The oldest addiction is the belief that consciousness is personal and limited. The belief that I am a mortal body mind. Confusing the body mind with consciousness is the root cause of all misery.
In the Christian tradition, it is called the original sin.
Thought is not a problem. It is God thinking, universal thought.
Personal thought is God’s thought as well, filtered through ignorance, filtered through the belief in mortality, filtered through the belief in a personal self.
Do not be concerned about thought and controlling thought or purifying thought.
Go directly to the investigation of the belief that consciousness is personal and limited.
Find an established realized guide/friend and work closely with her/him.
Love the bird songs.
In the morning, I usually go out on the rear patio and wake up with the birds. God’s songs are soothingly meditative, mysterious and mesmerizing.
Their dissatisfaction is clearly shown in the lyrics and the video produced. What a profound move on their part.
Thanks for sharing this, Holger.
See you in the Garden, picking and sniffing flowers while hearing the birds sing.
In contemplating our experience, we do not find such a thing as an ego. We could use the term ego to refer to the sense of ‘me’, which is also referred to as the self. This sense of ‘me’ is experiential (as a feeling of localization and limitation).
Once we realize our true nature, this sense of ‘me’ (or self) expands and in this expansion, the borders dissolve. The experiential shift is from the limited/local sense of me to being/borderless awareness, impersonal and universal.
This is referred to as the realization of our true nature or the realization of the Self (Capital S).
The shift is from ‘I am somebody, I am a thing’ to ‘I am nobody and everybody, I am no-thing and everything’.
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