After many years of intense study and many breakthroughs related to enlightenment; at this stage; it isn't anything like I imagined. It isn't fanatical stories of doing, mystical powers, and ability to control peoples minds. Those things I have studied, but ultimately, have found that it is more about; telling new stories of doing, awareness of the magic we already have weaved, and the ability to let others be themselves. I have come to know that the things we desire in others is within ourselves already, and no amount of manipulation can give us what is already ourselves. By the pursuit of knowing oneself, we can untangle the knot of filters we chose to tie around us to protect us from the power of our infinite selves. Our parents many times sell us on their life and mistakes, and desires, and as we are pure as kids, we lose sight of it in pursuit of material gain. Their focus on the lack made us creatures perpetually lacking, yet having everything. I have found great bliss, but that has followed me releasing a "filter" or 'blockage' or 'knot', and gaining back a little bit more of my totality.
Thing is, that high is to be regulated, and as you gain more of your personal power, you can regulate it, and the high becomes a bit more like normal. It reminds of being a kid, because when you were young, you had very little knots restricting the flow. Enlightenment reconnects you with that power, and helps you to face everything with that same kind of energy. Much like on the playground, the less things bother you, and the less you need to change others = more play time; more energy and consciousness to devote toward task at hand.
With that said; main point is that we are all enlightened at one aspect of our being, and the eastern and even western teachings are metaphorical helpers to help us know that feeling more consistently. It is never anything external that brings us these things, or compromises them, unless we choose to allot them to, and knowing why we do many times takes digging back to childhood looking for agreements (definitions with emotional attachments) in order to understand why we are not that child any longer.
Everything I do is to make the mysterious simple in an attempt at making mental health more common and accessible. By combining many approaches with a practical theme, being me, I hope that it might help many. Thanks for your time.
Tophu
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
YIN YANG Dark is the NEW light
Much has been said about the Yin Yang, and today I was moved by a picture to add some "Dark" to the subject. lol
Seems like it is general opinion that black represents "Bad" or "Evil". I have found that it is actually reversed. Think about it, what is everything in? Darkness. Behind every lit up space, what is always behind it if you only look far enough? What is god supposedly? EVERYTHING. Just like one might say that music is good. But what does music come out of? Silence. Rest. Nothing. It is everything! All else dances on it. Even our atoms dance in space, and if there is no light, is in darkness, but it does exceptionally well. Space to the edges of all we can perceive, and if we shine a flashlight, it is no longer there.
Even self perpetuating ideas like Lucifer is known as the light bringer, and his metaphorical role was to oppose gods will, and all that is out of a sense of pride. He turned his back on faith, and the love that exists in not knowing, trust, and nothing.
It is not that Luci is "bad" as much as he represents what all of us struggle with at times, which is trust in the process, the path that we loose sight of as we crest a hill. We can have moments of doubt and destroy all we worked for in a matter of minutes if we give in to a surface detail that commands our attention, and we don't resolve it with ease. We might take it like, well, god/universe/fate doesn't want us to do that, when in all reality, it is meant to help us diversify in how we deal with adversity. One might blame it on Luci as a scapegoat just as they might blame anything as justification as to why they give up.
New light is shed they say.
Just like anything abstract, it means what you need or want it to mean.
Darkness appears to be the absence of light. If that is what you are seeking, like proof, like knowledge. But as most find, the more we learn, the less we know, and that could be said for just about anything.
Every fiber of your being begs for you to submit to the power that, at a conscious level, you only know what you need to know, that knowledge is one of the bigger attachments we can trap ourselves with. That the brilliance is in the power of unlimited creation, not the created. It is the diversity in creating that is that which we should expand more than a goal of that which we create.
Architect create for creating, not so much the glorious works that are created. In that is a balance. When we enjoy the process fully and to the depth that we enjoy the finished work is when we grow exponentially.
To sum, black is not bad, nor is light good. It is all good, and to embrace it as such is to shine a bit of the light into black emptiness of creation is us in creation, and a bit of the black you will find driving every white blinding light...
Seems like it is general opinion that black represents "Bad" or "Evil". I have found that it is actually reversed. Think about it, what is everything in? Darkness. Behind every lit up space, what is always behind it if you only look far enough? What is god supposedly? EVERYTHING. Just like one might say that music is good. But what does music come out of? Silence. Rest. Nothing. It is everything! All else dances on it. Even our atoms dance in space, and if there is no light, is in darkness, but it does exceptionally well. Space to the edges of all we can perceive, and if we shine a flashlight, it is no longer there.
Even self perpetuating ideas like Lucifer is known as the light bringer, and his metaphorical role was to oppose gods will, and all that is out of a sense of pride. He turned his back on faith, and the love that exists in not knowing, trust, and nothing.
