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

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

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:

 'How Funny is Humour? Let's take a look at its fruit . . . ' 

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

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.

;-)

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!

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! 

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 . . .

;-)

A Hopeless Non Message!

I have no idea what is going to happen here. I am writing, which is great in itself, but I've no idea, on a personal level, what words will unfold, and what message, if any, will be conveyed. Interesting, isn't it, don't you think? That words, messages about self-knowledge, truth, a deeper reality . . they all unfold out of nothingness . .  .

. . . actually, everything in existence does exactly the same thing. Everything is simply unfolding-arriving-manifesting out of nothingness . . .

It's raining here; six thirty on a Sunday morning on the Herts-Essex border, not far outside London, England and here I am pressing keys on my PC . . simply being here and enjoying the moment . . but, there's always a but, even if you're not a goat, I appear to be message-less. 1Messageless-Yogi2Many, ha, ha  . . .

How beautiful, WOW, this is liberation . . I don't even have to have a message anymore, Wow, this is truly liberating . . . and wonderful indeed . . I always had something to say in the past . . ha, ha, the past, which doesn't even exist anymore . . . Woo-Hoo . . .

I have no message!

I never really had a message!!

There never will be a message!!!

Hallelujah!!!! 

Also, I'm not seeking anything. Seeking sort of lapsed long ago when I had the direct non experience of The Eternal Moment. The Eternal Moment . . . three words that simply describe all there is . . . but even they fail miserably to convey that which the seeker(?) needs to realise (or doesn't need to realise, ahem).

Ah, it seems that I'll write about that then:

The Eternal Moment.

What is Eternal is that which has no beginning and no end. It is this Moment, right here and now, but freed from a last moment that has never existed (although thinking is kind of convinced that it did exist), and free from an imagined future moment that is never going to exist (although thinking is kind of convinced that it will exist).

There is NO chain of moments!

There never has been a chain of moments!!

There never will be a future chain of moment!!!

Hallelujah!!!!

There is only this, which may appear to your mind to be a moment in time . . . but there is, in reality . . . no such thing as time. Oh dear, how could I say such a thing? The cat is out of the bag, well, I'm sure I'm not the first to say such a thing as there is no such thing as time, but of course we all know that we live by time, don't we? We all have calenders, diaries, watches and clocks . . . devices created by the mind of Man to help affirm the existence of a concept created by the mind of Man. It's OK, I won't deny the existence of linear or chronological time, so don't worry, your mind will be left with some hope to cling to ;-) . . .

. . . if it's hope you're looking for? Well, is it? What do you think man's concept of time was created for? I'll let you into a little secret, it was created by Man to give himself some kind of hope for a future that does not exist . . . except within his own imagination, of course. The non existence of time, what does that mean for you then? It means that when you drop time, when you are no longer clinging to a past that is no more, or to a future that will never be, then you'll simply be and that will be the end of hope for you.

There is no hope!

There never was any hope!!

There never will be any hope!!!

Hallelujah!!!!

So, there you go, all there really is is what is unfolding, which is this. Everything else is unreal. It is all bullshit. That's right, it is all the bullshit created by your mind, the mind of man, to give you some kind of false hope for a future that doesn't exist except as an aspect of your imagination. And we all know that imagination is not real, is it? If it were real it would not be called our imagination, ha, ha . . well I imagine that it wouldn't anyway . . . ;-)

So, where were we? Oh yes, let's recap: 

I have NO message.

There is no chain of moments.

Which, by default, would mean that there is no such thing as time, right?

And without time you have no hope.

Basically you're totally, Fcuk'd . . .

. . . but don't worry, don't be overly concerned by any of this non message stuff I'm scrawling on my PC, it's all so much BS in itself. The fact is though, that this non message BS is also all there is unfolding here . . .

No Problem!

   Earlier today I was reading a wonderful post on C. Om's blog 'What Is Really Good?', entitled  'The Contrast'. I would suggest that this blog is always worth a visit, you'll get plenty of self-knowledge and Wisdom there :-)

This blog post has been written as a result of my reading his own post.

My understanding is that physical existence is full of contrast; day and night, light and dark, even what goes up must come down . . . for example. That is not something that can easily be argued against in this physical 'actuality' we live in ;-)

I have realised, however, that it is within the conditioned mind where the contrast of 'opposites' creates real havoc; the mind is conditioned to think in terms of imagined rights and wrongs, good's and bad's . . . in other words the mind has likes and dislikes, and/or preferences . . yes? Well now, I say that all the problems in your external life unfold from this area of mankind's thinking principle/psyche. Let me explain why.

It has been said, "As within, so without", yes?

The conditioned mind has expectations which have an opposite polarity; disappointment. It gets excited and therefore eventually it becomes depressed. The conditioned mind is playing a game with a very dangerous psychological animal . . . its playing with something akin to a lion that has a cuddly tail, but the other end bites; expectations and excitement can seem fun, but when you come down from your high into disappointment and depression, well, the fun has concluded for a while. It is a see-saw ride that sucks the life and energy out of you.

