(08-01-2021, 12:54 AM)Anders Wrote: I discovered a different view than what Rupert Spira described! Or maybe it's the same and just another perspective on the same thing. The new idea I got is that when there is suffering in the now, then something actually needs to change. And the usual way the mind deals with that is to think of what to do and of plans and outcomes and all that.
The new idea is that instead of using thinking to try to change the situation, to relax the thinking to allow the situation to change through the vaster intelligence without the veil. Then there is an acknowledgement of the validity of the thoughts, and it's just that there exists a more powerful way of accomplishing outcomes than through the thinking mind.
So thoughts can then actually be useful as pointers to what needs to be done. And instead of using thinking to try to accomplish what needs to be done to let the vaster intelligence without the veil manage the details of how to achieve the outcomes. Thoughts then become like a sense perception! Instead of a tool for doing things.
My experiences are that in the NOW there is no suffering. One really notices that in the NOW whatever is happening to your body or thoughts, comes in goes in a flash, there is no past and no future. Living in the NOW is your awareness of consciousness.
Our essential nature of pure Awareness has no agenda with the mind, body or world. It is like empty space, completely allowing, and yet indifferent to whatever appears within it. However, it is not a cold, distant indifference: it gives its substance utterly and intimately to whatever appears within it. As such, it is a loving indifference. Be knowingly this loving indifference. — Rupert Spira