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Feeling Bad Does Not Mean You Are Bad

1/25/2021

 
Have you noticed how conditioned we are to trust our feelings
whenever we feel bad about ourself? 

When we feel guilt or shame we’re programmed to trust those feelings.
We believe that feeling bad about ourself is justified because we are bad.
After all, we wouldn’t feel bad if we weren’t actually bad, right?

We don’t realize that the feeling bad, the shame and guilt,
is not the actual Truth but is a kind of lie detector pointing us back to Truth.

When we feel bad about ourself it’s as if Truth is saying,

“Your understanding is way off base. You are believing a lie.
You feel bad not because you’ve understood who you are
but because you’ve misunderstood who you are.
Feeling bad about yourself is always my loving feedback

inviting you, coaxing you, to please go deeper 
than any thought or feeling. You are so much more -
so     much     more.”
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​The Divine Child

by the spiritual teacher Mooji
 
We are divine beings in a state of recovery,
re-discovering our divinity,
winning back ourselves from states of delusion. 

However, the mind is very much a key player
in the drama called life, because without it,
the consciousness cannot experience
the necessary friction for transcendence to occur.
And transcendence is the whole purpose of the game.

It is a kingly game when seen
with eyes of understanding.
If you stay stuck in personhood, life will kick your ass.

But if you are open to Truth, then you are continuously
expanding into greater and greater seeing.
Finally, you will exclaim,
‘I love this stepping out of the shadow of myself
into the bright light of my Self.’

If my words are true,
it is you who make them true.
They come alive inside you
because you listen inside your heart and accept them. 

Not just the words, but what they point to
somehow recognizes itself,
and the stagnant, the suppressed,
vanishes in the light of this real seeing.

The serpent-mind loses its tongue
in the presence of the real Self.
You are the Self.
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The Most Insidious Fake News Around

1/18/2021

 
There is a kind of war, fueled by 'fake news', going on within most human beings.  
And this internal war can’t help but project itself into creating all kinds of external chaos.
 
The war within, fueled by fake news, makes us feel that there's something wrong or shameful about ourself or others and by any means necessary we need to keep trying to fix that. 
 
Fake news not only convinces us that what we actually are is inherently flawed 
but that the solution to this nonexistent problem lies in control and manipulation.
 
What a tangled web of lies this fake news creates! 
 
The lies tell us : 
If we just get better at controlling our thoughts 
or suppressing our feelings 
or manipulating others to do what we feel is right
then finally all will be well.
 
And even though none of that ever really works very well we hold out hope that one day it will.

Yet - at the core of all major religions there is a teaching that exposes all of that as ‘fake news’ -  as completely and utterly untrue.
 
Although many different words are used 
the essence of the teaching within the core of all major religions is the same: 

​We are not what we think we are. 
Our true nature is already fully whole. 
Nothing is lacking. 
Wholeness is our reality. 
All is already well. 
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​Allow just one conscious breath to 'bring you Home.'
Surrender to the inbreath and outbreath.
Control nothing.
 
Allow What Is here now to reveal itself to you.
 
Just one breath will do just fine.

If You Like Butterflies Please Don't Do This

1/11/2021

 
​There's a saying “If you like butterflies you don’t go around stepping on caterpillars.” 

With what’s going on in our country at the moment with all of the divisiveness it’s easy to point fingers at others views or actions and not consider anything deeper.

When we are in pain we do hurtful things. There is no way around this. 
In order to live well we must come to a place where we are no longer suffering. 

When we look at what people do (or even at what we do) and judge them (or ourself)  as bad it's similar to seeing a caterpillar - and only seeing a caterpillar. 
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​Eyes turned inward see the butterfly in every caterpillar.
It is already so - at the very same time it is becoming so.

Sometimes it takes some time
for us to shed enough layers of our 'cocoon'
in order for the warmth of What Already Is to be revealed. 

Without Honesty Our Old Patterns Repeat Ad Nauseam

12/14/2020

 
Someone recently asked me what I see as the most important quality to have along the spiritual path and I said honesty – with ourself.

Honesty paves the way toward openness and curiosity and dishonesty closes us down and shuts us off from our natural spirit of inquisitiveness.

Especially for those who have been on the path for years and know all the spiritual concepts it’s so easy to get caught up in believing those concepts without really knowing the truth they are pointing to. And this is where honesty comes in.

Whenever we’re suffering it’s so helpful to be honest about that suffering.

