"I take the Divine
Awareness of God to be
My Identity." -- Bill Samuel
"Stop pretending to
Be what you are not and you
Will Be What You Are." -- Sri Nisargadatta (paraphrase)
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Still, Silent, Empty,
Open, Aware and Present
As This Awareness.
This Awareness is
Being that which is Seeing
All You Are reading.
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Life Underlies All
As "Awareness of Being"
Present as I Am.
The Absolute Truth
Is "Awareness of Being"
Present as You Are.
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Nothing is ever
Experienced outside the
Awareness I Am.
Whatever's outside
Is experienced in the
Awareness You Are.
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All that one ever
Experiences is a
State of Awareness.
Outer objects are
Experienced as Present
States of Awareness.
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Awareness is the
One Fundamental Constant
That Underlies All.
Awareness is the
One Absolute Constant at
The Heart of Being.
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Awareness focused
On Itself as Perfect Peace
Transcends All Being.
Awareness Aware
Of Itself as Still Point Peace
Is self-Transendant.
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Expand Awareness
To an Infinite Degree
And You Are Home Free.
Expand Awareness
Beyond self-referenced thought
And Be What You Are.
***
God Is Being "This
Awareness, Right Here, Right Now,"
As the Child I Am.
God Is Being "This
Awareness, Right Here, Right Now,"
As the Holy One.
Re: 3 Conceptual Cross-Correlators :
(1) Bill Samuel-Wise:
Vignettes on Love 1.4 - Bill Samuel Audio Transcript
[Rich Note: Self-Realization, Liberation, Illumination, Enlightenment and how to "Do That/ Be It" in a Nutshell.]
"It has been said that discernment of identity is an uphill struggle, but it isn't really. You may have come here thinking it was going to be an uphill struggle; but, you see, we are what we are, whether it is seen or not. The simple knowledge of this fact is a great aid."
Awareness is our identity and awareness is aware whether we struggle with it or not. The fact of awareness functioning is ever effortless. It's ever going about its business of seeing, hearing, feeling, and including thoughts, all within itself. Just as it's about the business of listening to these words, right now."
I can tell you that much of the effort goes out of our daily struggle the very minute we extend this sense of identity from this body point from which we observe things, you see, the minute we extend it to infinite awareness doing the observing, unbound awareness itself."
Now, as this expanded identity, the body point is not excluded. But it is seen as sort of the center within an infinite identification that includes the universe within itself; that includes every grain of sand, and every star, and every blade of grass in the universe."
So what do we do? We live this Child of God that we are already. And we live it without effort, without struggle; and, most wonderfully, I can tell you we live it without inhibitions. You see, this conscious awareness being us, this awareness that is going on, right here, right now, listening to these words, is Deity's self-awareness in action; for which Deity, Isness, Reality, God is responsible."
The weight of the world, the weight of the entire world, with all of its guilt, is lifted from our shoulders, the very instant we stop trying to be an ego, protector, custodian, possessor of awareness; the very minute we stop trying to be a personality, an ego, a big phantom bugaboo, protecting his flock (ha, ha, ha, ha) from the outspoken teachings of somebody..."
Well, the instant we stop trying to be an ego out to protect his images, out to protect his sense of possessions; the moment we stop trying to be one intent on healing perfection, when perfection stands tall and perfect, quite without need of healing, the instant we stop doing all of that, we awaken to a whole new world."
