"Only God and God alone."
Post Manuscript World Contemplation Intro: 11/24 -
"You think you are the wave but you are the whole ocean. This is the truth I point to."
>STOP<>PAY ATTENTION<>OBSERVE<>BE MINDFUL<
- A World in Crisis: the weird and the wonderful.
For me, the so-called material and physical world with all its ever-changing anomalies, dramas and creations is still a miraculous, strange, beautiful and curious appearance, experience and event.
This so-called world is an ever-changing fragile, miraculous and vulnerable conditioned world full of everyday contradictions, expressions and constructs; dark and light; hate and love; peace and war; rights and wrongs; rich and poor; blame and praise; success and failure; gain and loss; pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow; kindness and cruelty, ignorance and intelligence, highs and lows; ups and downs.
- despair and faith.
And yet the God-Reality that I continue to speak of and point to here is always fully free of these ever-changing and on-going everyday endless contradictions, anomalies and constructs.
The truth of reality, experience and identity that I speak of and point to always remains as it is, untouched, unchanged, unhindered, unmoved, unconditioned, unlimited, free, inexhaustible, immaculate, unborn, ageless, timeless, indestructible, ever-present and deathless. Only God and God alone.
>BE AWARE<>BE AWAKE<>BE FREE<
It is still strange and puzzling to me to think and quietly observe and contemplate that one day this temporary self-aware embodied form and conscious construct with all its ever-changing, impersonal and fleeting thoughts, feelings, perceptions, views, ideas, opinions, urges and sensory experiences will be no more and yet I fully acknowledge, accept and know this is simply the way things are in this transitory dual material and conceptual miraculous conditioned world and physical realm of constant change and changing creations, representations, expressions and contradictions.
For us to take birth and form presents us all to the full and on-going vulnerability and fragility of life, existence and creation and all its ever-changing and inexhaustible everyday contradictions, conditions, anomalies, expressions and dramas. Impermanence is the on-going cosmic dance and changing play (lila) that is all expressions, constructs, anomalies, appearances and existence.
- attachment to this world of change and all its creations can only cause us mental anguish.
- Embracing Our Vulnerability
As with all spiritual and philosophical teachings, both past and present, they continuously and wisely remind and tell us all that there is no real permanence to be had, found, gained and owned in the everyday worldly things, forms, phenomena, dramas, projections, impulses, desires, urges, constructs and creations of this ever-changing conditioned and conceptual fleeting and transitory material and physical world of constant change and endless expressions.
All so-called things, forms, dramas, phenomena, contradictions, constructs and creations are permanently marked and bound by impermanence. However much we might try to attach and hold on to things, experiences, sensations, expressions, personas and creations, all these so-called things will come to pass. All these so-called things, dramas, forms, experiences, constructs and creations are transitory and fleeting and will eventually cease to be. All we know is marked by impermanence. Impermanence is the on-going transcendental and changing dance (lila) that is all existence and experience.
All so-called phenomena and creations are empty of any real permanence. This is the vulnerability of it all. This so-called realm of existence and contradictions is fragile and yet at the same time, miraculous. No above. No below. No inside. No outside. No before. No after. No this. No that. Simply, this!
- impermanence is the very conditioned nature of all things, forms, phenomena and creations.
>WATCH<>EXAMINE<INVESTIGATE>KNOW<
- Direct Experience
Even now today, this day, with all that I enthusiastically and confidently write, present and share here, both spiritually and philosophically, on this so-called esoteric blog on the true absolute nature and truth of reality, identity and experience, I am still slightly mystified and over-shadowed by the world's seeming meaningless, randomness, chaos, brutality, strangeness, cruelty and questionable profound and miraculous existence, spontaneity, order, indifference, despair and profound beauty.
Maybe, and I say maybe, it is all simply a beautiful and strange spontaneous miraculous mystery and cosmic happening and event that is truly beyond any of us to really and fully unravel and solve in any genuine conclusive, agreeable and satisfactory way. Perhaps this is the great unknown and cost of self-awareness and cognitive knowing. The one true mystery that plagues, haunts and challenges us all.
For me, we are all spirit first. The rest is only dressing. God and God alone.
