Desire is based on fear. We fear not belonging in a world of alienation. We cling to our group, to our literary knowledge, to anything and everything that supports our definition of ourselves. And as we grow, the old chains, the old things we have clung to, become realized as the bonds that are holding us back. And so we let go of them and experience a feeling of being lost or in limbo, until finally, at least until the next level of transcendent growth, we find ourselves with new friends, new groups, new books, new jobs, new homes, new hang-outs, and overall, new things to cling to.
What we are doing here is trading wombs; and these wombs become larger and more all-embracing as we develop inwardly. We start inside the mother. Then our immediate family and the house that we live in becomes our new womb. A womb is only a perceived and experienced level of protective surroundings. They are necessary and unavoidable. But they expand out into eternity as we climb the ladder of consciousness.
Our next step in expanding our womb past the stage of home and family is our community. We grow into a womb that includes school, friends, church, and the like. Many people stop or slow their development at this stage. The group becomes the safe haven for a small self that fears expanding beyond into the perceived chaos of a world full of millions of other groups with differing ideologies. In America we see the example of many well-known tiny groups or wombs in which a multitude of people settle into for all too long, thus stifling their internal development. These groups include the Christians, the Rastas, atheists, anarchists, white-collar workers, blue-collar workers, activists, cowboys, gangs, nihilists, democrats, republicans, Americans, Mexicans, Italians, the Chinese, Africans, to name a few.
Yet these groups are simply as snake skin, they serve their purpose and then they are shed. As one transcends and climbs higher on the ladder of conscious development, yes the view is more all-encompassing, however, there turns out to be less and less people on the higher rungs of the ladder. Those who fear being alone prefer to remain on the lower rungs despite whether their own inward development is urging another upward transcendence. This is the introduction of the cancer causing conformity, the sacrifice of true self for the safety offered up by the small group.
Knowing that the womb of development expands to include the whole universe and the infinite, all groups on this tiny spec of dust called Earth are seen to be tiny and insignificant in the extreme degree. They are seen to be nothing at all and that they require being left behind like a five-year old child’s infancy clothing. In the grand scheme all ideas of self and world are as temporal as cotton candy on the moist tongue of the divine. Even if one does choose to remain in the tiny group womb mindset their whole life, that mindset will still only be around for maybe 80 or so years as death insures. Nobody can take their womb with them.
The greatest miracle of human existence is that growth and the bliss of knowing and understanding is a process that can move beyond and upward forever. There is no limit to human potential. But just as a rape victim or soldier of war can experience a psychotic split that takes them into an imaginary womb of protection, the many groups we are members of turn out to be imaginary as well. We could consider “crazy” to be one who ignores the truth of never-ending expansion and fearfully remains static in the lifeless embrace of a limiting view. And let us remember that a limiting view is only one that creates the idea of separation. Any view that creates an “us” or “them,” any group that is “believer” or “atheist,” “democrat” or “republican,” etc, these are mind-created ideas as ephemeral as the world of the psychotic patient. The patient is alone in their world. The group-mind is alone amidst a sea of groups.
At the world-centric stance reached after the transcendence of smaller groups, consciousness includes in its natural morals and ethics an all-inclusive lovingness for all life and human on Earth. Many are transcending and climbing consciously to this world-centric stage of development at earlier and earlier ages. To the younger and less experienced youth being on Earth at this time is challenging. And having a world-centric level of awareness causes one to sometimes feel like an alien or a civilized person on a planet of insane apes.
However, this sense of separation is also to be transcended; and understanding is key to this next upward climb. Deeply we look into the causes of abuse and tyranny. We see it in ourselves and come to know that it was birthed out of fear, which then gave birth to desire. We see that society has rarely put focus on the conscious development of its individual citizens. We see that in leading by example our nations have taught its peoples to exploit each other and compete and fight each other for material gain and status. We see that, generally speaking, ignorance is ignorance and what has always been ignored, what we’ve always been ignorant of, are our true selves, which have been with us all along. It is impossible to hurt or exploit others when the true self has been experienced and known.
