I was approached the other day on the street by someone working for a humanitary organisation, Amnesty International. I saw on his folder the subject - "stop death penalty".
It's not that long ago that I ended my membership in a political organisation, so I didn't want to join as a member, but I could sign for a campaign if they had one going. They didn't have that though.
I can't remember thinking about anything or being occupied with anything particular about death penalty prior to meeting this young guy on the street.
Today however as I was checking the news, some of the prior cases internationally where that Pakistan is reintroducing death penalty again, after a temporary ban.
The other one was, Amnesty International were calling for Edward Snowden (the whistleblower) to be granted asylum, because he risks the death penalty if he is to be sent back to USA.
I'm not really affected directly by any of these news, which probably helps in seeing the observation in it. Would it have been as easy to spot if one was in the middle of experiencing it?
I thought about the incident with the guy in the street, and I guess I could have given them, Amnesty, some financial support, without being a member. He didn't directly ask for it though. And I didn't think about until today.
I also remember Eckhart Tolle pointing out the old saying "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." ...
I am more concerned with how this world works, and how I works, in order to get the best experience possible, the ulimate. I believe less and less that this world can have any lasting happiness in it. It goes up and down, and nothing seems to really get any better, just small victories and sad setbacks.
Though, last night I did have some doubt about the whole thing, thoughts came up about the whole thing being a conspiration, that Datre have a political agenda, and similar thoughts.
And I thought to myself, heh that's a long time since I've had any doubt, it's almost fascinating, and perhaps I'm correct in my thoughts or perhaps not, but I'm to tired to figure it out now, and life will probably show me what is really going on.
So I sort of let it go, and as I was watching tv at that time, almost immediately there was a reassuring observation on the screen about me not having to have any doubt. I don't know if it would make any sense for me to describe it, but I got it anyway.
Datre talks alot about creating pictures in several transcripts, I'll post a couple excerpts here:
from Datre 104:
..."JOHN: He further continues and says... "And how space-time is created from this collaboration of contrasting perspectives."
DATRE:
It is NOT, because you do not create it. You do not create those
things. You see, you think that 'you' create these things. "Space" is a
Universal perspective. There are those that are "birthed" to create
'space'. Its beyond your conception I know and that's all I can say.
You
don't create ANYTHING - you create "pictures". The "only" thing that
you create is "pictures" for you to learn by. That is what you're
supposed to be doing. That is becoming an INDIVIDUAL, is working with
your own "pictures". OBSERVING your 'own' pictures for you're own
EVOLUTION.
Now, if agreeing with 'other' people makes you comfortable - fine. But, why agree with 'other' people?
JOHN: There's no reason why you 'disagree' with other people - either way.
DATRE:
You don't have to, you don't have to agree with them, you don't have to
disagree with them - 'you' have to be 'you'. And the 'you' is NOT a
'groupie'. The 'you' is an INDIVIDUAL that is teaching him or herself,
because there isn't anyone else that can teach you. Now, you'll say,
'well we're getting teachings from Datre'. All right, if you want to
look at them that way that is fine. But I'll tell you one thing, the
words you read on
your computer screen are read by every 'individual'
that reads those words, in a very 'different' manner. Then any way you
wish to 'interpret' what is said, is entirely up to you, because how
'you' interpret it is where 'you' are in 'your' understanding at the
present time. So however your learning comes, that's fine - but learn
about yourself. Don't learn about 'other' people. Don't be concerned
about 'space'. Don't think that 'you' are
creating all of this here - you're ONLY creating the PICTURES.
Everything
on this planet is 'set' here for you to OBSERVE. Now, 'you' pick the
portion that you want to look at - and learn from 'that' portion. That's
why two people will never agree - on anything - IF they are "true" to
themselves."...
from Datre 020:
..."Now, that is what happens, there is no two upon your planet, and
you
have many many on your planet, that can perceive, see, taste, touch,
smell anything that what your picture that you put in front of you shows
you. That is why you can all eat one piece of fruit, you can all eat
one piece of meat, take one piece of meat, cut it all up in pieces and
hand it all over to everybody,
there's no two of you that will taste the same thing. There's no
two of you that will smell the same thing. That is why, when we
made the statement, and people jumped all over, "the world never
changes, only you do". That is what we were referring to. You
create your own reality, but you don't understand what your
doing. You are painting the picture, that you are existing in.
