Essay for
Sept 2004

Compassionate Seeing is Being

The separation of mind and consciousness lies at the base of all existence problems. They function as one, but there is an obtainable experiential reference exposing that separation. The exposure unveils what is permanent and what is transitory. Mind is built upon the transitory brain functions of intellect, memory, imagination and intuition. It has a physical origin, but is spirit pattern constructed. On the other hand, pure consciousness is and remains entirely of spirit origin. It is your permanence. It never alters or ages, no matter what your mind functions produce.

Until you obtain an experiential knowing of the innate purity of consciousness the mind will perpetually keep you on the roller coaster of clouded unknowing. When you do experience that separation, what your mind functions produce no longer have power over you. You simply use or direct them, remaining disinterested in the results, which is nonattachment. This disinterest is freedom, liberation and enlightenment, as your load has been lifted. It is only the mind that takes interest in what it produces. Whilst pure consciousness, having no involvement in the production cannot be stained by it.

From the initial separation experience it may take years before you experience the actual re-assimilation of mind and consciousness as one unified whole, as an experiential reality. The reunification feels identical to how you were before the separation experience. But now you no longer reference what the mind produces. Or, you no longer take what the mind produces as what you are. Mind production does create an impostor within consciousness as 'I am', the one that created and owns the production. With that impostor sidestepped you naturally take or reference the innate purity of consciousness as what and who you are. You have always been the purity of consciousness, but now you know it. Pure consciousness now directs mind, not controls it, as control is an act of the impostor. The reunification feels devoid of everything, except the reference to the innate purity of consciousness. It has the feel of peaceful emptiness that does not require filling, as this form of emptiness is absolute fullness.

The experiential emptiness is the innate peacefulness of absolute awareness. The fullness is the innate purity of consciousness. That purity exists within every human, filling every pore of consciousness with itself. But it is impersonally embedded. It is up to your mind functions to make it personal or not.

Making visible - the personalization of that innate purity - is felt and witnessed as compassion. Compassion is natural and normal for every human; it is the substance of your being. It is the mind functions that ignore it. Or, using your mind functions to evolve the innate purity of consciousness you create equanimity of compassion. And that is unconditional love. You have never left home.

Pure consciousness is the still, silent and peaceful center of your existence. Experiencing that center as your reality does not end there. It now becomes your task to express and live from the center every second of your life. That may appear trying, but in reality it is exceedingly simple. That peaceful center is awareness, how you activate that awareness with your transitory mind functions is what gives birth to spirit-value. Your created spirit-value is assimilated and ennobles pure spirit consciousness. Consciousness and spirit-value are both spirit based (of the same nature) and so resonate with each other. Consciousness being pure spirit never alters, but can be infused with spirit-value. This eternalizes your already indestructible consciousness, creating honesty of expression that is enduringly compassionate centered. Consciousness is perpetually consistent; it is your mind functions that are in states of continual change.

Being aware of consciousness is self-awareness. Self-awareness is what separates you from the animal kingdom, as animals have consciousness or awareness, but not self-awareness. It is self-awareness that takes the human animal from reaction of mind functions to being able to control them, creating thought, ideas and ideals - advancing civilization. That control also creates the imposter that is the author of all the pain and suffering in your life. The impostor is a deception, controlling your life in the guise of maintaining it, which is deceitful.

Being within your peaceful and still center is what all the past sages point at as your permanence, and spiritual writers and speakers promote as an objective. But, simply experientially discovering that center as your permanence is not the end of it. It is only the beginning. After that discovery you simply do not lie about and wait to die to move on to a different form of experience. Your next task is to uncover what consciousness is and how it functions. This process ultimately creates unity of consciousness and mind. Until then it may be pleasant - some refer to it as blissful - remaining in your internally discovered peace and serenity, but it goes nowhere. It is the dead-end of knowing and doing nothing with that knowing.

Consciousness has an innate direction that is discoverable, firstly by spirit logic and then by experiencing that logic. The experience creates the unity (consciousness and mind) and the two become eternally one. No one anywhere can give you that experience, you have to earn it. Earning it takes effort that ultimately dissolves into effortlessness. It is a journey that no one forces upon you. You choose it of your own free will. And eventually you discover your free will is that which creates self-awareness, separating you from the animal kingdom. You no longer reference moral or ethical standards, as you have become them. Or, you are now exposing what consciousness is, as its purity passes through you into the world. Once out, what occurs due to that exposure is of no concern to you - the disinterest. The result is of no importance, or the result is out of your hands. It is the mind that focuses upon the result. And by that focus maintains the existence of the impostor, as the impostor lives upon the binding-glue of success or failure of its actions. It is continual entrapment without one even being aware of that imprisonment.

The purity of consciousness can visibly be seen and known as individual compassion. It is innate within awareness. You simply are required to use your mind functions to direct (not control) that compassion, creating developing equanimity. Combining innate compassion (pre-existing) with equanimity (your effort) is unconditional love. And that is ruthless compassion. It is ruthless, as your developed equanimity is not attached to the results. You simply stand-aside allowing unconditional love to flow through you. This is easily witnessed when you stand-aside, allowing children to learn from their own mistakes. The moment you desire a particular result for your effort, unconditional love becomes conditional, and your internal equanimity is lost. Standing-aside is the ruthless nature of compassionate equanimity or unconditional love, as it expects or desires no particular result. This unguarded giving then becomes the end in itself.

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