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Spiritual & Philosphical Tweets
April 25, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · 2 Comments
Twitter is a buzz phenomena on the internet right now and I have been tweeting for a while as @consciousone. I have ‘met’ some really interesting, gifted and talented people on twitter that I sincerely hope I meet in person some day.
For anyone who doesn’t know what it’s all about it is communicating, sharing and connecting using 140 characters or less. Basically a sentence.It isn’t much to work with but it can help hone an idea to it’s essence.
Below are some of my past tweets loosely on the themes of Spiritual and Philosphical musings, I will also make posts of tweets on Mind & Meditation and another of Love, Unity & Oneness
◦ What one thing can you do everyday to raise your consciousness & vibration? Can you do it more?
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◦ God has been at play a very long time, for humans to think we are the peak of his creation is beyond arrogance
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◦ Having someone open the door is very different from knowing how to open it yourself
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◦ Just Be It
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◦ How would u be different if every word, thought & deed led to either the demise or salvation of human life?
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◦ If this moment could be the one of your enlightenment, how much more attention would you give it
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◦ I invite you to believe in the real possibility of enlightenment in this life
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◦ The Stillness i salways present. Do you feel it?
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◦ The Silence is always calling, do you hear it?
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◦ Non of the maps & models of reality are reality or truly map or model it, reality is too big, too simple & yet also too complex
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◦ Awakening is to realize you always were, you just didn’t notice
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◦ Not this body but this body,not these feelingsbut these feelings,not these thoughts but these thoughts.To be human is a paradox of wonder.
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◦ Imagine a world that does not operate on the exchange of money!
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◦ If there were no need to earn money, what would you do with your time on earth?
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◦ Fundamental change only comes from Raising Consciousness, for which there is no ceiling
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◦ Balance is static = death – Equilibrium is fluid = life
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◦ The only place to get anywhere is from exactly where you are
You can follow me on twitter for more waxing lyrical by clicking on the icon top right of the home page.
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April 22, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · 2 Comments
It is a couple of weeks ago now since the retreat with Adyashanti finished, and I finally feel ready to write about it. It was a truly powerful experience, not in a dramatic flashing lights and fireworks kind of way, but in a subtle and deeply penetrating way.
The retreat was held at Mount Madonna Retreat centre, nestled in the Redwood cloaked hills above San Jose. A beautiful space built with love and dedication over many years. The retreat was in silence which for some may sound like a challenge, for myself a blessing and effortless. My hermit nature loves silent retreat. What a gift it is to have all your basic needs taken care of, and the only requirement is silent meditation.
It has now been more than half my lifetime that I had been doing spiritual practice and that spiritual evolution has been central to my life. In that time I have met and seen many spiritual teachers of different persuasions and philosophies. Many hold satsang in the manner that Adyashanti does, where there is a dialogue process of self enquiry, many sadly are doing little more than spiritual theatre. Adyashanti is the real thing, he is
“Living Liberation - Meditation Training, and so much more" "It changed my life"Find out moreOpening To The Divine Truth
April 13, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · 5 Comments
Our spiritual evolution is a process of opening to the Divine, as the truth both within and without. The egoic personality is a fractured consciousness caught in the illusion of separation. All places of separation are places where we experience limitation – whether it is physical, emotional, mental or at any other dimension of our being. The spiritual process of unifying and healing them will take us out of limitation. There is no limit to how far that can expand. There is no end to the journey of consciousness evolving.
From the position of separation there are only so many possibilities, and they will all be limited. Our level of consciousness dictates the possibilities we can perceive and understand. Erronously when we are bound in identification with the egoic personality we believe our
“Living Liberation - Meditation Training, and so much more" "It changed my life"Find out moreHow To Find Happiness – Adyashanti
March 30, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · 3 Comments
How to find happiness, don’t we all want to know?
The pursuit of happiness outside ourselves can only lead to sorrow because anything attained can be lost. Even the search within ourselves can lead to suffering because of unconscious beliefs and misperceptions. In his sword-swinging yet playful manner, Adyashanti cuts to the heart of what’s really true and points to the causeless happiness that comes with knowing the sacred reality of who we are. How to find happiness? – Waking up to our true nature, it’s the only show in town!
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Spirituality, Responsibility & Transformation
March 23, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · 2 Comments
Sooner or later it becomes clear to us that we are responsible for everything in our experience, and it is through denial that we negate responsibility. In the full realization of this there is no wriggle room and no get out clauses. Making anything other than ‘us’, and something or someone else’s responsibility, is denial pure and simple.
