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Being conscious as Life

April 5, 2024

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creativity, discovery, harmony, life in motion, reality, self-realization

JANU: ‘Realizing’ is the key word here. When does one realize something they didn’t before, or that they had forgotten and misplaced? What is the key to awareness and understanding? It is to embrace reality, to own it. That it lives within your experience, that it has byproducts in your life, and that it enriches another. And what leads to these? Life realizing potential.

Creativity has a spark, an initiator or an initiating. A magic of life is creativity. So what is the source of this with a quest to explore? Imagination, wonderment. A thirst for one person could be a memory for another, but it is no less a wonderment, no less magical, and no less a blessing.

We all need each other. It takes all of us to explore life. To see each other in this way: What do you know that I don’t, yet? What has your life included that you are moving on from? What have I forgotten over many sojourns, and between them?

Life is a teacher. It is how it expands, enriches itself. It takes all of life—every nuance, every motion—to embrace, retain, and expand upon its journey. Every moment has value. Recognize enrichment for what it is. Be grateful for the opportunity to discover and improve your life and someone else’s, whatever that looks like.

Being at peace is a life in harmony and in motion. Be conscious of its presence, its vitality, its motion, and its love. Namaste.
Feb. 17, 2024 Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

For earlier information on this idea see “More on conscious of and conscious as.”

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What is life?

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November 24, 2023

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Footsteps on the Path of Awakening

co-creation' freedom, coexistence, reality

JANU: We are responding to the request: The nature of life and not life. The imagination wanders along paths of inquiry to discover, understand, and relate to many realities. This morning’s journey includes such.

What is life, then? It is pure being with many characteristics, potentials, opportunities, co-creation, and alternatives. Reality devoid of this consumes nothing but is the potential for life. So what is ‘non-being’? It is no time/space or manifestations. It is not even an ‘isness.’ It is no thing.

So where does potential come from? What is it? What does it constitute? Is it a reality?

What benefit to explore non-existence? Life is larger than any description: Unlimited potential and realization. Energetic yet beyond energy. Vitality. Coexistence beyond description. Aspects beyond number. As present in the moment as in timelessness. Uniqueness and oneness. Beginning and end. Seeming contradictions. Infinitesimal and infinite. Illusion and reality. Freedom to be limitation and limitlessness. Use any of the descriptors of life from the micro to the macro. It includes it all. Namaste.
Oct. 21, 2023 Copyright © 2023 by Joshua Ross

This question has been posed previously. As the answers match my development and understanding it may be of interest to the reader to see prior answers.

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A growing identity

by jross

October 16, 2023

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Footsteps on the Path of Awakening

evolution, identity, life in motion, potential, reality

JANU: Absorbing, day by day, a larger identity, a larger reality, a larger perception of life, all of life. Yes, time and distance are third dimensional perceptions of reality but they are limited in the Larger Life. Allow the perception of timelessness and the perception of omnipresence. Linger in this.

This seems to fly in the face of the perceived reality of third dimensional universe, but Life is larger than that. Only a parameter of third dimensional existence. No beginning and no end—coexistence. Let these take hold of your identity, your experience, your perceptions, your understandings.

So you see, questions and answers are connected. Perceptions and understandings are connected. Observations and experience are connected. Life in motion and evolution are connected. Life, from one moment to the next, has changed. Evolution and realization of potential. There will always be more to become. Namaste.
July 16, 2023 Copyright © 2023 by Joshua Ross

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We are here and now

by jross

October 10, 2023

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Footsteps on the Path of Awakening

identity, integrity, larger life, potential, reality

JANU: Preliminary approaches to synthesizing larger amounts of understandings, one must attempt to be solid in the sense of integrity, openness, and freedom to be more conscious. To this end, we assume a measure of this with a respect for what has been gained. Let us proceed.

Self consciousness is key to appreciating and allowing its expansion. It is necessary for self-identity to be as liberated. So then, what are we, to explore the Larger Life and reveal its truth? We are that Life, exploring its own reality and manifesting and enriching its potential. What that means is: we are intrinsically becoming more conscious of our identity as our Nature being that Life. Any sense of separation fades in the presence of self-realization. Being in the Now of such reality is a natural relationship.

Move beyond words to direct and intimate understanding. Be what you already are. No need to create that reality. Thinking the need to do so is separation. Allow being more conscious of what already is. We are here and now. Namaste.
July 10, 2023 Copyright © 2023 by Joshua Ross

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Non-physical platforms of life

by jross

August 2, 2023

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Other worlds

consciousness, cycle of life, flow of life, life patterns, reality

JANU: Other worlds are known as platforms of life but there are platforms that are not planets, so to speak. These platforms exist inter-dimensionally. By that we mean: positioned near worlds, planets, but not of them.

These worlds or platforms of life are focused as pinpoints of light, from your perspective. They exist energetically but not materialistically. Better understood as foci of consciousness, but with vitality in their reality. Their consciousness resembles that of a flame. They are expressions of life that have their own flow. They do not perceive physicality, but their reality is as real to them as is yours. A point of light, in this sense, when embraced reveals patterns of life that relate to each other in different ways.

They are a collective of awarenesses that embrace and employ the energetic life flow that is their nature. Their cycle of life is totally in their control, not based on time but based on memories of life pattern and interest. They are drawn to their kind of experience through their need to be. Their motivations are their nature. Their awareness includes what to them is a larger reality of being without limit. Your perceptions of time and space have no meaning to them. The peace they enjoy is not observed or understood as peace, as opposed to any distractions. Their journey of life is unlike your current existence and serves another purpose in the flow of life.

