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3 months ago

Bored? Look at life afresh, by feed - knowledge and religi

MakingYourWisflame Last Friday I heard a radio show with Christopher Bowman as the guest. He mentioned that if you don???t start from the number 0 you life will not add up right. That???s because you???re starting from the wrong reference point or identity.

Assuming that you are limited to an object that you see like a body or a mind, you live your life experiencing the joys and subsequent sufferings and death of that character.

The mistake is that you overlooked your real identity which is the substance of the whole universe. We call this identity Awareness. As the seer, Awareness is not contained by any object that it sees. And yet the sense of reality that a form has comes from your awareness of it.

Finding your real home
So the purpose of Self Knowledge is to return to the home where you live anyway, which is space like awareness. While you can???t see Awareness you can know it directly because that is what you are.

This Awareness is literally like space. Space cannot be contained by a pot, a room, or a building. If the pot breaks or the building collapses the space returns to its original place. But to space itself, nothing has really changed.

The world comes inside
When you return your identity to Awareness the world that you thought was out there comes inside. Like space you become everything and nothing both at the same time. If the mind starts spinning quickly as if it is out of control, or if the body breaks up and dies, to you nothing has happened. Reality remains the same, just as it always was and as Awareness you remain the same.

Standing here life adds up just right
Returning home, your life will add up just right no matter what situations you have to face. From here your counting will be accurate and true.

SunsetSpecial Question everything
Here I always encourage questions. People take too much for granted about the world, their body, mind, and their nature. Questioning encourages you to take a fresh look. Looking afresh, once again life becomes fresh and a real adventure. Without changing a thing, everyday experiences become completely new. If you need help with your questions you can write me at michael@ananya.com.

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information

www.light-up-your-life.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you

If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com


To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman

3 months ago

Bored? Look at life afresh, by feed - knowledge and religi

MakingYourWisflame Last Friday I heard a radio show with Christopher Bowman as the guest. He mentioned that if you don???t start from the number 0 you life will not add up right. That???s because you???re starting from the wrong reference point or identity.

Assuming that you are limited to an object that you see like a body or a mind, you live your life experiencing the joys and subsequent sufferings and death of that character.

The mistake is that you overlooked your real identity which is the substance of the whole universe. We call this identity Awareness. As the seer, Awareness is not contained by any object that it sees. And yet the sense of reality that a form has comes from your awareness of it.

Finding your real home
So the purpose of Self Knowledge is to return to the home where you live anyway, which is space like awareness. While you can???t see Awareness you can know it directly because that is what you are.

This Awareness is literally like space. Space cannot be contained by a pot, a room, or a building. If the pot breaks or the building collapses the space returns to its original place. But to space itself, nothing has really changed.

The world comes inside
When you return your identity to Awareness the world that you thought was out there comes inside. Like space you become everything and nothing both at the same time. If the mind starts spinning quickly as if it is out of control, or if the body breaks up and dies, to you nothing has happened. Reality remains the same, just as it always was and as Awareness you remain the same.

Standing here life adds up just right
Returning home, your life will add up just right no matter what situations you have to face. From here your counting will be accurate and true.

SunsetSpecial Question everything
Here I always encourage questions. People take too much for granted about the world, their body, mind, and their nature. Questioning encourages you to take a fresh look. Looking afresh, once again life becomes fresh and a real adventure. Without changing a thing, everyday experiences become completely new. If you need help with your questions you can write me at michael@ananya.com.

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information

www.light-up-your-life.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you

If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com


To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman

3 months ago

Stepping beyond the experience of energy, by feed - knowledge and religi

MakingYourWisflame Oftentimes in meditation we start to have fascinating experiences. If you aim is self-knowledge, you should consider these experiences as just experiences and not the ultimate purpose of your meditation practice.

Ok, what if when I meditate I feel energy coursing through my body? Or what if I feel a more subtle energy space that is nonphysical? What should I do next? When you enter an energy state it can feel really powerful and for this reason it catches your attention.

But energy states are not the end all and be all of meditation. The proof is that they come and go. As this state started so it will come to an end. This is the nature of all experiences. If you enjoyed this state, the end will be disappointing.

Liberation is finding lasting satisfaction
So if you aim for liberation, when you feel this state know that it is not the end of your meditation. That which comes and goes can never provide lasting satisfaction. What you want to find is the quality that makes your experience seem so real. Where does the sense of reality come from anyway?

This examination will land you right in the place where you really stand. What we do is overlook the reality and bliss that comes right from our self nature. Then we assign reality and bliss to the objects that we experience like states of energy.

Returning Reality to its source
Human liberation is returning your sense of reality and bliss to its source which is your own self nature. Here is a hint for finding this state: You are not only aware of the energy state that you are in, you are aware of the character that???s experiencing the energy. You are free from both the subject and the object.

You stand as the unaffected seer sometimes called Awareness. Ramana Maharshi might consider this the still screen on which the movie of life plays. When you reach to touch the movie you find only the screen. In the same way when you look to find the realty that seems to come from the world, you find only Awareness.

RedSun2sm The real meaning of life
Start to find your identity as the seer and not the limited character that seems to experience the world. Stand here free from the mind and body and your life will change in ways that you could not have anticipated. This is where you begin to find the real meaning in life and how you can even find freedom from death.

I miss your questions
Because we point to your direct experience, your questions are the heart of this blog. When you ask questions about your practice you will see that this blog is not about some theory, it is about what you are. You can reach me at michael@ananya.com.

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information

www.ananya.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you

If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com


To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman





3 months ago

Stepping beyond the experience of energy, by feed - knowledge and religi

MakingYourWisflame Oftentimes in meditation we start to have fascinating experiences. If you aim is self-knowledge, you should consider these experiences as just experiences and not the ultimate purpose of your meditation practice.

Ok, what if when I meditate I feel energy coursing through my body? Or what if I feel a more subtle energy space that is nonphysical? What should I do next? When you enter an energy state it can feel really powerful and for this reason it catches your attention.

But energy states are not the end all and be all of meditation. The proof is that they come and go. As this state started so it will come to an end. This is the nature of all experiences. If you enjoyed this state, the end will be disappointing.

Liberation is finding lasting satisfaction
So if you aim for liberation, when you feel this state know that it is not the end of your meditation. That which comes and goes can never provide lasting satisfaction. What you want to find is the quality that makes your experience seem so real. Where does the sense of reality come from anyway?

