“How Do I Journey Within”

A Seeker’s Signpost to Freedom

Considering, for a moment, the state of your mind, the state of my mind and the state of the collective mind of planet Earth; let’s look at freedom and limitation.

And so we’re on the same page here, let’s use the understanding that freedom equals non-limitation, and limitation equals non-freedom.

Ya ever been confined in a small space without the opportunity to go and do whatever you wanted, or maybe you were sent to your room as a child and all your toys were taken away?… let’s say this is kinda like limitation, or non-freedom.

Have ya ever just got up and started walkin, just cuz; no reason other than you simply made a choice to get up and walk?… let’s say this is kinda like freedom, or non-limitation.

Don’t forget the mind… let’s not lose that…

And as we consider these three aspects of life; mind, freedom and limitation, let’s use a diagram..

freedom<==mind==>limitation

As it is, the mind is in the center with freedom and limitation as the choices. And as it appears here, it is an “either-or” choice. Either freedom, or limitation. One or the other, but not both.

Why not both?

Well, as was stated earlier, freedom = non-limitation and limitation = non-freedom, and in this, each are mutually exclusive of the other.

In freedom, there is no limitation…

In limitation, there is no freedom…

The Journey Within

Let’s use an injunction, and just to be clear, and injunction is a command, not to be confused with demand. Universal Laws stipulate certain aspects, and these stipulations are the commands, and you have a choice to follow them or not; again, an “either-or”.

So, the injunction: To realize freedom, the mind must release its attachment to all illusion that besets it with delusion.

Let’s look at this injunction more closely…

• realize freedom
  • to clearly understand freedom.
• the mind
  • a field of awareness in which the operating functions include, but are not limited to, focus, vision, and memory.
• must release
  • an imperative action of letting go
• attachment
  • a cohesive force
• illusion
  • an erroneous mental representation
• besets
  • to surround or attack from all sides
• delusion
  • deception by creating illusory ideas

So, in other words, to clearly understand freedom, it is imperative that the field of awareness that operates with focus, vision and memory let’s go of the cohesion it has to erroneous mental representations that attack it from every direction by the deception of creating illusory ideas.

Exercise: Look at your concept of self. Examine the ideas you have created in your mind about who you are. These ideas could relate to anything, for example, an image of the body could arise and from this you might say, “I am human.” And let’s be clear, you are just looking at the ideas at this point, do not conclude that they are true of false, simply examine the ideas.

Do this for several moments, list the ideas on a piece of paper as they arise, and place them in the following context, “I am _________”. Simply fill in the blank.

Now that you have listed the ideas on a piece of paper, you can more easily recognize the idea in the mind. Again, do not, at this point, conclude them to be true or false.

What is Perception

Well, let’s see…

As you are reading these words, light is entering the pupils and the cones and rods in the retina are processing that stream of data (light). The cones are processing the color and the rods are processing the black and white.

So the physical organ known as the eyeball is equated to the awareness of physical sight, eye-consciousness, and this is the process of perception.

As you look around the room, you’ll notice the focal point of your line of sight shifts, also shifting the data being collected.

The image that you are seeing, that is appearing as a computer screen, a wall, a table, a chair, or whatever else is in your line of sight, is an image that is being processed through the collection of data, sending these signals to the brain, and in turn the brain is assembling this data into a perceivable image that your mind is then able to operate with, i.e. perception.

This same process, through different channels, is happening in the ear, the nose, the tongue, the touch of skin to an object, and in the mind’s eye (imagination). These 6 senses are the structures that receive data to be processed.

What is sensation

Move awareness to the hand(s) that is touching the mouse or keyboard. Are you aware of the contact between the fingers and the keys? This is sensation.

Without the sense organs that receive the sensations, perception is not possible. Without the awareness that allows the sensation to be sensed, sensation is not possible.

And with arriving at awareness as the pre-cursor to all bodily operations, we have arrived at the doorway that ventures down the path that is The Journey Within…

Journeying

Before going any further, it must be stated that the only you can actually choose to walk this journey. Moreover, you are already on this journey whether you recognize it or not. Your recognition of it allows you the opportunity to embrace the willingness necessary in order to walk the journey in a more “awake” state.

Where does the journey lead?

There is no specific place that it leads, and there is no point in time that need be met in order to arrive at the destination.

It could be said that the journey leads to nowhere and to nothing…

And it could also be said that the journey leads to everywhere and to everything…

If you are perplexed by these statements in any way, take it as a cue that your mind is not fully free. In other words, take it as sign that there are still remnants in your mind that you must clear out.

And remember it is only You that can clear it out.

Moving Through the Door

What follows is a technique of sorts, to practice on your journey.

It must be stated that what is beyond the door cannot be stated in words and words can in no way lead the seeker through the door.

Therefore, these words are only signposts of remembrance to the Truth that resides in the core of Being that vibrates constantly in the Purity of Instance.

Exercise: As the body is in action throughout the day, bring awareness to its every movement. Witness what is being perceived with closer attention.

Effects of Ignorance

The One who chooses not freedom is inevitably snared by the trap of illusive desire, and the yearning to fulfill the urges of bodily sensation is the cohesive force that attaches the mind to seek limitation and not freedom.

The changing nature of sensation is no substitute for the permanent freedom of liberation. Liberation seeks not to fulfill the desire of sensual pleasures at the expense of realizing freedom. In fully realizing freedom, the pleasure of Oneness fulfills all.

The effects of ignorance are such that the one who chooses to seek the fleeting satisfaction of living according to bodily desires seeks only to know no lasting satisfaction.

Desire

Desire is the precursor to action. Without a desire to obtain a new car, there would be no action to buy a new car.

Same is true for freedom—desire begets the action to seek freedom. And yet, desire is not fulfillment, it is absence of fulfillment.

Desire equates to craving, and to crave fleeting manifestations is to continually move towards impermanence. The nature of the material universe is that no thing is permanent. And on planet Earth, all things arise from the dust of the Earth and return to it; birth & decay.

“Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory” (Romans 8: 12-17)

Who Are You?

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