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    Bliss Music

    Kip Mazuy

    Realizing the Self

    "You cannot realize the Self

    through the senses.

    You cannot taste it,

    see it, hear it, smell it

    and you cannot touch it.

    You have your eyes open.

    You see

    and then label what you see.

    'This is my body.'

    'This is my computer.'

    'I am using my hands to

    type on the computer.'

    But close your eyes

    and be still.

    From this point of stillnesstell me about your hands.

    If you can't see them,

    then where and what are they?

    You can say

    that you feel them resting

    on your mouse or keyboard.

    But what is that feeling?What is the sensation

    that you are calling your

    hands?

    Forget the defining

    that they are your hands

    and actually experience what

    is here

    beyond the words.

    With your eyes closed

    forget the defining

    of your body

    and experiencewhat you refer to as your body.

    Not a part of itbut the whole thing.There is the sensationthat you are here,but instead of defining itas a body, as a name,simply feel it.

    Feel the sensationof what is here.

    Feeling without touching.Feeling without using words.Here you experiencesomethingthat you cannot define,you cannot accuratelydescribe.Because what is heredoes not have boundaries,

    cannot be described by thesenses.But there is an experienceof existing.

    There is the awarenessof existing.Here, existing and awarenessare one and the same.

    This is not something thatyou can learn or understand.You have to close your eyes,let go of thinkingand experience it.You will seeit is not a statethat comes and goes.It is what is always herewhether you give it attention

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    or not.Blessings,

    Kip"Be Naked

    "You often hear the popular

    slogans

    'Be Happy'

    'Be Grateful'

    'Be Positive'

    But what happens

    when you try and be thesethings

    when they are not your

    experience?

    Suddenly you are imposing a

    mask

    on top of what is already here.

    You are really saying to

    yourselfthat how you truly are

    is unacceptable.

    And that you have to lie

    to yourself and others

    in order to feel accepted.

    If you really consider this

    you will see that

    this is self hatred.

    Meditation

    is about allowing yourself

    to be exactly as you are.

    Simply in this allowing

    there is peace.

    And from this allowing

    comes awarenessand from awareness

    comes transcendence.

    Simply by being

    aware of what is here,

    you no longer

    are confined

    by the body/mind/ego,

    you exist as awareness.

    Then your natural stateof love and gratitudeshines forth.Not because of something you

    do,but simply becausethat is what is.Awareness itself transforms.But any sense of tryingto control yourselfto change yourselfyou empower your ego evenmore.You lock yourselffurther into the ideathat you should be differentthan you are.So rather than be positive,be naked,without the make upand the hair extensions.Be aware of your experience

    exactly as it is.

    The moment you do this,you rest as awareness.You move into your true stateof unconditional peace.Even in the awarenessof the deepest anger andsadness

    there is incredible peace andbliss.

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    The mind could be whining,cursing and hatingand you would be immersed inbliss.

    This is the honest truth.Peace is not something you do,it is what you are.It is what is naturally herewhen you stop resisting thismoment.Blessings,

    Kip"The Key To Freedom

    "There is no endto trying to figure it out.The mindis an endless puzzlethat has no solution.

    If it had a solution,that would be the endof the reign of mind,and the mind does not wantthat.The mind wants to existand it gets it's powerfrom you identifying with it.And so it continuesto grab your attentionany which way it can.

    Just like a TV channel.The TV channel's purposeis to keep you watching.

    That is what it wants.

    So you are sitting thereand the TV channelputs you on a tropical islandwith beautiful people,then you are flying an airplane,

    then you are chasing bad guys.But it has nothing to do with

    what is actually happening.

    What is actually happeningis you are sitting on the couch,drinking a cup of tea.But in your experience,there is no couch or tea.How could there be whenyou are flying an airplane?It is the same with mind.The thoughts are constantlygrabbing your attention.And so the world you know tobe realis made up of your thoughts.But if you really lookbeyond your thinkingat what is here,you would experiencesomething totally differentthan what the mind perceives.Something that even if I triedto describe to you,you would miss.