You are creating everything that is here. This is your picture."...
On another note - the other day I went for a walk, and spent almost the entire time doing I Am mantra/meditation. It's rather relaxing, especially if you go out into nature I think. At the end of the walk, my smelling the trees, flowers, everything, was improved.
I thought of making a post about it, but then something else happened, and I found something else to write about.
I never have to worry about not having anyting to write about on this blog, there is allways something happening one way or the other, even if the subject that I'm writing about is limited (or unlimited, whichever way one choose to view it).
So I hope whomever may read this are enjoying the discovery of whichever pictures you are putting in front of yourself.
Enjoy :-)
Friday, 5 July 2013
Sunday, 30 June 2013
They do not see what lies ahead when Sun has failed and Moon is dead
I was watching this funny reaction video of a couple of girls that are very much fans of The Hobbit movies. They're very funny and seem to be having a good time. At the end of the clip when they've calmed a bit, they use a Gollum toy/statue that quotes the character from the Lord of the Rings movies.
Now I guess one could question as to wether a character such as Gollum is a guy to take any advice from...
on the other hand, commercials aren't that much better with their white lies and black lies...
...but still one can observe them.
That line "They do not see what lies ahead when Sun has failed and Moon is dead", it reminds me of my own attempts to see the alternative for my letting go of any attachements.
In order to stop hanging on to something you have to have something to move on to, so that you let go of something for something better, an improvement.
From Datre 164:
http://datretranscripts.blogspot.com/2009/07/datre164.html
..."Now, we have talked about 'belief' systems we have talked about 'ego' systems, lets go a little further. You take a 'belief' system and you "want to get rid of it", what are you going to replace it with? You can't leave a hole. The brain will be very disturbed, because something has been gotten rid of, so to speak. And it will continue to pop up every once in a while. And you'll say, 'I thought I got rid of that'. And bingo, here it comes again.
Now, analyze a 'belief' system. You'll say, 'that is something I'd prefer not having, so I will replace it with something else'. So, think of what you will replace it with. Then you'll say, 'well what can that be?'. It is up to you to discover what you are comfortable with. But don't leave an open hole.
Its like a man out in the back yard digging a hole. And a fellow says, 'what are you going to put in there?' and he says, 'I don't know'. But you don't walk away and leave a hole in the ground, you put something in it, or you put all the dirt back in it again. Then if you don't put anything in it, with the wind and the rain and all this, the dirt will go back in by itself. Then every time you come up against it, here's this hunk of dirt again. It will bother you, because you've got a hole there. The brain is a 'worry-wart' - it will rut. You've heard of a rutting brain, it keeps bring up the same thing over and over and over and over. And you'll say, 'I don't want to think about that any more, I'm not getting any place, I keep worrying about this same thing, a dog chasing its tail, around and around and around'. Well, if you don't put something in its place what's going to stop it from going around?"...
The problem, or I guess Datre would say challenge, of letting go of attachements in this world, is that we don't really see the better alternative. What is going to replace the happiness of the attachement without it there? How can we be happy in not needing the world?
One can allways listen to wise men and women, but how are you to be convinced that this is worth the effort?
I guess this is why Datre says that to be a Master you have to be bold, to go into the unknown.
A little bit like Bilbo the hobbit did perhaps, when he stepped out of his comfy hobbit-home?
From Datre 094:
http://datretranscripts.blogspot.com/2009/07/datre094.html
..."We've said many times, "you are alone". And that is scary to many people, they're frightened of that, because when you come into the world, you're nurtured, you’re cuddled, you're taken care of. There are people that all through their lives they have been nurtured and cuddled and taken care of, by family, by friends, by husbands, by wives and all through their lives there has been somebody there to take care of them. What have they learned? They have not learned a great deal because they have not been "bold" enough to be alone.
