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(Thoughts, Feelings, and Images are not you; they are forms of energy that come and go within the Awareness that you are. They arise from the infinite formless, take form, and then dissolve back into the formless. However, if we identify with or resist the thoughts, feelings, and images that arise in each moment, then they persist. Then there is suffering, effort, and struggle. When you allow the various forms of energy to arise without resisting or identifying with them, they naturally dissolve. You are stuck with only that which you resist or identify with. The choice is yours. Dis-Identify from what arises, allow it to BE, and what is left is the freedom and peace of your true nature. Thoughts, feelings and images are not you = Freedom.
During the November-October Core Wisdom Teleseminar, "Being-Dissolving-Creating", one of the participants ("K.M.") had a powerful and direct experience of this choice. It transformed his reality. With K.M.'s permission, I share with you below this simpleand powerful shift in Being. In-Joy! --Hal)
Hal,
Earlier today I was driving and suffering/identifying with thoughts about a woman and how it just shouldn't be. Then my attention went to the right rear red tail light lens of a car. And for the first time in my life I saw something come into existence in the energy form of thoughts. Then dissolve.
And I realized that I didn't identify and suffer over tail light lenses. But I could. And if I did it would be no more or less valid than suffering/identifying with the thoughts of how something should/shouldn't be with a woman.
I now have a choice about what to identify with. And it was really funny to get it.
K.M.
Core Wisdom Quote
"Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another.Love all or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen thedream as a dream, you have done all that needs to be done."
-- Nisargadatta Maharaj
From Core Wisdom On-Line Number 111 - Feb. 10, 2010
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