Just a quickie
This is a obligatory post for pee-why since she asked. Teehee.
I really like simple stuff and recently I have found a very easy way to explain the phenomenon of false identification.
So basically, the thoughts, beliefs, feelings and personality (ego) that you have is like the clothes you are wearing now (at least I hope you’re wearing some now). Clothes because you can change them anytime you want. Generally, we don’t take the clothes we possess too seriously and probably wouldn’t go around killing people if they are stolen.
False identification happens when we think that these clothes is actually part of our body. Like our skin or organs. So when someone comes along and violate these clothes, we retaliate since we think they’re actually violating us. Just look at the jihads for a real-life example.
So awareness is key here. Awareness is the first step. Just be aware of how you’re falsely-identified with that which is not You and it’ll drop away.
-Roy
From Ariel. Good Shit.
“Something interesting I’ve noticed is how we expect others, especially those in power, to be perfect.
Look at how much people gossip about celebrities or trash talk politicians for any dumb little thing they fucked up on.
Really, it’s hypocritical. Everyone feels imperfect and they project this “problem” onto others and bash them for their perceived flaws.
Yeah we can get spiritual and say how everything is perfect and whatnot, but from a purely human side of reality, we are all imperfect. We all have our dark sides, ego challenges, fears, and so on.
Does anyone else find this fascinating? When you give someone a label such as police officer, president, leader, teacher, or any other title that somehow implies they’re “above” you, we expect nothing but perfection out of them.
Instead of seeing them as just as human and vulnerable as ourselves, we expect perfection out of them.
This is how children see their mommies and daddies: perfect
And it really is that: a childish outlook on life.
Imagine what it’d be like if we all totally accepted ourselves as being imperfect and accepted others just as they are without pressuring them with unrealistic expectations.
What would be one possible answer to this? Stop expecting yourself to be perfect all the time. Stop expecting others to be perfect. Allow people to fumble their way through life and make mistakes occasionally.
We don’t get pissed at babies who fall over when learning how to walk. We simply encourage them to get up and try again. Why not with people who are trying to learn how to walk, and even run, through life?
I admit, right here right now, that I am NOT perfect. I am human. I am vulnerable. I have made many mistakes in life. I will make many more. I accept this about myself. It’s just how things are.
You, too, are imperfect and that’s OKAY. It really and truly is.
It’s okay to try new things and see what happens. It’s okay to make mistakes and to f*ck up sometimes, even f*ck up royally. It’s okay. It’s all okay… “
Brent’s Mail
“Philosophers and spiritual teachers have been asking themselves for the last five thousand years what influences are favorable to the development of an enlightened consciousness…and why.
There’s a profound story that portrays people as prisoners being held in a dark cave since childhood. They sit facing a wall and behind them is a raised platform and behind that is a fire. Their captors wave dolls back and forth through the light of the fire and these objects cast shadows on the wall in front of the people. The people don’t see the fire and they never look at the dolls because their bodies and heads are chained so they can’t look at the person next to them or move in any way. They only see the shadows that the dolls cast on the wall in front of them. The people come to believe that these shadows are reality. They name the shadows and start competing for who can name them the fastest and how many they can name, which one will come next Etc. They hear the voices of the puppeteers and believe that they are the voices of the shadows. And they suffer greatly as a consequence of their belief. They believe the shadows are reality because they know NOTHING but shadows and they assume there is nothing BUT shadows.
One day, by fate or by circumstance or maybe even by accident one individual is able to turn his head around. As he turns his head he sees the dolls going back and forth in front of the fire. In that moment he realizes that the shadows are only shadows and that suffering is caused by ignorance. He goes back briefly to watching the shadows and suffering. Even though the experience doesn’t last, at least he knows and he’s had this extraordinary moment of consciousness in which he realized that the shadows were shadows. In having seen the truth, it will tug at him until he finally walks out into the sunlight. He’d like to stay out in the sunlight for the rest of his life but he feels an obligation to the people who are still suffering, who still believe in the shadows and who believe there’s nothing BUT shadows. His biggest challenge is how to tell them.
If he goes back into the cave and he tries to tell the truth, they won’t understand him, they won’t believe him. They’ve never heard the word “sunlight.” They will feel that he’s insane and a troublemaker. And, he’ll either end up imprisoned in the shadow world or maybe even crucified… because his words about sunlight are meaningless to the people who have only seen cave shadows.
The principle obstruction to their awakening is the belief that they’re already awake.
Now, while the above statement is true there is, within it, a sense of being made wrong.
Ex: “What do you mean I’m not awake!?”
