Release Your Problems

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We must learn to quiet the mind so that we let go the world. Only then do we really begin to move at high levels on this spiritual path.

We’ve made this world a better world; we’ve made this dream a happier dream, but we’re almost as bound as we were before. We have replaced bondages to bad things with bondages to good things. Now we must learn to let go of thoughts, all thoughts.

The way is through releasing constantly, quieting the mind, stilling the thoughts, and finally, eliminating all thoughts.

Very concentratedly dwell upon your Self. Turn the mind back upon the mind to discover what the mind is, and then go beyond the mind and dwell in your Self.

Each one must experience it. It’s a perception, but it’s not really a mental perception. You get recognitions, revelations, realizations, by releasing until the mind gets very quiet, until other thoughts drop away.

Release until it takes you to the realm just behind thinkingness; the answer is there. We call it an experience, a revelation.

[I recently read this most appropriate post and thought I'd pass it on.
The original by Adam Rafferty is at:
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“Greets friends…I am cruising at about 30K feet on the first leg of my journey to the UK to play the Oxford Jazz Festival, Liverpool Philharmonic and more.

I have a happy ending to tell you about. I’d like to talk about perception, and also discuss reading personal meaning into impersonal events.
It’s quite easy to read about spiritual and psychological principles and nod one’s head and say “I understand that”, but when the rubber hits the road and we feel uncomfortable, and have a mini inner disturbance or crisis – we see what we are made of, and hopefully learn.

One of my favorite teachers, Lester Levenson, uses the following example. Imagine that you see a poisonous snake in a dimly lit room, curled up waiting to attack. You feel fear, panic, you go into survival mode and freak out. You turn the light on and then find a coiled up rope, which you thought was a snake. The whole panic, fear and mental ride you went on was your creation.
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But don’t stop there; go beyond it.  You have got to get the answer.

When you get full realization, you’re in the state of Being all the time. Actually, Being is the natural state.

Constant releasing is a constant remembering of God, Self.

Releasing is extremely easy and it gets easier as time goes on. Then, one day you’ll say “This is great! This is what I want!”. Then you do it all the time. Then you’re on the spiritual path.

The higher you go, the better the feeling is. But when you look for the good feeling as the end, then that is the end.

Growing is more than dropping into the good feeling of the Self; it is dropping the non-self, the ego.