However much we might endeavour to acquire, gain, own, experience, control, actualise and have in this fleeting, fragile and ever-changing sensory world of constant change and transitory creations, conditions, constructs, contradictions and phenomena it will not prevent or stop the passing and ending of all sensory things, forms, dramas, creations, realms, urges, impulses, desires, experiences, expressions and events. This is its ever-present unsatisfactory, ever-changing, vulnerable and restless nature; its palpable, on-going and felt fragility and uncertainty.
Only God and God alone.
"For me, all moments of experience and existence are a unique and beautiful one time expression of Reality; unique and yet transitory. Only this Reality endures. Only this enduring God-Reality is real. All creation, realms, expressions and phenomena are this ever-present awake and known God-Reality. This is the truth that I continuously and purposely point to."
No above. No below. No inside. No outside. No before. No after. No this. No that.
>WAKE UP<>KNOW<>BE FREE<
- Respecting the Vulnerability of it All
"You are the whole ocean, not solely the wave. Wake up and know."
As I see and experience existence, it is very easy for us as individualised forms and self-aware constructs to become and be very mentally and emotionally attached, identified and materially invested in this impersonal and imperfect physical appearance and mental construct and projection that we call mind and body and all the ever-changing sensory worldly experiences, urges, contradictions, desires, dramas, opinions and sensations that come with having them, despite being aware and knowing it will all be cast aside and let go of, eventually.
As a temporary self-aware construct and held to persona death awaits us all. For me, this is an ever-present worldly and material puzzle that has always stayed with me; wanting, waiting and needing to be solved. What is real? What is it to exist and not exist? What am I?
Who am I? What is the truth of reality, experience and identity?
- Understanding the Great Mystery
For me, as a temporary self-aware embodied and sensory world construct and form, it has always been somewhat puzzling and challenging to always observe, experience and accept an ever-changing and ageing material and conceptual world that is consistently plagued and impacted by hatred, cruelty, greed, hardship, poverty, sickness, loss, authoritarianism, conflict, superiority, indifference and inequality.
This is not to say there are not beautiful things and rewarding phenomena and unique moments to experience, love, acquire, share and have in this temporary worldly and material fleeting miraculous experience and existence of birth, living, playing, growth, ageing, , creation, decay and dying, but as with all conditioned, created and conceptual things, creations, forms, dramas, constructs and phenomena, this too will all come to pass and end.
For me, this is the 'emptiness' and fragility of all creations, forms, realms, conditions, anomalies, contradictions, constructs, expressions and phenomena. This is the transcendental nature of all existence. No above. No below. No inside. No outside, no before. No after. No this. No that.
It is all without permanence. It is all transcendental. Only God is real! All is this!
Only God and God alone.
As a temporary self-aware embodied and sensory conscious cognitive construct, persona and form we all have to let it all go in the end. Impermanence is the very conditioned, restless and unsatisfactory nature of all things, phenomena, forms, dramas, constructs, experiences, expressions, realms, contradictions and creations. Transitory is all things and so too with us.
- attachment to this world of change and all its transitory creations can only result in mental anguish.
>BE STILL<>LET GO<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<
- Staying Open to being Uncomfortable
To simply and freely love, celebrate, share and accept who we are and what life is, in and of itself, can be a day-to-day challenge for many of us, as well as dealing with the constant impersonal ebb and flow of worldly changes, dramas, expectations, demands, needs, impulses, contradictions and challenges we will all have to face in one way or another as we navigate, live, act and play out this ever-changing, vulnerable and transitory material realm and physical world of constant change and endless creations, anomalies, constructs, expressions and phenomena.
Worldly existence, by its very own nature, can make it challenging and hard for any of us to be consistently and fully content and satisfied in all that it offers, presents, delivers, gives, shares and is. It can at times be challenging and frustrating to consistently and fully understand, accept and make peace with the way things are in this ever-changing impersonal and sometimes brutal dual sensory material and conceptual material world and universe. The ever-changing material world and all its on-going dramas, constructs, contradictions, phenomena and creations can seem totally indifferent and unconcerned for the day-to-day demands, wants, urges and needs of having and living this miraculous and transitory embodied self-aware and ever-changing fragile and somewhat strange existence.
