' has absolute peace.
EMPTINESS IS THE ONE ENDURING REALITY
As a final personal reading recommendation note; I would highly recommend to you Rupert Spira's published manuscript titled 'Being Myself' from the Essence of Meditation Series. Despite having the embodied form of being a somewhat small manuscript its enduring and perennial wisdom within is truly boundless, genuine, profoundly deep, insightful and radiate. I find that all that needs to be said is perfectly written and masterfully said. Obviously this is only an individual and personal opinion and recommendation but 'Being Myself' is definitely worth a visit and read for those genuinely interested and committed in exploring and understanding the true nature of reality, experience and identity.
Genuinely, in all this craziness, beauty, weirdness, messiness and chaos that can be life thank you all once again for your embodied time, generosity, attention, grace and presence. I'd like to think, like me, you too as a temporary embodied self-aware self and transitory construct will also fully realize and know directly and intimately the true and full miracle of an embodied and awakened heart and mind. And at best with this spiritual and philosophical understanding, insight and knowledge into the ultimate truth of reality, experience and identity fully cultivate and establish an embodied and palpable awakened state and presence of peace, beauty, simplicity, freedom, plenitude, forgiveness, gratitude, fearlessness, acceptance, tolerance, respect, wisdom and love in the esoteric and philosophical knowing of reality, experience and identity as it is - despite the on-going strangeness, uncertainty, impermanence, messiness, craziness, beauty and fleetingness of it all. Nothing special or new, although, for me, definitely worthy, valuable, always needed and rewarding. This is an impersonal and selfless act of love, grace, respect and kindness for the human condition and all its myriad and diversity of transient and ever-changing forms, conditions, dramas, creations, beliefs, challenges, views and behaviors. If any of what is here manages to help lessen or even remove the proliferation of hatred, ill-will, inequality and intolerance in this beautifully strange material and ever-changing world then it has been a truly worthwhile and fulfilling endeavor.
For me, it is to fully abide and identify with Truth (God) as the one enduring and unchanging essence, origin, presence and source of all things, appearances, forms, creations, dramas, phenomena and constructs. This is the inexhaustible, indestructible and boundless unity of all creation, phenomena, dramas and forms, free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, separateness, bondage and intolerance. One world. One Truth. One united existence. The Self and the universe are one and the same. The Self of the individual is identical to the Self of the universe - Oneness. The past is the present and the present is the future. All one.
All one. All love. All Spirit. All God.
I am the 'I-am' of I am.
There is only really one enduring Reality and ultimately all things are this one ever-present Reality.
Plain and simple.
I am That! All is That! Reality as it is. Oneness.
An additional post-article reflective note: On reflection of re-reading and editing this esoteric and philosophical blog I do appreciate that in these times of rapid change in thinking and the growing diversity in attitudes and mindsets to spiritual and religious practices, views, beliefs, opinions and ideologies that the usage of the word 'God' or 'Allah' might cause some unwanted or unwelcome confusion, debate, aversion and indifference to these particular unpublished esoteric and philosophical collected writings and works. For me personally this is not a problem or concern and it is something that I am completely comfortable with, be it God, Allah, Tao, Reality as it is, Buddha-nature or Krishna. I simply seek to express the one Truth that unites and bides us all, free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, self-importance, separateness, bondage and intolerance. To always seek to be mindful of God. One with God. United with God.
I fully acknowledge and accept that the use of the word 'God' or even 'Allah' might be off putting and problematic to other minds, constructs and souls in approaching, viewing, examining and contemplating what is available and presented here on this esoteric and philosophical blog. I can assure you it is never my personal intention to misdirect, fool or mislead anyone. For me, figuring out who we really are and what our life is and what it means to be 'me' or us, is an ever-changing and self-fulfilling inward and outward unfolding and layered journey of impersonal and personal self-inquiry and self-discovery in and of itself, and I would never foolishly assume what is here will assist, inspire, complete and fully please everyone who reads it. For me, it is simply the best of what I feel I have freely and spiritually to offer and give to other embodied souls and truth-seekers at this present moment. It simply is, one imperfect finger pointing to the moon. One moment and fragment of eternity temporarily embodied here for a limited time and doing its own unfolding and graced act in an attempt to embrace, unite and love it all. For me, God and Reality are the same. God = Reality and Reality = God. Know God, know Reality. Know Reality, know God. One truth, two concepts. Plain and simple. Make of it what you will. It is my dance. My song. My play. My Atman-Gita - my song of the true deathless Self. Here by the grace of God, am I. It is the song that sings and celebrates that the Self of the individual is identical to the Self of the universe. The Self and the universe are one and the same. One enduring and timeless Identity.
It is all the 'I-am' of I am.
Its enduring and ever-present silence and stillness is always present and palpable.
