Dr. Hawkins, author of Power vs. Force, recontextualizes the emotion of “Guilt” at an all-day seminar in Arizona on January 26, 2008.
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In this blog post from Pam Pappas, she writes that Dr. Len has said that “I love you” covers all the bases.

http://www.peacefuldoc.com/2008/09/love-and-100-responsibility-enough-to.html

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All we need to do is say, “I love you.” According to Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, that’s code for, “I’m sorry, dear Divinity, for whatever is going on in me that presents as this problem now. Please forgive me. Thank you for the opportunity to clean (and release) this now.”

In his article, “Who’s in Charge?”, Dr. Hew Len explains further about “I love you.”

When your Soul experiences memories replaying problems, say to them mentally or silently: “I love you dear memories. I am grateful for the opportunity to free all of you and me.” “I love you” can be repeated quietly again and again. Memories never go on vacation or retire unless you retire them. “I love you” can be used even if you are not conscious of problems. For example, it can be applied before engaging in any activity such as making or answering a telephone call or before getting into your car to go somewhere.

Speaking for myself, although I often use the whole Ho’oponopono mantra, when I do use just part of it, I most often choose “Thank you, I love you”  or just “I love you.”

~Jenifer

The dream self is a doer that is doing things now to achieve other things later. You believe that you must meditate to evoke relaxation or reach enlightenment. You believe you must pray each morning so that God will give you or your loved ones a longer life, better relationships, more money, or a better living situation. You go to spiritual teachers who will tell you how to become more present, surrendered, open, aware, loving, or awakened.

All of this doing assumes that you have control of your life. The idea of personal choice/will creates the story of self in time. The story goes, “I lack something now but if I do this particular thing, I will find wholeness later.” The story perpetuates the sense of lack. It traps you into seeking future.

Instead of blindly doing things in order to bring about some later awakening, notice what is already being done. Notice all the ways the doer is busy looking for a later moment. This is not a suggestion to stop doing things. It is an invitation to notice that all doing feeds into the story of self, which is a story that you lack something now but that the future will bring fulfillment.

Enlightenment is simply the realization that there is already enlightenment now under the story of the doer doing things to reach enlightenment.

~ From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com

Questions and Answers

157) An Invocation To Our Deepest Understanding

Hello Rupert,

I am have a nagging question. It appears that “we” as separate entities are not the doers, but only make the story that we are the doers after the experience takes place. All action appears to come from awareness-consciousness directly. What my intellect is grappling with is this: How do we account for what seems like unthinkable human actions such as rape, murder, abuse, child molestation, slavery, etc.?

Is it true that these actions have nothing to do with the individual’s ”mind”, but actually come straight from Awarenes/Consciousness? If that is so, is there any insight for the limited mind to help me to understand why awareness would manifest these actions on the human level? Why do these things take place?

Warmest regards,

Alex

Dear Alex,

Alex: It appears that “we” as separate entities are not the doers, but only make the story that we are the doers after the experience takes place.

Rupert: If we are not the ‘doers,’ how can we be the ‘makers?’ The ‘we’ that apparently does and the ‘we’ that apparently makes is the same fictional, non-existent entity.

Alex: All action appears to come from Awareness/Consciousness directly.

Rupert: Yes, from an absolute point of view that is true. However, at a relative level we could also say that some actions come, as it were, directly from Awareness/Consciousness and others come via the belief, as it were, in being a separate entity.

Alex: How do we account for what seems like unthinkable human actions such as rape, murder, abuse, child molestation, slavery, etc.?

Rupert: Very simply: If we think that we are a separate entity, that is, if the thought that we are a separate entity arises and, as a result, seems to obscure the true knowing of our own being, all subsequent thoughts, feelings and actions will come from the inevitable sense of alienation, fear, desire, conflict etc. that are inherent in this belief.

This belief alone makes it possible to imagine an ‘other,’ that is, someone that is not our Self and, as a result, to treat that imagined one as though what we do to it, we do not do to our Self.

