The Seer

“Jesus was the Christ, but the Christ is much more than what we see as Jesus. The body of Jesus had a beginning in the womb of Mary, but the Christ exists eternally — long before the body of Jesus came into being. The Christ is never born and, therefore, never dies. There is only one Christ in all eternity. Our confusion over the nature of Jesus stems from our inability to see the body as nothing more than a garment. Jesus knew he was the Christ and not the perishable body.”

~ by Ethan Walker III, from The Mystic Christ pp 103.

The good man may not be aware that somewhere on Earth, while he slept, other men were seeking the true Light and meditating upon it. And this Light that I speak of is the Light behind the light — the same that kindled the Sun and Moon and stars in the beginning. And this Light — the Light of the world — is what every man born is seeking all the days of his earthly life, whether he knows it or not.

I will mention the feeblest of all lights — the candle that burns all night in a cold cell of this monastery. The monks here are all frail creatures like the men of the ploughshare and the net and given to error, but now and then, here and there, in cell and sanctuary, all over the world, a great company of minds and hearts is set on a quest for the ultimate meaning of things — for that goodness and truth and beauty that are at the heart of life.

The world is wrapped in night and sleep: a solitary sits at his candle and his spirit is abroad on the ocean of God’s love. Presently, the night-watcher is aware that the flame of his candle is so thin as to be invisible. The Sun, new risen, is flooding through his window. It is not the Sun of all vanity, but the Sun of holy wisdom, and under it, wonderful things are done day after day to the end of time.

These truths are not given only to a solitary here and there in the long watches of the night, they aught to be part of every man, woman and child. If we are true to that Light, we shall know when our last day on Earth, if not before, that life is a thing of beauty beyond price. The peace of the Light that we tend and trim in our hearts will outlast the darkness and the dust of death. And so, dear children of the Light, go out in peace to your fields and your fishing boats.

~ From the novel: Vinland by George MacKay Brown, Ch. 5.
(the conclusion of a short sermon given many centuries ago by Abbot Peter in a monastery chapel in the Orkney Isles)

Conscious Awareness or ‘Pure Consciousness’, is not attainable via any religious theory, ritual, or belief. This is why Jesus told the Scribes and Pharisees, who held fast to their traditions and beliefs, that they did not understand his message, nor did they understand the message of their own scripture.

Jesus would say the same today to all those who hold dear to ancient, traditional beliefs, whether Christian beliefs or not.

The finite mind of self is incapable of realizing a Pure Consciousness that is other than self. Pure Consciousness is not realized through self, but through Christ. Not the Christian Christ, nor a person called Christ, but the living Christ — the Spiritual Christ.

The apostle Paul referred to the Christ on at least one occasion as the ‘mind of Christ.’ In so saying, he was speaking of an Awareness in Consciousness that is other than self.

Christ Jesus was Jesus in Christ, or Jesus having realized Pure Consciousness through Christ. The Kingdom of Heaven, which is Pure Conscious Awareness absent the self, is likewise realized (becomes real) through Christ.

Thus, following his awakening, Jesus could declare, ‘the time is fulfilled’ (Pure Consciousness has awakened in Man), therefore ‘the kingdom of God is at hand.’

~ From: The Christ is Not a Person, by J.C. Tefft. pp 22. (recommeded by Eckhart Tolle)

Truth (and the liberation it brings) tends to emerge in those who provide an environment within which it can more readily evolve. The Inner Garden must be tended to, cared for, and nurtured, so that the seed of greater conscious awareness can grow, flower and bear fruit. ~ J.C. Tefft

The magic is in the doing
Not the thinking, reading
Talking or listening about
But in the get down hands dirty
Shirt off doing.

~ by Heather Saunders

Allow awareness to rest into the quietness in the room. Notice that the same quietness that is “out there” in the room is also “in here” in the body and mind. Just rest into that quietness. The quietness is a portal to the pure awareness that is who you are.

What are you seeking? You may believe that you are seeking more money, a better relationship, a better drug, a new job, or enlightenment. But what is it that you really want?

If you are really honest, you will discover that you already know those ‘things’ outside you will not provide the permanent contentment you are seeking. Even if you get the new job or the new lover, at some point the newness will wear off and the seeking for something more or something better will begin again.

If you are really honest, you will discover that what you are really seeking is the end of seeking itself. But if you listen into the quietness that is already here in this moment, that silent stillness already contains peace.

That peace is who you already are. The notion of seeking into future to find what you already are is insanity. Just rest as awareness in this moment. The end of seeking is already here in the quiet stillness of awareness.

