5/30/19 A RED SEA PARTED
HOLY FIRE RETURNS
PRISTINE CLARITY OF SOUL EVERSHINES
INTERNAL SHADOWS CANNOT SURVIVE OR THRIVE
IN SUCH TRUTH OF BEING
ew
5:30 AM-6/15/20
PRISTINE CLARITY OF SOUL EVERSHINES
INTERNAL SHADOWS CANNOT SURVIVE OR THRIVE
IN SUCH TRUTH OF BEING
ew
5:30 AM-6/15/20
The Spiritual Work of Old Age
It is interesting to note that the Indian (Hindu) culture
puts the age for the most intense spiritual work
at the end of life, in old age.
When you get older you see more clearly
that you have very little physical or will power left
to create or even change situations in your life.
Every age has its own job or task,
and the task of old age is learning to live with loss of all kinds,
not just loss of people around you who pass away,
but also loss of your faculties,
of your ability to see clearly, hear well,
and move about in the world.
It is interesting to note that the Indian (Hindu) culture
puts the age for the most intense spiritual work
at the end of life, in old age.
When you get older you see more clearly
that you have very little physical or will power left
to create or even change situations in your life.
Every age has its own job or task,
and the task of old age is learning to live with loss of all kinds,
not just loss of people around you who pass away,
but also loss of your faculties,
of your ability to see clearly, hear well,
and move about in the world.
These things begin to fall away
and we must learn to let them go
because no amount of struggle will turn back the years.
It is in our acceptance that we see we need to deepen
our trust in God,
in what lies beyond our own effort.
In old age there is a loss of identity,
of who or what you have been to others and in the world.
and we must learn to let them go
because no amount of struggle will turn back the years.
It is in our acceptance that we see we need to deepen
our trust in God,
in what lies beyond our own effort.
In old age there is a loss of identity,
of who or what you have been to others and in the world.
Every older person knows personally
how it is to fade into invisibility.
These lessons, and the acceptance of their truth
teaches you about the end of self.
how it is to fade into invisibility.
These lessons, and the acceptance of their truth
teaches you about the end of self.
I have been at the bedside of people who were dying
and who had not particularly lived
what might be called a spiritual life in the modern jargon,
but who were good decent people,
people who believed in God.
and who had not particularly lived
what might be called a spiritual life in the modern jargon,
but who were good decent people,
people who believed in God.
There is a process that takes place with many of them
as they are going toward their death,
where they seem to realize the profundity
of what is happening to them and therefore
are able to let go with a kind of hopefulness.
This is the gradual erasing or transformation of self.
And when self begins to be transformed or to fade,
What Remains comes into view.
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as they are going toward their death,
where they seem to realize the profundity
of what is happening to them and therefore
are able to let go with a kind of hopefulness.
This is the gradual erasing or transformation of self.
And when self begins to be transformed or to fade,
What Remains comes into view.
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-spiritual-work-of-old-age.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29
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for whole page presentation of the above.)
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4. LANGUAGE OF THE NEVERBORN SINCE BEFORE TIME....
"Divine betrothal....." NOVEMBER 30, 2018
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AFTERNOON
willing to be
Nobody told us that what we are is a point of awareness, or pure spirit.
This isn't something we're taught.
Rather, what we were taught
was to identify with our name.
We were taught to identify with our birth date.
Nobody told us that what we are is a point of awareness, or pure spirit.
This isn't something we're taught.
Rather, what we were taught
was to identify with our name.
We were taught to identify with our birth date.
We were taught to identify with the next thought that we have.
We were taught to identify with all the memories
our mind collects about the past.
But all that was just teaching: all that was just more thinking.
We were taught to identify with all the memories
our mind collects about the past.
But all that was just teaching: all that was just more thinking.
When you stand in your own authority,
based in your own direct experience,
you meet that ultimate mystery that you are.
based in your own direct experience,
you meet that ultimate mystery that you are.
Even though it may be at first unsettling
to look into your own no-thingness,
you do it anyway.
Why?
to look into your own no-thingness,
you do it anyway.
Why?
Because you no longer want to suffer.
Because you're willing to be disturbed.
You're willing to be amazed.
You're willing to be surprised.
Because you're willing to be disturbed.
You're willing to be amazed.
You're willing to be surprised.
Even though it may be at first unsettling
to look into your own no-thingness,
you do it anyway.
Why?
to look into your own no-thingness,
you do it anyway.
Why?
Because you no longer want to suffer.
Because you’re willing to be disturbed.
You’re willing to be amazed.
You’re willing to be surprised.
You’re willing to realize that maybe
everything you’ve ever thought about yourself
really isn’t true.”
~ Adyashanti
Falling into Grace
Because you’re willing to be disturbed.
You’re willing to be amazed.
You’re willing to be surprised.
You’re willing to realize that maybe
everything you’ve ever thought about yourself
really isn’t true.”
~ Adyashanti
Falling into Grace
put thoughts to rest
Wherever you are can be considered the center,
because all directions from you are infinite;
and, therefore, if you wish to put it this way,
they are all the same distance.
