The Quicker Path

Every now and then, the mind comes across a question, a conflict, an obstacle, a barrier, or a problem which slows us down or completely STOPS our world!

It could be about day-to-day life concerns - how to resolve a relationship or solve a work-related hiccup. Or, fundamental issues like - Who am I? How to transcend internal barriers? What is the Secret? What is The Solution to ALL our problems? What is God?

So many questions, and the answer is ONE. Literally! Be ONE with everything in this moment! Embrace All thoughts and reality. In other words, EXPRESS INFINITE LOVE.

Someone has said that, "LOVE is the answer. Now, what is your question?"

THAT says it ALL!

But, let us get some more clarity from Neale Donald Walsch in Conversations With God, Book One:

The highest feeling is perfect love.

...your soul ... is perfect love - and it knows this. Yet it wishes to do more than know it. It wishes to be in its experience.

...(And, yet) Having made this judgment about yourself (that you are bad), you have decided that your job is to get better.

It's okay, mind you. It is the same destination in any event - it's just that there's a faster way, a shorter router, a quicker path.

Which is?

Acceptance of Who and What You Are right now - and demonstration of that.

...it is far more difficult to deny Who You Are than to accept it.

You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest truth. You are these things.

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Choose to now know yourself as these things always.

The Absolute State!

The enlightened ones know that the FINAL barrier for a "seeker" is the "desire" to get enlightened! At that stage, each effort becomes an obstacle! Then, there is only ONE way left - effortlessness!

The following excerpts may help in maintaining a BEING-NESS which is completely at ease:

There is no world, no seeker for liberation, no yogi, no seer, no one bound and no one liberated. I remain in my own nondual nature.

Recognising that in reality no action is ever committed, I live as I please, just doing what presents itself to be done.

One established in the Absolute state with an empty mind does not know the alternatives of inner stillness and lack of inner stillness, and of good and evil.

Some think that something exists, and others that nothing does. Rare is the man who does not think either, and is thereby free from distraction.

The man who is free from doubts and whose mind is free does not bother about means of liberation.

Whether seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, or tasting, he lives at ease.

~Ashtavakra Gita

Dropping the Noise - The Internal Dialogue!

You must learn how to stop your internal dialogue at will.

...I (had) delineated another procedure: walking for long stretches without focusing the eyes on anything. My recommendation was to not look at anything directly but, by slightly crossing the eyes, to keep a peripheral view of everything that presented itself to the eyes. If one keeps one's unfocused eyes fixed at a point just above the horizon, it is possible to notice, at once, everything in almost the total 180-degree range in front of one's eyes.

That exercise is the only way of shutting off the internal dialogue.

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Nothing of what we do, with the exception of stopping the internal dialogue, can by itself change anything in us, or in our idea of the world!

~"Tales of Power", by Carlos Castaneda