[Rich Note: A link to an expanded audio version of this Bill's transcript: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rWoyFNBjAWA ]
(2) Bible-Wise:
A. "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Genesis 2:7)
B. "...For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. …" (1 Corinthians 13:9-13 KJV)
C. "… And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. …" (Revelation 21:1-7 KJV)
(3) Non-Dual/Advaita -Wise:
A. "Consciousness (Awareness of Being) plays a multitude of roles...the janani is merely the seer of them. All your problems are body-mind problems. Even so, you cling to that body...that knowledge which knows change, must itself be changless, permanent..." (Sri Nisargadatta, "Consciousness and the Absolute," page 1)
B. "Nothing is wrong with you, but the ideas you have of yourself are altogether wrong. It is not you who desires, fears and suffers, it is the person built on the foundation of your body by circumstances and influences. You are not that person. This must be clearly established in your mind and never lost sight of." (Sri Nisargadatta, "I AM THAT")
C. "By meditating, the knowledge "I Am" gradually settles down and merges withthe universal knowledge, and thereby becomes totally free, like the sky, or space." Sri-Nisargadatta, (Sri Nisargadatta, "Consciousness and the Absolute," page 16)
(4) Story-Wise:
“One day a six-year-old friend said to me, ‘Pretend you are surrounded by a thousand hungry tigers. What would you do?’ I visualized the situation as he had suggested and, coming up with no viable plan of action, said, ‘Wow, I don’t know. What would you do?’ And he replied, ‘I’d stop pretending.'”
~Catherine Ingram
[Rich Note : Since I was only pretending, I would pretend I was invisible.]
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[Rich Note: As the following Sandy Jones Facebook post on "Identity" was the last to appear, when I posted the latest "Hay-Ku of the Day, entitled "Identity," I consider her's a divinely decreed companion and post it here accordingly.]
"The Real Identity
"Awareness existed before any manifestation. Which is more significant awareness or manifestation? It is the Heart that instructs, not the words. The heart goes beyond words and cannot be fooled. There is no one reading this book to whom the Truth has not been revealed many times and for whom the Truth only needs to be lived. Additional enlightenment and its tangible experience called ‘healing’ come with LIVING – just beyond the wailing wall of words. But the light that is being the awareness of the words – the light identity is – cannot be revealed by word alone.
Now listen softly. Wisdom comes out of warm quietness and simplicity, not from the bombast of overpowering words, intellectual mumbo jumbo and hard talk. Knowledge comes out of simple tenderness and childlikeness. We let weighted concern go! Frustration and fear have no authority! They cannot alter the Identity being us. We let go the struggle to define the infinitesimal. We end the battle to outline the relationship of an endless microcosm – foolish task! We come home to Awareness. The identity Awareness which gives us the power to be aware of this frustration and fear. We return to simplicity, to the warm tenderness and inescapable effortlessness of the Already-Identity Awareness is, right here, right now reading these words. This is not to laboriously ponder the mysterious paradoxes as though wisdom depended on that. This is to joy in letting go the thinker, and find ourselves the THINKING of Isness.
Consider this ‘here’ and ‘now’ a moment: When do we read these words? When do we look across the way and see a familiar face? Or any face? When do we see children scampering with their toys? NOW is the ‘time’ that ‘seeing’ takes place. Seeing is NOW.
Listen again: the here and now are present as this consciousness reading these words. This is the here- and- now consciousness that individual identity is! And this is the only one we are ever concerned with.
Actually we have never been concerned with another conscious awareness. Even when we think we have been confronted with ‘another’ experience of son, daughter, husband, wife, partner, associate, leader, national figure, potentate, King, Christ Jesus or the hosts of heaven, hell and the universe, the knowledge of these figures and the consciousness of their actions are always this conscious awareness even now examining these words! They are everyone included ‘within’ and ‘as’ this here now consciousness that says ‘I am!’ Who can deny that conscious awareness lives forever as itself, here and now the eternal moment and infinite place of all that we call ‘our own’ Identity – Experience?
We dream in the now. We have missed many tangible wonders in our here and now while wrestling with tangible dreams of a not-now or worrying about events that are not here. Suppose we resolve to ‘begin’ this New Now looking ‘with the eyes of God’ at the majesty and wonder Isness-as-us is. Let us further resolve to let go, as persistently as we can, Bill’s, Jack’s, Mary’s or Jane’s view of things. To do so to find ourselves letting go the ‘old man’s or the ego-personality’ fears, frustrations and confusions. To do so is to find ourselves looking at a tangible harmony on the here – and – now –scene- a harmony we can see even when others won’t. To do so is to live a deep and abiding JOY that cannot be taken from us even if our personal opinions and their pleasures appear to be."
A Guide To Awareness and Tranquillity by William Samuel
Excerpt from Chapter X
http://www.woodsongjournalnotes.blogspot.com/?m=1
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