If we suffer and then tell ourself or others that  “Suffering is an illusion. There is no one here that is suffering. I know I am whole already.” then we’re relying on our beliefs and we’re closed to discovering the truth. We’re not curious about finding out what is actually true because we believe we know what is true.

And if we suffer and are honest about that suffering this honesty paves the way toward openness and curiosity to discover what is actually true - 
and then questions may begin to arise naturally.

Questions like “What is actually true?”…"What is my true nature?"...“What am I really?”… “Is it true that I need him/her to stop doing that in order to know peace?”… “Is peace here now?”… ”Am I lacking anything?”…”What actually is creating the sense of lack?”… ”If wholeness is true then why don’t I always sense that?”… ”Is it that wholeness is gone or that the sense of wholeness is only veiled?”… ”What is actually creating the veiling?”…

Honesty, every step of the way, is foundational. 

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My book, The Human Experience is the Dance of Heaven and Earth, includes a chapter on honesty.  If you'd like to purchase the book the link is below. Or if you'd just like to read the chapter itself email me a request at (dhyanastanley(a)gmail.com) and I'll send it free.
 
​www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G2M4MNA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0


How Do You Know Love?

11/16/2020

 
​​Some say “I’m only interested in what I can see, hear, taste, touch or smell.
I’m not interested in anything that can’t be proven to exist by the senses or my intellect.”

And whenever I hear someone say something like that
I wonder what they would say about Love.

Knowing Love proves that our five senses (and intellect)
fall far short in revealing what really matters. 

No intermediaries are needed to know what truly matters.
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"Love, peace, and happiness are inherent in the knowing of our own being. 
In fact, they are the knowing of being. 
They are simply other names for our self." 
-Rupert Spira

We can only know ourself and the qualities of Self directly -
Relax your senses and thoughts
'Sense' the essence of Being
and notice it's fragrance.

'Us vs Them' - A Spiritual and Political Perspective

11/2/2020

 
"When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable.
It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth.
It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
― Adyashanti
We often think we suffer because of what other people do
which is a kind of 'us vs them' way of looking at suffering -
I'm suffering because of them! -

but when we zoom out to a more open perspective
there is the possibility for us to become aware that our suffering 
is only a kind of 'us vs misaligned seeing' - 
we're not seeing the truth of what actually is, as Adya points out -
I'm only suffering because the way I'm looking is off.

What freedom it is when we really see the difference 
between these two views playing out in our daily life.

The 'us vs them' perspective locks us into perpetual suffering
and the 'us vs misaligned seeing' is the key pointing the way out.

It's not about other people, it's not even about who we are -
it's only about the view we are now taking about all of it. 
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This same 'us vs them' view is extremely loud and persistent in the political realm
and sometimes it's hard to see our way to any alternative 'political' view 
that's aligned with the qualities of Truth - peace, love, oneness.     

For those interested, here is the link to an article I wrote sharing an alternative 
to the 'us vs them' perspective within the realm of politics.  
A Closer Look at Who Our 'We' Includes

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​When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer. 
It’s not obvious until you look at it, but when we believe our thoughts, in that instant, 
we begin to live in the world of dreams, where the mind conceptualizes an entire world 
that doesn’t actually exist anywhere but in the mind itself. 
At that moment, we begin to experience a sense of isolation, 
where we no longer feel connected to each other in a very rich and human way, 
but we find ourselves receding more and more into the world of our minds, into the world of our own creation.”
- Adyashanti

Is Our Love Dependent On Others Agreeing With Us?

10/19/2020

 
"If you wish to find Love,
don't look for the object of love
but for the Source of love."
- Mooji
Sometimes when others don't agree with us we feel disconnected from them.

When family members or friends - or even politicians - disagree with us we sometimes take it personally and then feel as if they are outside of our love. We forget the Source of Love that excludes nothing.

I see this time of great division 'out there in the world' as a wonderful opportunity for us all to see beyond any division within that comes up as we watch the news, listen to our friends and family members express different views then our own, or shop with strangers who may disagree with our own mask wearing or maskless behavior.

World peace begins with each of us as we take responsibility to 'look again' whenever we feel disconnected from anyone or anything.

If our love is dependent on others seeing things our way or doing the things we do then our love is conditional - it's too narrow to reveal the magnificence of the Love of Source.
 
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When we are open,
​one breath - 
just one conscious breath -
can reveal the Source of Love
that excludes nothing.
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      Sri Nisargadatta     Maharaj

      Einstein said,
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      from the same
       level of consciousness
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