What are you?

What are you?

The world we experience generally comes through our five senses.
We see the world.
We hear the world.
We smell the world.
We taste the world.
We speak the world.

What is there without the five senses?

If you become blind, does the world disappear?

If you then become deaf, does it then dissolve?

How about dumb?

Next you lose your ability to smell or feel?

The world is still there.
What does this person experience?

Unfortunately there is no way right now to communicate this with this individual whom has no senses. Yet exist they must.

This existence is you. You are not your body, or what you cognize or consume. You are what you know through your awareness.

What do you know from within is the real question. This is the process of self-realization.

How to Manifest What You Want N+1

Imagine that the universe is your own chef.  It will make whatever you want when you ask for it.  Then imagine that you cannot make up your mind.  So you make orders like, “I would like an omelette, but will be okay with crab cakes.”

 

What would the chef do?  First off, it only makes what you ask for, so when you do not ask for one thing clearly, it possesses no way to make it.  When we are told to settle for what is provided, we are truly being taught to eat what we previously ordered.

 

Yet that is not the lesson that people learn.  They learn that they ought to accept any old thing.  But this will never make one happy.  Getting what you do not want will not fulfill you.  The actual fact, is that people either do not know what they want, or are afraid to ask.

 

Usually, when we are young, we know exactly what we want.  “I want ice cream.”  “I want a new bicycle.”  When we get it, we are happy, when we do not, several things may happen.  We might be told to want something else, because what we want is “Too unrealistic.”

 

Or, we may be told to figure out a way to get it.  And better still, we may be helped in learning how to get what we want out of what is available.  Each response teaches us something different.  The unrealistic one teaches us to suppress our dreams.

 

The “figure out a way to get it,” may teach self-reliance, and it may teach us that we are a failure.  Helping us to get what we want shows one of the most useful responses.  It allows us to learn that together we can work everything out.  We are a team.

 

Regardless of which situation we felt like we experienced as youngsters.  There are several things we must learn to do when we are older if we are to find lasting happiness.  First and foremost, we have to learn how to discover what we want.

 

Deep inside us there are desires that shape our characters.  Many say that they want true love, others that they want to be rich.  Each has its merits, each is object oriented.  The more spiritually inclined may ask for world peace, or internal peace.

 

Once we decide what we think we want, we can determine whether this fulfills something deep inside or whether this is an external want learned from our environment.  Some women may have wanted to become astronauts, but were told that “love” was what they really wanted.

 

Thus, they spend their search seeking that which will never fulfill them.  Then again, you have the ones who are taught that all human being want the same thing, and that it is some dogmatic truth.  This will not fulfill them, as each person has their own ways of experiencing this truth.

 

Some experience spiritual wholeness through giving, others through growing, or even fighting others in combat.  Each can determine what they want and how to get it.  Before they are sure they can renounce.  This involves letting go of everything that you think you want.  Then you wait a period of time for the dust to settle.

 

I took the dramatic route and surrendered everything, a family, material success, all of my heirlooms, you name it.  Then I deliberately denied myself everything but tools which forced me to look at my internal reality.  This dramatic and comprehensive method is not recommended for all.

 

In fact, because I walked this path and gained its insight, I now help people to renounce without having to figuratively or literally burn all of their connections to reality.  For example, one client obsesses on his children.  All he can think of is how he is a father.

 

As a result, his children toy with his emotions, either deliberately or unconsciously.  He is a leaf in the wind blown hither and thither by their whims.  He will never experience wholeness of fullness as long as his esteem is determined by external actors and objects.

 

So we guide him to diminish his personal identification with the external.  Some ways might be by minimizing his contact to the essentials as his children are now in junior high and high school.  It may involve getting assistance to support his progeny as he redefines his identity.

 

Most importantly, we support him and his family as he renounces identification with the external goal that may or may not be his own dream.  As things start to settle, it becomes clearer to him what he truly wants or dreams of.  In fact, we do other work to read his desires and help him anchor them into his awareness.

 

All of these things lead to a more balanced and fulfilled life for him at a rapid rate.  The method of total renunciation that I used leads to discovering your wants and self more quickly, but the emotions still take time to cascade when you are on your own.

 

For my clients I help them to move all of their pieces simultaneously while minimizing the extremes.  This way, they can learn what they want while experiencing and feeling it.  Rather than discovering their highest purpose and waiting for everything to catch up!

How to manifest what you want Part N.

Elsewhere in my writings, I refer to the popular movie, “The Secret,” and other contemporary works such as “The Law of Attraction.”  In these works the authors try to show people how to create the lives that they want.

