6/04/2004
"all there is"
by Tony Parsons
"all there is" by Tony Parsons is the most genuine and accomplished books on, mmmm, spirituality I’ve ever read. I hesitate in calling this a spiritual book because it kind of imprisons the book by doing so and this book more than any other should not be bracketed in any way. Because this book is so much more than that. At its essence is a message that says we already have everything and only by giving up the search will we recognise that truth. Ultimately you get nothing from this book and whilst I became frustrated reading I soon began to get a sense of something real and profound. Paradoxically I began to see that this getting nothing is somehow the point. We are always searching for happiness. Perhaps it’s time to stop and realise what we already have right here.
You can purchase this book from here ...
www.theopensecret.com/buyuk.htm
by Tony Parsons
"all there is" by Tony Parsons is the most genuine and accomplished books on, mmmm, spirituality I’ve ever read. I hesitate in calling this a spiritual book because it kind of imprisons the book by doing so and this book more than any other should not be bracketed in any way. Because this book is so much more than that. At its essence is a message that says we already have everything and only by giving up the search will we recognise that truth. Ultimately you get nothing from this book and whilst I became frustrated reading I soon began to get a sense of something real and profound. Paradoxically I began to see that this getting nothing is somehow the point. We are always searching for happiness. Perhaps it’s time to stop and realise what we already have right here.
You can purchase this book from here ...
www.theopensecret.com/buyuk.htm
3/19/2004
gangaji says ...
To discover the absolute core of any state, be absolutely still as a state appears or disappears. Be unmoving. When the conditioned tendencies to move away from a state or toward a state arise, relax your mind. Surrender the activity of mind to what is before and after all activity of mind
To discover the absolute core of any state, be absolutely still as a state appears or disappears. Be unmoving. When the conditioned tendencies to move away from a state or toward a state arise, relax your mind. Surrender the activity of mind to what is before and after all activity of mind
3/18/2004
Why wait until the end of the purification process? The mind has not power to prevent one from recognising his true nature, unless this one prefers to postpone this recognition. I feel that there is still, in you, some waiting for an event called 'enlightenment' at the end of a purification process. See the absurdity of this. It is more of the same game of rejecting the now. Consciousness is here and now. You are that, here and now and forever. Whatever may come up in the future can only be an illusion. That which is real doesn't come and go. It will not arise in the future. it is now and forever
Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille
3/08/2004
2/11/2004
Attention
All that we can give to anybody or anything is our attention. Check for yourself and see if this is true. Where your attention is, is what you experience. If you put your attention on your toe, you experience your toe, if you put your attention on what you want, you experience longing, and if you put your attention on what is wrong, you experience wrongness or negativity. Where your attention is, is where you are giving all your energy to, in other words, what you are worshipping.
Isaac Shapiro
All that we can give to anybody or anything is our attention. Check for yourself and see if this is true. Where your attention is, is what you experience. If you put your attention on your toe, you experience your toe, if you put your attention on what you want, you experience longing, and if you put your attention on what is wrong, you experience wrongness or negativity. Where your attention is, is where you are giving all your energy to, in other words, what you are worshipping.
Isaac Shapiro
1/13/2004
Super-Dad
My wife Nichola and I are expecting our first child together. It's ludicrous when I stop and look at the thoughts spinning round in my head of 'the kind of dad' i'm going to be ... What a concept! This dad is the perfect Robin Williams type super-dad who does things with textbook insight and flexibililty. Of cause I want to be the best parent i can be, that goes without saying and yet what is important is that allow myself to make mistakes. Because it's going to happen. I think that as soon as my child is old enough i'm going to tell the poor little blighter than "i know nothing" and that the pair of us are in this together ...
... So don't be blaming me when things go pear shaped".
My wife Nichola and I are expecting our first child together. It's ludicrous when I stop and look at the thoughts spinning round in my head of 'the kind of dad' i'm going to be ... What a concept! This dad is the perfect Robin Williams type super-dad who does things with textbook insight and flexibililty. Of cause I want to be the best parent i can be, that goes without saying and yet what is important is that allow myself to make mistakes. Because it's going to happen. I think that as soon as my child is old enough i'm going to tell the poor little blighter than "i know nothing" and that the pair of us are in this together ...
... So don't be blaming me when things go pear shaped".
1/07/2004
Advaita
You will find metaphors used a great deal in advaitic literature, because the subject matter is ultimately ineffable. If you can accept this, then it should be possible to extract from the metaphor that element which transmits the idea that is being expressed and ignore the remaining shortcomings
Dennis Waite from "The Book of One"
You will find metaphors used a great deal in advaitic literature, because the subject matter is ultimately ineffable. If you can accept this, then it should be possible to extract from the metaphor that element which transmits the idea that is being expressed and ignore the remaining shortcomings
Dennis Waite from "The Book of One"
1/06/2004
'Truth is that which does not contaminate you, it is that which empowers you.'
