The early morning sunlight causes the autumn leaves to glow in their many different shades and hues. The blackbird seems to be assisting the apple tree to prepare for winter as it plucks many leaves from the branches or maybe he is just exposing the ripe fruit?
In self-observation it is interesting to watch how the egoic mind rarely stays in an undisturbed state, and as you continue to observe it, it becomes more silent, yet subtle in its movement between its opinions of like and dislike. The egoic mind acts autonomously to the observer.
We have become a slave to the egoic minds desires, and the psychological action of the mind will want to avoid any silence at all costs. Whatever you seek in this world you will see you are in its opposite. If you seek peace you are in chaos, if you seek love you are in non love, etc. Can you observe this action for yourself?
Is there something which is not a conditioned part of you that can see and act free of the egoic mind? We can go into this world making things nice whilst trying to avoid pain, yet inside we are in conflict. To be free of the egoic minds control we have to be aware of its actions, and observe how it tries to dictate our lives. It has been doing this since childhood, in its endeavour to protect us, but it has not solved the suffering, as individual and global suffering still continues.
Can we be in silence, in an undisturbed state, and act only from the inner promptings that are free of desire? These desires are the traps that keep us ensnared, and there is nowhere to escape to, no place to hide, so be in the moment, as the moment is perfect.
The sun stays low at this time of year and the shadows appear much longer. The light and shade create an ambience that only seems to be there in autumn. The bright colours of the leaves, the fruits and berries on the trees and bushes attract so many birds, creating a kaleidoscope of shapes and sounds. Time for a tea I feel...
Mike Robinson: No.1 Bestselling Author www.mikerobinson.eu.com
Monday 13 December 2010
Thursday 21 January 2010
Being a Nobody
If you go into yourself very deeply and reflect upon the question: who am I? You will find that there is a great chasm within you, which has no central point. When you come across this vast, timeless space, your little egoic self will panic, because it does not know how to function or what it means to be without a sense of identity. At first, the sense of loneliness can be all engulfing, forcing you to feel the nothingness and be a nobody; not in the sense of the mind, but in actual fact, which is truth.
To understand this vast emptiness we have to go back to the beginning of this life. When we are born we are an empty vessel. We have no beliefs, no judgments and no opinions filling us up, and there is no conditioning which forms the individual personality. What we do have are feelings, i.e. when we feel hungry, we cry, etc. As we grow we are taught descriptive language in the form of labels and we start to store these labels into our memory banks.
Once we are able to communicate and understand basic language, we are conditioned and taught beliefs. At some point, before seven years of age, we have our first experience of pain, not necessarily physical, but also emotional or mental, and at this point of non-love, energy that would normally move fluidly through us becomes blocked by the minds reaction to the experience. This energy is now in shock and it becomes stagnant; this is known as fear. We have since lived our life trying to avoid a repeat of this pain.
Parents, carers and education also taught us about envy. We were subtly shown how to compare ourselves with others and then encouraged to strive to become successful in pursuits of sports, games, exams, etc. All of these things were cleverly drawing you away from being your real unconditioned self. This new version of you, with your beliefs, your conditioning, your striving and your envy, is known as the egoic mind – the ‘somebody’.
Once this ‘somebody’ that you have become, looks at anything with the physical eyes, all of its past conditioning floods the mind and it moves into judgment, comparison and opinion: creating pain, chaos and confusion. This manufactured ‘you’ is not who you really are, but to be free from it you have to observe it and understand it. Most people believe that this false self is the real version and they even fight and kill to defend its illusion.
The important question is: Is it possible to be the unconditioned you? Only each individual can find out for themselves, nobody can do it for you. Can you drop all of your beliefs, your expectations, your desires and your judgments? Can you drop all the labels you have about yourself and what you believe about others? Only by letting go of the illusionary you, can you step into the real you. When you are not trapped by the illusion of being something other than what you are, can you truly say that you are that vast limitless being, which has no label, no body, no where to go and nothing to achieve. It already is all that and more.
This is true empowerment of the real self, as it makes you the ruler of your own life. What will the ego do with this fact…?
To understand this vast emptiness we have to go back to the beginning of this life. When we are born we are an empty vessel. We have no beliefs, no judgments and no opinions filling us up, and there is no conditioning which forms the individual personality. What we do have are feelings, i.e. when we feel hungry, we cry, etc. As we grow we are taught descriptive language in the form of labels and we start to store these labels into our memory banks.
Once we are able to communicate and understand basic language, we are conditioned and taught beliefs. At some point, before seven years of age, we have our first experience of pain, not necessarily physical, but also emotional or mental, and at this point of non-love, energy that would normally move fluidly through us becomes blocked by the minds reaction to the experience. This energy is now in shock and it becomes stagnant; this is known as fear. We have since lived our life trying to avoid a repeat of this pain.
