Everyone Is Going Conscious

Nobody Knows Anything

Ladies and gentlemen: Nobody knows sh%t. That's right, folks. Anyone who has ever said they know something is full of it.

You cannot know anything at all. The idea of knowing something is a linguistic illusion. It requires two things: a knower and the known.

The only true knowledge is that of simply being. What is, simply is.

There is nothing else you can say about it. You can try. But it doesn't make what is anymore than what it already is.

When people talk to me about karma, I say to them, "Well, I suppose you think the millions of people slaughtered by the Nazis had it coming then."

Karma is the way people explain away the terrifying reality of all things being a mystery.

And so is religious mythology, for that matter.

Beyond all of this is the fact that the body is going to die. Get with that truth. Stay with it. Put mind on it. Dwell there and watch what magically happens: you become nicer.

Solitude: The Straight Path

Most people are afraid of being alone for an extended period of time. Not speaking to or seeing anyone for a few days is not even an idea worth considering.

Yet solitude is a way to get to the heart of life. As our minds chat away in the world like up and down Pez dispenser heads, the reality of life is always flowing gracefully underneath, flowing as a deep and genuine intelligence at the heart of all existence. We miss it all the time because we are chat chat chatting away.

Conversations are perfect ego boosters, for they reinforce our ideas of ourselves and our ideas of the world. We look for agreement about what we are saying, so we can feel validated and feel as though we have somehow found REALITY, and that we are therefore in POSSESSION of something OTHERS don't have. The sheer ridiculousness of this process is seen quite clearly after one undertakes a block of solitude.

My first experience with solitude began in youth, as most children find moments when they are alone and have only their imaginations to play with. Then I became a farmhand for a farm in Northern California, where the owner of the farm would go away for weeks at a time and leave me alone on the remote property to caretake. And this is where I discovered the merits of being alone and not speaking with others for a large amount of time.

I went back to the city and smaller town life, and eventually the craving to experience even longer bouts of solitude overcame me, and I gave away all of my things and walked into the redwood forest for two months. I slept in a camp I set up high up on a ridge, about a 4 mile hike into the isolated woods, not a single person around to hear any shouts or screams. Just me and the woods.

This was fantastic. And two years later, I went back for a 5 month stint alone in the woods. This took me beyond thunder dome.

5 months in the woods alone is like wiping the windshield after a rain has passed. Sunny, clear, all is obvious.

Now I'm preparing to do a sabbatical of sorts and try a few years alone in the wilderness. Everything you let go in solitude makes you a greater gift to the world in general. Truth is all that matters, and this truth is life.

So, if you find yourself afraid of things like solitude or death or whatever, just go ahead and do some solitude. You'll find many things that were holding you back will fall away easily, such as the need for approval from others. You will take yourself out of the herd mind that Einstein spoke of, and no longer will you be at the mercy of public opinion and mass propaganda.

Knowing is being. But being is missed, so long as we're yap yap yapping.

I'll post more on solitude and potential places to disappear from civilization soon. Thanks for reading, now shut the fuck up and be.

Urugayan President: The Leader Who Leads By Example

A Nobel Peace Prize for the World's "Poorest" President?

By MANUEL RUEDA (@ruedareport)

March 15, 2013

A Dutch NGO called the Drugs Peace Institute recently made a bold proposal to Uruguayan President José Mujica.

The organization is pushing for a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for the 76-year-old head of state, on account of his efforts to legalize marijuana in the South American country.

"We have come to Uruguay to ask for [Mujica's] permission to campaign on his behalf," said Frans Bronkhorst of the Drug Peace Institute.

"We believe that he has made a proposal…that aims to end this [global] drug war, which has done nothing but serve the interests of obscure parties," Bronkhorst told Uruguayan newspaper El Observador in an interview published on March 13th.

In mid 2012, Mujica promoted a bill that would legalize the consumption of Marijuana in Uruguay, and regulate the production and sale of the plant.

The proposal, known to Uruguayans as the marijuana law, was tabled by Mujica at the end of last year after polls showed that most Uruguayans did not approve of legalizing marijuana. Regardless, Mujica continues to support the marijuana law, and it could be approved later this year if congressmen in Uruguay garner more public support for the initiative.

The Uruguayan president has not yet made any statements about the Nobel campaign proposal presented to his advisers by the Drug Peace Institute.

Bronkhorst said that his organization would gather "the voices of victims of the drug war" in its campaign to get a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Mujica. He said organizations that campaign against prohibitionist drug policies currently lack a global symbol or a famous spokesman, and added that Mujica could fill this void. "He could be the Bob Marley of the 21st century," Bronkhorst joked with El Observador.

Every year in September, the Nobel Peace Prize committee sends out nomination ballots to some 300 academics, former prize winners and government representatives around the world.

To be nominated for the peace prize, Mujica would have to secure the support of one of the people receiving a ballot. Winning the prize is far more difficult, as Mujica would have to defeat hundreds of worthy nominees from all over the world.

Bronkhorst argued that the Uruguayan president was a strong candidate for the peace prize, not just because of his efforts to change drug policy but because of his personal background.

"He is a former [left-wing] guerrilla, who abandoned weapons, and became president through the ballot box in a democratic process," Bronkhorst said.