It is not that Luci is "bad" as much as he represents what all of us struggle with at times, which is trust in the process, the path that we loose sight of as we crest a hill. We can have moments of doubt and destroy all we worked for in a matter of minutes if we give in to a surface detail that commands our attention, and we don't resolve it with ease. We might take it like, well, god/universe/fate doesn't want us to do that, when in all reality, it is meant to help us diversify in how we deal with adversity. One might blame it on Luci as a scapegoat just as they might blame anything as justification as to why they give up.
New light is shed they say.
Just like anything abstract, it means what you need or want it to mean.
Darkness appears to be the absence of light. If that is what you are seeking, like proof, like knowledge. But as most find, the more we learn, the less we know, and that could be said for just about anything.
Every fiber of your being begs for you to submit to the power that, at a conscious level, you only know what you need to know, that knowledge is one of the bigger attachments we can trap ourselves with. That the brilliance is in the power of unlimited creation, not the created. It is the diversity in creating that is that which we should expand more than a goal of that which we create.
Architect create for creating, not so much the glorious works that are created. In that is a balance. When we enjoy the process fully and to the depth that we enjoy the finished work is when we grow exponentially.
To sum, black is not bad, nor is light good. It is all good, and to embrace it as such is to shine a bit of the light into black emptiness of creation is us in creation, and a bit of the black you will find driving every white blinding light...
Friday, April 26, 2013
You only hear what you want to hear!
One thing that I have found is that sometimes we got to go backwards a bit in order to go frontwards. Like in the case with knots, you might be temped to just pull it as hard as you can, and you make it worse.
Same goes for intuition. Your gut may very well be telling you with all your might to pull harder when really you need to push away. Your gut may lead you down paths of great strife, if you are not seeing things with the bigger part of yourself in agreement.
Your emotions are just as much guides in that communications come from the bigger part of yourself to communicate where you are in relation to that which you are facing. Attraction shows you what you lack, being repelled from something shows you what you have too much of.
Your subconscious (bigger part) never forgets, your conscious brain is meant to process and retrieve data. You may have noticed the calmer you are the easier you can think, and retrieve information, or in the case of near death experience you seem to have an auto pilot thing that happens, and time slows down.
This is the idea of enlightenment, to work through your emotional disturbances to the point that you have more conscious capacity to deal with that which is on hand. Your emotions give you clues as to how you are balanced in relation to the external input. While we tend to want to modify the external to meet the conditions we hold normal to, the same expectation we hold ourselves to, enlightenment is being the change we want to see, meaning we must work to know ourselves and adjust ourselves to see and understand our external factors, so that we can gain back our consciousness, and rely upon the full capacity of our being.
Point of all this is that to go with your gut, but apply it in relation to your quest to know yourself. Don't trust it in that you are trying to read the external, like who to trust, or what to approve of, as what you can see is limited to your own awareness and state of being.
Ever heard that angry lover yell at you "YOU ONLY HEAR WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR" that is all anyone ever does, they hear what they can interpret in relation to their capacity to hear or know.
Allot of self knowledge is going to be counter-intuitive. Embrace that which you would rather banish, and come alive!
Same goes for intuition. Your gut may very well be telling you with all your might to pull harder when really you need to push away. Your gut may lead you down paths of great strife, if you are not seeing things with the bigger part of yourself in agreement.
Your emotions are just as much guides in that communications come from the bigger part of yourself to communicate where you are in relation to that which you are facing. Attraction shows you what you lack, being repelled from something shows you what you have too much of.
Your subconscious (bigger part) never forgets, your conscious brain is meant to process and retrieve data. You may have noticed the calmer you are the easier you can think, and retrieve information, or in the case of near death experience you seem to have an auto pilot thing that happens, and time slows down.
This is the idea of enlightenment, to work through your emotional disturbances to the point that you have more conscious capacity to deal with that which is on hand. Your emotions give you clues as to how you are balanced in relation to the external input. While we tend to want to modify the external to meet the conditions we hold normal to, the same expectation we hold ourselves to, enlightenment is being the change we want to see, meaning we must work to know ourselves and adjust ourselves to see and understand our external factors, so that we can gain back our consciousness, and rely upon the full capacity of our being.
Point of all this is that to go with your gut, but apply it in relation to your quest to know yourself. Don't trust it in that you are trying to read the external, like who to trust, or what to approve of, as what you can see is limited to your own awareness and state of being.
Ever heard that angry lover yell at you "YOU ONLY HEAR WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR" that is all anyone ever does, they hear what they can interpret in relation to their capacity to hear or know.
