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)