This examination will land you right in the place where you really stand. What we do is overlook the reality and bliss that comes right from our self nature. Then we assign reality and bliss to the objects that we experience like states of energy.

Returning Reality to its source
Human liberation is returning your sense of reality and bliss to its source which is your own self nature. Here is a hint for finding this state: You are not only aware of the energy state that you are in, you are aware of the character that???s experiencing the energy. You are free from both the subject and the object.

You stand as the unaffected seer sometimes called Awareness. Ramana Maharshi might consider this the still screen on which the movie of life plays. When you reach to touch the movie you find only the screen. In the same way when you look to find the realty that seems to come from the world, you find only Awareness.

RedSun2sm The real meaning of life
Start to find your identity as the seer and not the limited character that seems to experience the world. Stand here free from the mind and body and your life will change in ways that you could not have anticipated. This is where you begin to find the real meaning in life and how you can even find freedom from death.

I miss your questions
Because we point to your direct experience, your questions are the heart of this blog. When you ask questions about your practice you will see that this blog is not about some theory, it is about what you are. You can reach me at michael@ananya.com.

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information

www.ananya.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you

If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com


To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman





3 months ago

Long-term fatigue will cause reduce of the response to the placebo , by chelsea8611

Long-term fatigue will cause reduce of the response to the placebo

Chronic fatigue patients show lower response to placebos

Contrary to conventional wisdom, patients with chronic fatigue syndrome respond to placebos at a lower rate than people with many other illnesses, according to the first systematic review of the topic.

According to the new analysis by Dr. Hyong Jin Cho of King's College London and colleagues, 19.6 percent of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome improved after receiving inactive treatments, compared with a widely accepted figure of about 30 percent for other conditions.

Because the placebo effect seems to be strongest in diseases with highly subjective symptoms, some medical professionals believed it could be as high as 50 percent among CFS patients.

The review, reported in the current issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, pooled data from 29 studies in which 1,016 people with CFS received various placebos.

CFS is a complex illness that has no known cause or cure. Myriad symptoms include severe malaise, muscle http://www.lookchem.com/cas-675/67583-85-1.html and joint pain, sleep and mood disturbances and headache. The symptoms continue for at least six months and cannot be explained by any other medical conditions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that as many as 500,000 Americans may have CFS or related conditions.

With so many mysteries surrounding CFS, a great deal of controversy exists among both doctors and patients as to whether its origins are primarily psychological or physiological. Current evidence suggests that emotional or social stresses such as bereavement or problems at work, combined with other triggers such as common viral infections, contribute to the disorder. Additional factors, such as avoidance of physical activity, may cause the symptoms to become chronic, says Cho.

The authors propose several possible explanations for the surprisingly low placebo response revealed in the analysis. Perhaps patients have low expectations due to the reality that CFS is very difficult to treat and often persists for many years. Alternatively, disconnects between how patients and doctors view the illness "may impede development of a collaborative therapeutic relationship," reviewers suggest.

The study also showed that the placebo response is 24 percent for medical interventions but only 14 percent for psychiatric/psychological treatments. The authors say the reason may be that many CFS sufferers seen in specialist settings
or self-help groups "have a firm conviction that their illness is of physical origin" and thus would have little faith in psychiatric/psychological treatments. This finding supports the idea that the placebo response is greatly influenced by
patients' expectations of improvement.

According to the review, behavioral therapy and graded exercise therapy have benefits, and if patients were more aware of them, says Cho, they might be "more open, more optimistic, and more collaborative with the professionals, and the overall outcome of the treatments could be enhanced."

Dr. Lucinda Bateman, an internist who specializes in CFS and fibromyalgia and serves on the board of the American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, has worked with about 500 CFS patients over the past 15 years.

"In my clinical experience, I have found that CFS is among the most difficult conditions to improve at all, with either physical or psychological interventions." This is true in part, she says, because there is a great deal of variation among patients diagnosed with CFS, and Bateman believes that ultimately CFS may be found to involve more than one disease.

In the absence of a cure, Bateman has found that the most effective treatment for CFS combines improving symptoms with medication, helping patients retain physical conditioning when possible and using psychological and psychiatric interventions to help patients adapt to living with chronic illness.

She doesn't discount the placebo effect, however. "When you say to people, 'I believe you, I will help you manage your symptoms, I will advocate for you,' that hope and feeling of control over their disease could be considered placebo effect,
but it's an important part of delivering medical care."

4 months ago

How to approach obstacles to self inquiry, by feed - knowledge and religi

Makingyourwisflame[15] What I found in my practice and from watching the practice of other aspirants is that the real obstacles in practice are not the concepts we bump into. They are rather our reaction to them. So if you find feelings of self judgment and unworthiness creeping into your practice read on and we will deal with these feelings once and for all.

For practice just remember that when you see a limitation you are free of it. This is not the time to judge and measure yourself. Could you imagine how bad it would be if you had to live with this limiting view for the rest of your life and die with it. Now that you see it you have the opportunity to recognize it as a limiting concept and not a natural part of life. This is the perfect opportunity to step beyond limitation. You step beyond it by abiding as the Awareness that sees it.

Thoughts don't define you
From here you will see that the thoughts in your mind can never define you. If they tell you that you are the greatest aspirant in the world or the worst failure of an aspirant to ever live it is like telling you that you are a purple kangaroo. Now you know that you can think, ???I am a purple kangaroo,??? as much as you want and it will never make you into a purple kangaroo.

Right now your mind is trying to define and measure Awareness. But the problem is that your mind cannot see Awareness. You see your mind but your mind does not see you. You know Awareness in a different way. You know Awareness because that's what you are.

This practice is not trying to line your thoughts up like ducks in a row. It is rather returning to the place where you really stand and abiding there. From here things get very simple. All the complexities of the mind disappear and even your mind will enjoy this new found state.

No matter how much I describe the state of liberation it will still be a surprise to you. That's because the experience of Awareness cannot fit into a linear description. But if you enjoy surprises that are fresh and new and completely unexpected then you will enjoy your practice and you will enjoy waking up.

QuarySunset Then how do you discover Awareness
You might then ask, ???If my mind cannot define Awareness how can I know this Awareness???? The traditional way of saying it is that Awareness shines by its own light without the need for another light. I call Awareness your direct experience.

