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The Fly

June 28, 2021 Ron Gordon 0
Today I had an unusual interaction with a fly. It’s not over yet, and I’m pretty sure it won’t end well. I’ve had many interactions with flies throughout my long life, usually totally unconsciously, as I killed them in the quickest manner without a thought. But today’s fly was different. I left my basement office about 10:30 AM and went to the kitchen to make coffee. I felt great time pressure to get back to work as quickly as possible, and in this time of great stress for all with what happening in the world (what is happening…. just a standard communist takedown of the Western world) I was completely fixated on myself and in no mood for delays. The fly buzzed past and without a thought I lashed out with the back of my right hand and, amazingly, hit him hard. He bounced off the wall and fell by the toaster, obviously hurt. Instantly remorse hits me. I look at him, wishing I could back up 5 seconds and just let him fly by, and this whole scenario never happens. He’s trying to right himself, and one of his wings is now displaced somehow.  I wish I could just fix him and set him free again. Why did I do that? I’m 170lbs, he’s a few ounces at most, and the way I hit him was full of anger and violence and must have shaken or broken every solid object in his body. And all this without any hesitation, […]
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The NOW From Three Teachers

June 20, 2021 Ron Gordon 0
The NOW From Three Teachers The ‘now’, or the eternal present instant, is the only space we ever are in reality. Paradoxically, the context in which we use the word ‘we’ refers to our ego mind, which has become crippled by its dependence on thought (a product of the past), which is based entirely on the past, or on the projected past… which is the future. The ego mind (as opposed to our universal mind) is incapable of being in the present ‘now’. This one observation, obviously true, presents us with a frustratingly simple challenge…why we are we simply unwilling or incapable to experience the present now? We treat the now as an unimportant gap between the past and the future to be avoided… but the past is gone…and the future never arrives. But the reality is we are evermore in the ‘now’, which we refuse to recognize. What is insanity, if not this? I’d like to look at the concept of time from the perspective of three of the greatest world teachers of our time… A Course in Miracles, Jiddhu Krishamurti, and Eckhardt Tolle. I believe all are saying the same thing on this topic with different words, the Course from a vastly broader array of teachings, and Krishnamurti and Tolle from their respective teachings which are not only very similar, but emphasize the ‘now’ as one of, or in Tolle’s case, their primary concept. ///////////  A Course in Miracles: (Chapter 13 – The Function of Time)  ///////////// (Note: […]
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The World is Us

May 22, 2021 Ron Gordon 0
“It is difficult to get a person to understand their world, when their world depends on their not understanding it.” This quote above is perhaps the reason that I, after decades of studying, still simply refuse to understand simple concepts. No matter how simple and obvious they may be, the fact that their acceptance collapses our world view is enough to make them suicide to accept. Except, if they are true, it is suicide not to accept them and we willingly acknowledge that we will not escape this world alive. Might there be another way? Here are few paraphrased quotations below, from ACIM, Krishnamurti, or Eckhardt Tolle. I believe all are essentially saying the same thing in different words. These are spiritual foundations, and without their acceptance we cannot go far. The world is in our mind. This sounds like philosophical conjecture, but let’s set that aside and consider that it is a truth so fundamental and obvious that it’s acceptance would truly be a thought reversal. Paraphrased from ACIM chapter 12 section 3, ‘The investment in Reality’: ‘We always perceive this world as outside ourselves, for this is crucial to our adjustment. We do not realize that we make this world, for their is no world outside of ourselves. We have projected outward what is antagonistic to what is inward, and therefore we would have to perceive the world this way. This is why we must realize that our hatred is in our mind, and not outside of it before get can […]
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Stream of Life vs Stream of Thought

