In the process of grieving
We are saying "Goodbye"
To a raft of personal experiences --
To a part of our self.
If you are grieving,
Release the past,
Let it be just as you now feel it to be,
Defined as it was then by your experience of it
And the quality of your relationship with that that experience.
Love that was lavished is never lost.
All you ever had of the lost loved-one
Was your experience of him/her,
And that lives on in you,
Along with the love that nurtured it.
Set that free now,
And feel free
To play with it any time you like.
It lives still
In you.
Let go of the Past
And use the energy released
Creatively in the Now
Any way you like.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
DEPRESSION
While it often feels like it --
Depression is not a lack of energy;
Quite the reverse.
Depression involves suppressing
Vast amounts of high emotional energy.
While I curled up in bed wishing the world would just go away,
Innuit were picking me up on CB in Alaska!
That's why it's so exhausting!
And the confusion is compounded by indecision and ignorance
About what to do with all that pent-up energy.
For a start,
Try celebrating
Whatever you think is causing your depression.
When you're stuck....
The way out usually lies hidden
Behind the very portal you won't look at.
Depression is not a lack of energy;
Quite the reverse.
Depression involves suppressing
Vast amounts of high emotional energy.
While I curled up in bed wishing the world would just go away,
Innuit were picking me up on CB in Alaska!
That's why it's so exhausting!
And the confusion is compounded by indecision and ignorance
About what to do with all that pent-up energy.
For a start,
Try celebrating
Whatever you think is causing your depression.
When you're stuck....
The way out usually lies hidden
Behind the very portal you won't look at.
CRISIS, STRESS, AND CHRONIC FATIGUE
CRISIS
Life is full of crises;
Get used to it.
But crisis doesn't have to be difficult or painful
Unless you insist upon it.
Crisis is nothing more
And nothing less
Than a "T" junction --
An opportunity and an invitation to try another way.
How you feel about that challenge is up to you.
And.......
How you see it will determine
Your next choices and decisions.
STRESS
Stress is the discomfort of being off-balance,
The tension between two Oughta's --
What Oughta Be -v- What Oughta Not-Be.
Stress is a sure sign of Resistance to the way things seem to be:
No resistance = no stress.
I'm not saying stress is bad -- or good for that matter,
But too much of it for too long can be detrimental to your well-being.
I have the scars to prove that.
Life is a balancing act,
And, as part of the game, it often conspires to knock us off-balance
For a very creative reason.
When the boat gets rocked
We're invited to shift our arse from a fixed and rigid, limiting point of view
And take the opportunity to re-structure our perception of reality.
Stress levels go through the roof
When we judge the feeling of being off-balance as "bad"
Instead of opting to engage with the crisis
We waste energy railing and reacting
Against whatever we deem to be "the cause" of our perturbation.
And the crises keep coming..........
Next time you catch yourself trying to fireproof yourself against the process of evolving,
Try, instead, surrendering and responding creatively to the rocking of the boat.
You have everything to gain,
Including freedom, flexibility, poise and mastery.
For the price of a little transitory discomfort,
That strikes me as a good deal
CHRONIC FATIGUE
The prize for ""life on the No's".
The inevitable result of chronic resistance.
Life is full of crises;
Get used to it.
But crisis doesn't have to be difficult or painful
Unless you insist upon it.
Crisis is nothing more
And nothing less
Than a "T" junction --
An opportunity and an invitation to try another way.
How you feel about that challenge is up to you.
And.......
How you see it will determine
Your next choices and decisions.
STRESS
Stress is the discomfort of being off-balance,
The tension between two Oughta's --
What Oughta Be -v- What Oughta Not-Be.
Stress is a sure sign of Resistance to the way things seem to be:
No resistance = no stress.
I'm not saying stress is bad -- or good for that matter,
But too much of it for too long can be detrimental to your well-being.
I have the scars to prove that.
Life is a balancing act,
And, as part of the game, it often conspires to knock us off-balance
For a very creative reason.
When the boat gets rocked
We're invited to shift our arse from a fixed and rigid, limiting point of view
And take the opportunity to re-structure our perception of reality.
Stress levels go through the roof
When we judge the feeling of being off-balance as "bad"
Instead of opting to engage with the crisis
We waste energy railing and reacting
Against whatever we deem to be "the cause" of our perturbation.
And the crises keep coming..........
Next time you catch yourself trying to fireproof yourself against the process of evolving,
Try, instead, surrendering and responding creatively to the rocking of the boat.
You have everything to gain,
Including freedom, flexibility, poise and mastery.
For the price of a little transitory discomfort,
That strikes me as a good deal
CHRONIC FATIGUE
The prize for ""life on the No's".
The inevitable result of chronic resistance.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
RELATIONSHIP -- A PARADOX
Freeing and Blessing...............
It strikes me there are basically only two ways to hold anything :--
- Limit the weight and space needed by what you want to hold; or
- Expand your self to contain what you want to hold.
Well, I've tried Option #1. many times over, with a lack of success that bordered at times on the "spectacular". What has your experience been?
Colin Hayes used to say: "If you want to hold on to something or someone, let her go. If it/she returns to you, she returns in freedom. If she doesn't return, she was never yours in the first place. You were kidding yourself."
