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All experiences have an in nite “depth” to them and it totally depends
on your level of consciousness as to how much of its depth is accessible
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you will know that nothing is missing – every moment has a beauty of
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dimension of beauty in them if you are can bring your “awareness” to

its depth. Awareness allows you to bring the wholeness of your being
into each experience instead of just the “narrow” presence of the
judging mind.

Stop waiting for some “chocolate avored” moments to arrive, when

they do arrive enjoy them, but don’t live your life out waiting for these
moments alone. Life is mostly very ordinary, and there’s beauty to this
ordinariness when you are willing to access the aliveness and depth
that’s present in every single moment.

Living on the surface vs living in the depth of life

When you read some books you can sense the depth in the way
“reality” is described, and in some other books you get a sense that it’s
just a surface-level treatise of reality. When you listen to some music
you can sense a depth in its movement, whereas in some other music
you may not get the same experience of depth. One painting can evoke
a sense of surreal depth, while another painting just leaves you cold. A
certain movie can evoke deep emotions in you while another movie
would just feel empty. The depth present in the composer of the words,
music and art, is what gets re ected in their expression – it can evoke a
sense of depth even in an observer who is not aligned with his/her
depth.

Someone who is living on the surface, with very little depth of

awareness, does not have access to the deeper dimensions present in
their reality, hence their experiences are surface level, and their
expression lacks a dimension of “depth” too. Three common traits that
mark the experience of a person living on the surface are – boredom,
restlessness and irritation. They feel a sense of “emptiness” no matter
what reality gets manifested around them. They can hardly sense the
depth in the nature, in materials, in their energy or in the “presence” of
another person or living being. They are constantly looking, for what
they are missing, in the “horizontal movement” without realizing that
the wholeness they are seeking is in the “vertical” moment, in the
deepening of awareness into the depth of their being – which allows
them to access the depth in the external reality also.

There are people who go to visit spiritual teachers, not because they
get to hear anything new, but because they enjoy the experience of
feeling the depth that emanates from the words and expressions of
this teacher. The truth is that there is no end to our depth and our
awareness can keep moving into deeper and deeper depths of our
being – there is no end point to the depth that can be allowed in our
awareness. It’s an in nite exploration.

There is so much to explore if you start looking at each movement from

the dimension of depth rather than from the dimension of “surface-
level”. When you watch, when you walk, when you eat, when you kiss,
when you touch, when you are enjoying a sexual activity, when you
read, when you rest, when you talk, when you listen, when sensations
arise in you, when you are in pain or pleasure, allow a part of you to
bring an element of awareness to the moment – this awareness will
keep getting deeper as you allow it, and the deeper it gets the more
colors and dimensions become revealed in each moment, the more
you can sense the beauty that each experience a ords and the more
you connect with your own depth – life is whole each moment, this is
who you essentially are, and you can sense this “wholeness” on a
moment to moment basis when you allow awareness to move deeper
and deeper in you.

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19 Comments

Ki
November 14, 2011 at 10:21 pm

i love to read ur stuff! : )

vinod arora
November 15, 2011 at 3:03 am

Depth of life is generally replaced by accomplishing targets only.That may

create restlessness and doubts in ones mind.But sometimes i feel isolated by
observing things in depth .Why

Sen Post author

November 15, 2011 at 11:30 am

The bottom line is that any negative feeling (like the feeling of isolation
that you talk about) arises from the mind’s interpretations of the
moment. However, the mind is not at fault because it’s natural for the
mind to have fears of isolation and deprivation. Don’t try to resist this
movement of the mind, rather just bring a field of open awareness to
these thoughts in the mind, allow yourself to observe it’s thinking
patterns while staying as a field of passive awareness. The mind can
seem to get bored, it can feel lonely and depressed all of a sudden,
and it can contemplate that ordinariness of your existence – allow it the
freedom to go deeper into this contemplation of life, this allows the
mind a “depth” in its understanding of reality. It’s not required that the
mind be cheerful all the time, that’s not the point.

As you allow the mind the freedom to stay with these feelings of
isolation, it will gain deeper insights on life and about its own reality –
this allows for a mind that’s receptive to depth of physical life rather
than just be focused on surface-level movements of entertainment.
Just stay as a space of awareness and allow the mind to go deeper
into any feeling/thought that arises. The contemplation of the negative
feelings is what allows for freedom from its influence – in fact negative
and positive are just two faces of the same coin as far as “physical” is
concerned, one cannot exist without the other, the body will always
 have its highs and lows – but you can find a permanence in the peace
that’s present in your being (as this silent space of awareness) no
matter what happens on the surface. All feelings and thoughts are like
ripples/waves on the surface of the ocean, the depth is always at
peace. Stay as this depth and allow the movement of physical
feelings/thoughts without resistance, this allows for a wisdom and
harmony to operate in your life.

Nikki
November 16, 2011 at 5:38 am

Love it!

pun
November 20, 2011 at 4:56 pm

i simply love what you write! beautiful

luka
December 11, 2011 at 10:43 pm

you truly are a genius… how long did it take you to discover this information,
and then to apply it to your life succesfully?

Sen Post author

December 11, 2011 at 11:19 pm

Once we start becoming stable in our awareness, so that we are not

totally pulled into the mind’s momentum, it start’s the journey towards
dis-identifying with the negative momentum that has accumulated over
the years. So basically deepening in the power of awareness is the
bottom-line of this whole process of becoming free of the imprisonment
of negativity and thus coming to rest the wholeness of your being. It
took me close to year and a half to come to a stability in my
awareness(I started on this path when I was 27 and now I am 29),
during this time I was privy to all the doubts, questions, insecurities and
curiosity of knowing the truth of the being that I am – the more rooted in
awareness I stayed the more available I was to the insights from within
and from outside that started clearing away the resistances in the mind
towards letting go of the negativity. Presently I find myself in a deep
stability and spaciousness in my being where the momentum of
 negativity has ebbed away to the point that it no longer has any hold or
influence over my vibration. I just write these posts out of an inspiration
within to write, it’s just an effortless flow of insights that come through.

luka
December 12, 2011 at 12:16 am

So it really didn’t take you that long at all…? I have always thought that
enlightenment or whatever you want to call it was a life long process. So what
helped u to speed through this process? Lots of meditation?

Sen Post author

December 12, 2011 at 1:10 am

Enlightenment simply means to understand/know (or be enlightened)

who you really are (your non-physical and physical natures). To allow
this understanding to be the pointer that connects us with our
wholeness is what “enlightened living”, or conscious living, is (or what I
call living in alignment with your life-stream). The very definition of
“meditation” is to “meditate” (or contemplate) the nature of reality of life
– it’s a scientific inquiry into seeing through the limitations of
conditioning by questioning them with a intense curiosity for the truth of
life as opposed to just living on the basis on some conditioned beliefs.
A lot of people misunderstand the very purpose, or meaning, of
meditation and start using it as a “technique” (like breathing techniques
and practices like that) to suppress the mind rather that allow its
questions, doubts and insecurities to be the “catalyst” that guides us to
our true understanding. This is why my pointer is to not fear your mind,
but to become “aware” of it’s movement, allowing its
fear/questions/doubts to touch your being and thus allowing a clarity to
come through, in this clarity you automatically start letting go of
identifying with the negative momentum and thus start aligning with
your wholeness or natural vibration of joy/love. When one
misunderstands what enlightenment is, and goes about in a “vague”
manner of using techniques to suppress the mind, they spend a lifetime
trying to get to some “transcendental” state of being – usually
becoming “drop outs” trying to detach from physicality. When you truly
come to a full understanding of your “being”, you will no longer be in
the movement of “seeking” but would come to a rest in your wholeness
and experience physicality from this place, you enjoy the physical
realm (which is changeful and fleeting) from the place of permanent
wholeness in your being – this allows for a harmonious expression of
 physicality, you become aligned with your natural/creative expression
as this human form expressing yourself in your full potential and
experiencing the flavors of physicality.

