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Those thoughts you have that go
by all the time, one after another, bringing all kinds of other thoughts and
reactions and sensations, have nothing to do with Reality. This is not something that you can take
someone’s word for (although taking someone’s word for it, at first, is a great
helping hand in beginning to see for yourself), you must be willing to
investigate whether or not, thoughts have anything to do with Reality, or do
thoughts appear after the fact. It is
not only possible, but actual, that everything you think, is after what
happens, even your arm moving or your eyes reading this, is after the fact of
it happening. The body registers the
information and then the brain receives it and thought appears and this is all
very instantaneous, yet still behind the action.
Why would you want to begin to
see that thoughts have nothing to do with Reality, because then you will begin
to see that you are not the thoughts.
This will lead to beginning to ask, if I am not the thoughts, then who
am I? Or “if they are not my thoughts,
who’s are they?” Did you ever wonder
where a thought comes from or do you just blindly follow them? The funny thing is…the blindly following is
even before the thought. Awareness of
this, will begin to shed light on a darkened state of mind. Until someone turns the light on, no one even
knows they are in the dark.
It’s like fish at the bottom of
the sea, they do not know they are in the dark, if you went down there and said
to them…”hey…fishes…you are in the dark” they might say… “what the hell is
dark?” how would you describe it to them?
However, if you took one in your arms and started swimming north, up and
up and the dark became lighter and lighter, until the fishes eyes burned and it
said “oh…I see…it is so warm, it is beyond warm, it is behind kind, I didn’t
know what cold was until now, I don’t know how to explain this, but I know how
it feels.” And then you start to go back
down and the fish doesn’t understand why would you bring him back down to the
darkness and you explain that the Light would obliterate him because he comes
from the dark, but as he now Knows the Light … Knows where all are going and
that it is not out or in or north or south or up or down but it is IN everyONE,
that the fish can now point to it with others that are in the dark and Lighten
their load.
So the fish goes back down to the
deep sea and it is not easy to tell those that have not seen something,
something which cannot be explained but can be Known and yet he starts and he
begins to help move the other fishes that Hear him up slowly into lighter
gentler waters and as they move up others move up with them and they all begin
to see that what once so dark and scary and unknown, is not that at all. That they have been in it all along, they
only thought they were in the dark. But
the Light was/is always Here.
Thoughts are like Dark waters,
you can share with one that they are not in Dark water but only paying
attention to Dark water, but the only way for one to See they were in Dark
water, is to begin to stop pay attention to the thoughts. Not trying to stop the thought…just not
paying attention to them. One must begin
to pay attention to what is before the thoughts, what thoughts appear In, the
space between thoughts…this space right here ( ).
If you are one that is ready to
begin to stop paying attention to the thoughts, then get in touch with me.
~Joysters