The tighter our grasp, the less we can contain, the more damage we do to what we're holding, and the more exhausted we get.
Q. How can we contain anyone or anything that refuses to accept limitation?
A. Give it all the space it needs.
Open up
And find the space within
That will allow whatever is happening
To happen
Unconstrained by any urge to disapprove, limit or control.
Let go.... let go..... let go........
[Hint: You won't find that kind of space in your head.]
It's going to cost you dearly --
Your old limited, limiting, evaluating self.
You have to give that up
Forever.
Some lessons are tough.
The way back to heaven is simple
But no-one guarranteed it would be easy.
SEPARATENESS SAPS
Separation is tiring!
It saps energy from our awareness.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Social Consciousness.
When we rigidly identify with
Separating, defining social structures
(male/female; Catholic/Protestant; politically correct/incorrect; late/early; guilty/innocent......)
Social Consciousness gets sapped of its potential
For higher and finer evolution.
It gets bogged down in irrelevancies,
Opening the way for (social) dis-ease.
It saps energy from our awareness.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Social Consciousness.
When we rigidly identify with
Separating, defining social structures
(male/female; Catholic/Protestant; politically correct/incorrect; late/early; guilty/innocent......)
Social Consciousness gets sapped of its potential
For higher and finer evolution.
It gets bogged down in irrelevancies,
Opening the way for (social) dis-ease.
TRANSPARENCY
When I speak of being "available and transparent"
I'm referring to a particular perspective
That allows us to see
How the nature of energy changes
Commensurately with our ability
To be available to it
And present in it.
Everything is transformed --
The energy,
Our Self
And the world.
This is the mystery that the human mind cannot allow --
To change the world, become available and transparent to it.
Transparency is a perspective from which we see
That our thoughts, feelings and behaviours do not proscribe who or what we are;
They merely illuminate what we will and won't dissolve with.
The more we participate proactively with All-That-Is
And allow it to flow through unimpeded,
The more radiant and transparent we become......
Vulnerable and unassailable.
I'm referring to a particular perspective
That allows us to see
How the nature of energy changes
Commensurately with our ability
To be available to it
And present in it.
Everything is transformed --
The energy,
Our Self
And the world.
This is the mystery that the human mind cannot allow --
To change the world, become available and transparent to it.
Transparency is a perspective from which we see
That our thoughts, feelings and behaviours do not proscribe who or what we are;
They merely illuminate what we will and won't dissolve with.
The more we participate proactively with All-That-Is
And allow it to flow through unimpeded,
The more radiant and transparent we become......
Vulnerable and unassailable.
INNOCENCE
Innocence is neither naivety nor ignorance.
Innocence is child-like;
Naivety and ignorance are childish.
Ignorance and naivety are a repudiation
Of the availability of knowing.
Innocence knows,
But does not let its knowing prevent it
From meeting every moment
In wide-eyed, first-time freshness.
Innocence is child-like;
Naivety and ignorance are childish.
Ignorance and naivety are a repudiation
Of the availability of knowing.
Innocence knows,
But does not let its knowing prevent it
From meeting every moment
In wide-eyed, first-time freshness.
INDECISION
Indecision is Inertia with St.Vitus' Dance;
It can be either the static inertia of ennui,
Or the dynamic inertia of an unstoppable habit;
In either case it feels like we're being racked back and forth
Between polar opposites.
Indecision is a fit of spasmodic indetermination
That results in our temporary but total disconnection
From Opportunity and Potential.
Indecision is an outward and inward symptom
Of a conflict between two or more values
On your hierarchy of "What's Important to Me".
You are at cross-purposes with yourself,
Perhaps caught in eddies of "ifs", "buts" and "maybes",
That your mind has convinced you are "relevant" and "important".
The devil lies in that kind of detail.
If you're undecided, there's something you've forgotten,
Something you're unclear about,
And something you're not being honest about --
You've lost touch with your overriding life-choice:
There's something unacknowledged that is sabotaging you
And paralysing you.
You're spasmed onto conflicting needs
And contrary ways of getting them met.
Get clear of the crap.
Drop the "story".....
Let it go;
It's blinding you to the bloody obvious..
There's nothing in all your head-cranking that's worth losing your freedom and balance.
Take a deep breath or three.
Now.....
What are your needs here?
Write them down.
All of them. Censor nothing.
Which of your needs are not being fully met?
What, if anything, can you do to improve this situation?
What do you want?........
...Out of life?
...Out of this situation?
How will one get you the other?
What is your highest Choice?
Which alternatives are most closely aligned
To the kind of person you'd rather be in your own eyes?
Look at your list.
Which items best meet your long-term needs and values?
(If your needs aren't being met, you're of no earthly use to anyone else.
The last thing a stuck person needs is a "saviour" with baggage!)
CHOICES AND DECISIONS
We began life with many choices already made for us
And we adopted them as a matter of course
In order to survive.
We went along to get along.
Other choices naturally followed the channels already excavated --
Mostly flowing either totally unconsciously or
At best, informed by limited life experience.
This process is natural and common to every human being I've ever come across.
But choices previously made on shaky awareness
Never get reviewed:
Human minds are just not happy to do that.
In our teens, most of us rebelled
Against the growing feeling of entrapment.
