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1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk) Posted on June 26, 2008
by 1Vector3

Knowing vs The Living Truth

Posted on Jun 26th, 2008 by 1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk) 1Vector3
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My nephew emailed me this late Wednesday night, last night, about something he found on the Internet:

I apologize for the length of this
cut and paste
but I read this over 3x's
and it keeps hit me like a ton of bricks
in a good way
esp the part between the lines of **********
and would love your opinion
when you gots the time
:)

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"When your peace is threatened or disturbed in any way say to yourself:
"I do not know what anything, including this, means...

"And so I do not know how to respond to it...

"And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now...

******************************************************************************************

  Here's what I wrote back to my nephew on Thursday morning:

Well, I read that part, and here's another brick!  

I surfaced to mostly ordinary awareness in the middle of last night, and found myself saying the following, without any context or forethought: Everything I THINK I KNOW, I rescind, recant, dissolve, and release, in favor of being aware, from moment to moment, of the LIVING TRUTH of the Infinite Consciousness I am a portion of.  

What I understand within that, what it unpacks to, is that the living truth changes moment to moment, and is far vaster than what my embodiment might ever know, let alone believe she knows. What I (the embodiment) understand is that only by releasing my hold, my attachment, my being "cup already filled" [a reference to the Zen story of the teacher overflowing the student's cup of tea] with "knowledge" can I truly be in the largest awareness possible to this embobodiment. (And as the quote says, knowledge is always based on past experience.)  

What I understand within that is also that what I think I know about a particular something is just one story, one of many possible stories about it, and from now on I am choosing to be open to more than my one story (i.e. what I think I know) about anything, in the way I deal with and act with respect to that thing/situation !!   

And then this morning, I also "got" on a cellular-emotional level that all my feelings and my beliefs, all the things I believe I know, are not a barrier to awareness of the LIVING TRUTH because they are part of it, they exist, they are "acceptable" to it, they exist within it.  

So rescinding and recanting is not a rejection or judgment, really, but just an opening beyond. What is released is the belief that what I think I know is all there is, and yet EVEN THAT belief is within the LIVING TRUTH, even that belief. There is no escaping the Living Truth, nothing is outside of it. I was just opening to MORE of it. What I think I know is actually transcended and included, to use Ken Wilber terminology, rather than actually tossed (dissolved.) But its old "exclusivity," that aspect dissolves.  

If that ain't all a version of the part you asterisked, I dunno what is. --except I am not limiting this expansion to just matter that disturb my peace, but it's especially useful re that, as per my physical pains, as described below.  

Pretty amazing, huh? I have to conclude I will see others soon reflecting this particular increase in Cosmic Awareness, or whatever we might call the Infinite Self. It will appear as some version (as you and I are presenting two versions) of "In dealing with the world I no longer limit my awareness to what my mind thinks or knows. I am now choosing to expand my awareness beyond that."  

We've all been saying this on the conceptual word level for a long time, but what's happening for us now is it's becoming our living reality; we are embodying the concepts.  

The actual specific I "got" cellular-emotional today was that my anger and hopelessness about my chronic physical pains and dysfunctions are not to be rejected, as my mother used to do with hers. This morning I felt those feelings being lovingly accepted and included in the awareness of the Larger Self. I experienced both sides, being the accepted and the acceptor. It felt SO GOOOOOD !!!!!!!! So natural. So right.   

Will read the rest of it when I can, but gee, thanks for this affirmation/confirmation.    I think the embodiment change will take awhile to integrate, but the process is definitely underway.
 
  Please tell me the particulars of your experience of the "hitting you like a ton of bricks in a good way."    

I invite my Gaia Community readers to comment, share, respond !!!
[If you don't know the Zen story about the cup of tea, I will give it, just ask.]

This is, like, version # 2034 of the "always already" aspect of the awakening process, the inescapability of our Beingness. The same truth can be seen in any particular of life.

