Notes From Nowhere: CATCHES OF THE MONTH
September 16, 2011 | James | Comments 3
From my notes this past month or so, here’s a few reflections that I’d love to share. I catch ‘em out of the air, like a deep outfielder for the Angels!
- The Fraudulent Self -now there’s a title for a good story!
- We are only so far from home as we believe we are.
- Truth is only in this moment and nowhere else but here.
- The ego’s activity is a divided and conflicted, conditioned and reactionary response to living.
- Truth is like the sun; it burns even as it shines.
- We can never know the Truth, but we can realize we are it.
- All ideas are conditioned.
- The games ego plays are all about maneuvering to get some conceived advantage.
- In awakening, you get nothing…for nothing!
- Seen on T- shirt: “REALITY IS A PRISON”…not really!
- In-spiration comes like a gentle breeze when we stop and listen in simple silence.
- Living an inspired life is easy: “take what comes and let go what goes.”
- This Me is like a giant inflatable toy that awareness plays with!
- All we can do is tell stories about the truth.
Perhaps this years’ Science and Nonduality Conference will interest you! You can even watch it on your computer! Here’s where you can look in:
http://www.scienceandnonduality.com/index.shtml
I’ll be presenting at it on the theme of my new book: FADING IN THE LIGHT…Nonduality Insights on Living and Dying.” The book will be available on www.nondualityliving.com and Amazon, etc. no later then October 18/11…it seems! I’m kinda squinting and curious about the whole thing… seems we’re all spectators and speculators who have lost our spectacles! Be well! James
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The very root of your writing while sounding reasonable at first, did not work well with me after some time. Someplace within the paragraphs you actually managed to make me a believer but just for a short while. I still have a problem with your jumps in assumptions and one would do nicely to fill in all those breaks. When you actually can accomplish that, I could definitely end up being amazed.
We should all stop with the concept of a false or fraudulent self. It is not helpful to those trapped in duality. It just reinforces the minds idea about this miserable self over here having to find this other perfect self who-knows-where. There is only ever one Self. Even the witness must one day be forsaken.
Hi Tom, thanks. Perhaps I could clarify what I meant with the phrase:
“The Fraudulent Self -now there’s a title for a good story!”
I was thinking then of how we believe the thoughts in our mind (the story of Me) to be who we are -our true Self…and how freeing it is to discover that these thoughts are fradulent in the sense that their story is no longer believed. The believer and the belief disapear,leaving no idea of Self.
Looking at the word phrase a little closer, I see where you may be coming from – it suggests there is a “fraudulent self” as opposed to a “true self” which can be seen as perpetuating the trap of duality. Indeed, as you say, “there is only ever one Self” Thanks for the reminder.
This dance keeps us on our toes! Be well!