The Seer

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The whole place is you. It’s like the functioning mind, the controlling mind, wants an orthodoxy. It wants to land somewhere. It wants one place. So we’ve got to move from orthodoxy to paradoxy. We’ve got to move to, “Is awareness both nowhere, vast and infinite and also here?” It’s like the field is awake and it’s also awake in every particular place.

It’s like the universe creates all these planets and solar systems, amazing things are going on all the time; we know that, right? So where is the brain of the universe? Where is it located? We think because this is here and we feel like it’s here that this is where the intelligence is
coming from.

But when we get that it’s just the way it is anyhow, it’s more like quantum metaphor: that it’s already living this life, and it was or we didn’t think it was, and we’re just suffering more trying to control it.

The scary thing is that losing control doesn’t mean that we’re out of control, it means we are just able to be ordinary — just ourselves without the extra effort. Without trying to get it right or fearing getting it wrong. Without struggling to be somebody some day because we already are. Without fearing judgment and shame and guilt of this little one who is judging itself and afraid of the judgment coming outside.

But somehow finding that innocent sense of this natural being that has this quality of wisdom and compassion naturally, that knows that it’s okay. That there is no loss of the normal functioning civilized behavior. There is even a finding of what we thought was out there, which is some peace, some rest, some love that is who we all are already. Yes?

Loch Kelly — New York City, June 9 2006

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Once you notice that finding an answer to your life is more important than anything else, make a personal commitment to achieve this thing and go for it. Make it your life’s career.

1. Question your actions, decisions and reactions. Why are you doing what you’re doing? Be very honest.

2. Don’t do anything that you don’t want to do. Don’t do what a spiritual seeker “should do” or what someone else tells you. Do what you think is best for yourself.

3. Check out groups and anything else that is remotely related to your search, quest, and purpose in life. You are an explorer in search of an answer. Look under every rock.

4. Spend time around those that you have a common interest with. Compare notes with these others who are on their own personal path toward an ultimate answer.

5. Listen to those people that you don’t automatically agree with. Try.

6. Go to bookstores, online book sources and libraries. Keep your eyes and ears open for book recommendations. Read intuitively. If a book doesn’t do it for you, close it without looking back but check them all out, especially the ones that you don’t think will help you.

7. Adopt a daily meditation practice. Sit, run or walk. Do what seems right. Be consistent and persistent. You’ve admitted to yourself that this is a worthwhile pursuit.

8. Keep a journal like a mountain climber who records daily climbing activities in the tent after each day. Thoughts can be captured and examined by writing them down. You are the most available subject matter at hand in this quest for enlightenment, truth or ultimate answers. Writing is working through things.

9. Conserve all of your personal energy for this most important task at hand. Free from all other addictions and obsessions, every bit of energy and attention that can be poured into a desired direction towards an answer. Avoid activities where you may spend tremendous amounts of time and energy doing nothing getting nowhere.

10. Start where you are, with what you have. No need to say, “I don’t know where to begin.” No one does. Just start. You won’t regret it.

by Dave Weimer

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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well …

by T. S. Eliot, in Four Quartets — Little Gidding IV

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“Philosophers ask me, “Who is chosing not to think (to identify with the mind-made story)? Is it something that happens to me or am I doing it?” And, of course, the answer is, “When it looks to you *as if* you were choosing not to think, then that is what’s happening.” So all those arguments, for those philosophers among you, “Is there a doer?” “There is no doer.” “Yes, there Is a doer.” They are both right and they are both wrong. So put the two together — yes, there is a doer if you look at it from this perspective and there is no doer looking from that perspective, and then, let’s forget the question and stop thinking…. Enlightenment begins when we awaken from our conditioned thinking.”

~ Eckhart Tolle. The Secret of Happiness, (DVD Disk 2).

Video clip: Oprah talks with Eckhart Tolle

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Thomas Traherne was an English seer and poet who noted in his Meditations (3/60) …

“This spectacle once seen, will never be forgotten. It is a great part of the beatific vision. A sight of Happiness is Happiness. It transforms the Soul and makes it Heavenly, it powerfully calls us to communion with God, and weans us from the customs of this world… I no sooner discerned this but I was seated in a throne of repose and perfect rest. All things were well in their proper places, I alone was out of frame and had need to be mended… For all things were God’s treasures in their proper places, and I was to be restored to God’s Image. Whereupon you will not believe, how I was withdrawn from all endeavours of altering and mending outward things. They lay so well, methought, they could not be mended: but I must be mended to enjoy them.”

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A nursing aid at a retirement home noticed an elderly gent sitting by himself in the lounge apparently sunk in deep reflection.

“Hello Les, what are you thinking about?” she asked.

“I was just thinking about my sins of omission.” Les replied somewhat mournfully.

“What do you mean, your sins of omission?” the aid asked.

“I mean, I’ve been thinking about the sins I ought to have committed, but didn’t.”

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May the longtime sun shine upon you,
All love surround you,
And the pure light within you
Guide your way on.
Guide your way on.

Words: Traditional. Music: unknown.
Listen to it sung by Snatam Kaur