Without Form There Is Wholeness
The experience of Truth is Wholeness. Lack does not exist in
Truth even as an idea. But when you are used to identifying with an ego
(personal thought system) and you come out of the experience of Truth, Truth
strikes you as alarmingly empty because there is no form There. You know you
felt whole in Truth but you are frightened because you cannot understand this
with the thought system (ego) with which you are used to thinking. How can a
thought system that is a form itself and is all about forms understand that
Formlessness is an experience of Abundance?
If without form there is Wholeness then the reverse of this
must be that with form there is lack. When you see this it is so obvious! Of
course when Limitless Mind is reduced to limited forms (thoughts, ideas,
feelings, actions, material forms) the experience is lack. No wonder that the
pursuit of forms to fill a sense of lack only increase one’s sense of lack.
If you just stop and be,
what is lacking? You may feel an emotional emptiness that prods you to seek
forms (thoughts, ideas, other feelings, actions, material forms) to fill the
emptiness. But what experiences that emptiness but a form (self)? And that
feeling of emotional emptiness is a form, too. To feel emotionally empty is a
form that is the experience of form. The resolution to that feeling is not more
forms but the dropping of forms.
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Comments
I’m not “doing” the lessons again but using it as a meditation. The idea is to move from what is written as “more than simply a nice idea…” For instance in the first ten lessons there might be a few lines that are the lesson followed by how to practice it for the day and then the mentor notes. Since I am not doing the lessons, the focus is only on the lesson, further explanation of the lesson and the mentor notes. The meditation comes from not reading something like 'My personal thoughts have no meaning' from Lesson 10, and letting those words just pass through the personal mind and are then forgotten but to stop and sit with it. I may not be able to understand it or only understand it on an intellectual level but I can sit with it. Using the book like this is a very intense experience and has been tremendously helpful in focusing on the blogs of the past months.
What I’m finding is if you read something by say the Buddha (a book about him is sitting on my desk so I use it as an example) when you talk about it or think about it the personal mind frames it as “Buddha says.” It keeps you at a surface level. It makes it hard to dive deep with the content.
Clarification please: When it turns 9 AM and the thought arises to go to the gym and exercise the body, I stay put in my chair, realizing exercise is just a limited experience of form, the body is a limited experience of form, demanded by the ego form, again keeping this body/mind form in the illusion. Allow Being(formlessness) to replace doing (form)?
I find I exercise from a place of fear and lack, not peace like you do. I don't understand what you mean by confusing levels.
Let me use a different example: I feel "bored" and uncomfortable in that feeling. I look for something to DO: pick up a magazine, watch TV, turn on the computer, eat a cookie. Is what you are suggesting in this blog is to replace the "doing" with "being"?
Thanking you in advance for your consideration.
Sometimes I get tangled up. The mind of the Son of God is projecting the world that we see around us, people, trees etc. It is neutral. The mind of the Son of God has a choice to see the world that it is projecting from the ego's point of view or from Truth. Right?
I do not exercise from a place of peace. I exercise from a place of taking responsibility for the body's health and well-being. It also feels good and I enjoy it. Confusing levels would be me thinking I didn't have to do anything for the body (or anything else in the world) because in Truth there is no doing. Not-Truth and Truth never intersect. Not-Truth is the opposite of Truth so what is true for Truth is never true for not-Truth. At the level of form (not-Truth) you will always act from lack and a fear of the consequences of not acting. This is not wrong or bad. Doing is required at the level of form. It simply has nothing to do with Truth.
I did not suggest in this article that you stop all doing. I merely suggested you occasionally take the time to open yourself to the experience of pure Being. If you are bored and feel like doing something then do something. If you feel guided to meditate and get in touch with Truth instead then do that.