    Because then it would becomeknowledge,it would become aninterpretationof what is actually here.For you to truly find outwhat is here beyondinterpretation,you have to look.

    It is this looking that is mostimportant,it is the witnessing what isherethat sets you free.Whether you are witnessingthoughtswitnessing sensationsit is all about the witnessingnot the objects themselves.

    Not the knowledge

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    of what you witnessed asecond ago,but the looking right here andnow.Not witnessing to getsomething,because then you are backin the mind.

    The witnessing itself isfulfillment.The witnessing itselfis joy.This is the key to freedom.

    Blessings,

    Kip"

    Technique of No Identity

    "The nature of awareness

    is freedom from identification.

    If you are aware of anger,

    then you are not identified with

    anger.

    If you are aware of a thought,you are not identified with the

    thought.

    The thought arises, the anger

    arises

    but it has nothing to do with

    you.

    Identification

    is always happeningat an unconscious level.

    You are walking to work

    and unconsciously

    identification is there.

    'My name is Jon, I am a dentist,

    I am on Main st. where I turn

    left

    to go to my office...'

    Always defining

    'This is me.'

    'This is who I am;

    this is where I am;

    this is what I am doing;

    this is where I am going;

    this is where I have been.'

    So instead of practicing

    awareness

    from the perspective of

    identity,

    you could try consciously

    not being identified with

    anything.

    You allow the thoughts, body

    and sensations

    to be as they are

    but you consciously

    disidentify with them.

    'This body is not mine,

    this name is not mine,

    these thoughts are not mine,

    this emotion is not mine,this belief is not mine.'

    Not as words to repeat

    but to consciously

    not identify with anything at all

    (just by being aware of them.)

    If you choose to not

    have an identity

    then awareness is automatic.

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    You will experience life

    in a completely different way.

    By consciously

    letting go of all identity,

    you exist as energy,

    as formless consciousness

    completely free of ego

    & all the conflict and

    separateness

    that goes with it.

    Blessings,

    Kip"

    Transcending Mind in 3

    Stages

    "There are 3 stages

    of mind in meditation.

    The first stage is personal.

    The thoughts are about you,

    your world, what you've seen,heard, tasted, felt etc.

    It's experience is one

    of duality.

    There is you and everything

    else.

    Conflict and control,

    desire and resistance.

    Once you learn

    to witness your thoughts

    instead of identify with them,

    you enter into the second

    stage.

    In the second stage,

    the thoughts are no longer

    about your personal life.

    It is here you have dreams,

    visions,

    and even beyond visions

    you experience very subtle

    thoughts,

    that are beyond words, sounds

    or images.

    Although you experience this,

    you are not bound

    by what you experience,

    it no longer defines you.

    There is no personal reaction

    to what you experience.

    There is not the solidseparation

    that was there in the first

    stage.

    In the first stage things

    happened to you.

    In the second stage there is

    just a happening

    that arises in consciousness.

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    In this stage there is incredible

    bliss

    and with the lovely visions to

    entertain you,

    it is difficult to let go of the

    bliss

    and take the step into the next

    stage.

    By letting go of the thoughts

    as they arise,

    you enter the 3rd stage of

    mind.

    You experience that which

    is beyond mind.

    That which cannot be defined.

    To say you even experience it

    is not true,

    because here,

    there is no experiencer

    separate from the experience.

    There is only pure,eternal consciousness.

    Blessings,

    Kip"

    1 Simple Point About

    Meditation

    "I often hear people

    saying they can't meditate.

    But what they are really saying

    is they won't meditate.

    Whatever reasons they give,

    the truth is in meditation

    they have come across

    an experience

    they do not wish to

    experience.

    Whether

    they are conscious of it or not,

    they have felt a sensation that

    they

    do not wish to feel.

    The reasons on top of this are

    just excuses.