Becoming a MASTER is being "bold". You have to be "bold" to be a MASTER, because you are going to look at things from an entirely different standpoint. You are not going to "react" to situations like MASS CONSCIOUSNESS does and this will set you apart, you will be different. But, it is "your" evolution and no one else's and this is very important."...
Well this "old" song came out of the radio again -
Now I guess one could question as to wether a character such as Gollum is a guy to take any advice from...
on the other hand, commercials aren't that much better with their white lies and black lies...
...but still one can observe them.
That line "They do not see what lies ahead when Sun has failed and Moon is dead", it reminds me of my own attempts to see the alternative for my letting go of any attachements.
In order to stop hanging on to something you have to have something to move on to, so that you let go of something for something better, an improvement.
From Datre 164:
http://datretranscripts.blogspot.com/2009/07/datre164.html
..."Now, we have talked about 'belief' systems we have talked about 'ego' systems, lets go a little further. You take a 'belief' system and you "want to get rid of it", what are you going to replace it with? You can't leave a hole. The brain will be very disturbed, because something has been gotten rid of, so to speak. And it will continue to pop up every once in a while. And you'll say, 'I thought I got rid of that'. And bingo, here it comes again.
Now, analyze a 'belief' system. You'll say, 'that is something I'd prefer not having, so I will replace it with something else'. So, think of what you will replace it with. Then you'll say, 'well what can that be?'. It is up to you to discover what you are comfortable with. But don't leave an open hole.
Its like a man out in the back yard digging a hole. And a fellow says, 'what are you going to put in there?' and he says, 'I don't know'. But you don't walk away and leave a hole in the ground, you put something in it, or you put all the dirt back in it again. Then if you don't put anything in it, with the wind and the rain and all this, the dirt will go back in by itself. Then every time you come up against it, here's this hunk of dirt again. It will bother you, because you've got a hole there. The brain is a 'worry-wart' - it will rut. You've heard of a rutting brain, it keeps bring up the same thing over and over and over and over. And you'll say, 'I don't want to think about that any more, I'm not getting any place, I keep worrying about this same thing, a dog chasing its tail, around and around and around'. Well, if you don't put something in its place what's going to stop it from going around?"...
The problem, or I guess Datre would say challenge, of letting go of attachements in this world, is that we don't really see the better alternative. What is going to replace the happiness of the attachement without it there? How can we be happy in not needing the world?
One can allways listen to wise men and women, but how are you to be convinced that this is worth the effort?
I guess this is why Datre says that to be a Master you have to be bold, to go into the unknown.
A little bit like Bilbo the hobbit did perhaps, when he stepped out of his comfy hobbit-home?
From Datre 094:
http://datretranscripts.blogspot.com/2009/07/datre094.html
..."We've said many times, "you are alone". And that is scary to many people, they're frightened of that, because when you come into the world, you're nurtured, you’re cuddled, you're taken care of. There are people that all through their lives they have been nurtured and cuddled and taken care of, by family, by friends, by husbands, by wives and all through their lives there has been somebody there to take care of them. What have they learned? They have not learned a great deal because they have not been "bold" enough to be alone.
Becoming a MASTER is being "bold". You have to be "bold" to be a MASTER, because you are going to look at things from an entirely different standpoint. You are not going to "react" to situations like MASS CONSCIOUSNESS does and this will set you apart, you will be different. But, it is "your" evolution and no one else's and this is very important."...
Well this "old" song came out of the radio again -
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
My own Shiva stone - in polystyrene!
Today I went to my local gym, like I do every now and then, to work out. Even though I'm probably not going to be a bodybuilder, I do feel good after a bit of exercise.
There's a funny story about Robert Adams that he met with a bodybuilder who proudly showed off his big muscles to Robert, and Robert said 'Great, you'll be the healthiest corpse in the cemetary'. So much for that worldly occupation I guess.
However, I usually stretch out after the exercising is done, there's a little corner of the gym where you can do that.
