Nothing Unreal Exists

Nothing unreal exists: 

and at a certain point the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles prove themselves true, what at one time felt like a workable theory to guide my practice shows itself to be of ultimate value. The introduction of the Course gives is away completely and provides the most useful tool throughout the entire book for my awakening. 

nothing real can be threatened.

nothing unreal exists.

those words have become a lifeline meditation for me, a connection to reality, pulling back from the dreaming of the world to the safety of the peace of God. They're a continuous inquiry into what is real, a gentle probe into the solidity of all my problems and every fear. And it's this practice that eventually shows the falsity of the world, that while it might still appear solid in existence, reality becomes more and more apparent as the dream begins to flickers and waver through the day. That's the value of practice, taking the metaphysics to the extreme of proof, applying and testing concepts to see if they hold true. A Course in Miracles says the world is unreal - is that true? 

nothing unreal exists.

and all that feels and appears to be threatening is there to reveal if this is so. We don't wake up from a dream by believing in the dawn. It's the actuality of the experience that proves itself as light. Nothing unreal exists is the working premise of my life, a gentle test of my every belief system, an inquiry that actually takes me from the unreal to reality. 

it's a continuous waking point,

dawn, 

a guideline through the dark. 

~

I love you, Eric 

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Treasure

Treasure: 

it's about what we value, deeply so, and to the point that we might actually call them a treasure. There's a simple inquiry presented in A Course in Miracles, a question of "what it is for" and it's meant as a means for us to examine what we're willing to defend and if it truly brings us any lasting peace of mind. We have been willing to go to war against ourselves to defend that which is ultimately without value. We've defended a false sense of self even as it continuously brings us pain. 

what do we really wish to call a treasure? 

all that's asked of us here is to examine our beliefs, to note anything that's treasured so deeply that we would trade a peaceful heart for a battlefield of the mind. This is an inquiry into the valueless so that we finally arrive to that permanent state of true treasures, existing beyond our beliefs, and without need of ever being defended. 

here's the question:

what purpose does this serve? 

and the answer itself doesn't really matter - only the source itself that offers a reply.

ego will always defend a false treasure.

while love,

 our only true treasure...

silently abides.

~

Love, Eric

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My Headless Posture

My headless Posture:

when asked which yoga asana was best for self-realization, Ramana Maharshi replied that it was the posture of the heart that one must position themselves in, taking our seat as consciousness itself and remain unwavering in our steadiness and ease here. Pressed further and he stated that only one posture was truly necessary, sukhasana, easy pose, and that this is the asana of happiness, no other posture needed for one seated in this way. Sukhasana is the heart pose, it's where we take our seat as awareness without strain or effort, our authentic posture of self-realization. 

Simply sitting as we are. 

I love to think of this as my headless posture, my place of revelation where the yogi disappears and only the yoga of life remains, an infinite display of seamless wonder, the world already in union with the divine. This the is heart center, my only true place of worship, and the easiness of sukhasana gives me reason to smile at my years of effort. 

it was right here all along. 

yet I was too busy performing complicated asanas.

entirely missing what is ever present.

it's not that yoga isn't a worthwhile practice, indeed it's brought me years of joy and opened me to a great source of energy. But the irony is that only one posture was ever really needed, the easiest of them all, and it was simply sitting comfortably until my true self was revealed. So sukhasana is a posture of inquiry, a seat designed for self-revelation, it's where the yogi is revealed as the source of every asana, the very beginning and endpoint of yoga practice. 

this heart-seat is my yoga.

simply sitting...

and reality revealed.

~

Peace, Eric 

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