We didn't know, of course,
The origin or nature of the feeling we'd been trapped,
Nor did we know that rebellion was just going to make it worse.
It takes a major, catastrophic crisis (usually later in life)
Before another inner voice (often needing the help of an aware counselor)
Ever rises to challenges the strident insistences of our ego
And questions the content and validity of default choices
That we don't ever remember having made.
We once blindly formed Choices
Which have long since taken over the job of forming us.
We no longer think them; they "think" us.
Decisions, on the other hand, are formed,
Moment-by-moment,
Usually in line with habit
And usually in the limited illumination
Of our blind, unchosen Choices.
Indecision is a wake-up call
To bring your Choices and Decisions out into the daylight
And really look
At what they are
And question "How well is this serving me?"
Wake up!.......
First get clear on what you want,
(And that may be harder than you think).
I'd love a dollar for every time I've asked someone
"What do you want?"
And got a blank, incredulous stare in response.
Having enunciated what you want,
If you're still undecided,
Make a decision.
It really doesn't matter which one,
As long as you know what you want.
Any decision will do
To release you from the hiccups
And the paralysis of will.
This isn't rocket science........
The antidote for Inaction is to Act.
The cure for Indecision is to Decide.
Drano for the spirit.
It can be either the static inertia of ennui,
Or the dynamic inertia of an unstoppable habit;
In either case it feels like we're being racked back and forth
Between polar opposites.
Indecision is a fit of spasmodic indetermination
That results in our temporary but total disconnection
From Opportunity and Potential.
Indecision is an outward and inward symptom
Of a conflict between two or more values
On your hierarchy of "What's Important to Me".
You are at cross-purposes with yourself,
Perhaps caught in eddies of "ifs", "buts" and "maybes",
That your mind has convinced you are "relevant" and "important".
The devil lies in that kind of detail.
If you're undecided, there's something you've forgotten,
Something you're unclear about,
And something you're not being honest about --
You've lost touch with your overriding life-choice:
There's something unacknowledged that is sabotaging you
And paralysing you.
You're spasmed onto conflicting needs
And contrary ways of getting them met.
Get clear of the crap.
Drop the "story".....
Let it go;
It's blinding you to the bloody obvious..
There's nothing in all your head-cranking that's worth losing your freedom and balance.
Take a deep breath or three.
Now.....
What are your needs here?
Write them down.
All of them. Censor nothing.
Which of your needs are not being fully met?
What, if anything, can you do to improve this situation?
What do you want?........
...Out of life?
...Out of this situation?
How will one get you the other?
What is your highest Choice?
Which alternatives are most closely aligned
To the kind of person you'd rather be in your own eyes?
Look at your list.
Which items best meet your long-term needs and values?
(If your needs aren't being met, you're of no earthly use to anyone else.
The last thing a stuck person needs is a "saviour" with baggage!)
CHOICES AND DECISIONS
We began life with many choices already made for us
And we adopted them as a matter of course
In order to survive.
We went along to get along.
Other choices naturally followed the channels already excavated --
Mostly flowing either totally unconsciously or
At best, informed by limited life experience.
This process is natural and common to every human being I've ever come across.
But choices previously made on shaky awareness
Never get reviewed:
Human minds are just not happy to do that.
In our teens, most of us rebelled
Against the growing feeling of entrapment.
We didn't know, of course,
The origin or nature of the feeling we'd been trapped,
Nor did we know that rebellion was just going to make it worse.
It takes a major, catastrophic crisis (usually later in life)
Before another inner voice (often needing the help of an aware counselor)
Ever rises to challenges the strident insistences of our ego
And questions the content and validity of default choices
That we don't ever remember having made.
We once blindly formed Choices
Which have long since taken over the job of forming us.
We no longer think them; they "think" us.
Decisions, on the other hand, are formed,
Moment-by-moment,
Usually in line with habit
And usually in the limited illumination
Of our blind, unchosen Choices.
Indecision is a wake-up call
To bring your Choices and Decisions out into the daylight
And really look
At what they are
And question "How well is this serving me?"
Wake up!.......
First get clear on what you want,
(And that may be harder than you think).
I'd love a dollar for every time I've asked someone
"What do you want?"
And got a blank, incredulous stare in response.
Having enunciated what you want,
If you're still undecided,
Make a decision.
It really doesn't matter which one,
As long as you know what you want.
Any decision will do
To release you from the hiccups
And the paralysis of will.
This isn't rocket science........
The antidote for Inaction is to Act.
The cure for Indecision is to Decide.
Drano for the spirit.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
A NEW ENGAGEMENT
The experience of being human
Is a process
Of a sentient being (you/me) interacting
Between matter
And conscious thought.
The quality of the thought(s) entertained
Has a lot to do with the quality of the interaction.
(High-frequency thought = high-quality experience;
Low-frequency thinking = low-quality experience)
Although we can only consciously notice one thing at a time,
Our awareness encompasses many levels at once
And our personal consciousness is always responding
To hidden forces
At many different levels of awareness.
I find this comforting
To know that transformation self-happens throughout the spectrum,
Without my having to keep tabs on it all.
The art (and fun) of being human
Lies in our ability (whether realised or not)
To participate in the interaction --
To exercise options
And alter our position in relation to the forces we're aware of,
Rather like the way a surfer "rides" waves.
