No one here today
or for that matter has ever been or will be

I have watched the stories of life pass through this screen
I call a me

But when I look for this me... I cant find it
I have been all the stories and motion that moves the story
like a river traveling in the ocean

As I type these words on this PC, there is no one in control of my next thought,
next word I type or how long I will sit and type here

I feel emptiness all around and within, its a good feeling, its freedom
in this emptiness appearance will take place as form
but the form is emptiness... like a cloud... from a distance it looks like something.....
but go into it and its space

So... this no one here today... will follow.. an exciting adventure....experiencing a few stories today that appear as .... a baseball game or two....sunshine in the sky...music on the stereo...tasty food.... emotions of seeing old friends.... but no one in control...no one seizing the moments... for they are... all stories. These stories appear on the screen and the screen is you and me.... ha ha... which I just said is not here.  So the screen is the story too!!

what will happen through you today????   

and when it does...... welcome it

let me know what you welcomed today

Quietness pretending to be... Mike

Yes and No

All the events and things in life that we agree with are Yes's. Its easy to see ourselves in these events, people and things. So we move forward with them feeling good.... yes! Yes I like green eggs and ham.

No = Are those things we are not in agreement with because we dont see ourselves in them. The mind instantly decides NO that is not me. That pizza with anchovies is not for me. That type of person sitting over there is not for me. No I dont think my friend loves me. (Is that true)

This creates duality. The mind splitting the world (which is One) into TWO... labeling it good, bad, yes and no.

Just for today..... change No to KNOW.

Yes + KNOW     (aaaaahaaa)

The next time you say No.....Visualize KNOW.....And watch your world change.

Investigate ----      look deeply to see if you exist?

All of this  (arms wide open).... is you!

Is there Being and mind?  Is there a me and Oneness. I think I am kinda goofy sometimes. The one thing I love to discuss because I think its the most important topic ever... because people have been writing about it is non-duality/Oneness/ Adviata/whatver you want to call it.

This topic goes all the way back from Christ to Budduh to Rumi even further. All speaking and pointing to the same thing just different words.

So during my exploration of my own non-duality (which means one without a second for any one curious), I have noticed the following effects in my life that non-duality awareness has brought me

1. I am totally just in the moment always, barely any thoughts

2. In the middle of moments I can focus on an object and be the transparency of that object. The mind is used as tool to do this. So for example I am looking now at the keys as I type. The entire keyboard is there as plastic but also as That.

3. I also accept every person I meet. Good or bad personalities cease to exist. They are all seen as Energy.  Or seen as the Known in me

4.There is no I at all. So when things occur, I dont beat myself up. Thoughts dont speak to me and judge or stick anywhere. The thoughts appear but just dont stick. This is very freeing

5. Emotions are seen as energy labeled in different ways... again no sticking.

6.The sky is my head... ha ha ha what fun

7. This Emptiness that I am... no way it dies...no way its born

8. Life is just lived through me

9. I go to the gym and always notice i am the "what" that moves my body. I look around and see lots of "what" moving everyone else. This is us.

10 Thoughts arise and I allow them to move me through the day. If I need to move faster and get things done, the thoughts occur for that to happen.  Hey I didn't become a pinnacle leader at work by "me" doing anything. It just occurred by listening
anyway... I could go on forever noticing here...

My final noticing has been since the death of my father. Two weeks ago I felt very washed out and tired. There was this enormous energy taking my bodies energy away. It was my mind, like a child searching for answers over and over. At the same time there was part of me that just wanted to Be. To sit in front of a tree for hours and "Be".

So this is what I ended up doing to really help matters.

I feel the soul sometimes teaches the mind.

So I allowed this to happen. I sat quietly and taught the busy mind Being. I did this through a meditation where I felt the presence of another Being in a room then leaving the room, then speaking, touching etc... This way to know their Being in all I see, hear etc...

