tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44114313193274760772024-03-05T05:27:08.182-08:00Awareness All OneCharlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-8612581985515355512016-07-16T15:22:00.001-07:002016-07-16T15:27:40.207-07:00The "I" thought is NOT your enemy<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The "I" thought is NOT your enemy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some spiritual "teachers" propose with conviction that the thought "I" must somehow be destroyed, or transcended, or some other dualistic notion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is I am sorry to say, Ignorance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The I thought is nothing more or less than a POINTER. Like the finger pointed to the moon is not the moon, the thought I is a pointer also.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To what, you ask?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is an ancient Sanskrit phrase. It goes "Purno 'Ham Vimarsha. This means "The pure unadulterated I Consciousness/Awareness." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That is Eternal. Never absent even in deep sleep. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(How else could you know you slept well, or dreamt?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So take it from the ancient Vedantic Sages. That thought is a brilliant POINTER to your True nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">May you realize it now!</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-17271843026409296812016-04-08T10:31:00.001-07:002016-04-08T10:31:13.253-07:00<div id="fb-root"></div><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/charliehayesnow/posts/850170908445534" data-width="500"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/charliehayesnow/posts/850170908445534">Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/charliehayesnow">Charlie Hayes</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/charliehayesnow/posts/850170908445534">Friday, April 8, 2016</a></blockquote></div></div>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-88335596935429498572015-12-28T22:33:00.004-08:002015-12-28T22:35:28.241-08:00New Health Update<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some of my friends are looking for a health update.. here goes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The major issue is chronic heart failure as most of you know. This is ultimately fatal but I still have 50% of the pump left so that could take a while. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also have problems with hips and legs and my arms and shoulders don't work real well because both shoulders were badly dislocated a while back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Having had three heart attacks, & a few bad falls, just doesn't do the old body any good! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I also have a lump near my left breast which is quite sore and expanding somewhat which will need to be checked out to make sure its not cancer. If it is cancer I will probably just let it be rather than fight through chemo and all that.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clearly though, thanks to Bob Adamson, the understanding is absolutely certain here that none of this touches the presence of awareness that I am and that everyone is. That is a real gift! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's it for now, I will update again if anything changes. Thank you as always for your love and support, it's deeply appreciated.And of course your donations are a huge help!</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-69354848696777391432015-12-23T20:33:00.001-08:002015-12-23T20:35:18.354-08:00Happy Everything! <p dir="ltr">Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous and healthy New Year! Thank you so much for your continuing support and good wishes. The chronic heart failure reduces fatigue and shortness of breath, but I'm still here and kicking. Much Love, Charlie</p>
Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-4013809298819040662015-12-11T18:20:00.004-08:002015-12-11T18:22:01.898-08:00As of Dec. 11th 2015<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Health update </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The chronic heart failure is of course unchanged, and the body lacks oxygen for the most basic undertakings. The heart can no longer supply enough blood to oxygenate the muscles and systems in the body. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The result of this is of course, there is no ability to do any real work, and there's not much activity as a result of that. In addition, the legs and shoulders are in very bad shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Such is relative life! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> One of the consequences of this is, money is badly needed. If anyone is able to contribute I would appreciate a click on the Donate button on the right side of this page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Thanks and Happy Holidays, and Many Blessings!</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-27219982751789093212015-07-31T12:02:00.002-07:002015-07-31T12:02:24.137-07:00Summer Update and New Pointers<table id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438367426335_3723" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333320617676px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438367426335_3726" style="width: 589.60009765625px;">
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For many weeks now, it's been a tough slog for the old body. </div>
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Thank God for nonduality and self knowledge! The simple seeing of the body dancing in the world is a real gift. Beyond price. That said, here's what's going on: </div>
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The legs seem to be almost history! I've got about 10 percent of normal use of the legs, and have trouble walking without a 4 wheel Walker. Getting around this let's say interesting! So it is. </div>
