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Peter Brown
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July 19 - July 26, 2019
no discrete objects can be meaningfully differentiated from the field of experience,
the Experiencer (consciousness) can’t be meaningfully differentiated from the
objective energies of experience, so on that basis alone, every element of that common model ...
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“garbage in, garbage out”
being caught up in BELIEFS about the “nature of things” is confusion.
It cannot be definitively known what “anything” is except as an experience of consciousness.
“Objects of experience” appear spontaneously within consciousness because of its own inherent nature,
as a dream appears spontaneously in the dreaming consciousness because of its inherently creative nature.
There is no consciousness.
How could you possibly know anything outside of your consciousness?
reality can be said to consist of as far as you know, is energy appearing in your consciousness.
All those supposed elements we use to build a story, and the very act of building that story, is egoism. And that’s all that traps us, when we get trapped. We build these elaborate stories in imagination and then we identify with them, we think we’re IN these stories, and then we think we’re STUCK in those stories. Once you see that all the elements that your story is made of don’t actually exist as objective realities in the way you think they do, then your whole story collapses; and where does that leave you? You don’t know where you are, you don’t know what you are; but then there’s nothing
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Yes. Because the bars are made out of consciousness itself, they’re made out of ideas. The things that we think trap us, they aren’t THINGS. Once we see they’re not things, we see we can’t be trapped by them. They’re made of nothing but consciousness. We’re nothing but consciousness; how can consciousness be trapped by consciousness?
Simply, you can’t start from something that you don’t know what it is, and meaningfully derive from that something that you DO know what it is.
If you lose your keys you lose your keys; and if you find them again, then that’s what happens. It’s just the flow of being.
That’s the sort of utilitarian mental programming that we usually operate under. It’s goal oriented. We select the aspects of our experience that we think are going to get us points: get us money, get us attention, get us love, get us whatever our story implies we need to feel happy, to feel whole.
It’s like being in a dark room where there’s a flashlight shining on one spot, leaving the rest of the room in indistinct, but not total, darkness.
But it’s not that we can’t SEE it, we’re just ignoring it. And it’s just about noticing that we’re ignoring it; and that very noticing will open our awareness to be able to experience it, and we’ll open to the fullness of our experience in realtime, to WHAT we truly are.
“Oh my God! This consciousness is actually everything; and I AM that consciousness. I don’t exist in the WORLD, the world exists IN THIS CONSCIOUSNESS and I am that consciousness.”
If you are the consciousness that experiences your experience, everything you experience must be in you, or how could you experience it?
Go into your experience; you ARE your experience. Embrace it, texturally. Hug it. Feel it. Your experience is like a tub of warm jello. Feel it, go into it.
-How can we know what happens after death? How can we know what’s happening right now? I say work with what you can, and what you can is what’s right here, right now. What is THIS? If you want to find God, if you want to understand reality, the best place to look is RIGHT HERE. Start HERE, and see what THIS is. -And this
like in a dream. Everyone shows up in your life as a convenient extra on the set of the “You Show”, and they are all fulfilling exactly the role you need them to, for the “You Show” to be what it is.
It’s all subjective. You’re not “moving through” because there’s nothing there to move through. It moves through YOU if anything. It’s you moving through you.
It’s your pattern of yourself, your karma moving through your consciousness. And everything that you see is just a depiction of that, exactly like a dream.
We have a deep, maybe unconscious belief that we are a certain way, that we live in a world that is a certain way, a sort of cartoon we carry around in our mind, imaging that we’re incomplete.
notice that this consciousness is always there when you are.
there’s consciousness, and then phenomena appear in it as you wake up. There’s no “there” there if consciousness isn’t there. So phenomena are appearing and disappearing in consciousness.
you can’t say anything final about them.
It’s like one of those optical illusion puzzles where you look at it and you look at it, and you just can’t see what you’re supposed to be able to see, and then all of a sudden bang! You get it! Then you’re not actually SEEING anything different than you were looking at all along, but all of a sudden the perspective is there, and you can see what the puzzle is all about. And once you see it, it becomes easy to see it again whenever you want to look at it.
