It's THAT Simple.

I know a woman who claims she has not had a single drop of water in her entire life. She absolutely refuses to drink it. Says she can't stand it. She also hates vegetables, and avoids them at all costs. The more processed, the more sugar, the less natural, the better. Her life, non-coincidently enough, is just as processed, very drama filled, and a mental ache to the observer who feels they are getting a live show of a Soap Opera they didn't ask to watch.

When dismantling belief systems, the reaction often observed is that of a mind gawking the simplicity of it all. Since the habit has been that of making things convoluted, the carbonation and excessive amounts of sugar seem to be missed. The good thing is, the withdraws do fade with time.

When the excess has been emptied out, one begins to tap into a current, a constant flow, that was never gone, and only because of it's subtlety, missed. This current offers no crash once the sugar is gone. It contains no mysterious ingredients. With every drink of it's simplicity, one will be drawn to laugh earnestly. To smile the silly smirk of the respected monk. To return to looking at the world with eyes filled with wonder like a child.

For once it's found, one can only wonder, how could it have ever been missed.

Why So Serious??

If you are to remember one thing, don't forget to laugh about it all. If it doesn't make you drop on the floor laughing your head off, you don't got it yet.

Bwaaahahahahaha!

Explorer of the Internal World

I am an explorer.

I reach the depth of the internal world, not through the spirit of conquering,

but through constant surrender.

I do not force myself into it, but allow it to enter me, penetrate the depth of my being.

I do not seek change of a particular kind, simply allow it to transform me.

Boundaries fade, a sense of limitlessness arises as the resistance drops.

Where there is no separation, no reaching is needed.

It becomes clear.

Never gone.

All is.

Breathe Easy

With every inhale, there is an exhale. Simple. Watch the tide rise and fall. With new sight, unfiltered perception, the tides, are embraced and released as they come and go. If a rise of success unfolds before you, it is embraced. Once the success of your works begins to fade with the passing of time, you release. Nothing is yours. Nothing can be gained or lost.

You breathe in air all day long, but never is the air yours. Your purpose is not to own the air, take custody of it, claim it, price it. Your only purpose is to inhale and exhale. Same with Life. As the air in your lungs, as the ocean with the tides, you allow the rise and fall of life to unfold before you.

You are never the owner of it. You don't control it. You flow with it. Constant flow.

The Meat of the Message

Normally, when a speaker talks about an intangible subject, an analogy is used to give the audience a picture that helps communicate the message the speaker is attempting to convey. What has been observed when giving analogies of what non duality is like to an audience, is that they get stuck on the picture, and forget to take in the meat of the message. Being that before a perceptual shift, the tendency to identify and attach to thoughts is high, the audience can very easily get stuck on dissecting the picture, instead of allowing the analogy to dismantle their old view of things to see what is.

To sit with an analogy, watch the thoughts and emotions that arise within, and do nothing, letting it ALL sink in, is a much more proper use of the analogy. The purpose of the analogy, is to get you to see with a sight that comes beyond mind, so don't use them within it.

Take this analogy as an exercise. A camera is built to take pictures, which are copies of a moment lived at one point in time. It is a snapshot, of one of the million moments of your life. The better the camera, the higher the quality of the snap shot, right? To get a snap shot of life, all the time, you would want a camera that takes great pictures at night, in low light, of rapid movement, small objects, and so on. Well, in the sense of a camera, it makes easy sense, but now let's look at the mind like a camera. Every time you resist to see something for what it is, it is like lowering the quality of your camera. It's taking off the color and choosing to see only in black and white, not being able to take rapid movement shots, and/or limiting the spectrum of color in which you can take a shot.

(Pointer: Here is a point where minds are going to want to go wild. 'Well, what if I like mind in black and white?' 'Maybe I don't want to 'see' everything that can be seen?' My response to that is...How about the option of black and white, versus making it the strict rule....and if that's the way you want it, continue on your way, I was just making you aware of all the capabilities your camera has...)

