tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post6609420208980475664..comments2023-12-16T16:12:08.051-08:00Comments on Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization: Ed Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-21839387305485262852012-06-19T18:22:49.783-07:002012-06-19T18:22:49.783-07:00Someone is dying
but there will not be a funeral
b...Someone is dying<br />but there will not be a funeral<br />because no one will notice.<br /><br />They will think he is still alive.<br /><br />Only he knows he is a walking cadavre<br />Still speaking<br />Still working<br />Still married.<br /><br />It's STRANGE!<br /><br />He has started to bury the old forms himself:<br /><br />the fearfull-self<br />the concepts of self-self<br />the propriety self<br />the old beliefs<br /><br />all being buried by him in tiny little boxes<br />in tiny graves<br /><br />no headstones<br />and he cannot rember where they are being laid to rest.<br /><br />It's not over yet<br /><br />he knows<br /><br />what will be left of him is<br /><br />NO THING!<br /><br />With love and gratitude to the Master Edji<br /><br />MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-21897800150041411932012-06-19T16:50:02.542-07:002012-06-19T16:50:02.542-07:00Thank you for your words of encouragement, Victori...Thank you for your words of encouragement, Victoria.<br /><br />The fire changes with intensity, sometimes a roaring flame, sometimes a glowing ember, sometimes nothing but cold ashes. It's all part of 'The Freedom growing real." <br /><br />"A million veils up in flames." YES! <br /><br />I welcome the burning and all that comes or rather all that goes with it. <br /><br />Blessings,<br /><br />JoanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-1168150885617994632012-06-19T14:46:51.610-07:002012-06-19T14:46:51.610-07:00Oh, Joan, how powerful your words are...you are re...Oh, Joan, how powerful your words are...you are really on FIRE! <br /><br />I can feel you so strongly, the longing in every cell of your being...and that which is emerging, bursting forth in mere words that cannot really touch or contain what is being Seen. Yourself. Alive. The Freedom growing Real! I know this because your words set my own heart ablaze.<br /><br />I see you, feel you, know you directly, as woman, as mySelf.<br /><br />In this Dream of bodies...one woman's Awakening sends a million "veils" up in flames. <br /><br />You are beautiful. <br /><br />VictoriaVictorianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-33580052511084949592012-06-19T10:19:38.277-07:002012-06-19T10:19:38.277-07:00"I"
I have worn many faces.
I have mov..."I"<br /><br />I have worn many faces.<br /><br />I have moved about in many forms.<br /><br />I have covered Myself in veils too numerous to mention.<br /><br />I have hidden Myself behind a wall of knowing so thick, so seemingly impenetrable, that I am almost a mystery to Myself.<br /><br />A time comes; My curiosity is aroused.<br /><br />I begin to wonder.<br /><br />I begin to question.<br /><br />WHO AM I?<br /><br />I have married Myself, as a faithful lover, to these faces, these forms, these veils too numerous to mention, to this seemingly impenetrable wall of knowing.<br /><br />I wonder at My hesitation to remove the masks, to lift the veils, to not 'know'.<br /><br />I tremble.<br /><br />I quake within Myself as I begin to see the illusory nature of that which I have been so faithful to.<br /><br />I marvel at My hesitancy to divorce Myself from all of this.<br /><br />I embrace the fears and the anxieties that I feel within Myself as I diligently search for Myself beneath all of this rubble.<br /><br />I want Myself, I long for Myself, I lust for Myself, I desire Myself, I am consumed with passion for Myself.<br /><br />I am blissfully delighted with a mere passing glimpse of Myself. <br /><br />I ask Myself if I am ready for My own nakedness to be revealed?<br /><br />I am Silent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-81035507892548230972012-06-18T16:19:50.842-07:002012-06-18T16:19:50.842-07:00Thanks Ed, and thanks to all the commentators for ...Thanks Ed, and thanks to all the commentators for what they shared!<br /><br />Funny, today I picked up 'Prior to Consciousness' again after not having touched it for quite some time... and then Ed writes about it :)Maxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-857856405007841082012-06-18T14:59:19.993-07:002012-06-18T14:59:19.993-07:00Back in Holland after 10 lazy weeks in Nepal and T...Back in Holland after 10 lazy weeks in Nepal and Tibet. Finally sitting in MY bed, not knowing or willing, incapable for the world and just reading the first text in Prior to Consciousness. Putting aside the book and check my Iphone for the bleep of an incomming email. Suprise! It's a sangha message of Edji! It's on Prior to Consiousness I just read one minute before and the words still resonating: "Hang Dakshinamurti!..." :).<br />I don't believe in miracles but everything is one big miracle. And yes I agree it is very hard to REALY overcome this deep rooted I am the body concept. But for now it is ok. Now it's time to sleep. Turn out the light. Close my eyes and dissapear. Halleluja. Love DennisDennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15150430873373794955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-81067637579350889562012-06-18T14:13:58.731-07:002012-06-18T14:13:58.731-07:00Ed said, " No longer hounded by concepts of r...Ed said, " No longer hounded by concepts of right living, we thoughtlessly, guiltlessly live from freedom and an unconscious morality grounded in love and caring."