The Whole Banana

 The Infinite whole exists in this moment. This is it. Everything is it, it is everything. Nothing can add to it or take away from it. It is One, complete and whole. It is things exactly as they are. It does not require perfect peace or perfect disposition. It includes all the flaws of the Universe. Perfection is things as they are, not how they could be. The whole is imminent, manifest. It abides. 

It contains all change, all transformation, and as all it changes without changing. It is the nonduality of stillness and movement. It changes endlessly without changing at all. What a beautiful light. 

Here, we have no where left to go, nothing left to do. We have arrived. We are home. It is exactly where we are. Always where we are, it is all that is. The door opened and we entered. 

We have infinity in this moment. We have always possessed it, as it always has possessed us. There is nothing we can improve on. For perfection already exists. We are perfect in it. Perfect and fully formed. I am perfect, and I am fully formed. Perfect as I am. 

The Universe is Perfect. It is One, and it is Whole. What exists is perfection, it is what has always existed. Perfectly existent. Perfectly present. Perfectly formed. We are whole, we are One. Oneness. 

Release from egoic identification

 What an ego dominated consciousness does not understand, is that the desire of the ego unequivocally produces enslaved and tortured consciousness.  As individuals we wish to have all the fruits of the ego, without all the barbs, all of the terror and suffering. We wish and delude ourselves, we wish and delude ourselves, we wish and delude ourselves...and we continually suffer immensely, never attaining what we wish for. We are never satisfied by our ego. We are continually dissatisfied by it. Until we become disenchanted and until we clearly understand how consciousness becomes ensnared by it, we will continue in this way. 

What we don't understand about our soul is that it's basic form is completely different from the ego. It is free of the warlike striving of the ego. It is free of egoic consciousness. The ego doesn't understand this, only the soul can understand this. We don't understand how we are not a we. We are not ourselves, we are simply soul. Our understanding of who I am is severely limited and incorrect. We are not conditioned beings. We are unconditioned awareness. We don't understand the fullness of the limit that we are not who we call ourself, to the point that we are not an ourself. There is no Jake, no Rebecca, no Sergio. We don't understand how deeply and fully spiritual awakening dissolves our identity and reshapes it as something completely different. We don't understand how unsatisfactory is the world and how uniquely and singularly satisfying is God. We don't understand how everything we perceive is unreal except the reality of God. We don't understand how everything, everything is God. To the point that there is only God. 

We don't understand this until we deeply die to what we call our self. Until the world crumbles before our eyes in our inner awareness as it becomes our only awareness. The path is not what we believe it to be. It does not go where we expect it to go. Yet part of us is familiar with what does happen, with what does change. It is this part that becomes stronger the further we go along. That slowly becomes the dominant aspect of our being. What we claim to know and love is a facade. Who we really are is far beyond disturbing. 

When the soul awakens, we renounce the world, because it begins to disappear. This is not a dramatic or heroic personal choice, but the reality of worldly consciousness dissolving in our awareness. It is the choice of someone who recognizes profoundly the unsatisfactory nature of typical human consciousness, the mentally disturbed, physically ill and endlessly suffering conditioned ego. Someone who recognizes the wisdom of spiritual release through soul awakening. Someone who is at the threshold of this change and is capable of passing into it. Someone who knows that without inner peace, what is the point of life? 

Taking a step back

 Progress on the spiritual path is unnecessary and nothing to be attached to. All positive states are equally as undesirable as neutral or negative ones. We should seek righteousness and skillfulness while learning to detach ourselves from identifying with them. Our attachment, desire for, or personal identification with positive states can be a great obstacle from reaching them and perceiving truth. Our personal identification with the condition of the body or mind perpetuates ensnaring karma. All identification with conditioned states perpetuates dukkha or conditioned awareness. 

What's strange is that in the sense that most of us know, there is no us that is saved by spiritual effort or grace. You could say that the soul is saved, or even our soul is saved, but this is the witnessing within us, not really the us that is the conditioned being which is identified with numerous conditioned states. The consciousness of the witness or the soul is released from conditioned awareness and then I believe it too passes as the dominant center of awareness. 

The awakening witness within has the power to release awareness from identification with transitory states. This isn't a numbing or a psychological disassociation with parts of self that are identified with conditioned states, it is rather an internalization of consciousness that results as the natural passing or death of the conditioned mind. It is a deepening or maturing of the general structure of consciousness rather than a lateral movement in the range of the typical egoic conditioned mind. 

