"Thoughts themselves are harmless.   The witnessing of a thought arising and disappearing is a blissful experience.   All of your problems are created because you identify with the thought.   The thought arises and instead of letting it go, you grab hold of it, you identify with it, you become involved with it.   And this becomes not only your identity, but becomes your reality.   If you think the world is out to get you, then everywhere you look, that will be your experience.   One person may enjoy watching a bird fly over head and another person will scream and run for cover.   It has nothing to do with the bird, but the identification with the thoughts arising.   All of your problems can disappear simply by letting go of the thoughts arising.   A thought arises, that is perfectly fine, and then you let it go.   No repression, no reaction, no relating or defining. You just let it go.   You let it disappear into the recycling bin with your other junk mail.    Because in meditation, it's all junk mail. One thought is no better than the other.   In this witnessing, you will experience thoughts in a completely different way.   Thought arises in consciousness as consciousness and it burns away in consciousness, returning to stillness.   All analyzing, judgement figuring it out is completely unnecessary, irrelevant, and annoying.   You just let it all go as it arises.   You live completely free of all of it.   But because of attachment, you latch on to thoughts, you make them important.   You are unwilling to let go of a feeling, an idea, a memory and then that becomes your world.   You have to live that experience outwardly until that attachment to it is exhausted and you are willing to let it go.   There is peace either way at the end. One is no better than the other.   But the path of non-attachment is simply much quicker.   What could take 50 years to journey may take less than a second to burn away in awareness if you are willing to let it go.   One may want to remain in the dream and see where it leads.   Another has had enough and wants to open their eyes, to live in unconditional peace.   Either way is fine.     Blessings,     Kip" Learn How To Awaken Yourself To Your Natural State of Unconditional Peace & Bliss Simply By Listening to A Unique CD Visit the Enlightened Spirituality Website Want to Be Blissful? Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the How to Become Awakened Website

"There are so many ways available
to stop us from having to experience life.  

And technology is so great,
that there is always something
to distract you
from experiencing this moment.  

They even have a television playing
while you are waiting in line at the bank.
And if not, there is always
the cell phone, text messaging,
blackberries and video games.  

The radio playing while you work,
the television on and drink in your hand
as soon as you come home.  

Always something to keep you
from having to feel this moment,
always something to distract you
from life itself.  

What would happen
if you were plucked out of society,
and left in the middle of nowhere
with food, water and shelter.  
Without any purpose or distraction.  

Suddenly you would be confronted
with life itself and no means of escape.  

First thing that would happen
is you would go nuts.  

You would see how addicted
you are to distraction.  

But eventually, through surrender,
you would begin to taste life.  
You would begin to experience
what it really means to be alive
the joy of unconditional, purposeless existence.  

Then if you would be put back into society,
you would feel the stress and aggression
of all of these things put in place to distract you.  
You would feel how this constant urge
to seek pleasure and resist pain
sucks the life out of you.  

Somewhere along the line
you realized life sometimes hurts
and then began the eternal quest
to escape it.  

But the moment you are willing
to experience life
with all of it's hurts and insanity,
suddenly there is a freedom
and sense of peace that you are
no longer willing to turn away from.  

Just the awareness
that you are alive fulfills you.  

Because it is in being alive
that you experience divinity.  

The two are not separate.  

This is meditation.    


Blessings,    


Kip"


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"The essence of all eastern philosophy
is that suffering comes from
being focused on the ego,
the sense of an individual separate 'I'  

By remaining focused on this 'me'
with all of it's desires,
fears and problems,
you lose touch
with the infinite peace, bliss and love
that exists beyond the ego.  

That is why all Yogas
(all paths to realizing the Absolute)
have to do with focusing away from the ego.  
Bhakti Yoga focuses on God
through devotion.
Karma Yoga focuses on serving others.
Kriya Yoga focuses on prana
using breathing techniques
just to name a few.  

While western philosophy
places it's importance on the individual 'me'
through self analysis and self improvement,
eastern teaching points to dropping all of this
to focus on that which is beyond ego.  

Even western philosophy agrees
that you become whatever you focus on.  

So if you are focused on 'my problems, my desires,'
then this will be your world.  

But if your focus was totally on the absolute,
then the absolute would be your world.  

Saying this,
then the fastest and most direct method
to self realization would be
to completely focus on a technique
that awakens in you the experience of peace,
bliss and freedom
and then to focus so completely on this bliss
that there is no room for you as an ego to exist.  

Someone coming from a western perspective
tastes the bliss but goes no further than the experience
'I am blissful, I have bliss.'  

But if you were to be so humbly devoted
to that bliss that it consumes you,
then you would melt into that bliss,
you would realize the truth
that bliss is what you are.

The technique is not so important
as long as it awakens the bliss
that exists beyond yourself.  

While many are busy analyzing 
all techniques methods and teachers,
there is a woman
who sits by a river somewhere in India
chanting one word repeatedly
that to her means the absolute.  

And simply by repeating the name
over and over in complete devotion,
she realizes the absolute.  

Rather than looking to get bliss
she gave herself to bliss
and so for her enlightenment was inevitable.  

There really is no secret to it,
it is simply where you put your attention.    


Blessings,    


Kip"


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"The greatest mistake
people on the spiritual path make
is trying to turn spirituality into some sort
of understanding or knowledge.  

Spirituality is about
discovering the truth beyond the mind;
to realize what is truly here
beyond your definitions,
knowledge and judgments.  

For this realization to happen
two things are needed:
One is some form of enlightened energy,
call it grace, shaktipat or deeksha.  

And the other is practice:
practicing keeping your focus inward,
on that which is beyond the mind.  

Anything that can be defined or understood
is still mind and should be discarded.  

Most people approach spirituality as
'First let me figure it all out and then I will practice.'  

The problem is
the more you know about spirituality,
the further you are from actually experiencing it.  

You could sit down every day
and practice even the simplest meditation technique
and through this practice
you will attain states of peace and truth
that one who has read all the books
and know all the teachings
could only imagine.  

Understanding awareness
is what kills awareness.  

The mind cannot get enlightened.  

It is what keeps you from it.  

So whenever you find yourself
seeking spiritual knowledge
or thinking about what you know about spirituality,
let it all go
and come back to being present.  

It can be as simple as
watching your breath.  

This alone can awaken you to truth.  
  
Blessings,    


Kip"      


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"You can
through practice
relax into a state of no-thought.  

It is not that you repress thoughts,
but through focused awareness
you detach yourself from thinking,
you take away the power and identification
behind the thoughts,  

you let go of the thoughts
as they arise,
and then eventually surrender
into no-thought.  

There will be great fear
around this,
because once all thought ceases,
you as you know yourself to be,
as the controller and the doer
cease to exist.  

So there is worry around this:
'What about all of my problems?'
'What about all of my responsibilities?'
'What will happen to me?'  

Thinking is the ego's mode of survival.
So to the ego,
allowing thoughts to stop
is like allowing the whole world to crumble.    

So it takes practice
to dip in and out.  

For a few moments
the ego disappeared
and everything is still okay.  

There is no thought
yet you are still there to witness it.  

All of your problems are gone in no thought,
but you can have them all back if you want them.  

Every night for a few minutes
you enter into a state of dreamless sleep
where there is no thought.  

And you gladly do.
You would go crazy if you didn't.  

So what does that say about your thinking?  

We are stepping into
a whole new world here
but if you look at the facts,
it is something worth exploring.  


Blessings,    


Kip"


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