From the book "The Seat of the Soul" by Gary Zukav
From the book "The Seat of the Soul" by Gary Zukav
12/22/2003
12/19/2003
12/17/2003
Things
Searching for happiness in objects and achievement of any kind is a fundamental error and can only bring about a temporary happiness. In fact, it doesn't bring about happiness at all. What is really happening is that once we get what it is we think is going to make us happy (object, achievement etc) we temporarily stop searching. When we stop searching the mind settles and our true nature - happiness, fulfillment, wholeness, shines through. Of cause, it appears that we have manifested this happiness through gaining something when really what has happened is that the mental striving has stopped, so allowing us to see what was always there ... the unmanifested. Then we get bored with the object, which is no longer making us happy, and we begin a new search for something else and the cycle continues.
Searching for happiness in objects and achievement of any kind is a fundamental error and can only bring about a temporary happiness. In fact, it doesn't bring about happiness at all. What is really happening is that once we get what it is we think is going to make us happy (object, achievement etc) we temporarily stop searching. When we stop searching the mind settles and our true nature - happiness, fulfillment, wholeness, shines through. Of cause, it appears that we have manifested this happiness through gaining something when really what has happened is that the mental striving has stopped, so allowing us to see what was always there ... the unmanifested. Then we get bored with the object, which is no longer making us happy, and we begin a new search for something else and the cycle continues.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
12/12/2003
A shocking Joke
"Your whole life as it has been written and spoken and acted out is proven to be simply a fantasy. The shock is to see how much is invested in that as reality; how much it is being squeezed for the nectar of truth. You even bring Satsang in to that story so that it will end in glory. It does end in glory, but the glory is the realization of the absolute falsity of what you have told yourself about who you are. It is a glorious, outrageous, shocking joke."
Gangaji
"Your whole life as it has been written and spoken and acted out is proven to be simply a fantasy. The shock is to see how much is invested in that as reality; how much it is being squeezed for the nectar of truth. You even bring Satsang in to that story so that it will end in glory. It does end in glory, but the glory is the realization of the absolute falsity of what you have told yourself about who you are. It is a glorious, outrageous, shocking joke."
Gangaji
12/11/2003
Be quiet
My wife once asked me how to stop thinking. I say do not 'try' to stop thinking. This is what we usually do. We attempt to stop our thoughts by thinking further. We attempt to get to a state of peace, happiness, by thinking our way there. This could be anything from justifying something in our past or looking forward to Friday or will my girlfriend leave me and on and on. We think that when we figure this stuff out we'll stop worrying.
That's the biggest irony of all. We're doing all of this thinking so ultimately we can get to a place where we are not thinking so that we can be happy. Perhaps we don't need to go through all that stuff. Perhaps we can be happy now.
Well how about if for once in our lives we do nothing with our minds. We simply let thoughts arise naturally and don't get involved. Observe and don't do anything about them. What if we don't take our thoughts so seriously. Just for 30 seconds is enough.
And then the thoughts come... "Oh but if I don't think I'll be lazy and things will pile up and my house will explode and I'll spontaneously combust and on and on and on and on..."
And I say ? "maybe ... maybe not." Who knows? Not you that's for sure. You're always thinking and probably have little if indeed any experience of no thought. And so what ... so what if your head blows up. For once why not be still. For a minute even. For a second. Be still. Don't make any effort. Just be still
My wife once asked me how to stop thinking. I say do not 'try' to stop thinking. This is what we usually do. We attempt to stop our thoughts by thinking further. We attempt to get to a state of peace, happiness, by thinking our way there. This could be anything from justifying something in our past or looking forward to Friday or will my girlfriend leave me and on and on. We think that when we figure this stuff out we'll stop worrying.
That's the biggest irony of all. We're doing all of this thinking so ultimately we can get to a place where we are not thinking so that we can be happy. Perhaps we don't need to go through all that stuff. Perhaps we can be happy now.
Well how about if for once in our lives we do nothing with our minds. We simply let thoughts arise naturally and don't get involved. Observe and don't do anything about them. What if we don't take our thoughts so seriously. Just for 30 seconds is enough.
And then the thoughts come... "Oh but if I don't think I'll be lazy and things will pile up and my house will explode and I'll spontaneously combust and on and on and on and on..."
And I say ? "maybe ... maybe not." Who knows? Not you that's for sure. You're always thinking and probably have little if indeed any experience of no thought. And so what ... so what if your head blows up. For once why not be still. For a minute even. For a second. Be still. Don't make any effort. Just be still
You imagine there is something wrong. Or rather, you identify with the thought that there is something wrong. There is nothing wrong. It's a thought. That's all.
We identify with the past as who we are. Thoughts of the past. We should take responsibility for who we are now. Over and over we attempt to control with our mind events of the past. Let go. No matter what let go and be present now
12/10/2003
Meditation
For me, meditation, sitting, whatever we like to call it, is simply about being real and not about creating a state of feeling happy or enlightened. For me it is about being however I am now! Anything else is a lie.
