fallacy vs reality...

there was a patient i worked with on hospice that was quite

obviously ready to die soon...

he was extremely thin, weak

and had no appetite

he was showing all the signs of a failing body

yet around his entire house

he had taped up all kinds of affirmations

that spoke to a healthy vibrant body and life...

and it was this type of mentality he attached to

even up until his last breathe...

this was not an uncommon happening on hospice

so many clung to the fantasy or projection of what 

they *think* they are or *want to be* versus directly looking at the 

reality...

which robbed them of an opportunity to go deeper

and face what was underlying the cover

of projections...

to *see* one needs to sink deeper into the driving 

forces that are creating the suffering patterns

not run or put a more appealing cover over them ..

this really keeps one treading water on the surface

and somewhere deep down there is a feeling 

that they are fooling themselves --

because the mind does not find rest on the surface...

so again, to begin to be free of conditionings 

one needs to see the inherent fallacy that lies within the stories

this takes persistent witnessing, questioning and continuing

to bring the mind back to the moment  --

eventually one will have enough distance to *clearly see*

the rising storylines

and will be shocked at what has been driving the being

for so long...

also it will be seen that this energy has no steady presence

that it comes and goes...  

this is the beginning of discrimination 

which has to be in place for mind to begin to dissolve...

with no discrimination one is truly buying into the story lines

and many times not aware of it at all...

awareness gets sharpened thru the practices and thru grounding

into the pure experience of the moment...  

this is the only way...

self-affirmations are not the way by any means...

they only serve to solidify a separate identity --

ego loves to feel that it has become bigger and better 

and indeed this is what affirmations do...

the true SELF needs no affirming --

it is self evident and eternally present  --

it is revealed when one *stops* affirming that

they are *this* or * that*

or *too much* or *too little*

  

so please dear ones --

stay persistant with the stories in the way of engaging 

practices and witnessing ...

do not buy into the drama for one minute as not 

one drop of it is *real* and lasting ...

and reality is what is the goal...

great day...

om shanti