The more wiling we become to engage with the conditions as they are,
And, with practice, the more adept we become at proactively surfing life creatively,
The more our experience transforms from one of suffering to one of exhilaration --
From hell to heaven.
We speak of the quality and the quantity,
The intensity and the amplitude,
The fineness or coarseness,
And the cycle and rhythm of the forces.
We respond with varying degrees of openness and closedness,
Fluidity and rigidity,
Balance and imbalance,
Awe and indifference,
Wisdom and naivety,
Strength and uncertainty,
Engagement and withholding --
Fluctuating in our capacity to participate.
Life in this new awareness
Goes 'way beyond the realm of mere understanding.
We are challenged to Participate proactively with our experience,
Unconditionally.
Knowing and wisdom will follow
As day follows night:
Without evaluation or judgment,
Without separation
Without comparisons
Without classification.
Participation with life as it is
Renewed afresh in each moment.
Is a process
Of a sentient being (you/me) interacting
Between matter
And conscious thought.
The quality of the thought(s) entertained
Has a lot to do with the quality of the interaction.
(High-frequency thought = high-quality experience;
Low-frequency thinking = low-quality experience)
Although we can only consciously notice one thing at a time,
Our awareness encompasses many levels at once
And our personal consciousness is always responding
To hidden forces
At many different levels of awareness.
I find this comforting
To know that transformation self-happens throughout the spectrum,
Without my having to keep tabs on it all.
The art (and fun) of being human
Lies in our ability (whether realised or not)
To participate in the interaction --
To exercise options
And alter our position in relation to the forces we're aware of,
Rather like the way a surfer "rides" waves.
The more wiling we become to engage with the conditions as they are,
And, with practice, the more adept we become at proactively surfing life creatively,
The more our experience transforms from one of suffering to one of exhilaration --
From hell to heaven.
We speak of the quality and the quantity,
The intensity and the amplitude,
The fineness or coarseness,
And the cycle and rhythm of the forces.
We respond with varying degrees of openness and closedness,
Fluidity and rigidity,
Balance and imbalance,
Awe and indifference,
Wisdom and naivety,
Strength and uncertainty,
Engagement and withholding --
Fluctuating in our capacity to participate.
Life in this new awareness
Goes 'way beyond the realm of mere understanding.
We are challenged to Participate proactively with our experience,
Unconditionally.
Knowing and wisdom will follow
As day follows night:
Without evaluation or judgment,
Without separation
Without comparisons
Without classification.
Participation with life as it is
Renewed afresh in each moment.
POSITIONALITY
Right/Wrong
Good/Bad;
Simple, convenient contrivances,
Righteous Positions taken by timid, judgmental minds
That forget............
Binary is for computers.
Inhuman and unnatural.
We are human --
Naturally.
Nothing is ever fully black nor white
For more than a nanosecond.
Good/Bad;
Simple, convenient contrivances,
Righteous Positions taken by timid, judgmental minds
That forget............
Binary is for computers.
Inhuman and unnatural.
We are human --
Naturally.
Nothing is ever fully black nor white
For more than a nanosecond.
WHO ARE YOU?
You are what you are......
Not what you think you are,
Or what you'd like others to think you are.
How do you find out who you are?
Look around you.......
Own all of what you see
And what you think and feel about that.
This is closer to the truth of it.
Tell the truth of that
At least to yourself.
And then there is more
Waiting to be realised.
Not what you think you are,
Or what you'd like others to think you are.
How do you find out who you are?
Look around you.......
Own all of what you see
And what you think and feel about that.
This is closer to the truth of it.
Tell the truth of that
At least to yourself.
And then there is more
Waiting to be realised.
Monday, May 10, 2010
UNDO UNTO....
Sometimes there is nothing to do.
Sometimes....
Doing interferes,
Blocking the natural process
Of everything ebbing and flowing in a state of flux,
Healing,
Maturing,
Changing,
Becoming into something else.
Sometimes.....
There is nothing to do
And everything to Be.
Doing can expand possibilities for us,
And sometimes......
Doing can have the opposite effect,
Diminishing our awareness and sensitivity to the flowingness and intrinsic happiness of life.
From inappropriate doing
We can get lost, frustrated and depressed.
Sometimes....
We just need to Un-do...Unto......
Sometimes....
Doing interferes,
Blocking the natural process
Of everything ebbing and flowing in a state of flux,
Healing,
Maturing,
Changing,
Becoming into something else.
Sometimes.....
There is nothing to do
And everything to Be.
Doing can expand possibilities for us,
And sometimes......
Doing can have the opposite effect,
Diminishing our awareness and sensitivity to the flowingness and intrinsic happiness of life.
From inappropriate doing
We can get lost, frustrated and depressed.
Sometimes....
We just need to Un-do...Unto......
WILLINGNESS & INTENTION
Your Intention always shows up.
Nothing can ever -- will ever -- show up in our life,
Without our Willingness.
Our Willingness is given direction and thrust
By our Intention.
Both Willingness and Intention can be active or passive,
Consciously directed, or unconsciously permitted.
Either way, nothing significant will ever show up without willingness and intention.