The I thought that attempts to stand apart and look at Awareness like it was an object is not really you at all. It is just a thought. Other examples that might help you to get a sense of this are: the best way to know love is by the heart. The heart has its own intelligence that cannot be captured by the intellect.

Also the gut has its own intuition that can only be understood by standing there. Not by thinking about it. As you dive more into Awareness you will begin to get a sense of what human potential really is. Although words do not capture it completely, it is truly amazing.  "Making Your Wisdom Come Alive" will help you with the nuts and bolts of cutting the bonds of limitation so that you can stand in your natural state as Awareness, always.

Limitation can never define you or defile you
So when you see limiting concepts no matter how terrible they may seem, just remember that this is not the time for self judgment. It is the time to abide in your natural Awareness, which is the seer of limitation. From here you will see that limitation can never define you or defile you.

Of course questions about specific ideas that seem to obscure your natural state of freedom are always welcome here. There is no idea that is so weighty that it cannot be examined and discarded. 

I hope that this helps,

Michael

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information

www.ananya.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you
If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com

To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman

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4 months ago

How to approach obstacles to self inquiry, by feed - knowledge and religi

Makingyourwisflame[15] What I found in my practice and from watching the practice of other aspirants is that the real obstacles in practice are not the concepts we bump into. They are rather our reaction to them. So if you find feelings of self judgment and unworthiness creeping into your practice read on and we will deal with these feelings once and for all.

For practice just remember that when you see a limitation you are free of it. This is not the time to judge and measure yourself. Could you imagine how bad it would be if you had to live with this limiting view for the rest of your life and die with it. Now that you see it you have the opportunity to recognize it as a limiting concept and not a natural part of life. This is the perfect opportunity to step beyond limitation. You step beyond it by abiding as the Awareness that sees it.

Thoughts don't define you
From here you will see that the thoughts in your mind can never define you. If they tell you that you are the greatest aspirant in the world or the worst failure of an aspirant to ever live it is like telling you that you are a purple kangaroo. Now you know that you can think, ???I am a purple kangaroo,??? as much as you want and it will never make you into a purple kangaroo.

Right now your mind is trying to define and measure Awareness. But the problem is that your mind cannot see Awareness. You see your mind but your mind does not see you. You know Awareness in a different way. You know Awareness because that's what you are.

This practice is not trying to line your thoughts up like ducks in a row. It is rather returning to the place where you really stand and abiding there. From here things get very simple. All the complexities of the mind disappear and even your mind will enjoy this new found state.

No matter how much I describe the state of liberation it will still be a surprise to you. That's because the experience of Awareness cannot fit into a linear description. But if you enjoy surprises that are fresh and new and completely unexpected then you will enjoy your practice and you will enjoy waking up.

QuarySunset Then how do you discover Awareness
You might then ask, ???If my mind cannot define Awareness how can I know this Awareness???? The traditional way of saying it is that Awareness shines by its own light without the need for another light. I call Awareness your direct experience.

The I thought that attempts to stand apart and look at Awareness like it was an object is not really you at all. It is just a thought. Other examples that might help you to get a sense of this are: the best way to know love is by the heart. The heart has its own intelligence that cannot be captured by the intellect.

Also the gut has its own intuition that can only be understood by standing there. Not by thinking about it. As you dive more into Awareness you will begin to get a sense of what human potential really is. Although words do not capture it completely, it is truly amazing.  "Making Your Wisdom Come Alive" will help you with the nuts and bolts of cutting the bonds of limitation so that you can stand in your natural state as Awareness, always.

Limitation can never define you or defile you
So when you see limiting concepts no matter how terrible they may seem, just remember that this is not the time for self judgment. It is the time to abide in your natural Awareness, which is the seer of limitation. From here you will see that limitation can never define you or defile you.

Of course questions about specific ideas that seem to obscure your natural state of freedom are always welcome here. There is no idea that is so weighty that it cannot be examined and discarded. 

I hope that this helps,

Michael

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information

www.ananya.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you
If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com

To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman

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Technorati Tags: Nonduality, meditation, self knowledge, freedom

4 months ago

Burning Ignorance, by feed - knowledge and religi

Makingyourwisflame[15] Bernard had the following reply to the last blog:

Hello Michael,

  I love that comment of Ramana Maharshi about the last act in a cremation- throwing the stick that stirs the fire into the fire. I understand that to mean that right in the end the ???I???  has to finally let go. Perhaps I understand suicide a little better in that statement???it being an attempt to get rid of the ???I??? which is causing all the problem. Clearly physical suicide is not the answer but somewhere along the spiritual path one has to come to a place of such acceptance that the personal I disappears and that I assume is grace when it does happen.

 So yes I see that my ???I??? is still very much in charge shifting its attention from one thing to another and that I just need to abide in awareness more and more without using the I to keep searching for it.

Perhaps I am afraid that awareness without the ???I??? who wants to be in attention can???t function without the ???I??? WHO HAS A BIG JOB TO DO.

Thanks for pointing me to the ???I??? who is just another stick that needs to also be burnt up in the fire.

                         Bernard


Hi Bernard,

Thank you for your reply. Ramana also has another meaning for throwing the stick that stirs the fire into  the fire. The last thing to destroy is the one that seeks the truth, not the first.

What you are seeking is what, you really are even now. This is good to know because it gives the aspirant the energy to finish his (or her) practice. When you know that your freedom is right at hand it is hard to stay bogged down or stuck in the thoughts in your mind, or in self judgment and in suffering. You know that if you just look in the right way you will find this freedom.

But some aspirants think, ???If I am already the self, why should I seek the self? Once I know this there is no need to practice.??? However, they unknowingly remain centered in their mind and not in changeless Awareness. So as their thoughts change they seem to change.

Furthermore they leave certain concepts in tact where they identify with limitation. Although they may have some high experience, these concepts act like hooks taking them back into limitation and suffering.

Burning Up The Hooks
There is a certain stage in your practice where you will start looking for these hooks. That???s because you will know that seeing limitation is a sign that you are free from limitation, not stuck in it. You will then find your life changing in ways that you could never have anticipated. This is the meaning of stirring the fire so that you can bring up and destroy limitation. Once you get a sense for this, you will have the feeling that you want to destroy every limitation that you identify with.