And yet, for me, all moments of experience and experiencing can be seen and known as a unique never to be lived again expression of Reality - God-Reality.
For me, it is only Reality or should I say God-Reality that truly endures and exists. This God-Reality is the one enduring truth, identity, essence, source and origin of all things, phenomena, forms, dramas, constructs, contradictions and creations. All creation, realms and phenomena are empty of any real permanence. Emptiness is our true enduring nature and the one true essence and source of all things, dramas, creations, expressions, forms, phenomena and the universe. This is the truth of reality, experience and identity that I always speak of and point to - the one God-Reality. No inside. No outside. No above. No below. No before. No after. No this. No that.
- Only God and God alone.
"The waves and expressions of reality are temporary, and yet the ocean is eternal."
>BE SILENT<>PAY ATTENTION<>OBSERVE<
- To be Awake!
For me, here we all are in all our diverse, miraculous, beautiful and shared exposed, unpredictable and vulnerable conscious humanity temporarily and uniquely living, acting and playing out a transitory and fleeting self-aware embodied experience and existence of awareness knowingly knowing with all certainty it will sooner or later end and cease to be and we have no real certainty and assurance as to when and how. Certainly for me, it has always raised and presented the deep contemplative and meditative question of who am I before I am and what am I when I no longer exist as a self-aware physical conscious sensory cognitive construct, persona and form? Who am I? What is this?
- What is real?
- What is true happiness and freedom in an ever-changing restless and angst world?
And yet as a fully embodied self-aware mind/body construct and form I am still baffled and puzzled by the reality of fully acknowledging, accepting and knowing the ever-present and harsh fact that, as I know my present self-aware embodied sensory experience and existence to be, I will in some near or distant future and uncertain time not be present as this particular and unique self-aware embodied conscious form in this ever-changing impersonal physical and material construct, realm and reality of space, time and form. All these worldly, material and sensory experiences, perceptions, anomalies, events and dramas are limited, fleeting and temporary.
All this will come to cease and end.
All things, dramas, phenomena, forms, constructs and creations are bound and marked by impermanence. And yet, for me, all moments of sensory experience, existence and having experience can be viewed and seen as unique and ever-changing impersonal and cognitive expressions of God-Reality.
No inside. No outside. No above. No below. No before. No after. No this. No that.
This is the one God-Reality that always is and unites us all despite appearances.
For me, it is only Reality that endures. It is this enduring God-Reality that is absolute Truth.
>PAY ATTENTION<>BE AWARE<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<
- Exposing the Truth
For me, when silently considering and contemplating the truth of impermanence and the unsatisfactory nature of all things, dramas, phenomena and creations it still completely amazes and baffles me that this ever-changing and impersonal sensory dual material, diverse and complex world of change and creations is still so largely driven, shaped, dominated and impacted by inequality, intolerance, hatred, greed, prejudice, misery, conflict, war, violence, cruelty, self-importance and authoritarianism.
It is crazy to me to think that such a small minority of individuals have and own so much of the world's material wealth and such a large volume of the world population still have so little of it.
Let me be clear, who actually needs £100 billion dollars or even £1 billion dollars to live and play out such a short, temporary and fleeting existence? And so too with power. For me, no individual person in these present times should be authorised and trusted, let alone given and allowed, to have such extreme and unnecessary levels of wealth, status, authority, control, self-importance, superiority and power? I think world events, both past and present, show us all that it puts all our precious, worthy, amazing, vulnerable, shared and fleeting lives at risk.
And yet, these are only the ever-changing and transitory and uncertain waves, contradictions, constructs, expressions and creations of experience and existence and not the ocean and Truth that I continuously speak of and purposely point to.
For me, directly and intimately knowing Truth and being awake to God-Reality is all that truly matters. It is this God-Reality and Self-knowledge that exposes to us our innate peace, beauty and freedom.
Only God and God alone.
- What is real?
