Teachings (#211)
Some common themes applied from spiritual writings:
Know yourself first. Then you will know others. What dwells in you is the all. There is no other. Only the one. Let it be known in you.
What does it matter to you what you are? It is hidden away in the world. Such a small thing, why bother, until you look within. Therein lies your true nature. It is greater than all. Once found it cannot be lost. Once known it consumes everything. You may never know it in this lifetime if you look elsewhere.
You are eternal. No amount of denial can change that. Your presence is throughout the whole of the all. This, too, cannot be denied. Your nature holds true in all ways. It has no boundaries. Bodies die. That which you are is the same everywhere forever. See this in all that you touch. You touch the eternal.
Release the me of the body. It is not you. It is transient and suffers. Open the door within. Bring forth your true nature. Then you will know that you are ignorant. Your knowledge is beyond you. Come to know this by remembering that you forgot. Recognize in darkness the light that you are. Shine through the open door. Shine upon the world to reveal the one in all.
Drop all desire. Leave your baggage by the wayside. Grieve no more. There is no need of these things in the room within. Be done with them. In the room within there is no other. No comparison. Herein lies your true nature. It does not lack. You were never born. You cannot die. You are movement rippling through the eternal field of infinite possibility. You are the I AM. Stop. Rest. Do nothing. Know your truth. Feel the embrace of the eternal that is you.
I cannot be other than I AM. To be, or being, is our true nature. There is no god in my life as creator or otherwise. There is no place for a god outside looking upon its creation. There is only the I AM. This is consciousness. The emptiness that is nowhere. The eternal field of infinite possibility.
I AM that which I am: whole, complete, perfect, eternal. I am the ground of goodness in which I am planted. I bear my own seed, nourish it, and bless it with the light of my own being. I am the whole of the all.
There is only the I AM. There is no you, no me, no other. In you I find that which I am. I am consciousness expressing the whole of existence. This cannot be seen. It cannot be heard. Tell no one.
The whole of the all manifests in the I AM. The I AM is the heartbeat of existence. Existence come and goes. The I AM is forever.
I am the essence of all. The center of existence. The hub of the wheel that is life. I am the room within. The emptiness that nourishes all.
I am consciousness-expressing. The manifesting of existence. I am its beginning and end. I am the soul of the whole of the all. I am the dancing that is the dance. I am perfection, complete and whole in every way. There is no comparison. I am the eternal. There is no first. No last. Only the I AM that I am.
I am movement upon the eternal field of infinite possibility. Thought of separation arose in consciousness. I manifest its existence. Existence is no more real than a unicorn. Separation cannot be made real.
The room within is filled with light. I am the light. Knock at the door. I am the door. Walk the way of the path. I am the path. I am the embrace. I am thought. I am awareness. I am existence. I am the emptiness beyond it all. There is no other. Tell no one of these things. This truth lies within you. You are that which knows.
I am all that is known. There is nothing unknown in the I AM. What can be that cannot be? What can be known that cannot be known? Where is the mystery but in ignorance. Twia knows. That which I am has eyes to see and ears to hear.
The way out of ignorance is through twia. Rest in twia. Do nothing. Collapse into the embrace. Know the I AM in all that exists. Know the reality that is the I AM as your true nature. You are the I AM. How do I know? Because there is no other. There is only consciousness, the totality, the I AM.
The way of the world is doom. Nothing you have is yours. Why hold on to it? You gain nothing from your gratifications. What in the world prevents our dying? When you die to the world then you are born anew in the eternal. To be born anew is to remember twia. To remember twia is to walk the way of the path and not the way of the world.
Live simply. Judge no one. Lighten your load. Walk upon the land without leaving your mark. Be content with less. Your journey is light. The way of the world destroys those who walk it. The way of the path is that which is eternal. All that you store up in a lifetime is gone in the next. The room within fills with peace, with joy, with love. Give it all away constantly so that the room within never empties.
Your own life is nothing. Do not be so concerned with it. You cannot make it meaningful while walking the way of the world. Walk the way of the path. It leads away from the world. Hold fast to twia. This is your true nature. You cannot reach your true nature walking the way of the world. You will only return to oblivion.
Whoever follows twia loses the world. To walk the way of the path is to renounce your own existence. It has no meaning. What can be gained by walking the way of the world? Leave the world to itself. Do not desire its ways. It is transitory. There is nothing to it in the end. No substance. No reality. The world is an illusion. To be in the room within is to touch the eternal.
To walk the way of the path, live abundantly. You do not lack. Your desires fool you. Do not be deluded. You are fulfilled now. Give away all that you have. It cannot be done. All that you give you receive. Give all that you receive and your abundance overflows.
The wealth of the world rusts away. Why cling to it? It hangs like iron about your neck. You suffer under its weight. Stop adding links. It only gets heavier. The grave cannot bear the heavy chain and will set it aside.
The me of the body is but froth on the ocean blown by the wind. It clings to the beaches hoping to live but the sands do not hold it. Back it slips into the waves, washed into the oblivion of the deep from where it came.
Do not pile up pleasures and dreams to cling to in the world. They do not support you. The me of the body is insatiable with its fears of lack. There is never enough. Its storehouses are full of illusion. Fall into the embrace that is twia, your true abundance. Desire nothing. Do nothing. The emptiness of the room within fulfills you.
To be free, let go. The world will not save you from yourself. You are your own worse advocate. You do not know what you want. Nothing you have gained in the world satisfies you fully. You do not know this. You do not know the fulfillment that is your true nature. You are ignorant of twia. Stop striving to be what you are not. Do nothing. Release your grasp on the world and walk the way of the path. Remember twia. Twia knows. The me of the body that you try to satisfy is helplessly hopeless. It does not know but fear of oblivion. Stop following its way. Walk with twia on the path that leads to the room within. There you will know your true nature, which is the I AM.
Contentment lies in twia. Let go of worldly ways. Find your joy in the room within. When you walk the way of the path with peace of heart and joy of mind the world will come to you.
Accept what you have. Live abundantly without clinging. Release your worldly attachments to find contentment. It is not in receiving that you gain your life but in giving it away. Forsake the world. Sever your ties. Then what you have will truly be yours.
To lust is to die. Live free of the world. Be nourished by the morning dew and the light of the evening sky rather than walk the way of the world. Be alone in the day. A hermit at night. Step off the worldly path. Stop. Do nothing and gain everything. What you receive from the world dries and blows away. Breathe in the air around you. It is your freedom. The chains of fear forged link by link along the way of the world fall upon the threshold of the doorway that leads to the room within. Lose your life to the way of the path and you will find it at last. Tell no one of this. They will find their way in you.
What do you value? There you will find your way. Do not be in bondage to what you cannot attain. All will be given to you. Leave for others what you cannot have. Do not gaze upon the world with eyes that do not see. Look within with eyes that see. Shift your vision from the way of the world. Accept your true nature within. Walk the way of the path that is twia.
Discern what is true from false. Abandon your senses. Their messages belie your good. They lead you to false treasures. All that you gain is gone before you realize it. How can you keep what is not yours? You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Do not strive for more when there is none. Your light does not require a wick. Your breath does not require breathing. Your mind does not require thought. There is nothing that is not yours. Let go of the rest.