The Seer

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This Teaching encourages you to find the truth for yourself, by looking into your own experience. In the course of your life, experiences happen.

The real question is, what was your part in bringing those experiences into being? Presumably people entered your life that you didn’t previously know existed. How could you have brought them into your life if you didn’t know that they were alive?

If you deconstruct any event in your life you may begin to see that any singular event is part of a much larger matrix than what you could possibly create with your own physical being.

If you can look at your own experience and your own background, you may begin to see that how you are in this moment is a product of huge genetic and environmental forces outside of your egoic control.

If you look, and you see that these Universal life forces were resonsible for creating who you are today, then guilt eases naturally, on it’s own. You don’t have to make any efforts to reduce it; it simply dissipates in the seeing.

We’re all a mixed bag of qualities. If any of us were capable of creating our own realities we would all be saints! We would be loving and kind and generous all the time, because when we’re loving and kind and generous, we feel better, everybody feels better, and it brings more joy into life.

The fact that despite our best intentions, and our most earnest observations and efforts, we’re still filled with positive and negative qualities, seems to suggest a certain lack of control on the part of the human organism. Perhaps if you look, you will see deeply into the mystery and be freed. I hope so!

by Wayne Liquorman

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If you haven’t done so already, you may like to check out the Oprah Eckhart . Com blog. It seeks to explore the deeper psychological, cultural, and spiritual implications of the Oprah-Eckhart Webcast phenomenon.

The latest post is headed: ‘The Christain protest-fest continues.’

Many spiritual teachers, psychics, mystics — even fundamentalist Christians – are trying to ride the Eckhart phenom to bring attention to themselves, their books, workshops, & teachings.

Fundamentalist Christians have been the most organized & vocal in protesting Eckhart’s teachings because he often paraphrases Jesus & the Bible. So it’s no surprise that a book called: A New Earth An Old Deception: Awakening to the Dangers of Eckhart Tolle’s #1
Bestseller just happens to look exactly like the cover of ANE.

Others are offering classes, webcasts, even channelings, claiming to facilitate Eckhart’s teachings. Their own Google ads sometimes appear in the advertiser column of this blog!

Meanwhile, the blog continues to share the real Eckhart & Oprah webcast. There’s footage from the 3rd segment of Chapter 8, where Eckhart challenges evangelicals by saying “at the center of all religions, there is only one God.”

Read more at: >Oprah Eckhart . Com

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Recently, with the CERN Haldron Collider being spoken of in the news, I learned that the quantum scientists have a theory that there is something unseen ‘behind’ this world.

They say this world is a mirror image of another world and they called this theory “Super Symmetry.” Super Symmetry purports that there is the ‘higher version, real version of this ‘reflection world’ we seem to be living in … Now isn’t that interesting!?

Haven’t we been shouting that there is a “higher self” all along and that “heaven is at hand, but men see it not”. And that this world is made in the image and likeness of God?

Our Heart has known these things after all, but now it seems that it will be the quantum scientists who will confirm this to the world view or as we say ‘rest of our self’.

Low and behold, as the scientists search for the ‘God Particle’ they will be coming face to face with the tangible confirmation that there is nothing going on here but Divine Mind, – They are calling it “an immaterial wisdom.” and they say it is creating this tangible world.

And they may even have to go further, and admit that this Immaterial Wisdom is the same as Divine Intelligence which is none other than Ineffable Godhead Being which is The Source-without-a-source that is Complete, Single, Alone and Total.

That One includes all that is or ever will be and there is nothing else Here but This Light, and this Light is the very Light that any sense of ‘you and me’ is made of.

They will have to conclude that Life is Subjective and includes the seemingly objective, and in fact we are all just looking at Our Self.

by Sandy Jones

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All the scriptures are meant only to make a man retrace his steps to his original source. He need not acquire anything new. He only has to give up false ideas and useless accretions. Instead of doing this, however, he tries to grasp something strange and mysterious because he believes his happiness lies elsewhere. That is the mistake.

by Ramana Maharshi

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What is the one thing, that if you do not find out the answer to before you die, you will feel like this life has been in vain?

What is that thing? What is that concern? What is that imperitive? … because, without knowing that, and feeling that, and being clear on that, and really honing in on that … the rest of your spiritual life would be moving away from it.

Then realize, you are the Ultimate Source of it — the source of your own seeking, your own longing, your own intention, of what you want, of what you’re interested in, of all of that. And when you come back to the Source, you come back to exactly where you should be.

And then you will be interested in exactly what you need to be and should be interested in at this moment, because it’s authentic to you. And anything else will not be authentic to you, and therefore, will yield very little result.

