Inward Revolution Creates Outward Revolution
If you really live
deeply in spiritual practice
then this moment is intense.
Moment to moment,
life is shaking you
out of what you know;
shaking you out of everything
that is comfortable.
So much so that
all you can do is surrender
to this moment.
All you can do
is allow everything
to be as it…
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 12:26pm — 4 Comments
Here I will relate my first satori (temporary experience of enlightenment) that really put me on the path to enlightenment:
I was in college in Vermont, having a bad day. After classes and meetings with teachers, I went back to my dorm room and sat down to meditate. When I sat down, I just surrendered. Not that I knew what surrender was but looking back on it, that was what I did. I didn't practice…
ContinuePosted on January 12, 2012 at 6:00pm
If you want to be free of anxiety
then notice and feel this:
life is happening in this moment.
You are not doing this moment,
you are not making
this moment happen.
It is here on its own.
If you really notice your experience
in this moment,
existence is happening.
And if you disagree,
if you think
you are creating yourself
to exist in this moment,
then stop existing.
Go on.
In trying…
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment
You cannot enter
witness consciousness
if you are still holding on
to judgments.
It is not possible.
Because judgments
separate you from
everything else.
But I am not saying
"don't have judgments"
but rather, in meditation,
turn your attention
back on to yourself
and accept what is there.
Accept whatever thoughts are there,
whatever feelings are there,
whatever sensations are there.…
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 5:30pm
One of the most amazing
realizations you can have
is to realize you are actively
avoiding this moment.
That at the very core of your ego
is that constant reflex
to separate oneself from this moment,
to constantly seek some sort
of mental distraction
that takes you out of feeling
this moment directly.
This repulsion is not happening at
an intellectual level.
It is happening unconsciously.
The ego…
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 6:00pm
Rue Ellen Chancellor said… Namaste Kip - I love you so much.
I wander the forest breathing the Shakti of "The Calling" often.
But that's just the beginning. Like none other, your weekly poetic insights uniquely describe my consciousness these days. I have been receiving them for years now.
I picture myself as a fish. I have gills but don't know it - so fear prevents me from breathing too deeply underwater. You gently push me under the surface again and whisper "Yes - you can breathe..."
Thank you so much!
Todays - Transformation - in this stanza:
Eric Allen Bell said… (coninued)
In meditation, when you have not other responsibilites to attend to, you can transcend all individual identity.
If you move beyond the ego in meditation, there are no psychotic symptoms, there is only peace.
But yes, if you try and deny the ego, if you try and kill it, you only intensify the ego and that can lead to all sorts of anxiety. Any resistance, any force just increases conflict, increase the stress of duality. In allowing what is, naturally you transcend separation. In every day life there is still the play of personalities, conflicts, problems, yet at the same time you are beyond all of it as consciousness itself.
They sound like two things happening at once, but they are the play of the same one all encompassing energy. You experience it all fully yet at the same time you are this vast undescribable Shakti. It cannot really be defined neatly in words. It is paradoxical. It makes no sense. If I could teach one thing it would be that it is all nonsense. Everything. Everything you believe you know about spirituality is all nonsense. If you realize that, then you can realize what is beyond the mind.
Thank you for your comments. As long as you are in a human body, you have an ego. When I talk about moving beyond the ego, I am talking about doing that in meditation.
The ego is simply the individual identification with the body and mind. In day to day life and work, there is always some level of ego functioning. Otherwise the body could not survive. When the body is hungry, it is because of a certain amount of identification with that hunger that you eat. But you do learn to live with minimum ego or better said you surrender identification, you surrender the fixed idea of who you think you are and what you know. You flow rather than being a fixed object.
Eric Allen Bell said… I agree with the previous poster that we need to balance our ego and not get rid of it. A self concept is part of living in a body and living in the world.
Kip's teachings, and those of many of the teachers I have programmed on Global One TV, are balanced and tend to take this into account.
Niels Vandamme said… I've signed up here firstly to thank you. Due to overwork a while ago I've been having a lot of difficulty meditating and you're really helping me out. Because I know there is no single procedure according to which to meditate, and that you actually need that intention to even begin with it. And you inspire me to find that intention again.
I must say, though, the word "ego" is a dangerous one. How about attachment? For a while my purpose had been to dissolve my ego, but after a while I did this so well it brought me some psychotic symptoms. People without ego no longer know who they are or how to care for themselves, or even what is real. That's why some people returned from meditative retreats with psychotic symptoms. We don't need to undo our ego, just balance it, and it's just that most people, including myself (at this point), have too much of it. But schizophrenics have too little. I wanted to warn for this because, if people keep trying to overdo this, they could hurt themselves.
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