For me, meditation, sitting, whatever we like to call it, is simply about being real and not about creating a state of feeling happy or enlightened. For me it is about being however I am now! Anything else is a lie.
Stillness
Stillness is not brought about by not thinking. Stillness is absolutely beyond the presence or absence of thought. I cannot make myself still, but when that which appears not to be still is seen, then that seeing emanates from stillness.
Tony Parsons
Stillness is not brought about by not thinking. Stillness is absolutely beyond the presence or absence of thought. I cannot make myself still, but when that which appears not to be still is seen, then that seeing emanates from stillness.
Tony Parsons
11/27/2003
Night of the Living Dead
If you want to make a low budget zombie film take your camera on the London underground and start filming for a couple of minutes. You've a ready made cast & crew. It's night of the living dead down there. People, moaning, grumbling, wanting to get some place else. If I stop for a minute I can only see that the truth is, especially in this country, I've no worries. No problems. I need to lighten up. Allow myself to make mistakes and stop looking for the text-book of life. Coz that's what we're hoping for. Come on ... own up. One day we're going to find this golden rule book with the answers ... laid out in neat looking chapters. Perhaps with an introduction from God telling us we can stop worrying because the beer's free in heaven.
Yes yes yes ... I'm including me on the zombie train by the way. In fact, some days I feel like zombie of the week, leading the zombies down the escalator to platform zombiedom'.
I think we should have a "lighten-up for gods sakes day"
Here's something I heard a while ago ... made me smile ...
"What if the whole purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others"
May the next bite of your apple be a succulent juicy one ...
If you want to make a low budget zombie film take your camera on the London underground and start filming for a couple of minutes. You've a ready made cast & crew. It's night of the living dead down there. People, moaning, grumbling, wanting to get some place else. If I stop for a minute I can only see that the truth is, especially in this country, I've no worries. No problems. I need to lighten up. Allow myself to make mistakes and stop looking for the text-book of life. Coz that's what we're hoping for. Come on ... own up. One day we're going to find this golden rule book with the answers ... laid out in neat looking chapters. Perhaps with an introduction from God telling us we can stop worrying because the beer's free in heaven.
Yes yes yes ... I'm including me on the zombie train by the way. In fact, some days I feel like zombie of the week, leading the zombies down the escalator to platform zombiedom'.
I think we should have a "lighten-up for gods sakes day"
Here's something I heard a while ago ... made me smile ...
"What if the whole purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others"
May the next bite of your apple be a succulent juicy one ...
11/25/2003
Appleman book of the month
Stillness Speaks
The follow up to the amazing ... "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle
Stillness Speaks
The follow up to the amazing ... "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle
11/24/2003
The ISA Experience
The isa experience is a seminar that takes place every 2 months in the North of England. It is the single best gift you could ever give yourself. I participated on the seminar for the first time in 1998 and when I look back now I see that I woke up for the first time in my life. When I say ‘woke up’ I mean … the internal dialogue, negative conversation, that dominated my life miraculously reduced to the point of disappearing altogether and I felt, for the first time in my life ... ‘present’, ‘alive’ and ‘in the moment!’ I felt real. This came about as a consequent of a series of processes where I got to question many aspects of my life. I got to see that maybe, just maybe, the things that I usually told myself and thought about … were not real.
This is not some hairy-fairy seminar that's trying to patronise and change people. In fact it's probably the single toughest scariest thing I’ve ever done in my life.
And ... at the end, I felt more focused, real, confident and awake than I ever felt before in my whole life … I felt fearless.
The isa experience is a seminar that takes place every 2 months in the North of England. It is the single best gift you could ever give yourself. I participated on the seminar for the first time in 1998 and when I look back now I see that I woke up for the first time in my life. When I say ‘woke up’ I mean … the internal dialogue, negative conversation, that dominated my life miraculously reduced to the point of disappearing altogether and I felt, for the first time in my life ... ‘present’, ‘alive’ and ‘in the moment!’ I felt real. This came about as a consequent of a series of processes where I got to question many aspects of my life. I got to see that maybe, just maybe, the things that I usually told myself and thought about … were not real.
This is not some hairy-fairy seminar that's trying to patronise and change people. In fact it's probably the single toughest scariest thing I’ve ever done in my life.
And ... at the end, I felt more focused, real, confident and awake than I ever felt before in my whole life … I felt fearless.
11/07/2003
The Cure
What if ... the presumption you made that there is something wrong with you created the notion that you need to fix yourself, hence; you began to search for a cure.
What if the initial presumption was wrong? What if there never was anything wrong with you to begin with?
What if ... the presumption you made that there is something wrong with you created the notion that you need to fix yourself, hence; you began to search for a cure.
What if the initial presumption was wrong? What if there never was anything wrong with you to begin with?
