tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post2099692560655217099..comments2023-08-17T06:46:05.098-07:00Comments on Everything That is Not a Belief is True: The God ParticleRay Menezeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-80663601963622870402013-04-03T03:35:43.772-07:002013-04-03T03:35:43.772-07:00Ok Love and compassion will be my next postOk Love and compassion will be my next postRay Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-58901381151925380632013-04-03T01:40:37.072-07:002013-04-03T01:40:37.072-07:00Yes, I saw that Nigel and do watch Robert Lanza...Yes, I saw that Nigel and do watch Robert Lanza's theory on Biocentrism on YouTube as Ray suggested. Pretty believable.<br /><br />Ray, I tried to search our past emails and blogs but could not find your reply to me regarding love. I'm sure you had written to me regrading this with something like Consciosness having the same characteristic as pure love or something to that effect.<br />After all this intellectualisations I tend to keep thinking where does the 'heart' fit into all this. Shouldn't it be before the conceptual mind and isn't 'Love & Compassion' at the heart of everything as it is in Buddhism?<br />Could you write a full article on Love & Compassion please as I feel this topic deserves justice from the viewpoint of 'all beliefs being false'. ThanksKitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336853678260155467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-88100934217655095832013-03-30T10:52:47.601-07:002013-03-30T10:52:47.601-07:00Yeah, I've seen it, "Athene's Theory ...Yeah, I've seen it, "Athene's Theory of Everything". Pretty cool stuff. Have you seen "Imagining the 10th Dimension"? The guy gas a load of videos about string theory, and it's pretty clear, and entertaining.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240365995087950187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-31257139465696027752013-03-29T13:50:46.667-07:002013-03-29T13:50:46.667-07:00Just watched this amazing video on Youtube check i...Just watched this amazing video on Youtube check it out here -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbh5l0b2-0oRay Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-53962790847565920652013-03-28T12:41:43.041-07:002013-03-28T12:41:43.041-07:00This is a piece by Jeff Foster, a guy I really lik...This is a piece by Jeff Foster, a guy I really like.<br /><br />An unexpected piece of news comes your way. An unforeseen occurrence, an out-of-the-blue revelation. Something you thought was yours is now lost, perhaps forever. An old way of life has fallen away. Old friends now come to visit: That sinking feeling in the stomach. That shortness of breath. That primal sense of disorientation. Who are you? What can be trusted? What will happen now? A dream of how life "was going to be" is dead and dying. An old identity is melting away. An old future has become void. The invitation? Stay with this death. Breathe through it. Stay present in the midst of the movement. Ground yourself as the old ground falls away - it was never the true Ground anyway. Know that only the false is crumbling, and the real cannot crumble. Life itself cannot go wrong, who you truly are cannot perish, only your plans. "My life" is always changing, that is its nature, so let the change be natural, and let the false crumble into the Life that you are. Let truth reveal itself, moment by moment, without rewinding or fast-forwarding the movie. Lean into the seeming mess, relax into the present scene. See the aliveness and creativity in the cyclone - you are only witnessing the death of dreams. Know yourself as the deep and unshakeable calm at the timeless eye of the storm. Who you are has always witnessed the passing of storms. Crisis is not disaster, it is birth. This is your invitation.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240365995087950187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-36589827114230930032013-03-28T11:02:53.661-07:002013-03-28T11:02:53.661-07:00Wishing you well Kite. One last thing that helps m...Wishing you well Kite. One last thing that helps me, adopt a warrior attitude. Never indulge in self-pity, it gets you no where fast. Demand only the highest of your resources. You will fall, we all do, that's normal, but a warrior gets up quickly, he doesn't linger on the ground. He just gets on with the task at hand. Have no expectations and always chose a path with heart. Life is a mysterious unknowable miracle no matter what's going on, and so are you.<br />wishing you who we all are.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240365995087950187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-29083305236764194012013-03-28T08:37:06.890-07:002013-03-28T08:37:06.890-07:00Boredom is one of the manifestations of resistance...Boredom is one of the manifestations of resistance. This is one of the barriers that arises in meditation that need to be passed through. This is not easy as when you sit in meditation and boredom arises the unconscious mechanism I mentioned may kick in and we become sleepy. With persistance this will fall away - I sometimes refer to the ego as a defence system and that is true, the ego is a master of defence - trust that consciousness is more powerful than the ego then with persistance you will solve this.Ray Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-20318637810352872272013-03-28T07:34:40.736-07:002013-03-28T07:34:40.736-07:00Got that, thanks.
