Roger's BLOG
How to live
"In each moment do exactly what you think or feel to do."
So often we really dislike being told how we should or shouldn't be.
Automatically there could well be a reaction to the above on that basis.
In fact, it really should be very hard to resist this statement because when you look at it closely.
It extends complete freedom to be as you are - really not dictating anything to you.
Nonetheless, objections may still arise at first, take note of them and contemplate why they come up.
On deeper reflection it can be seen that this statement is not so much telling you what to "do" or "not do" but rather it describes how decisions and choices have always and will continue to happen.
Recognise this dynamic as the basis of how life unfolds and come to see that on some level you are always doing what you want.
Peace for now.
Slow down
Slow Down!! Prioritise a conscious connection to yourself over outcomes.
Life will reward this change in unexpected ways.
Non-doership
The notion of non-doership does not suggest that you stop functioning, it doesn't suggest that you stop being productive or an active member of society, it doesn't suggest that effort towards an outcome won't happen. Rather it highlights that on investigation it can be seen that was taken as 'my doing' is much more a 'happening' and that outcomes are never in our control.
A deep and thorough recognition of this principle is the basis of surrender and peace of mind/heart in daily living.
Life is a 'happening'. Seeing the non-doershipness will not change WHAT happens in life, it will just allow it to be seen in a different light.
Peace for now
Easter and happiness
The Easter story is about happiness.
Quite obviously not the happiness of circumstance but rather a metaphor that demonstrates the undying aspect of the human being. A self-confirming awareness of this everpresent component of the human is where the happiness through peace of mind & the absence of hate stems from.
Know yourself exclusively as a physical entity and death will be seen as the ultimate assault on what you think yourself as. Pain in the moment is then interpretted as a mini death.
Know yourself also at the non-physical core of your being and death will be known to be 'a going home'.
Peace be with you, Happy Easter.
Attachment to love
It is the deeply ingrained beLIEf that what I am is defined by outcomes which leads to a life of uncomfortableness, resistance and fear.
Judgement vs. discernment
It's worth discerning the difference between 'judgement' and 'discernment'
A field of Being
Even enquiry, contemplation and teachings at a point become mental obstacles that need to be seen as blah blah blah.
If contemplating and thinking about happiness, peace and freedom becomes habitual without the insight which informs "what's being pointed at, peace of mind/heart, is actually a field which lies outside of the spectrum of thought, just STOP and Be", if this insight doesn't happen then we remain trapped in the realm of thought.
This field is what we are at our core, our true nature, what we are right now, but maybe obscured by a thinking obsession.
It's a field of Being that needs to be grounded in, the thinking mind transcended often and regularly - that means just STOP and Be.
It's a field of Being right now, which is obscured by a conceptualisation of what I am or what I want.
Look out in front of you, and the peripheries too, have a soft open gaze, allow all of what's in the field of awareness to just be as it is, notice the body is also an object in that awareness, you are even prior to that, that in which everything arises and falls.
Peace for now
What do you really want?
Put all beliefs and concepts to one side for a moment and ask yourself honestly, keeping it real and most importantly in practical terms - "what am I really looking for?"
All fancy answers aside and remember, keeping it real, you'll find that all you really want if you're honest is to be happy.
If after asking this question you still think what you really want is to save the world, a global awakening, a soul mate, or union with God, then OK, but ask yourself this - "Why do I want this?"
And hopefully you'll concede, not to me but to yourself, that actually you want this because in simple terms you believe it will make you happy.
So what we really want in practical terms is simply to be happy.
Remember this, always keep it as your 'come-back-to-point' when seeking, don't get lost in too much theory.
Ask yourself from time to time, "Is what I'm doing right now, still aligned with my only real goal of happiness?"
To keep our seeking focussed in this way we will need to become much clearer on the subject of happiness - this will come once you have your primary answer firmly in mind.
So start from this point of seeing from your own simple admission that what you really want is to be happy, and only then work upwards. This working upwards means: finding out what happiness really is; is it available? Especially find out what happiness isn't; where happiness is not to be found; what gets in the way; why, and so on and so on.
This however is not step one, the first step is to keep it real and become really sure of what it is you are truly seeking, then focus on that exclusively, become an expert in that which is most important.
Happiness through peace of mind to you.
Commit yourself to truly understanding
Guilt, blame, judgement and pride are all forms of human suffering and are attitudinal. They are an attitude to what happens in the flow of life and not a result of the event itself. The event itself produces only pleasure or pain; the guilt, blame, judgement and pride are additional to, and on top of, the pleasure or pain in the flow of life.
This attitudinal response makes up all human suffering. What we are truly seeking is the end of suffering.
All of these forms of suffering arise from the false belief in personal doership.
Isn't this a great reason to commit yourself to truly understanding, no matter what, what the teachings of non-doership are really pointing at.
Dedicate yourself to truly understand them, at first intellectually, without stopping until you really get the point.
This notion of non-doership has been paramount in the Vedas and Scriptures and almost all wisdom teachings for thousands of years.
The belief in personal doership can't stand to entertain it. But for some the time has come where the heart is open and receptive to what lies beyond the arguments and resistance.
Dedicate yourself today.
Peace for now.
A cosmic joke
Even the belief in personal doership is not your doing.
That's the cosmic joke.