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ARE WE
READY FOR A REAL SECRET?
A REAL
SECRET is this: "To seek only that which we can really
have."
There it is, without monetary
foreplay, New Age window-dressing, or any fancy highly priced
presentations delivered by touring metaphysical personalities.
However, the revelation of a REAL SECRET as being, "To
seek only that which we can really have" immediately begs a
question:
"What is the only thing we can really
have?"
Now, this is where the
scratch meets the itch.
The answer to this question is not
something we can get through thinking,
positive affirmations, or needy wishfoolness. A
REAL SECRET is not about getting; it is about
receiving. It is also not about consuming and so is not
attractive as an ingredient for "consumer spirituality". A
REAL SECRET is not in any way commercially
attractive; it is therefore not accessible as a commodity
and a means for media-ordained "Law of Attraction gurus" to
accumulate as much of our income as they can get their hands
on.
To unravel the question triggered by
a REAL SECRET requires an initial perceptual adjustment
because it entails asking a series of seemingly simplistic
questions without interfering with the answering process.
Fully unraveling the immensity of a REAL SECRET is an "Ask
and you shall receive" arrangement, not an "Ask and then go and
get" arrangement.
One of humanities greatest pitfalls
is that we have become obsessed with "the answer" at the expense of
"the question". We also seek "the answer" only as a mental concept
and not as an integrated physical, mental, and emotional
experience. What we do not realize, because the mental body cannot
grasp this, is that we can receive the answer to any question
we ask as long as we do not get involved in the answering
process. This realization comes through embracing the question
as the cause and the answer as the effect. When
we stay in a causal place, when we get out of our own way, the
effect is always guaranteed. This is an emotionally mature approach
to, and application of, The Law of Attraction.
If a REAL SECRET is "To seek
only that which we can really have", then the first step in
realizing this is "to ask the right question without allowing the
mental body to sabotage the answering process" so that the answer
unfolds as an integrated physical, mental, and emotional
experience. In this way, the answer manifests as something "we know
experientially for ourselves", as opposed to "some piece of sexy
metaphysical information we get from someone else".
If a REAL SECRET is "To seek
only that which we can really have", then the first step is to ask
the obvious question:
"What is the only thing we
can really have?"
Now, we can leave it at this, because
if we do so the answer will eventually manifest. Or, we can
facilitate ourselves into going deeper; we can initiate a
temporary, simple, and profoundly powerful practice that
effortlessly and efficiently brings about the answer to this
question as an integrated physical, mental, and emotional
experience.
This practice is recommended for 21
days, to be done once in the morning and once in the evening as
follows:
Sit comfortably in a position you can
hold for about 15 minutes.
Ask yourself the following series of
questions:
"Who am I?"
"What am I?"
"Where am I?"
"How am I?"
"When am I?"
"Why am I?"
Between each question
pause for a few seconds as if to listen. Take
note: The mental body will immediately attempt to provide
an answer to some of these questions. Observe these answers but do
not accept them as being "an answer". By repeatedly asking these
questions twice a day the mental body is also bound to get annoyed,
frustrated, and may even come up with an attractive reason or two
that convincingly justifies terminating this practice. This is
because the experiential answer generated by repeatedly asking
these questions for about 21 days is destined to terminate the
mental body’s illusion that it is the source of and means to all
that can be known.
After asking all the above questions
take your attention off them completely and be still for about 10
to 15 minutes.
During this period of stillness do
not intend to "do or accomplish anything". Watch how you
try to do something. Allow whatever happens to unfold. Be
alert to the sounds around you and the sensations of your body.
Watch your thoughts as "an observer" without joining in with them
or sedating or controlling them in any way.
After 15 minutes carry on with
something else.
You may even use this practice
temporarily as an introductory to your regular mediation practice -
if that is something you are already attending to twice a day.
After 21 days drop this
practice completely; DO NOT CONTINUE ASKING THESE
QUESTIONS.
The answer to the question "What is
the only thing I can really have?" will come when you least expect
it, so do not entertain expectation. All expectations are
fantasies of the mental body. The answers to these six questions
will unfold as a unified, integrated, physical, mental, and
emotional experience.