This also expands rather than eliminates personal experience. It opens the personal to the transcendental, to the infinite, with it's inexplicable variety. It deepens the personal to the depth of the intimacy of the soul, the petal like softness of the witness, and beyond. While the personal appears to be simplified in this general movement, and is, it equally becomes something vastly more complex and subtle. This deepening speaks of the maturity of being, what we can note as our being if we do so wisely. No loss of feeling occurs. How we feel changes, and our total feeling takes on subtlety, depth and greater intensity. 

This release marks the end of what we knew, not the end of who we are. It means the fulfillment we deeply desire, yet find impossible to communicate, to directly know. In knowing, in communicating this with our self, we do experience death. In death, we go beyond, remaining alive in a way we forgot about. A way we keep without seeing, that in its own way died when our ego began to dominate our awareness. 

So in a way taking a step we take a step forward. 

The Door is always open to Him

I shall carry this pain for Thee if Thou asks it of me. I shall bear this burden because I love Thee. I know Thou art great and what Thou would have us do is Good, therefore I trust Thee and believe in all that Thou art. 

Give us the strength to welcome Thee into our hearts, that we may know Thee and all that Thou art. Thou art the Lord God. Thou art Infinite and One. We are wholly free in this, what Thou art. May all welcome Thee, Lord God Infinite One. May we welcome Thee and be with Thee forever. 

I am not broken, I am whole. In the Lord, I am One. I am One and Whole. I am Peace. There is not but Thee and the perfection of Thy being, which is Infinite and Radiant. 

Oh Blessed Peace Father of all

I am not any of these things, nor these thoughts. I am the radiant soul which is One with God. I am none of these fears, or these likes. I have them, but they are not who I am. I am infinite and eternal. I am beyond all conditioned form. I am Supreme Spirit. 

One must change their mind before they can change their life. If they try to change their life with the same underlying mentality, they will recreate the same conditions they are trying to change. In order to change one's mind, one must recognize the pattern of their thoughts clearly so they can step outside of them. In doing so, one must become a different person. One must recreate themself. Truly be someone different. 

One can only change when they are ready to change. If one truly at their core wishes to change. Otherwise one merely flirts with change. 

If one changes, the Universe must change as well. It must become different. As different as the person is different. One must not merely change themself, but the whole Universe as well. For one and their mind are not separate from the Universe, they are One with it. 

I am no longer myself. The Universe is no longer itself. Some things grow and some things die. I am the Living Death of all things. I do not have to continue doing things the same way, nor do I wish to. The death of the creature will brings forth the life of the soul. 

Change comes from Darkness as much as it comes from Light. It is bred in Darkness, in the shadows of our self. As it matures it takes on form and becomes known. What will come has from in the Unknown. All that will be dwells there. 

The Mastery of oneself also lies in the Darkness. The Master is the Union of what is Good and Evil within ourself. Or what is accepted and what is taboo. One's self concept must perish for this to occur. 

This Doom is carried on the wind. It hits us like hammers hitting stone as the foundations of our being split apart. This Power of Death exists within us. It is what allows us to keep on living. That we are dead allows us to have life. 

The death of our old self allows our new self to rise. Imagine there are new pathways waiting for your conscious attention. Imagine a world waiting for you to enter it. A world next to this one. Imagine that change is possible there. Possible and happening all the time. Imagine we are no longer the person we call ourself. That person has passed and is now foreign to us. We now are someone new and much more familiar. Imagine that the world we know, no longer exists, and is inaccessible. Imagine that a door to this new world is open and we have already walked through it. We already experience this new world, we live there now. It is in fact the world we are in. Imagine we are different and we can never be who we were before. Imagine there is no going back. Imagine that we really don't wish to. 

I am not who I used to be. I am no longer myself. I am someone different. These words are enough to crystalize the change. They fill the can to the brim and now it can be sealed. It is sealed and it is shelved. The process is complete. 

