I took a moment this morning to reflect and meditate about myself and my life and my feelings towards my self and these blog is a representation of some of those things that spontaneously arose in my consciousness. I took them as ideas and concepts to be passed on via this blog, perhaps they will be useful to someone or not but either way they can be evaluated and inspected by you and then used or discarded as you see fit.

First to arise was perfection. We all seemingly are striving for perfection as beings. But this appears to be a great illusion and fallacy of direction. It seems more suitable that we are in fact already perfect individuals, who, over the periods of our many lives have become encrusted in imperfection. These levels of imperfection are to be stripped away layer by layer until the jewels inside are at last revealed. The jewels have not changed, only our outer encrustations of perceptions of certain experiences as negative, karmic patterns without awareness and attention directed to their healing, and false ideals and illusions about how the universe and the world truly works. It is much like the outer skin being peeled back on a banana to reveal the fruit inside. The fruit is the same inside, only the outer skin screen it from being recognized as its true and perfect nature.

There is a story about the first time that the British encountered bananas. As they had been told by traders how wonderful and sweet the banana tasted and what a wonderfully smooth texture it possessed, they were very excited to finally come face to face with the "fruit of the gods". Only the British were not informed that the outer layers had to be stripped away in order to get at the precious, one-of-a-kind fruit inside and so with much dismay they discarded the fruit as bitter, tough and wretched. It was not until later that they realized it had to be peeled and then its true nature was revealed. This is much the same with each of us.

Often times we misjudge and create great illusions that surround others and ourselves mistaking the encrusted garbage that we cling to as the true nature of the individual. It seems so very simple and yet seems to be one of the hardest concepts for us, as human entities to understand. We do not need to grow to be perfect. We are perfect in our nature. We simply need to strip away all that is not perfect and that with which we are left will only be our true and perfect nature. An example was Jesus. He was born without the garbage, and throughout his life with the aid of his awakened awareness, he refused to accept and carry new garbage along with him.

When you are driving down the street on trash day, how many people stop and pick up everyone else's garbage on the way to their house and then keep bringing it and bringing it until it stacks up and overflows creating chaos and unhappiness. Then why do we do that emotionally and psychically? We do we accept and choose to take on other peoples' trash and carry it around with us and allow it to infect our lives and get in the way of our hopes and goals.

Another example was Buddha. He was born just a man, a prince, but a man. There was really nothing extraordinary about him except that he did not simply accept that which was told to him. He questioned and experienced and then experienced some more....until one day he found the right combination and "woke up". Upon awakening all the illusions and deceptions he had been told and to which he had clung were dispersed in an instance. Much like the perceived monsters vanished when our parents turned on the lights in our room at night.

This place where we live is very deceptive. It is a great illusion and can only exist through our perceptions based on our sensory contacts to it. We do not see with our eyes, they are merely receptors for our brain. We do not hear with our ears, they are merely receptors to our brain. We do not exist separately but together. We are all the same stuff and our individuality arises only in our consciousness through our sense contacts. When death occurs and the sense contacts cease then the great illusion of "I am" also ceases and we drift back into that immeasurable pool of nonduality. We are perfect and imperfect, stagnant and mobile, spirit and physicality, everything, yet nothing at all. Mind has perception, this is not the absolute. Spirit has perception, this also is not the absolute. There are no words for that which is imperceptible. There are no sounds for that which is inaudible. If we all stop striving to grow to perfection then this very subtle tiny shift in awareness that all we need to do is strip away that which is not perfect will change us to the core. "I am" is a lie. I am only me in this present state by the way I think feel, see hear, taste, etc. When this combination ceases and the new one arises then "I" as this present individual exists ceases. Even in future incarnations this present "I" no longer exists, it is a phenomenal and conditioned existence and at best illusory. In a future incarnation with a new group of sense contact the sense of "I-ness" will be quite different and unrelated to this present sense of existence. Yes, I believe some essence will go forward but it is not perceptible as the "I am" that I appear to be at this particular moment in linear time. But I guess I have rambled off target and will leave that for another day.

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