Because there is nothing to be gained
by holding anything back from you, let me also give you a pointer
as to how to recognize the profound consequences of this
questioning practice:
One day you will realize that you
have entered a somewhat unusual experience. This realization will
sneak up on you so do not watch for it. It will feel like this:
That no matter what outer experience you go through, it feels like
"nothing is happening". Of course things will be
happening; you will be actively involved in all sorts of outer
activities, but it will still feel like "nothing is actually
happening". For example, you may go through an event that
previously used to be negatively or positively charged and
afterward you may comment to yourself, "That was nothing…it felt
like absolutely nothing happened".
This will feel a little odd at first,
as if something has stopped, or even died.
Once you notice this experience you
will also find yourself waiting for it to pass, expecting to return
to the previous atmosphere of dramatic emotional shifts you have
been used to all your life. You may occasionally dip into such
encounters, but you will automatically return, like a bobbing cork,
to the feeling that despite all the activity around you,
it feels like "nothing has happened or is happening".
This feeling that "nothing
is happening", despite your obvious outer activity, is the unifying
and integrated answer to your questioning practice.
This feeling is a portal into an
awareness of a REAL SECRET.
Yet, it is way bigger than what the
mental body can grasp through my written explanations here. This is
why it is recommended you enter "the experience" of this by
initiating the simple questioning practice for 21 days, and then
letting go of it. By activating this feeling of
nothingness experientially for yourself you will be awakening
a powerful realization: No matter what happens to and
around you, there is something that always remains
unchanged. This is a real taste of who and what you really
are.
The feeling that "nothing is really
happening" is an experiential encounter with the part of your self
that is no thing.
In essence, through the simple
practice of asking a series of deliberate
questions without sabotaging the answering process by involving
your mental body in it, you set in motion the effortless
rediscovery of your authentic self. Of course, this experience may
be puzzling at first, because it will not be the outcome or answer
you expected. You may have been expecting some thing more
"spiritual" or exciting? Maybe you were expecting bells and
whistles? Initially, this encounter will definitely not be what you
thought you even wanted or were looking for! You most likely didn’t
expect to discover that "your authentic self is no
thing and therefore no body". Such a
discovery is shattering and offensive to any well-manicured
ego.
However, when you place your
attention within this no thing-ness, and when you sit
within this no body-ness, you discover an immaculate
silence, stillness, and authentic peace – tangible even in the
midst of ongoing outer activity. You also discover that the feeling
of this peace, this inner inactivity, begins quenching a thirst you
had no idea you suffered from. As you spend more moments during
your day immersing yourself within this experience of no
thing and no body, you realize you begin
feeling renewed, refreshed, and revitalized, as if you are
ingesting some super-charged nutrition.
Also, as you become deeply acquainted
with this unchanging resonance you inevitably realize that this
is the only part of this life experience that you can take
with you when you leave; all else must be surrendered at the
door of physical death.
So let us re-examine a REAL
SECRET. We started by stating that a REAL SECRET is "To
seek only that which we can really have." So, "What is the only
thing we can really have?" As we become increasingly intimate with
and nourished by The Presence of our authentic essence, and as we
immerse ourselves within its eternal well of magnificent peace, the
answer to the question dawns:
"What we really seek to have is more and
more of this no thing-ness and to become
intimately acquainted with the part of our Self that is no
body!"
The problem is that we cannot make a
glamorous movie about no thing and with no body.
We cannot go on a world tour selling no thing and no
body as a tangible commodity. We can only know this truth as
an inner experience and share it daily through our radiant example.
As a consequence of this revelation other questions arise:
"Are we ready to receive the experience of
awakening to this part of our Self that is no thing so that we may
have an intimate encounter with the eternal part of us that is no
body?"
"Are we really ready for the
authentic inner peace inherent in awakening to a REAL
SECRET?"
Or, are we still going to be
satisfied with THE (other) SECRET that hypnotizes us into believing
that attracting more and bigger stuff and becoming some important
body will really manifest the nutrition required to quench our
seemingly insatiable thirst?
THIS IS
A REAL
SECRET:
Authentic peace &
JOY
is only
realized
when we seek only that
WHICH we can really have.