I look out and see a world that is both completely strange and completely familiar. I feel at home here. I am not bothered by what happens here. I am not bothered by anything at all. In this place I see how the same force makes everything occur and that the same unchanging principles govern this force. This force ultimately allows us to see and to awaken. For this it is Good, although a strange kind of goodness. But this strangeness does not both me, I rather like it actually. I find what is strange and peculiar fascinating. The force that moves things, moves me as well. It is soothing and rewarding. I have great purpose here, even though it is often vaguely known. I can see that what I do matters. I am apart of the unfolding of this great teaching. Here I am allowed to truly be myself. This is a great relief. I am no longer worried about what others may think of what I do. I am unconcerned with the world. it will always be the world. It will always be what it is. However it is, I am in it, but not a part of it. 

I don't know what will happen and I now realize this is the most exciting prospect that could occur. I truly live in a world of unending possibility, of unlimited potential. I am apart of what is Infinite and this is deeply satisfying. Above all, I feel free, truly free and truly alive even though I have recently died. 

The Power of Faith and Belief

Can I get a Amen? Amen!!! Thanks guys, you rock!! You're the best. No, You're the best!!

It is very very easy to lose sight of what's good. And become a Debbie downer. I often forget the invaluability of a wholesome positive outlook. We have got to go with God, and it is very very simple. When we fight this simple way, we stab ourselves in the back. We can't get ahead by going around it. We have to accept it, because it works. It is also good. It's hard to see it because our minds are so busy and full of so much trash. It is necessary to simplify our minds, and reciprocally, our lives to bring the peace of simple faith back into the center. This means not giving into fear and doubt, yet allowing room for fear and doubt, trusting that the good will prevail. This becomes more difficult as things outwardly look more and more like dog doo doo. But, this is the whole point of the practice and of faith. It's not how things appear, but how things are within you. I think if we break this covenant with ourselves and the universe, we're pretty much screwed. Not like disaster screwed, but like things won't work out well in general for us. We won't be soul-centered. 

We cultivate this through our relationship with Amen. We look to it, and it reflects what is on our mind. It amplifies it. When we look to it with peace and revelation, it will show us amplified peace and revelation. It is the door maker and way maker. 

The deepest desire of our soul is to merge with Amen, becoming it. This is what frees and fulfills it. Our soul is truly Amen trying to awaken, to remember its fullest self. Merging with Amen frees us from negative habits that produce ignorance and enslaving trouble. 

Cultivating a simple positive outlook and faith in the inner goodness of things builds an inner inertia of positive energy. This is possible when we remain open despite outward circumstances. When we hold onto our integrity even though common sense may say to step down. With worldly eyes we act the fool, while our soul says otherwise. Its says there are deeper laws at play, deeper forces. It says having faith is the ultimate power to keep the evil at bay and to produce positive results. It says what is unseen with our physical senses is very real, in fact more real than the world of matter. It says this unseen realm dictates what happens on the material. 

There is blind faith when you take someone else's word, and there is blind faith where you close your eyes to the world so you can see the world within. The eye of our inner world, the soul, follows the wisdom of the source of all things, follows its laws, which operate on the exacting law of karma. It knows that the superiority of Spirit is absolute and knows this is the way to emancipation from darkness. Thus it operates on the principle of self-sacrifice (sacrificing one's mortal will and psyche) through faith in the wisdom of the Infinite and it's ultimate supreme identity with it to make it's journey towards that ultimate goal. 

When we compete to gain we always strain against the world and the universe. Through faith, the soul opens doors to infinite potential, infinite energy. It harmonizes all its energies with all the energies of the Kosmos to attain miraculous summoning power. It is truly unbelievable what it accomplishes, especially coming from a long history of ignorance and severely limited human potential. 

With the soul, through faith, we tap into the power of God. Truly. With faith it is sustained because we are not using it for selfish purposes that have the power to destroy ourself, but through self-sacrifice for the release of Truth and establishment of Good in the Universe. 

It is awesome and incredible when one begins to clearly see the capacity of the soul. The fierceness of its spiritual blaze and intent to manifest the truth and the good where it has been forgotten. Its purity also inspires. The potential of levity it can deliver, of release from the heaviness of this world is truly Angelic. We get so accustomed to unmitigated grief and muddled experience, the reality of something of Light and Purity mystifies us. Yet it is there, eternally there, within our experience, manifested more readily in astral dimensions and beyond where the Will of God and His Spirit are tangible parameters. 

It is very difficult for most to break through to this inner Heaven, yet it does exist. And it is the power of faith also may make this so on our own planet. 