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The doctors are working on it, and some medications appear to be helping a little, and the energy is back up to the point where I can take on writing this newsletter.</div>
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Hopefully, this finds you well, my friend, and if you are able to contribute to the ongoing medical bills that would be just great. But no expectation here! With chronic heart failure, there is little expectation that there will be any significant improvement, unfortunately. but eventually death has no effect on who I am and I have absolutely no fear of it. </div>
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Meanwhile, sitting quietly, All is well.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now I find the old bodymind thing here at home in my tiny
apartment and it is dealing with bills for prescriptions, doctors and a large
hospital bill for big copays! I am hoping some of y'all might be able to assist
financially. AND I offer a huge thank you for those kind hearts that already
have!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All this happens with the disease the body has: Congestive heart failure! Short of breath, very low strength and energy, sleep a lOT, and less sharpness of brain-mind. These don't go away, so I am told by the doctors I trust. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Such is What Is, which due to Grace, does NOT affect the Knowing Aware-Presence which all appear on or in. Grace rocks.</span></div>
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that there is nothing wrong any more, in this magnificent Dream there are dream
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Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-8627757057133754232015-02-10T19:04:00.001-08:002015-02-10T19:04:31.236-08:00Health etc<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First off, we all need to understand the clear distinction between body and Self. The metaphor I like is the empty sky as Self and the body and its ailments, complaints, emotions etc. as the clouds and sometimes thunderstorms (like say, heart attacks and Congestive Heart Failure). In short, the ever obvious Awareness Itself IS the universal Self, expressed in language as "I Am." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That is That, the famous "That" pointed out by Sages from the beginning of our shared dream. Awaken to the dream. Right NOW. (when else is there?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's another health update. Off oxygen at home, still need two liters during walking. Regaining strength little by little, I'm now walking quarter mile to three quarter miles a day depending on energy. My goal is to be completely off oxygen by Valentine's Day, the 14th of February. As always I appreciate your support and kind words!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's another quick update. I'm finally off all oxygen. What a relief! A little ahead of schedule too. I'm gradually getting my strength back, walking quarter mile to three quarters of a mile per day with my trusty cane. I still say I'm too old for this shit! Thanks everyone for all your support, and kind words, I appreciate it. Now let's go have fun!</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-41300913940013152482015-01-19T14:09:00.004-08:002015-01-19T14:09:44.405-08:00Oxy<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For those who may be interested, here is another health update: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I am now getting off oxygen several times a day. Getting a fair amount of exercise without oxygen, watching the oxygen saturation rate. I'm very encouraged by the body's progress toward better health. My goal is to be off oxygen completely by the 16th of February, and to be driving back and forth for shopping as well. As always, I appreciate everyone's good wishes and support!</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-44174210877368351042015-01-01T19:23:00.002-08:002015-01-01T19:23:29.045-08:00Health Update<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Update on the health situation. With this congestive heart failure there are definitely issues! For example it appears I'm going to be on oxygen 24 /7 indefinitely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Little bit of a bummer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also getting dizzy and falling against the wall has happened. But like I say it ain't the first time I've hit the wall! Then sometimes I get so cold I feel like an icicle .... weird. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh yeah, then there's the shortness of breath. It's like trying to run a wrongly carbureted car in Denver. All that aside, its just like running an old vintage race car, you got to take care of it and it'll run to finish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks everyone for your support and your friendship, I appreciate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also thanks to those who made donations thus far. We are not "out of the woods" financially yet but there is light at the end of the tunnel. We hope it ain't the train!</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-55986975545886528932014-12-22T13:50:00.003-08:002014-12-23T11:29:03.368-08:00Dear Friends...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"....you probably know my pop, Charlie Hayes. He had a pretty tough night last night. A heart attack and two stints later he is resting, but in some real pain." -Charles Edward Hayes on Facebook, 13 Dec 2014</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes it has been a real bad one. I have congestive heart failure and only 45% of pump left. Pain and shortness of breath abound...