Be here always in the Truth of I AM
Ronnie Whittaker
7th June 2006
Much of ones individual Spiritual practice often consists of trying to correct, fix or avoid certain non desirable behaviors and negative feelings whilst trying to adopt a more loving, forgiving, and accepting way of being and maintaining the positive, happy feelings of enlightenment.
It's as natural as raindrops for anyone to want the good and not the bad; however this highlights the inner conflict and ever recurring up and down cycles of experience that may add to the impression of a linear path or journey of Spiritual growth progress.
Depending on ones own individual beliefs this could also be attributed to the quest of growing from ignorance to enlightenment, duality to oneness, from one dimensional existence to another, or from unconsciousness to full consciousness, whatever.
When it comes right down to it, your Spiritual practice may simply in all truth be the actions taken by you to bring to balance or compensate for this cyclic or sometimes erratic inner movement between wanting and averting. This re-arranging of the Ego may be the overall theme of your own Spirituality, one that has been with you for many years now and perhaps many more to come?
If this sounds familiar then have you ever stopped to ask yourself, how long this has been going on for? Will it ever end? Have you found lasting freedom and liberation in any of this? Or are you perhaps waiting for the final liberating experience to set you free or even for the latest and seemingly greatest prophesised date of 2012 to come around, to wake you up fully and resolve all of your issues for you?
Consider this, and I'm sure many out there will be familiar either through past glimpses of personal experience, learned knowledge or concept. The truth of what you are is none of this, but contains within it all of this experience. The truth of what you are is here now seeing you play the game of Spirituality. And to fully realize, to be as the truth of what you are you must fully comprehend and know of the many illusions of what you are not.
So you may like to stop for a moment, drop your mental story, and yes the one you have been carrying around with you like a Monkey on your back all day today. The story of who you think you are, what you need to do, what you think of others, what others might think of you, who has wronged you, who has righted you, what you like, what you don't like, how enlightened you are, how unenlightened you are.
Drop it all and let your thoughts come to an end.
Go into a quiet room away from the PC, settle down and relax into the moment, be still and without using any thoughts, memories, beliefs, associations or perceptions, ask yourself until the unspoken answer is the norm of where your attention remains:
Am I free, not free, or neither?
Am I awake, non awake, or neither?
Am I enlightened, unenlightened, or neither?
Am I the body, not the body, or neither?
Am I happy, not happy, or neither?
Am I stressed, not stressed, or neither?
Am I alone, not alone, or neither?
Am I worried, not worried, or neither?
Am I angry, not angry, or neither?
*You get the picture, use your own questions to suit.
Yet again without using any thoughts, memories, beliefs, associations or perceptions ask until the unspoken answer is the norm of where your attention remains:
What am I?
Be here always in the Truth of I AM.
© Ronnie Whittaker
http://www.soulvibe.net
Ronnie Whittaker
7th June 2006
Much of ones individual Spiritual practice often consists of trying to correct, fix or avoid certain non desirable behaviors and negative feelings whilst trying to adopt a more loving, forgiving, and accepting way of being and maintaining the positive, happy feelings of enlightenment.
It's as natural as raindrops for anyone to want the good and not the bad; however this highlights the inner conflict and ever recurring up and down cycles of experience that may add to the impression of a linear path or journey of Spiritual growth progress.
Depending on ones own individual beliefs this could also be attributed to the quest of growing from ignorance to enlightenment, duality to oneness, from one dimensional existence to another, or from unconsciousness to full consciousness, whatever.
When it comes right down to it, your Spiritual practice may simply in all truth be the actions taken by you to bring to balance or compensate for this cyclic or sometimes erratic inner movement between wanting and averting. This re-arranging of the Ego may be the overall theme of your own Spirituality, one that has been with you for many years now and perhaps many more to come?
If this sounds familiar then have you ever stopped to ask yourself, how long this has been going on for? Will it ever end? Have you found lasting freedom and liberation in any of this? Or are you perhaps waiting for the final liberating experience to set you free or even for the latest and seemingly greatest prophesised date of 2012 to come around, to wake you up fully and resolve all of your issues for you?
Consider this, and I'm sure many out there will be familiar either through past glimpses of personal experience, learned knowledge or concept. The truth of what you are is none of this, but contains within it all of this experience. The truth of what you are is here now seeing you play the game of Spirituality. And to fully realize, to be as the truth of what you are you must fully comprehend and know of the many illusions of what you are not.
So you may like to stop for a moment, drop your mental story, and yes the one you have been carrying around with you like a Monkey on your back all day today. The story of who you think you are, what you need to do, what you think of others, what others might think of you, who has wronged you, who has righted you, what you like, what you don't like, how enlightened you are, how unenlightened you are.
Drop it all and let your thoughts come to an end.
Go into a quiet room away from the PC, settle down and relax into the moment, be still and without using any thoughts, memories, beliefs, associations or perceptions, ask yourself until the unspoken answer is the norm of where your attention remains:
Am I free, not free, or neither?
Am I awake, non awake, or neither?
Am I enlightened, unenlightened, or neither?
Am I the body, not the body, or neither?
Am I happy, not happy, or neither?
Am I stressed, not stressed, or neither?
Am I alone, not alone, or neither?
Am I worried, not worried, or neither?
Am I angry, not angry, or neither?
*You get the picture, use your own questions to suit.
Yet again without using any thoughts, memories, beliefs, associations or perceptions ask until the unspoken answer is the norm of where your attention remains:
What am I?
Be here always in the Truth of I AM.
© Ronnie Whittaker
http://www.soulvibe.net