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Nishtha : Imaginative Mellifluous Philosopher
1 day later
Nishtha said

I do not know what anything, including this, means….

; - )

Siona : Synchronicity Coordinator
1 day later
Siona said

I do not know what anything, including this, means…. ;)

Sherrilene : Peace Warrior
1 day later
Sherrilene said

I do not know what anything, including this, means….

; - )

But I do know it has a way of making itself clear at some time, and it normally works itself out fine.

I'm hanging in for the 'reasoning'

Thanks OM, sherri

1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
1 day later
1Vector3 said

Hmmm.  Maybe you had to be there…..

And perhaps I forgot to mention that we get to guess and have opinions !!!!

And maybe it will indeed “make itself clear” “at some time” as sherri says.

Maybe it would be clearer if I took out all the extra stuff. Think I will edit that out.

Appreciate the honest feedback, can't tell if I am missing some humor.

And my computer system has gotten wacky about YouTube, am baffled and temporarily stymied on that….

Thanks for stopping by, my Friends !!!!

OM

1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
1 day later
1Vector3 said

Well the photo of the aurora borealis is great anyway…..

And now I think you are all just maybe humorously doing what it said to do which was to say what the instruction said to say to yourself…. :)

 Many people are already doing this, just saying “What is the story I am telling myself about what this situation means, that is causing me distress?” It's even part of what Tolle is teaching via A New Earth, and Byron Katie in her The Work.

I have been doing my own version of this for quite awhile and I find it extraordinarily helpful at getting another perspective on things, and dissolving distress. Almolst like taking a Calm Pill or an Emotional-Pain-killing Pill !!

Thanks again !!!!

Namaste, OM

Alan : - D
1 day later
Alan said

Oh, the lovely ripples.  

Could I share my experience?  That's part of it…. experience can really only be lived, because words are so subjective.  The word “alien” means what it means to me because of my experiences… and it means what it means to you because of yours.  If I say: “I saw an alien,” and to me I mean one of my experiences of that word– a person outside of their country– well, these words are a code for this experience.   If, when my listener decodes the words they hear “I saw a extraterrestrial,” this is perhaps because their experience of alien doesn't include “Illegal alien.”  But this is a flawed example. 

I have experience with this revelation too.  And I have experience trying to explain it, and past a point, it hasn't worked out so well… it simply is.  There are lots of revelations that followed for me too, like:

Here's a scenario: Two people in direct channeling connection with the cosmos both around a specific area needing action hear two different courses of action.  One hears x.  the other hears y. 

They discuss, and quickly begin to argue.  x or y??  It becomes heated.  they cannot agree.  They part, in negative feeling… one does x, the other does y. 

In my understanding now, based on revelations, they were both right.  X and Y needed to be done.  What they believed was not about 'right,' it was about utility.  If they had both been able to say, ok, you feel y so do y, I feel x so I'll do x, and the universe will sort it out, they could have parted as friends, and come back together again. 

We humans do such things a lot. 

No matter how connected, what we see is simply what we see.  there are some universal principles it can be useful to know, I think, and it is helpful to share experiences, but in the end, it is actually the dynamic interplay of our differences that create.  And so we see what we see, and believe what we believe. 

I realize this may make limited sense in some parts of the universe, aka, some people reading this may not see any truth here.  That's really ok.  It's here anyway, but for them, other truths may be ringing.  That is beautiful. 

1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
1 day later
1Vector3 said

Thanks for your interesting-as-always sharing, Alan. I could just say YEP, but that wouldn't be too interesting. So, more lovely ripples, thanks for that image.

My experience of the difference between what I think I know and The Living Truth is kinda like a dream image, impossible to capture in words. I am pointing and going uh, uh, ah, oh, huh, and some folks might recognize it, now or later. Yes, you have had many experiences of that attempt to communicate these kinds of things, Alan !!!

“Dynamic interplay” is a good phrase. The Living Truth is extremely dynamic, multi-faceted, multi-dimensioned, multi-leveled.

