Post Manuscript World Contemplation Intro: 11/24 -
"You think you are the wave but you are the ocean. This is the truth I point to."
>PAY ATTENTION<>OBSERVE<>BE MINDFUL<
- A World in Crisis: the weird and the wonderful.
For me, the so-called material and physical world with all its ever-changing anomalies, dramas and creations is still a miraculous, strange, beautiful and curious appearance, experience and event.
>BE AWAKE<>BE FREE<
It is still strange and puzzling to me to think and quietly observe and contemplate that one day this temporary self-aware embodied form and conscious construct with all its ever-changing, impersonal and fleeting thoughts, feelings, perceptions, views, ideas, opinions, urges and sensory experiences will be no more, and yet I fully acknowledge, accept and know this is simply the way things are in this transitory dual material and conceptual miraculous world and realm of constant change and changing creations.
Attachment to this world of change and all its creations can only cause us suffering.
As with all spiritual and philosophical teachings, both past and present, they continuously remind and tell us all that there is no real permanence to be had, found, gained and owned in the worldly things, forms, phenomena, dramas, projections, impulses, desires, urges and creations of this ever-changing conditioned and conceptual fleeting and transitory material and physical world of constant change. All so-called things, forms, dramas, phenomena and creations are permanently marked and bound by impermanence. However much we might try to attach and hold on to things, experiences, sensations and creations, all this will come to pass. All these so-called things, dramas, forms, experiences, constructs and creations are transitory and will eventually cease to be. All phenomena and creations are empty of any real permanence.
Impermanence is the very conditioned nature of all things, forms, phenomena and creations.
>WATCH<>EXAMINE<>KNOW<
- Direct Experience
Even now today with all that I enthusiastically and confidently write, present and share here, both spiritually and philosophically, on this so-called esoteric blog on the true absolute nature and truth of reality, identity and experience, I am still slightly mystified and over-shadowed by the world's seeming meaningless, randomness, chaos, brutality and questionable profound and miraculous existence, spontaneity, order, indifference and beauty. Maybe it is all simply a beautiful and strange spontaneous miraculous mystery and cosmic happening and event that is truly beyond any of us to really and fully unravel and solve in any genuine conclusive, agreeable and satisfactory way. Perhaps this is the great unknown of self-awareness and knowing. The one true mystery that plagues us all.
However much we might endeavour to acquire, gain, own and have in this fleeting and ever-changing sensory world of constant change and transitory creations, constructs and phenomena it will not prevent or stop the passing and ending of all sensory things, forms, dramas, creations, realms, urges, impulses, desires, experiences and events. This is its ever-present unsatisfactory, ever-changing and restless nature.
"For me, all moments of experience are a unique and beautiful one time expression of Reality. Unique and yet transitory. Only Reality endures. Only this Reality is real. All creation and phenomena are this ever-present awake and known Reality. This is the truth that I point to."
"You are the ocean, not the wave. Wake up and know."
As I see and experience it, it is very easy for us as individualised forms and self-aware constructs to become and be very mentally and emotionally attached, identified and invested in this impersonal and imperfect physical appearance and mental construct and projection that we call mind and body, and all the ever-changing sensory worldly experiences, urges, desires, dramas and sensations that come with having them, despite being aware and knowing it will all be cast aside eventually. As a temporary self-aware construct death awaits us all. For me, this is an ever-present worldly and material puzzle that has always stayed with me; wanting, waiting and needing to be solved. What is real? What is it to exist and not exist?
Who am I? What is the truth of reality, experience and identity?
- Understanding the Great Mystery
For me, as a temporary self-aware embodied and sensory world construct and form, it has always been somewhat puzzling and challenging to always observe, experience and accept an ever-changing and ageing material and conceptual world that is consistently plagued and impacted by hatred, cruelty, greed, hardship, poverty, sickness, loss, authoritarianism, conflict, superiority, indifference and inequality. This is not to say there are not beautiful things and rewarding phenomena and unique moments to experience, love, acquire, share and have in this temporary worldly and material fleeting miraculous experience and existence of birth, living, playing, growth, ageing, decay and dying, but as with all conditioned, created and conceptual things, creations, forms, dramas and phenomena, this too will all come to pass and end. This is the emptiness of all creations, forms and phenomena.