Shiva0 copy The Final Hook
But long before you get through destroying all of these concepts something remarkable will happen. Even though I had studied the Vedanta on Self-Knowledge, this took me completely by surprise. You will see that the very sense of me, the one looking for limitation and suffering is not me at all. When you see this you will have thrown in the stick that stirs the fire into the fire. This is dying to the separate one who can come back into limitation.

Here you will finally live in your true home, which is reality. You will have the feeling that things are exactly the same but completely different both at the same time. How can liberation ever be described by thoughts and concepts? But you will know the meaning of, ???One without a second.???

This sense of me, the stick that stirs the fire, is sometimes called the ego. I don???t often use the word ego because it has so many psychological overtones that my readers start going into another world and to some extent I lose them. But if you think of ego as the presumption of self or the assumption of ???I??? you will get a sense of what I mean. Even now when you are supposedly unenlightened and ignorant you are not a thought; you are nothing but pure unadulterated Awareness.

So in the strictest sense there is no real ego to get rid of. Only if you feel limited by the objects that you see like the body, the breath, certain concepts in the mind like self judgment, or by the ego, do you have to return to your real home, which is the seer, Awareness.

The energy that you need to discover this is the energy to question the assumptions, which seem so normal, and to look at these assumptions through your new-found eye of wisdom.

An Analogy From the Dream State
This is like in the dream state. Even now all the objects, all the bodies and all of the minds in the dream are nothing but the mind of the waking one. All the dream characters are nothing but the one mind.

But since these characters assume that they are limited to that dream person, they seem to suffer the fate of that character. And so they seem to be born and to die, to suffer and to be happy right along with the changes to that particular person. When these dream people wake up they didn???t really create a brand new self. They just discover what they were the whole time.

Accomplishing What you Want To Accomplish
Now, as far as doing the jobs that you need to get done in life, big and small. Yes, the sense of a separate doer is gone, but you will find that there is a certain harmony in the universe. Where there is a job to do, the universe will take care of it. Although you may appear to work extremely hard, you will be completely at ease and unconcerned. And if the body gets sick and you are unable to work at all, you will still be completely at ease.

No rules can possibly govern a sage. But when you wake up, you will have accomplished the most important thing in life and everything else will turn out just the way it was meant to. So as an aspirant keep two things in mind. First, the kingdom of heaven is at hand and you can wake up at any moment. Second, have the determination to destroy any concepts which appear to keep you in limitation and to cause suffering.

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information

www.ananya.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you
If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com

To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman




4 months ago

Burning Ignorance, by feed - knowledge and religi

Makingyourwisflame[15] Bernard had the following reply to the last blog:

Hello Michael,

  I love that comment of Ramana Maharshi about the last act in a cremation- throwing the stick that stirs the fire into the fire. I understand that to mean that right in the end the ???I???  has to finally let go. Perhaps I understand suicide a little better in that statement???it being an attempt to get rid of the ???I??? which is causing all the problem. Clearly physical suicide is not the answer but somewhere along the spiritual path one has to come to a place of such acceptance that the personal I disappears and that I assume is grace when it does happen.

 So yes I see that my ???I??? is still very much in charge shifting its attention from one thing to another and that I just need to abide in awareness more and more without using the I to keep searching for it.

Perhaps I am afraid that awareness without the ???I??? who wants to be in attention can???t function without the ???I??? WHO HAS A BIG JOB TO DO.

Thanks for pointing me to the ???I??? who is just another stick that needs to also be burnt up in the fire.

                         Bernard


Hi Bernard,

Thank you for your reply. Ramana also has another meaning for throwing the stick that stirs the fire into  the fire. The last thing to destroy is the one that seeks the truth, not the first.

What you are seeking is what, you really are even now. This is good to know because it gives the aspirant the energy to finish his (or her) practice. When you know that your freedom is right at hand it is hard to stay bogged down or stuck in the thoughts in your mind, or in self judgment and in suffering. You know that if you just look in the right way you will find this freedom.

But some aspirants think, ???If I am already the self, why should I seek the self? Once I know this there is no need to practice.??? However, they unknowingly remain centered in their mind and not in changeless Awareness. So as their thoughts change they seem to change.

Furthermore they leave certain concepts in tact where they identify with limitation. Although they may have some high experience, these concepts act like hooks taking them back into limitation and suffering.

Burning Up The Hooks
There is a certain stage in your practice where you will start looking for these hooks. That???s because you will know that seeing limitation is a sign that you are free from limitation, not stuck in it. You will then find your life changing in ways that you could never have anticipated. This is the meaning of stirring the fire so that you can bring up and destroy limitation. Once you get a sense for this, you will have the feeling that you want to destroy every limitation that you identify with.

Shiva0 copy The Final Hook
But long before you get through destroying all of these concepts something remarkable will happen. Even though I had studied the Vedanta on Self-Knowledge, this took me completely by surprise. You will see that the very sense of me, the one looking for limitation and suffering is not me at all. When you see this you will have thrown in the stick that stirs the fire into the fire. This is dying to the separate one who can come back into limitation.

Here you will finally live in your true home, which is reality. You will have the feeling that things are exactly the same but completely different both at the same time. How can liberation ever be described by thoughts and concepts? But you will know the meaning of, ???One without a second.???

This sense of me, the stick that stirs the fire, is sometimes called the ego. I don???t often use the word ego because it has so many psychological overtones that my readers start going into another world and to some extent I lose them. But if you think of ego as the presumption of self or the assumption of ???I??? you will get a sense of what I mean. Even now when you are supposedly unenlightened and ignorant you are not a thought; you are nothing but pure unadulterated Awareness.

So in the strictest sense there is no real ego to get rid of. Only if you feel limited by the objects that you see like the body, the breath, certain concepts in the mind like self judgment, or by the ego, do you have to return to your real home, which is the seer, Awareness.

The energy that you need to discover this is the energy to question the assumptions, which seem so normal, and to look at these assumptions through your new-found eye of wisdom.

An Analogy From the Dream State
This is like in the dream state. Even now all the objects, all the bodies and all of the minds in the dream are nothing but the mind of the waking one. All the dream characters are nothing but the one mind.

But since these characters assume that they are limited to that dream person, they seem to suffer the fate of that character. And so they seem to be born and to die, to suffer and to be happy right along with the changes to that particular person. When these dream people wake up they didn???t really create a brand new self. They just discover what they were the whole time.

