The Lion Moves Alone with The Final Step to Freedom by Lester Levenson: Freedom Technique book II

135 Pages·2016·1.54 MB·English

by  Yuri Spilny

To Jill
The Lion Moves Alone
with The Final Step to Freedom
By Lester Levenson

Yuri Spilny

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The Lion Moves Alone is an expression, used by
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Translation of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat by
Edward Fitzgerald, except as noted otherwise

Library of Congress © TXu-1-742-711
ISBN-13: 978-1489570642; ISBN-10: 1489570640
Table of Contents

The Lion moves alone…
Mind
Hints
Shadows of success, shadows of Happiness
Love is the answer
Mystery of Oneness
Murder by selfish desire
Stream of Life
Faith, Hope, Love… maze of definitions
The Lie of Principle
Effort
Information and happiness
Meditation
The Final Step to Freedom
by Lester Levenson
About the Author
All things are perfectly resolved in Loving mind

The Lion moves alone…

An inspiring atmosphere of Egypt, created by friendly people, warm weather and
blue waters of the Red Sea, blended with ever moving fiery barchans of Sahara
Desert was responsible for this book. The purpose of this book is to provide
some hints on pursuing true Happiness of Freedom. There is only one condition
necessary to succeed. Your limited mind (“my mind”) will have to be educated,
so that it gets unlimited and illuminated with the wisdom of self: which is mind
of true Love. True Love (with a capital “L”) is loving kindness, compassion,
understanding and acceptance. It is our essence and is at the root of every
human experience of love.

People do all kind of things, believing it will set them free. They study
teachings, pray, fast, torture their bodies with various ascetic practices, some
even deform their skulls, others never bathe, yet others confine themselves in
caves or monasteries, force themselves into celibacy… As with anything else,
there is no end to the mind’s ingenuity in its quest for Freedom. Yet there is no
way to freedom, for you can’t get from here to here, you have always been
“here”. All that needs to be done is for you to leave behind everything that was
never yours.
If you cannot do it, then you need to educate “my mind”, which can be done in a
disciplined environment of your home. Loving mind is mind freed from the
influence of all concepts, beliefs and convictions, it is free of selfishness, and
thusly it abides in its natural state of Love.

All things are perfectly resolved in the Loving mind, it is just another way of
saying that when our “limited mind” is educated and aware, it becomes almost
unlimited, wholesome, and it perfectly resolves almost every matter.

Revelations come from what is known as the mind of Love and wisdom that and
has direct access to Pure mind/Infinite Intelligence. Pure mind/Infinite
Intelligence is an enigma. You may experience Infinite Intelligence when in a
deep meditation as Samadhi where only awareness exists. But this is only a hint
of Infinite Intelligence. You may also experience some glimpses of Infinite
Intelligence as result of an intense transformation process of the past into Love
and these hints are still your mind when it is free from limitations.

The above experiences infinitely beneficial, as they change one’s life for better,
Infinite Intelligence is incomparably greater than a mind that is simply free from
limitations, just as Love is incomparably greater than its attributes of
compassion, kindness and acceptance. Through the history of theology, it was
only one man, Buddha, who came to realize and teach Infinite Intelligence that
he called Emptiness.

“Emptiness” is a better term, yet, in today’s world, the term “Infinite
Intelligence” could be more acceptable. In a thousand years, there will be no
need for terms, as humanity will have wordless comprehension of what Infinite
Intelligence is. Whatever our mind may think of, Infinite Intelligence is not. It
doesn’t have any qualities. It doesn’t think, help, judge, reward or punish.
Humanity is left entirely to its own. You may choose to be another Hitler, Bush,
Ghandi or a beggar… it is entirely up to you.

Infinite Intelligence simply is. It is beyond description. It is neither in the
material nor spiritual realm, but is just another mystery waiting to be explained
by science. Today, many scientists believe this Universe, an amazing precision
of our Solar system happened because of the some yet unknown Intelligence has
“programed” the Big Bang.

From ancient Vedas and Upanishads to Buddha to contemporary religions that
fashioned their gods based on what has been truly known to only a handful of
self-realized humans, we have been told about some incredible “reality”. We
have been pointed to ‘Nothingness’ by the Buddha, to ‘No mind’ by Zen masters
and to ‘No-thingness’ (as Osho have coined the word), which they intuitively
comprehended as the realm that gave birth to Creation and sustaining it ever
since: Infinite Intelligence.

An arguing mind would will not consider this notion, because it is driven by
what it is conditioned: endless concepts and dogmas, with an inability to
transcend. Ignorance will eventually disappear; this process is already gaining
speed aided by the science and information technologies, by progress. I expect it
to be no more than 1000 years to disappear, which is nothing comparing to the
infinity of existence � .

A loving mind is the mind of wisdom. It is beyond dreamland’s limitations; it
moves freely. This freedom allows it to penetrate Life’s mysteries. The mind of
wisdom has seen through many of Life’s mysteries that later were “discovered”
by the science. The Infinite Intelligence is just a few steps away from also being
scientifically discovered.

Life is a journey. It is not reaching some destination, it is not a goal. Traveling
while being led by Love is the goal. This is the only way to live, for it is a life of
true Happiness, an ultimate expression of Life, where all things are perfectly
resolved. (True Happiness (with a capital ‘H’) is a permanent peaceful state
where the mind is free from negativity and true Love is its leader). Without
Love life is a wheel of desire, hope, disappointment, and suffering, with smiles
displayed on television screens, billboards and websites.

First comes desire, it is followed by hope, by disappointment and suffering; then
comes search. Search discovers love, and love becomes Love. With Love comes
the simplicity of being in the “now” and joy that melts down selfish desires.
Your mind is educated when your past is transformed into Love. When it
happens, Love becomes the leader, and the educated, aware mind follows its
silent intuitive lead.

One day, all intellectual wisdom that was so helpful in the process of the search,
releasing, teachings… will culminate in an awakening, and from this point on,
our knowledge will come from within. This experience will become ever deeper,
more profound, and there will be no end to this experiencing. To the outsider,
you are almost the same, but never again will you be able to find the old you.
With this new understanding you keep traveling. Your life of suffering has
become a life of Happiness. This is the Journey.
Desire is the thought of doing, acquiring, or experiencing something in a
dreamland, which is in the opposite direction from inner reality. Desire is always
supported by emotions. Hunger, sex, sleep and other natural bodily demands are
not desires. Humans are forever living in a dream-world of desire and suffering.
Sickness, sorrow, pain, grief, distress, despair and aging, etc., is suffering. Not
being able to obtain what one wants is also suffering. Desire causes suffering.
Ignorance causes suffering. When there is no more ignorance, no more desire,
there is no suffering. A way that leads to a life of no suffering is a way of an
“educated mind,” the way of Love.

For in and out, above, about, below,
This is nothing but a magic shadow-show