I'll write from direct experience here, I can't speak for others, but when I reached a point of equilibrium-balance-harmony between all pairs of opposites within my mind, something extraordinary happened; they dissolved! I  descended into beingness, unity, wholeness . . NO More Polarities!

Remember as within so without? That's right, the realization of that equilibrium within brought about a shift in my life externally. No more problematic thinking meant no more problematic living. No internal unhappiness meant no more external unhappiness. That's what liberation is all about.

Unhappiness is caused by the thinker holding onto the last moment, or looking forward to the next moment, instead of simply being. In being, all that is left is this moment unfolding, just this happening. Now, look, this unfolding-happening, may or may not, include psychological and emotional pain, misery, suffering and unhappiness, it is true, but the secret is in letting it go again. In liberation one lets the emotion out, never to return again. Yes, even if there is physical pain!

Some people think that what I have described here sounds boring because there is no excitement (or depression) for the personality or I-Ego to get to grips with, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact one becomes more passionate about life and you are filled with the joy of simply being alive, especially as you are no longer controlled by fear, doubt, worry and anxiety, ha, ha . .and although fear may (or may not) arise within the psyche, there is no I-Ego there to claim ownership of it. There is no psychological or emotional attachment, and so it has no hold over you. Ah, such sweet freedom!

Such liberation does not prevent other human beings behaving as they do, but one understands their actions with clarity now. If there are problematic people in your life the shift within you will have an effect on them, they will either become less problematic, or they will go from your life; whatever one has to deal with, and sort out, one will, but that won't create psychological or emotional unhappiness within you; regardless of the need to state your case and stand your ground . . you understand?

Also, liberation from conditioned unhappiness does not prevent natural disasters in the external world from happening, how could it? But it allows one to deal with them as and when they occur. Everything simply is as it is, and one does what one does . . .

. . . no problem!
  

What 'is' . . .

A friend had a problem with a game on facebook called 'World at War', which they wanted to get off their system and this they eventually managed to do. They then asked me a question, which was probably tongue in cheek, but, Oops, I took the baton and ran with it. Then a second individual joined in and . . . well here is the result ;-)

The Original Question:

"No more World at War I can now be normal....... I think.. If there is a normal!!! Are we normal?? What is normal!!!!????"

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Normal is what you became . . natural is what you were before you became normal. Returning to the natural state requires you to delete the normal programming/conditioning. Once the normal programme/condition is deleted from your mind you'll know what it is to be natural again. Confused? You soon will be . . . . . ;-)

 

Second Questioner: *raises hand* I thought normal was just a setting on a washing machine....... ???

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

. . and so the washing machine of your mind is set to normal! It therefore rumbles along continuously, even when you think you've turned it off it is still rumbling along in the background . . . 

 

Questioner: But, I want an on/off switch for my mind. It rumbles on out-of-control.... LOL

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Well there you go. And that is what 'normal' is.

Natural is 'being', which is a mind not rumbling out of control.

Normal is a mind rumbling out of control, it is therefore your master.

Natural is a mind that is centered in 'stillness'. The 'still' mind is at peace, it no longer rumbles out of control.

Every problem the individual person has is caused by a mind that is rumbling along. It is recycling its programme or conditioning; just like a washing machine churning around and around and . . .

Billions of personalities running billions of conflicting programmes, that are all rumbling along in the backgrounds of their minds, that is the cause of human conflict .... ;-)

 

Questioner: You might not think so, but I am slowly "getting" it. :)

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

What's there to get? You are already 'it' . . when you drop what you are not what remains? :-)

 

Questioner: Er, what IS?

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Yes, what 'is', is ;-)

 

Questioner: haha! ;-) There's a certain amount of liberation in that thought. Do we still get to have a say in our 'is'-ness?

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Who is it that wants to have a say?

What 'is' is!

How can one have a say? It simply 'is' . . . ...

. . perhaps having a 'say' is 'division'?

Questioner: Grr. But, 1yogi2many, I must say I am detecting a leaning toward "Zen" here... to have a 'say' is to control; therefore, causing 'division' is to have disrupted 'flow' of 'is.' ???

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

Ha, ha . . . there is only one greater Truth-Reality-Integrity of being, which may or may not be reflected to varying degrees within certain teachers or teachings. Once one realizes what 'is', is all there 'is', the teacher and the teaching are superfluous.

. . . that's just the way it 'is'! ;-)

 

Doug '1yogi2many' McMillan

By the way, there is nothing to learn about what 'is', but there is plenty to unlearn! Whatever 'this' sounds like, it isn't . . . .

. . . it is, however, what 'is'. 

 

***

 

Well that was it.  Did you notice how the questioner, at the end, becomes frustrated by the thought that they might have to surrender their I-Ego to what 'is'? They failed to respond again; letting go is not easy ;-)

 

Any observations you may have are welcome. Please remember, this was just a small quick fire conversation, mostly tongue in cheek, but my words are always pointing in the general direction of a deeper reality-truth-integrity of beingness.

Nothing

I am not a teacher.

I don't have anything to teach.

I can't offer you anything.

There is nothing for you here.

Nothing.

 Nothingness.

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