Awakening to the Dream
The Gift of Lucid Living
Welcome
The world is unreal
Inner Strength
Be the way you are
Where is Shiva not?
I am not this person
What is real
Talks with Bob Adamson
Clarity talks with Nathan Gill
An ancient story
Certificate of Awakening
The Mysterious Stranger
Extracts from Tony Parsons
Seeds for the Soul
The Drama of it All
Clarity talks with Nathan Gill
The Self-Perfected State
Amazing Grace
The cage of self-centeredness
Original mind
You Are That
All There Is
The existence of consciousness
A myriad bubbles
Beyond the grasp
Selling water by the river
Awake In The Heartland
What is wrong with Right Now?
This First Instant
Peace of Being
Talks with Ramana Maharshi
All That Jazz
About Silence
It is all
The background
Seeing it Simply
The Dream of Space and Time
Discovering
Already Awake
Reincarnation?
IN MEMORIAM
Basic Questions
Integration
Simplicity
One Essence
Thought
The Central Teaching
Unity
Knowledge and Ignorance
Inexpressible Door of Nonduality
The real "I"
Presence/Awareness
Awakening to the Natural State
Looking for God
Life As It Is
There is only Source appearing
Yearning for otherness
Dharmakaya
The ever-present nature
Getting rid of the ego
To Hell with it All!
You Are the Self
The Search is the Trap
The Obvious
Are you awakened?
The Supreme Self
Naturally Timeless Awareness
The Absolute
Seekers of Enlightenment
Presence of Awareness
I am...
This Amazing Realization
I am Life itself
Awareness is the Source
The Golden Eternity
Simple Beingness
The Boundless Void
Self-enquiry
Who pays the bill?
Changeless Reality
The Precious Treasury
Transparent Radiance
You Are the Buddha
Beyond Good and Evil
The real does not die
Memory
Seeking
I Am
The Nature of Thinking
The Great Way
Beyond na?ve affirmation
Ping-ting T'ung-tzu
Free will versus determinism
The End Of Seeking?
A Sharing of Timeless Being
Present and Obvious
Blinded by the Light
Hooked on Enlightenment
It's marvelous
All the world's diversity
There is no oblivion
Direct insight
Remembering and forgetting
Letting go
Beingness
That which appears
Manifestation of the Absolute
Nothing Being Everything
Consciousness
This
Radiance
Benedictory Verse to the Self
ATTD News Letter number 4
Q & A
If or when you have a question you'd like to see answered in this newsletter mail to: author@awakeningtothedream.com
Question: I do not use drugs or drink. Recently, morphing forms within occur....they are so beautiful and seem strangely familiar. It seems like the awareness of them began when I started to regularly do imagination exercises which have been created (through "me").
If there is anything that "you" would like to say to this, please do:)
Answer: All experiences from doing the shopping to a full blown mystical experience are the content of Awareness. Awareness can not be objectified by the mind, just like sight is invisible to the eye. It is as clear and simple as space and yet indescribable. Just try to describe 3 dimensional space and see how impossible that is. Seeing this is not something difficult and yet it is beyond the mind's ability to capture it in words. The mind needs concepts, words, thoughts and pictures while Awareness is the invisible context in which the mind/experiences appear. See what happens when you switch attention from the content to the context. Stay with that silent emptiness, discover that the 'me' is also an object in this Awareness. And then, see that only the seeing is left without 'someone' doing it. Let yourself dis-solve and nothing needs to be solved.
Question: Who are you?
Answer: This question is most valuable when directed to yourself. Find out who or what you truly are and you will know who or what I am.
Be the way you are.
The following story landed one day in my mailbox. I don't know it's origin or author, but it is a great pointer to total acceptance and simply being who or what you are; even when you're considered to be a crackpot.
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.
At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts," the pot said.
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.
Awakened Poetry
In a boat down a fast-running creek,
it feels like trees on the bank
are rushing by.
What seems to be changing around us
is rather the speed of our craft
leaving this world.
From: The Essential Rumi, compiled and translated by Coleman Barks, Castle Books. ISBN 0-7858-0871-X
Image: Porters navigate an empty river boat used for transporting commodities in Kerala state, India.
Photograph by Priit Vesilind
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/kerala.html
The angels fly because they take themselves lightly
(G.K. Chesterton)
Quote of the moment! Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
the Dalai Lama
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4/27/2003
Q & A
If or when you have a question you'd like to see answered in this newsletter mail to: author@awakeningtothedream.com
Question: I do not use drugs or drink. Recently, morphing forms within occur....they are so beautiful and seem strangely familiar. It seems like the awareness of them began when I started to regularly do imagination exercises which have been created (through "me").
If there is anything that "you" would like to say to this, please do:)
Answer: All experiences from doing the shopping to a full blown mystical experience are the content of Awareness. Awareness can not be objectified by the mind, just like sight is invisible to the eye. It is as clear and simple as space and yet indescribable. Just try to describe 3 dimensional space and see how impossible that is. Seeing this is not something difficult and yet it is beyond the mind's ability to capture it in words. The mind needs concepts, words, thoughts and pictures while Awareness is the invisible context in which the mind/experiences appear. See what happens when you switch attention from the content to the context. Stay with that silent emptiness, discover that the 'me' is also an object in this Awareness. And then, see that only the seeing is left without 'someone' doing it. Let yourself dis-solve and nothing needs to be solved.
Question: Who are you?
Answer: This question is most valuable when directed to yourself. Find out who or what you truly are and you will know who or what I am.
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Be the way you are.
The following story landed one day in my mailbox. I don't know it's origin or author, but it is a great pointer to total acceptance and simply being who or what you are; even when you're considered to be a crackpot.
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.
At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts," the pot said.
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.
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Awakened Poetry
In a boat down a fast-running creek,it feels like trees on the bank
are rushing by.
What seems to be changing around us
is rather the speed of our craft
leaving this world.
From: The Essential Rumi, compiled and translated by Coleman Barks, Castle Books. ISBN 0-7858-0871-X
Image: Porters navigate an empty river boat used for transporting commodities in Kerala state, India.
Photograph by Priit Vesilind
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/kerala.html
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The angels fly because they take themselves lightly
(G.K. Chesterton)
Quote of the moment! Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
the Dalai Lama
-=*=--=*=--=*=--=*=--=*=--=*=--=*=--=*=--=*=--=*=--=*=--=*=-
ATTD links
You are invited to use the Awakening Forum at:
http://www.awakeningtothedream.com/forum/
Here you can respond to the contents of this newsletter or start your own topic.
To subscribe or unsubscribe click here.
If you do not see a link go to:
http://www.awakeningtothedream.com/home.html
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