And there it was, my own Shiva stone, leaning slightly up against the wall like the most natural thing in the world. Made of polystyrene.
I noticed it immediately as such because I had seen the actual one in the documentary about Ramana Maharsi at about 1 hour, 5minutes, 10 seconds into the video, in the last post I made here.
That is of course an actual stone, black, standing over Ramanas tomb.
Mine wasn't a stone, but it had the same shape and it was black, and it looked like it was the same size, at least from my point of view. And I have no idea what it was used for. Why was it standing there? Was it an exercise equipment? Why against the wall? Had someone left it behind? No idea. I could probably have figured it out by asking someone, but it wasn't necessary, because the main message was received as far as I was concerned.
On one level it could be Ramana sending me a message in a funny way, as I was stretching out I thought about what how Ramana walked to his holy mountain every day, Arunachula. That would be his exercise it seems.
But the actual credit goes to Self, You create your own reality, whatever you focus on.
It would have been interesting to ask Datre if one could manipulate what kind of people one would meet during the day, simply by putting on a certain fashion or outlook. Or clothes with specific images.
I.e. if you wore a t-shirt with the heart-sutra on, the people you would meet who would notice that, would have to have it in their minds one way or the other. Perhaps they would be buddhists, but they could also be hostile to buddhism. Or they might not notice the writing in the first place.
So yes, I see a Shiva stone in a video, and 3 days later I see a very resembling object at my local gym, which is not specifically spiritual or religious in any way. If it was a Yoga center it might have been less mystical.
Shiva is suppose to be the greatest of the Hindu gods, the destroyer of ego and the world. Since I don't know anything else than the Self that can destroy the ego and make the world go away, I guess Shiva is a reference to Self.
In the book "Who Am I" where Ramana is answering questions, he mentiones Siva (God), and I don't know if that is the same as Shiva. but it would make sense.
But yes this is an observation, one of the funny ones from my perspective, it takes you by surprise when it happens, and it doesn't have to have any fireworks going off when you see it, just calmly quietly it's there. Except if the actual observation include fireworks and loud sound that is.
It reminds me of something similar that happened to me after watching some television program with interviews of psychics - they said dead people would send birds to the people left behind in the live zone.
Some time after seeing that program I had birds waking me up in the morning, flying into my bedroom through my open window, it is usually open. Some of them were panicking to get out, others just took a break between the battles with the glass window, one of them hovered above my head looking down at me while I was lying there half awake wondering what all the noise was about.
I can take a guess who would be sending me these little birds who flew into my bedroom for awhile.
But again the actual credit goes to Self, whatever you experience is your own creation.
Nowadays I'm more often woken up by wasps, that are very interested in getting through the window opening while the sun is shining on my bedroom wall. Just one at a time.
I can probably guess what it means, though that one isn't so obvious.
Either way I've come to see that wasps have different personalities, some will be very eager in moving about and trying to get out, not understanding how they got in, while others will much more calmly explore the environment that they have gotten into. Almost like a scientist making notes, a wasp anthropologist taking a look at the human world. Those ones are much more aware of where the exit is though, and will quickly head for the window if they feel that someone is trying to show them the way out.
I was thinking of putting a picture of Shiva in this post, but that sort of doesn't fit if Shiva is a reference the the actual Self, the YOU that you are. Because that is unlimited, so how can it be described?
Pictures can only describe limitation.
I guess that's why pictures, or icons were forbidden in orthodox religions, perhaps a link to an actual understanding who God was, - unlimited, undescribable, No-thing, nothing of this world.
The true "I Am".
I could have taken a picture the polystyrene "Shiva stone" though, but didn't really have a camera with me at that time.
In case Ramana Maharsi had anything to do with my local shiva stone, I thank you for your gesture. :-)
But most of all I thank my Self, for any clues and hints I get, the experience is gently and perfectly timed, and the sense of humor that is put in it.
I sure Am amusing sometimes.
There's a funny story about Robert Adams that he met with a bodybuilder who proudly showed off his big muscles to Robert, and Robert said 'Great, you'll be the healthiest corpse in the cemetary'. So much for that worldly occupation I guess.