Parents, carers and education also taught us about envy. We were subtly shown how to compare ourselves with others and then encouraged to strive to become successful in pursuits of sports, games, exams, etc. All of these things were cleverly drawing you away from being your real unconditioned self. This new version of you, with your beliefs, your conditioning, your striving and your envy, is known as the egoic mind – the ‘somebody’.
Once this ‘somebody’ that you have become, looks at anything with the physical eyes, all of its past conditioning floods the mind and it moves into judgment, comparison and opinion: creating pain, chaos and confusion. This manufactured ‘you’ is not who you really are, but to be free from it you have to observe it and understand it. Most people believe that this false self is the real version and they even fight and kill to defend its illusion.
The important question is: Is it possible to be the unconditioned you? Only each individual can find out for themselves, nobody can do it for you. Can you drop all of your beliefs, your expectations, your desires and your judgments? Can you drop all the labels you have about yourself and what you believe about others? Only by letting go of the illusionary you, can you step into the real you. When you are not trapped by the illusion of being something other than what you are, can you truly say that you are that vast limitless being, which has no label, no body, no where to go and nothing to achieve. It already is all that and more.
This is true empowerment of the real self, as it makes you the ruler of your own life. What will the ego do with this fact…?
Wednesday 30 December 2009
Be Your Own Light
Watching the snowflakes fall in the early morning, added to the extraordinary silence. The light glow of the pre-dawn and distant stars, which had not been covered by the snow clouds, enhanced the feeling.
How do we relate to others on this planet of ours? Do we judge others by what we see and hear, or do we relate through feeling for the truth? I ask these questions because so many relate through visual and sound only, forming judgments and opinions based upon their conditioning, therefore they are not really relating at all.
Within each human being is a male, female and neutral element. The male energy expands and repels, whilst the female contracts and attracts and the neutral remains passive, yet it can be affected by the extremes of the male and female. Judgments are mind related and feelings are whole body or heart related, so to truly relate requires no thought.
This world is divided by human thought, by individual conditioning, religion, creed, colour of skin, language, etc. We all think in language and this is a taught to us from a very young age and learning through vocal expression continues until the day we die, yet very few people stop and question its roots. If there were no language, how would we live?
Is it possible to relate without thought? If not, then there is no true relationship. Many people choose a partner based upon looks and personality and rarely upon non-distorted feelings, which brings us back to the fact that each individual is inwardly both male and female and it is these two that are at war. This reflects in the state of the external relationship. The issues you have with your partner are the very issues you have with yourself.
If the mind was free we would naturally attract the right partner to us and vice versa. This is because the cells emit a frequency and attract a similar frequency to it, so they gather together. If you are emitting a balanced energy you should attract a balanced energy into your life. The same principle of like attracts like, also applies also to distorted energy.
If you list your ideal traits of the perfect partner, then these are based upon desire and desire will bring about your suffering. If your list describes traits that you already have, then you can share with the partner that you attract, but if you lack the traits that you desire in your partner, then the relationship will bring you various acts of drama. You will want that person to fulfil the lack within you and this creates an element of parasitic behaviour, which is not love, it is deceit. Be the supplier of your own needs and your own light, only then can you truly share and have a relationship with another.
The dawn has broken and the snow is thick upon the ground. It sits perfectly upon the branches of the apple tree where a blackbird chirps loudly as it knocks the snow off a rare remaining apple. It must be time for breakfast.
Watching the snowflakes fall in the early morning, added to the extraordinary silence. The light glow of the pre-dawn and distant stars, which had not been covered by the snow clouds, enhanced the feeling.
How do we relate to others on this planet of ours? Do we judge others by what we see and hear, or do we relate through feeling for the truth? I ask these questions because so many relate through visual and sound only, forming judgments and opinions based upon their conditioning, therefore they are not really relating at all.
Within each human being is a male, female and neutral element. The male energy expands and repels, whilst the female contracts and attracts and the neutral remains passive, yet it can be affected by the extremes of the male and female. Judgments are mind related and feelings are whole body or heart related, so to truly relate requires no thought.
This world is divided by human thought, by individual conditioning, religion, creed, colour of skin, language, etc. We all think in language and this is a taught to us from a very young age and learning through vocal expression continues until the day we die, yet very few people stop and question its roots. If there were no language, how would we live?
Is it possible to relate without thought? If not, then there is no true relationship. Many people choose a partner based upon looks and personality and rarely upon non-distorted feelings, which brings us back to the fact that each individual is inwardly both male and female and it is these two that are at war. This reflects in the state of the external relationship. The issues you have with your partner are the very issues you have with yourself.
