You are dreaming that there is a 'you' that could change. The true 'you' is changless and the fake you, personality, can't change anything of it's own volition because a dream has no personal will. The only thing I might suggest (and I hate suggesting things, I think?) is take that part of little you that you want to change and find out if it's real. Go to it's core. How real is your neurosis? Go to it's core. When you get there, turn around and ask who is this that is going to the core? Stick with one subject, just one. I think you flit around a bit and that is a great avoidance strategy. Who exactly would accept your personality. You are in foam alright, but there is nothing but more foam there. Who is the 'You' that contains the foam. Who or what is aware of the foam, and then, the biggie... who or what knows you are aware... of anything.
Birth, and death take place in a dream. You can believe in them all you want, whatever it means to believe in them. What you believe in means nothing to Truth, it couldn't care less. They just might block the view a bit, but then only the dream is trying to view it anyways. It's all just wonderful experience, but where will it be in a few billion years. Where was it a few billion years ago. Do you think that 'You' are born or die?
Heaven and Hell, and absolutely everything in between never has been and never will be. There are no God(s), Angels, Devil, spirits, or the like. Karma doesn't exist in any meaningful way. All your good deeds and all your evil deeds go completely unnoticed. No one keeps track in the non-existent Akashic records. 99.9% of what you have been taught/told is either a distortion or a lie. Who would know truth and share it with you? Your parents? They were far more lost than you, and yet you believed them and may still believe them. How can someone who loves you tell you outright lies like 'Santa comes down the chimney'. He also has a list of 'good and bad' boys and girls. Everything else you were told was equally as rediculous, although usually a little more subtle. What you seek is simply that which is aware that it's aware. This aware un-thinking life that you are is the answer because it is the only 'thing' that can contain EVERYTHING else. What you know and who you think you are is of no meaning or consequence. Absolutely none. Get over it. You are no more important that a rock in your back yard. God no more smiled down and brought you into this world than this is Elvis speaking through me. Assaulting and insulting? Good, but who cares? Nobody! None of your life matters. Period. You will only get Truth to the degree that you drop ALL your beliefs in the little me and realize that You are the awareness that you exist. Create all the illusion you want, but it will only appear within Truth which is always greater because it is the only 'thing' that is actually in(not)finite. Drop all your spiritual pursuits because they all appear in pure awareness... in Truth. What is more??? Nothing. What tells you that you are alive? That's it, that is everything, literally. Right there in that second you had it, and then dropped it. So, try it again. What informs you that you are alive? Don't try to figure it out because that will also appear in 'It' and thus be lesser than 'It'. It's much too simple for the intellect. It cuts it out of the picture. Just softly be with what informs you that you exist. Does what informs you struggle for anything at all? Does little 'you' struggle? Contemplate if you will and ask 'What does my contemplation occur in?'
Meaning is completey fabricated by mind. I has no 'meaning'
outside of mind. We place a high level of importance on what
something means and most times it has something to do with
making me right and them wrong, It's just a pattern. Look around you and attach meaning to every thing you see. Make up more and more meaning. Spend some time at this. Get outrageous, down to the litter box you should have cleaned
yesterday. What the hell does that mean.... make it up. Go for it. Really, really do it, then tell us the most meaningful thing in your environment. How many layers of meaning can you place on something. Then move on and make up meaning for other peoples actions. They must have meant something by that 'look'. What was it? The meaning of them not calling is a biggie. A conspiracy of Mel Gibson proportions. Darn, was that door open or closed when I can in? I can't even remember. That must mean I'm losing my mind. How will I know what anything means without it? Where does that leave 'me'? WTF do all these questions mean? What does Jed mean when he says 'Love ya'. Is that his way of insulting me, or does he mean it? I mean, how does he mean it, like Mom loves me, or like Jesus (is suppose to) love me? Keeping all this meaning full of meaning is a menial task blown way out of proportion and it's using way to much of my ram. What's next? Love ya, Jed.
I only hinted at this in my previous writings. It's probably because I sensed how difficult it would be to communicate in any meaningful way. It's a step, if you will, towards abiding non-dual awareness, not to be confused with consciousness.
Consciousness requires that one be conscious of something. Awareness just is, it's a fact, beingness in Truth, and therefore needs no source or receiver.
Try to grasp the universe (of course is doesn't exist and cannot be grasped) and along with it the infinitude of it's size. Then imagine a infinitude of universes. Mix this with a sense of time that has existed forever and will continue to exist forever (another infinitude). Contemplate this 'package' and ask yourself, 'Has anything ever really happened?'. You must come up with your own answer, not mine. Maya hides the simplicity of Truth behind a door of confusion and the mind just loves all that confusion. So, my suggestions for you to comtemplate are as follows:
1.) Has anything ever happened?
2.) If so, what?
3.) How do you know that happened?
Your answers matter, not mine. Oops, I spilled some popcorn in the lobby.