April 3, 2021 Ron Gordon 0
This graphic is an imperfect representation of the words of Krishnamurti, Tolle, and Johan Lem. The central idea is the same one repeated by K for his entire life, that the ‘now’ escapes us as our stream of thought runs away from the now into the past or future. By not seeing completely what is before us, we accumulate incomplete memories which condition us even more. K’s message was one of direct observation… without will or motive… and without thought which has become a ‘distraction’. Of course, until one is capable of this, it is only conjecture and speculation. Some people like to draw diagrams in order to understand it. There are three pages in this PDF.  Click here to open/download this PDF  
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68 Years Ago K Warns of Ideation

March 24, 2021 Ron Gordon 0
Yesterday’s words intended for today’s problems. Taken verbatim and with respect from ‘The First and Last Freedom‘ Jiddu Krishnamurti 1953 QUESTION 1: ON THE PRESENT CRISIS Question: You say the present crisis is without precedent. In what way is it exceptional? Krishnamurti: Obviously the present crisis throughout the world is exceptional, without precedent. There have been crises of varying types at different periods throughout history, social, national, political. Crises come and go; economic recessions, depressions, come, get modified, and continue in a different form. We know that; we are familiar with that process. Surely the present crisis is different, is it not? It is different first because we are dealing not with money nor with tangible things but with ideas. The crisis is exceptional because it is in the field of ideation. We are quarrelling with ideas, we are justifying murder; everywhere in the world we are justifying murder as a means to a righteous end, which in itself is unprecedented. Before, evil was recognized to be evil, murder was recognized to be murder, but now murder is a means to achieve a noble result. Murder, whether of one person or of a group of people, is justified, because the murderer, or the group that the murderer represents, justifies it as a means of achieving a result which will be beneficial to man. That is we sacrifice the present for the future – and it does not matter what means we employ as long as our declared purpose is to […]
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Medieval Mob Rule, 2021

January 6, 2021 Ron Gordon 0
Medieval Mob Rule, 2021 While this website is primarily focused on spiritual issues, it would be negligent not to observe the current trends overwhelming  western cultures. This statement by comedian ‘Mr. Bean’ (Rowan Atkinson) aptly summarizes the dangers of the dystopian future that we seem to have agreed to lower ourselves to. ACIM would tell us to forgive… to look beyond. Krishnamurti would likely tell us to simply observe ‘what is’ without try to escape from it. Other systems may advise something else. But first it is prudent to be aware of what is happening. Rowan Atkinson here does a courageous job here of bringing it to our attention. “You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.”   Please, read or re-read George Orwell’s ‘1984’. While its still permitted.
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The Great Reset: Point Blank

December 27, 2020 Ron Gordon 0
This is an excellent, and extremely concerning, expose of what the world’s elites have planned for us, with James Corbett and Del Bigtree providing an introduction to this frightening topic for persons new to the topic. If you are like most, your mind will refuse to believe this information and probably categorize it as ‘conspiracy theory’. This mental delaying maneuver however is well covered by both speakers. A highly recommended interview for all watch. Please pass the link on while we are still allowed to.
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Direct Observation

December 27, 2020 Ron Gordon 0
Krishnamurti’s statement ‘the observer is the observed’ baffled me for many years, and still I have not fully accepted it, or come to terms with its implications. Have you? But I think what he meant and was describing, and that we are terrified to admit, is that ‘we are the world, and the world is us’. Therefore, there is nothing we can change about it. The observer, which is our mind, is a collection of the past observations we have made, the conditionings which are now largely unconscious in us. I found this video below from Saanen 1981 to be refreshingly direct, in which he makes several statements of what actually is the ‘truth’. Like all true spiritual teachings, I believe the truth is simple, and what K is describing is so, however our minds fight to find the complexity in it, and failing to do so, abandon it as below our intellect. To look directly at what K is saying seems to me to take great courage, as the implications of of doing so are to question the foundation which our mind (since there is only one) is made of and how it operates. To see that it is not capable of overcoming its problems, is to begin to distance from it. I believe that to distance ourselves from the mind that we have created, is likely the greatest fear the human being is capable of. A Course in Miracles alludes to this fear in many places, but advises […]