I do ask myself as a temporary physical embodied self-aware conscious and cognitive construct and persona, how is it that we as an on-going shared and global world community still allow such a small minority of individuals or group of individuals to have so much authority, power, wealth, status and control over all our fragile, miraculous and vulnerable lives even when so many of these elected or non-elected individuals do little or nothing to improve, protect or better our day-to-day experience and ease of living, well-being, ageing, existing, happiness, peace, security, safety, insight and dying?
For me, this is certainly another unwelcome perplexing and challenging part of this so-called restless and ever-changing vulnerable and uncertain world and universal puzzle. The seeming unsatisfactory, fractured and restless nature of this ever-changing material and physical world of change and all its creations, indifference, contradictions, phenomena, expressions and dramas.
- The Endless On-going Play of God
Why do we as a shared, intelligent and self-aware evolved species continue to allow, follow and accept a mostly out-dated consumerism and hierarchy world model that still only serves and benefits a very tiny minority of individuals in simply increasing, securing and protecting their already ridiculous and unnecessary gross levels of wealth, status, self-importance, control, self-gratification, authority, dominance and power? Maybe this too is simply the imperfect, absurd and unsatisfactory nature and innate condition of all creation, realms, dramas, contradictions, expressions and phenomena?
Only Reality will endure all this. It is this God-Reality that always endures as it is.
For me, Reality is Truth. For me, only this God-Reality is not tainted, touched, lessened, hindered, limited, changed or altered by any of this. The ever-changing and on-going waves and constructs of existence do not alter, lessen, stop, hinder, limit or remove the ocean. This is Absolute. Only Reality endures and it is this God-Reality that I speak of and continuously point to. It is our one, shared and true enduring nature. No inside. No outside. No above. No below. No before. No after. No this. No that. No becoming. No being. All is transcendental. Only God is real.
- attachment and resistance to this on-going world of change can only result in mental anguish.
>BE STILL<>BE SILENT<>OBSERVE<>BE PRESENT<
- Knowing Truth and Letting Go
Of course with the spiritual and philosophical revelations written, presented and offered here on this esoteric blog I do see and fully accept the transcendental beauty and perfection in and of all creation beyond what is material, physical, sensory, impersonal and conceptual. With the mystery of it all I do still silently and deeply marvel and celebrate at the very existence of what this beautiful and perplexing life, world and vast universe actually is and all the endless challenges, dramas, forms, contradictions, creations, anomalies and changes it delivers, offers and presents. Be it the on-going joys and sorrows, the gains and the losses, the successes and the failures. The pleasures and pain. The highs and the lows. The mundane and the miraculous. The world's quiet enduring and impersonal beauty and all its noise, cruelty and endearing indifference. All can be as it is.
"You are the whole ocean, not the only waves.
Only this spiritual awareness and Self-knowledge of God-Reality can set us free."
As I see it, we all exist now as a unique and worthy temporary self-aware sensory embodied construct and cognitive conscious form and persona of all that has come to pass and we also exist now as all that is yet to come. As I see it we are all the past, present and future as a unique, beautiful and worthy temporary embodied self-aware sensory moment and conscious construct of God-Reality.
We are all self-aware temporary embodied, multiple and diverse expressions and constructs of God-Reality. This is absolutely something I believe and feel we can all directly come to fully recognise, know, respect, love, share, embody and celebrate in all the beauty and brutality of birth, living, existing, playing, ageing, creation, expression, decay and dying. All as it is. One Reality. One Mind.
- The Immaculate Self
The on-going complexity and diversity of it all and its endless and on-going impersonal multiplicity and diversity of creations, forms, dramas, projections, desires, impulses, constructs and phenomena is its real endless immaculate and sacred beauty - its real transcendental, questionable, compelling and alluring mystery.
For me, it is all the one true enduring God-Reality recognizing, realizing and knowing its own timeless, boundless, ageless, immaculate and limitless existence. What some spiritual thinkers, teachers, philosophers and yogis reference and label as God-consciousness. It is God-Reality becoming and being fully conscious of its own immaculate and boundless existence, unity, beauty and enduring presence and emptiness. The I am of I am. Oneness. For me, we are all temporary and worthy embodied cognitive expressions of this one immaculate God-Reality. Absolute!
The ocean, not the waves, and yet in this Truth the ocean and the waves are one and the same.
