ARE YOU SERIOUS? Read the following. If you aren’t serious, hopefully it will make you so at least for a few minutes:
Imagine heaven – imagine being there forever.
If heaven is bliss, then imagine bliss for all eternity. Imagine watching your favorite movie for all eternity – imagine hell.
Peace. Is peace the absence of pain, or the absence of pleasure and pain? Without pleasure and pain, how will you identify the self?
You are actually already dead. How will you know the moment of you death, if you are dead? Who will be left to watch?
Imagine being anything forever – a frog, a rock, a king, whatever you chose. What will you do when there are no more roles to play?
Where did eternity begin? From what abyss did the big bang spring forth?
Watch your hand. Watch it do its work throughout the day. It is a tool. Watch your mind do its work throughout the day. Finally, watch the watching do its work – nothing but tools.
Hollow laughter, lightening streaks in the sky, photographs slowly fading, echoes, and glimpses of shadows.
You do not let go of anything. That is another trick of the ego’s designed to keep it (seemingly) in charge of the show. Everything is taken from you.
I see no evidence of a system that leads to Truth – only general guidelines. The rest depends on your honesty. Take heart, for all can find their way to honesty.
No one is more honest than a corpse. He’s telling it like it is.
Turn awareness upon itself. The eye must struggle to see itself.
Everything you think you know should be followed by the word “maybe.”
Everything is hopeless, yet everything that is only seems to be. You must act in the face of seeming hopelessness.
How could you not be serious about your search? How could you not take action? Just don’t let your seriousness keep you from seeing your emptiness.
QUESTIONS – Answer any you choose.
DREAMS – There is great beauty in the world for human eyes and endless variety for the tasting, but you are more than human. You are that from which life emanates.
- Is there one thing you want to do with your life, or two, or three? Is there one thing you are doing with your life, or two, or three?
- What are you looking forward to in the coming months?
- What would you like to be when you grow up?
- What will you do if the search doesn’t pan out? What is your backup plan?
- What would you do, if you could do anything?
- How much money would it take to solve your financial woes?
- Where would you go, if you could go anywhere?
DISTRACTIONS – You have everything you need, are as complete as you will ever be, and tomorrow never comes.
- What did you do for fun the past two weeks?
- How do you relax?
- What is your biggest waste of time each day?
- Since April, name one task from which you were sidetracked. What was the cause?
DILIGENCE – “If I tell you to go five miles, don’t walk one, then turn around and come back.” -R. Rose
- What was your biggest accomplishment of the last six months?
- What was your most courageous act? What caused it?
- When was your last isolation/time alone?
- What are you doing to improve your intuition?
- What have you done this past month to help a fellow seeker?
- Since April, what has led you to look within/meditate/examine your thoughts?