The Fragrance Of Your Own Being

[Hero in progress]

 After some time, everything starts to fall into place, emptiness is our natural state.

After the minds confusions have subsided, a natural state of peace is apparent.

The ego, is a very simple thing once we are out of the illusory pull, the ego is simply identification with thought.

In this way of being, we are in a constant proccess of learning about ourselves, there is no longer a bias to pretend there is not fear arising, when fear is arising for example, because we are no longer trying to grandise the self image. 

Thoughts come & go anyone with sense will know this, so if there is a coming and going there must be that which sees the coming and going.

The thinker is actually just another thought, or layers of thought on top of more thought. Its one thing knowing this intellectually, but it being what is for you in your life is the only thing that matters in this case. Because the words are not the fact, holding onto ideas won't help, won't make you happy.

Spending time by oneself and acknowledging the emptiness is important. At first it seems like you as a person is abiding in emptiness intill the sticker of ID, is pulled off of this sense of a person, and you wake up to the fact that you are not abiding in emptiness, you are the emptiness, thus being in a meditative state is effortless, regardless of whether you are at work or shopping, walking in the park ect.

This could happen rather quickly for some, and longer for others.

You can see that we don't see life as it is, but we see it through the screen of our own thoughts first, thus distorting our view of the world, other people and so on.

We see reality in accordance to ourselves, creating distinctions, interpreting any given situation in terms of its relevance to us.

" we don't see the world how it is, but rather how we are"

Again it won't help taking this in only intellectually, seeing this for yourself is what matters.

The mind can't help you, but will appear to try to help you, be wise enough, to see this is thought trying to establish its control again.

There's nothing wrong with thinking, its deriving ones identity through thought that's the problem.

Stay empty that's all you need, after a while things will start to click into place, because this awareness has a intelligence to see with clarity, and seeing with clarity naturally one will see what's really true.

I will leave you with wise words of mooji,  

There is a presence, a silents, a stillness, which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.

 

[key]

5 minutes ago, Callum A said:

 emptiness is our natural state.

Do you realise that's as ego driven thinking as believing you're human? 

But otherwise nice words 

[Hero in progress]

@key Thankyou my friend, I appreciate it.

Ego driven? Maybe I am missing something, would you care to elaborate?

[key]

7 minutes ago, Callum A said:

@key Thankyou my friend, I appreciate it.

Ego driven? Maybe I am missing something, would you care to elaborate?

Hmmmm, how do I put it ? 

Thinking you are anything , emptinesss, everything, universe, god, being, nothing, whatever, is attatchemnt to being something, anything, which itself is ego attatching to identity, in whatever form it can take, when the simple fact is you just are, just am, just is, just was ...

Thoughts can't tell you what you are anymore than I can, they can be good pointers, yet that's it 

Edited January 28, 2017 by key

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@key Okay I see what your saying,

What I wrote was "emptiness is our natural state of being"  

Meaning it isn't something that needs to be kept up, with effort. Thus its natural. This is the case for me my friend, if you are interpreting it in a different way, as in its ego driven, then that's okay. 

The reason I made the distinction, that it is our natural state is because some people have the tendency to think that inorder to stay empty (out of thought) you have to exert effort.

And at first it may be that way, but eventually its effortless and natural to be empty & present.

Edited January 28, 2017 by Callum A

[key]

3 hours ago, Callum A said:

@key Okay I see what your saying,

What I wrote was "emptiness is our natural state of being"  

Meaning it isn't something that needs to be kept up, with effort. Thus its natural. This is the case for me my friend, if you are interpreting it in a different way, as in its ego driven, then that's okay. 

The reason I made the distinction, that it is our natural state is because some people have the tendency to think that inorder to stay empty (out of thought) you have to exert effort.

And at first it may be that way, but eventually its effortless and natural to be empty & present.

I see where you're coming from, but it's still from the perspective of identity, with being ego (delusional) or (extorting effort to be something) as unnatural, and empty and present (no effort) as natural, which is also fine in the grand scheme of things. 

Althought the very act of effort is effortless, a person engaging in strenuous activity, i.e playing sports, is simultaneously putting tremendous focus and effort in the moment, while all of it is natural because there was never any starting point of being empty, present and natural, to bursting, focused and concentrated, there is no reference to which a natural state was to which an unnatural state is, there is only always the natural state, for every state and frame of mind is being.

So while being empty and present is natural, so is being focused and acting in effort, and to think there is a distinction in the first place comes from identity.

if you already understand that then 

 

[Hero in progress]

@key its cool anyway pal, I hope your doing good, thanks for the input I appreciate it, I know what you mean, I will contemplate what said.