DECEMBER 27 ~ DAILY REFLECTION ~ from: ALONG THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT ~ by: Dr. David R. Hawkins. ►All reactions to life are subjective. There is nothing happening that is awful, exciting, sad, good, or bad. It is pointless to hold a position that catastrophes shouldnt “happen” or that the innocent didnt deserve it, or isnt it awful, or it must be somebodys fault. With a broad view, one can remain unperturbed by either the content or the context of life. That requires giving up judgments, expectations, or ‘sensitivities’.◄ From: “I: Reality and Subjectivity” (2003), Chapter 11: Transcending the World, p. 179 --------------------------------- With Additional Context: --------------------------------- ►All reactions to life are subjective. There is nothing happening that is awful, exciting, sad, good, or bad. It is pointless to hold a position that catastrophes ‘shouldn’t happen’ or that the innocent ‘didn’t deserve it’, or ‘isn’t it awful’, or ‘it must be somebody’s fault’. With a broad view, one can remain unperturbed by either the content or the context of life. That requires giving up judgments, expectations, or ‘sensitivities’.◄ The potentiality for events can be modified by changing conditions so as to affect the balance of propensities one way or the other. As an example, following a forest fire, a wise observer was quoted as stating in a newspaper article that “Fires are neither good nor bad. They reflect local conditions.” (Paxon, 2002.) What is considered ‘bad’ by residents is healthy, natural, and ‘good’ for the forest over the long term. In Reality, there are no events; there are no beginnings or endings. The backdrop is silent, still, and undisturbed by the movie. Ones reality is the context and not the content. The oneness of life appears to perception as multitudinous. What makes the appearances of the world seem real is a projection of the radiance of the Self. The movie itself has no intrinsic reality as perceived. The actual locus of the sense of realness lies totally within consciousness as subjectivity. Even if there were such a thing as an independent, objective reality, it would only be knowable because of ones internal subjectivity. Q: That statement is really saying that the only Reality is God. A: God can only be known and not proven. Beyond subjectivity, no world exists. Without the presence of God, nothing could be known or experienced, including one’s own existence. Existence as subjectivity is complete, total, and whole, and it is the very basis of joy. The Self is the Presence of the Source of Existence as the Infinite ‘I’. Q: What is the subjective experience or realization of Allness like? A: It is an awareness of a condition that has always been present. The novelty of sequential experiencing disappears, as do expectation, regret, or the desire to anticipate or control. Existence as Existence is total and complete. All one’s needs are already fulfilled. There is nothing to gain or lose and everything is of equal value. It would be like all movies being equally enjoyable because the pleasure stems from ‘going to the movies’, and the movie that is playing is irrelevant. With the elimination of preference, all form is seen to be equal in value; in fact, its common value is only that it has form. The weed is the same as the diamond—each may differ in appearance but not in intrinsic value. Their beauty is equal because it is innate in all form. Everything is equal by virtue of having existence. Nothing is in the process of becoming; it already is its own identity, complete and perfect. Existence is never incomplete. From: “I: Reality and Subjectivity” (2003), Chapter 11: Transcending the World, p. 178–180 -------------------------- Related Teachings: -------------------------- From: “The Eye of the Eye: From Which Nothing Is Hidden” (2001), Chapter 7: The Mind—Positionality, p. 108–109 The consciousness level of intellectualization calibrates in the 400s, which is useful in the physical world of human endeavor but a limitation and a great barrier to enlightenment. The intellect itself is a great limitation, and the greatest geniuses of science and the intellect all calibrate at approximately 499. That is as far as the intellect can go due to the limitations set by its context of reality. To go beyond that limit requires a greater context and takes one into noncausality, nonduality, and the nonlinear and non-Newtonian dimensions of thought and understanding. It is necessary to see that everything is what it is as a consequence of the entire universe’s being what it is in its totality throughout all time. Every ‘thing’ we think we see is, in itself, perfect, total, and an expression of the entire universe. At most, the intellect could merely grasp this as an idea but not experience the actual truth of it. Even if the ego could comprehend totality, it would still speak of its perception of an event and not comprehend its own existence. It is helpful to realize that nothing can be described or experienced except from outside itself. All descriptions, no matter how elegant, are nothing more than perceptual measurements and definitions of imputed qualities that have no self-existence. Nothing is as it can be described; therefore, all descriptions are of what a thing is not. The realization of absolute reality and truth is the greatest gift that one can be to the world and all humanity. Spiritual work, in its essence, is therefore a selfless service and surrender to the Will of God. As one’s awareness increases, the power of that field of consciousness increases exponentially in logarithmic expansion, and that, in and of itself, accomplishes more than all effort or attempts at relieving the suffering of the world. All such efforts are futile because they are necessarily misguided by the falsifications and illusions of the perceptual function of the ego itself.
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