>BE PRESENT<>BE AWARE<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<
As I see and know it, we all momentarily exist as a unique, beautiful and worthy temporary sensory embodied conscious and cognitive self-aware expression and construct of God-Reality in a space-time continuum that has unlimited potential and endless on-going possibilities. Both creative and destructive. Both loving and harmful. Both unique and similar. Both small and great. Both many and one. Both beautiful and dark. Both joyous and sad. Both pleasing and unsatisfactory. Both mundane and miraculous. Both rewarding and disappointing. Both finite and infinite. This is the multiplicity and diversity of all creation and all its ever-changing and everyday contradictions, anomalies, creations and phenomena.
Wrongly or rightly, personally I do not think the past and present day world politics and organised religions have all the answers to what our future humanity should look like, become and be. It is its own on-going dance. For me, this is the great mystery that calls and invites us all to ask, seek, investigate and know the 'emptiness' of all things.
"The waves and the ocean are one."
For me, despite all that the world is, it is still a thing of wonder and beauty. Simply to exist is its own miracle. Something to be treasured, celebrated, loved, respected and not abused. This God-Reality alone places us all in a genuine and rewarding position of loving-kindness and gratitude. It allows us to fully embrace and accept our vulnerability and fragility in the full recognition of our true God-Reality nature. In the love of not needing the world or others to be any different than what they are - boundless acceptance.
- A New Paradigm
We all share and live in an ever-changing impersonal world of constant change that is still largely impacted and plagued by war, conflict, authoritarianism, greed, control, separation, hatred, prejudice, intolerance, violence, consumerism, self-gratification, ignorance, cruelty, contradictions, indifference and self-importance.
With all the present day global environmental challenges and climate changes facing the future of our on-going precious, miraculous, vulnerable and shared humanity we all urgently need a fully united, enlightened and agreeable world leadership and collected consciousness and certainly not the present day divided and volatile one. World leaders or hierarchy individuals constantly pursuing their own self-centred self-interests and personal desires and agendas to have more and more power, wealth, ownership, control, status, self-importance, superiority, self-gratification and authority will not bring a much needed united world awakened consciousness and collective intention that will seriously act in the future best interests and needs of the present day and future environmental and economic challenges and climate changes that we will all have to face and overcome going forward.
It is not easy to accept that there is still so much cruelty in the world and that so-called individuals take pleasure in inflicting cruelty on others when we all long to be free of misery and cruelty.
- One Shared God-Reality and Humanity
"I'm not in hiding. I am in plain sight. You simply do not choose to see."
I'd certainly like to think in the very near future that a new, enlightened and shared paradigm or world consciousness will reveal and show itself in all the unrest and conflict that plagues, harms and impacts this present day material and physical world of constant change.
Wrongly or rightly, I would like to think, perhaps foolishly, that what is freely and lovingly offered and presented here on this esoteric blog might potentially influence and contribute in some positive, constructive, awakened and enlightened way. An invitation to wake up! Perhaps it might potentially lessen the cruelty in the world and help us reconsider how we treat others.
Who knows?
All I know is we all deserve better than what most of us are still managing and facing today.
For me, we are a world in crisis and it is urgently in need of an enlightened, united, intelligent and loving world shift in consciousness and leadership, certainly if humanity is to unite, endure and survive. Obviously, these are only my present day world views, opinions and thoughts on the volatile and vulnerable state of the world. I am no one of any social importance or influence and I am not saying any of this for us to get down on life. I am not trying to incite guilt, shame, worry, aversion, fear or blame. For me, it is all a spiritual calling to liberation, higher consciousness and awakened thought in the ever-changing face of it all.
It is an attempt to fully reveal and establish Truth as the potential building blocks of life, birth, living, ageing, existing, decay and dying and the on-going uncertain, vulnerable and fragile future of humanity and the world.
This is not nihilism. It is a genuine love for all that is. The silent, immaculate and still beauty of life.
My genuine God-Reality love and prayers to you all. Please if you can help support and share this esoteric blog it would be deeply appreciated. A sincere thank you to all. To all embodied souls and self-aware constructs who remain fully committed to universal love, freedom, unity, longevity, wisdom, equality, beauty, higher-consciousness and peace, I salute you all.