One purpose of this journey is to be aware that incarnate existence and its structures—the laws of nature—are its own, but the range of life is much more. An evolving perspective in consciousness is worthy. Namaste.
June 19, 2023 Copyright © 2023 by Joshua Ross

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Probing the reality of the Larger Life

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July 21, 2023

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Other worlds

awakening, challenges, discovery, evolution, incarnation, larger life, reality, True Nature & Incarnate Life

JANU: Probing the reality of the Larger Life is returning from the depths of ignorance, not by fault but by the nature of the journey. The freedom of experiencing the presence of the Larger Life brings gratitude, confidence, and fulfillment of discovery of your Nature, the nature of everything. The quest to explore other worlds is part of the quest to remember to become more conscious, to recover that which seemed lost. Revealing the True Nature and owning it is like exploring another world, for as you explore the Larger Life we are exploring our nature. No longer the separate identity of ego-personality and local experience.

There is an intimacy with the realities of life that has been softened due to the protocols of incarnating. Awakening is like being truly alive once more. Not only being conscious of, but being conscious as. (LINK to More on C of, C as) There is joy in this, peace, freedom, fulfillment that continues to evolve. These qualities, experiences are always available whether incarnate or not. They are part of the true heart’s desire to experience and understand.

Without these things, the challenges of living seem to overcome and the frustrations and anger in so many clouds the view. A grand service to yourself and others is these revelations. Yes, even anger and the like are opportunities to find and employ solutions.

Understanding these parts of the human psyche can be liberating and empowering. Love these qualities, which are your Nature, into your life, into your day, into the moment. Allow these, for they are yours. Namaste.
June 14, 2023 Copyright © 2023 by Joshua Ross

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The origins of mind

by jross

June 17, 2023

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Exploring the Richness of Life

discovery, evolution, oneness, potential, reality, universal consciousness

JANU: Exploring the options of discovery in the area of the origins of mind, we would pursue and prevail upon the many initiations of consciousness. The reality of being individual life has the reality preceding it. The term cloud of reality initiating consciousness comes to mind. This cloud transforms and is transformed into a coalescence of the reality of being as an individualized element of many for the purpose of exploration and experience of potential. So, you see, even potential was a creation. So mind became a natural manifestation of inquiry into the nature of potential, its manifestation, and its contextual experiences.

The reality of all of this is available for understanding and revisiting, for it is part of the ultimate nature of being. The sense of “you” in your inquiries is an evolving consciousness, born from the universal consciousness as it began to observe the nuances of potential, which are still evolving and will continue to do so as life explores Life.

These dynamics come to the fore the more potential is realized, for the discovery of what will be has a counterpart into the discovery of what has been. Both directions of discovery form the looping reality of life; past through present into future enriches everything and the circle grows. The incidentals of living and evolving reveal in the perception of the depth and breadth of being. Ultimately exposing the consciousness to the reality of being one with life, being one as life. Namaste.
Mar. 3, 2023 Copyright © 2023 by Joshua Ross

Based on reading of The Textbook of Theosophy by C.W. Leadbeater.

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Individuality and oneness

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May 17, 2023

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Exploring the Richness of Life

identity, Individuality, larger life, oneness, reality, the True Nature, the veil

JANU: The sense of individuality seems to give purpose to existence. The sense of individuality is part of the incarnate experience due to the veil. The reason for this is focus and the evolution of life itself. The individual, so to speak, is motivated as the driving force for evolving. The True Nature and the monad are the evolving life principle throughout the creations occurring in the realms. The sense of individuality is a healthy vehicle to experience evolution.

The isolation of the veil allows for the assignment of failure and frustration as to the nature and actuality of these outcomes. But this is a limited perception. Allowing reality to unfold in a peaceful but committed manner allows for continuation.

Based on reading of A Textbook of Theosophy by C. W. Leadbeater.

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Shedding light on the nature of mind

by jross

May 9, 2023

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Exploring the Richness of Life

awakening, oneness, perspective, reality

JANU: Assuming an assembly, the criteria for the rite of understanding, let us begin by saying: the discourse* is a reflection of another’s experience in understanding. Perspectives on the truth of this vary.

In our case, for instance, we are awakening to the larger truth of being through the formlessness of light and the love of life. True experience in this direction encompasses, embodies much more. The discourse in the literature can be a small trigger or catalyst to a fuller truth. Experiencing this is a diverse reality occurring in stages, the elements of which occur spontaneously due to life experiences and processes. The answer to your query is “Yes” but a qualified one.

These discourses tend to tie things together with a ribbon that cements the discourse as a complete understanding. It is not, but it has value for it stimulates inquiry. Higher and lower mind is a misrepresentation or, should we say, a limited one of the reality of oneness, of union, of the reality of awakening. In a larger perspective, the entire being is awakening, for the entire being is one but is also many elements of reality. Registering these insights has reference and opportunity.

*The ‘discourses’ under discussion come from C.W. Leadbeater’s book A Textbook of Theosophy.

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What is the Richness of Life?

by jross

January 18, 2023

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Exploring the Richness of Life

consciousness, diversity, life in motion, potential, reality

JANU: What is, then, the ‘richness of life?” How does one perceive it and relate to it as being part of it? The pulse of life is a composite of countless elements of life in motion expressing potential, engaging each other. One reality of many. As in a cave of darkness, one can feel its presence.

What is richness, then, but the diversity of being. Coordinations, competitions, challenges, service, cooperation, discovery, new understanding, beginnings, cycles, endings, vitality, peace, embrace, uncertainties, convictions, and love. Life is all of these and much more. Words can describe a few. Wordless experience and knowing invites the rest into consciousness. Namaste.

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