Portals into the Unmanifested (the question of "love")

"It's up to you to open a portal in your life that gives you conscious access to the Unmanifested. Get in touch with the energy field of the inner body, be intensely present, disidentify from the mind, surrender to what is; these are all portals you can use -- but you only need to use one.

Surely love must also be one of those portals?

No, it isn't. As soon as one of the portals is open, love is present in you as the "feeling-realization" of oneness. Love isn't a portal; it's what comes through the portal into this world. As long as you are completely trapped in your form identity, there can be no love. Your task is not to search for love but to find a portal through which love can enter."

The Power of Now

(some concept i had sensed a long time ago, and i got now a closer description coming from the author of that book)

Look beyond the words

"Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a mean to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself. The word honey isn't honey. You can study and talk about honey for as long as you like, but you won't really know it until you taste it. After you have tasted it, the word becomes less important to you. You won't be attached to it anymore."

The Power of Now

(and an image of honey isn't honey either, so that you can understand that words and images are just an illusion, now you can notice how much of our societies are based on illusions made to control, what is real is the individual, the acts, the connections, the sense of unity and wholeness coming from each thing, even a stone can have consciousness in the bind of its atoms)

Unrooted

I like seeing asian couples here, in foreign environment, they look so close, in their own little world, snuggled together on the bus, discreet, plain, or walking side by side, and talking confidences timidly with an excessive amount of soft facial expressions and politeness, they never make waves, they never waste space, their arms stick to the body, self-protective and shy to touch, if not even shy to watch around, they seem simple, kind and endearing, seemingly.

"There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect. Your life situation consists of your circumstances and your experiences. There is nothing wrong with setting goals and striving to achieve things. The mistake lies in using it as a substitute for the feeling of life, Being. The only point of access for that is the Now.

(examples)
If you are dissatisfied with what you have got, or even frustrated or angry about your present lack, that may motivate you to become rich, but even if you do make millions, you will continue to experience the inner condition of lack, and deep down you will continue to feel unfulfilled. You may have exciting experiences that money can buy, but they will come and go and always leave you with an empty feeling and the need for further physical or psychological gratification. You won't abide in Being and so feel the fullness of life now that alone is true prosperity.

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting... snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, i wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself -- in joy in myself."

But beware : The false, unhappy self, based on mind identification, lives on time. It knows that the present moment is its own death and so feels very threatened by it. It will do all it can to take you out of it. It will try to keep you trapped in time."

The Power of Now

"Puisqu'on se lasse de tout, pourquoi nous entrelaçons nous." noir desir - les écorchés

"Isn't there grass growing on your tongue for being so silent?!"

Goyangileul butaghae- take care of my cat (film)

Ordinary unconsciousness

"See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible, leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
If you take any action -- leaving of changing your situation -- drop the negativity first, if at all possible. Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing."

The Power of  Now