The actions you mention would be inconceivable if the apparent other were known and felt to be our own self.

The simple Christian doctrine of ‘doing unto others as we would do unto our Self’ is based on this understanding.

It is not an instruction to an apparent person. It is an invocation to our deepest understanding that we are all one Being and to live accordingly.

This one simple understanding would resolve all psychological conflicts whether personal, national or international.

Alex: Is it true that these actions have nothing to do with the individual’s ”mind,” but actually come straight from Awareness/Consciousness?

Rupert: Ultimately yes, but that Awareness/Consciousness must first have been seemingly veiled by the belief in separation for such an action to take place.

That belief takes place in an individual or limited mind (because all mind is, by definition, limited) but there is no entity that owns that mind. Such a mind is one more expression of Awareness/Consciousness.

Alex: If that is so, is there any insight for the limited mind to help me to understand why Awareness would manifest these actions on the human level? Why do these things take place?

Rupert: It is very difficult to answer the ‘Why?’ question satisfactorily on the level on which it is asked, because the ‘Why?’ presumes cause and effect (duality) which, upon investigation is found to be non-existent.

In other words, the mind first imagines its own view of reality to be true or real and then asks for the cause of its own version of reality.

However, upon investigation the mind’s view of reality is found to be erroneous and as a result the ‘Why?’ question loses its meaning.

With love,

Rupert Spira

http://nondualityamerica.wordpress.com/

An Experimental Approach

Video Presentation with Richard Lang

Ancient wisdom claims that we are not simply human. Outwardly we are human, but inwardly we are divine. According to this wisdom, the purpose of life is to awaken to our divine inner self. If we awaken to ‘who we really are’, our lives will be blessed.

In this film Richard Lang doesn’t ask us to believe this ancient wisdom. Instead, he invites us to test it using modern experiments – experiments which contrast our regional appearances with our central reality. Directly seeing our boundless, timeless centre, our innermost self, we then explore the varied and profound implications of saying Yes! to this Vision.

In 1970 Richard Lang met the philosopher Douglas Harding, author of this experimental approach. Since then Richard has devoted his life to being awake to who we really are and to sharing this Vision as widely as possible. He has published two books and a CD, and conducts workshops around the world. He hopes that this film will make awareness of our innermost self even more widely available.

The video is presented below in eight parts via Youtube.

Part 1A:

Part 1B:

Part 2A:

Part 2B

Part 3A

Part 3B

Part 4A

Part 4B

Video Presentation with Richard Lang

Please don’t start this until you’re really in the mood, because this is going to be an experiential process, not just something to read or think about. For example, I’ll be asking you a series of questions. They’re very easy, obvious questions, but for this to work, you can’t just read the question, you have to stop, even if just for a couple of seconds, and consider the question. Please take your time. It’ll be worth it.

Ok, I’ll start right in.

First of all, how is it that you are aware? How is that happening? Did you manufacture or create your awareness? What, exactly, is it anyway? What is it made of? Of what does it consist? Does it really make any sense that signals running around in our brains can cause awareness?

Notice that our awareness has no shape, no size, no extension. It doesn’t really seem to be a pinpoint. And yet it doesn’t seem to have any size beyond that either. It seems to extend to whatever it is that we’re aware of.

Notice that it really doesn’t seem to be a substance of any kind. It doesn’t seem to be made of anything. And yet it is more real than substance because without it we would never be aware of substance.

So it confounds the entire idea of materiality. Matter is so prominently substantial, and yet without insubstantial awareness all the substance of matter would be pointless.

Notice how absolutely gentle awareness is. Unless what it is aware of has something to do with force, awareness itself is absolutely gentle.

Notice how everyone’s awareness, when considered without regard to anything one might happen to be aware of, is exactly the same for everyone. Though we might think that what we’re aware of might be special, awareness itself is never special.

Now notice how our very existence would actually have no meaning at all were it not for the fact that we’re aware of existing. Notice how we can’t even be aware of anything existing without awareness, because we can’t be aware of anything existing without awareness without being aware of just that.

