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"OK, now" ...look up here, Steven From: Alexander Alexis
Subject: General
Date/Time 2009-01-13 14:03:54
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MessageNice.
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Yes.
I've appreciated discussing these things with you.
They've been highly enlightening.
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That's true for me too, Steven.
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"There is an inherent distrust of the process of life
in a question like this. The life force knows
what it's doing. It has the whole picture in mind. "
Can we explore this further?
How do you know, that there is not a better plan, than
the one that is currently laid out for you by the
intelligence of the lifeforce?
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As you have already been answered on this beautifully and in complete resonance with my own revelations by Bagua, I will add just the question (since we like questions so much!):
Where would such a plan come from?
All is One. We are It. No separation - Life force=Us. I go inside to the stillness and sink deeper and deeper beyond all "things" and let be revealed to me what is truly important to know. (This space of "letting" is the alchemical space where all answers and solutions come from.) Where else is there to go? The mind dreams up there is somewhere else outside, but that is illusion. How can you go somewhere that is not already What You Are?
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Moreover, aren't the higher level alchemy methods
in some sense designed to SUBVERT the natural flow?
After all, according to the "shen scattering theory",
then the natural flow leads to annihilation, and
the alchemical methods of trying to glue together
the shen is an attempt to subvert the natural flow.
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As it is revealed to me through its own playings in my life/body, the "practices" we "do" are derived from things that happen naturally in the body and life and that alchemy is only really just the WILLING FOLLOWING of what is already occurring, and that in so following, saying "Yes!" to it, "we speed up the process" of remembering what we actually already are. We are not the doers because we are not "separate from." It's that idea that is causing all the suffering we have.
It seems to me that there is misunderstanding about this; that ego mind has invented the idea that we are actually doing something here on our own, when we are just saying "OK, now" to returning to our true nature and leaving behind the false ideas (ego) which keep us attached to the "who" we have invented on earth.
Alchemy dissolves the identifications to those egoic ideas of separation. The ideas we have about who we are are not what we are and it is in these identifications that come the ideas of separation and lack and ALL of our suffering. Alchemy does this dissolving BY remembering what we are. This act of remembering, the "doing of the practices" is nothing more a progressive deepening of sitting in the center until it sinks into us that that is what we are, not the outer ideas we have of who we are.
The formulas serve to accommodate this. But they are not magical tools that the personality can use to become something. So, in this sense, there is no such thing as "cultivation". True cultivation is nothing more than remembering- we are letting our true nature grow inside and take the place of anything else. Nothing actually new is being created. That is the ego's idea of itself as God. The peace and freedom that comes from alchemical practice comes because we "forget about self" we invented and realign with true nature which is the Oneness. Then, the Oneness freely expresses through the conduit of "person-ality" individually without the filters and limitations of egoic ideas, all of which are based upon the false idea that there is separation at all. This individualized Self is "the immortal", not an ego that has somehow, through effort and practice, learned how to beat the system and overcome death and the wheel of incarnation to become FREE! That thinking is fear-based ego fantasy. Free of what? The idea that it is a prisoner to begin with is the delusion of the ego. A delusion spawned from the idea that everything is not Love.
What I write is what comes to me to express the process of the life force revealing itself to "me" as it goes along. Truth is revealed as it goes along and it seems to change, but that is just how it looks from down here. We are all "in separation" to some degree but as peace descends more and more, and what we are embodies further, that sense of separation will dissolve until it is gone completely and what will be left will be the Only One, individualized (goldenly) and not "separated" by its own thought.
Bagua's word "Aliveness"is a really good one. I like the word "Presence" a lot. Whatever works.
Love, peace and blessings to Us.
Thanks,
Alexander
- "OK, now" ...look up here, Steven : (665) Alexander Alexis (657) - - 2009-01-13 2:03 pm
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