I often complain about the scarcity and relative lack of influence of liberal Muslim groups. Nevertheless, they exist, and secularists and infidels should hope that they get stronger. They are natural allies. For example, the mission statement of the Muslim Canadian Congress expresses liberal-minded convictions that any secularist can celebrate.

I point out such organizations especially because lately I have often run into the sentiment that liberal religion is merely a weak-kneed cover for more fundamentalist faiths. Well, not really. Life is complicated, so sometimes liberal religion does excuse the nastier variety of faith-based attitudes. But by and large, liberal religious people are politically closer to nonbelievers.

Note that I do not say that liberal supernatural belief is intellectually respectable. Gentle gods are as fictional as the celestial tyrants of fundamentalists. Humane reintepretations of scriptures do not lessen the absurdity of the notion of revealed truths. But in the end, liberals are content to leave our disagreements over the gods as intellectual disagreements. They don’t want everyone to live under religious laws, they don’t want to silence me because criticism insults religion, and they prefer confessional matters not to directly affect public life. They do not want to live under the thumb of priests and mullahs any more than I do. For a political alliance, that is more than enough.

People often show me books and ask ‘what do you think about this book?”  And I say “Not worth reading.”  And then they say “Kip is very opiniated about most books.”  But didn’t they ask my opinion?

 Words are only here to point.  So much said about absolutely nothing.  A whole book written about nothing and how I attained nothing.  Still, spritual teachers keep writing them and spiritual seekers keep reading them.  Looking to get something, learn something, attain something.  Discuss it with their friends about the latest path to enlightenment.

 I am going to write a spiritual book.  I will give you the whole print of it right now for free.  And I am not making fun of these books.  But here’s my book.  The title is “Shut up.”

When you open it up it says “Sit down, close your eyes and shut up.”

Then that’s it.  You pay 15 bucks.  If you want more you can read the second book, it’s called “Why haven’t You Shut Up?”

 Because you exist as mind.  And so you try to seek freedom from mind from the perspective of mind.  But it is mind you are trying to be free from.  You are trying to get out of the constant noise that you keep identifying with.  At some point, you have to simply close your eyes and be still.  Then the journey starts.  It starts here and ends here. 

Truly, it is not about shutting up.  But that is what eventually happens.  Your only move is to be still and experience what is here, without getting caught up in mind.  Thoughts can arise, visions can arise, sounds can arise, emotions can arise, sensations can arise,

yet you remain here, in this moment, as this moment.  You remain as awareness itself.

First you might be able to stay here for half a second.

Then 2 seconds and three seconds.

Then you will see, here is what you are.  That all of this coming and going chasing this thought and that feeling is just stress, insanity.  Waste of energy.  Yet here, there is the constant flow of energy.

 That is why I make music with the shaktipat sound technology to awaken this in you.  Because with music, you aren’t learning anything.  It is a tool to help you awaken, not more words to talk about awakening but to give you a direct experience of awakening. 

I am not here claim anything.  I am nothing.  God is everything.  Consciousness is everything.  I rest as the divine flow.  I can’t read books.  Simply too many words about what cannot be understood by the mind. 

I simply want to point.  Sit down, close your eyes, shut up and experience what is here in this moment.  Be aware of whatever is here in this moment.  Listen to the Calling www.bliss-music.com/thecalling.htm if you don’t have it already.  It will awaken this awareness in you.  Not that you are not that already.  But there is so much noise on top of it, awareness must be awaken, shaken up.

 I wish you much peace and silence.

 Blessings,

Kip