And now, notice that it actually in fact is the greatest thing we could ever know, because without it we wouldn’t be able to know anything. Notice that it actually in fact is greater than any other experience we could possibly have because without it we wouldn’t be able to be aware of any experience.

Of all the magnificent phenomena in the entire universe. Of all the astounding miracles you could ever imagine. None is more magnificent or astounding as our own, living awareness. Just consider for a moment how much of an astounding miracle it actually is that we are aware

Notice that if we weren’t awareness in the first place, we couldn’t imagine ourselves to be something other than awareness. We have to BE awareness before we can think we’re something else. That being the case, what’s the point in thinking we’re something else?

And now consider this, can there possibly be anything more true than awareness. Just try to imagine something that is more true than awareness. Everything we can possibly know about Truth could not be known unless there was awareness in the first place to be aware of it.

Amidst everything else you may believe about yourself, the one thing that is most certainly real about you is that you are aware. No matter how much what you’re aware of may be fantasy, your awareness itself always remains a reality.

Notice that the ego uses the phrase “my” awareness, as if it were your real self and awareness were something it made and owns. The greatest catastrophe in the world is how we allow our ego to deceive us about the true nature of our awareness.

Now, say to yourself:

There is no doubt that I am aware and that I am being, and this incontrovertible reality of my awareness owes none of its reality to any beliefs. I am clearly awareness regardless of whether I have any beliefs about awareness or not. All the problems I used to have were all due to identifying with the fraudulent sense of self that constituted the ego. But now that it is clear that awareness is the only real self I have, I no longer believe the ego is who I am, thereby dissolving my commitment and allegiance to the ego, which is, as a result, gradually evaporating.

Now, Say to yourself, I AM. That’s a meaningful sentence, is it not. And you are certain of it. You have no doubt about it. But now ask yourself, Who do you believe the I is that is saying I AM? Notice the sense of self that believes it is the I. Be aware of that sense of self. Notice that you are aware of that sense of self. Now notice that it is awareness that is aware of that sense of self. Now notice that awareness is the knower and that sense of self is what is being known. Now notice that you have to be awareness itself as the knower in the first place before you can be aware of seeming to be that sense of self that is known. So notice now that what you really are is awareness and not the sense of self that you thought you were. So now identify yourself as awareness itself instead of that sense of self that you thought you were. Now feel what it feels like to be awareness itself. Make awareness itself now your sense of self, knowing yourself as awareness. Awareness aware of itself. Awareness being aware of awareness itself as awareness. Awareness aware of awareness is what the pure “I” is.

Awareness aware that what it is is that it is is I AM THAT I AM.

So, say to yourself, I am that I am. Keep saying to yourself I am that I am letting its meaning sink in deeper and deeper. Now as you keep saying to yourself I am that I am begin to deepen your experience of what those words mean, that what you are is that you are. Now as you keep deepening your experience of the words I am that I am, let the words gradually begin to fade away until you are no longer saying I am that I am but are only experiencing the awareness of what those words mean.

Now rest silently in that awareness for a few moments. Notice what purity and stillness there is in this center of yourself. Notice how clear it is that this is indeed what you truly are. Notice how easy and natural and effortless it is for you to identify as this awareness that you truly are. Notice how easy it will be to shift to awareness as your sense of identity any time you choose to do so.

Well, that’s it. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for trying it out.

Much Love,

Ben Gilberti

Suffering and seeking are intrinsically tied together.

Suffering is the past. Suffering happens through identification with thought and emotion. Identification means that you believe that you are the thought-based story of your past and the emotions that arise in conjunction with that story. That story feels necessarily incomplete because it is not reality.

It is a story that exists in time. Time is thought. This story is just a set of mental images. Images are, by their nature, incomplete. They have meaning only in relation to other images. The past story of you is looking for meaning — for completion in other images. Those other images are the future.

