The Trickster's Domain

How long do you suppose talk of the ego, how to control it, how to curb it, how to subdue it, etc, has been going on ? 200 years ? 2,000 years ? 5,000 years ? 10,000 years ? 100,000 years ? Perhaps 250,000+ years ? And where has all of this discussion gotten us ? What have we learned from all of this discussion ? Since we are still discussing it, I would say that it has not been much help. Is the ego the problem or simply the shadow of the problem ? We can chase our shade form now on yet will never catch it. Who wins when we shadow-box ? We can not resolve a problem by addressing it's shadow, we must go directly to the Root Cause. Perhaps if we looked for the Cause of our Suffering rather than chasing it's shadow, perhaps then we can catch that shadow.

We would not want to throw out the baby with the dirty bath water, nor keep the dirty bath water because we want to keep the baby, so we BEcome the baby and step out of the dirty bath water. That is, we BE the Divine Wisdom that we ARE and discard our conditioned ideas and images and meanings and Dwell AS the Moment. There is no Truth or Reality anywhere other than AS the Moment so why dwell anywhere else.

Much is multi-layered so that with each reading another bit of Insight is Realized. It is all in the baggage of conditioned notions that must be discarded in order to Truly Realize Truth and Reality. Some of those conditioned notions will not be easy to discard, for we have become quite comfortable with them. Some will be very painful to discard. With this further input, perhaps the Bhagavad Gita, by putting yourself in Arjuna's place, will reveal further Insights for you. This is why Siddhartha said that we would give up anything including life itself for some cause whether it be noble for foolish, but would refuse to give up even a miner Cause of our Suffering.

The first conditioned notion that you must discard is the dualistic notion that there is a *his* and *yours* and *them* and *us*. There is only YOU, and there is only NOW. All else is an Illusion contrived by the conditioned mind. Realizing THAT, and synergising it AS the discipline that you are very accustomed to would be a major advancement not only in that discipline but in general.

"The human condition" IS the Suffering, but that is not the Cause. Suffering is easy enough to band-aid or relieve, for that is apparent or readily recognizable. But will lead to only temporary relief until we Realize and Understand the Causes of that Suffering. It is when we root out the Cause, that Suffering ceases, and not before. Again, the Causes of our Suffering are depicted quite well in the Bhagavad Gita in Arjuna's struggles with his conditioned thinking. Siddhartha said not be believe anything even if he himself said it until we have Directly Experienced it ourselves. Jesus said that we are to directed by the influences upon us, that we had to rely more on our own Direct Experience. In Arjuna's struggles with Krishna's guidance, the very things that Siddhartha and Jesus was conveying is depicted. Both said that we had to be Lamps for our own Sight and that as we think is the way we ARE. No one Saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may, others can Point to the Path, but we ourselves must Walk the Way. Look Within -- at your Reflection IN the Mirror of Truth -- and See what controlled manipulated programmed automatons we ARE -- and Vow to yourself to do something about it.

There IS only One. There IS only YOU. There IS only NOW. When we Realize THAT, we will Understand the Cause of our Suffering. And with THAT Understanding, we will have no real choice but to do something about it. For we will be our own worst antagonist until we do. And *try* not, for there is only *doing* or *not doing* -- as *trying* is but a delusion to account for our imagined future failing. Yet on this Path True effort never goes to waste and there are no failures. Yet before we take that first step, we will not even realize THAT. It is not a matter of Trust, or a matter of Faith, but rather the Realization of Truth and Reality and What-IS. When we ARE Truth, when we ARE Reality, when we ARE What-IS, we ARE Directly Experiencing and therefore are not forced to *believe* anything by any seeming *authority*.

It has been said that "as a man thinketh, so is he". If the mind is cluttered with toxic thoughts, then are we not toxic waste ? If our mind is subdued and at the bequest of our Awakening Inner True Self, are we not Christs or Buddhas in our own right. AS Awakening, have we not Unfolded a degree of Christ Consciousness or Buddha Consciousness ? Is it not sad that so many Sleep through this Realization and call those who do Realize it mentally ill ? I would ask the real mentally ill to stand up, but they can not because they are Sleeping.

Indeed ego is very recognizable, but it is part and parcel to the conditioned mind. Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he has things, but the one who looks on only sees the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness. "Purify", "surrender" ? Rather -- Transcend, Transmute, Transfigure, Purge, Discard. As long as we stand apart from ourselves, dividing ourselves into various lesser selves, we lose sight of the Fact that *There can BE only One*. We are not jugglers, always trying to balance the multiple different selves, but rather Visitors who should be limiting our baggage. AS Awakening, we Realize that ego is but an Illusion contrived for a false security and false protection which is no longer needed once one starts Awakening. And so it is Discarded along with the other conditioned notions. Not that it gives up without a fierce fight, for it is one of the major struggles we undertake Within in our Awakening. A good example is Arjuna's struggles in the Bhagavad Gita. The story is set in a battle field, but the battle field is actually Within ourselves. The seemingly insurmountable struggles we must face with our conditioned ideas and images and meanings, Arjuna battles.