    The moment you allow yourself

    to experience those sensations

    you are avoiding,

    then you see the futility of your

    reasons,

    the futility of your thoughts.

    The futility of trying to figure it

    all out.

    It really has nothing to do

    with mind.

    You just didn't want to feel a

    certain sensation,

    and once you did, it wasn't so

    bad,

    ironically, it was quite blissful.

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    Suddenly you are filled with

    love and peace

    until the next sensation you

    unconsciously resist

    makes itself known.

    Once you realize this

    one very simple point,

    that the reason you can't

    meditate

    is that you do not wish

    to feel a certain sensation,

    then meditation becomes very

    clear.

    Then you see the power

    is in your hands.

    Most people

    are just looking for the bliss

    and they don't want

    to do the work to get it.

    And that is perfectly fine,

    a little relaxation andmeditation

    will give you this.

    But if you want more than this.

    If you want freedom,

    from this constant conflict

    of seeking pleasure

    and avoiding pain

    and all the stress & sufferingthat goes with it,

    then you will be willing to sit

    through

    the uncomfortable experiences

    and enjoy the peace that goes

    with it.

    Unconditional peace

    does not come fromfeeling happy all the time.

    Unconditional peace comes by

    being present with what is

    here

    regardless of how you think it

    feels.

    You give it a try

    and I bet you'll really like it.

    Blessings,

    Kip"

    You Are The Doorway

    "In this moment,

    you cannot be the person

    you want yourself to be

    or others want you to be.

    You can only be how you

    are in this moment.

    Happiness does not comeby emulating

    the peaceful smiling Buddhist

    monk,

    or the tan new age guru

    promising you riches and the

    soulmate of your dreams.

    The secret is

    you are exactly as youare supposed to be

    in this moment.

    Your experience is exactly

    as it is supposed to be

    in this moment.

    That you keep turning

    away from yourself

    in search of something betteris what breaks your heart.

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    The doorway

    to unconditional peace, love

    and bliss

    is through the awareness of

    you,

    exactly as you are in this

    moment.

    In the full acceptance and

    awareness

    of yourself in this moment,

    you immediately transcend it.

    You enter into a whole

    new reality

    free from definitions,

    descriptions,

    and separation.

    You with your sweaty armpits

    your cranky disposition

    and your insanity

    is the doorway to Divinity.

    Because if you really becomeaware of what is here

    in this moment,

    you will find it is has

    nothing to do with what you

    think.

    Blessings,

    Kip"

    "The ego exists

    out of the experience that life

    is

    not the way it is supposed to

    be.

    It lives in a perpetual state of

    control

    in an attempt to make life

    the way it thinks it should to

    be.

    It's very nature is stress.

    Awareness isthe means to be free of the

    ego.

    Because in awareness

    you are watching

    this moment.

    And in order to watch this

    moment,

    you have to allow it to be as itis.

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    You have to accept

    that everything is as it is.

    You let go of control,

    then you can watch.

    And then what you are

    watching

    no longer defines you.

    You realize you are the

    watching.

    Meditation is a constant test

    of faith and surrender.

    Faith that everything

    will be okay if you stop trying

    to control this moment.

    Surrender because yes,

    it is quite possible the world

    you knowmay fall out from beneath your

    feet.

    Suddenly the illusion

    of trying to turn this moment

    into something else ceases

    and you are simply left with

    this moment.

    Once you let go ofthat constant urge to move

    forward

    there is only awareness.

    That is where true beauty

    shines.

    Not in the objects of your

    obsession

    but the awareness that giveslife to all objects.

    It is the awareness that is bliss.

    And if you are aware,

    then you are bliss.

    Blessings,

    Kip"

    How to be Free of Ego

    "The ego exists

    out of the experience that life

    is

    not the way it is supposed to

    be.

    It lives in a perpetual state of

    control

    in an attempt to make life

    the way it thinks it should to

    be.

    It's very nature is stress.

    Awareness is

    the means to be free of the

    ego.

    Because in awareness

    you are watching

    this moment.