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Update 22 Dec, recovering at home, on 24 /7 oxygen. Difficult getting around but little by little I'm hoping to regain strength. Thank you for your support and your loving messages. And if anyone is in a position to make a donation towards the copays, which are rather daunting to say the least (in the low $ thousands!) , that would be deeply appreciated. With my love, Charlie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With all Love, and many blessings for a great holiday season,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">22 Dec 2014</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-38081700335819016262014-12-07T13:12:00.003-08:002014-12-07T13:15:06.362-08:00The Paradox of this<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A friend writes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Q: Tony Parsons says that the me identity is not just an idea or belief but is an energetic contraction. Jeff Foster says that it IS just an idea, a story. So I am confused about that. Please could you tell me what you think about it</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">C: The paradox here is that both are correct as POINTERS to what the "me" is. I put it this way: The "me" is the story/storyteller, and that conversation is driven by a deep BELIEF in separateness.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Q: I know that the me isn't real because I remember seeing that to be true when I was very young. But that doesn't change the fact that I do seem to be this separate me.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">C: Exactly. Therefor have a really good look at that "me" and see what is that which DRIVES the belief etc? It is essence, oneness appearing as that story/energy-contraction..... let me know if this helps. With Love, Charlie</span></i></b><br />
<br />Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-28986883827938573272014-11-26T19:36:00.003-08:002014-11-26T19:38:02.619-08:00Here Now<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The understanding here is quite simple. There is no individual doer, not in me, nor in anyone else. Everything is a happening of consciousness or God and God's Will can never be known in advance of any happening! What will be will be!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So here, now, it is clear and obvious that everything is a happening of God or consciousness and is Its will, so where is any problem? Only if I take myself to be the doer, the actor with responsibility, and I need to plan what to do to make things work, is there a problem. Because in my experience things happen the way they happen regardless of my desires or fantasy expectations!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So essentially, it is clear to this thing called charlie that everything that happens is the will of source or God and the destiny of this body-mind organism programmed by DNA. And, its subsequent conditioning... In short, charlie is on automatic as a puppet! Whose strings are pulled by God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So why worry, why be concerned about it a future which has nothing to do with this what is which can be called Now? Don't worry, be happy.</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-19415231254788181842014-09-30T18:35:00.002-07:002014-09-30T18:36:49.222-07:00A Myth ...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the really stupid myths about enlightenment is that for the sage, there is no longer anger or fear or any of the so-called negative emotions. In the sage any emotion might arise. But the sage is not involved in the ego sense.. in other words, he is not engaged in shoulds or could have etc. at all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rather, he simply watches whatever emotion the organism produces from whatever stimulus might arrive, and sees them all simply come and go, without any egoic involvement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When this is deeply understood, then this myth is seen as really silly and it is no longer given any credibility. This is freedom!</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-43755213909751776132014-09-14T20:27:00.002-07:002014-09-16T10:18:37.636-07:00Living In Understanding<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After The Fall ......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One day recently here, after a pleasant afternoon nap, I awoke somewhat dizzy but felt it was under control. I made my way into the kitchen and slurped some cold milk, feeling pretty close to normal. So I sauntered into the living room, intending to peruse one of Ramesh Balsekar's books which I still very much enjoy reading. Approaching the small couch, suddenly all illusion of control vanished, and my legs simply turned to rubber and I found the bodymind gadget called "Charlie" falling down across my old sturdy wooden Salvation Army coffee table! I smacked headfirst into the table's edge and fell to the floor, amid a flurry of colorful words that escaped by themselves from the mouth!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I sat there for a few moments before collecting the detritus from the floor that had escaped the confines of the table, pondering as always, with no effort (at that particular moment), the grand illusion of "control" and "free will". Control, as if, to have “my” actions result in consequences that I desire! Wow, what a sample of truth that was. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I smiled at the gentle realization that truly there is no control for a bodymind; it just does what Totality wants it to do (talking here as a pointer; the notion that there IS a will operating, and it is The Divine operating, never "me".)