Infinite Manifestations: The Power of Stopping at Nothing by Richard Dotts

Author:Richard Dotts [Dotts, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00YSLCENI
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2015-06-02T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6 - The True Litmus Test

The litmus test for everything I have described so far is this: Observe your inner state as you go about your daily affairs. Adopt the stance of a neutral observer and just gently notice what happens on the inside without trying to influence any of it. You’ll find yourself developing a sense of meta-awareness, as if you are the neutral observer of it all. You’ll notice a sense of detachment and separation from your body. See your body moving through all of life and your daily affairs. Then see your thoughts accompanying you through all of life and your daily affairs. It is a surreal feeling once you adopt the neutral stance of an observer without trying to change or direct things one way or the other.

While you are in that disengaged and neutral state, observe the thoughts / feelings that spontaneously arise in your consciousness. This is the key: Your consciousness should be in a zero, neutral and peaceful state as you go about your daily affairs.

Notice your eyes looking at something as you normally would and then notice the judgments or thoughts that spontaneously arise within yourself as you look at that object. If no judgments or thoughts arise spontaneously within your consciousness, congratulations! You have “passed” the litmus test. Your consciousness is truly at the state of zero. You have reached a state in which less than one percent of the population is able to achieve — That of looking at something without simultaneously also judging or labeling it. I remember how Eckhart Tolle made this point so lucidly in one of his writings… citing the example of looking at a tree and seeing what it truly is without labeling or judging it in any way. I thought he was out of his mind! What does he mean by “judging” or “labeling” a tree? Of course I know that is a tree, and of course my mind will be telling me it is a tree… what absurdity in his teachings!

It took me the next decade to realize his teachings. What Eckhart Tolle, along with all the spiritual teachers, was trying to convey is this: The moment we perceive something with our physical eyes, our mind immediately goes into the habit of labeling and generating thoughts in response to the phenomenon that we observe. This is the organizing function of our personal beliefs system which I described in Light Touch Manifestations.

What these spiritual masters were also trying to convey is that these thoughts are unnecessary. They cloud our consciousness. Realizing this is the ultimate realization! I finally understood what they said when I heard Lester Levenson teach that “every thought is a limitation… every thought we think must be limited …” (he said this very slowly, emphasizing every single word of that statement). What he means is that our thoughts have never been part of our true nature. They have been added onto the clear lens that we have. Anything that is added onto the originally clear windscreen is superfluous.

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