 

Each of the works talks about visualization, positive reinforcement, and a bundle of common ideas for creating the world that we want to see around us.  What they offer that is useful, is a process and methodology to use.

 

Two main schools of thought contend in the area of “manifesting.”  One seeks to teach you to manifest the physical reality, cars, boats and planes.  The other aims at manifesting your own personal wellness, and well-being.

 

What we aim for at Perfect Paradox is to combine the two.  We want you to first remove the internal mental, emotional, and spiritual obstacles.  Then we help you to eliminate the physical.  More often than not we work on all simultaneously.

 

There are several reasons that we choose this approach.  Most importantly, if you do not change your internal outlook, no matter how much the external changes, you will never feel peace.  Also, if you change you internal outlook, and then never the outer, you may look like the mental patient who believes that his cardboard box is a mansion.

 

In this world and age, we have the chance to combine the two.  To feel at peace with what you have while creating that which it is that you would enjoy experiencing.  But first, we must get through your old desires.

 

As I say elsewhere, everything you experience now is something you asked for at one point.  This is hard for many to believe.  So I will offer an example.  Right now you are being abused by your spouse.  You ask me, “How could I ever have wanted this?”

 

Imagine that when you were a child that your mother was abusing your sister.  You asked the universe if you could take the beating because you were older and stronger.  Well, you had already asked for a pony and a host of other things, so it took until now for you to get what you want.

 

Thus, you current life is often a host of desires queued up in your consciousness.  Thus, you always get what you want, but currently, not necessarily when you want it!  A method you can use to stabilize is to exhaust your queue now.

 

For clients we spend this time on aligning our internal beliefs and goals.  While doing this work, the queue empties in your life.  As you start to align your mental and emotional bodies to the spiritual, the physical begins to line up too.

 

It is at this point that you can more clearly choose and wait.  Now that your bodies are aligned, what you want comes from all parts of you simultaneously.  You are ONE.  When this one asks the universe for what it wants, most of the time issues fail to arise.

 

Because you are of one mind and body, as aligned with your highest hopes and dreams, the universe’s response is immediate.  Your experience becomes one of permanent synchronicity, or divine coincidence.  When you open you door to go out, your mail is delivered, traffic parts for you to enter the freeway, you get the idea.

 

Also, when you are aligned, you do not make dozens of conflicting requests.  You ask for what you truly want and stay focused on that as it arises in the world around you.  Then you only see the things which support your vision.

 

So whether this is a cosmic principle or logical framework is immaterial.   For your mind automatically picks out what it needs to create the internal vision out of the world around it.  One who focuses on what he or she does not want only sees things which lead to the unwanted results.  He or she who focuses on what is wanted always sees that which reinforces the goal.

 

Thus, in a nutshell, our process is:

 

1. Discover your highest goal for the current time frame.
2. Identify and remove the mental obstacles.
3. Cascade these changes to the emotional habits and blockages.
4. Materialize the desires into the physical world around you, your body and environment.

 

Please do not imagine that just reading this document will give everyone their ideal life.  Each of the individual steps takes deep processing in itself.  We have honed a methodology for our clients which makes it easier as we have done this many times.

The Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction

Right now, movies like “The Secret,” and “What the Bleep Do We Know?” are all the rage. People try to use their intellect to manifest, or create what they want. Sometimes they even attempt to create what they need.

Yet invariably, the results come sporadically. Sometimes they get part of what they ask for, other times, they get one of the things they want, but not the other. And other times still, they manifest nothing.

From Descartes, Cogito Ergo Sum, “I think therefore I am,” to I think there for I get, is a huge jump. I am not saying that one should not get what they want. But I am saying that there is more to creating your own reality then just getting the objects you wish for.

First and foremost, by definition, if what you think creates your reality, what you are getting now, is by definition, what you thought of. In other words, at some point, you thought of what you are getting now.

When I work with clients I start with this premise when we begin. To create your perfect life, one must understand, that at some point, you thought the life you had now would be perfect.

So you must understand why you wanted the experiences in your life that you have now. Many people say to me, “That is easy for you to say, your life is great.” When I first tested this model, I was in a divorce, I had surrendered everything, and had my name slandered.

Even these lessons taught me something.

For example, I wanted to know what my parents went through was like. I also wanted to be there for myself as a child, whom my son can represent. Furthermore, I needed to break with dogmatic doctrine in a clear way, my ex-wife. Again, these are just examples, not facts per se.

Each of the lessons shows a person different things. So before you ask for a new life, you may want to accept and understand the one you have.

