God Is Now

In practice the witness is always here to stay, and to witness all the mental activities. By this way, you realize that the witnessed is outside you, therefore not you. The clinging to the witnessed is what made you deluded to think you are the witnessed. Once remove the veil of this delusion; the trinities of witness, witnessing and witnessed become one — only witnessing left, that’s the only reality, oneness. So the presence of witness means

you are aware of your mental activities, also being aware of yourself in the present moment.

And its absence indicates you either engross to your thoughts (the ego leads you unconsciously) or when you are in deep sleep. (the ego temporary subsided or suspended)

The witness, or more appropriately, the I amness, or the sense of presence, which is the reflected light of the pure consciousness which pervades the whole universe and exists since time immemorial. The witness or the I amness, which associated with the body is obscured by the ego due to the preoccupied mental thoughts. Once the mind is not involved with its own mental activities, the witness is emerged. Like the cloud drifts away and the sunlight shines. The witness is readily present here and now all the time. The God is within you, it is now! It is always with you! You can tune into it if you want. But people are busily preoccupied with their thoughts, and pay no attention to it.

The pure consciousness or the Tao, the Source, the ultimate Truth, the impersonal God, or whatever you can call it, is pervading everywhere, it envelops our whole bodies and minds in and out, yet due to its extreme subtlety and ordinariness, it is also hard to recognize its presence. For any spiritual practice to be effective, it is essential

to notice its presence.

The here and now, the sense of presence, the witness, is pointing to the Source, to our true nature. Therefore, it is the heart of practice, the very essential centre to start first with the investigation of the mind. The practice must be evolved around the witness, the I am, and gradually, the pure consciousness will expand and grow indefinitely, until a sense of detachment of body and mind is felt.

The witness or the I am, is the gate-less gate, the door-less door for opening up our spiritual heart. That’s the self realization, that will liberate us from the torment and tyranny of the ego.

As a child growing, so the emergence of the ego. Once the ego takes over and controls the body, it clings to the body as mine, and is fascinated and engrossed with the outside world, hence the attention goes outwardly to look for excitements. That’s why all the time, the witness or the pure consciousness is left unnoticed. As the result, it seems to be our only tool in life is the ego or the mind. By this perception, we miss out the reality of life. Therefore our life is limited and constrained.

Although the witness is there all the time, the ego is being busy with its thoughts, ideas, feelings, and worldly pleasures, that it loses in touch with its creator—the pure consciousness. As originally,

the Father and the son are one. Now, the ego becomes the lost soul, as the son that is separated from its Father.

The ego is left alone and to dominate our life, that’s the beginning of delusion, and results in suffering simply because of separateness from the pure consciousness, the pure soul. To go home, or to its Source is simple. You know, you are the pure consciousness, it is always here and now, never leave you. All you have  to do is to get

your mind silent, let the ego and its thoughts subside. That is!

Then, the witness emerged, like the morning sun rises after the night of darkness. Allowing the pure consciousness embraces your whole being once your ego is subdued and subsided. That’s the emergence of your true nature. God says:

surrender or give me your ego, I will give back your true self.

This is a barter trade with God. That’s the deal!

End of the day, it is the application of the reality that matters. No matter how much we talk, we still have to come back to apply what we learned. The ego and the body has its destiny and karma, that’s the reason it is born for. You can’t stop the flow of waterfall from falling down, similarly, the script of your life which is unfolding beyond your control. The reality already reveals:

the mind-body process is always going unceasingly, unless you are able to split it out, become the witness and the witnessed. And act as the witness.

That’s no way out when you cling to your mind and body. Until the witness is emerged, then you are able to be free from its entanglement. Then the real spiritual practice begins. But to make your life different depending on whether you have the determination to apply the new found reality or wisdom. If not, it is just another wonderful concept to talk about.

The application and the conviction to the insight is essential for the daily application and practice. Until the full realization, that knowledge or insight will flow within your blood and marrow, to the core of your being. Before that, practice with the necessary earnestness and conviction will surely enhance the speed of realization and deepening it. The secret lies here, as Maharaj, the great spiritual master says:

The door that locks you in, is also the door that lets you out.

The ‘I am’ (the witness) is the door. Stay at it until it opens. 