THE SILENT WITNESS
As a temporary and conditioned embodied self and self-aware transitory construct and form, I feel it is essential and important to have direct and intimate awareness and clarity in fully understanding and knowing who and what we are and what reality truly is. In this spiritually informed and fully enlightened way we are no longer fooled, trapped, limited, bound or misled by the false worldly illusions and fleeting promises of life. We stop buying so easily into what others are telling us to be and do and firstly figure out who we really are and what it is that really matters to us, ideally free of prejudice, hate, ill-will, ignorance, self-importance, separateness, bondage and intolerance. The potential knowledge of pure Consciousness.
Rightly or wrongly, I personally feel part of this is directly and honestly facing up to the fleetingness, uncertainty, certainty, mystery and strangeness of it all. For me, it is clearly seeing and knowing, that in a heartbeat or the blink of an eye, all the ever-changing worldly dramas, concerns, events, demands and worries of life and embodied living can suddenly all be over and done with. All that we might endeavor to become and be will not endure forever, and it might all be over much sooner than we actually think. This is simply the way things are whether we embrace it, ignore it, take joy in it or oppose it. I think this is all part of us fully owning our own desire and need for genuine happiness and peace independent of all the on-going changes, dramas, demands and challenges of simply having and living the human condition and experience. It is all transitory, ever-changing and empty whether we choose to embrace it or not. All that is, will cease to exist. Only Reality endures.
Nothing written, presented or offered here is conditional. It only asks us that we might come to intimately and directly know that which we already are regardless of appearances, dramas and behavior, free of opinions, views, beliefs, ideologies, ideas, dogma, concepts, ignorance and suffering. Personally I do not see any of what life is as being anyone's fault. There is no one to really blame. It is simply the way things are. I'd like to think with the invited clarity and wisdom offered here on this spiritual and philosophical blog we can be truly direct and honest with ourselves and others in who we decide to become and be and what we choose do with our lives, or we may even decide to relinquish the need to become and be anything but our innate transcendental and selfless Self. The one true enduring and ever-present true Self. This decision is not for me or anyone to decide. It is yours and yours alone. It will come by God's own grace. You too will directly and intimately realize and know that the Self of the individual is identical to the Self of the universe. The Self and the universe are one and the same. This is the truth of Oneness. The Deathless Self.
The Buddha states; "Better to live one day seeing the impermanence of all things than to live a hundred years of being blind to it." In my experience, this spiritual insight alone is certainly a worthy blessing to living a more fulfilling, free, loving, fearless, peaceful, tolerable, open, kind, inclusive, wise and rewarding life. It all opens up and presents us with the real and genuine possibility and potential for a united loving world free of hatred, ill-will, intolerance, prejudice, ignorance, separateness, bondage and suffering and it all begins with us. Who and what we are is what we bring to the world. Better to be awake than asleep. To be free of illusion and falsehood.
TRUTH INVITES KINDNESS
"All sensory experiences and objects of experience are impermanent. Even the very act of having and knowing experience is impermanent, and so too with experiencing. This is why I say that only 'emptiness' is real and that experience, experiencing and all objects of experience are essentially this enduring 'emptiness'. Suffering only exist in relationship to experience and experiencing when we think that which is impermanent is actually real, substantial and permanent. This is what I mean by the 'I-am' of I am. Only 'emptiness' is real and enduring. The only enduring reality is Reality itself. Of this we must be fully mindful to be totally free of all suffering.We are all one with Reality. Reality is us."
None of what is written and presented here can take away the fact that we as self-aware embodied constructs and transitory forms are only brief visitors and souls on an ever-changing and challenged structure of mass named and called Earth and I do not say any of this so we get down on living, ageing and dying. It is to ask and invite us all to open up to the possibility to be true to who we really are and what reality is and to potentially encourage us to make the most of our precious and God gifted and graced time in the ever-changing challenges, dramas and experiences we have and share in this strange anomaly we call living, being and dying. Potentially realizing and knowing that the self of the individual is identical to the Self of the universe. The self of the individual is identical to the Self of the universe. The present is the past and the future is the present. All one.
It doesn't mean that all the challenges, uncertainties, messiness, craziness and unexpected changes and dramas will simply disappear and go away from all our ever-changing lives but it does potentially open up the real possibility and prospect that we all might endeavor to fully live and have a genuine, loving, kind, intimate, tolerant, awaken, real and rewarding life with no regrets, ignorance, hate, shame, anger, fear, ill-will, prejudice, delusion, denial or blame. A genuine, open and honest life where we have freely loved and been loved despite the messiness, strangeness and fleetingness of it all. To fully and directly realize and known the one true ever-present and enduring identity of 'I-am'. For me, it is to directly realize and know that separateness is the illusion and oneness is the Truth. Perhaps only then will we all truly put aside our outward differences and not put walls around ourselves and others. We will all stand united and as one in the diversity, strangeness and beauty of all our fleeting and miraculous humanity and experience.