<br /><br />No longer hounded by concepts of 'right' living, guiltless living, unconscious morality...it all sounds too good to be true, but I am beginning to experience this to some degree.<br /><br />I would often read such statements and my mind would glorify the whole idea. Not once did it dawn on me that there would be a price to pay for this kind of freedom; and yet I realize that no one becomes free, there is just freedom.<br /><br />It is my opinion that one of the greatest downfalls of any religion is it's propensity to make 'consciously' good and 'consciously' moral persons. Good and moral in this sense is alien to one's true nature. It might be beneficial to the world but if one's goal is freedom it is merely another another stumbling block.<br /><br />I just read this in "Master of Self-Realization"<br /><br />"Dear aspirants, although the possession of good qualities in comparison with vices and bad qualities seem to be better with regard to the pursuit of attaining Self Knowledge, the possession of good qualities which one holds dear to one's heart is really a hundred times worse, and truly needs to be thrown out. Look into this and see. An aspirant tries to leave his bad qualities on the advice of the Saints because of the sense of shame that is created by society or in one's mind, however, the one who possesses good qualities is always getting praise in the world, and is accordingly full of pride about these good qualities. It is very difficult for one to let go of the pride about good qualities." <br /><br />This is on pages 7 and 8 for anyone interested.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-64399110252809206102012-06-18T13:49:43.587-07:002012-06-18T13:49:43.587-07:00Dear Ed,
Your words of Absolute Truth are like ne...Dear Ed,<br /><br />Your words of Absolute Truth are like nectar, and I mean that from my heart. It seems that whether those words come in paragraphs, or a single sentence, they immediately reflect the very things being felt through and beyond in “my own” process. There are times when I lament that I am not in LA, and then read something like this post and nothing is missing. [Still can’t wait to meet you face-to-face though!]<br /><br />The growing ease I have felt since my first contact with you has been such that I see this understanding is alive in me, as I Am. With that, the release of all that has come before is not so difficult. [Yes, there will inevitably be more shit floating to the surface, but who cares?] I had noticed less emotion-based involvement or concern in things that arose within the last year-and-a-half…it could [outwardly] still be called “personal stuff”…but the bite, the knot in the stomach, was very often absent. The little “I” is obviously not the one doing it, but the wonderful surprise is that “she” is also no longer a daunting obstacle…no longer a problem, or a source of pain, and confusion. There is this sweet growing love for all of who I Am. The guilt and shame and sorrow seems all but gone. I am no longer splitting off the parts of myself as good or bad…and as the whole of Victoria feels loved, the sense of separation from Life Itself falls away.<br /><br />I am becoming my own Beloved and am finally not ashamed to say it…I am loved…I Am Love. Not ashamed, because my Beloved holds everything as Itself. The Fire is burning cleaner, brighter…it is Beautiful. As Robert said [which I freely and loosely paraphrase] “You stir the fire with a stick, throwing the lies/illusions in, bit by bit, and in the end you toss in the stick itself.” Whatever remains to be thrown in?...don’t care…not concerned. I have watched so many bad/and exquisite dreams go up in flames—and become lighter for it—that the fear is not so frightening; there is no boogie-man but the one in your mind. <br />Whatever is left to do will be done…for I have found my final Teacher, by whom I am completely met, completely seen, completely loved. <br /><br />With love and gratitude,<br /><br />VictoriaVictorianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-73684110717538509062012-06-18T11:52:19.793-07:002012-06-18T11:52:19.793-07:00For me this whole process has been like unraveling...For me this whole process has been like unraveling a tightly wound ball or yarn. The unraveling has been slow and often painful, but freeing at the same time. <br /><br />I have moments when hearing something or reading something that it feels like a bomb has gone off in my mind and often this experience is accompanied with what feels like earthquakes deep within my beingness. <br /><br />My head will feel swept clean, like a fog lifting, and vision becomes clearer and my body will feel completely empty.<br /><br />I don't know how many times this will happen until the entire conceptual house of cards collapses.<br /><br />At times a 'seeing' triggers great fear and I'm sure I don't want to see through anything else for a while.<br /><br />But, I am not in control. <br /><br />I really enjoyed this post Ed.<br /><br />With Love and deep Gratitude,<br /><br />JoanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com