I guess ”there are universal principles it can be useful to” THINK we “know,” but IMO they are just guesses, and pale in comparison to The Living Truth on those matters. My point is really just to hold all I think I know more lightly, because when I believe it, my emotions are too often unpleasant. And my mind gets closed to other perspectives.

The Living Truth when experienced has a hallmark flavor of FREEDOM.

There's bumper sticker Don't Believe Everything You Think. That kinda sums it up.

Appreciate all the comments !!!

Namaste, OM

1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
1 day later
1Vector3 said

That bumper sticker would be even more powerful if it said
Don't Believe Everything You Know.

Found this quote on my Friend Sandra Jensen's profile:

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” Bruce Lee

So I ask myself which of the things I am aware of is a “fixed pattern” not open to the flow, not open to the moment, not open to multiplicity. If I know or believe, that feels fixed. If I hold my knowings and my beliefs more lightly, more openly, they are there, but not fixed. Then they become simply a part or aspect of the whole Living Truth of the moment. Living Truth changes – perhaps only slightly sometimes – in each moment because it includes so many particulars that are in flux each moment…..

Sherrilene : Peace Warrior
2 days later
Sherrilene said

Alan, your comments ring through loud and clear and I'm certain they'll be received by who is ready - by Universe standards and timing - to receive them.

OM, I really liked your comment “hold all I think I know more lightly, because when I believe it, my emotions are too often unpleasant. And my mind gets closed to other perspectives.” I have definitely been there and continue to work on releasing things which I hold too 'dearly' since 'dear' can mean 'expensive' also. :D

I also realised just today how reflecting on past experiences through different 'eyes' could even conclude with different outcomes altogether. For example, an experience which I thought could be called a failure and a waste, now turns out to have been just a small part of a different 'play' which was going on, and which I had to learn a completely alternate lesson than what I thought I was sent for. This experience helped me out big time in that learning; now I'm thankful obviously… but now that I have let go of the particular outcome I'd been holding onto. And the idea that the original one really mattered!

I have to say: Life continues to give lessons; at least we know we're not alone learning.

Peace and love.

Best regards, sherri

Alan : - D
2 days later
Alan said

yes.  I have also come to believe that somewhere in all this, when we fully take in that there is no truth but consciousness, and take in our inherant and self-creatingsubjectivity, there's a needle's eye through which we can go and have some experiencial, non-belief but feeling based experience of something beyond what is self-generated by our truths… and perhaps we can find words for it later, and these words can never capture the truth of it, for the truth of it cannot even be held in our brains.  And I believe our realities can become more or less 'in line' with the sum total of all realities. 

But it all becomes something of a mobius strip, so any truth in disagreement with the above is true, and perhaps the above is true…well, of course it's true, everything is true…

Nice blog!  I'm off to drink a nice glass of metaphysical lemonade.



Being Person : Being Person (super hero)
2 days later
Being Person said

Hi.  I hope you don't mind me saying but what is being talked about here feels like “old hat” to me.  Stuff I'm familiar with.  It's a great relief for me to share this although easily unbelievable. What seems to occurs in relation to me still being a human being and being able to share that and people don't seem to know how to respond.

A comment I have is that, what might be called the “figuring out”, in consideration of prior posts, has to be followed with a following through of the “knowing of insight” too occur results and to do that, I understand, that you really have to do in consideration of what you have been blessed to being in light of knowing.  It might be said that how that happens takes a lot of “gumption” and fortitude, while a “middle ground” of which those to transcend into beauty as a human being is strongly encouraged as a manner of allowing “harmonies” to occur in consideration of “inherent wisdom” becoming an aspect of Being in relation to how your guided and “vehicles” of beauty being inherent in how your G/guides interplay with you.