Point is that if my mind can detect Being in voice, and in touch, just the same as Knowing Being in the essence of another person. Then that person becomes all Being and not labeled as "Frank" .... oh this is so hard to explain. .... uuugh

i will try again

Know Being in all sound, touch, etc... then you know another person as Being vs. the identity that eventually fades. ... ha  I got it!!

Final thoughts, sometimes you are mind, sometimes being, sometimes One, sometimes  you name.... both of these dances are That.

Mike

and its different for each person but the same.  You look at the sky tonight and smile as you see me there too. We share the same space, we are the same space.

There is no you actually looking. The looking is just appearing. This You is the sky, where do  you begin and end. Where are you born and when do you die. No place no where. Just as the wind air one minute and the next moment labeled the wind. We are also...

This place I was brought to and re-minded by myself today. For a moement I thought i was outside of this, then realizing it was simply Being appearing as not knowing its Being.

So i spent lunch time under some trees in my car looking at each leaf appear as I looked at it. This looking took no thought, but was and is me looking at myself. I then looked at the sky. The sky did not appear until I looked at it.  This "I" is Being, the sky is Being, one glob of Being looking at itself.

Then I decided to use a word to describe this magnificent appearing and dissapearing of who I am... so i came up with a new word to describe.... ZO

Zo = everything

I am Zo

ha ha ha ha  freeing eh?

Think Today

How did I get here?  How did I grow into this body? How did I get this beautiful hair, eyes and perfect feet for walking? How did I wake up this morning? How did I fall asleep last night?

was there a thought you created to fall asleep, to wake up?

Investigate yourself

How... how did these things occur?

Just as how does the wind begin to blow her breeze this morning and the sun shine her rays

You are life happening, no you controlling or in charge....just Life

Where do these words land in your Being when reading them, where is this being?  Where does your Being begin and end.... investigate for yourself

Where does your mind begin and end???  Investigate for yourself

and... where is the place where your inner peace becomes the outer world? where is the dividing line that separated inner peace and outer??.... investigate.. have a look... what do you find?

Mike:)

Today I feel like everything I have learned about letting go in this life came into perfect practice to help another person.

I work in hospice by doing marketing, teaching nurses and occasional Reiki treatments on patients in the early stages of disease.

Today I was in a hospital visiting a dr to get papers signed, when one of our nurses informed me that one of our hospice patients was in the next room actively dying.

I decided to give her Reiki and told the nurse. So we both went in there and the nurse explained who I was to the patient.

When I walked into this room I saw a very young scared girl about 37 dying from breast and brain cancer. She had no hair, skinny and able to speak and look you right in the eyes. She was also gasping a little for breath and suffering. I went over touched her hand and said listen to my voice and follow me. Close your eyes and picture yourself sitting on a beach, no one there except you.... etc....

I then through a meditation pointed her to who she was... the breeze as she felt it, the sun light as it hit her face, the space between sound as i spoke, the grains of sand and That which holds them together. each illusion of her dissolved under my voice as she rolled her eyes in the back of her head and relaxed.

I then instructed her to let to go... she is not in charge of anything.. she did not think anything to become born, and has not been in charge of her breath, hair growth, thoughts or life since birth.. and that the act of passing and changing is not hers to control. Its automatic and is done by resting into That which you are.

During this time her ex husband came into the room knelt down beside her and a stream of tears quietly rolled down his cheek.

I then continued and touched her head lightly held her hand and stayed there for a few minutes pointing once more to who she is... the space of silence, the place where breath goes to.... the moment we touch... this is .... who we are

I then replaced my hand with that of her friends and left the room. As i left they sat in silence together holding onto each other knowing.

I went to my car and finished listening to the Van Morrison CD that was playing and drove away.   (smiling)

Mike

Where you sit now and read this is...... perfection

Weather it be within a story in your mind

or in presence under a tree

This moment is perfect

All who are in this moment weather they realize it or not are perfect too

There is not a better place for them to go for enlightenment, no way of improving

no thing they can do to be more Being.

All of this you see before you is you..... Oneness expressing in all your wonderful ways

See... know......that's as simple as it gets.


Mike