u/midnoon2233

The personality is always outside dependant. Then what does it mean to be the way we want to be?

We can't be as a person anyhow we want as per our wish. Because everything outside molds it every moment in so many ways.

That simply implies we can be in such way that is completely untouched by anything outside at all. Which also means we are not our persona. We are beyond it.

As long as we be as persons we can't remain untouched by other's doing. We all are connected in one way or the other. So, what one does definitely sets an impact over others.

But, if we remain in a state within where not even our personality reaches then we could be just how we want to be. Without any disturbances.

If anything that we perceive through senses were real then the chance of they coming within the ambit of our comprehension would have been there.

When all of it a play, everything is in rapid movement, every next moment a new phenomenon is taking birth.

Yet, we get a chance to comprehend some things for maintaining our physical existence.

Rest if we just can be with that phenomenon that's wonderful.

That's the comprehension.

By being that phenomenon itself we can genuinely bow down.

Because only the realization of everything being beyond our comprehension, can allow us to be that.

But how to become less? The more I try, the more I become more, not less. Because that which is trying is also I. So, in trying, more energy the I takes and I become more and more.

Hence, receptivity also goes down. Only I pervades.

Result :- endless thoughts followed by unnecessary emotions cloud the awareness within and I feel lost.

But that sticking the attention to awareness within without getting distracted by outside while continuing a normal daily life as we understand how a normal life is, is also not easy.

This is because at what we trying to channel our focus seems like nothing to our mind while the outside carries the weight of making us feel here is everything at every coner wherever we want to look. And it does also feel like that. I think that's the magic trick. Where is seems like nothing, finding our every worth there. Becoming fully weightless.

What do you all feel?

Assumptions come from looking at others as how they are growing by becoming spiritual.

Unfortunately, most of the human beings have to look at others for even starting any spiritual process. I'm also among them.

Soon everybody among them realises by doing so they are just making fools of themselves.

The fact is the mind, it keeps recurring what it used to do before. And it's not easy to drop it as soon as anybody enters into spirituality. Maybe for some it happens. For rest, the mind continues to play it's own violin even in spirituality.

Mind's own desires, it's shortcomings continues to happen in one's life. Though people dream that they will win over their minds, since there are no shortcuts available, so, they need to try, try and try.

The play is definitely brief but not the life.

Then, maybe life is long.

But, why anything must be brief or long. It could be some other way where brief and long don't function at all.

Where there is no fair, no foul.

Joyfully we can go there. But it is beyond joyfullness.

Intensity is only an expression of which.

For that greatness also fails, because it is beyond all comparison.

Playing for being it is a fair play, we should play that play joyfully and as intensely as possible.

The way the being is that's me. On that the person I happens. Now, the person I should be aligned with the being. How the being is, accordingly it should get determined how the person should be.

But, in experience we have no clue about the being and the person I gets shaped by outside forces. That's why there is unimaginable suffering within. For no reason according to outside. But, inside there is a reason.

Again, the being is free from everything including the person. It is not affected by how the outside is or how even the person has been shaped.

That I knows how to be and it determines it's way of being always.

Only the person I needs dissolution or transformation "to be" if needed.

In all beautiful things of life logic doesn't enter. It is we who try to put logic their and since both the things don't sit together then our experience becomes ugly.

When we stay with beautiful moments in various situations of life, we remain above of our logic. The fact is that those beautiful moments can not be brought down at any stake. There is no way around. But, we come down for various puposes to be fulfilled and then from there we want to make a bridge to those beautiful happenings.

But, that doesn't happen. It doesn't matter how far we stretch our logic until and unless we transcend it or jump into other realm of experiences nothing phenomenal happens.

Life itself is that extreme and ultimate phenomenon of that kind. The basic purpose of logic is to serve life while being rooted in physical as per human perception.

Logic has been created and it will only remain limited unto the purpose for which it has been created. No matter how much we try to show how open it could become, it will go and hit the same bottom every time.

If we at certain points don't leave our logic, we shall never grow.