It’s a threat to the ego and this is no fertile ground for self-development or self-growth. But eventually, if he survives long enough, this realized being grows smart enough to circumvent the ignorance and the intolerance of the shadow watchers. He gains the ability to understand and manage creation. He operates from the viewpoint of higher-self without needing approval or applause. He simply takes responsibility for transforming these people and transforming civilization. He learns how to inspire. And he inspires the people who are trapped and suffering in their shadow reality. He learns how to inspire them to turn around and see the light without making them wrong.
Give your friends lots of room to believe what they believe. Remember, they’re just chasing shadows. If you want to help them (and have a good relationship with them) you have to take this into consideration and avoid making them wrong. Instead, be patient and inspire them to see a new way. When they do things the way they do them, don’t get sucked in…do your own thing and let your actions (and results) speak louder than your words.
Try it and let me know what happens!”
Q&A with David R. Hawkins
Q: We note that your lectures always start with the same opening statement, “Everything is happening of its own; nothing is causing anything else.”
A: The belief in linear causality is a basic axiom of the whole structure of the ego/mind dualistic belief system. To see through that illusion is the most important and greatest leap available for getting closer to comprehending Reality.
It is critical to grasp that the illusion of linear causality as an explanation for the observed phenomena of life is the major and most profound limitation of thinkingness. It is the major block that cannot be transcended even by intellectual geniuses who characteristically calibrate at 499. The intellect which serves to aid the progress of civilization becomes entrenched in the psyche and becomes the major obstacle to Realization. Although causality (calibration 426) is a major illusion, it is really not a difficult one to solve once it is disassembled.
Mentation, reason, logic, and language are all structured dualistically, based on the axiom that there is a subject and an object, that there is a ‘this’ doing or causing a ‘that’. Reason strives to find a connection between a witnessed phenomenon and some antecedent which is most commonly located in prior time. Logic then concludes that what precedes an event must somehow be its ’cause’ or explanation. It confuses temporal sequence with causation.
The term “cause” is an abstract hypothesis, a tautology, an intellectualization which has no concordant substrate in reality. It is at best an operational supposition to satisfy the mind’s requirement for an ‘explanation’. Fallacy arises out of the mind’s proclivity to ask the redundant and fatal question “Why?”
We have stated elsewhere that there is no ‘why’ to anything in Reality and, in fact, no ‘why’ can be answered and still stay within Reality. All answers to “why” questions are intrinsically fallacious as they require a jump from verifiable observables to hypothetical suppositions which are all mentations.
Events and conditions have a source or origination but not a cause. The concept of ’cause’ limits comprehension to content only, whereas, in reality, all content is subject to context. This is the very crux of the understanding that allows consciousness to jump from 499 to the 500s.
Neither God nor Truth can be found within the limitation of content only for, by simple observation, content is only definition or description whereas context supplies meaning, significance, and concordance with the reality of existence itself. This is important to comprehend not only in spiritual work but also in everyday social and political policies.
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.
Source: I: Reality and Subjectivity, Page: 220-221
Some Parents Shouldn’t Have Kids
Recently, I keep coming across kids from well-to-do families but are given such miserly allowance so much so that they have to work part-time or scrimp and save. What in the blue hell is up with that?
Let’s dissect this.
One probable reason is that a lot of rich parents have this unquestioned fear that if they give enough money to their children, they will somehow become spoilt and bratty. That is not true. Teach the child how to spend his money. Proper education is the solution, not planting a scarcity mentality.
Another reason is selfishness. A lot of people are selfish, and that includes parents. Many parents are selfish in giving their children not just money, but also love, care and support. Even parents have this illusion that They are They, and Their Children is Their Children. Once again, the human Ego.
In the grand scheme of things, money is not important. Becoming more conscious is. Planting the sense of lack in children will just add another distraction called ‘money’ into their path.
Thanks for listening,
Roy
Something New…
Hey guys!
I just bought <Power vs. Force> by David R. Hawkins and so far it’s a damn good read. I’ll update more as I go through it.
I’m in the middle of some new realizations and I’ll share when I can test that it’s really true. Let’s just say it has something to do with monkeys, chickens and bishops. *wink*
Till then, stay light 
Roy
Fake Confidence vs True Confidence
The problem with starting a blog years after I started down this path is that I’ll leave out a lot of the more fundamental stuff that I figured out/realized long ago.
One of them relates to confidence.
For most people, the confidence that they know is a result of knowing or believing that he is better than somebody or something.
I am (or I can finally be) confident because:
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I am richer than him
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I am more handsome than him
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I lay more chicks than him
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More people like me
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I have better results than that ITE guy
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I am better than I was
It is obvious that this type of confidence is conditional and therefore not real. In the absence of the conditions that gave a person his confidence, he will feel diminished. For example, someone who prides himself for his good looks is not going to be confident anymore when he is disfigured by an acid splash.