Sorry but I didn't even real...Got that, thanks.<br />Sorry but I didn't even realise that I was repeating myself/ (as you said it was unconscious)<br />Ok so I've got to figure this out myself. I completely agree and understand that and I will try my best to go past the resistance in meditation and daily life.<br />I was reading your blog on Boredom today and I feel that majority of the resistance is in the form of boredom. I just cannot get through with anything including going towards the resistance aspect in me as I get really uncomfortable and bored (I think they are two sides of the same coin) to maintain the drive and courage to get through the thicket of deliberate strategies to keep something protected.<br /><br />So thanks a lot for pointing that out to me, I will sit and face this resistance which manifests in my body as sensations as you and Nigel have said. I can't see any other way at presentKitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336853678260155467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-18689527418641712172013-03-28T05:54:22.457-07:002013-03-28T05:54:22.457-07:00Thats quite a reaction you had to my last comment....Thats quite a reaction you had to my last comment. I think it is because that comment was mostly about the unconscious. It reminds me of a client I had who whenever I touched on certain unconscious material he would literally fall asleep in his chair, after a few minutes he would wake up and I said the same thing again and again he instantly fell asleep. its possible I was boring him to sleep but I don't think so, the timing was exact, as soon as he heard these particular words he fell asleep. Over time I was able to see some of his unconscious beliefs and say them but still he was unwilling to listen and this was not conscious but deeply unconscious. With you not having been in therapy with me I can only say in a general way that these unconscious beliefs are to do with your secret beliefs about yourself. These beliefs are almost always to do with negative experiences you had when you where a child that cause you to conclude (unconsciously) that you are unloveable. From this conclusion you design a strategy to deal with this again unconsciously. As I said in my last comment this strategy is in what you now do and this is the place to look if you want to see what that is. You have asked me this same question many many times and I have answered it many times the answer is also contained in both my books which you have read. This tells me that you are not yet ready to hear the answer or to know what it is you want. Amnesia does not occur by accident it occurs when the mind is unable or unwilling to face certain truths. You are looking to me to supply the answer to this mystery but the answer lies with you and this is true for each of us. Through meditation I found the principle of resistance, this is all the things that we resist in life, it may be we resist doing certain things or hearing certain things and our tendency is to just avoid these things. Avoiding means burying our problems and their solution and so they alway return, you can push certain things out of your awareness but you cannot stop the problem from reoccurring. In meditation this starts to become more and more obvious and in time we begin to become interested in these moments of resistance and then it becomes possible to know precisely what we resist and to begin exploring the possibility of not resisting. As we learn to stop resisting life begins to flow, the flow is a sure sign that we have solved or are solving out own resistance. This resistance often manifests as pain or negative experience.Ray Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-28649713539276110462013-03-27T22:30:16.100-07:002013-03-27T22:30:16.100-07:00Thanks Nigel for your thoughts. Makes sense.
Ray ...Thanks Nigel for your thoughts. Makes sense. <br />Ray I'm sorry but I still need to ask you further on this: <br />WHY? Why do we want to hold on to or want negative beliefs. I really want to understand this as I sense the truth of this although very vaguely at present. Can't put my finger on it but somehow intuition tells me its true. But I need your help: WHY is it like this?