Key point here is, you are capable of expanding your horizons, your perception of things and how they work. Your mind's capabilities haven't been fully tapped into, and if you are feeling constricted, it's time you break out of that small shell, you are getting too big for it.

How exactly do you do that? By breaking away from what you know, and stepping into that which you don't.

Are You Willing?

Willing = No Resistance.

To break away from all you've ever known. To be torn apart. To push way beyond your comfort zones. So far, that you don't remember what's it's like to be comfortable anymore. To push the intensity. To allow the burning of all your think you are, and all you have ever known. To be detached, to walk with a void in your chest. Are you willing?

Willing = No resistance to purging. Willing to pop like a champagne bottle, fizz all the emotions that have been repressed for so long you don't even know where they are coming from. Willing to watch each come and go, without your interference. You have relinquished control.

No resistance to the waves of intense thought that demand to know what is going on, where this is going, why this is happening. To be willing to drop identification with every thought that comes through. To watch your desire, your habit, to attach to the thought, and feel the discomfort, the twitch when you don't, and sit with it, and do NOTHING.

To be willing, determined, in every step you take toward the unknown. To get beyond all you know, to see what IS. To see, that in your cave of beliefs, and concepts, of the way things are, you are not living, you are denying your self life. You've chained your self to a prison, and cemented your beliefs and made them the walls. This is not Life. This is Death.

Are you willing to have your perception of everything turned upside down, being left with nothing but a big huge question mark, and an abyss of nothingness? Are you willing to let the lies burn?

You don't have to know what truth is, you just have to know your living a lie. You've got to feel that within our existence. You've got to feel it haunting you, eating you alive. That way every single time a wave of resistance comes through, you let it burn in your chest, until no resistance is left.

Willing = No Resistance. No resistance to your fears. No resistance to your Death.

All that is left is Continual Surrender to the Unknown.

Mental Defrag

According to Webster Online the definition of defragmentation is as follows:

Defragmentation: to reorganize separated fragments of related data on (a computer disk) into a contiguous arrangement.

The word contiguous called out to me, so I looked it up as well:

Contiguous: 1 : being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point
2 of angles : adjacent 2
3 : next or near in time or sequence
4 : touching or connected throughout in an unbroken sequence

When one observes nature, and it's unfolding, we can with the naked eye detect a fluidity, where a long chain of organisms are linked together to sustain the ecosystem as a whole. With a peak through a high powered microscope, we discover another world that is made of billions and trillions of particles, that are bouncing off of each other in unison, to create you and me.

In a fragmentary state, one is nothing more than scattered pieces. Your existence, your life's unfolding, and the world arising around you, are nothing more than a sequence of random acts unfolding in a universe of chaos.

Our minds, instead of allowing a fluid flow of information, creativity, and inspiration, instead becomes a frantic 'thought stacker'. In this fast paced world, the time to sit, and arrange our minds, seems to be a luxury, a commodity. It should be a necessity. It is essential to Live life, and not just exist in it.

To sit, and observe our mind, it's whereabouts, and clean it out, as disk cleanups are recommended before hand, is essential for a productive unfolding. To treat the mind as tool, as a computer processor, also eases the detachment from it. Through this detachment the ability to observe our inner world, the thoughts and emotions arising, and sort them out, is taken on from a more objective perspective.

Stand still.
Observe where you are in life.
Link together all the layers of your inner experience.
Drop the resistance.
Allow each working layer to fall in it's proper place.

From here, you are no longer a victim of life getting thrown random events that make no sense. You are now, a character watching your own story unfold, and every moment is an opportunity to unravel, to grow, to put more pieces of the puzzle together.

Undoing Knots

In the process of detaching from identification to thought, the knots that kept us tied up will begin to surface. A high paced mind, hot flashes of inspiration and realization, and a general unleash of energy, (that can be highly overwhelming at times) arise as some of the symptoms.

Depending on the human, the placement of the knots and their intensity will vary. There are several factors that mold the persona. Held ideas, beliefs, and notions, influenced by external conditions, such as environment and history of relationships, plus the general current perspective of the world, to name a few. What causes the knots, is not the external circumstances, but to believe that these external circumstances are who you are. This is to live in ignorance of where consciousness comes from. To misidentify with thoughts and the reactive emotions, is a demonstrate of this ignorance.