Perhaps those individuals and groups of individuals in the grossly privileged position of power, status, entitlement, authority, trust and financial superiority in the world will considered more carefully the real impact and damaging consequences of their reluctance and unwillingness to seriously act to protect the livelihoods and welfare of other less fortune souls. This is why I think it is important for us all to know that which is not bound, limited, entangled, threatened, impacted, changed, hindered or touched by the ever-changing things, events, challenges, conditions and dramas of this ever-changing and transitory world of the senses - The Deathless Self. This being the true enduring unity and oneness of all creation, phenomena, creations, dramas and forms. One Truth. One Reality. One enduring Identity. All One. Of this I am always mindful - the Self of the individual is identical to the Self of the universe. The Self and the universe are one and the same. Reality is what we truly are. This is the truth of the immaculate Self.
Precious is this embodied life and precious is everything and one who takes part in it.
Thank you. Genuinely, thank you. One thousand trillion obeisances to you all.
I'd like to think you will find something of your true Self in these unpublished esoteric articles and works.
This esoteric blog is dedicated to my earthly mother 'Rita' who transitioned on the 12th December 2021. A truly selfless, kind, beautiful, spiritual and loving embodied soul, friend and mother.
All is Eternity seeing, recognizing, realizing and knowing Eternity.
Post-article October 2023 note: Let me make this absolutely clear to all who visit and read this blog. The God or Truth I communicate and speak of here is one of pure love and total unification of mind, body and spirit with all things, forms, appearances, phenomena, beliefs, views, ideologies, constructs and creations. What I communicate and speak of is an all encompassing love and unity for all humanity and all creation, differences and forms. For me, it takes no personal stance or position, superiority or authority in or on these matters. It would never seek to intentionally harm, fool or abuse others or ask them to adhere to some formulated dogma, view, ideology, belief or condition. What I speak of, has no self-importance or ideology attached to it. It is Truth as Truth, and Reality as Reality. Plain and simple.
Here by the grace of God am I. Praise be to God. Allah be praised.
What I communicate and speak of, only serves in the complete and full knowledge that all is Truth and Truth alone. It is not self-seeking as to ask, manipulate or need others to serve its own purpose. It simply is as it is. It is love itself, and therefore it is one with all creation, phenomena, creations and forms. It is always loving and serving the Self as Self, and always identified with the Self as and being Self. If the fully awakened heart and mind is genuinely identified with Truth then there is no agenda, position, stance or dogma attached to its existence. It simply is as it is, fully recognizing and knowing this to be the Truth of all creation, forms, dramas and manifestations. For me, when you truly know God then who or what is there to oppose, harm, shame, control, manipulate, fear or hate. All is one with God (Allah) and of God.
For the God-knowing mind, the Self is always with all, in all and as all. One's embodied self-aware temporary and transitory existence is only to love, honor, celebrate and serve all in this supreme spiritual and philosophical Self-knowledge and Truth. This perennial Truth is the unchanging and immaculate Self and therefore not consumed or identified with all that changes. Despite the ever-changing and on-going dramas, conditions, situations and events of this ever-changing sensory and conceptual world it always radiates and fully embodies this supreme Truth. Always loving all and serving all in the supreme pure knowledge of Self (God) as the one true changeless and inexhaustible identity, origin and source of all creation, dramas, forms and things. This universal and unconditioned transcendental love that I speak of asks nothing or anything of anyone. It only adheres to its true identity with the truth of Reality. All things, dramas, forms and creations being born of this one enduring and ever-present Reality, and all things dramas, forms and creations dying to this one enduring and ever-present Reality. One with God. Oneness.
It does not require or need to be served or praised. It is the knowledge of it that serves and honors it. It does not need to acquire, build or have a church, mosque or synagogue in its name. It alone is its own temple and all things always reside in, of and with it. Its enduring and ever-present Truth is universal and therefore it does not seek to make or create walls, conditions and rules to keep others in or out. It is all encompassing and loving of all. It fully celebrates and has love in its own enduring and ever-present existence. It alone is all things and all things are united in its supreme knowing and knowledge. It is one with all whether we honor it, serve it, praises it or not. It is the one true source, essence and origin of all creation. All is united and one in its Truth regardless. One Truth. One Reality. One enduring Identity. All One. This is the supreme truth that the Self of the individual is identical to the Self of the universe. The Self and the universe are one and the same. This is the true oneness of all creation and phenomena. Absolute. Pure and simple.
This is the supreme and unsurpassable Truth and God that I communicate and speak of. Only this.
'One with God. Unity with God. Always with God. Praise be to God. Allah be praised.'
Here ends this spiritual communication. Blessed be.