<br />After reading your last comment I experiences a lot of negativity and rejection of all your concepts as a sort of retaliation to what you said. My body started feeling aches and pains as if in some sort of fever and I have lost sleep as well since I'm up since 1:30am. Something seems to be resisting this proposition. I'm better now when I write this but I still can't understand WHY!Kitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336853678260155467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-36740870659641763002013-03-27T11:37:16.040-07:002013-03-27T11:37:16.040-07:00If you ever get to that place where life just isn&...If you ever get to that place where life just isn't worth living, well then you have nothing to lose. So hey, you might as well just hang on in there and observe the movements of sensations. Focusing on sensation cuts out the automatic mind thoughts geared to try and free you from them. Face fear, see what happens. Just look at it. If fear is running and we are unconscious it, we become it's slave.<br /><br />The reason you eat has nothing to do with thoughts. It's a sensation that gets you up to make a sandwich. It's a world within us that is on the animal level, but our minds automatically kick in as soon as sensation arrives. Breaking that automatic pilot is not easy, especially in the case of fear. We don't want to feel fear. Ask yourself why? Is it really that big a deal? See.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240365995087950187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-88613841078642417592013-03-27T11:26:37.616-07:002013-03-27T11:26:37.616-07:00Whether the state I find myself in is permanent or...Whether the state I find myself in is permanent or not is unknowable, it is also irrelevant as nothing is permanent and I don't expect anything other than life doing what it does. I'm going to die one day... sooner or later... all things come and go. One thing the mind always tries to do is freeze reality into something nice for ourselves. We try to cling to nice states and try to avoid disagreeable states. It's simply a pointless pursuit. You can't fight reality. We've tried for a long time. And now the new struggle for so called enlightenment is the new place we search for. A nice place where we will be free of suffering. But if you are intelligent you will continue to struggle to find that place and one day you'll give up all hope and if you decide to carry on living you'll face all sensations that come and go without trying to do anything about them. And as we leave them alone they just come and go quite quickly. They become the colours of life and they are all welcome. It may even get to a point where the feeling is so direct that mind interpretation ceases and you don't even recognise them as good or bad. They are just sensations. Storms come, blues skies come, windy days and calm days... that's life. And it is an extraordinary miracle.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240365995087950187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-43073771951261576742013-03-27T09:51:55.962-07:002013-03-27T09:51:55.962-07:00It is impossible to do something you do not want t...It is impossible to do something you do not want to do therefore everything that you do is what you want. Your life as it is now is entirely the product of your beliefs, this even applies to feelings. As I have said before why this is so difficult to understand is because so many of our beliefs are unconscious (beliefs we would rather not know about). If you look carefully at your life as it is you will see that all of it is precisely what you want. The problem here is to see your own unconscious beliefs. These beliefs are assigned to the unconscious file and until you are ready to see what you have placed in this file the contents will be unknown to you except through observing what it is you do. Much of what you do comes directly from the unconscious and while you may not see what is in the "file" you can see what it is you do. Ray Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-89111909508282060462013-03-27T09:34:38.866-07:002013-03-27T09:34:38.866-07:00Can you explain your last statement from your seco...Can you explain your last statement from your second last comment:<br />"Observe what you already believe and you will see it already is true."<br />You have said that before as well, that we already have what we want. I don't understand what you mean by that.<br />Thanks<br />Kitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336853678260155467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-36575044274931547612013-03-27T05:20:16.802-07:002013-03-27T05:20:16.802-07:00Yes time is a belief that allows all other beliefs...Yes time is a belief that allows all other beliefs to exist, it is a construct that although it does not exist we take as real and once this happened all other beliefs were attached to it. As Nigel pointed out this can be useful but it can also be the cause of all suffering. Without time there is just the play of consciousness. A clock tells us the time but we know that this is relative to where the clock is in the world and strangely according to Einstein not just where the clock is but how fast it is travelling. It is the mind that decides that time is real and as well as this meaning adds all the other possible meanings, all these meanings in a way collude with each other to create an intricate and complex appearance. All of this is illusion except consciousness in which it all arises. Part of the process is