Suffering happens. Suffering happens when you keep beating yourself with the STICK and when SMOKE gets in your eyes.
Back in 1989, I started using NLP as a tool to wake up, to discover my true nature, to discover what we really are. One of the things I've noticed on this journey is that most people most of the time seem to entirely overlook what they are, and willingly pretend with those around them that they are either STICKS or SMOKE.
When you are in STICK mode, you behave as if you are your body, or something that your body notices. You behave as if you were born, and as if you are going to die. A general anxiety or fear tends to permeate all you are and do. The tendency is to actually blame something or someone physical for it - again and again and again - even though that never ever seems to resolve it at all.
When you are in SMOKE mode, you behave as if you are your thoughts, and that your thoughts have to be right, or at least your thoughts need to be brilliant or confusing to yourself or others. Many people call this "the inner world", but if you just take some time to be silent, or work with a trainer who doesn't buy into "your thoughts are inside you", you'll find that your SMOKE, your thinking and thoughts are outside of you too, just like the garbage can and the flowers outside.
There is The Third Mode, that is overlooked by almost everyone, because to notice that YOU really are "The Third Mode", you have to slow down and stop running between STICK AND SMOKE modes of behaving.
The Third Mode. You are the SPARK.
The SPARK that you are consumes mountains of sticks.
The SPARK that you are emits the light that shines through all that SMOKE you call the mind.
The SPARK that you are is never changing, and often gets overlooked, completely, by you, and by those around you.
Because once you notice you are THE SPARK, the importance of the STICK AND SMOKE centered DRAMA begins to fade.
Because once you begin to notice you are the SPARK, your behavior changes, and you notice you are free.
As SPARK you are free of the chains of FEAR and DESIRE. As SPARK you don't need 10 commandments, the mere thought of "hurting" or "stealing" hurts and steals from "you".
As SPARK, you are free of the CONCEPT of you, of God, of the world. You are free of having to have concepts run your life. As SPARK you can't help but "love on another".
Want to further explore THE SPARK?
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