In a life lived with conscious Intent
Everything falls into place
(sometimes surprisingly perhaps)
But there are no accidents
For "accident" is the opposite of Intention,
Conscious or otherwise.
In a life committed to consciousness
Both masculine and feminine energies are evoked --
A masculine intention to grow beyond our perceived limitations,
Couple with a feminine surrender to engage with the power of Intuition.
What is your Intention for your life right now?
Not what you think it ought to be;
But what is it as it actually IS?
This question needs to be asked in three stages:
1) Firstly discover your pre-exisitng default, unconscious programming. That's easy -- look at what you've got. What is your fair dinkum here-and-now experience? Hmmm? Have you got a handle on it? Good. This is what you wanted. This is your Intention showing up. You may not have thought about it in this way; you may have thought your intention was something completely different. It really doesn't matter. Either way is OK This here/now is what you've got and this is where your prior intentions have brought you. Got it? Now, acknowledge it. You don't need to justify it -- just acknowledge that it is so; you cannot change what you do not acknowledge. It is pointless going to Step #2. until you have surrendered to the fact that you created what you've got, if for no other reason than to get you to this point, whether this is an experience of rapture, or one of divine dissatisfaction and crisis. Wake up!! The process is working. Celebrate this moment of choice and renewed Possibility.
2) Now what is your conscious Intention? If you can't think of it, make one up on the spot, here and now. Make up as many and as often as you like. Just remember though, once any intention is recognised, it is created. Any Intention that you find less than satisfactory, simply cancel it and replace it with something that serves you better.
3) Having formed an Intention, go deeply within with this question -- "Am I Willing to allow my Intention to show up? Am I willing to allow life to deliver the experiences and lessons I need so that my Intention can become my reality?" The answer to those questions will come, not as a "Yes" or "No" (that could be your ego talking), but as an inner letting-go, a releasing of your personal will-power in favour of All Will. It will be a quiet "Amen -- so be it."
Any ambition to seize control and power
And win glory in a battle of life
Is a sure-fire way to discover the backlash
Of All-That-Is.
In this moment of release and surrender,
All-That-Is conspires with you
In your Intention and Willingness --
In your Intention and Willingness --
Yours is the kingdom of heaven.
SENTIMENT
Sentiment is one of those very human warm-and-runnies
That comfortingly reassure us that, somewhere under our phony facade,
We have a kinder side.
But sentiment is a Clayton's emotion.
Sentimentalists are an emotional pushover,
Sentiment is for suckers......
Sentimentalists are an emotional pushover,
Sentiment is for suckers......
It has no place in Nature.
Anything that no longer serves us,
Including sentiment,
Must be ruthlessly discarded.
That is the process of evolution
And transformation.
Don't worry,
Without sentiment you won't become an impersonal humanoid,
You will acquire an emotional backbone
And become all things, all varieties, all kinds - omnifarious.
And become all things, all varieties, all kinds - omnifarious.
Sentiment will rebirth
As natural, genuine, effective Kindness
And single-hearted Compassion.
FROM TOOL TO TRAPDOOR
Tools have a use-by limitation.
For example --
Goal-setting gets us moving out of a state of lethargy,
But, in a heightened state of activity,
That busy-ness may limit the natural flow of abundance..........
Religion awakens an awareness of our spirituality,
But will eventually limit our access to God.
Tools become trapdoors
When we fail to appreciate the context
In which they were useful,
And we fail to notice when times have changed.
A caterpillar that will not give up the whole of its caterpillar-ness
Will never get to be a butterfly.
For example --
Goal-setting gets us moving out of a state of lethargy,
But, in a heightened state of activity,
That busy-ness may limit the natural flow of abundance..........
Religion awakens an awareness of our spirituality,
But will eventually limit our access to God.
Tools become trapdoors
When we fail to appreciate the context
In which they were useful,
And we fail to notice when times have changed.
A caterpillar that will not give up the whole of its caterpillar-ness
Will never get to be a butterfly.
Sunday, May 09, 2010
PERIPHERAL VISION
There's a lot going on around us that we never see because
We get so focussed in and narrowed-down
On our stuff!
We forget to check our peripheral vision --
A 165-degree lateral and 75-degree vertical panorama
Of unseen wonders
That are available at any time
Without even having to turn our head.
We were born (most of us) seeing everything at once,
Then we learned how to focus on details.
Later, we began editing, shutting out and de-focusing
As we homed in on what we classified as "important".
We got into an unfortunate habit of blinkering out the existence of
The bigger picture.
This degeneration can be reversed quite simply and easily
With just a little perseverance.........
As often as you remember,
Take a quick check of what's going on in the corners of your eyes;
Flick-scan around the edges.
You don't have to turn your head or shift your major focus
(Unless you find something there that piques your continuing interest).
Without moving your eyeballs,
Just flick your awareness briefly around
And check your "side mirrors";
Become aware again of the wider world
Within which your comedies and dramas are unfolding.
You'll be often amazed at what you discover
When you stop Looking
And allow yourself to See.
Try it now --
Look at this screen,
Really LOOK at it for 20 seconds.
Now mentally lean back and, without moving your eyes or head,
Allow yourself to see all that is in your whole field of vision.
Feel the difference?