Allot of self knowledge is going to be counter-intuitive. Embrace that which you would rather banish, and come alive!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
People love within their capacity to love
People love within their capacity to love. Some it is a focus toward one
person, and without that person, they are lost. Aimlessly drifting,
wandering dependency, hopelessly desperate to be withing physical
proximity to the only one the assign a specific key of expectancy to.
This also goes for the hopeless romantic, that is doing all that they
can to conjure up someone to leech themselves to. They uplift and honor
the very nature of the ideal partner to a degree that broadens as their
needs become blurred, and as it is set up for failure, crumbles at the
moment a person is faced with silence on the hopeful one in a million
dream seems to turn on them. Some of the lovers love family, friends,
and those that they deem worthy of love secondary, but none like the one
that they deem above all.
It is rare that these people love themselves with such a feverish passion, and deliberate elegance that seems to define humanity. Too busy loving the world, missing that what they love is their ideal self image in these people. Beauty, passion, talent, drive, compassion, knowledge, wisdom, taste, because they deem themselves somehow less than that which they deem worthy of the spending of their goals, dreams, hopes on. It is the ultimate in self sacrifice, I love you more than i do myself. Which is at the heart of the Christian METAPHOR, Jesus dieing for you so you don't have to. Sacrifice your self image to align.
It is ALL about the feeling. The action brings before you have removed (crucified) the barriers of thought (self image/ego).
When you work to deconstruct the restrictions for that feeling to occur when facing yourself, even that which you wish wasn't you (shadow self), you can start to face people as they are, loving in their capacity to love, and you see them for the beings that they are, their essential nature. You evoke that out of them, or at least you see the barriers they have that stand between it, like fear, insecurity, anger. Underneath is still a human loving to their capacity, so don't sell them on what they already are, offer them a bit of perspective to help deconstruct the chosen barriers. This comes hand in hand with your present level of embodiment of the feeling. (sync) Until you feel that, and see that energy behind every single gesture and expression of thought, take heed to your words, as they are just as much for you as they are for them.
The goal is the eventual consistent feeling of that purity of love regardless of external stimuli.
Pretty soon, you understand that love was never yours to give, nor was anything less than love to begin with, depending on the perspective. It is more deliberate than one could imagine, knowing that it is choice, and that it is just thought, watch the layers of the onions peel back, and one can only help others to find this within themselves, rather than try to be the provider of themselves in which they seek.
Let others off the hook to provide the love you can only find within yourself. Anyone heart based is but a thought away. It is the feeling of completeness. It is alignment with your higher self. It is the essence of creativity. It is that feeling like you felt when you found the perfect mate. It is love at its finest, on tap, available all the time. Just tune!
Originally written 3-3-13 by Chris Topher Harper
It is rare that these people love themselves with such a feverish passion, and deliberate elegance that seems to define humanity. Too busy loving the world, missing that what they love is their ideal self image in these people. Beauty, passion, talent, drive, compassion, knowledge, wisdom, taste, because they deem themselves somehow less than that which they deem worthy of the spending of their goals, dreams, hopes on. It is the ultimate in self sacrifice, I love you more than i do myself. Which is at the heart of the Christian METAPHOR, Jesus dieing for you so you don't have to. Sacrifice your self image to align.
It is ALL about the feeling. The action brings before you have removed (crucified) the barriers of thought (self image/ego).
When you work to deconstruct the restrictions for that feeling to occur when facing yourself, even that which you wish wasn't you (shadow self), you can start to face people as they are, loving in their capacity to love, and you see them for the beings that they are, their essential nature. You evoke that out of them, or at least you see the barriers they have that stand between it, like fear, insecurity, anger. Underneath is still a human loving to their capacity, so don't sell them on what they already are, offer them a bit of perspective to help deconstruct the chosen barriers. This comes hand in hand with your present level of embodiment of the feeling. (sync) Until you feel that, and see that energy behind every single gesture and expression of thought, take heed to your words, as they are just as much for you as they are for them.
The goal is the eventual consistent feeling of that purity of love regardless of external stimuli.
Pretty soon, you understand that love was never yours to give, nor was anything less than love to begin with, depending on the perspective. It is more deliberate than one could imagine, knowing that it is choice, and that it is just thought, watch the layers of the onions peel back, and one can only help others to find this within themselves, rather than try to be the provider of themselves in which they seek.
Let others off the hook to provide the love you can only find within yourself. Anyone heart based is but a thought away. It is the feeling of completeness. It is alignment with your higher self. It is the essence of creativity. It is that feeling like you felt when you found the perfect mate. It is love at its finest, on tap, available all the time. Just tune!
Originally written 3-3-13 by Chris Topher Harper
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