“When the mind disappears, time disappears. Hence, down the ages, the mystics have sad that time and mind are nothing but two aspects of the same coin. Mind cannot live without time and time cannot live without mind. Time is a way for the mind to exist. Hence all the buddha’s have insisted, live in this moment: to live in this moment is meditation; to be simply here and now is meditation.
Those who are simply here now is this very moment with me are in meditation. This is meditation – the cuckoo calling from far away and the airplane passing and the crows and the birds and all is silent and there is no movement in the mind. You are not thinking of the past and you are not thinking of the future. Time has stopped. The world has stopped. Stopping the world is the whole art of meditation. And to live in the moment is to live in eternity. To taste the moment with no idea, with no mind, is to taste immortality.”
- Osho
“Any form of conscious meditation is not the real thing: it can never be.
Deliberate attempt to meditate is not meditation.
It must happen; it cannot be invited.
Meditation is not the play of the mind nor of desire and pleasure.
All attempt to meditate is the very denial of it
Only be aware of what you are thinking and doing and nothing else.
The seeing, the hearing, is the doing,
without reward and punishment.”
Learning to silence the mind is one of the most useful things you can do. There may be times in your life when you become negative or your mind becomes full of self-doubt, or perhaps you may just want to quieten any internal dialgoue you may be experiencing. If so use the exercise in this audio to help relax you and bring your attention to the present moment and silence any mind chatter.
It is wise to drop any pre-conceived negative limited notions about what is possible for you in this lifetime, it is only when you do this that you can begin to see alternatives and start to see things a little differently, you can create much, do many things and lead a fuller, richer life, but not if you constantly see the world from a limited ‘small me’ perspective.
My advice to you is to shift your perspective from little me to someone who can achieve way more than they think they can, if you think about not getting this or that, then stop thinking and just know you are more than any short term limiting thoughts you manifest from time to time (or when it all feels like too much). Knowing is more important than thinking especially in times when you think things won’t happen or will turn out badly, instead just know things will turn out ok and that everything will be good.
We live courtesy of mind made prisons which we create for ourselves and then back up them up by what we see on TV, hear from others or what our peers tell us what can and cannot be done in this life. But this is all illusion because there is great power in you and in everyone else alive today, and a belief that goes against this fundamental truth is pure fiction. Go on and believe what you want in life, this is certainly a choice available to you, but perhaps a choice you might want to make is the one where you choose to live free of fear and mind made limitations which serve to keep you living a life far removed from what you could be living. Perhaps one of the saddest aspects of life is that we are all powerful humans with an ability to create amazing lives but ins
Do you believe that life is something that happens to you in the future, do you think about your past so much that it seems as if you are living it again? Do you constantly re-live moments from last week’s staff meeting, or from a random conversation you had 3 months ago. What about 5 years ago, do you still recall events that happened then?
Are you living for some point in the future when your life will be amazing and great, and treating the present moment as just a means to an end? Are you convinced that your past is a representation of how your future will be? Do you constantly recall in vivid detail your past mistakes or actions which you would rather forget? Are your thoughts consumed by any other time but this present moment? If they are, then what is it that is so unsatisfactory about your life right now that you have to continually reminisce about days gone by? Are you someone who finds that their mind continually wanders here there and everywhere at the expense of your current day to day living? Would you like to forget the past, not worry about the future and just become absorbed in this very moment?
“Life is a journey and not a destination.”
A point in time 5 years from now, something which you are striving for is all well and good, but it is important to realise that what you think of as the future, some point in time months or years ahead of where you are now will never actually arrive. Many people completely ignore their present moment; instead they are always living for the weekend or the end of the month, or some other imaginary point in the future that will cause them to feel happy.
It has been said that many people spend up to 97% of their time either living in the past or the future, which means they only spend a mere 3% of their time in their present reality. That is quite a sobering statistic when you realize this current moment is all you will ever have. That is a lot of time in thoughts outside of what you are currently involved in.
Your attention should rarely be taken up with thoughts of regret about the past, or thoughts of worry about the future, both are made up and only exist in your mind as and when you think about them. An important point to remember is that while you want to create a new life yourself, and learn about strategies to change your thinking, it is still necessary to realize that while you aspire for great things to happen in your future, the power you have to make all that you wish for yourself come true, comes from this very moment right now.
It is important you strive to become fully present in your life, each moment that passes is extremely powerful, at this very moment you can be more constructive and productive than you have been at any other time in your life. Your power comes from understanding and utilizing this.
Life is an illusion, but for many people they would find this statement hard to comprehend, after all they look around and can see with their own eyes that life is indeed real, it is there all around them. The trees, buildings, people talking on their mobile phones, chairs, tables, cars, trucks, babies screaming, dogs barking, how can life possibly be an illusion they might ask themselves.
But the illusion which is life isn’t in tangible objects, structures or in things we can touch with our own hands, the illusion comes from how we perceive life around us, the real illusion is in our minds.
The illusion all comes from the way you interact with the world, how you interpret what you see, how you interpret what you hear, the meanings you attribute to things, your perception of others, and also your perception of yourself. This is an illusion, how is it possible for it not to be an illusion and for it to be anything else? But our minds our powerful and so consequently we see our perceptions and interpretations as real.
But they are not, and this is to be used to your advantage, because when we are aware that our interpretations of life are indeed illusions of the mind, then all of what we hear and see which doesn’t benefit us can immediately be discarded. There is great power in this.
Our minds are powerful and they really do and possibly even want to believe that it can’t be an illusion, sometimes we aren’t happy knowing this we want to see it as more, and it is via our amazing human minds that we are able to see (or perceive) it as more and interpret life in any way we choose.
Taken from ‘Create your own reality’ free eBook available here.
Time, clocks and calendars are all man made inventions
They are simply used to keep track of the earth moving around the Sun. Tapping into infinite consciousness is about losing track of time completely, because once you realize there is no time you can enter into this very moment and accept it as it is.
Don’t be a slave to time by way of future events that you have planned for yourself. It is easy to live our lives as a constant stream of meetings, deadlines, events, appointments at some pre-arranged time in the future. For a lot of people, life is rarely about the very moment they are experiencing but rather about what is going to happen, or will happen in the future. The very moment they are experiencing is merely a means to some end point in the future.
It is important to focus your attention on the very moment that you experience life, because life can never be lived at any other time than the one you are presently experiencing. To be fully aware and engaged in life is to be fully accepting of your presence in this very moment.
“Future and past exist only in the mind.”
To be fully awake is to understand that time really is an illusion. So your watch says 1.45, what does that mean to you? Time is all played out in the mind, this afternoon, this evening, next week, last week, next year, so many people live their whole life planning, striving, searching, working, waiting, but for what exactly? Some date in the future when their whole life we come together and everything will be OK.
Planning for the future is a good thing to do as is setting goals, but when life is constantly and totally lived in the mind at the expense of this very moment, then something needs to change. It is easy to get carried away with the future sometimes, likewise it is easy to always think about the past, but what is the point to this?
“Life only exists here and now and it will never be anywhere else, the future and past are mind based perceptions which should be dropped if you want get closer to your true nature.”
Of course it can be hard to drop the illusion of time when we have to be somewhere or get up at 7.00 in the morning and go to work, or meet a friend at a specific time at the weekend, but as you go through your day to day life remind yourself that this very moment is all there will ever be.
When you know that this moment is all there is, time all of a sudden kind of becomes irrelevant.
Here is the latest video I have uploaded to you tube (The spiritual awakening), let me know what you think, also feel free to check my you tube channel to see my other videos.
If you hear a voice in your head, how can you be that voice?
You can never be the voice you hear, the real you (consciousness) is the one listening to it. Identifying with the voice can lead you to all sorts of problems especially when you say you cannot do things. Why believe this? It is just a voice. Treat it like you would when you hear a song on the radio. Listen, be aware, you know you are not singing the song, be aware you are not the voice you hear inside your head.
YOU are the awareness that can hear the voice.
Consciousness is listening to a voice
The ‘me’ or ‘I’ you identify with is not you at all, it exists only as and when you think about it or bring it up.
The mind and the body are very much separate from who you really are, and until you learn and understand that they are not the real you, you will always create a barrier between the ‘I’ you think you are and the consciousness that you really are.
In this life, the greatness that is in you, is in everyone. We think we are different, of course we all think lots of things, but the mind is powerful and thinking creates an incredible feeling that everything is all so real, such is the power of our minds.
Consciousness is the flame from which all thought is bought into existence, how can you know that you think and have ideas, thoughts, without an awareness of them……. If you want to think about something think about how that is possible.
You can never be the voice you hear, the real you (consciousness) is the one listening to it. Identifying with the voice can lead you to all sorts of problems especially when you say you cannot do things. Why believe this? It is just a voice. Treat it like you would when you hear a song on the radio. Listen, be aware, you know you are not singing the song, be aware you are not the voice you hear inside your head.
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