As a temporary self-aware embodied and sensory conscious construct and form we all have to let it all go in the end. Impermanence is the very conditioned and unsatisfactory nature of all things, phenomena, forms, dramas, constructs, experiences and creations.
Attachment to this world of change and all its transitory creations can only result in suffering.
>BE STILL<>LET GO<>KNOW<>BE AWAKE<
To simply and freely love, celebrate, share and accept who we are and what life is, in and of itself, can be a day-to-day challenge for many of us, as well as dealing with the constant impersonal ebb and flow of worldly changes, dramas, expectations, demands, needs, impulses and challenges we will all have to face in one way or another as we navigate, live, act and play out this ever-changing and transitory material realm and physical world of constant change and endless creations.
Worldly existence, by its very own nature, can make it challenging and hard for any of us to be consistently and fully content and satisfied in all that it offers, presents, delivers, gives, shares and is. It can at times be challenging and frustrating to consistently and fully understand, accept and make peace with the way things are in this ever-changing impersonal and sometimes brutal dual sensory material and conceptual world and universe. The ever-changing world and all its on-going dramas, constructs and creations can seem totally indifferent and unconcerned for the day-to-day demands, wants, urges and needs of having and living this miraculous and transitory embodied self-aware and ever-changing existence.
And yet, for me, all moments of experience and experiencing can be seen and known as a unique never to be lived again expression of Reality. For me, it is only Reality that truly endures and exists. Reality is the one enduring truth, identity, essence, source and origin of all things, phenomena, forms, dramas, constructs and creations. All creation and phenomena are empty of any real permanence. Emptiness is our true enduring nature and the essence of all things and the universe.
"The waves of reality are temporary, and yet the ocean is eternal."
- To be Awake!
Here we all are in all our diverse, miraculous, beautiful and shared exposed, unpredictable and vulnerable conscious humanity temporarily and uniquely living, acting and playing out a transitory and fleeting self-aware embodied experience and existence of awareness knowingly knowing with all certainty it will sooner or later end and cease to be, and we have no real certainty and assurance as to when and how. Certainly for me, it has always raised and presented the deep contemplative and meditative question of who am I before I am and what am I when I no longer exist as a self-aware physical conscious sensory construct, projection and form? Who am I? What is this?
What is real? What is true happiness and freedom in an ever-changing restless world?
And yet as a fully embodied self-aware mind/body construct and form I am still baffled and puzzled by the reality of fully acknowledging, accepting and knowing the ever-present and harsh fact that, as I know my present self-aware embodied sensory experience and existence to be, I will in some near or distant future and uncertain time not be present as this particular and unique self-aware embodied conscious form in this ever-changing impersonal physical and material construct, realm and reality of space, time and form. All these worldly, material and sensory experiences, perceptions and dramas are limited, fleeting and temporary. All this will come to cease and end. All things, dramas, phenomena, forms and creations are bound and marked by impermanence. And yet, for me, all moments of sensory experience, existence and having experience can be viewed and seen as unique and ever-changing impersonal and cognitive expressions of Reality.
For me, it is only Reality that endures. It is this enduring Reality that is absolute Truth.
>PAY ATTENTION<>BE AWARE<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<
For me, when silently considering and contemplating the truth of impermanence and the unsatisfactory nature of all things, dramas, phenomena and creations it still completely amazes and baffles me that this ever-changing and impersonal sensory dual material, diverse and complex world of change and creations is still so largely driven, shaped, dominated and impacted by inequality, intolerance, hatred, greed, prejudice, misery, conflict, war, violence, self-importance and authoritarianism. It is crazy to me to think that such a small minority of individuals have and own so much of the world's material wealth and such a large volume of the world population still have so little of it. Let me be clear, who actually needs £100 billion dollars or even £1 billion dollars to live and play out such a short, temporary and fleeting existence? And so too with power. No individual in these present times should be trusted, let alone allowed, to have such extreme and unnecessary levels of wealth, status, authority, control, self-importance, superiority and power? I think world events, both past and present, show us all that it puts all our precious, worthy, amazing and fleeting lives at risk. And yet, these are only the ever-changing and transitory waves and creations of experience and existence and not the ocean and Truth that I point to and speak of.