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I nearly burst out laughing, as I rubbed a spot of blood off a small bump on the right rear of my head (which fortunately I fell on the hardest part of "Charlie" ! :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Living in Understanding offers countless reminders of this absolute design and operation of The Eternal Subject that moves us all, if we are awake to notice. May the noticing arise for all now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Love and Cheers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlie</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The late Ramesh Balsekar wrote beautifully in his book "Confusion No More", my favorite. Here is a bit from that work: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"There is enormous complexity in our day-to-day living that gives rise to stress and strain almost continuously. our present day living has lost all its simplicity and we are bewildered by the complexity and [apparent] multiplicity of choices in almost whatever we do. And yet, deep down it is everyone's experience that while we try to shape our day-to-day living, what actually happens is that events seem to happen in a unique way, which is not explained by our usual reason. And, in that odd moment, the thought occurs: why do I bother? Why don't I just float of living instead of struggling against it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"It is clearly everyone's experience that all one can do is make a choice and, thereafter in spite of all one's efforts, what actually happens - or does not happen - has never been in one's control."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Indeed!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks Ramesh. You are missed and loved!</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-71593229697053912662014-09-04T16:42:00.001-07:002014-09-04T16:42:34.263-07:00What Are You?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Are you that limited body? Are you a thought (I)? are you IN a body bearing a name arbitrarily given at its birth? What are you really?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What if you are none of these things that APPEAR perhaps to be "you"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What are you? Inquire within....</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-83798431924606068782014-08-16T11:31:00.002-07:002014-08-16T11:34:48.885-07:00Is “Separateness” Real?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Are you really separate from others, and objects in the
world? Or is that simply something you have said to yourself (i.e. believed
deeply) for so long, it is now an entrenched belief? If you believe deeply that
you are separate from everything else, then that is the way the world will
appear for you. Can you see that any belief is not necessarily true?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The earth
appears to the senses as flat. But is it really? Can you see that most beliefs
are not grounded in reality? And when you look for proof, the belief (for
example, the belief in a divine entity, or Santa Claus, or the tooth fairy) what
is discovered? Notice:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can find no proof whatsoever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seek the evidence for your truly being separate from me, from
the world. Tell me your proof. What can you offer? Nothing. Nada. Zip!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Separateness is a master illusion, a lie perpetrated over
millennia by the race called human, despite the clear lack of evidence for its
reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Crazy, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So take a good look within what you call “your separate
self”. Seek evidence for this notion of being separate, until there remains NO
doubt that there IS none! Go to it. It’s worth looking into.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once we believed the earth was flat. Now we know better; the
belief shriveled and died when it was proved to be a persistent idea of truth
but nonetheless, it’s a falsehood. A LIE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Find out: ARE you actually separate?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Certainly the way things appear to us, appear as separate
from us; that is how the senses function. Even our bodies appear to be separate
from our self, don’t they? (We say “my body”, right?) But as in the case of
seeing a flat earth, the senses are NOT reporting what really is so. It may
take some deep looking to uncover the falseness of our senses. But just maybe,
it is worth it. Rather than accepting the false as real, find out what is
really going on if you can!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is worth a good long look, my friends. I assure you of
that: there is freedom, joy, peace and a deep affinity at the other end (I have
experienced that here). So have at it and be in touch if you like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is a great gift to rediscover the Silence that we are. It
brings peacefulness that surpasses language, surpasses “understanding”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent” ~<i>Wittgenstein</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(I am indebted to <a href="http://www.landmarkeducation.com/">Landmark Education</a>, who inspired this
essay).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-53985701599444469132014-07-23T14:43:00.003-07:002014-07-23T14:43:16.067-07:00Show Me The Person<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If I ask you to send me a picture of the person you are, I suspect that you will send me a picture of that body mind apparatus you take to be your self.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Is that really who you are?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The identification of the self as a person happens at about the age of two. Then, as I am other me and not me this and that, in other words, dualism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What we point to here has been labeled many things: oneness, pure light, universal self, one without a second. That one is my favorite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The word person comes from the Greek persona, or mask. But if I ask you to send me a picture of the mask, or the persona, what can you come up with? A dear friend once said his ego was driving him crazy. I asked him to send me a picture of that ego. A little later, I got an e-mail from him, a delightful e-mail, wherein he describes what had happened when he contemplated taking a picture of his ego and realized that there was no such animal in the body mind. He summed it up by saying "I am bankrupt with a smile." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I still love that, because when he said bankrupt, what he was talking about is that the ego which she had been saying was bothering him drastically, was seen to be completely and utterly false. So the ego was bankrupt. He went on to see and share that this bankruptcy was the most welcome phenomenon. Indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can you find in the body mind anywhere and ego or a person? When I had open heart surgery, I was tempted to ask the surgeon to see if he could find a person in there when he had the body opened up. Through investigation, prompted for me by sailor Bob Adamson, it became clear as a bell that there simply is no such thing as a person as a separate entity. What we call ourselves or person is merely a story more like a graphic novel, words and pictures in the mind that we have mistakenly assumed to be our self. Hence the word history: his story. Everyone or virtually everyone mistakenly believes themselves to be there story; that ever evolving story of a me that on investigation is bound to not exist at all. And if it is found to not exist now, could it ever have existed at all?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A little investigation will show you, for yourself, that what you consider yourself to be is a fiction. Like a character in the story or novel, which you have identified with the same way you might identify with a character in a novel. So the invitation here is to challenge these assumptions which you have taken on board since the age of two, and by challenging destroy the assumptions leaving you only present unaware right here right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That is all there is to this really. Here now you are, and that you is a fiction, which can be seen through with a little work. I invite you to take it on. In fact, to go all in with it. </span><br />
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Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-61188886185782815692014-07-16T16:34:00.002-07:002014-07-16T16:36:08.318-07:00who is in charge here?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Who is in charge of your life? Or what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What follows is not the truth. So do not ask yourself, is that statement true? It is not absolutely no. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And, you could say, it is true as a pointer to what is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You see, the truth is that you can speak ain't the truth. Sorry about that. But that is the brutal reality of non-duality. Just ask Lao Tzu. The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When we point at the truth, we are asking you to look at where we are pointing, rather than try to figure out the words, and try to fit them into what you know or even what you do not know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The unchanging reality is simply indescribable and unknowable with the mind. But you probably know that grand idea. But just in case you do not, here is a reminder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ask yourself this question: who is in charge of this life of this body, mind that I claim as myself?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ask yourself, who is pulling the strings of this puppet. I called me? Is it the light, or is it a someone or something or what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Have you ever inquired into this? And if you have, have you gone all in with the inquiry?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If not, you might want to go for it. But then again, maybe not. If you find it in the least frustrating. Just pass and let the Pointers sink in in their own time (assuming that there is such a thing as time)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I found something that really lit me up when I read it recently, and I am going to share it here: it is from a really good book called "The Last Good Man." One of the characters is sharing an insight that is so spot on, as I said, it lit me up. Here we go:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"In the understanding of goodness and the good deed, we think from an existential point of view that we have a choice. But you do not. Just think of the story about Job. Your piece and a bigger puzzle, and someone else – or rather something else – has made up the rules of the game. What is paradoxical in the Job story is that there is nobody else God thinks war about the Job even though he takes everything away from him. It is the same thing with all of you. With you personally, Niels. You have also been stripped of your free will and the possibility of moving freely." By A.J. Kazinsky</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like I tried to point out before, that is not the truth. Is a pointer, a signpost. Do not focus on the words, focus on where the words are pointing. As a metaphor, considered the dog: if you point to the dog's bowl, the dog will stare at your finger instead of the bowl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do not get trapped trying to figure this out. It will make an nutty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Simply be with the pointer. Know that the Pointers are coming from the very same consciousness that you are. Knowing that, relax and enjoy it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you, I love you.</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-86866892149880067382014-07-11T16:06:00.004-07:002014-07-11T16:08:11.187-07:00Where does Presence begin?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where does Presence begin?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Have you ever noticed that everything that appears and disappears
arises Presently?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Have not you ever noticed that it is always now now now?