    And in order to watch this

    moment,

    you have to allow it to be as it

    is.

    You have to accept

    that everything is as it is.

    You let go of control,then you can watch.

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    And then what you are

    watching

    no longer defines you.

    You realize you are the

    watching.

    Meditation is a constant test

    of faith and surrender.

    Faith that everything

    will be okay if you stop trying

    to control this moment.

    Surrender because yes,

    it is quite possible the world

    you know

    may fall out from beneath your

    feet.

    Suddenly the illusion

    of trying to turn this moment

    into something else ceasesand you are simply left with

    this moment.

    Once you let go of

    that constant urge to move

    forward

    there is only awareness.

    That is where true beauty

    shines.

    Not in the objects of your

    obsession

    but the awareness that gives

    life to all objects.

    It is the awareness that is bliss.

    And if you are aware,

    then you are bliss.

    Blessings,

    Kip"

    An Instant Shift inConsciousness

    "The mind functionsby defining.And through definitionsboundaries are created,separation is created.There is this bodythat is meand everything elsethat is not me.So you experience somethingthe mind defines as pain inyour chestand that pain is separate fromyou.

    It is somethingthat is happening to you.

    It is alien to youand a threat to youand therefore somethingmust be done about it.

    This is the natural process ofthe mind.It is how the physical bodysurvives.Most people tryand approach meditationfrom this mind perspective.How can I,as this bodyget blissand get away from pain.

    And so begins the struggleand sufferingof frustrating meditationsthat bear little fruitbecause you have already

    separated yourself fromyour experience.

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    But you can be free ofall of this in an instant.Simply by closing your eyesand allowing yourself

    to experience what is trulyherebeyond thought.

    By 'feeling' what is herewithout defining or describing.Without the mind,all that is leftis sensation.An experience

    of energy,conscious energy,that has no boundaries.What you experienced beforeas pain is nowsimply a movement of energy.

    Instantly you are freeof all separation and conflict.All stress and self-importancegoes out the window.The mind / body experiencebecomes something youwitnessinside you rather thanyou inside it.So awareness is completelyuncomplicated.This simple shift in perspectivechanges everything in aninstant.

    Simply by removing the mindas the perceiver,what was an experienceof incessant conflictnow is just conscious energy;An experience of unconditionalpeace.

    Blessings,

    Kip"

    The Truth about Meditation

    "According to your mind,

    bliss and freedomare just around the corner.It will bein the next book you read,the next Guru you see,the next diet,the next spiritual movement.And somehow the idea ofmeditationgets woven into all of this.

    But meditation is the opposite.Meditation is about beingpresentwith what is here.It is about letting go of thisconstant tendencyto leave this momentin search of something else.

    It is about surrendering towhat is here,being aware of what is here.Because here is not thesuffering.The avoidance of hereis the suffering.And if you can be aware of thisavoidance;If you can be aware of thisconstanturge to leave this moment,then half the battle is won.Because if you can be awareof the resistance,the resistance will disappear.And when resistancedisappears

    there is only peace.A peace so delicious,

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    that any pleasure outside ofthis momentis painful in comparison.

    Blessings,

    Kip"Pure Existence

    20 August, 2009 12:11 PM

    "If you greet someoneand ask them how they are,they will referto the last few hours, weeksor months for an answer.Thoughts of the pastare constantly repeatingthemselvesand that becomeswho you think yourself to be.You might wake up in themorning

    feeling blissful,and then the thought arisesthat 3 days ago you got aspeeding ticket.And now you don't feel blissful,now you feel awful.It is like you are getting thatspeeding ticket over and over!How many times will you getthatsame ticket in your mind?If your mind was reality,they would have alreadytaken away your license,probably your car too.But it was just that once.Over and done with.It has nothing to do

    with how you are in thismoment.

    It always come down to themind.The mind is the troublemaker.

    Not the thoughts themselvesbut the identification withthem.The attachment to them.If I ask how you are,it has nothing to dowith how you were yesterdayor the week beforeor even a minute ago.It has to do with right now.