Beyond the Person

Untrained mind identifies with bodies, thoughts, ideas, I am this, I am that, usually it is called the ego, which is no difference from the mind. You are persons, individuals, then you are egos. The ego is the mind-body process, and also the personality-based entity, as a whole it is called a person, simply a bundle of what you cling, remember or identify to be. That’s the delusion of mind that caused you attached or identified with what you think or feel.

When the attention focuses on the mental and bodily activities, that related to a person, he claims the ownership of all doings and being responsible for them. There is an ‘I’ of doing, the doer. This is the root cause of all miseries and sufferings of human beings. The wrong identification with ‘I’, is ignorantly and responsibly for inflicting all the world of sufferings to the mankind as long as they attach or identify with the ‘I’, or taking themselves as persons. By meditation, when the attention shifts  away from body-mind process, such as thoughts, feelings, there is also a shift of consciousness away from the mind. Now you are switching to a new channel. On this layer of consciousness, the attention now focuses on the one who is habitually paying attention to the mental activities of outside world. It means the attention shifts attention to itself, and which is the witness itself. (it can be the observer, knower, or seer, etc)

The shifting is like tuning the radio channel, by turning the attention inwardly, to its source. Habitually, our attention inclines to indulge itself outwardly, attached to the manifest world of mind, such as thoughts, ideas, sensations, sensual pleasures, excitements, hence becoming I am this and I am that. Therefore the personal world is limited only to the sensual sphere of the person. But once you turn inwardly, you are looking for the source, then, there is another unlimited world, beyond your imagination of your senses. By searching, you find there is nothing inwardly, but only the existence of the witness. That’s your true self. It is always and already here and now, but you never pay attention to notice it.

All your life you look for things outside, but overlook your true nature, which is YOU.

Since you have found it, simply rest the attention as the witness. Being as the witness,

you are neutral, natural, non-attached, you don’t identify with the arising thoughts,

you merely play the role of witnessing, as a calm and indifferent witness. At this stage of consciousness, you are transcending yourself

as the ego to the witness; as the person to beyond the person.

Anything that can be witnessed, observed is NOT you, because it is outside you, which is changeable, unreliable. So the proof is in the pudding. At this ascended consciousness, it is verified and proven that you are not the ego, the person as what you think to be, instead, you are just the witness. Resting on the witness is the beginning of the true spiritual practice of meditation.

The true practice is to look beyond

the objects of mind.

So, thoroughly investigate the meditator, that’s YOU, the source: it lies the way, to get you out of the eternal sufferings. The liberation is within YOU.

Start from YOU, the witness.

Initially, the witnessing process involved the trinities: witness, witnessing and witnessed. Or seer, seeing and seen. But when you stay or rest on it long enough, the three becomes one, only witnessing is left behind. Even the witness or seer, is the creation of mind, which is false and non-existent. Witnessing, without objects to witness, is the pure consciousness, so the identity of a person is gone, then no one claims to be the witness or being witnessed. Only witnessing exists.

Witnessing is the expanse of consciousness, it means you are not the body nor the ego, but the whole universe is within you. Just like diving into the ocean, leaving the surface waves on the top of ocean. You are no longer your body or ego. You are the free agent, without boundary and identity of ownership.

Witnessing is autonomous and independent, there is no self to dictate it. It is simply BEING.

When witnessing expands to objectless, or outside the pull of the duality, it becomes pure consciousness, beingness. It is like a sleep-like state, a ‘black out’ or ‘blank’, in a void but not a void, which is timeless and spaceless state and beyond verbal description. The experience is like that: you may feel like in the deep sleep, but actually you are stepping out of the mind and its functions. That’s the real spiritual moment!

The power of witnessing, as it goes further, is eventually to weaken the duality of mind. The mind inherent power is to separate and attach. It creates the delusion of separateness. The mind is very tricky, when you look for it, it disappears, and becomes empty. Only when the mind subsided or transcended, the veil of delusion is lifted, there is only pure awareness without identification of this and that. So what so called reality is for you to see things as what they REALLY are. It is not easy to get over the mind, due to its strong built-in habitual tendency. Just like the strong pull of gravity, we strongly cling to the mind, live with it for whole life without knowing it. Of course, with the deeper understanding, the mind or the ego, can be used as the vehicle to help us for the daily life living. But the witnessing power must always maintained in the practice, and acts as the purifier agent, which is able to purify the mind, so the actions.

