Identity
Every time a child is born into this world, the child comes in a state of innocence. There is nothing that is brought from the past nor is there a future that looks a certain way. There is no personality that
is locked into definite patterns and ways of behaving. There is no identification with experience or an “I” that lives in separation. All of these things we develop through experience and conditioning. We develop an “I” that becomes like a collection of
descriptions we believe ourselves to be. And that I is very much like a room with no windows. We are not connected with the reality that lies behind the walls of that room, the truth that we can be anything at anytime.
The effortless process of Ascending begins, right away from the very first experience, to loosen up the tight boundaries of our self-imposed prison. Not because we desperately want to be better human beings and work on changing ourselves but because the true nature of our being simply rushes in and dissolves the walls. We do not have to better ourselves, we only need to remember. Every Ascension Attitude brings us to that point of returning back to perfect memory of the Ascendant Self.
In the light of the One the shadows disappear. In that light the identity crisis of the whole humanity comes to an end. And there comes a new way of living that is not an improvement to the old but simply a whole new world of experience. The personality that we have chosen to carry up to this point as the basis of who we are is not going to disappear in a flash. Something far deeper and more powerful simply rises in us and naturally and gracefully becomes the foundation and the truth of what we are. This recognition is what heals the world through changing our perception from the prison house of the ego into the unbounded light of the One.
We need not to work hard on changing the self. It is good, however, to be intelligent about our choices and seek help where our own vision is limited. And it is bound to be limited as long as those walls are still intact. It is by the grace of the spirit that we rise to meet the truth of what we are. It is very simple, this the Ishayas promise, as long as we are completely simple and natural Ascension will work for us.
Nataraja Ishaya
Identification without limitation
A documented case tells of a woman with three separate personalities. One personality required glasses to see.
A second personality had perfect eyesight. The third personality had a cancerous breast tumor that protruded and could be detected without machine. The other two personalities were cancer and tumor free.
Another case mentioned frequently in medical literature cites a person with one personality who is deathly allergic to oranges, while oranges is the favorite food of another personality.
What used to be called “Multiple personality disorder” has been renamed “Dissociative identity disorder”. It seems the human being can identify itself with all kinds of things. In the disorder, the mind chooses an identity to the exclusion of other parts of the personality. However, it is considered normal to identify with characteristics, with ideas, beliefs, etc. It is just in a smaller degree than the disorder. In fact, in a recent google search on “identify with”, I found nearly 5 million hits. People identified with cartoon characters, causes, with ideas, with beliefs, etc. Psychological sites note that it is normal for people to change their personality traits in order to “identify with” people or groups of people they admire.
These cases are interesting because they show the power of the human mind and the boxes we draw around ourselves with identification. One example for me, was calling myself a problem solver (which means there MUST be problems so that “I” can solve them). Anything we use to fill in the blank, “I am ______”, is most often a limitation of some kind. To “identify with” could extend to anything we agree with or believe in, attempt to align ourselves with, or what we admire.
It is good to Ascend eyes closed three times, a minimum of 20 minutes each time, every day. Giving your time to Ascension in this way is a very powerful way to retrain the mind to align with the ascending currents of Praise, Gratitude and Love. Your own experience will quickly show how the quality of your daily life can improve with this simple choice to close your eyes and Ascend.
The morning Ascension will set you up with the Attitudes of Ascending for the coming day and you have a greater chance that all good can flow from you and to you.
Twenty minutes in the middle of the day can be like starting the day again with full energy, clarity of mind and calmness of the heart. This is how you gradually learn to live from being present in the moment more and more.
Ascending before sleep gives you far deeper and more restful sleep than you could otherwise have.
Regularity of Ascension is the key to this practice!
|
|
 |
MSI said, “In the Waking State, we identify with our thoughts and do not experience consciousness as it is.” We get caught in the identifications and miss the most important experience of a lifetime! MSI said, “If we identify with the constantly rising and falling waves of the physical world, we will alternately enjoy and suffer and we will surely die.”
Ascension retrains the mind. With the cumulative effects of the tools of Ascension, the more power we have to make choices. Each choice we make becomes more and more powerful. We can continue to look toward the manifest world of phenomena and identify with that. Or, we can bring the Ascension Attitudes more and more into our day to day lives to expand consciousness. A by-product of perpetual consciousness is to identify with the Ascendant Self, the unbounded, unlimited One.
With that as a priority in your life, what are the possibilities for your life?
Jyoti Ishaya
Death of the ego
When we are born , our first requirement is to relate to the outer world. Our need for physical and emotional support means that we must direct our senses outward, away from inner silence and complete consciousness into
|
the field multiplicity. In order to do this, we organize our consciousness into an illusory structure that artificially maintains our separation from the inner Ascendant Self. This tructure is known as the ego. This was designed as a necessary but temporary stage of development, not the be all and end all of human evolution. The dominance of the ego is not supposed to continue past puberty.