luka
December 12, 2011 at 1:40 am

Well there was a time in my life a couple years ago I became very successful
with meditation and actually had a very deep and life changing experience with
it. Unfortunately I have ruined it(through reasons I would rather not reveal) and
for the past couple years have tried on and off to achieve it again. For some
reason now I find it very difficult to see any constant progression with it like I
did in the past. I think that maybe its because I have expectations of the the
way it should feel and the way it should happen, unlike when I first
experimented with it I had no expectations of it and just let what happen
happen, thus I saw constant progression and started to feel the magic in life. I
want to achieve this freedom from the ego, and discover my true self. I pray
every night for help with finding my soul, and discovering my true happiness. I
believe fiinding your website is literally an answer to my prayers. Anything you
say I am listening to with an open heart and ears.

Sen Post author

December 12, 2011 at 2:00 am

Meditation, when used as a practice to detach from the mind, can give
you a “taste” of your wholeness because you will achieve moments of
“no thought” (or no mind) that allows you to sense the aliveness and
joy of your being. But the mind will return, it’s part of physicality, and
thus thoughts will return, and then it becomes a “fight” to constantly
want to get back to that state of “no thought” and thus we start trying to
get rid of the mind which we “think” is the block to us attaining the bliss
that we tasted through meditation. Meditation techniques can give you
a “taste” of your wholeness but it would only be a fleeting taste – it can
last for a few weeks or even a few months, but it will pass away and
the mind will return, because you are in this physical realm and you
cannot avoid the physical realm by getting into the cave of meditation.
True freedom does not come out of techniques, but out of
“understanding” the truth of existence of who you are. Every technique
only makes you a prisoner to it eventually, like it happened in your case
that you spend 2 years trying to re-create that “taste” that you had
when you first meditated – so unconsciously you’ve become no
different from an addict who wants to get back to that bliss that he got
 from the drug, in your case the drug becomes meditation. But if you are
really honest with yourself, you will know that you are trying to “escape”
the mind, you want to escape its noise, its insecurities, its conflicts –
and you are hoping that meditation would somehow take you to some
place that keeps you away from the mind. This is exactly the mindset of
most people who become stuck in “spiritual practices” without ever truly
experiencing the freedom of their being for a lifetime.

The first step for you would be to stop running away from the mind and
bring your awareness “into” it. The mind is not your enemy, and the
only reason its agitated is because it does not have clarity about life.
The mind, or your physical being, wants to manifest certain desires,
and that’s the creative expression of your physical form – but it doesn’t
know how to manifest it so it tries to “escape” it, using techniques to
suppress its movement. The more you suppress the mind, the more
suffering you endure because you are opposing the very movement of
your life force. There are several posts on this blog relating to
understanding your potential as a creator of realities, the science of
creation, identifying the momentum of negativity in you (in all forms)
and thus letting go of it, aligning with your life-stream and allowing your
natural expression to unfold as this human being. The “taste” of
wholeness that you had when you first meditated, will return back to
you as the permanent state of being when you let go of the negativity
of the mind, not by escaping it, but by dissolving it through
understanding and self-realization.

luka
December 13, 2011 at 1:02 am

So when you say to bring my awareness into the mind, do u mean that when
thoughts come and go you just accept them the way they are? Thats alot
easier said then done. Because when negative thoughts come, even though
I’m hardly putting my attention to them, they still take a stranglehold and
manage to ruin my mood. I’m definitely not an overly negative person by any
means, but I feel my fair share of it to the point that at I can’t say I love life.
What are some of the daily practices you used to achieve freedom from your
ego?