Today morning I was uselessly gazing at the tip of areca nut leaves. They seems like touching the sky with their dancing heads but not so. Just the view triggers something within. Then, as they bent with the blow of wind passing, and I was continuing the gazing; something within me also bent. A little bird then just flew away along that sight. It felt like something within me also took on a journey and vanished in nowhere. Maybe in that nowhere which is everywhere. Then I saw little white flowers blooming on a flowering tree, I don't even know what these flowers are called but they were exuding divinity in their own subtle ways, that's what I felt. It went on like that....

It seems like the tenderness is there within but we have no time to look at every life form with that sense. By becoming empty of ourselves. Absolutely uselessly, as ordinarily as possible as we used to do in childhood.

It feels like life is fully throbbing within us as it used to be earlier, only we become so busy that we hardly notice it.

Somewhere on the way of growing up we get caught up in the accessories of life in gathering them up for our convenience so much so that we forgot the way back to life.

If we take a little withdraw and pay attention around then reminders in abundance nature produces before us.

I also have so many countless nonsenses of mine. Within me. But, when I face within really putting my attention on, then I find only fragrance. No nonsense.

It is when my attention gets distributed in various directions, while engaging in the world outside my own compulsive body-mind patterns present nonsenses before me. Not always I can handle them properly. They do their own drama.

But, the more I pay attention within to face them, more I get clarity that actually what is a flower gets interpretated as filth because of various factors involved.

What is needed is more involvement into the fragrance and paying less attention to the nonsenses. Then, what is nonsensical right now shall also get transformed and look exactly like the representative of a blooming flower within.

That everyone is that One within.

Not a body-mind compulsive mechanism.

That One definitely has the choice to use the mind either to create wellbeing or misery for oneself that is for one body and one mind.

Otherwise, one will follow compulsive misery manufacturing processes. Even then body and mind have their limitations. They try to fall back in their compulsive patterns again and again.

It is a constant moment to moment choice of mind itself who knows it's roots are in consciousness to create wellbeing for itself and eventually that follows for others.

Everyone has this choice but to implement it one need to be aware of one's own Self. Only then using the mind for creating it can become a possibility.

If all of us did what truly matters to us, it will eventually lead us within. Where the unlimited source of joy or happiness that is life remains.

But, no. We actually want to be distracted and unnecessarily want to travel around to waste our energies so that one day when death appears we will find ourselves absolutely helpless and terrified. We want to be prepared for that.

Otherwise, we could be naturally focused. As to where life wants to lead us.

Instead, we choose outside to rule our time and energy. Because, there is a trigger of getting pleasantness there. At that point mind falls. From seeking joy and digging dip within to seeking pleasantness and trying to include the outside.

Maybe mind doesn't know how to go deep within so it takes the outside route to escape the thirst of joy and fulfillment within and tries to substite it by getting pleasure of worldly things.

But, more the mind does this, more the thirst within increases. Pleasure never becomes the substitute for joy.

More the mind seek pleasure from outside, more it get caught up. But, basically it wants to be free. Free from every kind of limitations that can limit it. And this can only happen if it merges back to it's source. Which is life itself.

Who expect?

The mind.

Not life.

And the mind get irritated. But, then mind has to take some side or the other to function. Without the discernment of right and wrong can mind function?

I don't have any clue on that.

But, yes irritation can be brought down by accepting others also as life. Not just other personalities.

Again, the limitedness factors. If we operate from our limited persona and see others also like that then clash is bound to happen. Irritation would be just one expression of it.

If we can remember our identity as life, as vastness then we can look at others also with possibilities in them, not judging them and identifying them with their limitations.

Experience the non-physical by being it. As it's not an objective experience.

That which experiences everything or for what every experience becomes possible that experiences itself.

Normally we think for an experience to happen another entity is required. There must be two.

So, it seems impossible to think a non-physical dimension experiencing itself.

But, it's only compare to our previous experiences. Because, previously we didn't experience anything like that; we think so.

Again when any experience happens in our lives, it's always new. Yet we somehow go on ignoring it's aliveness and freshness. If we could be otherwise, then accepting the possibility of experiencing the non-physical would have been as natural as anything.