Accomplishing What you Want To Accomplish
Now, as far as doing the jobs that you need to get done in life, big and small. Yes, the sense of a separate doer is gone, but you will find that there is a certain harmony in the universe. Where there is a job to do, the universe will take care of it. Although you may appear to work extremely hard, you will be completely at ease and unconcerned. And if the body gets sick and you are unable to work at all, you will still be completely at ease.

No rules can possibly govern a sage. But when you wake up, you will have accomplished the most important thing in life and everything else will turn out just the way it was meant to. So as an aspirant keep two things in mind. First, the kingdom of heaven is at hand and you can wake up at any moment. Second, have the determination to destroy any concepts which appear to keep you in limitation and to cause suffering.

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information

www.ananya.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you
If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com

To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman




4 months ago

What exactly is Awareness?, by feed - knowledge and religi

MakingYourWisflame Bernard had the following questions on the Soul; and on Awareness:

Hello Michael,

   

I have described to you before my understanding of awareness as the eye of the soul and inner peace and non judgment as the body of the soul and unconditional love as the heart of the soul and wisdom as the mind of the soul. I also recognize that I can shift my awareness up and down my body to the various centers such as up into the head area to ???think??? and down to the heart are to ???feel??? and further down to the abdomen for a ???gut feeling??? and even above the head to escape thought. I can also work with a mantra and it takes me to another area of my consciousness.

The question I have though is who is making these decisions to move awareness. While I seem to have identified the ???soul??? does the soul make these kinds of decisions and if it is just my mind involved in all this then how does one function without deciding to sit down and do mediation and bring awareness into the heart area for example.

           I need some insight here.

            Look forward to hearing from you,

                            Bernard


Hi Bernard,

I really enjoy your questions. That???s because they come from your direct experience and not just from intellectual musings. Because of this with a few little shifts, the sense of you and this Awareness will become one and the same.

The difference between Awareness and Attention
The key to understanding your question is to see the difference between Awareness and attention. It is your attention that moves from one part of your body to another and sees the difference between feeling and intuition. On a more subtle level, when you work with a mantra, it is your attention that goes to a place that feels very real but is difficult to define.

You even see the character called 'I'
You are the nonjudgmental Awareness that sees this shift in your attention from one place to the next. But most important you also see the one who makes this shift, which you call ???I???. Do you know that the ???I??? in your statement: ???I also recognize that I can shift my awareness up and down my body,??? is just a thought, an object in your Awareness, and not really you? You are not only the seer of your experiences; you are the seer of the subject, the character that seems to get caught in them.

Awareness is the substance behind all of your experiences; it is because of Awareness that your experiences seem so real. This Awareness is even in states where there are no thoughts like deep sleep; it is by Awareness that you can tell if you had a good night???s sleep or not. In fact Awareness is the constant light shinning behind all of your experiences. Because it is unchanging there is no way to grasp it as a separate object.

Then how to know Awareness
However, you can still know Awareness. But you have to know it in a different way. You know it by standing there in your real identity. You might call this standing as your Soul. If this seems hard to comprehend here is an analogy that might help. When you fall in love you know love by your heart and not by the thoughts in your mind, right? But being an accountant you start to wonder, ???Exactly how much in love am I???? ???Am I 68% in love or 72.5% in love? Is my love increasing at a 5% slope or decreasing at a 2% slope???? You know that all these thoughts, even the complicated and convoluted ones, cannot clarify love. Moreover, even if you stop your thinking, you would not come closer to love. The only way to understand love is by abiding in the heart. From the heart love becomes perfectly clear.

Similarly, if you try to think your way into Awareness, it will always seem remote and obscure. That???s because the underlying assumption here is that you are the thoughts and that Awareness is some distant object. But if you stand in your true home as Awareness and look from here, all of the sudden things will become very clear. At the most your thinking can point the way by showing you what you are not. But the light of Awareness reveals itself by itself without the need for a separate light.

Ma in Simadicor Who seeks and who practices?
Now of course as a seeker, searching for this deathless freedom that comes from abiding as Awareness, do the things that will bring your life to a successful conclusion, like reading and listening to sages, pondering the meaning of their words, and endeavoring to abide in the place that they point. Also continue with a regular meditation practice. The very last thing to drop off is the ???I??? that desires liberation and practices. Ramana Maharshi compared this to the last act in a cremation ??? throwing the stick that stirs the fire into the fire.

I hope that this begins to answer your questions. If you need clarification or have more questions, please feel free to ask them.

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information
www.ananya.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you
If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com

To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman



4 months ago

What exactly is Awareness?, by feed - knowledge and religi

MakingYourWisflame Bernard had the following questions on the Soul; and on Awareness:

Hello Michael,

   

I have described to you before my understanding of awareness as the eye of the soul and inner peace and non judgment as the body of the soul and unconditional love as the heart of the soul and wisdom as the mind of the soul. I also recognize that I can shift my awareness up and down my body to the various centers such as up into the head area to ???think??? and down to the heart are to ???feel??? and further down to the abdomen for a ???gut feeling??? and even above the head to escape thought. I can also work with a mantra and it takes me to another area of my consciousness.

The question I have though is who is making these decisions to move awareness. While I seem to have identified the ???soul??? does the soul make these kinds of decisions and if it is just my mind involved in all this then how does one function without deciding to sit down and do mediation and bring awareness into the heart area for example.

           I need some insight here.

            Look forward to hearing from you,

                            Bernard


Hi Bernard,

I really enjoy your questions. That???s because they come from your direct experience and not just from intellectual musings. Because of this with a few little shifts, the sense of you and this Awareness will become one and the same.

The difference between Awareness and Attention
The key to understanding your question is to see the difference between Awareness and attention. It is your attention that moves from one part of your body to another and sees the difference between feeling and intuition. On a more subtle level, when you work with a mantra, it is your attention that goes to a place that feels very real but is difficult to define.

You even see the character called 'I'
You are the nonjudgmental Awareness that sees this shift in your attention from one place to the next. But most important you also see the one who makes this shift, which you call ???I???. Do you know that the ???I??? in your statement: ???I also recognize that I can shift my awareness up and down my body,??? is just a thought, an object in your Awareness, and not really you? You are not only the seer of your experiences; you are the seer of the subject, the character that seems to get caught in them.

