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Response to a confused student...
By: Jed McKenna Date: November 5, 2019, 7:33 am
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Hi Dear:
Of course all is an illusion, a dreamlike experience. And it
will remain so until you realize who is dreaming. Then things
change, a little weird in the beginning but they settle down. Am
I confusing you, of course I am. If I was totally logical and in
my head, I would never have been blessed with this experience...
well, maybe, but very unlikely. I know a lot of incredibly smart
people who haven't got a clue about their True Nature. Smart
doesn't automatically equal T/R, or even happiness. Smart is of
the mind, and smart people think they are their mind and
personality. Not so... just their dream experience. Upon
reflection of the particularly smart people I have known over
decades, I cannot recall one who was anything near happy and
content. With great intelligence comes great pain... in my
observations.
Of course I lead you nowhere, because that is were Truth lies,
if I was leading you somewhere, like into some bliss-ninny
state, some groupy collection of wantabe enlightened, safron
robed, Osho type, all beads and bangles folk, then I would be
pointing at mind-stuff and not Truth. Why do you think this has
to lead somewhere? Why is your mind looking for something when I
point to nothing? The only real nothing that is, and the only
real thing that is? All you imagine T/R to be is completely made
up, because your mind cannot imagine Truth. Truth is so far
beyond thinking that one has to give up thinking. That's very
simple and very difficult.
Why do you complain about it all being at ''loose ends'' when
that is exactly what I am directing you to, and... in your
heart, it's what you want. Not in your head, in your heart. What
about consciousness... it's just a step, or a stage, and
tickling it can lead you further... but consciousness is not IT.
Consciousness appears within IT. To those who say conscousness
or awareness is everything, I reply... stay there. Be in it and
eventually you will grow out of that belief and realize there is
more to it... something beyond.
Why all the weird poems, stories and metaphors that have been
passed down for over 2,000 years... are these people out of
their minds? Of course they are, you can't get their with the
mind. You can only work to get it out of the way of your being
where and what you really are.
Here is a very simple example that I sometimes use, it's not
absolute but it's a pretty good generalization. The only
difference between a regular guy or girl is they think they are
in their body, in their mind. This tends to separate and cause
sadness, wars and the like. My perception is that everything is
in me. That means I have no one to compete with, no one to fight
with, no one to argue with... AND no one to love or hate. That's
right. Loving and hating as humans experience them are complete
delusion and always lead one through illusions and on to
unhappiness. Realizing everying and everyone is you, there is no
one to love and/or hate. There is just beingness. When gurus
speak of a ''universal love'' the listening human immediately
thinks it's like their personal experience of love, which is
almost always a manipuative kind of tit-for-tat arrangement
based on sex, money, insecurity, family... (and fill in the
blank). That has nothing to do with the love experienced when
you know you are everying and everyone.
Geniune teachers don't go on about universal love, even though
it sells very well... it has nothing to do with your True
Nature. There is an old saying, ''Give people what they want,
not what they need''. What people appear to want it just a
better dream, what they need is to wake and realize that this is
all a dream... and that is the truest and deepest want any human
can have, and buried under a ton of garbage, that true want will
always be there. The only thing that every human wants, deep
down at their core, is to realize their True Nature. How could
it possibly be any other way, but they have become very good at
plastering over that want with meaningless concepts, with made
up unhappiness-generating relationships, with worries about war,
famine, death and poverty... with he said/she said crap... and
that is most heartily supported by such mechanisms as social
media. I hope you don't think that Google and Facebook are there
to point you twoards your True Nature... granted they are like a
finger, the wrong one and pointing in the wrong direction.
You seem to want the 'end of the journey' and that is also new
age silliness. Riddle me this... where does infinity end?
Letting go of everything is the only way to gain everything...
and once started, that gaining never ends. Layers of an onion...
yeh, and tears of awe at frequent times.
You mentioned that you can hardly put it into words... well, why
bother? That job falls to me and other folks who have been
passed the ball and are silly enough to attempt the impossible.
Failure on all mental points is the only way to succeed at what
really counts. You may have noticed how the mind wants to
succeed, often making up stories of success when it wasn't so. I
have observed that given enough time, the mind will always fail,
a primed directive, so If you do anything with this, fail as
grandly as you possibly can... fail to understand, fail to grasp
and reason it out, even fail with human (delusional) love...
fail on all possible acounts and enjoy your failures... fully
enjoy them. They are very special in a counter-intuitive way.
Ah, but that's not true, everything is special and everything is
not special... I just happen to enjoy failing...
As a final point you mentioned something about maybe you don't
want to go there, (i.e. T/R). At the risk of sounding arrogant,
(as you know I am always humble, ahemmm..) you have never wanted
to go anywhere else. Everything in your life is but a dim and
misty shadow of reality. This is what you are here for (if you
need a reason to be here) and you can throw all your work and
studies away (sometimes that is the best thing to do) BUT, you
will continually return to this core seeking. I certainly did it
in the long ago. I would dig into something, immerse myself in
some teaching or technology, give up and swear never to return
to this b.s. search. My respites usually lasted from about two
days to a few months, but I always came back to do ''my'' work.
I knew the only way out was in and I could never let go of that
searching until I finally go it at a gut level... completely
beyond any mind or reasoning... this is what is and it's not
what one thinks it is... it is unimaginable and inevitable.
Might as well relax, breath and enjoy the ride.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: Response to a confused student...
By: Parsley Date: November 7, 2019, 2:50 pm
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Oh, thank you. I really enjoyed these words. Definitely it's
"my" core seeking to remember my true nature. So much failure in
my life, I appreciate the invitation to enjoy it. I don't know
what's going on, but it looks like it has a lot to do with what
you have described in a way that touches my core. Love ya (you
know, not personally).
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Re: Response to a confused student...
By: Jed McKenna Date: November 7, 2019, 8:44 pm
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Back at ya, not personally.
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