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The past is a limit you place
on the present and the future.
As you choose the past as a limit
you see what you expect.
This is a limit
or a closed-box experience.
But the walls of the box
have been built by you,
and by meaning you have chosen to believe.
Nothing holds the box in place
but you
through your choice
to re-believe the meaning of the past
again and again.
~From our Holy Spirit
Please contemplate today’s commentary in the same way you contemplate the Thoughts of Awakening.
~Commentary on False Perception~
The closed-box is false perception. False perception is a way of seeing what is as if it is something it isn’t. False perception can also be called blindness, because it hides the truth from the mind that has chosen to be deceived.
The good news, however, is simply this: “It hides the truth from the mind that has chosen to be deceived.” And if the mind has chosen to be deceived, it can also choose again by choosing not to re-believe its own deception.
Ask, “What am I believing that is not in alignment with what I am?” And as you ask this question, remember that you do not know what you are. If you can ask this question with the realization you know not what you are, the thinking mind will not be able to figure out an answer. Any answer that is given is given by true awareness. Therefore, it is a truly helpful answer.
You need not know what you are doing to be helped by God, for God does know. God can show you and enlighten you if only you will surrender with a desire to be shown.
~From our Holy Spirit
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The past has no meaning now.
Any meaning it ever had
was only the meaning you gave it.
Now is a fresh moment.
This means that meaning from the past
can be looked at anew
and new meaning can be given.
However to make this change
do not deny one critical point.
Any meaning the past seemed to have
was absolutely given by you.
~From our Holy Spirit
When you read today’s message, please surrender to it. It is a message about surrender, but in order to fully realize the lesson in the message, you will have to surrender to the message.
When today’s message asks you to do something, surrender to it, and do it right then. If there are thoughts in your mind that say you don’t need to do it, or you don’t have time to do it, or you can do it later, practice self-inquiry to notice how the mind is trying to stop you from surrendering.
Why would the mind try to stop you from surrendering?
Is the mind trying to control you?
Is the mind in control of you, or is your Heart in the lead in your daily life?
In the Bible at John 15:4, Jesus said:
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.
“Abide in me as I abide in you,” is a call to surrender. The “fruit” that Jesus spoke of is awakening. Just as he told the disciples previously that salvation (awakening) is not possible for man, but only for God, this scripture points out that awakening is not possible if the mind remains in the lead. Surrender is necessary.
When I was the scribe of Inner Ramana, I received guidance to add, “Abide in me as I abide in you,” to my mantra practice. In other words, just as I said, “I am that I am” to myself whenever the reminder came to do so, I also said, “Abide in me as I abide in you,” to myself whenever the reminder came to do so. As I used this mantra, I felt my inner desire to surrender. Through using the mantra, my resistance to surrender weakened, because I noticed that I (the true ‘I’) wanted to surrender. As I became more aware of my desire to surrender, surrender came more easily to me.
If you feel guidance to journal about anything you read as you read today’s message, surrender to that inner prompt, and journal with inner wisdom as guided.
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Knowledge is within
beyond the mind.
Knowledge is constant
before and beyond the world.
Knowledge is realization
of the truth of what you are.
Knowledge is peace,
because it is the end of all questions
and the permanent rest
of the doubting mind.
~From our Holy Spirit
Today’s reading addresses three common ideas that people have about ego death:
Do not read today’s message too quickly. Pay attention, and notice that none of the statements above are true.
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Notice when you are thinking,
and then say,
“I am willing not to think.
I am willing to be guided
by the finger of silence.”
Realize you need not know
at the level of mind
to be happy.
You need not know
to be moved.
You only feel you need to know,
because it gives you a sense of identity.
But isn’t a sense of identity
separate from the all?
~From our Holy Spirit
Yesterday’s tip pointed out that the ego comes from consciousness—from the loop of believing attention—and when you believe the ego, you are a puppet of unreality.
The human isn’t reality. It’s not what you are, although it is your current level of experience. Since the human is not reality, it is always a puppet. Even when the ego dies its final death, the body-mind-personality is still a puppet. Instead of being a puppet to the ego, it is a puppet (manifestation) of truth. It is truth manifest in the world.
It’s important to realize that the human body always follows a script, which can also be called karma, but the script can be a script of clarity and wisdom instead of a script of ignorance and delusion. Since you are awareness and not a human body, you can decide which script to cast attention on, and that is the script that will move the body-mind-personality.
When you choose surrender, you choose to follow the script of wisdom instead of the script of delusion. Once Self-realization occurs, you are at a vibrational level where following wisdom is natural, yet the wisdom that moves the body-mind-personality is still script. When awakening to reality has occurred, the awake-mind is beyond the script entirely, yet the body-mind-personality is moved by the wisdom-script until the body dies a physical death. That is why Nisargadatta Maharaj said:
Yes, l appear to hear and see and talk and act, but to me it just happens, as to you digestion or perspiration happens. The body-mind machine looks after it, but leaves me out of it. Just as you do not need to worry about growing hair, so I need not worry about words and actions. They just happen and leave me unconcerned, for in my world nothing ever goes wrong.
His world is reality.
Ramana Maharshi described it this way:
[Bliss] is the state of unceasing peace of mind, which is found in the state of absolute quiescence, which resembles inactive deep sleep. In this state, in spite of the activity of the body and the senses, there is no external awareness, as in the case of a child immersed in sleep (who is not conscious of the food given to him by his mother). A yogi who is in this state is inactive even while engaged in activity. This is also called sahajanirvikalpa Samadhi (natural state of absorption in oneself without concepts.)
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