Awareness is the substance behind all of your experiences; it is because of Awareness that your experiences seem so real. This Awareness is even in states where there are no thoughts like deep sleep; it is by Awareness that you can tell if you had a good night???s sleep or not. In fact Awareness is the constant light shinning behind all of your experiences. Because it is unchanging there is no way to grasp it as a separate object.

Then how to know Awareness
However, you can still know Awareness. But you have to know it in a different way. You know it by standing there in your real identity. You might call this standing as your Soul. If this seems hard to comprehend here is an analogy that might help. When you fall in love you know love by your heart and not by the thoughts in your mind, right? But being an accountant you start to wonder, ???Exactly how much in love am I???? ???Am I 68% in love or 72.5% in love? Is my love increasing at a 5% slope or decreasing at a 2% slope???? You know that all these thoughts, even the complicated and convoluted ones, cannot clarify love. Moreover, even if you stop your thinking, you would not come closer to love. The only way to understand love is by abiding in the heart. From the heart love becomes perfectly clear.

Similarly, if you try to think your way into Awareness, it will always seem remote and obscure. That???s because the underlying assumption here is that you are the thoughts and that Awareness is some distant object. But if you stand in your true home as Awareness and look from here, all of the sudden things will become very clear. At the most your thinking can point the way by showing you what you are not. But the light of Awareness reveals itself by itself without the need for a separate light.

Ma in Simadicor Who seeks and who practices?
Now of course as a seeker, searching for this deathless freedom that comes from abiding as Awareness, do the things that will bring your life to a successful conclusion, like reading and listening to sages, pondering the meaning of their words, and endeavoring to abide in the place that they point. Also continue with a regular meditation practice. The very last thing to drop off is the ???I??? that desires liberation and practices. Ramana Maharshi compared this to the last act in a cremation ??? throwing the stick that stirs the fire into the fire.

I hope that this begins to answer your questions. If you need clarification or have more questions, please feel free to ask them.

Please join us
Every Tuesday we hold a meeting here in our house in Los Gatos California. All too often it is only my wife and I that attend. But we still have a wonderful time. If you find yourself in this area and would like to attend here is a link where you can find more information
www.ananya.com/talks.html

Other resources available to you
If you need a more basic understanding of this Self-Knowledge or if you just want support for your practice, go to www.light-up-your-life.com and read down the main column. Also check out the different links that we provide as resources. They can help you to sharpen the focus of your meditation practice.

BookCoverSM Another resource that we offer is the book, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive, a step by step guide taking you from your everyday experience to the highest wisdom and truth. To find out more, click on the link below:

wisdom.light-up-your-life.com

To join our mailing list go to: http://www.light-up-your-life.com/join.html

Please Tell Your Friend
Please tell you friends. Although we don???t have an advertising budget, we hope that everyone who wants to can find out about and wake up to this wisdom.

You have my best wishes,

Michael Gluckman



4 months ago

Re: “THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN IS PERFORMED AGAIN AND THE PURIFICATION IS NEAR”, by michaelg

Hi,

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” He did not say, “He is the way, the truth, and the life.” The I that Jesus was talking about is the universal subject. This I is your true identity. It is the light of Consciousness that sees the limitation of the body, mind, and I thought without being caught by them.

When you return to your true home you stand with Jesus as a single one, in the place where there has never been a second. Without a second you are free. If by your direct experience, you know the meaning of I, you will know exactly what Jesus was talking about. That’s because you will be looking through the eye of Jesus. From here you will see things the way they really are.

When you look to the core of the world, you find unbroken Love, Consciousness, and Life that was never born and will never die. The rest is just a story created out of ignorance. The way to truth is to find out what you are even now. Then beyond a shadow of doubt, you will know the meaning of the teachings of Jesus. The word I is a pointer to the place where you really stand.

Best wishes for your meditations,

Michael

4 months ago

Re: “THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN IS PERFORMED AGAIN AND THE PURIFICATION IS NEAR”, by purificationworld

COMMUNITY OF CHARITY SERVICES OF THE BLESSED MOTHER
INDONESIA
Secretariat: Jl. Rengas Raya No. 1, Bintaro – Jakarta, INDONESIA. Phone: 62-21-73887370

To His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
The Apostolic Palace
Vatican City, 00120
Rome. ITALY

Your Holiness,

We are the Community of Charity Services of the Blessed Mother, a community founded by Mother Mary, our Lord’s Mother, on May 23, 1995. The aim of this community is to work together with Agnes Sawarno, an Indonesian visionary, to convey the messages of our Lord Jesus and our Mother Mary to their children in Indonesia, and after the death of Sister Lucia dos Santos de Jesus OCD, also to their children in all over the world, in connection with the nearing purification of the world and the mankind.

On behalf of the Community, we are conveying our witnesses and experiences on the spiritual journey to Fatima on May 13, 2005. Before we start with our letter we would like to confess our faith and our conviction as follows:
We believe in all the contents of the Apostles’ Creed.
We believe that the Christian Economy, since it is the new and definitive covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ (DV 4).
Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries (Catechism of the Catholic Church 66).
To understand the full significance of the Holy Bible, based on the public Revelation that is already complete, we are convinced that we will be helped by our Lord Jesus, who is always with us according to His promise: ”Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, I am there in the midst of them“ (Matt 18:20), and “I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matt 28:20) and by our Mother Mary, who had been given as Mother by Jesus to His followers (cf John 19:26-27), to help them, and who after taken up to heaven did not lay aside her salvific duty, but by her constant intercession continued to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation. By her maternal charity, she cares for the brethren of her Son, who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties, until they are led into the happiness of their true home” (LG 62).
We believe that the help of our Lord Jesus and our Mother Mary is given among other things in the form of private revelations. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ’s definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it (private revelation) in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the church (Catechism of the Catholic Church 67).

This is to introduce our community and our faith and convictions.

Your Holiness,

As is mentioned above we are asked by our Lord Jesus and our Mother Mary to spread their messages related to the purification of the world and the mankind, in order that her children will be ready to face it by wholly returning themselves to God.