For me, we all equally and rightly deserve and need a united, enlightened, awake, cruelty-free and loving world, and not a divided, harmful and toxic one. All one.
>BE STILL<>BE SILENT<>OBSERVE<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<
Blessed be. Be awake. Be free. All is transcendental! Only God is real.
This esoteric blog is lovingly dedicated to my earthly mother 'Rita' who transitioned on the 12th December 2021. A truly selfless, kind, beautiful, spiritual, inspirational and loving embodied soul, friend, teacher and mother, who willingly sacrificed much so her earthly children could flourish.
All these things will come to pass. Only Truth endures. Only God is real.
The one who is ignorant identifies with the wave. The one who is awake identifies with the ocean.
This is how I know it to be. Be awake. Be free.
Only God and God alone.
Additional author note: some of the words that I use here, like 'spirit', 'essence', God and 'oneness', could as easily be replaced with words like 'energy', 'intelligence' and 'singularity' but I have kept to what I live and know.
My only aim and focus here on this esoteric blog is to attempt to contribute in some positive and constructive way to what it is to be awake and have God-consciousness. Then, and only then, who you are being or becoming, what you do, who you are with or alone, what the world does or does not do will not impact or change who you essentially are.
You will always know what true beauty, peace, unity, love, contentment and freedom are and you will see it everywhere, in everyone and at all times regardless of appearances. No inside. No outside. No above. No below. No before. No after. No this. No that. No inequality or self-importance.
- Inner Renunciation
Whether other people or constructs acknowledge it or know of it, it will not matter to you, this truth and sacredness of reality, identity and experience will always shine silently and lovingly within and without and be the selfless, beautiful and miraculous making of one's precious, temporary and embodied life. Blessed be. I salute you all in the one Reality that is all. God-Reality.
"All creation is life itself and this life is immaculate, inexhaustible and eternal."
"As I see and know it, we are all beautiful and unique temporary self-aware expressions of God-Reality. Wake up, be aware, embody, celebrate and know. This is the simple message I have come to embody, perfect, communicate, live, protect and share."
I salute you all in this universal Self-knowledge of God-Reality.
Additional final note: I fully understand and appreciate that my authenticity and credibility might always be in question despite whatever spiritual or philosophical revelations or conclusions I choose to communicate, present and share here.
I think and know that even my own wife and son would fully question and doubt my own credibility and assurance in what I present and offer here on the truth of reality, experience and identity. And yet these collected spiritual and philosophical revelations and writings place no importance or focus on me as an embodied self-aware individual and physical cognitive construct and persona. You will have to view and read them and make of them what you will. For me, the enduring truth of God-Reality lies within and with us all. It is always there to investigate and realize for us all.
As a temporary self-aware embodied cognitive construct and persona I will quietly and directly continue to examine and investigate Reality as it continues to be present and play itself out. This ever-changing and impersonal world of contradictions and creations will continue to be all that it is although we might not personally endeavour to directly and intimately see the boundless beauty, sacredness, freedom, unity and miracle of it all in particular incarnation.
I will respectfully communicate and end with the enlightened and life-affirming words of the great Sufi mystic and poet Rumi. I feel, these simple and powerful words alone are enough to humble and make us genuinely respectful of all sentient lives and all creation. I salute you all in the truth of God-Reality - All One. All Om.
"You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop."
Stay humble. Be kind. Always respect and honour all living things. Peace. Silence. Beauty. No inside. No outside. No above. No below. No before. No after. No this. No that. No becoming, No being.
"I am one with God and God is one with me."
Atman-Yoga Daily Mantra: "I am. Life is. I am one with all life and all life is one with me. Oneness in body. Oneness in mind. Oneness in all things."
Atman-Yoga Daily Meditation: 'Only God is real' as the eternal 'I-am'.
Song of the Deathless Yogi:
I am 'emptiness'. All is 'emptiness'. 'Emptiness' is all.
Form is 'emptiness'. Only 'emptiness'. 'Emptiness' is form'.
Here ends this spiritual communication.