The Transformative Power of Faith

When we connect to the infinite potential of our soul through a higher faith, we unleash incredible transformative power. Through the soul's intuition and its ability to harness the omnipotent Amen our capability is boundless. The act of faith in the deeper spiritual nature of self and universe taps one into the power of that spirit and opens one's senses and abilities to the psychic nature of the soul.  

Faith based power through Amen and psychic soul intuition works so well because this type of will power is constructive and compounding. Unlike the mortal will, it does not depend on consuming resources or energies. Instead, at it's core it combines them together into a self-sustaining, self-expanding matrix of energy. Instead of operating by the need to increase resistance to gain power, it actually decreases resistance and gains power by increasing the levity of one's being. Instead of forcing life to work for it,  it harmonizes itself with life and generates success through deepening the harmony of the environment it exists within. Instead of exuding competitive force, it exudes levity. 

The energy matrix of the soul is able to compound itself like one's money in a bank because it operates through its intuitive connection with the Infinite Amen. Through this connection, its growth accelerates towards infinity and instead of burning more, the greater it becomes and the further it goes along this path, it actually burns less as it produces more. It is a star in the ether burning brighter due to its own purity. 

The expanding matrix of energies awakens the spiritual spinal centers of our subtle body. It is the lack of flow and the lack of harmonious operation of these centers that leads to every sort of trouble and malady available to humankind. The awakening of these energies and centers through communion with the Infinite Amen naturally harmonizes them, eliminating elements that produce negative karmic currents and stimulating and accelerating the activity of positive karmic currents. This works because our soul, a spark of the Divine, in constant communion with the Divine, possesses omnipotent perception. As it awakens, so does its omnipotent intuitive ability to psychically and instantly affect the Universe to produce positive outcomes for itself and all that it comes into contact with. This power is generated through the synergistic intelligence, will, and power of the awakening subtle energy centers.

So when one has the right idea about faith and soul, a lot can happen that previously was impossible. Ironically, it is actually the ceasing of thinking about oneself that leads to the greatest positive transformation of oneself. The selfish or worldly desire to help oneself, however constructive this may appear, keeps one in a state of competition and resistance against the world, which prevents the Peace of soul awakening from liberating one's consciousness from states that produce ignorance and disease. 

This great transformation  often takes us to places we did not want or expect to go because in soul awakening we go beyond our ordinary desires and expectations, where perhaps what we didn't want is exactly what we need. We often can have the greatest growth in that direction towards what we dislike, finding a vastness of uplifting freedom in that void. For in the darkness of all our dislikes, lies the same infinite Light and awareness, intelligence and understanding that exists in what we perceive as desirable and beneficial. 

We may never reach our destination, or attain all that we hope for, yet our soul may expand nonetheless. For as the soul awakens, it is not what we gain in this world, but how deeply we awaken within ourselves. When our world becomes our inner world and their is no difference between what exist outside and within, we will know Peace. For here, we will actively walk the Path of an awakened soul. 

The greatest transformation that Faith brings is to one's consciousness. For this transformation means the difference between a matter bound creature and a body of Light within Light. As the boundaries of ignorance dissolve, what is infinite becomes apparent in everything. The Infinite is not simply within ourself, but the fabric of all dimensions of existence including what we perceive as the material world. The clearer one perceives this Light in everything, including the mundane, the less they will trust to conventional wisdom to dictate matters of the soul. When the Light shines brightly enough, nothing we can do will keep us from it. 

You get what you put into the Universe

 The Light or Holy Ghost vibration creates exactly what we send out into the Universe. The trouble most of us have is that what we think we put out is not exactly what we put out. Whatever we lean into with our attention and will, the Holy Ghost magnifies in our experience. If we aren't fully aware of what we are asking for, we won't understand what we are receiving. If we fully see what we are asking for, then we will stop asking for things that dull our senses because we will know that we depend on communion with the Holy Ghost for our wellbeing: for balance and security. Operating without communion with the Holy Spirit leads to trouble one way or another. So even knowing we can get whatever we want with our thought and attention, we won't misuse it because it isn't worth the trouble it causes. 

When we lean into the Holy Ghost vibration with our attention and concentration, our awareness deepens considerably. It is the vibration that unlocks the inner chambers of our soul. It awakens our inmost identity that is only accessible through the vibration of Peace. 