For me, directly and intimately knowing Truth and being awake is all that truly matters.
- What is real?
I do ask myself as a physical embodied self-aware conscious construct, how is it that we as an on-going shared and global community still allow such a small minority of individuals or group of individuals to have so much authority, power, wealth, status and control over all our fragile, miraculous and vulnerable lives even when so many of these elected or non-elected individuals do little or nothing to improve, protect or better our day-to-day experience and ease of living, well-being, ageing, existing, happiness, peace, security, safety and dying? For me, this is certainly another unwelcome perplexing and challenging part of this so-called world and universal puzzle. The seeming unsatisfactory, fractured and restless nature of this ever-changing world of change and all its creations, indifference and dramas.
Why do we as a shared, intelligent and self-aware evolved species continue to allow, follow and accept a mostly out-dated consumerism and hierarchy world model that still only serves and benefits a very tiny minority of people in simply increasing, securing and protecting their already ridiculous and unnecessary gross levels of wealth, status, self-importance, control, self-gratification, authority, dominance and power? Maybe this is simply the imperfect and unsatisfactory nature of all creation and phenomena? Only Reality will endure all this. For me, Reality is Truth. For me, only Reality is not tainted, touched or altered by any of this. The waves of existence do not alter, lessen, stop or remove the ocean. This is Absolute.
Attachment and resistance to this on-going world of change can only result in suffering.
- Knowing Truth
Of course with the spiritual and philosophical revelations written, presented and offered here on this esoteric blog I do see and fully accept the transcendental beauty and perfection in and of all creation beyond what is material, physical, sensory, impersonal and conceptual. With the mystery of it all I do still silently and deeply marvel and celebrate at the very existence of what this beautiful and perplexing life, world and vast universe actually is and all the endless challenges, dramas, forms, creations, anomalies and changes it delivers, offers and presents. Be it the on-going joys and sorrows, the gains and the losses, the successes and the failures. The pleasures and pain. The highs and the lows. The mundane and the miraculous. The world's quiet enduring beauty and all its noise, cruelty and endearing indifference.
"You are the ocean, not the wave. Only this spiritual knowing of Reality can set us free."
As I see it, we all exist now as a unique and worthy temporary self-aware sensory embodied construct and conscious form of all that has come to pass and we also exist now as all that is yet to come. As I see it we are all the past, present and future as a unique, beautiful and worthy temporary embodied self-aware sensory moment and conscious construct of Reality. We are all embodied, multiple and diverse expressions and constructs of Reality. This is absolutely something I believe and feel we can all directly come to fully recognise, know, respect, love, share and celebrate in all the beauty and brutality of birth, living, existing, playing, ageing, expression, decay and dying.
The on-going complexity and diversity of it all and its endless and on-going impersonal multiplicity and diversity of creations, forms, dramas, projections, desires, impulses, constructs and phenomena is its real immaculate and sacred beauty - its real transcendental, questionable, compelling and alluring mystery. For me, it is all the one true Reality recognising, realising and knowing its own timeless, boundless, ageless and limitless existence. What some spiritual thinkers, teachers, philosophers and yogis reference and label as God-consciousness. It is Reality becoming and being fully conscious of its own immaculate and boundless existence, unity, beauty and enduring presence and emptiness. The I am of I am. Oneness.
The ocean, not the waves, and yet in this Truth the ocean and the waves are one. Absolute.
>BE PRESENT<>BE AWARE<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<
As I see and know it, we all momentarily exist as a unique, beautiful and worthy temporary sensory embodied conscious expression and construct of Reality in a space-time continuum that has unlimited potential and endless on-going possibilities. Both creative and destructive. Both loving and harmful. Both unique and similar. Both small and great. Both many and one. Both beautiful and dark. Both joyous and sad. Both pleasing and unsatisfactory. Both mundane and miraculous. Both rewarding and disappointing.
Wrongly or rightly, personally I do not think the past and present day world politics and organised religions have all the answers to what our future humanity should look like, become and be. It is its own on-going dance. For me, this is the great mystery that calls us all to seek and know.
"The waves and the ocean are one."
Despite all that the world is, it is still a thing of wonder. Simply to exist is its own miracle. Something to be treasured, celebrated, loved and not abused. This Truth alone places us all in a position of loving-kindness and gratitude.
- A New Paradigm
We all share and live in an ever-changing impersonal world of constant change that is still largely impacted and plagued by war, conflict, authoritarianism, greed, control, separation, hatred, prejudice, intolerance, violence, consumerism, self-gratification, ignorance and self-importance.
With all the present day global environmental challenges and climate changes facing the future of our on-going precious, miraculous and shared humanity we all urgently need a fully united, enlightened and agreeable world leadership and collected consciousness and certainly not the present day divided and volatile one. World leaders or hierarchy individuals pursuing their own self-centred self-interests and personal desires to have more and more power, wealth, ownership, control, status, self-importance, superiority, self-gratification and authority will not bring a much needed united world consciousness and collective intention that will seriously act in the best interests and needs of the present day and future environmental and economic challenges and climate changes that we will all have to face going forward.
I'd certainly like to think in the very near future that a new, enlightened and shared paradigm or world consciousness will reveal and show itself in all the unrest and conflict that plagues, harms and impacts this present day material and physical world of constant change. I would like to think, perhaps foolishly, that what is freely and lovingly offered and presented here on this esoteric blog might potentially influence and contribute in some positive, constructive, awakened and enlightened way. An invitation to be awake!
Who knows?
All I know is we all deserve better than what most of us are still managing and facing today. For me, we are a world in crisis and it is urgently in need of an enlightened, united, intelligent and loving world shift in consciousness and leadership, certainly if humanity is to unite, endure and survive. Obviously, these are only my present day world views, opinions and thoughts on the volatile and vulnerable state of the world. I am no one of any social importance or influence and I am not saying any of this for us to get down on life. I am not trying to incite guilt, shame, worry, aversion, fear or blame. For me, it is all a spiritual calling to liberation, higher consciousness and awakened thought in the ever-changing face of it all. It is an attempt to fully reveal and establish Truth as the potential building blocks of life, birth, living, ageing, existing, decay and dying and the on-going uncertain, vulnerable and fragile future of humanity.
This is not nihilism. It is a genuine love for all that is. The silence and still beauty of life.
My genuine love and prayers to you all. Please if you can help support and share this esoteric blog it would be deeply appreciated. A sincere thank you to all. To all embodied souls and self-aware constructs who remain fully committed to universal love, freedom, unity, longevity, wisdom, equality, beauty, higher-consciousness and peace, I salute you all. For me, we all deserve and need a united, enlightened, awake and loving world, and not a divided, harmful and toxic one. All one.
>BE STILL<>BE SILENT<>OBSERVE<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<
Blessed be. Be awake. Be free.
This esoteric blog is dedicated to my earthly mother 'Rita' who transitioned on the 12th December 2021. A truly selfless, kind, beautiful, spiritual, inspirational and loving embodied soul, friend, teacher and mother.
All these things will come to pass. Only Truth endures.
The one who is ignorant identifies with the wave. The one who is awake identifies with the ocean.
This is how I know it to be. Be awake. Be free.
Additional author note: some of the words that I use here, like 'spirit', 'essence', God and 'oneness', could as easily be replaced with words like 'energy' and 'singularity' but I have kept to what I live and know.
My only aim and focus here on this esoteric blog is to attempt to contribute in some way to what it is to be awake and have God-consciousness. Then who you are being or becoming, what you do, who you are with, what the world does or does not do will not impact or change who you essentially are. You will always know what true beauty and freedom are and you will see it everywhere, in everyone and at all times.
Whether other people or constructs acknowledge it or know of it, it will not matter, this truth of reality, identity and experience will always shine silently within and be the selfless, beautiful and miraculous making of one's embodied life. Blessed be. I salute you all.
"All creation is life itself and life is eternal."
"We are all beautiful and unique expressions of Reality. Wake up, be aware, celebrate and know. This is the simple message I have come to communicate and share." I salute you all in this universal Self-knowledge.
Here ends this spiritual communication.
