SHACK 1016 OOH ---THAT MIRROR

Science of Non Duality

When I reflect and examine my thoughts and feelings as they spontaneously 'arrive' in awareness without prejudice and opinion I begin to realise that they are merely floating clouds and mostly meaningless and that they are not important and as I look into this mind mirror I begin to understand my relationship with them.

The importance seems to be related to their significance in my life and survival to living. Most of the thoughts provoke emotions that would be satisfying and make me feel safe and the more I acquire not only in form like material objects the objects seem to be a sort of barricade, a sort of fortress and I realise they are mind safety devices and at most a false comfort, they like most acquisitions are 'mind stuff' and  on deep reflection they are in the mirror of relationships and will fade if not because of something better to replace them or make me feel like a new toy more secure or on death.

However when I observe my relationship with people and pets rather than mere material forms that are so called non organic, then in many relations I have been looking for approval which can be a substitute for love or a need. If it is for need then I am holding fast to this relationship and when it is broken and pain and bitterness follows and a hollow sinking fear and feeling lonely and derelict and seek solace in some other distraction or person.

A realisation comes to me all relationships can fade in the fullness of time. What lasts forever? Is there a relationship that is lasting? Yes, when all relationships fade and it is seen and felt that all things organic or non organic are impermanent, transient and should one realise like holding a cube of ice that all forms in the mirror of relationships melt and dissolve as ones body does and should one discover that all is transient, impermanent and only slip by like the clouds, then life becomes less serious and one can find that this so called emptiness of loss of grasping the ice cube and let it melt AND not freak out at the Nothingness that may feel barren and foreboding and not run and let oneself abide in that 'void' there is a joy and light that is the relationship to oneself and does not fade and one perceives that all forms are illusionary and like the ice cub promise solidarity and security but like all so solid forms are the delusion of a solid foundation.

There is no dependency on mirror reflections, they are phantoms that cross the mind and even when love is found in a partner this may fade as need is gradually lessened and that persons or persons have moved on or one might have moved on when one realises the 'catch and trap' of dependency and that dependency not only keeps one entrapped but in fear of the loss and 'oh God what happens when---!!?.

Living with loss can be a great teacher; should one stay with loss and realise life in a flesh body from birth to death is loss and no matter what one does the 'grim reaper' will get one some day and running from the inevitable causes more fear and that seeking distraction through addiction will only put off the threat of death. So in the mirror of relationships, be it with ones emotions, body, people, animals, culture, politics, God or the Universe it is a great teacher to look and not be afraid and question 'what are my relationships to these and other items in my life, how much do I depend on them and what do I feel when they are abundant or deprived in my Life'.

What one may find is that as one relaxes and let these fears and feeling subside and not run, relax, breathe and let go of the tension and when one can let go of them when they arise and then spot the triggers that cause the fear, then one can go into relationships realising they are not of one and can be like a fun thing to enjoy and not cling and depend and realise that me and my body will end one day, however one having learnt and is reconciled to the fact that even the body is not to be clung too as security and is a process in life and will end as well and in a way is only temporary and impermanent and having discovered in oneself that there is an awareness that is conscious of all temporary forms and is the mirror that allows forms to appear and fade, that mirror is Life, it is Consciousness into which all forms arise and dissolve and so the reflections like cloud passing by are mere passages of transient impermanent illusions and like reflections in the mirror are just that. You are free and be the mirror and from 'Zen--be the mirror bright and make sure no dust alight' 'Look at the light not the lampshade'

SHACK 

  The light and lampshade are not from Zen but could be---The light is consciousness or and is consciousness. The lampshade can be smudged or stained with dependency and trauma and so ones awareness is reflected and refracted through the stains and so awareness is dimmed and life which is the light is not guiding one but ones programmes and agendas which are the addictions, pains and false securities, cleaning the lampshade is the process of realisation that the light is more secure than the shade which can be examined and realised for it is a dependency and impermanent and a illusion and turn to the light and consciousness which leads ones life and is abiding. (SHACK)