    Right nowhow are you truly?Without referring to yourhistoryhow are you in this moment?You cannot really answerexcept to say thatin this momentthere is the sense of existence

    and you are awareof existence.not as a person with a historybut as existence itself,pure impersonal being.And if you are aware ofexistencethen you are blissful.There are no two ways aboutit.If you are awareof the oneimpersonal existencein this moment,you are blissful.All problems solved.Now go pay your speeding

    ticket.

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    Blessings,

    Kip"

    The Path of Surrender

    Thursday,

    13 August, 2009 10:18 AM

    Thursday,

    "When you feel your chest

    contracting,

    when there is stress

    and despair,

    that is a good sign

    that you are trying to control

    what cannot be controlled.

    That is a good sign

    that the best thing you can do

    is surrender

    and allow yourself

    to experience what is there.

    Thoughts of strategies,

    justification and even revenge

    could be swirling around

    like a hurricane,

    offering you something to hold

    on to.

    But it is best to let them go,to trust and allow,

    to be vulnerable and humble

    and absolutely present

    with what you feel.

    Such times are tests

    on your awareness.

    It is one thing to be blissful,

    sitting in a quiet air

    conditioned room

    with lovely music.

    It is another thing to be

    present

    when all hell seems to be

    breaking loose around you.

    There are always two paths

    in every moment:

    the path of control,

    and the path of surrender and

    awareness.

    And the two paths

    take you in two completelydifferent directions.

    Most people walk in circles:

    they surrender a little

    then back to control,

    surrender and back to control.

    What would happen

    if you just remained aware,

    surrendering to what isin every moment?

    You can decide that today

    you choose peace in every

    moment

    and it could alter your entire

    life.

    Blessings,

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    Kip"

    You Are Consciousness

    Thursday, 6 August, 2009

    11:39 AM

    "Rather than enter meditation

    as a person

    trying to become more

    conscious,

    enter meditation

    with the realization

    that you are consciousness.

    Not as an affirmation,

    but as the truth.

    What you are exists

    beyond thoughts, beyond

    physicality.

    Take away all thought,

    what is left?

    If you like,use the method:

    'who am I?'

    Which is to ask:

    'What am I

    beyond thinking?'

    'What is this

    that I keep referring

    to as "I"?

    What is this sense

    of existing in this moment?'

    It will take you back

    beyond the mind,

    to where there is no answer,

    where there is only

    consciousness.

    Somehow you keep turning

    your back on this truth.

    Or you turn it into knowledge,

    a belief that you no longer

    validate

    but hold in your pocket like a

    lucky charm.

    And you end up again

    involved with thoughts,

    as though the thoughts

    make up a person,

    and that person is you,

    and this person

    has to find freedom from itself.

    Rather realize from the start,

    that you are consciousness.

    And the way to yourself

    is not to seek outside

    of yourself.

    But to let yourself restin this moment

    as you truly are.

    No need to deny anything,

    no need to convince the mind

    what is real.

    Just be honest

    about what is here.

    Whenever you look beyond the

    mind,

    the truth exists,

    naked and pure

    and absolute.

    This is meditation.

    Blessings,

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    Kip"

    How to Grow in AwarenessFriday, 13 November, 2009

    8:21

    "You grow in awarenessby becoming consciousof what is unconscious.You have been meditating foryearsthinking your mind is still inmeditation,and then suddenly you see

    you have been lost in yourthinkingthe whole time without evenknowing it.Because of our conditioning,the tendency is to feel downabout yourself,to feel like this realizationthat you have been

    unconscious for so longmeans you have failed.But the realizationthat you have been caught upinthinking for the last 20 years ofmeditationis a great realization.Because it means

    suddenly you are aware ofwhat you have not been awareoffor over 20 years.You take a quantum leapin awareness because of this.Many people spend their timetrying to convince themselvesand othershow great they are,how aware they are.

