“Learn to live a natural and spontaneous life, contentedly.”
I’ve recently been turned on to a new artist named John Coulton. I originally got interested in his work through a song called “1st of May”, but have since enjoyed his other work, including this song:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/A%20Talk%20with%20George
Download and listen to this song. This is a very inspiring guy. Check out his other work too. It’s all very good and diverse.
Today as I read Vasistha’s Yoga, I was happy to find some very to the point information, useful to those on the path to liberation of consciousness.
Rama is a main character in the text, representing you, the student interested in enlightenment. Brahman represents the state of complete liberation of consciosness.
IV: 53 “Even if one engages oneself in every other sort of spiritual endeavor, and even if one has the god’s themselves as one’s teachers, and even if one were in heaven or any other region, liberation is not had except through the cessation of all notions.”
IV: 62 “Rama, you are already a liberated being: live like one!”
V: 5 “All this (everything that can be observed) is but the reflection of the truth. Nothing but the one Brahman exists. ‘I am different from this’ is pure fancy: give it up, O Rama. The one self perceives itself within itself as the infinite consciousness. Therefore, there is no sorrow, no delusion, no birth (creation), nor creature: whatever is, is. Be free from distress, O Rama. Be free of duality; remain firmly established in the self, abandoning even concern for your own welfare. Be at peace within, with a steady mind. Let there be no sorrow in your mind. Rest in the inner silence. Remain alone, without self willed thoughts. Be brave, having conquered the mind and the senses. Be desireless, content with what comes to you unsought. Live effortlessly, without grabbing or giving up anything. Be free from all mental perversions and from the blinding taint of illusion. Rest content in your own self. Thus, be free from all distress. Remain in an expansive state in the self, like the full ocean. Rejoice in the self by the self, like the blissful rays of the full moon.”
We’re moving to Asheville, NC at the end of this year. My band will no longer exist in its current format. We (the band) are not getting out alive. So we are playing better than ever, and it feels really good.
The movie “300″ comes out on Friday. 300 Spartans holding off 10s of thousands of the Persian army and doing it well. The Spartans were not getting out alive. They became the most revered warriors in history probably.
There are two types of people. 1–Those that no know, on some level at least, that they are not getting out of life alive. They moan and complain about it and have a miserable existence. 2–Those that know they are not getting out alive and understand it is the nature of things and so give their utmost to become what they want and experience what they want in life, and so are released into joy and purpose, because they are present in reality and have come to terms with the laws of nature.
Which type of person are you?
I found the following writing from Sidney Poiter’s book, The Measure of a Man, very good.
Quote from a woman he knew named Louise on page 78:
“We’re going to have to decide ourselves what we are and what we’re not. Create our own image of ourselves. And nurture it and feed it till it can stand on its own.”
The author’s words on page 90:
“Balance is what he was looking for, but he hadn’t yet learned its name. In time, he will come to know it as a state of being. It can only be found at a place that is widely believed not to exist. Truth is that there is a place of space that does exist between two opposites everywhere, and somewhere therein dwells a point at which balance can be found.”
Experiencing enlightenment is as easy and natural as a flower blooming or the leaves of a tree changing colors in the autumn.
The enlightened state is often thought of as a glorified human condition, but in truth, it is the very core of being that exists in all people. We are all enlightened already. It is only a matter of remembering our true nature and allowing our innate spiritual essence to express freely.
Any action that promotes mental, emotional, and spiritual maturity brings us closer to expressing outwardly our inner enlightenment. That is all enlightenment is really, a human grown into full mental, emotional, and spiritual maturity. 
As Paramahansa Yogananda once said, “The time for knowing God has come.”
Putting off the process of God-realization is like having someone tell you, “If you do these certain things, I will give you an endless supply of money for all your worthwhile endeavors whenever you need it,” and then deciding that you will do those things in a few years when you have more time on your hands because you will not be working so much to pay your bills.