It is our attachment to the ego that keeps us trapped in the world of illusion, in that which is known in sanskrit as samsara. Samsara means literally, “perpetual succession” or “eternal cycle”: We rise up only to fall again, over and over again forever until the endless circle is Ascended. Since the ego structure is an illusion, everyone at the deepest level inside desires to Ascend this artificial construct. The illusion must be abandoned; the ego must die
Until this ultimate transfiguration occurs, we continue to identify with the ego as it represses large parts of our personality in favor of those segmented beliefs which are favored. When we begin to grow in enlightenment, these repressed areas start clamoring for recognition and acceptance; this can lead to intense inner conflict. The opposing forces in our lives rise in strength and power until the death of the world seems imminent. We manifest in our individual lives the ancient mythic battle between two nearly omnipotent armies facing each other to vie for mastery of the Earth.
The ultimate Ascension is when we recognize that all the limited conditions of our belief system must be surrendered to the Omniscient and Omnipotent power of the Ascendant. This results in a radical transformationof our previous ego-structured existence; the small and limited self rises into the Universal. Christ’s death and Ascension thus serves as a model for any aspirant to enlightenment. The temporal and the personal are Ascended as universality dawns; the ego melts into the Universal Self.
MSI, Ascension!
Enlightenment, Pada I Sutra 4
At other times, the Seer identifies with movements.
The mind is like a mirror – it reflects whatever is put before it. If the seer is identifying with the movements, Reality is not experienced: the True Form of the self is the awareness of the silent, Absolute Eternity of the present moment. When the mind moves, when it is out of the perfect serenity and silence of the Ascendant, then the seer sees the movements and believes the movements are reality.
This is the structure of identification, the root of the Waking state of Consciousness. The Seer sees only what the mind presents to it. If the mind is chaotically active, the Self loses sight of its silent nature and identifies with activity. It is not that the Self becomes the perceived object, that is impossible. The Self can never truly be out of itself. But it is possible for the individual to believe that he or she is out of the Self. This happens whenever the mind is not still. At these times, the Self thinks that it is limited by space, time and causation. This is root cause of all human suffering, mental, emotional and physical.
MSI, Enlightenment
The Teaching and Practice of Ascension
The Ishaya Foundation will be hosting a Radio show beginning Monday, February 4 from 3-4pm PST. The show is called The Teaching and Practice of Ascension. We will be talking to both those who know how to ascend (or know the Ascension Attitudes) and to those who might be interested in living life from a different platform of experience; those who are ready to heal the world by healing the self.
Teachers will talk about the Art of Ascension as taught by the Ishayas. This practice is one that, if you so choose, can close the gap between intuitive awareness of what is possible and Direct Living Experience of it. We will be talking about the full power of this teaching, what it is capable of and how to begin to put it into practice. This teaching, in its purity and simplicity, is enough to take someone into full human consciousness in the shortest possible amount of time. Distorted or not practiced regularly, has some power, but no longer guaranteed to be the fastest path to the goal.
So, you may ask, how do I listen?
Listening live:
If you live in Seattle area and have a high definition radio, you can hear it live on the Contact Talk Radio Network on 106.9FM-HD3 based in Seattle, WA.
If you don’t live in Seattle, you can listen to live (from 3-4pm PST on Mondays) at
http://www.contacttalkradio.com/listen.htm
(note: you may need to download software if you don’t already have Windows Media Player or Winamp loaded).
Listening after the show:
Anytime after February 4, 2008, you can find the shows at
http://www.contacttalkradio.com/hosts/ishayas.htm
The Teaching and Practice of Ascension is also available as a podcast. You can subscribe using your favorite podcasting software, then listen to it on your computer or load it into your iPod or other MP3 player to listen on-the-go. Once you’ve subscribed to a show, your computer will automatically check for updates and download the newest episodes when you open your podcasting software. For free podcasting software and instructions to subscribe, go to
http://www.contacttalkradio.com/podcasts/index.htm
Last, but not least, Contact Talk Radio will be going on Satellite very soon. We will keep you informed of that option when it is available.
Please invite people to listen to the show, other ascenders and those that might be interested in living life to the fullest.
What's New!
The Ishaya Foundation website has been translated into german. Please visit the new site and learn what is Praise, Gratitude, Love and compassion in german in case you are not familiar with the language.
http://www.theishayatradition.eu
Our Websites
The Ishaya Foundation
http://www.theishayafoundation.org
Hong Kong website
http://www.theishayafoundation.asia
European website
http://www.theishayafoundation.eu
-------------------------------------------------
This is the 32nd edition of the Ishaya Foundation newsletter.
If you wish to unsubscribe please email mailinglist@theishayafoundation.org.
To contact us, please email contact@theishayafoundation.org or
phone 1-888-ISHAYA1
|
|
|
