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Peace

NESS
 

It is easy to identify with the mind. Eckhart Tolle says that the servant (the mind) has become the master. The mind is a tool to be used when needed, then put down when it is not needed. But it is very difficult to either NOT think or watch the thinking from present moment awareness.
I always find myself thinking ahead. There are many things that I want to do, many visions that I see about the future as clearly as I see memories. I am anxious to get there, but I can't get there without being here. We have to pay attention to the step that we are taking now.
Eckhart Tolle also says, "You can't find yourself by going into the past, you find yourself by coming into the present."
"The Power of Now" has to be the best book that I have read about being present. It is so very clear and full of meaning and insight.

"Shaman, Healer, Sage" was a very inspiring and magical book. I was looking up flights to Peru. It would certainly be mind opening to experience a culture so very different than the industrialized world....
Another great story, along a similar line, is called "Mutant Message from Down Under." It is about a woman's experience with the aboringinal tribes in Austrailia. Very easy read, very amazing story.

Good luck with your present moment awareness.
May peace and love be you.
 

Very interesting post, the ego/critic has to be wrestled with at all times, it's hard work but worth the struggle in the end, blessings to you, Aine :)
 

makes all the sense in the world.... Thankyou.
 

Well, I'm sorry that you're in a rough spot, and I do know that you'll absolutely figure this one out.
You're too bright, too positive to stay in that place for long.
 

Know where you are coming from.When we first met,I picked up on the fact that you were somehow ignoring the negative,trying to project the positive,and I commented on that.

LET GO,NON-Doing IS the answer.

You say BEING then DOING,sounds good,but this shows,from my experience,what you already suspect,"the mind...just playing another game".....Joining the word "being" to the word "doing",with the word "then",shows (a)"now"is absent (b)"being" is subsidiary to "doing"(c)this is mind,giving itself a more spiritually acceptable name-"being".

What is really needed,is to really let go of the mind,however it tries to call itself,and allow things to happen without any help from "I".

NON-BEING ! I have tasted this state of existence,and it is very difficult to remain a long time in it,the habits of mind are so entrenched,and I have not found it a permanent state,"I"still exist,and the mind and heart are in controll most of every day,throwing bits of negativity,thoughts,sadnesses at me.I try not to repress them.I try to embrace them gently,and sometimes a sadness becomes a joyful sadness,if that makes any sense.But even that is doing,awareness,simple awareness is better.

My first taste of NON-BEING came about after I had been trying really hard to DO something,and I was told that I was not trying,I (the mind,as it likes to do)then went to the opposite extreme,and STOP DOING,and then spent six months in and out of NON-BEING,NON-DOING,and NO-MIND.I then wasted many years trying to BE again-the mind BEing in controll most of the time. "I" am still here,but there is everthing possible when "I" am not !

My guess/understanding is that Buddha "attained" when all his years of DOING meditation techniques had proved fruitless,and his mind stopped trying to BE,and let go,and in that moment there was just a NON-BEING resting under a bodhi tree,and NON-BEING remained/remains in the moment forever.

So,we are not so fed up of the "search",so frustrated that we can,right now,in this moment,LET GO,into nothingness.Let us perhaps DO everything we can to help AWARENESS grow.More than this I don't know,"I" am still here.
 

Wilson,

This is a very great observation about life, many others have found the same. We suffer due to our attachments to the outcomes in our life. Not due to our desires. We suffer due to what our mind is doing, not due to outside circumstances.

Our minds run on habit most of the time. This is why it is essential for you to change your habits of thought. I wrote a blog called Reprogramming Yourself which details the steps for doing so. This is a VERY POWERFUL PRACTICE. It will change your life dramatically for the better, both on the inside and on the outside.

And please, do subscribe to my blogs too. I am sure you will love them!

Kind and loving regards,
Michael Skowronski
 

Negativity ... I so much know about it. Most of the times without knowing the reason, which makes things even worst.
You're wise and aware. It must go away. Replaced by positivity.