Repeatedly, Lord Jesus and Mother Mary, conveyed through Agnes Sawarno, asked the Bishops and the Priests to prepare their children, but it had been ignored by many of them, because the spirit of the world influences them. Many Bishops and Priests seem to have left behind the Catholic values for the sake of integration into modern culture. There is no more firmness in teaching; they stress no more holiness in life and no more professional in guiding God’s children. Therefore we were asked to write a letter to the Indonesian Hierarchy, and we had done it five times. The last two were written on May 10, 2005 and September 12, 2005.

In our letter on May 10, 2005, we wrote that, as assigned by our Lord Jesus and our Mother Mary, Agnes Sawarno and 20 members of the Community of Charity Services of the Blessed Mother had left Jakarta for Fatima. Agnes Sawarno had to continue the mission of Sister Lucia, namely to convey the messages given by Mother Mary in 1917 in connection with the purification of the world, that is still kept hidden, in order that the Catholic Church can prepare her children facing the mentioned purification, which will reach its climax in the form of Three Days of Darkness covering the whole world.

To that letter we attached our first booklet entitled “THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN IS PERFORMED AGAIN AND THE PURIFICATION IS NEAR”. We had prepared and multiplied this booklet to be distributed in Fatima. In that booklet we informed the assignment we received from our Lord Jesus and our Mother Mary, namely to become delegates and witnesses in resounding the Fatima Messages of 1917, that there were still a part of it, which is still hidden and have to be opened promptly to the world, so the European people can receive the “sign” for their conversion upon approaching the purification of the world. If Agnes and the Community did not go there, they would not receive the sign to prepare themselves, and would directly face the climax of the purification of the world through the “three days of darkness”. We had brought about that assignment according to our capability.

To the letter of September 12, 2005 to all Bishops in Indonesia, we attached also a book entitled “MUJIZAT KEMBALI TERJADI DAN PUNCAK PEMURNIAN DUNIA SUDAH SEMAKIN DEKAT” (in Indonesian language, 1st edition). This is the second book, expressing our witnesses and experiences, as they were, with full awareness that this pilgrimage had been a spiritual mission, and we had done it in our faith, although sometimes we did not fully understand.

Your Holiness,

To this letter we would also like to attach our book about our witnesses and experiences to Fatima entitled “THE MIRACLE HAPPENS AGAIN AND THE CLIMAX OF THE PURIFICATION OF THE WORLD IS EXTREMELY NEARING” (translated into English from the second edition of the Indonesian language – which will be published in March 2006)

Through this letter we would like to convey to Your Holiness concerning the following matters: (1) The miracle happens again and the climax of the purification of the world is extremely nearing; (2) Jesus Christ is the only Truth and Salvation.

1.The Miracle Happens Again and the Climax of the Purification of the World is Extremely Nearing.

Your Holiness,

There is still a hidden message, conveyed to Lucia in 1917, which should be opened to the public, but because it had not been opened yet after Sister Lucia passed away, Mother Mary asked Agnes Sawarno to continue Sister Lucia’s assignment. This would be a new mission for her and the Community of Charity Services of the Blessed Mother in Indonesia, given by Lord Jesus and Mother Mary. Then, on May 10, 2005 Agnes Sawarno and 20 members of the Community of Charity Services of the Blessed Mother left Jakarta for Fatima to perform this new mission.

In this letter we witness, that in truth, all what Lucia, Francesco and Jacinta had experienced during the apparition of Mother Mary in 1917, were repeated again at the moment we were present at Fatima on May 13, 2005. Mother Mary appeared again accompanied by the signs of miracles: of the sun, rain, cold wind, heat, and thunderbolts, even double rainbows. All those signs were repeated for echoing again the messages of Mother Mary to Lucia, especially the message about the purification of the world, which is now already going on and will reach its climax in the “three days of darkness”. All those signs were the fulfillment of Mother Mary’s promise to us and also that to Lucia about the seventh time of apparition in Fatima as conveyed by Mother Mary at the first apparition in Fatima on May 13, 1917 (but we ourselves did not understand about it until Mother Mary told it to us during our recollection in Ungaran, Central Java, Archdiocese of Semarang, on August 28, 2005). We were also asked to be witnesses and to resound the Fatima messages in 1917.

Your Holiness,

On the occasion of another recollection on December 4, 2005 in Ambarawa, once more Mother Mary spoke about the purification. She said: “And I am asking you, to tell to them, especially the Priests… And tell also to your Highest Priest (Your Holiness) in order that the part of the message which is still hidden until now, be opened and be declared to the whole world about the purification of the world”.

Therefore with humbleness in heart we hope that Your Holiness would accept our testimonies and at the very least examine it carefully. We would also appreciate, as required by Lord Jesus and Mother Mary, if Your Holiness would be so kind enough to open and declare to the whole world about the purification, as it is publicly understood as ‘the third secret of Fatima’, so that all of the children of God would be well prepared to face the purification of the world. It would be much clearer if Your Holiness read our books attached. We offer again these whole testimonies of ours to Jesus, our Lord and God and to our Mother Mary, the Blessed Mother, who assigned and accompanied us during this spiritual journey, united in one heart and one soul.

2.Jesus Christ is The Only Goodness, Truth and Salvation

Your Holiness,

For the Christians, Jesus Christ is the only Goodness, Truth and Salvation. About Himself Jesus said: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). And the moment before ascending to heaven He said to His disciples: “Go into the entire world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned” (Mark 16:16).

In deep concerned we experienced the fact that now there are many among the Priests and Church-officials, who are of opinion that outside Christ, there is also goodness, truth and salvation (their opinion is based on some of Church Documents). The attitude of such Priests and Church-officials can weaken, and in fact, it has already weakened the faith of our Catholic people. This fact is very clearly pictured in the happenings of how easily they change their religion; they leave their Catholic religion, which we believe comes from God.

On June 25, 2005 Mother Mary gave the following short message: “All right! This is it that has become a very deep concern in heaven. God has been ignored, because the world looks big to their eyes whose faiths are weakening. My children and you, too, my priests, tell them their weaknesses so far, where they have made their decisions and ignored God to human beings. And tell them to introspect again whatsoever has been said and decided by them, to My children all over the world. And I would say no other salvation has been sent down after God the Lord has returned to heaven. The salvation has been left among you. It has been such a long time that salvation has been among you until God The Lord will return to the earth, that time your God will receive the Truth done by each human beings who believe in Him, and whatever has not been done by the non-believers, the Lord will try and judge all of them. Whoever believes will enter into His Love and Affection; a fair trial will be given to those who believe in Him.”

