Secrets are hidden in plain sight!

by awareness ~ June 11, 2008

When we start a sincere practice, if we must be honest with ourselves. Honest as in beyond any sort of self-deception. Honesty is the beginning of Objectivity. Most of us, are very rarely truly Objective. Objectivity is one of the hidden doorways to the Self. However the way is hidden within our own matrix of misconceptions.

Practice starts with the Wish to improve oneself, with the wish to know what’s true, the wish to become enlightened.

When we are honest at the barest level, sometimes we see things about ourselves we don’t like. It might be our ideal but not our complete reality. For example we might imagine ourselves to be very compassionate and altruistic. But then we might catch ourselves in a moment where we do something unskillful.

So if we are truly honest we see we have less compassion for ourselves and others than we thought.

At the time the truth is “I have no compassion, no caring” or “I have a small amount, for my family only”. Or even “I have a great amount, that I did not know was there before.”

When we look to SEE, if can we look at ourselves as we truly are, rather than as we would like, or imagine, then we discover a whole new world! We never know what amazing things we might uncover.

If our meditation practice does not reveal this world, then it’s a superficial practice. We might make small strides, but we will be bored silly. Being bored is symptomatic of a disinterested mind lacking serious intent.

Then as our study progresses, when reflecting on ourselves as we are, we see all kinds of bad things about ourselves. Most people give up there, turn on the tube, veg out, check out, whatever. But if we resist the temptation to identify with “the stuff” and if can not label ourselves, see it as “not me” then … there arises a notion, … I forgive Myself!

We become familiar with ourselves in a new way. Once this progresses further one can laugh at oneself.

Once you can laugh at yourself, compassion for others will start to arise spontaneously.

Because the truth of myself, is the same as the truth of another. If I know myself, then I know others, I know all.

That is why the commandant “Know Thyself” from the Temple of Delphi, is most important.

Perhaps it’s not clear to you. Then perhaps you have never tried, or never tried hard enough to study yourself.

Perhaps you don’t know how. The teachings for true self study were previously hidden, but have been available for a number of years. But at another level they don’t make sense to us, until we are truly ready.

Secrets are hidden in plain sight!

The world is in such a sorry state. It’s urgent that more people arrive at thus juncture.

To awaken is to recognize, “before I woke up, I was never truly alive. Now I wish this for myself and for all mankind.”
If we don’t have this sincere wish, “for all mankind” then we had a false experience. It cannot be real, as that is the wish of the Real Self. It is the best test of our understanding.

To wake up is to willingly strip away the “not me”. The fastest way to do that is to do the “Who am I” practice.