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Remember the scene from the Matrix ...

Neo has just saved Trinity from the helicopter crash. He pulls her to the top of the building with a rope after the entire glass side of a skyscraper deforms and explodes. They stand there with Morpheus, and Morpheus says that Neo is "the One."

Neo says, "I can't be, because the Oracle told me ..."

And Morpheus interrupts by completing the sentence. He says, "the Oracle told you exactly what you needed to hear."



Realizing that each moment, what you hear is exactly what you need to hear, is a step out of the dream. Even the stuff that doesn't seem to be directed towards you is exactly what you need to hear.

Each moment, the totality of existence conspires to tell you exactly what you need to hear. And, the players speaking the lines, the sound effects of the locale, don't even have to be aware that they are part of the totality that is the communion.

This does not mean that you believe everything that you hear, or that you believe everything that is willfully directed towards you, or that everything you hear is true. It simply means that because you are hearing it, it is what you need to hear.

What you need to hear lies beyond, is more vast, than your extremely limited sequential cognitive functioning, and thus lies beyond your qualitative judgement that insists on fitting the world into your belief system, whatever that belief system may be. The very process of fitting the world into a belief system causes you to sleepwalk, to latch onto what fits the belief system, to ignore what doesn't fit the belief system. It's what causes you to pick and choose what seems right from the entirety of a religion that you don't fully comprehend so that jabberwocky hybrids of belief acceptance and belief rejection, geared towards ego gratification, spring up throughout the seasons of a life.

And how do you hear what you need to hear? By surrendering to the moment as a witness, merging with the moment as a witness, without resistence, seeing your body and presence as a component of the totality that is playing out at that moment. Then, as the witness, everything you hear is exactly what you need to hear. It can be no other way.

And, you even begin to hear the stuff coming out of your own mouth, coming out of the passing thoughts.

Have you ever heard someone declare, "I don't need to hear this," and then storm out, leaving the situation so that they hear no more? That is the judgement of ego interfering with what is happening. That's the ego controlling the input, seeking the spotlight, no longer witnessing but instead judging, controlling, proceeding on the basis of a perceived choice between what is, and the imaginative what should be.

When you wake up to the fact that everything you hear is exactly what you need to hear, within the context of the moment that the totality of existence is presenting, you also realize that life, within that context of the present moment, cannot be less than what it is at that moment, and thus, is perfection. The surrender is what abnegates the illusion of choice, revealing the ever-existing perfection.

"on another thought... while i like the idea of being enlightened, i'm not sure i like how we (people in general) put this concept up on a pedestal. i have come across some people that "work" so hard at reaching enlightenment, that they are truly missing out on living, and the here and now. it just seems a bit odd to me to look at it as a "goal"... as some do."

All desires condense to a single burning desire, and that eventually drops away. Then, one may live in a cave, in a house, in a public hallway, one may travel or not travel ... circumstances no longer determine quality of life.