Author: Veritas Administration

The effectiveness of the letting go mechanism in problem solving is quite astonishing.  Understanding the process involved here is very important, because it is quite different than the world’s usual methods.  The approach that brings fast and easy results is the following: Don’t look for answers; instead, let go of the feelings behind the question.  When we are surrendered on the feeling behind the question, we can let go of any other feelings that we might also have about what seems to be the problem.  When we are finally and fully surrendered on all components, the answer will be there waiting for us.  We won’t have to look for it.

…Let’s see how the system works with a common everyday example.  Let’s say that we disagree with our mate on which movie to see.  We look to see what the feeling is behind the problem.  In this case, let’s say that we find the feeling of anger and resentment, specifically that we feel resentful about the lack of romantic time spent together.  What we really want tonight is affectionate time spent together. As we let it be okay inside ourselves that what we really want is affectionate togetherness, it suddenly dawns on us that we don’t want to go to a movie at all.  We just want to be together.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender: Ch. 16,  pg.227-228

The level of acceptance is characterized by the attitude of selflessness and service.  This results from the surrendering of the negative feelings that create the small self, which removes our identification with it.  Instead, inner harmony and peace are experienced as the nature of our greater Self.  Because the negative programs have been relinquished, there is the emergence of greater creativity, inspiration, and intuition.

There is certainty that our own personal needs will be met; therefore, there is a shift in relationship so that the focus is on the welfare and happiness of others. This is facilitated by the fact that, at this level, there is no longer neediness in the form of dependency on other people, because there is nothing we feel we need to “get” from them.  In a relationship of loving acceptance, minor imperfections are no longer given serious importance and are overlooked.

Letting Go: Ch. 11, pg.168-169

Meaning is defined by context, which determines motive, and it is the motive that establishes spiritual value.  To dedicate one’s actions as a service of love to life is to sanctify them and transform them from self-seeking motives to unselfish gifts.  We define excellence as dedication to the highest standards.  Every act can then be held as an opportunity to glorify God by sheer purity of endeavor.  All physical tasks and labor can be ingredients in one’s contribution to the world.  Even the smallest task can be seen as serving the common good and, if viewed in that light, work becomes ennobled.

Daily Reflections from Dr. David R. Hawkins, pg. 44

 

Now, how do you know what thoughts you’re experiencing?

Because you’re witnessing them.  You’re registering them.  So, you can move out of identification with the content of consciousness, the thinkingness, to be the watcher, the witness, the experiencer, and that already takes you one step out of it.  So, you’re no longer the victim of it. You’re the witness of it.  You’re not in the accident.  You’re a bystander.  So you move from being in the accident to being the bystander of the accident.  You’re the witness of the tragedy.  You’re the witness of the thinkingness.  You’re the witness of the self-blame.  So with a little meditation, and a little contemplation it’s easy to realize that that which you really are is the experiencer witness.  You’re the experiencer witness.  You’re not what is being witnessed. You’re not the picture on the wall, obviously. And you can’t be the memory because what you’re thinking about was yesterday and today is today, unless you can also be in yesterday and today at the same time.  Obviously, that which you are is the witness of the thoughts. What we complain about is the experience.

The Highest Level of Enlightment: Pg. 107-108

Devotional nonduality means the love for God is enough that you’re willing to surrender everything that stands in the way of the realization of the presence of divinity, which turns out not to be an “other” but the Self.  You thought it was going to be out there later.  It’s the source of one’s existence, to come to the realization, the radical reality of subjectivity.  We take subjectivity for granted.  We take the field for granted.   We take consciousness for granted.  This (Silence)  is what we take for granted.  This (content) is what we think is important.  This is what’s trivial and irrelevant, and this (Silence) is what you are.  We ignore what we are and return to focusing on that which we are not.

At this very instant, 99 percent of your mind is silent.  The reason you don’t notice it is because you’re focused on the 1 percent that’s noisy.

 The Highest Level of Enlightenment: ch. 8, pg.77  (New!)