For you who have the eyes to see and the ears to hear, and the heart to feel, these words are written.
For you who shall brave the disintegrating rays of Love that shines away delusion, these words may be a narrow pathway, beyond the threshold of knowing.
We will not behold the Truth and keep the self we made. To behold Truth is to forsake the frail illusion of personal mind and bathe in immolation (death). To see is to die. To know is to be empty of knowledge and contact the unborn presence of that which IS. Truth is not a conceptual theory or measured as a belief system. There is no spiritual path or teaching that has the capacity to transfer to another, what one does not see directly. Truth is not the description of clever words fastened together in a construct of spiritual teachings. The concepts that are used are merely markers, provoking the seeker to look to the source of life in the space behind the eyes. Nowhere else is it to be found. Not in books or words or teachers. We must look in order to see and we must be empty of all conceptual theories and beliefs to be quiet enough to perceive what IS without the distortions of mentalism intruding on the observation.
Attention must be focused here in the present unknown, in the space of silence. Attention must observe the observer nakedly. Attention follows intention and there is no room for more than one intention. While an intention exists to substitute Truth for the thought of Truth, there is no enlightenment. And yet the mind is programmed to create descriptions which allow the self to have continuity. The mind, by way of the the will, is split between these two intentions. One intention is to become aware of Truth, the other to provide the self with what it needs to continue. In this division there is a hidden assumption that the Truth will make for a better self. But the Truth is a solvent to the self and uproots our whole idea of it. We often think that if we find Truth, we will become more that we were when there was ignorance. But when the self seeking intention looks, it looks to find out which beliefs are true or untrue and judges by what supports its secret wish to be identified with the temporal. It looks to find its specialness. It asks; What are my spiritual powers? how can spirituality bring me pleasure? How can it validate me, prove my significance, give me meaning, free me from pain? and so on.
The self seeking intent is the origin of all deception, coming from incomplete observation which allows for the mechanism of illusions to remain hidden. It has created the whole new age spirituality in order to fill up the emptiness that pervades the awakened state, using the belief in past lives, ET’s, Ascended Masters and Angels, channeling and the all the new age concepts, to substitute for a direct experience of the Awake Nameless Presence which is your true identity and the One Source of liberation. The New Age, by in large, is an invention of thought. It is a new religion made of beliefs and techniques, however more progressive and open they may seem to be. Yet while conceptualization has been amended from older archaic forms of belief and spiritual practices, the instrumentation inventing the new age religion is relatively the same as it always was.
Truth, in the fullness of its wordless countenance, concealed behind a veil that awareness has not penetrated, awaits. But rather than parting the veil through total attention, the mind has imagined what it is that is behind the veil and created an entire philosophy about it. Then it relates only with the idea of Spirit and ignores the intimate, immediate, ever present Spirit itself.
Thought, in the form of interpretation, fails to tell the Truth or cause liberation because Truth is beyond description and it is thought itself that has caused bondage. Reality can not be known in conceptualized mental constructs as a belief or theory made up of words. We must experience Truth and freedom directly as empty, naked, consciousness totally alert to the unknown, or we miss it entirely. The Masters will not save us, the Angels will not save us, psychics and channelers will not save us, astrology, divination, crystals, magic etc will not save us. They each have their place, but if we rely on them we are lost. To rely on them is to give away our innate power to look, which can not actually be done. We have turned to these things outside of ourselves and then demanded, “tell me what to do, or who I am. I don’t know and you know and if you tell me, then I will know and then I will be whole. We do the same with teachers and guru’s and preachers. We come from the stance that they know, and we do not know, as if they could just tell us and then we would know.
If this were possible one could say to you now, you are the unborn presence, you are deathless, sinless, pure, perfect and eternal. You are from forever to forever. Your body, your personality, ego, memories, beliefs, hopes, dreams, fears, desires, values and all of it do not define you one iota, and even obscure your Reality. That which is temporary is illusory and the final evaluation is the only one you want. This you have heard before, have you not? Do you believe it? Do you embody it? Is this the reality you experience? or are these empty words, lovely to hear but ineffectual in there ability to liberate you from the confusion, pain, anxiety, dramas and self seeking desires of the personal mind? The problem is that the mind is lazy and confused so it searches for enlightenment or salvation, freedom, peace whatever it is called, outside asking someone or something to do the looking for us. We either seek for the outside conditions of our lives to change, or we seek for someone or something outside to help us transform the internal.
Just look. Look at that which IS looking, and hold completely still. Focus must be total or else the mind will offer a substitute for revelation with a description of revelation. They are not the same. One undoes the self and exalts the Living Word of the Creator, while the other exalts the self with dead words. The descriptions of awareness, of truth, of light of love and so forth are not the thing being described. Listen with total attention. Attention is the only part of the will that can be used to attain liberation. See if this is so. Don’t believe. Explore, find out. Accept no substitute for a direct experience. Obey no spiritual authority. All spirituality is self authenticating. It either lives within your experience or it is merely another religion.
Revelation, like a flaming sword cuts in all directions. The veil of error in its incomplete knowledge falls with the obscurity of your vision.
Galvanized in the decision of the primal will, the eye authenticates itself in the face of the Sun. Its force, the key that opens corridors of secret knowledge, locked in the summary of time.
You are called to traverse the known and empty the world in to the void. Die to what never was, and be reborn in what you always were.
~Asa
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