Mujica currently donates 90 percent of his salary to charitable causes, and leads a simple lifestyle which has earned him the nickname "the world's poorest president."

If he were to win the nobel peace prize, Mujica would become the first person to receive this honor for tackling prohibitionist drug policies.

ARTICLE REPOSTED FROM: Univision

Knowing is Being

It's really difficult for most to accept that the deepest form of knowing is simply being, which continues to be despite whether or not thought is going on.

What this means is that the intellect isn't even necessary to understand what reality is. Being reality is the only way. Reality will never be separate.

To take an imaginary step out of reality, in other words, to create a separate identity and also a "world" out there for this identity to look at, this is the illusion.

Ramana Maharshi said that knowing is being. It can be really frustrating to ease the investment in a mental self/world in order to experience the always already present reality beneath, within, as all there is.

This is why we are thankful to the ego. In the end the ego is the source of our pain and suffering to such a degree that we are guided back again and again to giving up thought-identity. We relax. We come full-stop in the mind. And here we are.

Rest as this beingness. If there has to be a practice of any sort, it might as well be this.

The End of Seeking

Have a nice day.

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PointerPointer.com is the absolute best site for pointers. I hope all of the nonduality friends find their way to this absolutely amazing site:
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Links to the linkless: Nonduality in the World Today

Update 2022: Many of the links below no longer work, such as John Wheeler’s The Natural State. It is assumed that some of the folks below let go of the idea of being able to help guide folks, and simply wanted to move on. Nothing wrong or right with that, LOL. But it is what it is, and you must click the links to see who is still around. Love y’all (even though I’m not from the south). 

Links

Web Sites to check out (just for starters)

Non-conceptual, Self Knowing Awareness and YouTube	'Sailor' Bob Adamson - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Natural State	John Wheeler - Santa Cruz, California, USA
Living in Peace : The Natural State	Stephen Wingate - Arlington, Mass, USA
Living Reality	James Braha - Longboat Key, Florida, USA
Oneness - Nothing But That	John Greven - Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Nisargadatta's Message	Mark West - Sydney, NSW, Australia
The Eternal (Stateless) State and YouTube	Charlie Hayes - Enid, Oklahoma, USA
What Never Changes	Annette Nibley - Mill Valley, California, USA
Eckhart Tolle Website and YouTube	Eckhart Tolle - Vancouver, Canada
Awake Joy and Free on-line Videos	Katie Davis, USA.
Here and Now - You Are That!	Jean-Pierre Gomez
Beyond Description	Burt Jurgens - Portland, Oregon, USA
You Are Dreaming	Randall Friend - Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Only Timeless Being	Felipe Oliveira - Curitiba, Brazil
Noticing What You Already Know	Robin Dale - Melbourne, Australia
What is Real? and YouTube	Joan Tollifson - Oregon, USA (updated URL)
Awakening To The Dream	Leo Hartong - Netherlands
3rd Millenium Gateway and 3M Gateway Posts	Dennis Trunk, California, USA
Clarity	Nathan Gill - rural UK
advaita.org.uk	Dennis Waite, UK
Francis Lucille Website and on YouTube	Francis Lucille, originally France, now USA
French NonDuality Site	Francis Lucille, Jean Klein, Ramana, Nisargadatta etc
Amigo, unconditional friendship	The Netherlands Zine - last one Jan 2006
The Advaita Show (Podcast)	Cameron Reilly - Melbourne, Australia
Nisargadatta Maharaj - Realise who you are	Nisargadatta Maharaj - excellent resource
Nisargadatta Maharaj	Nisargadatta.net
Non Duality.com	Jerry Katz
The Open Secret and on YouTube	Tony Parsons
We Just Are	Lee Sage
Self Inquiry	Harry Liantziris - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Clearsight	Pete and Pearl Sumner - Fremantle, Western Australia
Living Reality	Chad Barber - Capetown, South Africa
Out Beyond Ideas	John Astin - Northern California, USA
Life Without a Center and On YouTube	Jeff Foster - Brighton, UK
Reflections on the One Life	Scott Kiloby, Evansville, Indiana, USA
Urban Guru Cafe	Gibert Schultz, Melbourne, Ausrtralia
Just Rest	Vince Flammini, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A
Living in Paradise	Tan, Germany
What We Are	Jasper Solomon, UK
You are Seeing Oneness	Jason Swanson, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Advaita Notebook	Peter Marjason, Woodburn, Northern NSW, Australia
Non Duality (Advaita) Cartoons	Bob Seal, Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia
Be What You Are	Micael Stark, Stockholm, Sweden
Non Duality Press	Specialist Publisher of Non Duality Books, UK
Enlightenment for No-One	Maury Lee, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Only This	Joe Winslow, Massachusetts, USA
Stillness Speaks	Chris Hebard
Chakraplein (Eng), Chakraplein (NL) and Inzichten Blog	Rob Ek, Netherlands
Beyond Seeking	Roy Townsend, Balingup, Western Australia
Richard Sylvester, UK	Richard Sylvester, UK
Nisargadatta.co.cc	Manu Namasivayam, India
Stephen Batchelor (Tricycle) and his own site	Stephen Batchelor, formerly UK, now France
Wei Wu Wie Archives (excellent)	Wei Wu Wei Archives Project, Bangkok, Thailand