If the mind was free we would naturally attract the right partner to us and vice versa. This is because the cells emit a frequency and attract a similar frequency to it, so they gather together. If you are emitting a balanced energy you should attract a balanced energy into your life. The same principle of like attracts like, also applies also to distorted energy.
If you list your ideal traits of the perfect partner, then these are based upon desire and desire will bring about your suffering. If your list describes traits that you already have, then you can share with the partner that you attract, but if you lack the traits that you desire in your partner, then the relationship will bring you various acts of drama. You will want that person to fulfil the lack within you and this creates an element of parasitic behaviour, which is not love, it is deceit. Be the supplier of your own needs and your own light, only then can you truly share and have a relationship with another.
The dawn has broken and the snow is thick upon the ground. It sits perfectly upon the branches of the apple tree where a blackbird chirps loudly as it knocks the snow off a rare remaining apple. It must be time for breakfast.
Monday 21 December 2009
What is Love?
Many people have asked the question, what is love? There is no direct answer as the indescribable cannot be described. What we can do is look at what is not love and this action of negating all that is not love from our lives would then leave us with love. We know that judgments are not love. How many of us judge ourselves and others. What thoughts and opinions do you have when you look in the mirror? Are these thoughts loving or judgmental? Can you have such a thing as loving thoughts? Or is all thought based on the past, on memory, which is comparison. Comparison is duality, put into compartments of good or bad, so love itself is not thought, because it is not split into opposites. Try it for yourself, think of something or somebody and look at your thoughts to see whether or not you label it as good or bad? Therefore even positive thoughts are based upon judgments and opinions and ultimately not love.
If you belong to a religious secular, an atheist group, a government party or any other elite system, then that is also not love, because you are separating yourself from others and separation is not love. Anything that divides humanity is destructive, even nationality is a division of one from another. These systems have created a ‘me’ and a ‘you’ and a ‘right’ and a ‘wrong’. The world is governed by systems based on duality and separation, whilst the real cry of humanity has been ignored. Nobody is truly listening.
How do we know this? When somebody is talking to you, do you truly listen or are you thinking at the same time and debating what to say next? Or are you forming an opinion based upon comparison? When you do this to another person are you loving them? Do you feel loved when it is being done to you? You cannot truly listen and think at the same time. If you truly listen by allowing your thoughts to come forth and move out without getting caught up in them, then you are committing an act of love. It would seem that love is not what you do, but when you stop doing or trying, then it is there naturally.
When you were first born your mind was empty, you had no memory, yet you had the instinct to cry when you felt pain or hunger and a response came from an external source to soothe that pain and hunger. You were also very sensitive to the world around you through scent, touch, listening and feelings. As you grew older you were influenced by your parents who filled you with their beliefs, their opinions and conditioning. Education added to, and reinforced these beliefs and your opinions, likes, dislikes and reactions to pain or pleasure were being moulded by the society that you lived in. You were no longer the empty vessel from birth, but rather something very far removed from that point, a product of beliefs, comparisons and judgments. Your journey into suffering had begun.
Who you have become is not the real you. Your parents, religion, country, education and society do not make you who you are, they only mould you into something that they believe you ‘should be’, and this has created a ‘false self’. Is it possible to know your ‘real self’ which is love? That which exists beyond all of this conditioning? If there is something beyond your false self, then what is the first starting point to uncover this ‘real you?’ If we see for a fact that we have become something other than what we truly are, then this ‘observation’ is the first step. This looking at the self without judgment, will set you free, as this is real self knowledge. No guru, beliefs, religion or new age system can give you self knowledge. This treasure of looking and seeing yourself just as you are and recognising all the striving and desire to become something, releases the constant external search on a supposed path to ambition or spiritual enlightenment.
No-one can give you self-knowledge. Only you can discover you. This discovery is the realisation and observation of the conditioned false self and what emerges from this awareness is the truth. Where fear and illusion is not, love is.
So, be true to yourself. If you find you are jealous, angry and opinionated, see that as a fact. Do not try to justify it, deny it, hide it or change it. Looking at something without labelling it as good or bad, which is comparison, sets you free as you are being non-judgmental. This also releases blame of yourself and others. When you see that blame is not love, then you can let go of it and the suffering will end. It is said that we learn through suffering, this is not true. We as humans have suffered for thousands of years and we have learnt nothing. There is still endless suffering and abuse upon this planet. When will we say, ‘enough is enough?’ Until you love, you will always suffer. You personally need to take action to find peace, love, honesty and joy inside of you, or the chaos will ensue.
You are the world and the world is you. The chaos and suffering is not ‘out there’. It is not someone else’s problem. The problem exists in each individual, making you a key element for peace on this beautiful planet; that’s how important you really are.
Only the truth will set you free.