Greater Love

John 15:13

 

Many in the modern Western nations do not understand the role of warrior or soldier.  In ancient times, the warriors were also the governors because they understood putting the welfare of another over that of themselves.  Some refer to this idea as the law of sacrifice.

 

It is not so important what you call it, only that one understands and holds the ability to place the good of the many over that of the few, or  the one.  For this reason, I enlisted in the US Army.  I was not an officer.

 

My commission was simpler.  It involved going out in front of the Infantry to find the enemy.  Our job as Forward Observers was to locate and triangulate dangerous assets arrayed against us.  We then called them in to higher authority to calculate trajectories.

 

Once they hashed the data they issued the go ahead and we called artillery or close air support on the targets.  Artillery has been named the King of Battle from practically the revolutionary war days because of its combat effectiveness.

 

Yet few could tell you the quote posted at the entrance to the Field Artillery School at
Fort Sill Oklahoma.  It is a quote from the King James Version of the Bible.  From John 15:13 it states:

 

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

 

This is why I enlisted.  To know what it was like to put the welfare of my people before myself.  Never have I questioned my ability to sacrifice.  But I still wanted to know the feeling for myself.  If one is ever to lead others one must learn to follow one’s self.

 

Nonetheless, the full quote goes further and deeper.  The master from
Galilee states:

 

“12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

 

13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

 

14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

 

15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”

 

All masters seek friends, not followers or servants.  They screen the masses for the seekers, those who seek to know that which lasts forever.  Everything in the material world ages and fades.  Only one thing is immortal, that is your consciousness, your awareness.

 

Life is about finding these friends; those with whom you can share your awareness in all of its glory, uncensored.  Discover the parts of yourself that never decay, share them with those you love.

 

References:

 

King James Bible. John 13:15.  Retrieved March 25, 2007, from http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2015;&version=9

 

The Infinite or Absolute

Someone once argued with me that they did not believe in “infinite.”  They felt that everything was finite.  If something is finite, there is a place where it is not.  If there is a place where it does not exist, then it does not last forever.

 

If something does not last forever, it is not REAL.  It is only a transient phase.  Something transient has no existence.  It is only a reflection of something which does last forever.  To know reality, is to know what it is that lasts forever.

 

To reach immortality, or to gain eternal life is to know that which lasts forever.  It cannot be an idea, for ideas require some dialogue or word to conceptualize or classify.  If it can be classified it has boundaries or limitations.

 

That which lasts forever and is in all places and at all times is the infinite.  This is the one thing that is considered REAL in Advaita Vedanta.  To know that which exists in all places and all times is to know the infinite and the forever.

 

Yet one cannot truly know that which lasts forever because then there are two things again-The Knower, and the Known.  Two things mean that there are places where one exists and the other does not.  Again we have duality, or finitude.

 

Already some of you will feel your head spinning.  This feeling of disorientation is that of the finite mind trying to know the infinite or Absolute.  The Taittireya Upanisad delineates what it means to “know the infinite,” or to “become forever.”

 

It classifies “the experience of knowing,” as the nature of merging with the infinite.  In this case, it is that feeling of knowing what is, where the subject merges with the object.  The goal of human experience is to become one with this feeling at all times.

 

The challenge for the modern human is to stay in this state of knowing while experiencing the entire phenomenal word.  It means to remain centered in bliss while the dynamic world around appears to change.

There is only Truth

Earlier on my path, such as when I went to UC Berkeley, you might hear people say, “there is no truth.”  They meant that everything was relative.  Ironically, stating that everything is relative is an absolute. 

In this same way, if “there is no truth,” is true, then there is truth, which makes it false.  Like the sentence, “this sentence is a lie,” the sentence “there is no truth,” is self-contradictory and cannot exist.

Only its counterpart, “there is only truth,” can exist.   This being the case, one must discover what this truth is.  Everything else is just illusion, or as Vedanta calls it, “Maya,” or “manifest unreality.”

Apocalypse-Unveiling

Apocalypse: 

Actually meaning “unveiling” or “revelation,” this word is frequently used to describe the end of the world as we know it. Though many apocalyptic scenarios depict a terrifying, destructive end, some are rather gentle, having to do with the enlightenment of the human race or the dawning of a New Age. This term is also used to refer to the Book of Revelation. (Apocalypse. Retreived March 21, 2007 from www.abhota.info/endgloss.htm)

When people refer to the word apocalypse, they usually mean some form of catastrophe or destruction.  In fact, the Greek root word apocalypsis means to “uncover.”  Imagine a different read on the coming “apocalypse.”