So we see all of the human created suffering in the world as simply ignorance in action. There is no evil to be fightin’ only ignorance to enlighten. And beyond the conceptual mind is direct experience, which is predominantly how we’ve learned all along. A true teacher says little and does everything. A person learns to punish themselves for life by being punished by adults in youth. A murderer learns to kill in a world where national leaders push buttons and drop bombs over petty kindergarten disagreements and squabbles. And individuals experience and learn peace in the presence of a self-realized saint who has discovered peace within. There is no other way for peace to be learned and spread. Books will not do the job, for divine instinctual morals that are as natural and effortless as keeping the heart beating have nothing to do with concepts and words. One’s inward/outward direct experience has been the master all along. And when the student and master become one, all that remains is the experience.
May we all endeavor to be deeper feelers along with our deeper thinking. May we rise to the fourth dimension and leave all fears behind. May we find our stillness in mind and our experience closer than at hand. May we take refuge in that great self and be the love we wish to see in the world. May we exist as love as an example. May we be healthy and relaxed, ever blooming and yet in each moment bloomed. There is no past to carry. An oak does not hearken back to his painful fall to the ground as an acorn. There is only the oak, rooted to the Earth, strong and steady and new in each moment.
As a newborn baby in every moment is this liberated self. Our being can only reflect on how far we’ve come. And anything lacking in the exemplification of love is nature’s sign that there’s still work to be done. Nothing to judge, just a light cast into the shadows to be noticed. Just noticing can be difficult when our childhood upbringing taught us to judge ourselves as bad or good depending on our ignorant and still learning behavior. To notice is to be silent in the mind and observe. The light of observation is all that is required to alight the dusty lamps once hidden in the shadowy corners of our minds. Any response other than silent noticing should be used for simple insight and inquiry. But in simply curiously observing without judgment our actions and thoughts we do all that is required for the next womb transcendence of consciousness. We are separating from our thoughts, or rather realizing we never were our thoughts but the seer or experiencer or awareness of thoughts. This experiencer of the thoughts becomes more real to us and what is run amuck in our minds begins to fade as we begin to invest less and less energy into it.
Relaxation is the way of the universe. And a tightly pent-up mind is equivalent to a tightly pent-up body. Being consciousness is the most relaxing thing there is because there is no more small you for there to be problems. No one can oppose no-thingness. Try and defeat space. Consciousness is great! It incorporates all as it is all. The entire landscape, the many forms of life, the planets and stars and the space between, in and around, and the experiencer itself, it is all one. Where is the room for another’s harsh words to pierce when you are the totality occurring eternal?
And so upward growth in conscious self-realization is in all obvious forms the true calling at the root of all misunderstood desires, all desires being misunderstood. It should be the prime focus for any sentient being. And there is never a better time for this focus to begin other than now. It is truly the most fascinating of all focuses. And no excuse for avoiding it can ever be adequate. It does not require any effort what-so-ever except just to notice it; to notice what is occurring in each moment in detachment and simple non-judging observation.
The effort is only in the beginning. It is like pulling the chain on the lawnmower; the first few pulls and the engine almost gets going until finally it goes and goes. But this lawnmower doesn’t run out of gas because it soon realizes that it is the gas and the gas is eternal. This is the power of noticing, because noticing awakens you more and more to the noticer as opposed to what’s noticed. As the noticer becomes more noticed in the juxtaposition of all things perceived in the contextual/conceptual mind, it is realized that the noticer is not any of these things noticed in the slightest. In fact, the noticer is nowhere to be found, or rather only now-here to be found in the moment to moment being. It is indescribable, indefinable, and, according to most scientists, non-existent, which is accurate yet not complete.
“It IS,” is all we can say about it. It exists as the ground of all existence. But it itself is never what anyone can think. To see it as a thought is still to be the silent noticer of that thought and thus not whatever picture the thought itself is creating in our imaginations…our minds. The silent noticer is life itself and yet is nowhere to be seen with eyes. It is only the human being who can begin, or rather continue this upward transcendence of consciousness that all life-forms experience each moment. The noticer does not think, it only notices thinking. Where is the stress for one who has taken refuge in the noticer of stress?
There is a call to as many humans as possible to set the trend for conscious evolution focus. And this trend must
begin with each and every one of us. We as individuals must simply notice. And what is noticed might appear to become more harmonious and less chaotic. Freedom and liberation is the gift, peace in the world is the result.
Namaste