True confidence is a natural state. It is a result of knowing the falsehood of any of the above conditions.
No conditions can be the real You. Whether a person is or think he is worthy/unworthy, beautiful/ugly or rich/poor, it is ultimately not Him.
In the realization of the True Self, there is True Confidence. They are synonymous.
Hope that makes sense.
Roy
A Great Post by Brent Smith
There’s a Hindu legend that says we were all once gods. But eventually we abused our powers. Brahma, the chief god, decided to punish us by taking away our divinity. Brahma called a meeting of the other chief gods to figure out where to hide our holiness. One god suggested hiding it deep beneath the earth.
“No,” Brahma said, “man will just figure out a way to tunnel miles below the surface.”
Another god suggested hiding our holiness at the bottom of the ocean.
“No,” Brahma responded, “man will just learn how to dive to the seabed.”
A third god came up with the idea of placing our divinity on top of a towering mountain.
“No,” Brahma said, “man will just climb every tall mountain on the planet until he finds it.”
Stumped, the other gods told Brahma they gave up-there didn’t seem to be any place to hide our holiness and keep it out of our reach.
“Wait,” Brahma said with a smile. “I’ve got it. We’ll hide man’s holiness deep within himself-he’ll never think to look for it there.” Since then, we’ve spent ages digging below the earth, diving to the sea floor, and climbing tall mountains, looking for something that’s already within us.
I’ve met a lot of unhappy people in the course of my life and you all have one thing in common…you constantly search outside yourself for happiness. When things get bad you convince yourself that moving to a different city, changing jobs or dating hotter women is the obvious answer. But after making these changes, that familiar restlessness feeling starts again. You’re stunned to learn that wherever you go, whatever you do, whatever you acquire and whomever you’re with aren’t working. Your unhappiness has actually followed you. In reality, there is no place to hide…you’ll have to deal with it right now where you are today. The good news is this means you have the potential to be happy. The bad news is your happiness is your own responsibility. You’re the only one who can allow yourself to be happy. No one and nothing else can do it for you. Not even me or my newsletters.
So instead of rushing to leave this life behind by moving out of town, leave this life behind by dealing with it now and changing what you don’t like about it.
Then, if you decide you want an adventure by moving to a new city you’ll be doing it for the right reasons, have an actual chance of succeeding and you won’t be stalked by your old adversary.
Picking Up
I apologize for my long absence once again. If only someone else will keep this blog alive. *looks at Kar*
Now some of you may know that I have quite a bit to say about pick up (or approaching girls). After all, my path to enlightenment started with me reading about pick up.
After these few years, I have learnt much about pick up and more importantly, about myself. Learning pick up has a lot more to do with facing myself than learning techniques/tricks/lines/openers etc. This is what I call inner game.
The purpose of this post is to share with you guys my latest satori. After an incident involving a guy from my NS unit using my name/reputation to approach a waitress claiming that I was the one who want her email (who in the blue hell wants a girl’s email anyway? It takes a lot more than words on my screen to turn me on), I came to realize the root cause of an inability to pick up.
The word is once again… Ego.
The only reason any human being will have any problem approaching another human being is the Ego. The idea that we are seperate. That somehow You are You and I am I.
More importantly, it is the unquestioned assumption that if you are rejected, you are somehow less than before you approached. Or that you are somehow more than who you were before the approach if the girl is receptive to you. This is all Ego-identity.
Only the Ego see things in terms of ‘more than’ or ‘less than’. This is why I say Singapore is an ego-centric Hell. Everybody labels everyone else and puts them either into the “he/she is less than me” or the “he/she is more than me” categories. If you were to just examine closely, you’ll realize that most Singaporeans spent most of their lives accumulating things so that they can feel more than the others.
That is the unconsciousness of humanity.
This post is coming to an abrupt end. 
Regarding the previous post…
In the midst of this flu and throat inflammation, I wanted to share something with you guys.
Now I was reading my previous post and realized how easy it is for someone to read it and go “Yay I’m spiritual/more enlightened therefore I’m different from that guy over there and therefore I own him”. That’s just more Ego.
When I say enlightened, I mean to wake up from the illusion of seperation. Ultimately, our True Nature is the same One thing. What differentiates us is how we choose to spend our time. Someone who spends his time primarily on soccer is going to be better at it than me. And there really isn’t a more worthy cause or a less worthy cause. When I say “everything happens for a reason”, it also means “everything that has ever happened and that will ever happen is appropriate for that moment, so are the lessons that they bring”.
Just for the fun of it, go out and hold the frame that you are not seperate from the people or things that you see. Look at everyone and everything and say to yourself in your head “I am that.” I’m sure you’ll have some interesting experiences just from one day of doing it.
Namaste, Roy, The Awakening One