to be able to use time and beliefs without being controlled by them. Consciousness is able to do this - to switch from timeless consciousness to apparent time and meaning in an instant and back again all as our present circumstance requires. Once beliefs are seen for what they are (illusion) consciousness is free to orchestrate them as necessary and where they are practical and useful and when not necessary to leave them alone.Ray Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-73565741414231331152013-03-27T04:15:44.982-07:002013-03-27T04:15:44.982-07:00I think 'Time' is one of the strongest and...I think 'Time' is one of the strongest and most omniprescent belief that exists as everything else is based on that. Even in my last comment I started projecting on words like 'never' 'search' 'find' 'will end' 'this life' which all imply a sense of time, and as you so appropriately pointed out to me once when I was caught up in figuring out 'the process', to be mindful of the belief of time, as it was just another construct of the ego.<br />If I pull out time from all of this intellectual antics then there is no base for all the rest of the beliefs as I feel it is a very core belief. Correct me if I'm wrong please. However the fact still remains as to whether I really want to withdraw this belief of time or not, right?Kitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336853678260155467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-5558666903446225442013-03-27T03:26:45.341-07:002013-03-27T03:26:45.341-07:00I know it sounds intricate, complex etc but this i...I know it sounds intricate, complex etc but this is more about trying to describe something that cannot be described, I have tried to describe it as simply as possible, it is truly simple in the end but our minds have become so complex that it seems impossible to see the simplicity. It seems to me inherently difficult to describe this process, when I see what I have written I know it is correct but also know that it appears complicated. It is as though we have to unravel a huge knot only to find when it is done that one simple pull in the right place and it would have unravelled itself.<br />What I am doing is challenging all the complexities of the mind. There is a point where all beliefs collapse but there is nothing you can do other than what you are already doing to control this or speed it up. If you believe that the process is difficult then it will be if you believe that being chaotically knotted seems unlikely to ever end then it will become so. Be careful what you believe because without fail it will come true. Observe what you already believe and you will see it already is true.Ray Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-6530491708798899182013-03-27T02:25:34.579-07:002013-03-27T02:25:34.579-07:00Nigel, You know I've been in this state you de...Nigel, You know I've been in this state you described in your in this state you've described in your last comment, several times in my search, only to discover that this state didn't last as the restlessnes and the yearning for the truth stirred up more questions and the energy to find the truth continued on, not to mention the suffering that impelled the drive in the first place. If it is a permanent state then my heartiest congratulations to you on discovering the peace within yourself and to abide in that abode forever more. As for me there is no such resting for long as something beckons me along before I can catch my breath in peace. <br />Ray, I sometimes wonder if there will ever be a 'collapse of beliefs' for me as the illusion that you mentioned is too intricate, complex and deeply inherent at the bottom of one's being. It is so chaotically knotted that it seems very unlikely that this will end in this life (not that I beleive it will happen in another life. The only promise seems to be death where there is a possibility of release although it will be of no value then as I won't be around to experience it.Kitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04336853678260155467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-68035666939172667952013-03-26T15:55:12.360-07:002013-03-26T15:55:12.360-07:00You know what, Ray... I've given up. I no long...You know what, Ray... I've given up. I no longer care about being attached, free, bound, unenlightened, enlightened, about being someone...no need to be other than this here, whatever that may be, on my sofa, no purpose, no meaning. There's just the cat here still snoring, a film on tv. And you know what? It's all more than enough. I am a huge no one, not enlightened, I don't know what I am and I don't care. I just am, for some mysterious reason, here in this weird, mysterious life. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240365995087950187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-55362992858183473102013-03-26T12:40:24.348-07:002013-03-26T12:40:24.348-07:00Just an after thought, the above may sound a bit c...Just an after thought, the above may sound a bit convoluted but the point of it is that unless we realise that everything that appears in the mind including what I refer to as sense knowledge is belief i.e illusion then we are likely to remain attached to these illusory aspects. It is only when all aspects of the illusion are seen that we can be truly free. Ray Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-89703078879438111022013-03-26T12:33:35.195-07:002013-03-26T12:33:35.195-07:00Never did believe that natives could not see Colum...Never did believe that natives could not see Columbus's ship. Who knew they didn't see it? And usually natives see stuff they've never seen before... they may give them names like fiery charriots or something but anyway.<br /><br />Yeah, I agree, I suppose life without words is good. Have a nice evening, Ray! Got the cat snoring here at my side and a cuppa Rooibos. Cheers!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240365995087950187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-58861580549614205992013-03-26T11:12:35.610-07:002013-03-26T11:12:35.610-07:00I don't mean knowledge as it is usually taken ...I don't mean knowledge as it is usually taken to mean. The knowledge of the senses requires no thought but something is 'known' if we look at a tree we see something, that something could not be known without the knowledge I am referring to. I think of this as knowledge that has built up since the beginning of life. The eyes and the brain see shapes and colours and perspective but do not see meaning.actually even shapes colour and perspective are also aspects of belief or knowledge and this knowledge was there millions of years before we had language. Anything that can be known requires knowledge or belief of some kind. Belief as I see it is not limited to thinking, in seeing there is a much more subtle sense of knowing and belief going on. You referred to Down the rabbit hole, in that there is a bit where they talk about natives not being able to see Columbus's ships as they had no concept of ship, this is similar to what I am saying. All of this takes place through the magic of consciousness. All life has consciousness even a tree or an insect but the life form determines how that consciousness is used. Consciousness is limited by the body and when that body dies it is no longer able to use consciousness. Behind consciousness is the absolute which cannot be known except by implication. The absolute is not different from consciousness as there is no duality in the absolute, duality could be said to be all the knowledge that arises from consciousness that only arises as the appearance of something separate, maybe that is what the word 'samsara' means. Just checked the meaning of the word samsara, here is part of it - literally meaning "continuous flow", is the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth. The Buddha taught that there is no beginning or end to this cycle. The goal of Asian religions is to escape this process, the achievement of which is called moksha. In popular use, Samsara [a westernized spelling] may refer to the world (in the sense of the various worldly activities which occupy ordinary human beings), the various sufferings thereof; or the unsettled and agitated mind through which reality is perceived.<br />Ray Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-3439026554396883582013-03-26T10:11:22.766-07:002013-03-26T10:11:22.766-07:00Yes, I agree, more importantly practical knowledge...Yes, I agree, more importantly practical knowledge carries no emotional baggage. It would be odd if someone got upset if said their address incorrectly!<br /><br />"Knowledge of the senses"? Seeing requires no knowledge, nor does hearing... nor taste no feeling.. they just happen without a me. What do you mean by "knowledge of the senses"? Don't get it?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240365995087950187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-48069448804625312052013-03-25T15:39:39.317-07:002013-03-25T15:39:39.317-07:00Agreed, there is false knowledge and there is know...Agreed, there is false knowledge and there is knowledge that is practical and useful. If we can identify the false knowledge what is left tends to be practical and useful but this practical and useful knowledge is only required for short periods of time, mostly it is unnecessary, on the other hand the knowledge of the senses is always active, even in sleep.Ray Menezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15945964510462779587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709441867112482178.post-6660536253639611792013-03-25T10:34:52.654-07:002013-03-25T10:34:52.654-07:00I'd say some knowledge is not only interesting...I'd say some knowledge is not only interesting but absolutely necessary. I need to know my address to get home. It's useful to know how to use a computer etc. The problem lies in false knowledge that we have taken on assuming it to be true. That field is the psychological field, my fears, hope, projections, this "false knowledge" is the cause of all our suffering. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240365995087950187noreply@blogger.com