When you attack spirituality as a set of guidelines, it is immensly harder, if you do not have the grains of Bhakti Yoga seated deep within.
Once these flower, you know no else. It cannot be questioned. Thus, it cannot be hard.
However, if on the path of Gnan yoga you encounter these ideas, while believing them to be true and when Bhakti and Gnan yoga walk hand in hand for you...it is only natural that until you know the premise of everything, it will be hard to tackle that which is learnt already. To become that which you already know before you know all else...requires an immense leap of faith. To believe, as you may or may not discover more each day, that there is nothing else that can be True.
For knowledge comes to us in the reverse order - that which is latest learnt to that which we always knew - which comes last.
Your particular issue with the social masking, be it emotions, desires or even clothes possibly stems from this sublime path you take. Know that it will be hard for you to accept these and other emotions until you REALIZE what you seek, and it no longer is a problem. It is only there until you know why it is there.
I say this to you, and no-one else, because in you I trust that you hold a higher ideal for complete realization. And whence on that path, dispassion is the only requirement and it only comes when you have a critical mass applied to your being of Gnan.
Trying to imbibe the ideals before knowing why, it is the HARDER path to take. And you must be prepared never to question them. Thus when you believe ONLY that - there can be no different. No other way and therefore whether or not you wear clothes is regardless of anything else that may/maynot exist. It doesn't matter.
Just the same as it doesn't matter what you share with the world or don't share. It is being shared regardless. You are empty or filled regardless. There is that tipping point after which - these become clearer.
Do you see? I think I wonder because I am trying to understand what exactly it is that I am trying to understand from all this. For I must continue to understand everything until there is nothing left to understand and then I can realize what it is that I have understood and just be.
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Several things happened this weekend.
I experienced dispassion in the presence of W. Though there were pangs of separation from him I found hard to subdue. I experienced extreme joy at the musical performance. It was Stellar. Some of the performances were so divinely tuneful that I felt nothing but loving joy. The universe opened up...once again!
Through one of the experiences this weekend, I realized the best definition of what a Master truly is:
'A Master is someone who started before you did.'
'A Master teaches the Essence. When the essence is percieved, he teaches what is neceessary to expand the perception.'
Characteristics of a Master: "Whatever he does, he does with the enthusiasm of doing it for the first time. This is the source of his unlimited energy".
"When I say that every lesson is the first lesson, it does not mean that we forget what we already know. It means that what we are doing is always new, because we are always doing it for the first time."
Thus, a Master never forgets what he learnt and does everything with first-time enthusiasm and precision that comes from pre-existing knowledge.
Einstein: "Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world..." His wonderful example of the closed watch explains this idea beautifully.
Also Einstein, "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion"
It is important to note that Knowledge isn't Experience. That a description of an experience is not the experience itself. It is only talk about it. The experience always comes from you.
The message of the Wu Li masters is: Not to confuse the type of dance that they are doing with the fact that they are dancing.
Our self-imposed limitations are the only things that hinder our understanding of everything. And once in a while a person comes along that just by re-presenting these ideas to us, expands those limits. These are people we know as Geniuses.
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Homogeneity of the Is.
You are alternately the Is as the projector, the Light, the Screen and the Image itself, until you realize at one or the other point that you are nothing but the Is itself and all else becomes irrelevant.
Photoelectric effect - meditate on this...energy supplied by a photon to an electron to supersede the electrostatic barrier - leads to electricity, radiation. Its liberation. All it needs is a Source of energy. Only photons of a high-enough frequency, (above a certain threshold value) can knock an electron free.
Photon: the 'Particle' of light
Electron: the Negation of the Positive
Energy: That which makes the Photon the photon and an Electron an electron.
How poetic science is sometimes and how elegantly does it signify something more sublime. Do you see?
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'But we can choose the music we like and then change to like another.'
Oh Samurai! How terribly elegant are those words! Ofcourse you can! That is what makes us so undeniably the same and unique at the same time. Once we understand these vibrations are only different because we percieve the effect of energy on it differently - it can change at will. I can vibrate at whatever energy I will. But defacto I will want to vibrate forever at the energy that I was bound to vibrate at before I knew different.
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The Evolution of Love:
Whence sentient beings decide to evaluate the Love they have always known, they try all the different combinations possible. Mother-sibling, Father-sibling, sibling-sibling. Man-Woman.
Whence none of these satisfy the criteria that we are all aware of, at some point we are bound to try the remaining conditions - Man-Man, Woman-Woman, etc...It is surely the case that some relationships bring us closer to the truth...but nought but the realization that nothing is not love will bring to us the Truth that is ever present.
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I find myself observing myself with acuity. I am myself only when I talk of spirituality.
I observe my reactions to everything with dispassion. Sometimes I realize the need to react to a certain situation, for the benefit of the company...or to prevent dissolution of that which is spozed to teach me yet what I need to know. But I am mostly (when not in the presence of W) happy/content.
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I had a strange dream today:
Me: "Love is when we intertwine our arms and our legs."
Him: "No No. What is it?"
Me: "Love is shame."
Him: "Really? You believe that? Who would've thought, you were really thinking back there. That is about the most perfect definition to several million of a billion raised to 10."
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