Welcome to the second issue of Light-Up-Your-Life
Newsletter. The aim of this newsletter is to guide you
as you discover the very source of Happiness and Wisdom.
This source is so deep that it is unaffected by the
conditions of your environment, your body and mind.
In this issue we will reveal the secret of Consciousness.
If you want to know yourself, trace consciousness to its
source.
Then another little secret. "Making Your Wisdom
Come Alive"
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Finally, a positive news article: Ordeal alters father's outlook.
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First here are some verses on Awareness from
The Ashtavakra Gita:
13) Meditate on the Self.
One without two,
Exalted awareness.Give up the illusion
Of the separate self.Give up the feeling,
Within or without,
That you are this or that.14) My Child,
Because you think you are the body,
For a long time you have been bound.Know you are pure awareness.
With this knowledge as your sword
Cut through your chains.And be happy!
16) Your nature is pure awareness.
You are flowing in all things,
And all things are flowing in you.But beware
The narrowness of the mind!17) You are always the same,
Unfathomable awareness,
Limitless and free,
Serene and unperturbed.Desire only your own awareness.
19) For God is infinite,
Within the body and without,
Like a mirror,
And the image in a mirror.20) As the air is everywhere,
Flowing around a pot
And filling it,
So God is everywhere,
Filling all things
And flowing through them forever.
The Heart Of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Translated by Tomas Byrom
Note, in this article I use Consciousness and Awareness
interchangeably.
You may have seen courses on consciousness studies. If you
want Self -Knowledge you study consciousness in a different
way. You study consciousness by becoming it. You study it
from the inside.
Consciousness is not an objective state. This means that you
do not see your awareness. You see from your awareness.
This is a little secret that most people miss. Why? Because
there is no sense that looks at consciousness. Rather you see
from Consciousness. This is like the sun. You do not need a
flashlight to see the sun. You see the sun by its own light.
Similarly you see Consciousness by its own light - you see
Consciousness because you are Consciousness.
Now what's the advantage of being Consciousness? You see
all of your limitations. You see if you feel limited by a body,
or a set of thoughts or feelings - if you feel too young, too old,
too sick, depressed or lacking in self-esteem.
You will find that when you become aware of these feelings of
limitation, you become free of them. When you recognize the
power of this innate Awareness you can no longer feel limited
by what you see. This is because you begin to shift your identity
from the limitations to this boundless Awareness.
The best part of my practice was when I began to see the
limitations that I was living by. That was when by life
started to change by leaps and bounds. I recognized fully that
whatever I could see I was not. Rather I was just the seer,
this Consciousness.
This Consciousness is like space. It fills all boundaries and
limitations and it stretches beyond them. Pot space in no way
limits space. The space fills the pot, the walls of the pot, and
on into infinity.
Similarly, your Awareness fills all of your limitations, the
person that appears to have these limitations and beyond.
This consciousness is the sword you use to cut through your
chains and to remain free.
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Step by step this book peels away the limitations that appear
to cause suffering - allowing you to get to the core of your
existence, which is the source of infinite Consciousness and Bliss.
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and see, An aid to self discovery.
Marvin Matsumoto was a father and Postman. He was on a
hike with his son when they decided to split up and meet
later. Mr. Matsumoto got trapped in a twelve-foot
hole. Rescuers found him four days later without food or
water. He was weak, but still alive.
The interesting thing about this article, on the front page of
the San Jose Mercury News, is that it shows how this near
death experience changed Mr. Matsumoto's life.
"The man they used to tease for being undemonstrative now
can't stop telling them, 'I love you.'"
How would you live if you were about to die and then given
one more chance at life? Would your meditation time, your
relationships and your time to explore the deepest recesses
of the universe, your own Consciousness, still take second
place in your life?
How would your priorities change? The reality of our situation
here on earth is that each day we are given a 'second chance' to
live. A Jewish philosopher once said, "live every day as if it
were your last". This is the type of energy necessary to discover
your own Consciousness.
The other interesting part of this article is that it tells about the
reaction of his children to Mr. Matsumoto's changes.
"I was touched," said Mark Matsumoto, 16, "But I think I was
more taken by the weirdness of it then anything else."
If we develop a relationship based on personality we are
putting a death grip on the relationship right from the start.
This is because personalities change. You can't guarantee
that your personality will remain the same throughout the
relationship. Moreover, the more a person explores this
Consciousness the more their personality will change. This
expansive growth will feel great to the person experiencing
it but could feel threatening to other people in the relationship.
On the other hand, if a relationship is based on the very source
of love, then these changes in the personality will be welcome,
because they will bring more expansion and more love to the
relationship.
Finally, any relationship has to come from your core because
you can only become one where you are one already - at your core.
We wish you the best until our next monthly issue.
Please feel free to contact me at michael@light-up-your-life.com.
Sincerely,
Michael Gluckman