Recognizing the wisdom of communion with Amen, we see for the first time the full error of our ways, the innate folly of putting self gratification above spiritual virtue, and the clear path to release oneself from the trouble incurred from a life led so far blind to this truth. 

Here it becomes apparent that worldly attainment or gain is of little to no value, whereas the stature of one's own soul is of ultimate importance. This stature is gained not through outer appraisal by ones peers or accumulation of wealth, but by the purity of our our being and the degree to which we depend upon God, setting our attention on Him. We achieve this through release of worldly attachment, acts of selflessness, and contemplation of and meditation on God. Most simply and directly, it is attained through communing with Amen and transforming our nature to that of Amen through communion with it. All wisdom comes through this relationship. 

When we dwell on fear, we generate fear in our lives. When we dwell on Peace, we generate peace in our lives. The Peace of Om is the liberating power in the Universe. If we dwell upon it, we will see through the world, understanding it clearly and fully, and transcend its limitations that are otherwise unsurpassable obstacles to personal fulfillment. We are troubled not because we they are too great for us, but because our mind and heart come from a place of war and we do not know how to step outside of this way of being. When we change our mind and change our heart, our circumstances change. They change because the Universe is principally a place of energy that responds to the changes in energy in our own being. Our troubles aren't really out there, they are in our own mind and whatever is in our own mind is under our own control. 

What we perceive as impossible is so because we genuinely both think and feel it to be so. We also don't believe it can be any other way. If we truly change our mind, we can change the world we live in. We can change our circumstances. 

The Holy Ghost wishes us to do so. It wants us to awaken fully to its power and to use it to free ourselves from delusion. God is here to help us become free. We simply cannot do so as long as we pursue states of consciousness that perpetuate ignorance, delusion, and strife. Freedom only comes through Peace and the consolidation of all the powers of our being under One supreme intelligent Will: God. 

He is not other than ourself. For we are not these Earthly creatures, we are beings of Infinite Light and Grace that are truly untouched by anything of this world. God is the Infinity we seek to manifest in ourselves, not something we can never attain. There is not One Christ, but innumerable Christs waiting to awaken in each living soul. God does not belong to one religion, or one understanding, but to the fabric of time and space itself. The religion of God is available and apparent in every aspect of Creation. It can be referred to in books, but it lives in the air we breath and the objects of all of our senses. There are varying truths according to the customs of different peoples, while the basic tenets of truth and morality are Universal. Do no harm, help and heal, serve and uplift, tend to and protect, expand and create, sanctify and sustain. That which creates Peace, deep abiding Peace is worthwhile. This Peace creates harmony and balance among living things. It crosses divides and heals them, then sustains the work it has done. It can be encapsulated by religious or party dogma, said to apply to this and not to that, but this does not fully represent Peace. Peace is an underlying force of Goodwill that knows no boundary man can conceive of. 

This kind of Peace is Divine. We know it by its fruits. We watch how it affects our lives and others and can testify that it is Good. We see its power in comparison to that which is corrupt, we see how it uplifts our spirits, calms our soul, awakens our energy and intelligence. Gives us hope and benediction, mercy and sustenance. 

No society can be sustained without it, it is both vision and the breath of life. Until it is understood in its Universal nature, no society will be safe from itself, for these societies will carry war with them that will turn to war against them in one way or another. 

When an entity turns to Peace, this Peace shows them the way to unlock their being and their lives, from the weight and trouble set upon them. In this communion, it will provide a Path, that they can follow. For it knows what they are capable of, it knows what they will turn to. It will give them the best for what they can give. It will do all that it can to lessen their load. For it comes from a place of infinite love, infinite grace, and infinite ability. When we look to Peace, we will see we are already on the Path. 

Lord, help me to see you in this world, so I do not have to stop so I can see you in myself. God will open the door when we open the door to God. 

When we put the vibration of Peace into the world, it comes back doubled to ourself. When we choose Peace over War, God uplifts our spirit and sanctifies our lives. He blesses us. For peace is the way to salvation, not war. Understanding and harmony, the effort for them, the steps of the path. Self-sacrifice and selflessness, the keys and gateways to freedom. 

God's hand already rests upon our shoulder. A life of Light is already carved in stone. The Light is here with us, even when we do not see it. Already joined are we to the world of Angels. Mercy, the Lord has Mercy for us.