Which is easier --
Concentrated Looking, or Open Seeing?
Click backwards and forwards;
Get used to consciously shifting the scope of your awareness.
Both looking and seeing have their unique contributions to make.
When you're comfortable with shifting your visual scope,
Experiment similarly with with your Listening and Hearing.
Then later, play with your senses of smell and touch.
You'll discover just how much you've been out-of-touch!
I have found
When you practice this simple discipline,
All manner of abilities and faculties will return for you --
You'll become more aware,
Safer in traffic,
More considerate in crowds,
Less likely to be caught off the hop,
More intuitive
And open to messages that come via less traditional means.
You''ll also re-awaken your engagement with the Third Dimension ==
Depth.
You can have 20/20 eyesight (albeit with glasses)
And remain blinkered and blind.
You can have 20/20 hearing
And be deaf to the world.
How sad, when all that's required
Is to reverse a limiting habit.
We get so focussed in and narrowed-down
On our stuff!
We forget to check our peripheral vision --
A 165-degree lateral and 75-degree vertical panorama
Of unseen wonders
That are available at any time
Without even having to turn our head.
We were born (most of us) seeing everything at once,
Then we learned how to focus on details.
Later, we began editing, shutting out and de-focusing
As we homed in on what we classified as "important".
We got into an unfortunate habit of blinkering out the existence of
The bigger picture.
This degeneration can be reversed quite simply and easily
With just a little perseverance.........
As often as you remember,
Take a quick check of what's going on in the corners of your eyes;
Flick-scan around the edges.
You don't have to turn your head or shift your major focus
(Unless you find something there that piques your continuing interest).
Without moving your eyeballs,
Just flick your awareness briefly around
And check your "side mirrors";
Become aware again of the wider world
Within which your comedies and dramas are unfolding.
You'll be often amazed at what you discover
When you stop Looking
And allow yourself to See.
Try it now --
Look at this screen,
Really LOOK at it for 20 seconds.
Now mentally lean back and, without moving your eyes or head,
Allow yourself to see all that is in your whole field of vision.
Feel the difference?
Which is easier --
Concentrated Looking, or Open Seeing?
Click backwards and forwards;
Get used to consciously shifting the scope of your awareness.
Both looking and seeing have their unique contributions to make.
When you're comfortable with shifting your visual scope,
Experiment similarly with with your Listening and Hearing.
Then later, play with your senses of smell and touch.
You'll discover just how much you've been out-of-touch!
I have found
When you practice this simple discipline,
All manner of abilities and faculties will return for you --
You'll become more aware,
Safer in traffic,
More considerate in crowds,
Less likely to be caught off the hop,
More intuitive
And open to messages that come via less traditional means.
You''ll also re-awaken your engagement with the Third Dimension ==
Depth.
You can have 20/20 eyesight (albeit with glasses)
And remain blinkered and blind.
You can have 20/20 hearing
And be deaf to the world.
How sad, when all that's required
Is to reverse a limiting habit.
Friday, May 07, 2010
SWEARING
As a tool of last resort.......
Thank God for foul language:
Sometimes its the only way of getting through to some thicksters,
And of saying exactly what I feel!
I feel utterly gratified,
And it's so f***ing effective!!
Compulsively P.C., polite ponces don't know what they're missing out on.
Thank God for foul language:
Sometimes its the only way of getting through to some thicksters,
And of saying exactly what I feel!
I feel utterly gratified,
And it's so f***ing effective!!
Compulsively P.C., polite ponces don't know what they're missing out on.
TOOLS OF LAST RESORT
In negotiating --
The only problem I have with tools of last resort,
Is that I'm tempted to use them first......
Especially with teenagers
And old crones with attitude.
The only problem I have with tools of last resort,
Is that I'm tempted to use them first......
Especially with teenagers
And old crones with attitude.
OUT OF CONTEXT
A claw hammer --
Very handy thing to have if you're building a house,
But not of much use in brain surgery.
Similarly, a bazooka is an extremely effective firearm,
Unless you're hunting a rabbit for food........
Context determines appropriateness.
Very handy thing to have if you're building a house,
But not of much use in brain surgery.
Similarly, a bazooka is an extremely effective firearm,
Unless you're hunting a rabbit for food........
Context determines appropriateness.
HOW "I" SEES IT.....
I find it much easier to handle Uncertainty when I see it instead as Possibility;
Fear, when I can see it as Excitement and an Anticipation of Adventure;
Boredom, when I look at it as Anger that I don't think I have a right to;
Anger, when I experience it as a Passion for something valuable;
Distrust, when I choose to see it as Carefulness;
Stupidity, when I take away the criticism and see it as Innocence.
Emptiness, when I can see it as a disguise for Unlimited Possibility;
It's the critical labels and judgments we pin onto what's going on
That affect the way we see it.
How we choose to see what's happening
Presents the problems we might have in engaging creatively with it.
The pin-ons are often more a matter of habit than of fact.
We have to step in consciously at some point
And choose to look at it from a different point of view --
Not because the new way is necessarily "right",
But just to get free of an old habit
That's no longer working for us --
If it ever did.
When we change the way we see,
We change what we see,
And that changes everything.
