T.N.G. SIGNS
OF THE TIMES - N.M. August 5,
2005 GMT 3:04 (#147)
Greetings from
Russell's Remnant: www.oocities.org/dkone_us
Dr. Russell Whitesell who was
considered the “whiz kid” of the Hierarchy when it came to prophesy. His “clear seeing” ability astounded famous
scientists, security agencies, governments, royalty, presidents and especially
clergy of many religions. He knew the
prophets of the world’s scriptures; and on one occasion while lecturing in a
metaphysical bookstore in Metairie, LA, he stated he really liked the prophet
who stated, “Be still and know that I am God.”
He believed that this one passage is a major key to life for the
esoteric disciple.
The following book helps explains
about how to become “still.”
STILLNESS
SPEAKS
BY Eckhart Tolle – Part 1
Stillness is your essential
nature.
Allow nature to teach you stillness.
Feeling the oneness of yourself with
all things is true love.
Silence is helpful, but you don’t
need it in order to find stillness.
Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath
the noise.
Become aware of awareness as the
background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising
of inner stillness.
Pay attention to the gap (interlude)
– the gap (interlude) between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between
words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, of the gap
(interlude) between the in-breath and out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps (interludes), awareness of
“something” becomes – just awareness.
The formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you and
replaces identification with form.
Stillness is where creativity and
solutions to problems are found.
Stillness is intelligence itself.
Stillness is the only thing in this
world that has no form, but then, it is not really a thing, not of this world.
In the Bible, it says that God created
the world and saw that is was good.
That is what you see when you look from stillness without thought.
Is more knowledge, more
information, faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis going
to save the world?
Wisdom comes with the ability to
be still. Just look and just
listen. No more is needed.
The human condition is “lost in
thought.”
Most people spend their entire
life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts.
Every thought pretends that it
matters so much.
Don’t take your thoughts too
seriously.
The human mind, in its desire to
know, understand, and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the
truth. You have to be larger than
thought. Thinking fragments reality.
Whenever you are immersed in
compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is.
You don’t want to be where you are.
Here. Now.
Dogmas are collective conceptual
prisons, and people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of
security and a false sense of “I know.”
When you no longer believe
everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker
is not who you are.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear
are not “yours,” but are conditions of the human mind.
Prejudice implies that you are
identified with the thinking mind. It
means you don’t see the other human beings anymore, but only your own concept
of that human being. To reduce the
aliveness of another human being is already a form of violence.
Artistic creation, sports, dance,
teaching, counseling – mastery in any field of endeavor implies that the
thinking mind is either no longer involved at all or at least is taking second
place. A greater intelligence takes
over.
When you recognize that there is a
voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are
awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking.
If your grievances are completely
“justified,” you have constructed an
identity for yourself that is much like a prison whose bars are made of thought
forms.
Through being “right,” you feel
superior, and through feeling superior, you strengthen your sense of self –
which is the illusion of ego.
With other people, can you detect
subtle feelings of either superiority or inferiority toward them? You are looking at the ego, which lives
through comparison.
You can strengthen your fictitious
sense of self through seeing yourself as more unfairly treated by life
or more ill than someone else.
Guilt is another ego created
identity.
This one moment – NOW – is the only
thing you can never escape from, the one constant factor in your life. One thing is certain: It is always Now.
Take responsibility for this
moment which means not to argue with what is.
What Buddhists have always known and
which physicists now confirm is that there are no isolated things or
events. Underneath the surface
appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the
cosmos.
Say “yes” to what is and become
aligned with the intelligence of life.
Most people confuse the Now with
what happens in the Now. The Now is
deeper than what happens in it.
Your innermost sense of I Am
has nothing to do with what happens in your life.
You find peace not by rearranging
the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest
level.
Reincarnation doesn’t help you if
in your next incarnation you still don’t know who you are.
Next month Part 2