Seeking is the future. When the past story is believed to be who you are, the mind believes that it must do something to make the story complete in the future. Therefore, it engages in self-help therapy, career movements, relationships, buying material items, seeking enlightenment and a host of other things in order to find that completion.

This story is not really interested in completion. It is interested in continuing to keep the story alive. It does this through seeking. Suffering leads to seeking. Seeking leads to more suffering because future completion is never reached. “Future” is just a thought. It cannot be reached.

Your true nature is the timeless awareness from which the thought-based, time-bound story of you appears and disappears. This seeing ends the cycle of suffering and seeking.

~ From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com

Physics in general, and quantum theory in particular, began as the study
of objective reality, i.e., a reality that exists whether or not it is
being observed. Classical physics had no problem with this approach.
When classical physics proved inadequate to the task of explaining the
results of certain experiments, quantum theory arose. It was
spectacularly successful in explaining these results and many more, too.
Then a few physicists began to ask, is this all that quantum theory
means–the explanation of experimental results? Does it have any
ontological value, i.e., can it tell us what objective reality _is_, not
just what it _does_? This is what an _interpretation _of quantum theory
is supposed to do, to describe what objective reality is. So a few
physicists worked very hard to come up with an interpretation in terms
of an objective reality….and failed. But the failure was that there
were too many contenders, not too few, and there was no way to determine
which one, if any, was correct. Furthermore, most of them pretend that
the quantum wavefunction, which is a probability wave rather than a
physical wave, is an objectively real object rather than being simply
the mathematical formula that it is. However, rather than this being
cause for despair, it actually can liberate us from the prison of
objective reality. As long as we believe that objects are real, we will
find it difficult to escape the belief that we are objects, and
consequently to feel separate from all other objects. The failure of
physicists to find an objective interpretation of quantum theory has the
potential to liberate us from this fatal belief in separation.

So now that we don’t have to believe in the existence of separation,
what is left? We are free to believe in the absence of separation.
Better still, we don’t have to leave it to mere belief, we can _see
_that there is no separation. This is where the teaching of nonduality
comes in. There are many statements of nonduality, e.g., consciousness
is all there is, love is all there is, there are not two, there is only
oneness, etc. These are useful to begin with but the statements
themselves don’t take us very far. To believe the statements is to make
nonduality into a religion rather than accepting it as a teaching.

How do we see that there is no me? Simply speaking, we just look for the
me. If we don’t find it, then we look for what-it-is that sees that
there is no me. We might think that then is the true me. In that case,
we just take another step back and look for what-it-is that sees that.
We might think that we will have to keep on stepping back forever but
that proves not to be the case. Once we see that there is no me, the
next step, the step of seeing the witness of no-me, is likely to be the
last one because the seeing of the witness likely dissolves the witness,
and then there is only pure awareness.

What if we find a me in the first step? The process is the same as
above. We step back and see what-it-is that sees the me. If we find the
witness of the me, we take another step back and see what-it-is that
sees the witness of the me. That seeing will likely dissolve the
witness, leaving pure awareness.

Even if we can find no me and no witness of no-me, we might still feel
that our awareness is confined to the skull. In that case, we look for
what-it-is that sees that awareness is confined to the skull. If we see
an awareness that is confined to the skull, we immediately see that what
seems to be confined awareness cannot be true awareness. Again, as we
step back and look for what sees this, we might find a witness of
no-confined-awareness. Once again, we step back to see what-it-is that
sees the witness. In so doing, the witness again dissolves into pure
awareness.

Once we see that there is no me, no witness of no-me, and
no-confinement, all separation dissolves. This seeing might have to be
repeated many times for it to be a continuing awareness of no
separation. It is very helpful to realize that both the apparent me and
apparent confinement are just arisings. Since all arisings rapidly come
and go, the me and confinement are never permanent, even for a short
time. There are many times when there is no me and no confinement but we
are not aware of it because we are not at the moment suffering from
separation. Consequently, we can save our practice times for the times
that we are suffering.

Love, Stanley Sobottka

See A Course in Consciousness at http://faculty.virginia.edu/consciousness