Issues associated with “C/contemporary H/human R/reality” include the “middle ground” of that beauty needing to entail an acknowledgment of “interminglings” of this Global Environment amongst B/beings that are of different view in consideration of the “beginning of consciousness” in light of “Conscientiousness”.  In a way it's a manner of understanding what is Compassionate, Loving and Peaceful and so on… amongst B/beings of different B/beauties…

Beauties…


Being Person (super hero)

1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
2 days later
1Vector3 said

It's  very “old hat” to me, too, on the conceptual mental level. What is new is the experience of it as and in my entire energy-Being-field and very cells.

1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
2 days later
1Vector3 said

sherri, that's a really great example of flexibility, required by being open to The Living Truth !!! Thanks for the inspiration !!! I admire your attitude of open learning.


I appreciate the compliment, Alan, from such a fine blogger as yourself. Lemonade, now that's a REAL Living Truth, hahahaha. It cannot be held in our brains, but perhaps it can be held in our stomachs !!! :))

Gratefully for your dialogue, OM

Zephyr : Poeticspirit
2 days later
Zephyr said

Maybe we just need to experience and accept our own inner truth, accept  that others experience may hold a different truth in any given moment and trust the universe;  which incidentally does a magnificent  job of sifting order out of the flux of chaos.

Amber : Smilemaker
10 days later
Amber said

Oh my head! I promise to be good if you'll untwist my brain OM! Cuz I really don't understand what this means! ~grin~

1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
10 days later
1Vector3 said

That's fine, Amber. Your soul understands….. and maybe some of the other folks' comments make more sense to the mind than my blog does…..

Thanks for stopping by.

Or maybe you were playing along, too, with the idea of “not understanding.” The alternative is just Being, and you are very good at that !!

Grin back,
OM

Amber : Smilemaker
10 days later
Amber said

My soul does understand even if my brain does get a cramp! If I didn't care to know I wouldn't read a word of anything I didn't 'get' right away! We are teasing in a “Can you hear the mountain stream” kind of way. (Ekhart Tolle)

This is why people misinterprete the holy books… somebody is always trying to be funny!

Hugs and thank you for allowing me play to play in your blog backyard!
amber

Nishtha : Imaginative Mellifluous Philosopher
11 days later
Nishtha said

Wow…this was a fun roller coaster ride of reading. :-)

Yes, somebody is always trying to be funny and that somebody, in this case, happened to be me at the start of this comment section…. To my defense, I thought I was making myself clear by use of the emoticon ;-)

But seriously ;-) I mean…don't take me seriously ;-) ….seriously, don't take me seriously ;-)

1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
13 days later
1Vector3 said

oh the joys and limits of communicating via squiggles on screens !!!!! Even emoticons are so limited, and your emoticon did give me a clue, Nishtha, but I wasn't sure. Thanks for clarifying !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm. I hope it continues to be that “somebody is always trying to be funny”…. That's GOOOODDDD !!!!!

Now I don't know whether to take you seriously, or not, when you say don't take me seriously. ROTFL !!!!!

Uplifted by humor,
OM

FastDart : Peaceful Arrow
2 months later
FastDart said

I do not know what anything, including this, means… :-)

OM, I do appreciate humour; it's not just a attention driven manifestation but a great, if not the bes-test tool in my bliss box. This little guy below helped write my liner notes..

Ram Dass - the official interactive Satsang site for author (Be Here Now) and spiritual teacher Ram Dass

floats on bliss
~lars


1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
2 months later
1Vector3 said

Ah, thanks for stopping by with a comment ~lars(OK OK I did it). I understood all except “liner notes.” For what, do tell !!!!!

Namaste and bliiiiiiiissssss,
OM

FastDart : Peaceful Arrow
2 months later
FastDart said

Richard was one of the templates I used to define my relationship with all that is…
Be Here Now..was the instrument of the metamorphosis and a butterfly was the manifestation. God came to me in the form of a butterfly and I went..”Ahaaaa..;-)

1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk)
2 months later
1Vector3 said

For the un-hip: Richard = Ram Dass.

Fabuloso !!!!

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