The Chair

04/15/2006

Los Angeles

If you look at something without labeling it as good or bad, you will have a sense of awe.  This is how the artists feel, and how Vincent Van Gogh - a post impressionist painter felt, when he painted the above chair in 1888.  The painting is worth twenty five million dollars at the present time.

The voice of ego constantly disrupts the natural state of well being with negativity and with the superficial labeling of everything. When we stop labeling, the depth comes back to our lives and we can experience the sense of awe.  In other words, we should not seek the happiness, but the freedom from unhappiness which is the negative interpretation of a situation.

When you are in a negative state remind yourself that there is something in you that takes pleasure in this, and that negativity is always ego.  Once you are aware of this, your identity will shift from ego to awareness.  Let the awareness be always in the background.  States of being (love, joy) have no opposites; they emanate from within and need no reasons.

Almost everyone carries in his or her energy field an accumulation of old emotional pain called pain body. Negative thoughts have lower vibrational frequency.  They resonate with and feed our pain body.   The pain body is not just our individual pain but also includes the pain suffered by countless humans through out the history of humanity (the collective psyche of humanity) and it is in every human DNA.

Pain bodies like to both inflict and suffer pain.  The examples include:

• Falling in love which is attraction of pain bodies to each other
• Media and human addiction to unhappiness
• Women’s collective pain bodies as they have been killed and suppressed by all cultures and religions
• Countries and nations’ collective emotional pain
• Children’s pain bodies which manifest as moodiness and is affected by parents’ pain bodies

As long as you blame others you keep feeling the pain body.  Instead of blaming the darkness, bring in the light by forgiveness and by wearing the ring of “this shall pass too”.

Feel your own presence and remind yourself that you have a pain body and you are never upset for the reason you think.

The New Heaven (the awakened consciousness), and the New Earth (the reflection of the awakened consciousness) are arising within us.

(My notes from “The New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle)

Ponder on These

11/08/2002

Los Angeles, CA

• You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are.
• Life is the greatest Guru of all.
• A single human cell (1/1000 inch) contains instructions within its DNA that would fill 1000 books of 600 pages. There is a greater intelligence at work that we should connect with.
• The unhappy and deeply fearful self is a fiction of the mind. The moment you realize this, the fearful self collapses.
• The biggest obstacle to self-realization is the chattering mind. False self or ego is created by the mind. Ego even misperceives the present because it looks at it through the eyes of the past. Suffering needs time; it can not survive in the Now.
• A hostile thought creates a build up of energy in the body that we call anger. The body contracts in fear and biochemistry changes (stress). Body does not lie; it is a reflection of thought like a mirror. The energy feeds itself like a vicious circle. Even if you find yourself in paradise your mind says: yes but…
• Be present as the watcher of your mind and your emotions. Don’t yield to them. The present moment is all you ever have. Access the power of the Now moment free of negativity. All negativity is denial of present. You can only be free in the  Now moment.
• Jesus asked his disciples: why are you always anxious? Can this add any single day to your life?
• Buddha said: Constant craving and wanting brings suffering.
• Surrender to Now and be present with your whole being. This will help slowing down the aging process and strengthening the immune system.

(My notes from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle)