KipMazuy
5th November 2004, 06:14 AM
"The equation for unconditional happiness,
limitless peace and love
is this.
You are consciousness itself.
your very nature is limitless
love, peace and bliss.
You do not experience this
because you are identified with your mind.
Which is to say, you believe
you are your thoughts and emotions.
So when you think happy thoughts
you seem happy
when you think unhappy thoughts
you seem unhappy.
Your very experience is controlled by your thoughts.
In order to tap into your true nature
which is an overflowing,
unconditional happiness
far more blissful and truthful
than what positive thinking
could ever create for you,
you need to develop the ability
to witness your thoughts.
In this way, you can disidentify
with your thinking
and thus discover who you are behind this.
You strip off your costume
and you see your
beautiful, naked,
pure, self.
So,
spend time every day
doing nothing
but sitting,
listening to Ocean Euphoric
and witnessing your thoughts.
You are present,
watching your breath.
Thoughts come
you see them come
you see them go.
You do not make them you.
Example:
The thought comes
"Do I have enough rice for tonight?"
And you see this thought as a sound
having nothing to do with
you being present in the moment
breathing.
The tendency is to be pulled by the thought.
One moment you are sitting, breathing
watching thoughts,
the next you are eating rice for dinner
then buying rice in the store
and seeing the chocolate on the shelf
that you ate when you were ten
when you were at the fair with your mom
and she is now in Spain and
then you are visiting her in Spain,
but you do not have time
because now you are trying to get that report
done before your boss yells at you
now your boss is yelling at you and
you sure is hell won't put up with his
rudeness and suddenly you are jumping
up and down on his desk
calling him names
like goofball, nitwit,
Yet, you are still sitting there, breathing
but you were not aware of it.
You were living in your thoughts.
You will get caught up
in your thoughts like this
a million times,
but every time you
catch yourself lost in your thoughts,
come back to now.
Come back to
sitting and breathing
watching the thoughts
come and go.
In this way
you will be able to spend
longer periods of time
as the witness of thoughts
instead of the thinker.
The thoughts will become
less personal,
more subtle,
dreams and visions.
Then eventually
no thoughts,
long gaps of silence
and the nurturing peace
that goes with it.
Somewhere
you cross the line
where you no longer
identify with thoughts and emotions
but with consciousness itself.
And your radiance
will grow
like a beanstalk.
Blessings,
Kip"
limitless peace and love
is this.
You are consciousness itself.
your very nature is limitless
love, peace and bliss.
You do not experience this
because you are identified with your mind.
Which is to say, you believe
you are your thoughts and emotions.
So when you think happy thoughts
you seem happy
when you think unhappy thoughts
you seem unhappy.
Your very experience is controlled by your thoughts.
In order to tap into your true nature
which is an overflowing,
unconditional happiness
far more blissful and truthful
than what positive thinking
could ever create for you,
you need to develop the ability
to witness your thoughts.
In this way, you can disidentify
with your thinking
and thus discover who you are behind this.
You strip off your costume
and you see your
beautiful, naked,
pure, self.
So,
spend time every day
doing nothing
but sitting,
listening to Ocean Euphoric
and witnessing your thoughts.
You are present,
watching your breath.
Thoughts come
you see them come
you see them go.
You do not make them you.
Example:
The thought comes
"Do I have enough rice for tonight?"
And you see this thought as a sound
having nothing to do with
you being present in the moment
breathing.
The tendency is to be pulled by the thought.
One moment you are sitting, breathing
watching thoughts,
the next you are eating rice for dinner
then buying rice in the store
and seeing the chocolate on the shelf
that you ate when you were ten
when you were at the fair with your mom
and she is now in Spain and
then you are visiting her in Spain,
but you do not have time
because now you are trying to get that report
done before your boss yells at you
now your boss is yelling at you and
you sure is hell won't put up with his
rudeness and suddenly you are jumping
up and down on his desk
calling him names
like goofball, nitwit,
Yet, you are still sitting there, breathing
but you were not aware of it.
You were living in your thoughts.
You will get caught up
in your thoughts like this
a million times,
but every time you
catch yourself lost in your thoughts,
come back to now.
Come back to
sitting and breathing
watching the thoughts
come and go.
In this way
you will be able to spend
longer periods of time
as the witness of thoughts
instead of the thinker.
The thoughts will become
less personal,
more subtle,
dreams and visions.
Then eventually
no thoughts,
long gaps of silence
and the nurturing peace
that goes with it.
Somewhere
you cross the line
where you no longer
identify with thoughts and emotions
but with consciousness itself.
And your radiance
will grow
like a beanstalk.
Blessings,
Kip"