SHACK 625 JUST WORDS

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A friend sent me a link to look at and it was about science and consciousness and at first my hackles rose and I felt I knew best as my degree was just in that field and then I realised what is a degree in consciousness and the quantum field as the presenter of the You Tube presentation was endeavouring to show the Tao (he said it was the Dao now) were the same in a way or similar, my ego got ruffled and I felt ‘well I was saying that in blogs from 2007 and its old hat and there are books on it and they are reinventing the wheel and so on’.

The link to the video came from the original link of a well known female lecturer and doctor of science and I found wonderfully humorous and entertaining yet the same old, same old and the organisation and praise heaped around her and very ego I called her a spiritual dominatrix and felt oh for God’s sake not another one at it.

These two incidents were great teachers; I realised my ego thought it knew best and I the big Chief Guru I felt how dare they trespass on my territory after all I know all there is to know and say on this, then I realised every one of course including me will come from my own beliefs, education and backdrop of programming and who am I to judge their input?  Then I realised for every person on this trail differing expressions may give an insight a hint, an AH HA and start someone somewhere on the path to nowhere. Nowhere being everywhere in the sense of there are no words to actually describe it or that, they are just words, the finger pointing at the Moon to be on the Moon is the actual experience.  So yes my understanding softened and we do need to reinvent the wheel and at this time as many messages go out re consciousness then it is a distancing from crass materialism.

Then onto the lady guru in modern clothes and presenting the ‘way’ in a very humorous understanding way, yet giving advice and imageries that were odd to my way and yet had her captive audience spell bound, I enjoyed her presentation and not the content. Then again who am I to judge? The more the merrier and I changed my stance from a jealous zealot to a yes go for it all of you because we need the input to change the awful ethos of the wars, pollution, austerity, media fake fantasy and the horrific full in your face graphics that mind boggle and seduce minds by fantasy, sheer force of monsters and specific war and sick images that shudder the mind and bury deep images of terror and emotional garbage deep into the crevices and secret hideaways of the mind and then the buried material emerges in some case by a trigger event to be a madness or obsession.

There is of course the adhesion that the followers and disciples  become rooted and fixed to the Guru and they stop the search for their own emptiness and also form a cult and can be antagonistic towards other expressions, which I of course did above. The leader becomes the saviour and the Knight in Shinning White Armour.  A wise leader will at a point in their own evolution dissuade any serious attachment, which may mean losing applause and feeding off of their disciples energy and getting their approval and love from them as the disciples do from their guru and the danger of incestuous interludes and instances can occur and there has been a lot of that. 

Then for me came the realisation that words are just words and no attempt and beautiful eloquent writing, music, art or anything else can give one the feeling of an empty pure awareness because one is that awareness and how do you define something that is empty and yet full of energy and experiencing and is alive?  It can be a spur to find that one is looking at oneself which is awareness.  When one looks within as it were and becomes still without thought one is looking at oneself in the mirror, awareness reflects awareness which is experiencing awareness which is life without form.

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