A New Earth

Ego is identification with Form

Words example) What is the essence of a Tree really if you couldn't call it a name?

Bum Lady talking aloud to herself in the UK

Eckhart talking hypocritically out loud in Bathroom right after.

Epiphany of missing family ring of dying old lady finally realizing that is not her although she identified it as part of who she was her whole life. Realized the ring was not who she was and laughed at the silliness of caring for it so much.

Aware of your own attachment to things and the need for more. That is the ego conditioned patterns of behavior at a young age....

I think therefore I am. Is discovery of the ego. Being aware that I am bc I think is another dimension and is the concept of awareness coming from our consciousness. Who we really are at the core.

Awareness is the next dimension after thinking and attachment to form. Dreaming. Then aware of dreaming while ur in the ur dream. are 2 different concepts.
When all form passes away who are you? It almost the 2nd derivative of the mind.

Its not that I am this or I am that... its that I AM

Depression or grievance is the habit of holding on to old thoughts and emotions. Be aware of all the things that get you there and realize it doesn't matter. In order for you to be right someone else needs to be wrong. This feeling of being right is the ego. And it is a trap.

Pol Pot of cambodia ordered everyone with glasses to be killed. considered them to be part of the bourgious, the educated - his view of marxist interpretation

The Catholic and other churches are correct when they identify relativism, the belief that there is no absolute truth to guide human behavior, as one of the evils of our times; but you won't find absolute truth if you look for it where it cannot be found: in doctrines, ideologies, sets of rules or stories. What do all these have in common? They are made up of thought. Thought can at best point to the truth but it never is the Truth. That's why Buddhists say "The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon". All religions are equally false and equally true, depending on how you use them. You can use them in the service of the ego, or you can use them in the service of Truth. If you believe only your religion is the Truth, you are using it in the service of the ego. Used in such a way, religion becomes ideology and creates illusions of superiority as well as division and conflict between people. In the service of Truth, religious teachings represent signposts or maps left behind by awakened humans to assist you in spiritual awakening, that is to say in becoming free of identification with form.

There is only one absolute Truth, and all other truths emanate from it. When you find that Truth, your actions will be in alignment with it. Human action can reflect the Truth, or it can reflect illusion. Can the Truth be put into words? Yes, but words are of course not it. They only point to it.

According to the Journal of American Medical Association, medical treatment is the 3rd leading cause of death after heart disease. Disease and medical treatment. War against anything will cause the opposite effect and make it worse. Super bacteria that adapts to anti-biotics. Will this eventually kill off much of human kind through epidemics / massive breakouts of super bugs?

There is either truth or illusion. Consciousness is truth, ego is an illusion.

- The ego always either wants something, or if it believes there is nothing to get from the other, it is in a state of utter indifference: it doesn't care about you. And so, the 3 predominant states of egoic relationships are wanting, thwarted wanting (anger resentment, blaming, complaining) and indifference.... all you need to know is this whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

- In the eyes of the ego, self esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

- Life is the dancer and ur the dance

- Ego comes about through a split in the human psyche in which identity separates into two parts that we could call "I" and "Me" and "myself". Every ego is therefore schizophrenic, to use the word in its popular meanings of split personality. You live with a mental image of yourself, a conceptual self that you have a relationship with. Life itself becomes conceptualized and separated from who you are when you speak of "my life". The moment you say or think "my life" and believe in what you are saying (rather than it just being a linguistic convention), you have entered the realm of delusion. If there is such a thing as "my life", it follows that I and life are two separate things, and so I can also lose my life, my imaginary treasured possession. Death becomes a seeming reality and a threat. Words and concepts split life into separate segments that have no reality in themselves. We could even say that the notion of "my life" is the original delusion of separateness, the source of ego. If I and life are two, if i am separate from life, then I am separate from all things, all beings, all people. But how could i be separate from life? What "I" could there be apart from life, apart from Being? It is utterly impossible. So there is no such thing as "my Life" and i don't HAVE a life. I AM life. I and life are one. It cannot be otherwise. SO how could i lose my life? how can i lose something that i don't have in the first place? How can i lose something that I Am? It is impossible.

- The greater part of most people's thinking is involuntary, automatic, and repetitive. It is no more than a kind of mental static and fulfills no real purpose. Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you. The statement "I think" implies volition. It implies that you have a say in the matter, that there is choice involved on your part. For most people, this is not yet the case. "I think", is just as false a statement as "I digest" or "i circulate my blood". Digestion happens, circulation happens, thinking happens.... this voice in the head has a life of its own. Most people are at the mercy of that voice; they are possessed by thought, by the mind. And since the mind is conditioned by the past, you are then forced to reenact the past again and again. The Eastern term for this is karma. When you are identified with that voice, you don't know this, of course. If you knew it, you would no longer be possessed because you are only truly possessed when you mistake the possessing entity for who you are, that is to say, when you become it.... thinking is no more than a tiny apsect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

