"...Life does not have an agenda, or a point to it at least not in a way that our minds can conceive. With awakening mind actually plays a part in its own dismantling process, what it built up, gets to be taken back down, similar to the ocean reclaiming the sand from a sand castle made on the beach, returning the sand back to itself. One by one all my projections of how I believe life to be get to be seen through, and returned back to source, to the emptiness from which it emerged. This is still occurring to this day. One of the first beliefs to drop was hope. What I discovered is that hope is a refuge that the mind tries to evoke in order to help it deal with the unknown. The mind has such a strong need to feel safe and to help make sense of the world, that it gives it meaning. Religions and beliefs come out of that need. Imagination is the trademark of this mind’s ability.
And it is a glorious thing. But imagination is just that, the ability of the mind to imagine itself into being. And the biggest magic trick of all is for it to believe in itself as separate from the rest of life. Wanting to then regain security for itself, as the experience is then one of fragmentation, it creates strategies in order to stabilize itself in its fabricated reality. One of the strategies that it creates is the desire to give meaning to our lives. This makes sense as it helps to give structure to something that is very mysterious and unknowable.
We build platforms of beliefs, wanting to give context to a universe that is made of space, including our own bodies and minds. So, the mind creates through language structures, landing places within the emptiness of our very own selves. We hop from landing place to landing place faster than an eye blink, and this creates the continuous sense of a self that feels real. But these platforms are constructs of the mind, and they live in space. Language is a platform where we find rest, as are beliefs, worries, thoughts about the future, almost everything is. Perhaps only the immediate moment of sensation, all five senses can be seen as real as far as materiality is concerned. Even so, sensation is then filtered through our bodies (which is mind as well), interpreted by the brain, and translated immediately into information, which, is then categorized and placed into the contexts, which we know and perceive as ourselves.
There is no problem here, and in fact there is no particular reason to even question the reality of anything, as everything is in itself whole and undivided whether we know it or not, unless of course, doing so becomes for you as it did for me a primary interest and even a choiceless drive, driven by consciousness itself, as there really is no personal I seeing through itself. But there is the experience of an ‘I’ seeing through itself, and whether the truth is revealed in any given individual, I find just the fact that we are here with these bodies in such a diverse world to be a wonderful miracle!
Even consciousness getting lost in itself and taking itself as a real separate entity, is a miracle. I am bringing this up only to show how tricky it can be to take that backward step out of the sticky mechanism of how mind works to that which is the sub-stratum of what we are, and pointing to the intelligence of mind in its need to protect and maintain the assertion of being separate and independent from existence. Prior to the weavings of the mind and consciousness getting glued to what it perceives, lies the unconditioned...."
~ Susanne Marie
"Life is our ultimate teacher. While it’s true that being stripped naked of imagination by life’s challenging lessons can be a difficult pill to swallow, it’s equally true that it can be a major catalyst to healing and awakening. Life can be both beautiful and difficult, and accepting this contradiction without drawing a line between them or attempting to push the difficulties away becomes a means of embodying new possibility. Each new challenge that arises is an opportunity to turn what we once perceived as adversity into true living beauty. This opens us to a life that is constantly and creatively revealing itself, never remaining any one thing, as the awakened consciousness is always fluid and in motion."
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