In living in identification with the working of the mind, we have created an identity based on an accumulation of labels one has adhered to over time. This is the knotted human being. Whether positive or negative, they are still knots. The more one identifies with any label, the tighter the knot.

It is the undoing of these knots, that non-coincidently bring about what arises like an overwhelming release of energy. That is exactly what is occurring. In undoing the knots, in removing identification with the labels, you are freeing up energetic knots that you've attached to. Once the knot's intensity is overcome with open willingness and surrender to the label, one gets the glimpses of life's simplicity beyond mind. One gets glimpses of liberation.

When the knot has been undone, the key is to stay undone. It will feel similar to overcoming PTD, post traumatic disorder. When the persona is used to chaos, tightness, the reverse, natural unfolding loosely into life, will feel at best weird.

Realistically, prepare, especially if this is all new, to feel like the world you've lived in is falling apart. The mind will get really loud, and have all sorts of thoughts, and all you have to do is take each and every opportunity to sit back and observe it. Do no react, do not attach. Just breathe, undo, unfold.

Expect waves of this. But remember you are the ocean, not the tides.

Fiddling, Meddling, with muddy toes and shoes...

I got both the urge and the courage to go for a run today. 'Just drop everything and do it,' arose within. My heart beat faster as slight hesitation arose as I stared at a pile of laundry. It was clear. I grabbed my tennis shoes and put them on. As I tried to put Pandora on the Ipod, 'Hard Sun' by Eddie Vedder from the Into the Wild album kept popping up. Great to run to. Lyrics hit just right, as I took off. What began as a run became a release of pent up energy. I could feel my self bursting out with every step.

I started the run with 'Setting Forth' which lyrics are as follows:

Being, no concern
Point of no return
Go forward and reverse
This I will recall
Yeah, every time I fall

Keep setting forth in the universe
Keep setting forth in the universe

Out here realigned
A planet out of sight
On nature drunk and high

Keep...
Keep...

ohhhhhh...

Breathe. Release. Sink into the flow. "Go to an Open Field," arises. That sounds nice, but where? There's the coast, but that's heavy with Traffic. 'Keep Going'. Ok..so the run continues, and as I continue down the fancy suburb, and as I reach a stop sign, I remember accross the street, in the neighborhood on the other side is a open field next to a school. Awesome.

The body feels heavier with every step. I am out of shape. I know. I am not this body, but this body is still feeling pretty damn heavy. The concrete seems to pound back with every step, and I long for my feet to be free of these shoes, to feel mud and grass under and in between my toes. It's pretty steamy weather here. Lot's of rainy days before, and lots of heat today. Running in a sauna. "Even if the body is heavy, you are not."

OK...I'm still going.

I see the field. I slow down, take deeper breathes and stare. It's perfect. What I would give to take off my shoes, and it started to rain. 'Even if the IPOD, gets wet?' Destroy the IPOD, I want it to be just you and me. As I'm crossing the street, it starts to rain. I start laughing, and start to run.

I ran toward the bench, sat down and started to take off my shoes. Where could I put my shoes, IPOD and keys? 'I thought you wanted them destroyed?' arose. I feel slightly sheepish. On second thought, neither are mine. If it were mine, it would be totally different. It stops raining.

I walk towards one of the school buildings, lay my shoes, keys, and IPOD, by my side. I feel the concrete on my bum. Familiarity. I step into the grass, feel the mud, sink into it. I feel alive. Connected. I get up and take slow steps. The lower abdomen begins to cramp. I'm starting to feel pain. 'Really? There is no pain.' But...I..

I look down, smirking, feeling the teasing feeling of disbelief. The pain is gone. 'Sit Sharon, feel me.' I choose a place to lay down. I feel the life coming from the ground, release myself into it. My eyes are closed, the sky is so bright.