    It is not wrong,we were taughtto impress others.It is ingrained in us to do so.

    But in spending so much timetrying to create ourselvesto be a certain way,we do not see whatis actually here.We have simplycreated the idea ofconsciousnesson top of our unconsciousness.For awareness to growyou have to be willingto observe without judgement.To allow yourself to be honestand vulnerable enough to seewhat is unconscious.It can be as simple as closing

    your eyesand watching your breathand then becoming awareof everything that takes youawayfrom your focus on yourbreath.The momentyou become aware of theunconscious,

    it becomes conscious.It does not matterwhat you see.It is the seeing itselfthat is important.Blessings,

    Commitment to Awareness

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    Thursday, 5 November, 200911:52

    "Once you becomeaccustomed to experiencing

    what is here beyond yourthinking,(call it presence, awareness,consciousness)then all that is left is to keepyour focus here.Which is the same thing assayingto stop being identified withyour thoughts,to stop being involved withyour thinking.This seems simple enoughand would be quite easyif it wasn't for self-importance.A thought arisesand immediately you give it

    importance.You think it is something thatneeds attention;something that needs to bedealt withor indulged or figured out.You place more importance onthe thoughtthen you do on awareness

    and then awareness flys outthe window.That is why meditationis so important.You give yourself time everydayto say'for this period of time

    my focus will besolely on awareness.'

    Because then when thethought arisesabout what you have to do forwork tomorrow,

    you will be willing to let it gobecause you made thecommitment to do so.And because you have thattime every daythat you use only for thepurpose of awareness,that awareness begins tooverflowinto the rest of your day.So that you will be driving toworkand without any effort orreasonyou will find yourselfin a sublime state of peace.

    Blessings,

    Witnessing ExplainedThursday, 19 November, 200914:23

    "The nature of existenceis peace.You do not experiencethis peacebecause of your identification

    with thinking.If you can witnessthe thoughts,identification would ceaseand you would experienceunconditional peace.You can learn to witnessthoughts by letting them goas they arise.

    But thinking

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    is happening at great speed.So many thoughts rushing bythat it is like being caught ina raging river.

    By beginning towitness thinking,you stop getting caught in theriverand thoughts begin to slow.The more thoughtsslow down,the easier it is to witness.In the same way,as you identify with thinkingthe power of identificationincreasesand thinking speeds up.

    So the more you caninwardly slow downthe easier awarenessbecomes.

    At firstit seems impossible.But with persistenceeverything slows downand you begin to restas the witness.It is simply a matterof consistently choosingto let go of the thought.

    To keep coming back toawareness.And eventuallyyou stop leavingin the first place.Blessings,

    Becoming Aware ofAvoidance

    Thursday, 26 November, 200910:06

    "Even behindyour thoughts, emotions,

    and physical experience,there is still a sense ofseparation.And this sense of separationhurts,not in a physical sense butenergetically.It is uncomfortable.

    But this sense of separationis not a thing,it is an action.It is something you are doing.You are avoiding this moment.You are constantly avoidingbeing present in this moment.

    The irony is,the moment you fully allowyourself to rest in the moment,the discomfort goesand there is an explosion ofenergy.You find that this infinite powerthat you have been seeking forso long

    has been right here the wholetime.But at the same time,the moment you allowyourself to be fully here,the ego vanishes.You still exist,but not as an ego.

    And so through all of yourtransformation,

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    you free yourself fromemotions,you free yourself from themind,

    and then you reach this coreexperience of avoidance,and you want to run the otherdirection.For some reason,it is too muchto surrender.By instinct,the ego wants to survive.You do not wantto give up control.So you seek more problems,more solutions,more teachings andknowledge.Anything but surrenderingto this intensity

    of this moment.Just by being awareof this constant urgeto avoid this moment,half the battle is won.Because once you seethat you are doing it,you can stop doing it.

    And the ultimate experienceis unconditional peace.It is what you have beenlooking for the whole time.Blessings,

    Kip"