- After 2 ducks get into a fight, which never lasts long, they will separate and float off in opposite directions. Then each duck will flap its wings vigorously a few times, thus releasing the surplus energy that built up during the fight. After they flap their wings, they float on peacefully, as if nothing had ever happened.... If the duck had a human mind, it would keep the fight alive by thinking, by story-making. This would probably be the duck's story: "i don't believe what he just did. He came to within 5 inches of me. He thinks he owns this pond. He has no consideration for my private space. I'll never trust him again. Next time he'll try something else just to annoy me. I'm sure he's plotting something already. But I'm not going to stand for this. I'll teach him a lesson he won't forget". And on and on the mind spins its tales, still thinking and talking about it days, months or years later. As far as the body is concerned the fight is still continuing, and the energy it generates in response to all those thoughts is emotion, which in turn generates more thinking. This becomes the emotional thinking of the ego. YOu can see how problematic the duck's life would become if it had a human mind. But this is how most humans live all the time. No situation or event is ever really finished. The mind and the mind-made "me and my story" keep it going...... We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look and listen. Our duck's lesson is this: Flap your wings - which translates as "let go of the story" - and return to the only place of power: the present moment. Look to nature for the greater meaning of things..... Nature exists in a state of unconscious oneness with the whole. This for example, is why virtually no wild animals were killed in the tsunami disaster of 2004. Being more in touch with the totality than humans, they could sense the tsunami's approach long before it could be seen or heard and so had time to withdraw to higher terrain. Perhaps even that is looking at it from a human perspective...... Even Christ says - Look at the lilies of the field, how they grow... they toil not, neither do they spin. Yet even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If God clothes flowers in such beauty, then how much more can God clothe you.


Ego loses its hold faster on women because they have suffered much more than men in history. The sacred female has been victim to many unjust cases of oppression, torture, killings and rape and are thus in touch much more quicker at the core of who they are than men at a subconscious level. They have been victim to men's egos in history.

Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance. The law that outflow determines inflow is expressed by Jesus in this powerful image: "Give and it will be given to you" The source of abundance is not outside you. it is part of who you are..... ask yourself often: "What can i give here; how can i be of service to this person, this situation?" You don't need to own anything to feel abundant, although if you feel abundant consistently things will almost certainly come to you. Abundance comes only to those who already have it. It sounds almost unfair, but of course it isn't. It is a universal law. Both abundance and scarcity are inner states that manifest as your reality. Jesus puts it like this: "For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."

- Wiseman and maybe... Zen master... Is that So?

- buddha chinese character. No and Man

- The ring and 'This too will pass'

- Television makes u go below ur thoughts like drugs and alcohol. It gives you a break from your thoughts. Sometimes indirectly though it can awaken. Laughter is liberating and healing.

- Connection of the cosmos expanding and eventually contracting to the mirco-cosmo that we all are. Analogy of inner and outer purpose. Just as Hawking asks why does the Universe bother expanding and contracting in this manner and existing period. Don't we ask the same question at a micro level of our own existence? Einstein until he died struggled with this concept that there is no causality of the universe.

Relative truth vs. Absolute truth - Relative is the sun rises and sets. Absolute is that it is actually always shining no matter what. Another relative truth in the mind is that 'my own life' is a relative perspective about you and your life are separate, when in fact they are one.

expansion and contraction is seen in the universe. Its seen in the human heart literally, its seen in breathing in and out, its seen in waking up and sleeping. Its seen in the dream world and the real world. Perhaps is the reverse that the dream world is really what we are when we are aware inside the dream. Process of birth, growth of physical form, then growth of ego, then gradual deterioation of form and your world. you go back where you came from. Nothingness.

- I Am the Way, Truth and the Life - because he was awakened

- Forgive them, for they know not what they do - The concept of awareness

- The Kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed nor will they say Lo here it is or There for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you. - linked to the concept of the beatitudes. That the kingdom of God / Heaven is something linked to the inner Being that is you.... and the poor in spirit are they that are poor of ego.... theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

- Love and Do what you will - st. Augustine

- There is in our civilization a great deal of ignorance about the human condition, and the more spiritually ignorant you are, the more you suffer. For many people, particularly in the West, death is no more than an abstract concept, and so they have no idea what happens to the human form when it approaches dissolution. Most decrepit and old people are shut away in nursing homes. Dead bodies, which in some older cultures are on open display for all to see, are hidden away. Try to see a dead body, and you will find that it is virtually illegal, except if the deceased is a close family member. In funeral homes, they even apply makeup on the face. You are only allowed to see a sanitized version of death.... it is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss of personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open.

- The 3 modalities of awakened doing: Acceptance, Enjoyment, Enthusiasm.
Acceptance: Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do. Acceptance means for now, this is what the situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so i do it willingly. ie. changing a flat tire when it pops in the rain.
Enjoyment: The peace that comes with surrendered actions turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing. Enjoyment will replace wanting as the motivating power behind people's actions.
Enthusiasm: means there is deep enjoyment in what you do plus the added element of a goal or a vision that you work toward.

- In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes a prediction that to this day few people have understood. He says, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth". In modern versions of the Bible, "meek" is translated as humble. Who are the meek or the humble, and what does it mean that they shall inherit the earth?.... the meek are the egoless. They are those who have awakened to their essential true nature as consciousness and recognize that essence in all "others", all life-forms. They live in the surrendered state and so feel their oneness with the whole and the Source. They embody the awakened consciousness that is changing all aspects of life on our planet, including nature, because life on earth is inseparable from the human consciousness that perceives and interacts with it. That is the sense in which the meek will inherit the earth. A new species is arising on the planet.....


Franz Kafka, TS Eliot, Albert Camus, James Joyce
Read about Jean Paul Sartre
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