'So bright huh? Yes, it does take some time to adjust to the light. But that is all it is. An adjustment. Adjust. '

I stare at the brightness with my eyes closed. I feel the adjusting occurring. Then the warmth. It begins to penetrate my face. 'Allow'. Allow. Bright blinding warmth. Illumination. It runs through from head to toe. Bright warmth.

I feel a bug. I jump. 'Ha! so easily disturbed!' I laugh with. Yes. Distractions are easy to fall into. 'If you trusted, and allowed the bugs to arise, they would not bite.' Yeah. I'm sure. I look down at the ground. Red Ants start to pop up. A lot of them. I get up. 'Ha!' Yeah. I don't feel like getting bit today. 'You wouldn't'. Yeap...I'm walking away. I'm not.

Concrete. Familiarity. I look at my shoes, keys and IPOD. I look out towards the field. Got to walk the walk Sharon. Take a walk for a every word that comes through. It keeps you humble. I grab my shoes, keys, and IPOD and start walking to a puddle near by. I rinse my feet and put my shoes back on. and it hits:

Before the Shift, I always wore my shoes. With the Shift, I went barefoot. After the Shift, I can wear the shoes, without feeling disconnected. Nothing is ever disconnected. Know that. I tie my shoe laces. I start to walk. 'Still feel me huh?' Yeap, more clearly now, with every step.

'Never disconnected. You can choose to perceive disconnectedness, but you never are. Run, feel that.' I run. I feel it.

I think therefore I AM NOT

Thought. Information. Concepts. Opinions.

In the movie the Matrix, those who have escaped the Matrix, have escaped the prison of identifying with the information, and the life, delivered to them by the Matrix.

When you stop believing, attaching, or reacting to each and every thought that comes through you, that is when you begin to detach your Self from what you are not, to allow glimpses of Who You Are.

When you are clear in the knowing that You are NOT thought, that there is absolutely NO need to attach to ANY thought, this is the beginning of tapping into Being. To Be. I Am.

Attached thoughts are Glamours. This world is currently highly attached to Glamours. To the addition to I Am. So much so, that the simplicity, of I Am, is considered highly complex, for there is much to undo to simply be.

It is the entertainment of Glamours, in it's many forms, positive or negative, that distract you, the Self, from Reality. 'I am Intelligent.' 'I am Phony.' 'I am Beautiful.' It is from this addition that duality in perception arises. The fragmentation begins with addition. It is the source of desire and fear. For in adding, one can subtract, creating the illusion, that what one is, can be taken away.

You are not the thought, a thought, or can you be contained by thought. When you release your Self from believing anything that arises in thought, and you commit to the Silence, you are released. You are free. To Be.

Trying to find the right station?

So you've decided to leave your suitcase of knowledge behind. Going fast down the road nothing looks familiar anymore. It feels, deeply, as if nothing is what it seems, but you can't quite pin point why, or what makes it this way. What's worse, the mind is playing only static. It seems frantic, desperate. Something BIG is going on...but what? You may get glimpses when you manage to turn the mind off, with a magnificent landscape, or meditation, but in any attempt to turn it on, to tune into to it again, the static continues on.

The mind is like a FM transmitter. It is there to transmit information. If you depend on the mind to find the answers, it's going to look for a station to transmit. The mind is not an enemy, a friend, or a wise father. It is a transmitter of your emotions, observation, thoughts, a cataloger of your sensory experience. The mind is tuned in to wherever you put it. If your focus and perceptual abilities are limited to what appears in front of you, to your emotions, and thoughts it will do with that it's been given.

Stop the car. Lay down. Watch all mental activity. Observe. With Breathe release your self from what is going on. Bring your mind into a calmer state. Breathe. Release. Breathe. Release. Remind the mind it is not in control, you are not in control. Nothing is. Nothing. Sink into this release of control. Watch how your mind drops the intent of trying to find the answers, and begins to allow transmission. Visuals, words, emotions, may arise, allow them to. Be the vessel that allows Life through.

Sit and listen to that station for a while. Drive with it. Observe with it. See what pops up.