The practice is progressive and spiritual, providing the opportunity for deepening the understanding that the mind is not you, it is limited. And finally it goes beyond the ego when witnessing power getting stronger and leading consciousness further to the subtle state. So in daily life, the mind still comes back, so the veil of delusion follows. The ego is emerged, so the sense of separation. But now you know, it is no longer fooling you, you are no longer dictated by it. In fact, it is just the spiritual vehicle to serve you, rather than you serve it. This is the real spiritual practice, as you will feel released and relieved, as the mind or the ego having lesser power to control you. You are freer.

To sum up the process of meditation: first; as long as there is the ego or the mind, there is the ‘I’, which identifying with the world of mental activities, it acts as the person living in the world and take the world as my world; second; by resting on the emerged witness, it means you are tuning the attention by stepping out of the mind. So you are witnessing and dissociating from all the mental activities, third; to stay longer, by deepening the consciousness, until the witness and the witnessed also gone, only the witnessing left. Like diving into the deep ocean, the waves gone, left only the silence of the deep ocean. Here and now, only

YOU, alone without any identity. The pure consciousness without object,

losing the sense of time and space, that alone shines, exists. 

Life Is A Script

Life is a script. The ego is the main actor in the script. The soul is the witness, it silently observes the acting of the ego. But unfortunately, in most of human life, the consciousness is so

involved with the ego that it cannot

notice the presence of the soul.

Like an audience watching a movie, getting so involved to the play of the script on the screen, that makes him crying and laughing without knowing that this is just a movie— the actors are not real, but merely a sequence of light and picture-reflections on a screen.

Why so caught up?

Because he is forgetting his real identity as an audience, his role is supposed to sit back relaxed, to watch and enjoy the movie. Similarly, with the movie of life, one is getting so

involved with the ego of life,

that he is completely forgetting he is the soul, and the ego is just playing its part in the script of life. The ego is just the reflection of life. As the karma unfolds in this world, so the sequence of karma of life needs to be processed in a complex way—actions need to taken, things need to be happened—in this life. You are just a witness, and since the ego is not real, so the world of karma. Then, who is the one watching the movie of life in silence and behind the ego? It is 

YOU!

It is the soul, the witness watching over this life’s movie.

Each one’s script in this life is different, but it is always the same old soul with the unchanged witness that witnessing one’s whole life. The difference is that someone with the discernible and quiet mind

is able to jump out of the ego’s operating system,

and becomes a witness, a soul, that can directly see and live with one’s own life independently, without attachment to the ego. It means you are no longer chained by your ego which is merely your own shadows reflected on the wall. Your own shadows that reflected on the wall have been frightening and torturing you for whole life. But you still believe and identify with these reflected shadows—that’s your false self of ego.

Your false self of ego has the chance to fool you only when you are clinging to the world and look outside to seek for truth. Once you look within, inwardly, you will find that the ego is just the temporary and impermanent human tool to assist this body for basic surviving in this life. The ego in this samsara of life has its own karmic role to play. But your real identity is the soul, the witness of the ego. Your source of timeless and eternal life lies here—with your soul, your silent witness, and not your ego. Your soul, your spirit is your home. When you identify with the soul or the spirit as the witness, you are free, liberated and at home. You feel safe and step out of this mad, mad world. So your life will flow its natural course without the ego’s interference. Then, why worry some-more?

Things are destined to happen,

it will happen. Things are not supposed to happen, it will not.

With this understanding, let the life be free as you are merely an observer. Then you will put down the burden and worry, as a traveller puts down his heavy luggage on the floor of a moving train. And you sit back enjoying the scenery as the train moving forward. Just like standing on top of a bridge and watching the flow of river beneath the bridge. Nothing you can change, except watching quietly. Rather than blindly and ignorantly follow your ego, you train yourself to jump out of the ego’s box, which is the world of samsara, it goes round and round, never ending. You can’t stop the cyclone of samsara in life. But you can choose

to jump out of it anytime!

As your ego is in the level of samsara, which is the huge, horrible and never ending cyclone. Don’t fight with the ego but transcend it by lifting yourself to the higher level of the soul. Here, at soul level, you are out of danger, as the cyclone of samsara cannot catch and reach you. You are safe here. You can say goodbye to the ego and the world. Being the witnessing consciousness, you identify with the soul, that’s so called spiritual practice, embodying the wisdom.