~ From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby. If you would like to get an inspirational reflection like this each day by email for free, >>>Subscribe Here.

For The Buddha, the ending of mind-made suffering came about when he ‘entered’ into an inner state of Consciousness he called ‘Nirvana.’ Jesus attained Nirvana when he ‘entered’ what he called the ‘kingdom of heaven.’

The path to enlightenment, Nirvana, or the Kingdom of Heaven spoken of in ancient times is nothing more, nor anything less than the realization of Truth, Love, and true Being. And, as Jesus. Buddha and others so often pointed out, this realm of Truth and Love is found within, which is to say, within you and within me.

Enlightened Masters of old used dissimilar languages, parables and metaphors to express the same cosmic reality. And without exception, they discovered this ‘new’ reality, which is true reality. by means of a radlical transformation in conscious awareness.

The Kingdom of Love and Peace is beyond thought and beyond time. When one with the One, we are transformed in Awareness into the cosmic realm from whence we came. This is the Truth of Zen. This is Nirvana. This is the Tao. This is Brahmic Splendor. This is Eternal Bliss. This is the Kingdom of Heaven — the Pearl of great price. This is the Promised Land. This is Paradise.

~ From the book: The Christ is Not a Person: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Destiny of Man by J.C. Tefft

What is pointed to here is neither revolutionary nor new. It is the same reality that has been pointed to by uncounted spiritual guides for more than three thousand years.

The ending of mind-made suffering does not come about through adherence to any system, method, ritual, or belief; nor is there an exclusive path to enlightenment.

Self-created suffering ends at the moment there is a clear seeing or realization of Truth, a clear realization of what is — within you. To realize Truth, the mind must be free of any and all systems of belief, which is to be, as the Buddha put it, in the ‘highest state.’

This requires that no interpretation, no opinion, no idea, no belief, no ritual, and no judgment be in the way. It requires a mind that is free of all that. In that state of mind — the highest state — suffering ends.

~ From the book: The Christ is Not a Person: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Destiny of Man by J.C. Tefft pp xiv

“Enlightenment is the realization, the lived experience, that we are made of pure consciousness; that pure consciousness is our fundamental nature and our ultimate reality; and that everything else in the universe is also made of pure consciousness, so that our own being is fundamentally unified with all of nature. As one fourth-century Chinese sage put it, “Everything in the universe is one and the same root as my own self.”

In enlightenment, we experience life from the vantage point of that root. We experience our own self as unbroken consciousness, pervading our body and our environment. This means that there is a continuity between our inner and outer perception. We have a sense of vast space, as if all our perceptions were one single tapestry of reflections in a single mirror.

We feel that we are made of clear, empty space, finer than air, unbounded and motionless. Within this vast space moves the changing progression of our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. I call this unbroken, pervasive dimension fundamental consciousness.

Before we realize fundamental consciousness, we identify ourselves as our sensations, feelings, perceptions, ideas, memories. But when we realize fundamental consciousness, we recognize that these discrete, transitory experiences come and go within the fundamental ground that is our true identity.”

~ by Judith Blackstone.

Judith is a psychotherapist and student of Eastern contemplative traditions, and a meditation practitioner for 25 years. She is the author of The Enlightenment Process and other works. More info >>>HERE and HERE.

It’s the holiday season again with its special Christmas lights. For each of us, however, our entire life-experience has had but one purpose behind it — discovering the Light of the Eternal.

This season marks the timeless moment when immaculate awareness comes to free us from the mistaken worship of the graven images of limited light in order to recognize, what the Bible calls, “the Father of lights (the Light of Conscousness), with whom is no

variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

God’s light is enfolded within the awareness that sees Christmas lights twinkling, that watches the evening sky with starlight gleaming. In the same way that the “words” are “information,” just so is light unfolding the wisdom and knowledge of God within us.

Who is “us”? The Self-Awareness of the Infinite Eternal.

Life runs in Light because Life is that light. The searching soul that struggles to see, skirts the edges of shadows, plumbs the darkened valleys of hidden hills and measures the forms of opaqueness.

But for each of us, in each one’s time, the experience examined, the shadows searched, leads us to the Light, the Light to the Godhead. The shadows are gone, having let us see so we know we see the immeasurable allness of Light.

~ by William Samuel. To read the rest of this luminous article, >>>Click Here.

Also, on the weekend of Dec. 11, there will be an audio podcast of one of William’s talks posted on Urban Guru Cafe