Fear, when I can see it as Excitement and an Anticipation of Adventure;
Boredom, when I look at it as Anger that I don't think I have a right to;
Anger, when I experience it as a Passion for something valuable;
Distrust, when I choose to see it as Carefulness;
Stupidity, when I take away the criticism and see it as Innocence.
Emptiness, when I can see it as a disguise for Unlimited Possibility;
It's the critical labels and judgments we pin onto what's going on
That affect the way we see it.
How we choose to see what's happening
Presents the problems we might have in engaging creatively with it.
The pin-ons are often more a matter of habit than of fact.
We have to step in consciously at some point
And choose to look at it from a different point of view --
Not because the new way is necessarily "right",
But just to get free of an old habit
That's no longer working for us --
If it ever did.
When we change the way we see,
We change what we see,
And that changes everything.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
BEING IN THE FLOW
In the daily churn of living
I'm constantly being grabbed by a "sane" need
To get a handle on what's going on,
To grab a hold of something stationary,
To get my bearings,
To find my feet.
These urges feel like remnants of old needs to understand,
Control the hurtle,
And have it my way.
Meanwhile, the tide races on,
And I get swept off-balance once again,
Pitching head-first into the swirl.
I have to keep on re-minding myself
That life is in the water,
That the journey is in the Flow.
The rocks promise a refuge,
But if we tarry too long
We get caught-up
And stuck
I'm constantly being grabbed by a "sane" need
To get a handle on what's going on,
To grab a hold of something stationary,
To get my bearings,
To find my feet.
These urges feel like remnants of old needs to understand,
Control the hurtle,
And have it my way.
Meanwhile, the tide races on,
And I get swept off-balance once again,
Pitching head-first into the swirl.
I have to keep on re-minding myself
That life is in the water,
That the journey is in the Flow.
The rocks promise a refuge,
But if we tarry too long
We get caught-up
And stuck
MY ASSUMPTIONS
Thank you for almost always being wrong.
You remind me
I know bugger-all about most things
And a helluva lot about nothing.
That reminder puts my ego in his place --
The back-office mailroom.
You remind me
I know bugger-all about most things
And a helluva lot about nothing.
That reminder puts my ego in his place --
The back-office mailroom.
THE FUTURE
You are a lot less scary when I realise that you're just a figment of my imagination.
If you ever change your mind and become The Present.,
We'll get together.
If you ever change your mind and become The Present.,
We'll get together.
TO CONTRADICTIONS, PARADOXES AND MYSTERIES....
Thank you for reminding me that there are some things that I'll never be able to figure out with my mind.
CHANGE THE WORLD
Do you want to change the world in some way?
Good luck!
Already you are opposing something the way that it is,
Creating a "You -v- It" duality.
By so doing, you certainly intensify your sense of "I",
But you also focus on, and empower the very dynamic you want to change.
We've tried Change by Opposing and Imposing......... haven't we?
We've assumed for eons that to be happy,
We have to get the world working our way.
That hasn't worked,
Either for us or for The World.
Perhaps we've got it back-to-front;
Maybe a world that works
Begins with your world working for you,
And my world working for me.
Try this instead ---
Before you attempt to make the rest of The World work the way you think it should,
First get your world working for you.
Fall into the centre of your self
And, from there, take a fresh look at what already is.
Then Create that to be
Exactly as it is
Now.
You can do that, can't you?
If that sounds silly, look again --
Don't we all go around finding things to be unhappy with?
Stumbling across things that aren't "quite right" --
Your partner's mood over breakfast,
The morning traffic,
The weather ----
We spend precious little time actively creating or finding things to be happy about.
And that's a matter for choosing.
All creating begins with Choosing What-Is.
(This is the step we usually skip)
You will never be able to create anything else
Until you can first successfully and comfortably create what-is.
What-is so, for any of us, is whatever we choose to see,
And however we choose to see it.
Whatever you choose to see, however you choose to see it --
That is What-Is for you.
Create it to be this way.
When you're ready
Without attempting in any way to change the reality of how it is
Change your perception of how it is.
See it another way.
For no-one else but yourself
And for no reason other than your own freedom:
Find another perspective on it.
On a crowded commuter train one morning, 3 young children were creating minor mayhem and considerable annoyance amongst the commuters. They were pushing through the throng, thoughtlessly shoving and upsetting people, and inappropriately yelling and squealing at the top of their lungs. Their father was sitting quietly near one of the doors, seemingly oblivious to everything around him and his children's disruptive behaviour. At a station stop, one gentleman could stand it no longer. He called out to the man -- "Hey! Will you please ask your children to behave themselves! They are creating a nuisance!" Some of the other passengers nodded, one or two muttered "Hear, hear!" The man looked up, and seemed to come back to the present. He called his children to him. Then he addressed the other passengers -- "I apologise," he said huskily. "We have been up all night at the hospital. My wife died this morning, and I guess they're having trouble coming to terms with that. To be honest, so am I."
The carriage fell silent.
Nothing had changed, but something profound had shifted.
When you change your perception of what-is
You change your experience and your reality of what-is.
When enough people change what-is for themselves,
And create that to be so,
What-is changes
Without bloodshed.
I cannot explain how that happens,
But it does.
I have seen it.
Good luck!
Already you are opposing something the way that it is,
Creating a "You -v- It" duality.
