Talking to a friend and discussing identity she felt she was seeking a foundation and therefore an identity and in my view this
comes with a history, a belief system and although this is a world held view
and can give a reason for living however this kind of foundation based on
tenets and beliefs can become a dogma and separates those of another
‘foundation’, and as such can easily in some cases be swapped for another foundation
when this appears to be not functioning or fulfilling the goal desired.
This then seems to be a temporary affair even if it
lasts a life time because its very nature is in a way transient and can easily
be exchanged in that life time if so desired or so tenacious as to be blind to
other views.
My feeling was that consciousness which to my mind
seems the foundation and this consciousness is awareness, it is the witness and
as such has to be conscious and aware to experience life even in dreams and
this awake life maybe an extended dream only the witness has been temporarily
seduced and stuck fast and perhaps has been incarnated in order to release the
tenacious super glue built up over many incarnations from the distant past.
However on eventually working through this gummed up sticky residue one’s past
of karma is eradicated. So this comes back
to the ‘foundation of no foundation’. The foundation is an invisible awareness
which is consciousness.
When one has a belief system which becomes the
base and reference point to Life and decisions thereof, one maybe restricted to
choice through the background check in the computer held software of that
reaction. This then becomes the moral,
religious cultural foundation and can be as rigid or as flexible within certain
limits of tolerance.
With awareness, not ego anticipation and on guard
alertness but a natural awareness free and all round observance without effort,
a natural morality arises because it is the morality of the Universal non local
self and so is in tune with the Universe. No matter how lofty and virtuous the local ego
agenda is it is still human contrived and is usually based on someone else’s
morality and life’s work.
The late J Krishnamurti was told by a participant
at his lectures ‘Krishnamurti gi I have given up all my vices---his reply 'now
give up all your virtues’. Can one be free
of duality?
Well it is possible I suppose; let us examine a
possible scenario; Supposing one has become a witness like say watching the TV,
being in the market place of life and just being aware that one is the observer
then one can participate in all of life, a witness to the highs and lows just
being not ‘forcibly detached’ and saying I will become a hermit, keep my head
below the fortress wall, bury my head in the sand and so on. Then surely this
is what one may have signed up for, it may be the reason one came to this life in
order to overcome that which is distasteful, painful and shocking. Face the
fear and walk through it not with determination and grit but by relaxing and
breathing and realising they are not a threat, the threat comes when one retreats
and gives energy to that fear and buries it in the vault of unfinished
business.
So look, observe, enjoy, move, let go, no desires
to keep a pleasant experience it is a passing cloud, if distasteful and
dreadful, painful and disgusting, watch it melt away as the fear and tightness
dissolves.
Therefore walk in the market place of the world;
it will not go away until one dies and if not dealt with, suppressed, pressed
down and so a feast for depression, it remains an unconscious fear and no matter what one does will automatically react at the next signal for its
release. Be a spiritual warrior face the faceless, face the fear, face the
assassin and saboteur that lurks in the shadows of the unconscious, let
the light of awareness illuminate the dark corners of the mind so the shadows
of fear and uncertainty can no longer lurk and mug the awareness of its light.
So walk free and roam where one has to and in
every situation remember that the software programmes are just that, they are
brain washed, conditioning no matter what the so called wisdom might be held in
that programme.
The child when born may have unfinished business
but until it grows it will be a near open mind, it knows nothing of religion,
culture and all else, from the moment it begins to realise and think, reason
and take on its duty and all else it has lost the awareness and has a
foundation of its parents or those it grows up with. The child has to be taught who one is now, until the light goes on as to who am I really, before I was conditioned and brain washed and with a chance of finding the 'foundation of no foundation' feeling secure in a kind of empty nowhere-ness.
A wise man said ‘if you wish to receive the Kingdom of Heaven
I cannot say I am at any point of liberation, I am
merely expressing a view and this can be of course debated and refuted, however
all I can do is to see the hiccups, the burps and the pitfalls, trusting that
the ever present light of awareness and therefore the eternal consciousness
will break the clouds and dreary drudge of mundane existence and wake me up to
the reality that nowhere- ness is safe and the no mind of the witness will
shine through the cracks that are offered me and that grace is benevolent and will
visit me at spontaneous moments and so the AH HA’s take me ever nearer to the
emptiness of joy and eventually to death of the known.
SHACK
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