Have you ever been out of the now in actual experience rather than in concept? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you think you have been out of the now is not that thinking happening now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is something changeless, is not there? Does the now
ever change? Where does now began?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just simply notice where does presence began? Where does it
end? Just noticed this right now. When else could you notice it? The Unchanging
now is ever present and always completely fresh. Is it not?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Enlightenment is simply noticing that you are always in this
presence, and that this presence has never changed one iota. Super simple. Got
it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So keep it simple seeker! Kiss! Can you really argue your
way out of now? Katie really dispute that it is always now? This simple
presence, suffused with awareness, is your true nature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even if you argue
against it, that does not change it. Super simple. Got it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I could go on and on with this, but I trust you got the
point. Actually, the pointer. </span></div>
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Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-72530588390796122014-07-04T17:22:00.003-07:002014-07-04T17:22:43.796-07:00<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Wbh2CjZWGKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-37220602323756694162014-06-18T15:47:00.005-07:002014-06-18T15:47:54.004-07:00Source of Source?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What IS The Source of 'I Am' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is a final question. After all the inquires, practices, satsangs,all the books, poems, travels back and forth, and so on, what are you left with? I AM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stay with the sense of I AM. The quiet natural knowingness that you are, here and now you are, is incontrovertible, isn't it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before the words, before the phrase-thought 'I Am', there is the constancy of natural knowing of the non-conceptual I AM-NESS that every human being shares.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That I AM is natural, always on, and staying with that (not repeating 'I Am" but staying present to its essence) can reveal the SOURCE of that I AM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What IS that Source? It has many names, none of which can be "it" because "it" is NON conceptual!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So although the mind can never know "it", nevertheless allow yourself to sit quietly, and allow the attention of the mind to feast gently on that sense of Being itself, the ever present I AM. Allow that to show you its unfathomable, unlimited Sourceness. That, the singular Source of I AM, is the truth of what you really are. Let's give That a chance to find you now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As Sri Nisargadatta said, "That knowledge 'I Am' is yourself. Abide there only. How can you ask any questions at this point? Because that is the beginning of knowledge." ~From "The Ultimate Medicine" edited by the great Robert Powell</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-78603164848951846102014-05-30T13:53:00.002-07:002014-05-30T13:53:33.411-07:00What NEVER Changes?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This question, deeply contemplated, CAN bring forth the obviousness that you ARE That Which NEVER Changes. Try it on. Don't take anyone else's word for that; investigate and discover, then it is yours!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That is Love for Self. The only true love!</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-5012567141567387132014-05-17T12:56:00.004-07:002014-05-17T12:56:25.224-07:00What Is Eternal?<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1400356060822_13536" style="font-size: 16.000003814697266px;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To die <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1400356060822_13551">now</em> to every moment and every experience is the death that is ETERNITY <span style="font-size: 16.000003814697266px;">ITSELF.</span></span></div>
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Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411431319327476077.post-80060766450909674972014-05-14T16:59:00.002-07:002014-05-14T16:59:43.850-07:00This<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recall a time several years ago. What was your actual, direct experience of your self at that time? Wasn't it that YOU were the aware emptiness that CONTAINED all that appeared? Regardless of what appeared, there YOU were, that cognizing emptiness that registered all the happenings, "Good" or 'Bad"? Seeing this and understanding that you ARE that sacred emptiness allows for an acceptance of what is to arise. Yes, EVEN when the life sucks. which I know quite a lot about, THAT stands forever ever present and full.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nor are the otherwise. -Zen</span>Charlie Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18411101895230051322noreply@blogger.com0