On the occasion of our recollection on November 13, 2005 at Klender, Jakarta, Mother Mary asked us to convey this message to Your Holiness while mentioning Your Holiness’ name “Benedict”: “My beloved priests and all my children who accompanied Agnes, to the places that I have sent you, I have brought you to the other countries, I would have told you that in those countries there were a lot of my children who have left God in their lives, that was the reason that I have brought you. I have made you my witnesses, when you will convey this truth to your Highest Leader. I mention his name here: Benedict. Convey these messages to him these last moments. I am telling you my priests, do it! Do not be afraid, for heaven has seen that what they have reached as a decision is wrong. Victory is in God’s hand. Everything is in God and the salvation is in the hand of God, and they have been afraid of the world”.
“That statement, that decision that have shaken the faith of my children as well as their trust to my priests. I, your Mother...., this last moment this truth ought to be revealed, whoever believes will be saved, and whoever does not believe will be lost with the world. These are the last moments for the world”.

Because we still do not write a letter yet to Your Holiness, then Lord Jesus urged us once more to convey it to Your Holiness on the occasion of our recollection at Ambarawa, Central Java, Archdiocese of Semarang on December 4, 2005.
He said: “No! All their decisions are wrong! They dared to deny My Word because of the world, afraid of the world.”
“Tell them, I Am the Way of the Truth and Salvation. You who believe will be saved, but who does not believe will die uselessly. I no longer send down any other salvation to this earth until I come back to be Judge of the mankind. Do not you believe such a thing, as it is the decision men made, but deceived the people”.
“Convey My Will, soon! Convey to Your Highest Priest (Your Holiness, red.) that I Am the Way of Salvation! There is no other way”!

Your Holiness,

For that purpose, with our whole humble heart, we hope that Your Holiness will be disposed to evaluate again some documents of the Church about the Truth and the Salvation in order to be re formulated so that no difference of interpretation can occur in their realization. We would be happy to tell Your Holiness that we praised the Lord that The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had published the declaration of Dominus Iesus (2000), and we also appreciate that Your Holiness has released the first encyclical, namely ‘Deus Caritas Est’.

For more clarity concerning the messages of our Lord Jesus and Mother Mary about, “Jesus Christ is The Only way of Salvation”, we would appreciate if Your Holiness read our books attached.

Your Holiness,

These are the matters we would like to convey to Your Holiness, as stressed by our Lord Jesus and our Mother Mary, especially in the last few months.

We hope that this letter and the attached books can be used as materials for the reflection in preparing ourselves and our Catholic community waiting for the purification of the world and its climax, namely the Three Days of Darkness, so that we can face it with joy and happiness as promised repeatedly by Mother Mary to us.

It would indeed be much clearer for Your Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, concerning the messages by Lord Jesus as well as by Mother Mary, if Your Holiness would read our website www.hatiibuyangbahagia.org (Indonesian language). All the messages and the contents of the heart of Lord Jesus and Mother Mary from 1995 up to now are readable in the website mentioned, or www.heartoftheblessedmother.org (English language), which is still incomplete yet.

If there is anything that is not pleasing Your Holiness, with our whole humble heart we apologize, we did all that in faith and we testified it as they were, we are only as ‘instruments’ to convey them to Your Holiness.
We hope that this letter will come to Your Holiness attention and cooperation appropriately, with our sincere gratitude. We also pray that Your Holiness will always be in good health and that the Holy Spirit will always enlighten Your Holiness with truthful wisdom.

In the name of our Lord Jesus and our Mother Mary, we are certainly ready to face the climax of the nearing purification of the world.

Jakarta, February 6, 2006.

Yours sincerely in Jesus Christ and Mother Mary,

On behalf of the
COMMUNITY OF CHARITY SERVICES OF THE BLESSED MOTHER
INDONESIA

Signature

R. Robianto Koestomo

Signature

S. Florence Wiranata

Spiritual Advisor,

Signature

Isak Doera
Emeritus Bishop of Sintang

Copies to:
1.Their Eminences the Cardinals of the Catholic Church (by email)
2.His Excellency the Apostolic Nuncio to Indonesia,
3.His Eminence the President of The Bishops Conference of Indonesia,
4.His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Lisbon, Portugal,
5.His Excellencies Archbishops and Bishops of the Catholic Church (by email & mail)
6.His Excellency Bishop of Leiria - Fatima, Portugal,
7.Madre Superior of the Carmelite Convent of St. Teresa, Coimbra, Portugal,
8.Members of the Community of Charity Services of the Blessed Mother, Indonesia.

4 months ago

An answer to self-purification, by feed - knowledge and religi

4 months ago

An answer to self-purification, by feed - knowledge and religi

4 months ago

Re: “THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN IS PERFORMED AGAIN AND THE PURIFICATION IS NEAR”, by michaelg

Thank you for these long messages on purification and the teachings of Jesus. It is natural
that when you feel suffering you feel impure and want to cleanse yourself with the goal of
ending that suffering.

But you should know that Jesus, as well as every other sage, taught a secret, and people
who discover this secret become exceedingly joyful. It is, “The kingdom of heaven is within
you.” This means that when you feel suffering it is a pointer to look within and discover what
you already have.

Suffering is like a shoe that doesn’t fit. It is just irritating. You feel that you have to find an
answer. Few people realize the simple fact that happiness does not come from the objects
that they see. These objects cannot destroy your happiness either. You find happiness in
the exact place that you experience it, in your own heart.

This happiness comes from a source that is so deep that we just overlook it. Trace this
happiness to its source and you will find out how things are before they get divided up into
separate religions; into young and old; rich and poor; well and sick: and smart and dull.
Here you will find a joy that does not depend on the condition of the world, your mind, or body.

This is truly, “The peace that passes all understanding.” Stand here and you will find the joy
that never ends. Here you will find a deep oneness with your Lord. This oneness was before
the world was. Now that you know of this possibility, look within and return to your true home.
Here you will find the deepest meaning of the teachings of Christ.

Best Wishes,

Michael

4 months ago

In celebration of Happiness Day, by feed - knowledge and religi

Makingyourwisflame[15] International happiness day was on July 10. This is a day that we can celebrate with