Stop Looking "Out There"

Presence - Flora Bowley

At some point, one must come to the recognition that there is nothing to be had out "there", at least as far as spirituality is concerned.  We look for books, videos, courses, teachers, seminars, hoping against hope that one of them will finally give us the answers we're desperately seeking - answers to how to achieve peace, freedom, happiness, awareness, enlightenment.  But nothing out there will do it. Because everything out there is all the same. It's all out there. It's all in the dream world.  Imagine looking in your dreams for your true purpose, or your true love, or for a job.  A dream is a dream because it's a dream.  And this world is a dream. It really has no substance. 

First of all, everything that is "out there" is a projection from you!  Even on the level of so called physical science, everything that you think you're experiencing out there, is actually happening in your brain. Your senses, theoretically, receive input from the world, via your eyes, ears, nose, skin, tongue, which then turns them into biological data signals, and then sends them into your brain, where you, as the experiencer, turns it into your moment by moment world.  And that world is yours alone. No one knows exactly what you're experiencing, and you are clueless as to what others are experiencing.  It's your world out there, baby! All happening in you.  And what is that you that is experiencing it?  That is Consciousness. All of it is happening in Consciousness. All of it IS Consciousness.  By the very fact that you are conscious OF it, it is all arising in and AS Consciousness.  You have never experienced anything other than Consciousness, EVER! 

But the mind, which is also part of Consciousness, is a device. It's a breaking up device, which takes the One Singular Consciousness that you are and experience, and gives everything forms, boundaries and names.  I have often said that the mind is like a prism. When pure light is shining through a prism, it breaks that pure light into a spectrum of colors. Similarly, the mind takes the singularity of Consciousness and turns it into, as the Tao Te Ching calls it, the 10,000 things.  There is One Thing, Consciousness, which your mind calls you, me, this, that, here, there, in, out, up, down, and dog, cat, person, face, car, etc etc.  

It is exactly like when you watch a screen. We are always watching the screen of our Consciousness, but when we watch an external screen, like a TV, there is only one thing there - Light.  The light takes various forms like people and things, but it's still a two dimensional plane where light is taking different shapes. That's it.  There aren't really people there immersed in a drama. There's light.  When you sit inside your self, 10,000 things are really just the One Consciousness.  

This is why doing some kind of sitting is important.  Pull yourself away from the "out there" and sit with the Presence of simple Consciousness.  Within you, the Self is the source of that Consciousness. But not the "person" self...the True Self.  The True "I". 

The Ashtavaka Gita says:  yadi deham prtak krtya citi visramya tisthasi adhunaiva sukhi shanto bandhamukto bhavishyasi

"If you detach from the body/mind, and simply rest in Consciousness, even NOW, you will be happy, peaceful, and free from bondage."  

So detach from the "out there", and simply rest in Consciousness, sit as pure Presence, be Awareness, and let the 10,000 things be on their way.  

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