Wednesday 31 March 2010

Aha!


Liberation is not something that happens to you.

Liberation already
is.

But for the individual who seeks
liberation
and/or
enlightenment
it is
believed
that
it
isn't.

The seeker thinks
and
believes
that
liberation
is an event that happens
in
time.

Liberation is
not
an event that happens in
time.
How could it be
when
Liberation already
is?

Liberation
is
Being.

Being
is
Liberation.

Being
is all there
is.

The
seeker
is
individuality.

The
seeker
is
separation.

When there is no longer a
seeker
all that remains is
being.

The
seeker
is
simply
seeking
what it already
is.

You

. . . are . . .

Liberation.

Aha!

. . . that's right, now stop chasing your tail!

1yogi2many

Sunday 28 March 2010

Something that Never Was


"Liberation
is
that
Moment
when
'Something' 
Realises
it is
Nothing,
and yet,
Simultaneously,
Everything...

...and
that is the
Death
of
'Something'
that
Never Was."

1yogi2many

Wednesday 24 March 2010

The Fruit of Life

Hello to all followers of the '1Yogi2Many' blog.

I would like to thank all of you for turning up here, some of you on a regular basis, many of you on a sporadic basis . . . but most of you, um . . .  once in a blue moon? ;-)

Yes, well, many thanks to all.

In recent months there has been a shift taking place within this being known as Doug McMillan. It's been such a shift that I have had less and less to write on this particular blog! I have no intention of giving it up, I do enjoy writing on the subject of Unity, liberation, oneness, wholeness and being-ness, but recently I have also found myself preparing another blog. I didn't plan it, it simply happened. So please, don't ask me why I've started a new blog, there is no why, it is simply an unfolding of being.

My new blog is simply called . . . the fruit of life . . . and it is about, um, fruit? Well yes . . . and no!

It's about ways. Ways? Yes, ways . . . ways to enjoy life and living. There are ways in which each of us can enjoy the fruit of our everyday life, ways to improve our state of wellbeing, and our physical, psychological and emotional health. My new blog is a way for each of us to share tips and tricks that will help us to get more out of life and living . . .

. . . but it's much more than that. I'll be letting my natural characteristics, my Quirky Sense of Humour, have free reign here; it's a blog for everyone, the language is appropriate for a wider audience and it is meant to be light hearted. So, yes, sorry but there will be many very bad puns, jokes, and quirky comments I'm afraid, and I'll have you (perhaps) laughing one moment, and groaning the next; but it's all meant to be good natured and fun loving innocence. There will also be aha moments, and messages of truth to be found within my posts. It's a work in progress, aren't most blogs? And it will no doubt evolve in due course . . . into what? I have no idea!

It would be great if some, if not all of you wonderful people, would follow my new blog . . . but please only do so if you find it of real value. My first post is entitled:

No doubt you're getting a feel for the nature of this particular blog simply from it's name and the title of the first post, ha, ha :-)
 
OK, I'd better stop, I look forward to our continued connection through the blogger-sphere.














Doug

Saturday 20 March 2010

So, you think you're enlightened?



Enlightenment is the end of 'me' as an individual!

If an individual 'thinks' they are enlightened, you can be sure of one thing:
'They are not enlightened.'
Why?
Because there is no such thing as
personal
or
individual
enlightenment.

There is only being happening, here it is, it's 'this'
....BANG....
all at once;
everythingness and nothingness
simultaneously!

The realization of enlightenment is
that there is no,
and never has been,
individuality.

The individual is an illusion.

The unenlightened individual is an illusion.

The enlightened individual is an illusion.

Enlightenment is the end of the illusion called individuality.

Enlightenment
is
Unity, Wholeness, Oneness, Beingness,
and yet it is beyond all labels.

Many wo/men 'think' they are
enlightened individuals,
not realizing that this terminology is,
in itself,
 a complete contradiction.
It is a contradiction because enlightenment is the end of the individual.

There is no individual writing this!

There is no individual reading this!!

Writing is 'happening' through form, but there is no individual person doing the writing.
Reading is 'happening' through form, but there is no individual person reading it ....

...unless the one reading it is still an individual?
And even then, well, the individual is only seemingly so!

What is individuality?
It is, an illusion of separation, that there is an
'I',
which is separate and apart from all other form.

Can that separate
'I'
become
enlightened?
No.
Why?
Because it is
not
real,
it is an
illusion.

. . . if the cells of your body were to start arguing and fighting amongst themselves,
even acting as independent cells,
with no regard for each other, 
what would be the outcome,
hm . . .  

Enlightenment is the end of the illusion that there is an individual,
enlightened or otherwise.

What of the
Seeker?
The seeker is seeking
Enlightenment.

The problem is,
once the seeker 'thinks' they are an enlightened individual,
they have fallen into an even bigger trap;

the trap of being an enlightened individual....

....ha, ha..there is no such thing.
So now they have to realize something greater than individual enlightenment.

Personal Will
and
Individual Enlightenment
are simply
constructs of
an
Unenlightened
Mind.

The individual has to dissipate,
dissolve and disappear back into the nothingness,
which is everything.
But this can not be forced.
In fact,
ironically,
the opposite is more likely to bring about
a shift in consciousness.

The secret, if there is one, is to....

Let Go,
or,
Surrender
to
What
'Is'. 

***
The death of individuality leaves what behind?
All that remains when the individual is no more, is, the physical form, and nothingness unfolding as everything....and, once again, form is only apparent!

Is enlightenment an 'experience'? No. Only individuality can 'experience'!

The Paradox here is that enlightenment is the end of experience,
the end of the individual, the end of personal will.

What is
'is',
it is just what 'is' happening as
'this'
with no experience and no experiencer.

And that is liberation.
;-)

Thursday 18 March 2010

Sobering Words

Japanese Zen master Sesso warned,
“There is little to choose between a man lying in the ditch heavily drunk on rice liquor, and a man heavily drunk on his own ‘enlightenment’!”

"If there were such a thing as personal enlightenment,
well,
then all those so called masters would be
enlightened individuals.
 ;-)
Fortunately enlightenment,
or
liberation,
is
impersonal,
which is the end of the conditioned personality
and
it's
divisive individuality."

1Sober-Yogi2Few!

Monday 15 March 2010

A Cats Tale


A
man
who carries
a
cat
by the
tail
learns
something
he
can learn
in
no other
way.

1tail2many

I would like to apologize for the Quirky nature of this post,
but I find myself unable to;
sorry! 

Wednesday 3 March 2010

What's All 'This'?



If there is only
this,
Is this all there
is?

. . . huh . .  .

If I slip into the
past,
Will that moment
last?

. . . ssttreettccchhhhh . . .

Hold on,
no,
it's already
past.

. . . boing . . .

If I look
ahead,
Will I be there
instead?

. . . strain . . . 

Well maybe,
but
only in my
head!

. . . scratch, scratch . . .

What happens when
one accepts
what
Is?

. . . yawn . . .

The
Realization
is
there
is
Only

. . . This . . .

Unfolding-Arising-Happening

. . . ahhh . . .

;-)