No one spot really is any more
‘The’ center than any other spot;
no one spot is really more the end,
or the edge, than any other spot.
No one reality is actually any more or less ‘real’
than any other reality.
Everything is the same one thing;
the same one thing manifesting in all the simultaneous,
multidimensional ways that it can manifest.
—Bashar
Wherever you are can be considered the center,
because all directions from you are infinite;
and, therefore, if you wish to put it this way,
they are all the same distance.
No one spot really is any more
‘The’ center than any other spot;
no one spot is really more the end,
or the edge, than any other spot.
No one reality is actually any more or less ‘real’
than any other reality.
Everything is the same one thing;
the same one thing manifesting in all the simultaneous,
multidimensional ways that it can manifest.
—Bashar
Put thoughts to rest.
The real being, with no status,
is always going in and out
through the doors of your face.
If you want to be free, get to know your real self.
It has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode,
but is lively and buoyant.
It responds with versatile facility,
but its function cannot be located.
Therefore when you look for it you become further from it,
when you seek it you turn away from it all the more.
The real being, with no status,
is always going in and out
through the doors of your face.
If you want to be free, get to know your real self.
It has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode,
but is lively and buoyant.
It responds with versatile facility,
but its function cannot be located.
Therefore when you look for it you become further from it,
when you seek it you turn away from it all the more.
Just put thoughts to rest
and
don't seek outwardly anymore.
When things come up, then give them your attention;
just trust what is functional in you at present,
and you have nothing to be concerned about.
and
don't seek outwardly anymore.
When things come up, then give them your attention;
just trust what is functional in you at present,
and you have nothing to be concerned about.
If you want to perceive and understand objectively,
just don't allow yourself to be confused by people.
just don't allow yourself to be confused by people.
Detach from whatever you find inside or outside yourself –
detach from religion, tradition, and society,
and only then will you attain liberation.
When you are not entangled in things,
you pass through freely to autonomy.
—Lin Chi
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detach from religion, tradition, and society,
and only then will you attain liberation.
When you are not entangled in things,
you pass through freely to autonomy.
—Lin Chi
https://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2020/06/put-thoughts-to-rest.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmnCFM+%28Love+Is+A+Place%29
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The Spiritual Work of Old Age
Additional Photos
The Spiritual Work of Old Age
Additional Photos
The Spiritual Work of Old Age
It is interesting to note that the Indian (Hindu) culture
puts the age for the most intense spiritual work
at the end of life, in old age.
When you get older you see more clearly
that you have very little physical or will power left
to create or even change situations in your life.
Every age has its own job or task,
and the task of old age is learning to live with loss of all kinds,
not just loss of people around you who pass away,
but also loss of your faculties,
of your ability to see clearly, hear well,
and move about in the world.
These things begin to fall away
and we must learn to let them go
because no amount of struggle will turn back the years.
It is in our acceptance that we see we need to deepen
our trust in God,
in what lies beyond our own effort.
In old age there is a loss of identity,
of who or what you have been to others and in the world.
Every older person knows personally
how it is to fade into invisibility.
These lessons, and the acceptance of their truth
teaches you about the end of self.
I have been at the bedside of people who were dying
and who had not particularly lived
what might be called a spiritual life in the modern jargon,
but who were good decent people,
people who believed in God.
There is a process that takes place with many of them
as they are going toward their death,
where they seem to realize the profundity
of what is happening to them and therefore
are able to let go with a kind of hopefulness.
This is the gradual erasing or transformation of self.
And when self begins to be transformed or to fade,
What Remains comes into view.
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-spiritual-work-of-old-age.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29
It is interesting to note that the Indian (Hindu) culture
puts the age for the most intense spiritual work
at the end of life, in old age.
When you get older you see more clearly
that you have very little physical or will power left
to create or even change situations in your life.
Every age has its own job or task,
and the task of old age is learning to live with loss of all kinds,
not just loss of people around you who pass away,
but also loss of your faculties,
of your ability to see clearly, hear well,
and move about in the world.
These things begin to fall away
and we must learn to let them go
because no amount of struggle will turn back the years.
It is in our acceptance that we see we need to deepen
our trust in God,
in what lies beyond our own effort.
In old age there is a loss of identity,
of who or what you have been to others and in the world.
Every older person knows personally
how it is to fade into invisibility.
These lessons, and the acceptance of their truth
teaches you about the end of self.
I have been at the bedside of people who were dying
and who had not particularly lived
what might be called a spiritual life in the modern jargon,
but who were good decent people,
people who believed in God.
There is a process that takes place with many of them
as they are going toward their death,
where they seem to realize the profundity
of what is happening to them and therefore
are able to let go with a kind of hopefulness.
This is the gradual erasing or transformation of self.
And when self begins to be transformed or to fade,
What Remains comes into view.
https://contemplativedaybook.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-spiritual-work-of-old-age.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ContemplativeDayBook+%28Contemplative+Day+Book%29
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