Meditative Notes

JUNE 19, 2014 Meditative Notes

Notes while meditating: An understanding of time is crucial to life. A lack of understanding of the illusory nature of time is one of the primary reasons for our fall from grace. I must treat this subject further and use materials already at hand, such as Newton's Third Law of Motion.

The illusion of time so incredibly changes the perception of reality. It reduces our cognizance of the real world and hypnotizes us into believing in a false world of cause and effect. And so much of science is based on this destructive illusion! Not all of science but very much of it.

As important as the need is to come to a new understanding of time; it is even more important to learn the deep skills of conscious observation necessary to come to such understandings. A good place to begin is to practice "Observation Meditation."

Jiddu Krishnamurti did not use that term but he spoke of the state of consciousness I am trying to express here. He said that when we observe something, like a true or idea or sunset, so carefully and fully that we become that thing, at that point there is no space between the observer and the observed. This is true in my experience and the experience of many others, including you, my wife, when you used to paint your canvasses with such deep awareness of your subject matter.

So to observe anything from the purest level of observation is immeasurably liberating and transforming. It is good to simply watch all the things that float in and out of consciousness while meditating. Watch but don’t try to control anything. Just see what the heck is there.

So this, too, must be a focus of my literary work. It is already a focus of my spiritual existence.

LATER:

Hmmm... Is time a kind of energy we put into ideas we wish to accomplish or bring about in the physical world? For example: a shopping list, a doctor appointment, a work deadline, a vacation date; these are all " ideas" that we bring into physical manifestation by using a kind of energy that seems heavily laden with the illusion of time.
This sense of time, or illusion of time, appears in association with the physical sensation of anxiety, in varying degrees. It has also been called “Hurry Sickness.”

Hmmm... Let observation of the Shabd Sound Current happen. Just watch it happen, let it happen, do not try to catch it or control it. That will only separate you from it and diminish the hearing of it. Allow it to come to you of its own accord. Just let yourself fall into it. Listen quietly for its first sounds. Let the volume rise as you quietly listen.

Know it by allowing it to be itself. You cannot control it but you can ready yourself for it and let it come to you. The experience is intimate, very subtle and intimate, penetrating and fulfilling. After a short time of passive listening the tiny barely distinct sound becomes a roaring river of sound and light.

That is Shabd meditation and pure observation.

GOD:

Hmmm... Fractal self similarity observed at every level of existence testifies to a power of enormous perfection, incredible intricacy in and connecting everything, and harmony. This may serve as a new definition of God. It is open ended... infinite.

LATER:

On a fundamental level of life, one must tune in to what already exists before trying to make something happen. We must simply "observe" without trying to control the life we find ourselves in. We must enter passively into the ever present moment which we are part of in order to merge with it more consciously and use its energy.

In a way, we surf the omnipresent energy of life as it radiates from the center of everything, like a surfer rides the greater energy of the ocean’s power (not his own little human power) to get to a goal he or she is never fully aware of until the present blooms its completion. Then the goal has been attained.

This is a passive mode of existence, synchronizing with a greater natural energy, the energy of the cosmos, which opens doors beyond what we can conceive before we pass through them.

ADDENDA:

In regards to Newton's Third Law of Motion, which shows that all action is simultaneous and not a sequence of events following each other in so-called time, the idea of "cause and effect" loses its meaning. Instead of "cause" producing an "effect" we must say instead that "cause is accompanied in exact simultaneity with a so-called effect which is not really an effect but a correlation or extension of the cause." All the dominoes fall now at the same moment. Our human minds twist the perception around so that we can put it into an order easier to assimilate.

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You know, Honey Bun, I keep finding myself wrestling with the issue of my addressing you personally in letters that I publish publicly. I sometimes wonder if I should not cut the personal lines out of my writing and leave the impersonal lines in. I think that some readers might be taking the personal parts wrongly, thinking that I am "off my rocker" as it were, especially since I make no secret of you having transcended this world (which many of the readers interpret to mean "died" and exist no more).

I fear these personal salutations to you in these missives make some readers lose respect for the entire message I write about. I personally don't care if they lose respect for me but I don't want that to prejudice them against the spiritual and philosophical ideas I am working out and trying to express, which is a huge part of working these ideas out.

So, do you begin to see my dilemma, Honey Bun?

But addressing you and any other so-called deceased person in a first person to second person manner is a large part of the message, the fundamental ideas I am exploring. I don't believe in death of any real kind. I don’t believe in death of the consciousness, or individual awareness. I refuse to and think it very intelligent to refuse to believe in such an absolute stop of life.

I will accept the reality of change of incarnation, or mode of being, or vibratory intensity of being. But these things take volumes to express in words. They are very subtle and not easy to explain and defend to a group of people who, through lifelong habit and generations of social conditioning, see such literary eccentricities from an author to be indicative of insanity.

So what does one do when he wants to keep the lamp shining but it is the social convention to keep the cord unplugged from the wall? The light shining on the work is part of the work. So the wall and the outlet must also be included in the work. You, my wife, being half of my soul are a part of my literary work. How ridiculous it would be to leave you out, no matter how sane or crazy I might be.

I guess I'll keep you around, Honey Bun.

(Personally, I find it fascinating to see what any crazy author has to say).

Is talking to the dead a crazy thing? A whole lot of people do it.

If there is no real time, did the death really happen? Or was there just a temporary change in the perception of the real eternal life? Might I blink and see you as the five year old you once were on earth? And blink again and see you as I saw you when we first met more than thirty years ago? My night dreams are filled with such episodes. Who can prove our so-called time based earth incarnation is more real than our time free dream life is?

Philosophers and scientists and theologians have argued such topics for centuries and millennia. And still nobody can prove one way or the other. Just because the physical world seems so real when you're not sleeping; and your dreams seem so real when you are sleeping; neither world can prove itself the truer one. Actually, they are both true but different and we eternal souls go to and fro between each of them all the time.

Keep the porch light on, Honey Bun! I’ll be home soon.