Enlightenment isn't 'for' anything. It's only a mind that could make up a 'for' something, a purpose where no purpose exists. Why does a child play? It's only for his or her entertainment, that's it. Learning is simply a by-product, certainly of some value, but only a by-product. Set out determined to teach a child something and watch the resistance you get. Set out to play with them and watch them learn, they can't help it. Reflect on your experience in school. Just 'play' God for a while and learn God. (God=truth=enlightenment=whatever) We want to see purpose in everything. What if you entertained the possibility of no-purpose, none whatsoever in anything. Try it on for size. It may appear mean, petty, hopeless, but that is Maya's work, not Yours. That's mind judging it prior to experiencing it. Try life as the 'token' on a board game. The token isn't being entertained, just moved around, the Player is being entertained. Does it do any good for the token to resist movement to the next 'square'? Does it really matter what color or value the next square is? What wonderful freedom to be the token and trust the Player. The Player understands a hell of a lot more than the token. Does the thought scare you, repulse you, depress you? It's suppose to. That's why so few people get it. That's the secret. Be the token, if only for a brief time and tell us all what you experience. Jed isn't going to enlighten you, the Player just might, or maybe there is no such thing as enlightenment, just the playing. Why do kids (and many 'adults') love computer games? They know they are God, and here's an opportunity to practice a little, just entertainment. Are you resisting moving to the next square? You have as much say as a leaf in a hurricane. Watch how your minds reacts to these words, watch very closely. "Jed is full of crap' 'He's gone off his rocker' 'Perhaps it's the floride in this water'. 'Has he taken to drink?' 'It's the mercury from eating to much sushi.' That's the Princess speaking and what you are experiencing in this moment is it's attempt to save itself, to be in control and not be what it is, a token. Love Jed.
P.S. On a lighter note, You created absolutely everything, Everything and every thing, every being, every molecule, every cup, plate, saucer, every grain of rice, every war, every death, every birth, every world, every universe, every monster, every saint, every black hole, every asshole, every lover, every... well, you get the picture, you created it. Might as well enjoy it. It isn't going away because it was never here. More love, Jed.
Yes, when you know you're full of shit, there is little to defend. Life gets easier, But, like Echo said, it's a challenge to grasp that you don't exist. You do, in Truth, exist, it's just that what you think you are doesn't exist. That's where all the identities and beliefs you made up come to roost. What's the biggest most important belief you hold about yourself? Maybe something like 'I'm a good person' or 'I'm a thoughtful person'. These are both beliefs and identities. You are none of these, but, you are all the good that ever existed in the universe and you are all the evil that ever existed as well. That's a little hard to get your head around, but just try accepting it and moving on because there is another levell waiting for you. When someone yells out their car window.... 'Asshole' for cutting him off, he is just recognizing you for what you are playing out in that moment. Enjoy the attention, that's all it is. He isn't seeing you, he is seeing a pawn in the game, but you can enjoy it. When someone says 'Thank you' for giving them a break, just accept it and enjoy. The only thing is NEVER think that they know what they are talking about or that you are any of these things (never think I know what I am talking about either). This is just stuff that comes along within this particular game. Enjoy it if you will and then release. Therein is the value, they are opportunities to practice letting go. Give it a try. Don't worry about who does the letting go, just do it and see what comes up. Start small if you like. I expect a full report on my desk in the morning, or within at least 6 months. Love ya, Jed.
是的，当你知道你什么都不是的时候，就没有必要去为自己辩护了。生命也会变得更简单，但正如ECHO所说，真正理解到自己并不存在，是一项很有挑战性的事儿。因为你其实，在实际上看是存在的，只是你认为自己并不存在。这也是所有自己营造的身份认同和信念栖息的地方。你认为对于自己来说所持有的最最重要的信念是什么呢？也许是一些像“我是一个好人”或是“我是一个体贴的人”。这些都是身份认同和信念。这些信念和身份认同并不是你，但，你身上汇集了宇宙中所有善，同时也有宇宙中所有的恶。也许有点难懂，只要先试着接受这个观点然后继续向前迈进，因为前方还有另外一个层次的东西等着你。
Can you accept yourself with all your flaws, impulses and compulsions. Complete acceptance, no fight. A good dose of forgiveness is also prescribed. It doesn't matter if anyone/thing, etc. needs it or is guilty. Just start forgiving everyone in your life. Start as young as you can remember. Of course, you end up with the biggie, forgiving yourself. Please do it, but dont FEEL COMPULSION to do it. I don't want you to feel you have do DO IT ALL THE TIME. I definitely don't want you do DECIDE RIGHT NOW TO START FORGIVING, and I don't want you the THINK IT IS SOMETHING YOU REALLY WANT TO DO NOW. Love ya, Jed. P.S. Please don't START NOW or FEEL I have just installed an alternative but more useful COMPULSION.
你能接受你内在的所有缺陷，冲动，和对自己的强制吗。全然接受，没有任何的斗争意味。同时也需要自己给自己开一剂宽恕的药方，不论是任何东西，任何人，等等，或者是罪恶感，都需要这剂药方。开始宽恕你生活中的每一个人吧。趁你年轻的时候赶紧开始。当然了，你最终要做的一件最重要的事，就是宽恕自己。请你尝试去做吧，但不要认为这是强制性必须要这么做的。我不希望你觉得自己必须得全天候地做这些事儿。我当然也不希望你真的现在就做出开始宽恕的决定，不希望你勉强告诉自己，这是你真的想去做的事儿。爱你的JED。另外，请别现在马上开始，或是觉得我给你一个不得不去做的选择，但希望你有更多更加实用的对自己的强制。