That’s the only protector in

 this life!

So, when one coupled with this wisdom, and

transcending the life of ego, your life is becoming easier, lighter, less burden and more fun to live.

Don’t look outside, your home is here and now, it always with you, even before you are born! 

Essential Spirituality

Despite our pleasant materialistic surroundings, many people today experience dissatisfaction, fear, anxiety, and a sense of insecurity. What we seem to be missing is a proper sense of human spirituality --- The Dalai Lama

Below are some quotes from the book; Essential Spirituality, the author, Roger Walsh, beautifully articulates the benefits of spiritual living and its practices. 

• Religion and Spirituality - Religion, mostly implies a concern with the sacred and supreme values of life. On the other hand, spirituality, refers to direct experience of the sacred, which is most central and essential to our lives. Spiritual practices are those help us experience the sacred - through meditation and contemplation. 

• Psychological and Spiritual Benefits - The ultimate aim of spiritual practices is awakening; that is to know our true Self and our relationship to the sacred. As we progress along the path. with deep and profound understanding of true Self, we discover our relationship with the sacred world of universe,  Gradually, the heart begins to open, fear and anger melt, greed and jealousy dwindle, happiness and joy grow, love flowers, peace replaces agitation, concern for others blossoms, wisdom matures, and both psychological and physical health improve. Virtually all aspects of our lives are touched and transformed in some way.

• Physical Benefits - Spiritual practices can reduce stress, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels. They may help alleviate insomnia, muscle spasms, and diseases ranging from migraine to chronic pain. They even reduce the effects of aging and lengthen the life span.

• The Greatest of All Discoveries - Over time, spiritual practices work their transformative wonders on our hearts, minds, and lives. As the heart opens and mind clears, we see further and further into the boundless depths of the mind. There within ourselves, we finally find the most profound, the most meaningful, and the most important discovery any human being can make. 

• The Secret of all Secrets - Within ourselves we find our deepest self, our true Self, and recognize that we are not only more than we imagined but more than we can imagine. We see that we are a creation of the sacred, intimately and eternally linked to the  sacred, and forever graced and embraced by the sacred. This is the greatest of all discoveries, the secret of all secrets, the priceless gift for mankind from great ancient contemplative religions.

• The Central Message - The words differ from one tradition to another, but their central message is the same: You are more than you think! Look deep within, and you will find that your ego is only a tiny wave atop the vast ocean that is your real Self. Look within, and at the center of your mind, in the depths of your soul, you will find your true Self, that you are intimately linked to the universe of the sacred. There, you share its unbounded bliss.

Today is Chinese New Year, also the Year of the Snake.  We hope, will finally bring peace, justice and freedom to all Malaysians. Happy New Year.

心靈溝通 - 另一類體驗

主辦人及老闆娘, Cola - 能洞察心靈, 溝通能力強(09Jan)

溝通師， Mr. Chow (09Jan-10)

去年， 在偶然機會觀看了一部有關心靈溝通的紀錄片，那是台灣心靈大 師，林显宗老师的淨观心灵唯識科學研究機構的作品。今年初，卻發現其中一家淨观中心設在我住宅區的附近，接此機會去拜訪詢問。

Cola 小姐是負責人，给人印象亲切，容易溝通，而且洞察力很强。她的溝通師，Mr. Chow 也是很专业的溝通師。

唯識深層溝通是一种技术，可以讓人在清醒的狀態下回溯過去，甚至到前世！人在這一世及無數个前世种下种种的因果，今世生活面對的一切就是果赧。逭技术引导一个人进入心灵深層，淸除心靈罣礙，放下壓抑的負面情緒，面對過去所放不下的事，而釋放身心理的負面能量。

和內觀靜坐相似，了解身心，面對自己。其實一切问题与答案，都来自自己，而问题与答案，就藏在自己心灵的深处。其主要功能是釋放藏在自己心理已久的負面能量，使身心平衡，就能促進，改善人際關係，事業，情感，疾病問題。这也是另一類心靈改造。

"朋友，不要等到心灵破产了，才来改造“，哈哈，Cola 常常这样说 ...