By so doing, you certainly intensify your sense of "I",
But you also focus on, and empower the very dynamic you want to change.
We've tried Change by Opposing and Imposing......... haven't we?
We've assumed for eons that to be happy,
We have to get the world working our way.
That hasn't worked,
Either for us or for The World.
Perhaps we've got it back-to-front;
Maybe a world that works
Begins with your world working for you,
And my world working for me.
Try this instead ---
Before you attempt to make the rest of The World work the way you think it should,
First get your world working for you.
Fall into the centre of your self
And, from there, take a fresh look at what already is.
Then Create that to be
Exactly as it is
Now.
You can do that, can't you?
If that sounds silly, look again --
Don't we all go around finding things to be unhappy with?
Stumbling across things that aren't "quite right" --
Your partner's mood over breakfast,
The morning traffic,
The weather ----
We spend precious little time actively creating or finding things to be happy about.
And that's a matter for choosing.
All creating begins with Choosing What-Is.
(This is the step we usually skip)
You will never be able to create anything else
Until you can first successfully and comfortably create what-is.
What-is so, for any of us, is whatever we choose to see,
And however we choose to see it.
Whatever you choose to see, however you choose to see it --
That is What-Is for you.
Create it to be this way.
When you're ready
Without attempting in any way to change the reality of how it is
Change your perception of how it is.
See it another way.
For no-one else but yourself
And for no reason other than your own freedom:
Find another perspective on it.
On a crowded commuter train one morning, 3 young children were creating minor mayhem and considerable annoyance amongst the commuters. They were pushing through the throng, thoughtlessly shoving and upsetting people, and inappropriately yelling and squealing at the top of their lungs. Their father was sitting quietly near one of the doors, seemingly oblivious to everything around him and his children's disruptive behaviour. At a station stop, one gentleman could stand it no longer. He called out to the man -- "Hey! Will you please ask your children to behave themselves! They are creating a nuisance!" Some of the other passengers nodded, one or two muttered "Hear, hear!" The man looked up, and seemed to come back to the present. He called his children to him. Then he addressed the other passengers -- "I apologise," he said huskily. "We have been up all night at the hospital. My wife died this morning, and I guess they're having trouble coming to terms with that. To be honest, so am I."
The carriage fell silent.
Nothing had changed, but something profound had shifted.
When you change your perception of what-is
You change your experience and your reality of what-is.
When enough people change what-is for themselves,
And create that to be so,
What-is changes
Without bloodshed.
I cannot explain how that happens,
But it does.
I have seen it.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
A NEW KIND OF FREEDOM
What if.........
What if life is about living in this moment,
Whatever it might be,
Now
Spontaneous and vulnerable.?
What if it's not about Happiness
But about Waking Up?
What if it's not about Winning or Losing
But about Giving Up the struggle?
What if it's not about Success
But about Growing Up?
What if it's not about Competing
But about Creating?
What if it's not about Finding Your Feet
But about Riding the Rapids?
What if it's not about Solving the Problems of life
But about Living the Mysteries?
What if it's not about Growing Wiser and More Mature with age
But about Being Reborn every moment?
How do you feel about this kind of freedom?
Is it too much?
What if life is about living in this moment,
Whatever it might be,
Now
Spontaneous and vulnerable.?
What if it's not about Happiness
But about Waking Up?
What if it's not about Winning or Losing
But about Giving Up the struggle?
What if it's not about Success
But about Growing Up?
What if it's not about Competing
But about Creating?
What if it's not about Finding Your Feet
But about Riding the Rapids?
What if it's not about Solving the Problems of life
But about Living the Mysteries?
What if it's not about Growing Wiser and More Mature with age
But about Being Reborn every moment?
How do you feel about this kind of freedom?
Is it too much?
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
SIGNPOSTS TO SERENITY
- What is -- is. What ain't -- ain't. When What-is takes precedence over What-ain't, suffering ceases.
- Whatever happens -- happens. How you feel about it is up to you.
- You invested yourself in suffering in order to get some needs met. How's that working for you?
- There's nothing to get and, ultimately, you'll get it.
- Whichever road you take, you'll get to where you're going to.
- When you want what you've got, you'll always get what you want.
- The meaning of life is the process of living every moment itself, whatever that experience is for you.
- The key to Happiness is Gratitude. Ungrateful people are never happy. Grateful people are always happy. Hadn't you noticed?
- Attachment is the only cause of suffering. Resistance is an attachment. Need is an attachemnt. Addiction is an attachment. Whatever it is that's hurting you, whatever it is that you're attached to -- let it go. Nothing is worth this much pain.
- If it isn't joyful, it isn't useful.
- Most people would rather be "right" than happy. Is your righteousness worth what it's costing you?
- Are your resentments worth more than your freedom?
- Where you come from is where you're going to.
- Be yourself; everybody else is already taken
- No matter where you go, you'll always have to take You with you. Get to love what you've created.
- Uncertainty is a good sign of progress. There's no growth or nourishment in certainty.
- Serenity lies down the road of Mystery. Understanding is the booby-prize.
- What we don't know is available if you know how to ask.
- Experience is what we came here for. Which experience? The one you're having, and the ones you refuse to have. Get on with it. