Lost

“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be” – J o a n  D i d i o n

The answer

Life is the answer, but to no question. If there is any, aren't "you" life itself?

Is it lucky to be born?

Is liberation luck or is there something I can do? 

To say it is luck is to look at it upside down.

To ask what to do is to look at it upside down.

Asking what to do is like asking how to breath, or to be born, or to die.

It's a koan. 

Impossible to answer. 

Because the question makes no sense

Osho

A dream

Everything is a dream. Every reality, every life, every existence is absolutely the same as the dreams we see at night. Short or long, pleasant or not, they are dreams. The only reality is this abstract dreaming power. If you get hooked to a dream, the sense of 'me' arises. This is what makes it 'feel' more real than the sleep dreams. The sense of doership arises along with the me. It is non-existent just like in our night dreams nobody decided to do anything, and nothing ever happened. But this is hard to accept once you feel like a 'me'. Along with 'me' also come emotional attachments, loving relationships, burning desires, etc. To understand that it's all a dream feels like tossing them aside, like killing them. So the dreamer is trapped in a strange condition. On one hand, this sense of 'me' gives rise to endless tribulations, worries and sufferings, but on the other hand to open our eyes to the reality of things seems like a huge suffering in itself. It seems like killing all you've ever loved. It's an unsettling predicament. The dreamer is stuck. The dreamer will be released anyway with the death of the body, but knowing this doesn't help, in fact it is another factor that makes this 'being stuck' state worse. Enlightenement is the built-in mechanism to help you move on, like a seat-ejection functionality. It is maturity for the dreamer, to learn how to deal with the reality that has been made real by the belief in it. How to finish the ongoing authoring of the story cleanly and then close the book permanently and move on.

 "In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!"  Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger

Your mind and...you

Your mind can’t take a walk, but it can think while you are taking a walk. It can’t make love but it can chatter away while you are making love. Your mind can’t hold a job, but it has lots of opinions and judgments about what you do for a living.

Your mind can’t really influence what will happen or what has happened but continually acts as though it is in control of practically everything. Your mind seldom shuts up!

Your mind doesn’t really ever do anything!

Seeking is the movement of separation

We become separate and take on the thought “I am a separate person” from a very early age and at that moment of separation, seeking starts. We seek for that which we think we’ve lost. So we grow up in a world where we’re taught to endeavor and make our lives work. Seeking enlightenment is another way of being successful and we usually go to a teacher that teaches us that there’s still an individual with choice. Most teachings are like that. Liberation can happen, which is the realization that the seeker who wants to own that is also Oneness. In liberation there is no longer a sense of being a separate individual. Liberation is the complete end of the sense of separation. But there’s still a bodymind organism that has conditioned memories, and has responses and preferences. That’s aliveness. That goes on.

Sannhetens pris

Når du tar dine første vaklende skritt mot opplysning så tror du at dette handler om noe du skal oppnå, få, tilegne deg. Fakta er helt annerledes, det handler om reduksjon, det er døden, det er å slutte å være menneske i verden. Sannhetens pris er alt, -dette er ikke en metafor/ bilde men den faktiske prisen for sannheten, den krever absolutt alt i bytte ,- og sannhet hva er det- ingenting i evigheten. Opplysning er å bytte alt bort for ingenting og der finnes ingen vei tilbake, så du må være temmelig  sikker på at dette er det du vil ha....

What is What is?

All there is is what is . . . but what is what is? Well, there is no real answer to that question. However, it seems that what is could be just what is happening . . . reading these words, sitting on a seat, trees growing, sounds, feelings, clouds or thoughts passing by and so on. In simple terms these events just seem to be what is happening. But the perspective here is that the essence of what is happening is a secret. It is suggested that what is is oneness appearing as twoness, the absolute being relative. It is the treasure that is longed for and feared most, the perfect lover and the grim reaper. It is of course the ultimate paradox, being simultaneously nothing and everything. The seeker attempts to be aware of or conscious of what is and immediately that function separates and objectifies and makes solid that which is wonderfully floating, effervescent and ungraspable.The essence of what is can’t be seen by me and so me never feels fulfilled because its experiences seem to have something missing. In what is is also what isn’t. This is the wonder of wholeness because it appears as both simultaneously. Everything that is something is also already nothing . . . there are not two! Everything is therefore real and unreal, but me experiences everything as only real. Within this illusion me attempts to transform this dualistic and unsatisfactory experience into processes such as “living in the moment” or “being here now” or accepting everything as “consciousness”.

However, and again, the wonderful paradox of the play of wholeness is that the story of me is also what is. All of the dreams and hopes, processes and religious aspirations are only wholeness appearing as a separate entity rushing around looking for itself and also hiding from itself by already being everything. And in being everything, even the avoidance or rejection of what is is what is.

Birth and Death are Misconceptions

Humans tend to regard themselves as supreme by nature, in contrast to what is generally viewed as a primitive world. Our lives are virtually encased in a sense of divinity, assumed to distinguish us from everything else. This sense of division is also connected to the belief in an inherently separate self.
Humans commonly see themselves as at least subtly God-like, marked by what is called consciousness. A dividing wall is imagined to separate mind from matter, the animate from the inanimate. Consciousness is seen as our divine self, and death, a fall into lowly materiality. The inseparable interrelatedness of people to everything else generally goes unacknowledged. The world provides us with things, but we are not of it. This dualism requires that we either accept eternal selfhood or be doomed to oblivion, death, as a descent into an incoherent abyss.
While the notion of human privilege appears to be an advantage, it is our affliction, resulting in an outlook of separation, conflict and defensive fear. The idea of birth as an independent point of origin and death as a final endpoint, is a misconception. An altogether different understanding of life and death, and of the relationship of consciousness to the world is necessary.

Alternative People

Alternative beliefs and outlooks, alternative business and politics, alternative lifestyles and health care, alternative foods and fabrics, alternative child rearing and schooling, alternative fuels and energies - alternative everything, basically, but not very alternative. These are the alternatives within the established paradigm, not alternatives to it- a subherd running in parallel to the main body. Rather than detaching from their ego structures, alternative people merely reshape them along more heart-felt and self-centric lines, their multivarious goals and ideals reducing to personal happiness via the removal, avoidance, and denial of unhappiness. In short, they make a minor course adjustment from orthodox to somewhat less orthodox beliefs, and the reason underlying the many apparent reasons for this change is always the same, survival of ego. A chameleon-like adaptability is one of Maya's most effective maneuvers. Paint some trees on the walls of your cell and some clouds on the ceiling and you're free as a bird.  

A better one

Awakenings does not help one to live a better life in the world. In fact, it could possibly make it harder. When Richard Rose was asked if life became easier after enlightenment he said no but it got funnier. Many people assume that awakening will be the end-all to their problems and that life from then on out will be a continuous joyride. That may or may not be actually true. Therefore, it's good to know exactly what you are after so that you can be clear it's what you are actually wanting! In the end, awakening happens or not and enlightenment comes as a gift. Every single person who has ever awakened will say the same thing. It happened on it's own, in spite of whatever someone was doing and often after a person had given up and no longer cared one way or another about ever finding anything.