Sen Post author

December 13, 2011 at 2:03 am

When I say bring awareness into your mind, it’s about “understanding”
the mind’s movement deeply – it’s not to be used as a “technique” or
practice to ignore or deny the mind. Awareness allows you to stand in a
place of wisdom and understand the mind’s movement (in an attitude
of curiosity and inspection), irrespective of whether they are negative
thoughts or positive thoughts, in a bid to get to know your mind, to
bring the intelligence of life to the space of your mind – don’t take this
as some technique to keep distance from the mind, trying to shut it up
or trying to run away from it. The pointer is to bring a unconditional
awareness to the mind rather than sit in fear of the mind. When you
mentioned that the negative thoughts of the mind spoil your mood, it’s
because you “identified” with them rather than staying as a space of
awareness that’s trying to understand the dynamics of why the mind is
producing the negative thoughts in the first place – your attitude should
be one of “curiosity” rather than being so sensitive to its interpretations
and perceptions. Understand that since you can watch your mind, you
are “before” the mind, who you are is the aware energy focused in this
physical body, you must understand that this body/mind is a very
temporary aspect and will soon dissolve, it’s not who you are
“permanently”, it’s just a vehicle that you are using presently to
experience physicality – if you become totally attached/identified with
the body/mind alone, you will forget your true wholeness, you true
nature as this open aware energy (whose natural vibration is joy/love).
These are all pointers, just try to see if it resonates within, because
something in you already knows this truth about who you are.

I don’t recommend “practices” or techniques, because all techniques

are “escapist” mechanisms rooted in “fear”. What is of value is
“understanding”, only through understanding can there be clarity in
your being about life (about yourself), and only in the space of clarity
can you live with freedom. What I recommend is that you bring a
fearless awareness into the mind, an unconditional awareness with the
explicit purpose of getting to know all the nuances of your mind.
Contrary to what people think, a human mind has very limited
dimensions and when you bring a steady awareness, introspection,
into your mind on daily basis you will get to know all the dimensions of
your mind – you will understand the natural make-up of your mind, its
natural inclinations, desires, skill-sets and “personality”. When you truly
understand the personality of your mind and align with it, you will no
longer need to hide behind any false “personas” in a bid to fit in.
Enlightened living has as much to do with understanding your physical
nature as it has to do with understanding your non-physical nature.
 The only reason people attach to practices and techniques is because
they want to “escape” the mind’s domain, but anything you try to
escape will keep you a prisoner to it because of your fear of it. True
freedom is when you realize that you don’t need to get freedom from
anything. The whole notion that you need to be free of the ego is what
keeps you shackled to negativity. You don’t need freedom from Ego,
you just need to be free of negativity – not by trying to escape
negativity but by understanding the dynamics of negativity and bringing
a wisdom into it, so that you are not influenced by it and are able to
dissolve it as it arises. If you try to escape the negative thoughts, you
will be constantly a prisoner to it. “Understand” the reasons why the
mind is feeling negative, inquire into it, bring an open awareness it, get
to the core rather than just looking at the surface of thoughts. If you try
to escape the mind, you will never be able to look at its core patterns,
you will always just be in fear of it. Enlightenment has nothing to do
with escaping the mind or ego, it’s about bringing
wisdom/understanding/wholeness into the mind and the ego, dissolving
aspects of negativity in it and becoming aligned with your natural
expression as this human being (thus allowing the manifestation of
your desired realities and creative expression). The ego is a required
thought structure in the mind to have a meaningful experience of
physicality.

I sometimes give the practice of staying as a “detached” awareness of

the mind, this is only a temporary practice that I would recommend to
someone who is just waking up from mind identification. This practice
allows one to grow in the strength of their awareness. However, you’ve
already been meditating for quite a while so this practice is not needed
for you. What’s needed is that you bring an unconditional
understanding of the workings of your mind, get to know its
movements, get to know its insecurities, fears, resentments, questions
and doubts – and allow yourself to stay allowing to life to bring you the
answers and insights. They will either arise from within or you will be
guided towards some external source to get the answer and solutions.
It’s all about opening up to the wisdom of your wholeness and the only
way you can do it is by bringing an unconditional, open awareness to
the mind which comes from a place of love rather than from a place of
fear.