Does that mean then only Creator is?

Nothing else is.

Creation is just an expression of the Creator.

Only Creator is and we see creation happening. Because only that's how we can see the Creator.

In everything we are perceiving, we are perceiving only the creator.

For our convenience, Creator is appearing as creation.

So that we can touch the core after being enamored by outside.

From core to finding expressions as outside appearances and then again travelling back to the core, all journeys are that One's.

Or, there is no journey; at every step, at every expression, at every transformation only One be.

Even now heart beats

Beats at the sights of birds flying away suddenly from a tree..

Not at anything extraordinary

But at everything very very ordinary

Those which all were very much present,

Unnoticed.

Even the physical on total attention

Can remind me of life

How it is

Unchanged.

Always the same.

Blissful on it's own.

Ecstatic by itself.

An abundance of outpouring joy which fills up our heart to beat.

But, instead of releasing themselves from the disease human beings look at other human beings and set goals that they will go one step ahead of others and this is how they feel their lives are worthy enough to live. Otherwise, they feel down. This is how the thought process of human beings generally work and it drag their emotions to the same direction and they do accordingly.

Human beings are horribly attached to their minds within themselves. Anything their mind shows them they think this is real. That's how they live their whole life. They never try to come out of their minds within. Their minds shows them all the problems are of outsides and they also believe.

If they could doubt their minds which shows them this instead of believing it, then they might have make efforts to go beyond the mind within and try to see what's the truth about themselves, everything and anything.

I have been educated also like this. Memorising what had already been taught and using those to shape the future. Future means the outside situations.

But, my own body, mind and emotions doesn't cooperate. They go by their own tendencies. Though being fed by good thoughts I'm unable to apply them practically. So, they remain with me as memory stuff.

But, the question is how to learn to use those things that we got from nature, the body, mind and emotions, the combination of whose we think we are.

Until a distance arises between the real us and the instruments of ours. As long as we are in perception that we ourselves are these body-mind personalities, if someone from outside teaches us to use these tools we will be feeling like we are getting used. This will continue as common misunderstanding.

Only if we could know who we are then this possibility of true education shall menifest as reality in hunam lives.

It happens, so many times we stand up above at so many situations where others don't dare to face. It's not about comparing me verses others but how different people perceive different situations differently and respond accordingly.

It's basically in our minds, how the situations get translated matters. This is why keeping the mind always sharp and alert is significantly important at every step we approach.

But, when minds get shaped by certain kind of ideas, prejudices it can not penetrate through situations as it could.

When mind functions by giving up to the senses then it becomes crippled. And when it is not , it retains it's quality. That doesn't mean we should not use our senses, but we can make our minds function by keeping them at a distance.

For that a little holding back of our minds from outside is necessary. This doesn't happen if all our energies simply by previous tendencies are always outflowing. They must be inward bound.

Even since childhood when we started knowing about something around us or the other there's also certain level of receptivity was required. Because we were willing to receive even intellectually, we learnt something.

So, the possibility of Learning gets open up for us when we become receptive. In that sense, if we look at the process of learning; gathering of knowledge is just a trigger to bring us in a state of receptivity. Where we become empty of everything that happened previously or thinking about future using those prior experiences or knowledge rather than just remaining available at that very moment. When we be like that, we become empty of ourselves. Hence, there occur empty space which is called receptivity. Only emptyness could be a perfect receiver and nothing else.

Maybe that does mean that Yoga has evolved to realise the ultimate union within but we use it for curing our bodies and mind. To en extent it helps. But, it's ultimate purpose is to realise our existence beyond body and mind, the combination of which we think we are.

But, actually we are not. Yoga sharpens our perception as to know what we truly are from what we think we are.

From unconsciousness to consciousness. From death to life. Not physical death but as living bodies and minds we don't know we are life. In that way we are living deads. But, we don't get to know until the breeze of life touches us. Yoga makes that possibility real to us.

From unconscious identities of personalities Yoga sets us free to experience ourselves as ever free phenomenon.