Written by Mathew Naismith
You now and again, through the passage of
life, come across people who are deeply reflective, a bloke I have known for
some time now of the name of Michael Hopkins is but one of these people. Mike's
poems seem to reflect an awareness beyond the control of the controlling ego
expressions. To an ego in control, Mike's poems would seem non-sequential
rhetoric to the ego mind, very simular to my own reflections. As of any
experience in the offering, the ego in control usually misses out in these
experiences that are on offer.
This kind of awareness and subsequent
experiences that are beyond the expressions of a controlling ego, is often
taken to be egotistic by the ego mind. It's amazing how the ego mind stops us
from experiencing the true reality of life, in turn, stopping our mind from
becoming aware beyond the ego mind. When you go beyond the ego mind, there is
simply no misery mainly because there is no separation, only in separation
(unawareness) can a consciousness suffer within it's own misery.
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"Mind cannot see Love
Which is not within it’s view
Only
reflections"
© 2017. M.N. Hopkins
My
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Very
good point Mike, how could a true sense of love become aware to the ego mind?
It's
been there recently for me to write about how the ego mind isn't aware of all
it experiences. How often does a child's ego mind, especially in adolescence,
refute the full existence of their parents love and affection? They are often
quite unaware, especially when the parent/parents are in a teaching mode, in
other words preparing the child for adulthood trials and tribulations.
How
often is the macho ego mind of an adult not fully aware of their partner's full
love, affections and feelings? How aware is an egoistic female?
My
wife or I make a mess in the house; it matters not who cleans it up because
it's always our mess. A true sense of love is binding, a false
sense of love is separating. Love and light is a prime example of this
separation from dark, of course the dark is only as negative as the light
perceives. In a lot of couple's relationships, a mess made by the other partner
is seen as a negative so they don't clean it up or clean it up under protest.
My wife and I have a neutral existence/relationship, everything is neutral with
no separation of negative or positive, dark and light, within this, we become
aware of the experiences beyond the egos control.
These
experiences are there but the ego mind either doesn't become aware of them or
turns them it something the ego mind relates to. The ego mind is seemingly unable
to comprehend anything it can't relate to so these experiences are either not
noticed or they are turned into something the ego relates to. In this sense of
turning an experience into something the ego can relate to is of deception.
We
all experience so much, especially the experiences that are not picked up through
the five senses. People like you and I are very lucky Mike.
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Indeed we are Mat. Makes living in the world a bit
easy to have some slight distance from the dictates of ego. Happy weekend Mat
and same to your dear wife.
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If
you don't mind Mike, I'm going to insert your reflection here on my post. You
are a very in-depth and reflective person Mike, I am very lucky to have crossed
your path in life.
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"Only can the ego awaken to itself through
it's own inner reflections"......Mathew G
Are people like Mike and I egoistic in the
way we express ourselves within our writings?
"Only the ego mind can judge what is
and isn't of the ego"......Mathew G
To express an awareness is ego but not necessarily
of a controlling ego, in actuality, a controlling ego is anything but aware,
for all a controlling ego can comprehend is ego. This basically means a
controlling ego is only aware of it's own reflections, anything beyond these
reflections just simply doesn't exist to the ego. This simply means that
anything that the ego is aware of, like what people like Mike and I write
about, has to be egoistic.
"There is a point were the ego is wise
or wised up to itself, only then is the ego able to make itself fully
aware.....Mathew G
The ego needs ego to make itself aware of
itself. Seen as all motion denotes ego, this includes writings based in inner
reflections. It's difficult to avoid this and at no time should this be
avoided. "A controlling ego desires to stay ignorant, for it is only of
itself and about itself, nothing else exists to the ego in control". Used
correctly, the ego can be exceptionally enlightening, however, this can only
occur if it doesn't judge it's own ego self as something to avoid and detest,
basically, have fear upon it's own
reflections.
"It is wise to never fear being
expressive of the ego for only in this fear is the ego in total
control"....Mathew G
Try making the ego aware of itself through
non-egoistic reflections; it simply will not occur as the ego is unaware of
anything not of itself. The ego needs ego reflections to become aware of
itself; it's this simple. Again, the ego used correctly is exceptionally
enlightening to the ego mind, only can this occur though when the ego is not in
control of the mind.
"The mind is what we make it to be. If
it's of ego, ego it will be. If it's of pure awareness, pure awareness it will
be"......Mathew G
My wife and I have a female garden nursery
owner in awe. I'm usually jovial and I joke around a lot, especially in
relation to my wife. This alone has this lady in awe, sadly, it would seem this
lady has experienced very little of this from her partner/partners in her life.
When my wife mentioned about how I cook,
wash and wipe the dishes, clean the house, this lady was even more in awe. I
don't think we will mention about how I iron my own clothes and make the bed
every morning, etc.
To someone who is macho (egocentric), I am
completely under the thumb, meaning, being under my wife's control, however,
all I am doing is existing in a neutral existence with my wife. The ego in
control simply can't comprehend this, there has to be a form of control, not of
releasing control.
It's simply amazing how the ego in control
stops us from experiencing the things in life that are enlightening and working
in harmony together as one, I suppose after all, the ego in control is anything
but aware of anything that is not of itself!!
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ReplyDeleteHello Mat:
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words. I am honoured.
When I write I am usually in a half trance state. I am aware of my body and surrounding environment yet at the same time I am touching to another realm. It's as if I have one foot on Earth and one foot in another dimension with a very high frequency. Thoughts and emotions are so clear and I see or observe life with a greater clarity. It does not last so long but much information comes thru. I write it down quickly and then often look at the words and change them or change phrases until I get a flow or ease that helps others understand what is said even if not consciously.
Again, thanks for the kind words and link to my poem.
Kindest & warmest regards from up wander.
Mike
My pleasure my friend, I will share that which makes the ego look beyond it's own understanding, I believe this is important at the stage of the game.
DeleteMuch Blessings as always.
Mat