Ah the Freudian *Id* -- the Super Subconscious -- the Primordial Drives of Survival. Pent up or suppressed by our *cultureness* ready to unleash at any time. Taming the Id is like taming a house cat compared to taming our conditioned mind. It is the conditioned mind and it's contents of ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts that we must struggle to let go of. For it is at that point of those notions dying and shriveling to nothing that our psychic apparatus flowers and blooms to ultimate comprehension. Psychoanalyzing the psyche is of no use, for all we have to do is unlock it's cage by psychoanalyzing our conditioned thinking and behavior. Do not over complicate that which is really quite simple. The more complex WE make an undertaking, the less our chances of *solving the riddle*.

As to "the demands of the social and physical environment", I must say that such seeming demands are child's play when we discard the conditioned notion that such seeming demands *bind* us in some way. In our conditioned thinking we like to view these seeming demands as responsibility, when in Fact they are *attachments* to a physical realm where we are but Visitors. And Visitors of a reasonably short duration, at that. We seek *permanence* in this physical realm by clinging to various ideas and images and *things*, yet we are only here for the blink of an eye. We can not take that which we see with us, so may I offer to *let it go*. Our True Work here is not in the outward undertakings of the Moment, but rather Waking-Up from the conditioned delusion that it is. For our True Work IS Within. For it IS there where we will Realize the God we seek. It IS there where we will Realize Awakening.

It would depend on whether one is Sleeping or whether one is Awakening. Sleeping, we Realize nothing and are controlled and manipulated by our conditioned notions. "As a man thinketh, so is he". Awakening we Realize that we ARE, and All manifested form IS, and Recognize Truth and Reality IN the very instant Moment, Moment to Moment. That there is only US and there is only NOW.

One must BE Silence in order for one to Realize Silence, as one must BE the Sound of Silence in order to Realize the Sound of Silence. We can only Truly Understand that which we ARE. Sleeping, we do not Recognize Awakening for we have yet to BE Awakening. Awakening, we Recognize Sleeping for we were Sleeping. We can Realize/Recognize where we have been, but we do not Realize/Recognize were we have not been.

When we label via our programmed thinking, each person will be programmed differently based on his particular life experiences. When we do not label via our Awakening from the delusion of labels, we Recognize quite Clearly that which IS and that which IS-NOT. And that which IS and that which IS-NOT is quite Eternal and Infinite and Changeless, as Truth and Reality are quite Eternal and Infinite and Changeless. Anew each Moment, Moment to Moment, but quite Eternal and Infinite and Changeless.

Sleeping, the ego is our medium of expression. Awakening, What-IS is our only medium of expression. We can not offer Truth, for Truth is not ours to offer. We can not possess it so we can not offer it. Offerings are not Truth, but rather a Pointer to Truth via the lack of that which is false. Truth can not be found nor obtained for received nor given, but can only be Realized as we discard that which IS-NOT (our conditioned notions).

Certify nothing, look beyond so called "authenticity", look beyond the finger and Realize that to which the finger Points. Once we discard our conditioned notions, study a bit, meditate on that which is studied, and put aside that which did not survive the meditation for further study, and we will at least be heading in the Right direction. Of course the first step is Realizing that we are conditioned automatons, and the next step is doing something about it.

The ego Recognizes nothing other than that which is conditioned to recognize. Direct Experience of Truth and Reality is without ego, for the ego is part and parcel of our conditioned images and ideas and meanings. Ego, the contents of our mind, that which we know, that which we learn, our programmed thinking and behavior, is but stumbling blocks to our Awakening. To become intelligent we must learn something new each day, yet to become Wise we must forget something that we have learned each day.

The state of "pre-conditioning" is our state BEFORE the age that we are so conditioned by those in our life experiences. Our family and friends and peer groups and society in general. Observe the new-born, it's Openness and Honesty and total Awareness of What-IS. Such are our most Enlightened Gurus, for they have not yet been tainted by conditioned ideas and images and meanings so they can Show us our Natural Divinity of Awakening. Yet Francis of Assisi said, "give me your child for a year and he will be mine for the rest of his life". HE was saying to learn from the child, not condition the child.

Answers are of little importance for they are but Pointers to that which must be Realized Directly. For in many cases the answers Point to the question and more importantly the questioner. For in order to "Know thyself" we must Observe thyself and Observe why we asked such a question. As most of the time the answer is found in the question.