Many people have asked the question, what is love? There is no direct answer as the indescribable cannot be described. What we can do is look at what is not love and this action of negating all that is not love from our lives would then leave us with love. We know that judgments are not love. How many of us judge ourselves and others. What thoughts and opinions do you have when you look in the mirror? Are these thoughts loving or judgmental? Can you have such a thing as loving thoughts? Or is all thought based on the past, on memory, which is comparison. Comparison is duality, put into compartments of good or bad, so love itself is not thought, because it is not split into opposites. Try it for yourself, think of something or somebody and look at your thoughts to see whether or not you label it as good or bad? Therefore even positive thoughts are based upon judgments and opinions and ultimately not love.
If you belong to a religious secular, an atheist group, a government party or any other elite system, then that is also not love, because you are separating yourself from others and separation is not love. Anything that divides humanity is destructive, even nationality is a division of one from another. These systems have created a ‘me’ and a ‘you’ and a ‘right’ and a ‘wrong’. The world is governed by systems based on duality and separation, whilst the real cry of humanity has been ignored. Nobody is truly listening.
How do we know this? When somebody is talking to you, do you truly listen or are you thinking at the same time and debating what to say next? Or are you forming an opinion based upon comparison? When you do this to another person are you loving them? Do you feel loved when it is being done to you? You cannot truly listen and think at the same time. If you truly listen by allowing your thoughts to come forth and move out without getting caught up in them, then you are committing an act of love. It would seem that love is not what you do, but when you stop doing or trying, then it is there naturally.
When you were first born your mind was empty, you had no memory, yet you had the instinct to cry when you felt pain or hunger and a response came from an external source to soothe that pain and hunger. You were also very sensitive to the world around you through scent, touch, listening and feelings. As you grew older you were influenced by your parents who filled you with their beliefs, their opinions and conditioning. Education added to, and reinforced these beliefs and your opinions, likes, dislikes and reactions to pain or pleasure were being moulded by the society that you lived in. You were no longer the empty vessel from birth, but rather something very far removed from that point, a product of beliefs, comparisons and judgments. Your journey into suffering had begun.
Who you have become is not the real you. Your parents, religion, country, education and society do not make you who you are, they only mould you into something that they believe you ‘should be’, and this has created a ‘false self’. Is it possible to know your ‘real self’ which is love? That which exists beyond all of this conditioning? If there is something beyond your false self, then what is the first starting point to uncover this ‘real you?’ If we see for a fact that we have become something other than what we truly are, then this ‘observation’ is the first step. This looking at the self without judgment, will set you free, as this is real self knowledge. No guru, beliefs, religion or new age system can give you self knowledge. This treasure of looking and seeing yourself just as you are and recognising all the striving and desire to become something, releases the constant external search on a supposed path to ambition or spiritual enlightenment.
No-one can give you self-knowledge. Only you can discover you. This discovery is the realisation and observation of the conditioned false self and what emerges from this awareness is the truth. Where fear and illusion is not, love is.
So, be true to yourself. If you find you are jealous, angry and opinionated, see that as a fact. Do not try to justify it, deny it, hide it or change it. Looking at something without labelling it as good or bad, which is comparison, sets you free as you are being non-judgmental. This also releases blame of yourself and others. When you see that blame is not love, then you can let go of it and the suffering will end. It is said that we learn through suffering, this is not true. We as humans have suffered for thousands of years and we have learnt nothing. There is still endless suffering and abuse upon this planet. When will we say, ‘enough is enough?’ Until you love, you will always suffer. You personally need to take action to find peace, love, honesty and joy inside of you, or the chaos will ensue.
You are the world and the world is you. The chaos and suffering is not ‘out there’. It is not someone else’s problem. The problem exists in each individual, making you a key element for peace on this beautiful planet; that’s how important you really are.
Only the truth will set you free.
Saturday 19 December 2009
New Beginnings
Sunday 20th December 2009
Welcome to my new Blog site. Over the next few months I will post various articles based on the development of the spiritual self and excerpts of my new book, 'The True Dynamics of Life'.
This book will be released in March/April 2010 and it is aimed at transforming the self and ultimately the world.
I want to thank all those who read and sent fabulous comments on my first book, 'The True Dynamics of Relationships' available on Amazon.co.uk or you can email me personally mike.jrobinson@tiscali.co.uk
Please feel free to blog and ask questions.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Warmly,
Mike.
Welcome to my new Blog site. Over the next few months I will post various articles based on the development of the spiritual self and excerpts of my new book, 'The True Dynamics of Life'.
This book will be released in March/April 2010 and it is aimed at transforming the self and ultimately the world.
I want to thank all those who read and sent fabulous comments on my first book, 'The True Dynamics of Relationships' available on Amazon.co.uk or you can email me personally mike.jrobinson@tiscali.co.uk
Please feel free to blog and ask questions.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Warmly,
Mike.
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