When we deny in this way we not only create separation in ourselves, but also from what it is in the external world, reflecting our separation to us. We cannot choose a view where we are ‘separate’ when we don’t like something, and holistic and into unity in a purely idealized way the rest of the time. We have to be living the truth to embody it.
When we remain in the consciousness of separation, there is very little responsibility outside the little pocket of reality that we occupy. This is partly why we have resistance to our evolution, because it requires us taking more and more responsibility and gets bigger, and keeps getting bigger.
Most of us, if we are really honest about it, are looking through spirituality, for
“Living Liberation - Meditation Training, and so much more" "It changed my life"Find out moreKrishnamurti :Why Don’t You Change?
March 13, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · Leave a Comment
I was reading Krishnamurti in my 20′s, and at that time I vibed with what he was saying. He was the original contemporary anti-guru guru. Now half a lifetime later I find some of his message doesn’t do anything for me anymore. I do admire though his uncompromisingness, and the aspects of his teaching on rejecting conditioned beliefs and dogmas, to find our own experience, is still valuable.
The big challenge for me in Krishanmurti’s teaching is his assertion that spiritual practice is a waste of time. The evidence is conrary to this. What Is great about Krishnamurti is his call to look beyond the mundane of life at our place in a bigger picture. Without relevent tools and resources to get there, we remain where we are.
His method to create movement was to ask questions about our beliefs systems and habitual tendencies. In person you will see from the video he was very charming and like able. I recommend Total Freedom: The Essential 
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Spirituality – Religion
March 11, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · 1 Comment
Increasing numbers of people in the developed world consider themselves spiritual without belonging to a religion. Some of the dominant world religions believe there is no spiritual life outside their confines. Let’s take some time now then to explore the differences between spirituality and religion.
Both spirituality and religion, at a core level are about our relationship with God, the Divine, the Mystery or Absolute truth, by whatever name you give it. From my point of view the similarities end here
Spirituality as I see it is an innate dimension to our existence and our relationship with the Mystery of life. Religions are manmade structures that seek to define and control our spiritual nature. Religions used to be a cultures one size fits all spirituality and in many parts of the world still are. Spirituality is personal, fluid and evolving. Religions are constructed with rigid and moralized belief systems.
Religion is based on faith and accepted beliefs which define the parameters of what is allowed to be believed. Ideas and beliefs beyond these boundaries are often
“Living Liberation - Meditation Training, and so much more" "It changed my life"Find out moreWhat Is Spirituality?
March 10, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · 2 Comments
Spirituality, like so many things we refer to and speak of on a regular basis, is not so easy to define when we sit down and think about just what we mean when we use it. I imagine that a survey of this question would bring back as many different answers as the people who took it.
In this time, when so many are turning away from organized religion to find meaning in their lives, and with the vast proliferation of teachers and teachings, many people’s idea of spirituality may be a postmodern mixture of all kinds of different elements.
So here’s what I think. Spirituality is our conscious engagement with the process of our spiritual evolution. It is my experience that life in its very nature is a spiritual process of Consciousness evolving. We, in our individuated forms, are the living means through which
“Living Liberation - Meditation Training, and so much more" "It changed my life"Find out moreSpiritual Unity – Where Is It?
February 13, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · Leave a Comment
Spiritual unity and oneness may be things we believe in and aspire to, but how manifest are they in how we think, feel, behave and live? Do these ideals of spirituality effect the way we view our moment to moment lives or are they abstract ideals that we share in like minded company? When things don’t go our way, or when we see suffering and destruction in the world, how do we reconcile them with spiritual unity and oneness?
Here is a classic example of the paradox of absolute truths and relative reality. Our relative experience is of separation consciousness, the absolute truth is unity, oneness. The egoic mind is a fractured consciousness and as such experiences itself as separate from all else. It is fractured by pains and fears that remain unhealed, incomplete or unresolved. The pure awareness of unity and oneness is filtered through
“Living Liberation - Meditation Training, and so much more" "It changed my life"Find out moreSpiritual Awakening – Eckhart Tolle
February 12, 2009 by Ray Baskerville · Leave a Comment
Spiritual awakening is really the discovery and remembrance of the deepest truth of human existence, our spiritual nature. Here then is the wonderful Eckhart Tolle speaking on his understanding and experience of the essential nature of humanity as inseparable from the Divine.
I personally enjoy both Tolle’s quirky personality and the depth of his wisdom and understanding of the human condition and our true spiritual nature. To help inspire your own spiritual awakening you can find more Eckhart Tolle DVD’s here
