9 Notes on the Mirror

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Bob OHearn

1. The world as you perceive it is not real
2. You are not who you imagine yourself to be
3. Your thoughts are not yours
4. You are not going to figure it all out
5. Trying to hold on to things is futile
6. Whys are not your friends
7. There is nobody in control
8. There is nothing to gain or lose
9. Love is all that matters

About Bob OHearn

My name is Bob O'Hearn, and I live with my Beloved Mate, Mazie, in the foothills of the Northern California Sierra Nevada Mountains. I have a number of blog sites you may enjoy: Photo Gallery: http://www.pbase.com/1heart Essays on the Conscious Process: http://theconsciousprocess.wordpress.com/ Compiled Poetry and Prosetry: https://feelingtoinfinity.wordpress.com/ Verses and ramblings on life as it is: https://writingonwater934500566.wordpress.com/ Verses and Variations on the Investigation of Mind Nature: https://themindthatneverwas.wordpress.com/ Verses on the Play of Consciousness: https://onlydreaming187718380.wordpress.com/ Poetic Fiction, Fable, Fantabulation: https://themysteriousexpanse.wordpress.com/ Poems of the Mountain Hermit: https://snowypathtonowhere.wordpress.com/ Love Poems from The Book of Yes: https://lovesight.wordpress.com/ Autobiographical Fragments, Memories, Stories, and Tall Tales: https://travelsindreamland.wordpress.com/ Ancient and modern spiritual texts, creatively refreshed: https://freetransliterations.wordpress.com/ Writings from selected Western Mystics, Classic and Modern: https://westernmystics.wordpress.com/ Wisdom of a Spirit Guide: https://spiritguidesparrow.wordpress.com/ Thank You!
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6 Responses to 9 Notes on the Mirror

  1. Christine says:
    August 16, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    Like #7 🙂 My experience as well — suffocating actually…

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  2. Sky McCain says:
    August 17, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    I’m in solid agreement with all but one of these points #7.

    It seems to me that anything I know that cannot be qualified by science is spiritual.
    Some people hold that spirituality springs from religion. I disagree.
    Our native spirituality stems from Earth Energy; the vibrations and stabilizing force of our planet. First and foremost, we are all Earthlings.
    I’ve explained myself fully in my book, “Earthen Spirituality”
    I suspect that the “being lived by” rather than “I am living” living as mentioned by Jean Klein is actually the consciousness of Gaia, Earth.
    We are part of a holarchy and Gaia is our next higher structure. I don’t wish to fully explain holarchy at this time.

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    • Bob OHearn says:
      August 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm

      Thanks for your comment Sky!

      What I am referring to is the circumstance in which the raft becomes a form of baggage, or when what was meant to serve as medicine becomes instead one’s food. In other words, it can become a subtle or not-so-subtle way to fixate an identity (i.e. “I am a Buddhist” or “I am a Christian”, etc.). All identities, even so-called “spiritual” ones, end up being schemes to confirm one’s enduring and independent existence, if one imputes a substantial reality to them. No identity is true, they are all conceptual designations.

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  3. Christine says:
    August 18, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    My own experience is that “spirituality” – in all its forms – has actually been suffocating “me” (my spirit, my expression of Pure Beingness.) Words cannot accurately say what exactly has been suffocated here. But I think you know what I mean… There ends up being a kind of constraint, or containment of that which wants to express *because of* the conformity to an “identity” let’s say. I found this to be true even in the “identity” of “non-duality.” The *idea* or concept of “non-duality” then becomes an obstruction to the freedom of Pure Awareness that is already here, because we are trying to fit it into a mold called “non-duality.” At least this has been my experience…

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