IS IT OK TO COME BACK INTO THE RELATIVE?

In your experience, is there such a thing as coming in and out of the ‘relative’? Maybe thought is arising speaking about relative and absolute. Or maybe there is peace and stillness and the complete absence of duality, the complete absence of relative or absolute.
We can take a look. Taking a look with a virgin mind, free from the past.
What is absolute, what is relative when the mind is in complete presence/stillness?
On the other hand, the relative means this in relation to that. It also means changing.
If it is changing, how can you come back to it, given it has changed, meaning it no longer is what it was?

Going to and coming back from… What is that?
Is it not thought? Mind?

If it is mind, it is constant movement.
And what about the stillness of the mind? The stillness of presence. That which does not come and go.
That you can go back to by Being That. Resting as That.
It’s an inner recognition rather than a going to.
Magdi Badawy

I NEVER USED TO BE SUCH A CRIER. I just “went into the stillness” – or so I thought. Desired nothing, nothing at all but the empty vastness of infinity. Didn’t give thoughts a chance to formulate. At all. Wanted to go in more and more, deeper and deeper. Nothing happened. However “thoughts” veered off before manifesting.
Suddenly I saw, I knew, I Am the vastness. I Am the emptiness … empty of all matter. I Am the stillness. I Am the Allness, the infinity, the invisibility that I sought.
Ecstatic joy welled up in me. I could hardly think a coherent so-called thought! Just ineffable joy. Oh how I wish this for everyone of you who read this! It’s what going into the stillness is all about…

WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL NEWS
IN THE STILLNESS: NO THOUGHT
It’s the most glorious ‘place’ to be.
Millions of thoughts and feelings
dissipate in the vast beautiful
emptiness in which is only God.
But what about me? Am I there?
Yes, of course, there’s only God.

THE BURNING SILENCE

Omigoodness, gracious!
Is THIS what some people
Have been trying to share?
The Stillness – the Silence –
Is unspeakably glorious!

You’ll never guess in a
Million years what I found there!
I’ll save you a little time and
Just tell you:
Unfinished sentences, words whose
Meanings simply extinguished!

Wherever I looked, I was the Light.
Little piles of … unfinished,
Unwanted ‘thoughts’ fizzled
Before my Eye!
Omigoodness! So much more:
The calmness, oh the calmness…

And the joy!
Good thoughts and bad alike
How do you say: S-s-s-s-s-t … Gone!
Sentences in my mind world,
Phrases too, and interjections, gone!
The Light was (IS) beyond belief!

You can do it too….
Just close your eyes and
Look compassionately on petty
Intruding thoughts coz when you do
The Light that you are consumes them
In an ever-burning flame of love.

DrRobinStarbuck.com

I don’t believe in the devil.
But let’s not have that conversation.
I do recognize a HUGE RESISTANCE
To anything Truly Beautiful and Good
On the part of the WORLD MIND.

Oh that mind (!!!) thinks it’s got
The world by the … power points
But it ain’t got squat.
(It’s not the devil coz he’s not a ‘real’ entity
Out there.)

Tried all morning to enter the stillness.
All I heard was yap yap yap yap yap!
Sick & tired of all that yapping!
Sounds just like the devil ‘cept for one thing
I’m gonna see its total non-existence.

Actually I see it clearly now – already!
I saw my self in the stillness
Watching myself struggling with the
Yap yap yapping!
OMG, got me a chuckle that time!

Been wanting to give Rowland some kind of
Non-lame report
On the Substance of my great mediations
But coming up short. :'(

God told me loud and clear
He’s/It’s here INSTEAD OF
All the yammering, all the fuss
Darn! The eyes are moist again!
Dear God, let me stay here this time.

IT’S THE FUNNIEST THING !!
Wanted to enter the silence.
Lotsa thoughts were screeching!
Thoughts would try to begin:
“What about…”, “Remember…”
“We gotta…”, “Time to…”.
Wordlessly I dismissed them:
“Clear!”, “Stillness!”, “No!”, “Out!”, “Go!”
Then came their partial attempts:
“Hof…”, “Whi…”, “Ras… “Mit…”
These pathetic attempts
In ordered retreat
All . Simply
Petered
Out.

Last night I had an episode
True story
Trying to get into the Silence
Suddenly thought-particles started racing
Through my mind – such as it was.
Fifty percent negative
Fifty percent pure nonsense
A cacophony of noise
Screeching and racing!
Tried to silence it. Couldn’t.
Slowed it down long enough to
Enumerate a whole bunch of
Not-quite-right things happening
In my outer life.
Love gestures irreparably miss-taken,
Uncoverings should’ve stayed covered,
Noise! Noise! Noise!
How can I make it Shut Up??
Friends are drifting. Me too. But why?
I half expected to see the red-suited guy.
Louder now … and faster too …
Gonna crash methinks.
What in the world . . . .
AHA !! In the world you say?
Well guess what? I quit. I’m done.
It’s finished.
Coz I just looked down and saw
THERE ISN’T ANY !!
#RobinStarbuck

CC: Beautiful
RJS: Thanks i needed that…

Steve Farrar: Very insightful, Robin, thanks for sharing. This is the human experience. “Sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Where does such cognitive noise come from? It is in letting this stream of meaninglessness push past and through us without engaging it that we find freedom, I believe.

RJS: Generally speaking Steve I’d agree with you. I kinda knew all along that I could dismiss it with a good swift dose of psychology. But I’m in it for the long haul and an entirely different part of me was still fighting Chuck’s recent pearls of wisdom. There were some right answers to be gleaned for me if I hung in there without analyzing anything. Quite honestly the severity was not really exaggerated above as my ‘outer’ life can attest. The Sudden Total Disappearance of … everything … indicated TO ME that something supernatural had happened. From a Deafening Silence to magnificent light.

Steve: Awesome

RJS: Steve Farrar …. but now just maybe I’ll be able to do a better job at letting unwanted thoughts pass on by as you suggested!