Imagine that it means to unveil yourself and stand in your true glory as you are?  Most people hide parts of themselves.  Ironically, those who believe that the universe is inherently good often hide the most, feeling themselves unworthy.

As written elsewhere in this blog and by other thinkers, worthiness comes from old ideas of external standards and overarching authorities.  You are the only measure of yourself, and the only judge and jury.  It is your own judgments of yourself that actually hurt you.

So, the challenge, is to remove your own incriminations against yourself.  You are too tall, or too short.  You need to be nicer.  Or my favorites, any of the “should’s,” “<Blank> should <blank>.”  These are any class of statements that state you should be anything different than what you are.     

Most people refer to the “who you are.”  For me, it is a “what,” because you are a species of one.  Gouthum Vallabhaneni Karadi is the one Gouthum V. Karadi in the world like him.  His mixture of traits is different than any other human being’s, as are everyone else’s.

For me, the apocalypse is about unveiling what you truly are and standing naked before the world.  I help my clients to remove all the layers of judgment and oppression beaten into them through years of living.  What is left is a glorious naked human being-A beautiful person who has no judgments upon him or herself or others.

This person shines with confidence and glory.  What is “revealed,” at this time, is the “revelation” that you are perfect as you are.  In concert with the recent postings, you “love” yourself and you neighbor, you “appreciate” things for what they are.

The challenge of course is determining what you are. 

Love

Masters are quoted as saying that God is Love.  I diverge from the prevailing wisdom here.  God is God.  Love is Love.  Ironically, Love comes as a duality with hate.  Yet there is something else great seekers refer to.  Scribes quote them as saying: 

Selfless love is God.

Love of thy neighbor as thyself.

Love of God is love.

Et cetera.

 

They all refer to appreciation for something as it is.  For me, this is love.  One has a difficult time loving the cancer as it eats away one’s insides.  Or the torturer who attempts to force some form of confession out in the name of some misappropriated God.

Yet love there is.  The question is how to find it.

 

Now we come to the idea of detachment.  Some refer to the detachment of this same torturer, or the scientist who studies the elegance of an organism that can appropriate living tissue to reproduce itself.  When we refer to these ideas we are not far from the mark.  Love something for what it is, not what we wish it to be.   Appreciate it.

 

I can appreciate that a woman I love will find happiness without me someday.  While at the same time, I can appreciate the broken heart of the individual whose body I occupy now.  Both are love.  I appreciate that one of my parents drank so much as to destroy a liver.  I can appreciate that the liver loved that parent so much that it killed itself trying to protect the body.

 

And finally, I can appreciate that the Earth is a big beautiful marble floating in the firmament.  From the cosmos it is a perfect little home for trillions of little organisms.  I appreciate that the Earth may love the cockroach as it once loved the human.

 

Let it be said.

Welcome Water Bearers

The Earth spins on its axis like a top.  And also like a top it wobbles.  This wobbling is called precession and refers to the way a top not only spins, but also rotates while it is spinning.  Every 2250 years or so, the Earth points to a new constellation.  These constellations reflect the s of man and were determined by science older than the Babylonians of 4400 BC.

 

6,000 or so years ago during Pharaoh’s time it was the Age of Taurus, or the Bull.  All around the world, you see fertility cults with the phallus.  Temples in India and Egypt show these symbols everywhere.  Moses was called upon to shift his people from the Age of Taurus to the Age of Aries, the Scapegoat.  Here the codes of Hammurabi and the Ten Commandments reflect its emphasis on Law and Order.

 

About 2250 years later, while fleeing Egypt, the Hebrews attempted to return to the older Age as symbolized by the story of the Golden Calf.  They created a graven image of a calf, or small bull.  When Moses returned from the mountain he was furious and forced them to melt the calf, drink it, and murder some of their kin.  Man’s heart was harder then, and the lessons that much more so.

 

After some 2250 more years the Age of Pisces begins.  It is ushered in by the Jewish Scapegoat.  Jesus.   He became the sacrificial offering upon which all JEWISH sins were placed.  Like the Mosaic burnt offerings, he was sacrificed for the ills of his people.  His message was one of personal love and self-sacrifice.  Naturally, what was his symbol?  That of the fish, Pisces.

 

Plus or minus 2250 more years and we enter the Age of Aquarius, The Water Bearer.  Our symbol is that of the Wave.  Aquarius is the sign of technology and wave theory.  We learn to harness the power of light and many other waveforms.  The Water Bearer also focuses on the role of the individual within the group.  In the past we stressed the group, then the individual, now it is both simultaneously.