For there is ego, and then there is ego. Thus far in this forum I have only been speaking of ego that is part and parcel to our conditioned thinking and behavior. Yet in the more Buddhist and Occult bents ego is something far different. Ego in this Understanding is the vehicle by which we direct our forces to Action. This is not conditioned but rather our Natural state of BEing. A vehicle of our most Awakened state of BEing. But this vehicle can not be utilized while we harbor our conditioned notions. So while still quite conditioned we must direct our attention to the conditioned ego. So I would offer that you Dwell on this difference of ego and ego and Realize that one IS and one IS-NOT, for it is our task to Understand the difference.

Now, yes, through discarding our conditioned notions we can Dwell AS Nirvikalpa Samadhi or the Direct Experience of Truth/Reality/Eternity/Infinity/Divinity. But it is generally fleeting for we are so easily distracted by our attachments to the physical realm, so can only be sustained for a short time, from time to time, from time to time. Yet, the less defilements of the physical realm that we cling to, the less conditioned notions that we are attached to, the longer that state of Samadhi can be sustained. Which is a paramount task for those Awakening for once we Open that door of Awakening by discarding only a few conditioned notions it can never be closed completely again.

Samadhi is Samadhi, and once you have crossed that line between Sleeping and Awakening it is just a matter of letting go of the remaining conditioned notions. The difference between Nirvikalpa and Sahaja is the remaining defilements (Causes, conditionings) that we must discard so that we can relieve ourselves of our Suffering. Stages or Steps in our Awakening, as it were. Though I must add that in Awakening there are no stages or steps, but rather a continuous Unfolding. Likewise, consciousness can be viewed much the same way. We can say, for the purpose of discussion, that there is an overall consciousness and our individual consciousness is within it -- but why ? If we placed the sun in a box of many holes, the sunlight shining through those holes would give the illusion that there were many suns in the box. So if we Dwell outside the box we would *think* that there are many suns. But alas, if we Dwell Within we Realize that there is but One Sun, but One Light, but One Consciousness. And we Realize that we ARE that Consciousness. We Dwell without, we Seek that which is outside us, we rationalize our physical position in the Cosmos as being of some significance apart from that which IS. But alas, *There Can BE Only One*.

May I offer, not to complicate or make complex that which is simple. We can get so involved with the *process* and with the *explanation* that we can lose sight of the result. All to often our process or our explanation becomes our result. Yet the name is not that which is named. The deed is not that which is done.

That which IS is UNknown, as that which IS-NOT is Known. How can the UNknown be Known, as how can the Known be UNknown ? One can Realize the difference by Observing the jump of a legless frog.

Can the ego Observe the ego ? Can a conditioned mind Observe a conditioned mind ? If the ego does not belong to What-IS, how can the ego confirm What-IS. For in order to Realize What-IS, we must BE What-IS.

How could an offering of Help be "sinning" ? Yet indeed, endeavoring to Awaken the Sleeping would be quite sinful to the Sleeping, for they are conditioned not to want to be Awakening. Then, perchance if they stir and Open their Eyes and notice Light by such offerings, they would perhaps no longer consider such offerings sinful. True ? Sleeping, we judge. Awakening, we consider. Are our judgements not projections of our own failings ? Would it not be sinful to be silent when we should protest ? May I offer that we must Openly and Honestly Observe ourselves and face that Reflection IN the Mirror of Truth long before we make observations of anything else.

For this "common standard of behaviors" and "collective conscious working in unison" that you so dearly cling to is none other that *conditioned controlled manipulated programmed automatons* who mistakenly *think* it is freedom. Conditioned to *think* it is freedom. At least there is a certain honesty in Hitler and Mussolini in that they did not lie about their intended dictatorial rule, which can not be said about the big lie of conditioned thinking and behavior.

~ The Trickster's Domain ~

You don't know what it is you better get some Tools Instead of being one of the Grand Trickster's Fools, Your seeming Hot-line to Heaven doesn't work well Because the Heat on that line is straight from Hell.

If you want to get Free AS Awakening's Liberation Just Disconnect form conditioning's Degeneration, When you don't See Reality then you are so Blind So Truth AS the Present Moment you'll never Find.

When there's no Compassion there's a Dead Heart So your very perception will be Dead from the start, When you want so much you are Poorer than Poor Because to want nothing you are Richest for sure.

It's not the Gold that's Evil but a Desire to Possess For it's not Gold but a lack of enough that is Stress, To Possess it all yet Poor in Spirit is for the Lonely Thus your so called Pleasure will be Suffering only.

There is no Self-Righteousness about the Wisdom Yet Surety As Apperceived Clarity IS the Kingdom, There's no mental contents in such an Aware State And it is not in the conditioned Fickle Finger of Fate.

Niti niti is as gritty gritty the Sun can no longer Shine For what use is Choice when Truthful Reality is fine, You can't get rid of your Defilements by Exploitation For this is your Fall from Grace and your Damnation.

It is your Judgmental reality you better give up soon Or just pull out your Lyre and Play a Trickster Tune, As long as you exercise your Choices they'll remain Thus you will be Chained to the Trickster's Domain.

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