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Illusions are the thoughts you think about yourself.

Living them creates your dream.

Going beyond them sets you free.

Ellie

 
 
 
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If you think you have past and future lives, then you are of the consciousness of the body. Does a person when entering and leaving rooms of a house, think of each room as a separate life? Not usually. Neither does the undying part of us all, think of itself as separate. If you have identified yourself as the room, then when you are not aware of the room, you think of it as death. You do not see the other rooms of the house.

As long as you think you are your body, that you are your life, you are not enlightened. You are not free of the illusion of separation. There is a natural state of being. That state is ease. It is love, free, joyous. It is peaceful. If you are trying to reach higher states of consciousness, then you have separated yourself from where you want to be. There is no trying required. There is no striving. It is only that you have forgotten who you are, your natural state of being. When you let go the attachment you have to your suffering, then you will realize you have always been free.
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Illusions are the thoughts you think about yourself.

Living them creates your dream.

Going beyond them sets you free.

Ellie

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Yet you would say to me you are not attached to suffering. On the surface this would appear to be true. You have put so much stock in the being you know yourself to be. You become defensive when someone looks too deeply at your issues. You want to be loved and seek so desperately for it. You are heartbroken when your affections are not returned. You want to look good and spend time and money to accomplish this. Your relationships are important to you and you strive to have good faith with your friends, and even your enemies.

All these things belong to someone who would prefer to suffer than let go of the image of self, for there is a suffering that arises when how we look to another is more important than to be who we really are. It is more important to try to control the circumstances which would 'make sure' others see us in the light we want to be seen, than to be happy inside.

These things are not good or bad in or of themselves. They are states that tell us what is happening inside our souls. The problem begins when we think that by moving our attitudes around, that the room we live in, changes.

Then this thinking engenders confusion. Should you not strive to be a better person? Then you worry that maybe that gives yourself and others freedom and permission to do 'bad' things. You are attached to being good as an aspect of image. It is more essential, to be real. Perhaps you have an image that requires you to be bad? It does not matter what you are attached to. It is attachment.
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It is easy to tell who is a seeker, one who is engaging the quest, because the reality of ‘Is it really true?’ brings out considerations that do not come forward otherwise. If it really is true, then like a dominoes effect, the implications of it are profound and far reaching. And once those considerations have been engaged, a second set of questions come up… you see the reality of who you could be and see who you are now, of your life in the village. Your life is really quite comfortable and your complaints seem small now in light of great change. Someone who has truly seen the path asks ‘Do I really want it?

Ellie

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many people walk a spiritual path, many people walk up the mountain. Yet why is it so few seem attain the heights of the Christs and Buddhas? Many people do all kinds of disciplines, prayers, yogas, meditations, yet in all their attainments the greatest attainment eludes them. What is the difference between a Buddha and a student of disciplines?

I see two people walking up the mountain. One walks the path to the top. They know all the disciplines and have a mastery of the work. The other walks also, but soon disappear into the mist, their footsteps fading behind them. The ground they walk on is no longer of this world. Unless you have developed the heart of a master, you cannot follow these people into the greatest of attainments. It is the same mountain, but they are different paths.

I did not have a teacher of this world so I do not have formalized teachings either. Anyone can walk the path without a physical teacher. The path begins right where you are, and it is a path of heart. If you call to the great spiritual beings and teachers for help, they will come to your aid. I know it is true. I have seen it.

I know also the tiredness that comes from walking alone, the worry that you will never make it, that it is all an illusion. I have been there. I love the teaching, and the sharing. I am open to, and will consider taking on students if you have done the teachings and have come to one retreat. You need to be half way up the mountain. It is a path of heart. It requires a deepest sincerity, an honesty of purpose and a heart that is touched by beauty and love.
 
 

 

 

 

How do we walk a path of heart? What is it about nature that allows this wonderful magic to be reflected in it, as moments of glory? It seems as if there is a wall, or a pane of glass that separates us from the world that is seen so clearly beyond. We need a door or a star gate, a means to pass through. As long as you look through the glass and think the seeing is the same thing as having it or living it and is assumed that it is known, it will forever be beyond your reach. It can only be known if it is lived.

 

The heart is not of the physical dimension, but an instrument of feeling.

Ellie