However, I usually stretch out after the exercising is done, there's a little corner of the gym where you can do that.
And there it was, my own Shiva stone, leaning slightly up against the wall like the most natural thing in the world. Made of polystyrene.
I noticed it immediately as such because I had seen the actual one in the documentary about Ramana Maharsi at about 1 hour, 5minutes, 10 seconds into the video, in the last post I made here.
That is of course an actual stone, black, standing over Ramanas tomb.
Mine wasn't a stone, but it had the same shape and it was black, and it looked like it was the same size, at least from my point of view. And I have no idea what it was used for. Why was it standing there? Was it an exercise equipment? Why against the wall? Had someone left it behind? No idea. I could probably have figured it out by asking someone, but it wasn't necessary, because the main message was received as far as I was concerned.
On one level it could be Ramana sending me a message in a funny way, as I was stretching out I thought about what how Ramana walked to his holy mountain every day, Arunachula. That would be his exercise it seems.
But the actual credit goes to Self, You create your own reality, whatever you focus on.
It would have been interesting to ask Datre if one could manipulate what kind of people one would meet during the day, simply by putting on a certain fashion or outlook. Or clothes with specific images.
I.e. if you wore a t-shirt with the heart-sutra on, the people you would meet who would notice that, would have to have it in their minds one way or the other. Perhaps they would be buddhists, but they could also be hostile to buddhism. Or they might not notice the writing in the first place.
So yes, I see a Shiva stone in a video, and 3 days later I see a very resembling object at my local gym, which is not specifically spiritual or religious in any way. If it was a Yoga center it might have been less mystical.
Shiva is suppose to be the greatest of the Hindu gods, the destroyer of ego and the world. Since I don't know anything else than the Self that can destroy the ego and make the world go away, I guess Shiva is a reference to Self.
In the book "Who Am I" where Ramana is answering questions, he mentiones Siva (God), and I don't know if that is the same as Shiva. but it would make sense.
But yes this is an observation, one of the funny ones from my perspective, it takes you by surprise when it happens, and it doesn't have to have any fireworks going off when you see it, just calmly quietly it's there. Except if the actual observation include fireworks and loud sound that is.
It reminds me of something similar that happened to me after watching some television program with interviews of psychics - they said dead people would send birds to the people left behind in the live zone.
Some time after seeing that program I had birds waking me up in the morning, flying into my bedroom through my open window, it is usually open. Some of them were panicking to get out, others just took a break between the battles with the glass window, one of them hovered above my head looking down at me while I was lying there half awake wondering what all the noise was about.
I can take a guess who would be sending me these little birds who flew into my bedroom for awhile.
But again the actual credit goes to Self, whatever you experience is your own creation.
Nowadays I'm more often woken up by wasps, that are very interested in getting through the window opening while the sun is shining on my bedroom wall. Just one at a time.
I can probably guess what it means, though that one isn't so obvious.
Either way I've come to see that wasps have different personalities, some will be very eager in moving about and trying to get out, not understanding how they got in, while others will much more calmly explore the environment that they have gotten into. Almost like a scientist making notes, a wasp anthropologist taking a look at the human world. Those ones are much more aware of where the exit is though, and will quickly head for the window if they feel that someone is trying to show them the way out.
I was thinking of putting a picture of Shiva in this post, but that sort of doesn't fit if Shiva is a reference the the actual Self, the YOU that you are. Because that is unlimited, so how can it be described?
Pictures can only describe limitation.
I guess that's why pictures, or icons were forbidden in orthodox religions, perhaps a link to an actual understanding who God was, - unlimited, undescribable, No-thing, nothing of this world.
The true "I Am".
I could have taken a picture the polystyrene "Shiva stone" though, but didn't really have a camera with me at that time.
In case Ramana Maharsi had anything to do with my local shiva stone, I thank you for your gesture. :-)
But most of all I thank my Self, for any clues and hints I get, the experience is gently and perfectly timed, and the sense of humor that is put in it.
I sure Am amusing sometimes.
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