Isn’t it great when you realize it’s all you?”

by Adyashanti, in the CD Album “Enlightenment: The Direct Approach”

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While being driven to another engagement, a professor of nuclear physics who was giving the same special lecture to a number of universities across the country, remarked to his chauffeur, “I suppose you’ve heard me deliver this lecture so many times now you almost know it by heart.” “I think I do, sir,” said the chauffeur and, as if to reassure himself, recited the professor’s lecture word-perfectly.

“That’s incredible!” exclaimed the professor and then, an idea occurred to him. “Why don’t we change places at the next university?” he suggested. “You can wear my suit and gown and I’ll put on your uniform and cap. You can give the lecture and I’ll sit down at the front and listen for a change … it’ll be our little joke on those fellows and no one else will ever know. What do you think?” “I’ll give it a go if you’re happy, sir,” was the reply.

The necessary changeovers were made and a short time later, when they arrived at the auditorium, the chauffeur, in the professor’s gown, was conducted with due ceremony to the platform, introduced and asked to address the assembled academics. The chauffeur obliged by rattling off the lecture and received an enthusiastic ovation from the audience.

Then, to the chauffeur’s consternation the chairman proposed that some of those present might wish to put one or two questions to the learned professor. One scientist got to his feet and asked a question that was so theoretical, the chauffeur didn’t have the faintest idea what he was asking, let alone what answer to give.

Nevertheless he stepped forward to the rostrum and said, “Frankly, I’m surprised that you should ask me such a simple question. Why, even my chauffeur sitting here in the front row would know the answer to that and to prove it, I’ll ask him to step up here now and give you the answer.”

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To be aware is to watch your bodily activity, the way you walk, the way you sit, the movements of your hands: it is to hear the words you use, to observe all your thoughts, all your emotions, all your reactions. It includes awareness of the unconscious, with its traditions,its instinctual knowledge, and the immense sorrow it has accumulated — not only personal sorrow, but the sorrow of man.

You have to be aware of all that; and you cannot be aware of it if you are merely judging,evaluating, saying, “This is good and that is bad, this I will keep and that I will reject,” all of which only makes the mind dull, insensitive.

From awareness comes attention. Attention flows from awareness when in that awareness there is no choice, no personal choosing, no experiencing … but merely observing. And, to observe, you must have in the mind a great deal of space.

A mind that is caught in ambition, greed, envy, in the pursuit of pleasure and self-fulfillment, with its inevitable sorrow, pain, despair, anguish — such a mind has no space in which to observe, to attend. It is crowded with its own desires, going round and round in its own backwaters of reaction.

You cannot attend if your mind is not highly sensitive, sharp, reasonable, logical, sane, healthy, without the slightest shadow of neuroticism. The mind has to explore every corner of itself, leaving no spot uncovered, because if there is a single dark corner of one’s mind which one is afraid to explore, from that springs illusion…

It is only in the state of attention that you can be a light unto yourself, and then every action of your daily life springs from that light — every action — whether you are doing your job, cooking, going for a walk, mending clothes, or what you will. This whole process is meditation …

by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; 2 this one was in the beginning with God; 3 all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened. (St. John 1:1-3, Young’s Literal Trans.)

This statement by John, the disciple of Jesus, is profoundly mystical for it introduces two concepts. Most Christians recognize the part where Christ is introduced as being divine and as the Creator God.

What few recognize is that the very concept of a beginning is a hint of a deep spiritual truth. What is commonly recognized as reality had a beginning. The part of God that created had a beginning. This beginning was the Word.

The subtle truth that this verse also reveals is that there is a beginningless uncreated God. What we recognize as Christ is the personal God that before the beginning was a meaningless concept.

In other words, before there was a creation, there was no Personal God, only the Transcendent Uncreate Absolute was. This is a profound truth that Buddha spoke of:

“There is, O monks, an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed. Were there not, O monks, this unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed, there would be no escape from the world of the born, originated, created, formed.

“Since, O monks, there is an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, and unformed, therefore there is an escape from the born, originated, created, and the formed.”

by Paul Carus, in The Gospel of Buddha – Sermon at the bamboo grove at Rajagaha

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O Rama, two aspects of the “heart” are spoken of here: one is acceptable and the other is to be ignored. The heart that is part of this physical body and is located in one part of the body may be ignored!

The heart which is acceptable is of the nature of pure consciousness. It is both inside and outside and it is neither inside nor outside.

This is the principal heart and in it is reflected everything which is in the universe, and it is the treasure-house of all wealth. Cosciousness alone is the heart of all beings, not the piece of flesh which people call the heart!

Vasishtha (p. 302)

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Our deepest complaint
points the way:
Thoughts and things
appear and disappear
from and into the void;
that aware plenum
that self-knowing plenum
that boundless no-space, no-time plenum
always and forever
our being.

by Art Ticknor