JENNY
February 2, 2012 at 2:40 am
Hi Sen!
Sometimes I find myself “indifferent” with life and my mind produces thoughts
like “What’s the point of doing all this inner work and growth and experiencing
the growing pains for the mere “ordinariness ” that is life??” Yeah there are
good times in life, but there are “bad” times too – and times that are downright
dull and sometimes it feels as if I am just trying to “get through” my
days/weeks. I know this is just a mechanism of my mind and I need to just
allow it without attaching to it – but there really is no inherent “point” to life – so
sometimes the “pain” that accompanies physical life or just merely trying to “get
through the day” doesn’t seem worth it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suicidal or
anything – I just get complacent. Does that make sense….?? Have you ever
experienced this?
Thank you for helping us all
I really do appreciate you..

Sen Post author

February 2, 2012 at 5:49 am

Jenny, it’s very natural to reach this phase where the brain (with its ego
structure) sees through the ordinariness of life so fully that it’s no
longer holding on to any “delusions”, or fantasies, about reality. This
just means that you’ve come really deep in your journey of awareness
and have now been able to see through all the delusions, all the unreal
perceptions, that your brain was holding onto (which was defining its
personal expectations and meaning). The path forward is to allow this
sense of meaninglessness to be there fully, don’t try to suppress it by
using some distractions. Allow this feeling of total meaninglessness to
arise fully in your brain, in your ego, and you will see that it shakes
loose some subtle resistances you had towards allowing your natural
expression (your life-stream) fully. Once this resistance is gone, you
will be able to merge fully with the pull of your life-stream and hence
start becoming an expression of your life’s intent (the intent that
created you).

Everything is born in an intention in the wholeness of life, and the

natural makeup of your mind is a product of this intention, and there is
a natural expression that you are born to live. That’s the meaning of
your presence from life’s perspective (which is the perspective of
totality, or universal perspective). The brain (the ego structure) feels
meaningless because it doesn’t have it deluded perceptions anymore,
but now this allows the opportunity to fully let go into the pull of life
(since you are no longer holding on to any personal expectations).
When you let go so fully, a different force takes over, the force of your
 life-stream, which is way different than the force of ego. When this
force of your life-stream takes over, you just start living out your natural
expression freely and hence live out the inherent purpose of your
creation.

nvibes
February 2, 2012 at 11:27 am

It’s funny – I was thinking exactly the same thing last night around the
same time- about the meaningless of life. I’d experienced this
meaningless intensely about one and a half years ago – deep feeling of
what’s the point of life, but I guess i still had many delusions to let go
of.

This time, it feels almost like apathy, like giving up, like “whatever”, like
you describe Jenny. I no longer feel that any travel experience, work,
relationship etc is going to fulfil me for long, even achieving/getting
things that I’ve desired. I feel almost dull. I thought I was
regressing,.Thank you Sen for your response.

JENNY
February 2, 2012 at 8:33 pm

Thanks Sen! I am definitely getting to know my “brain” better these days. One
thing my brain tends to do is question everything haha – (aka why this? why
that?) It’s fun to just allow my brain to do what it wants without attaching much
to it – I should have “known” that I need to allow the complacency as well.
Thanks so much for all your help!

Joy
February 7, 2012 at 6:47 pm

So grateful for this page at this moment. I did knew mind was unnecessary
worried (normally) for feeling meaningless, but this just helped so much.
Thanks for post and comments.

Ritu
February 8, 2012 at 6:10 am

I too can relate at this moment. Its like nvibes states – have the
confidence that desired reality will manifest, but lost interest in
 manifestation or desiring. Does not seem like anything can be fulfilling.
Like Sen says, allowing this too

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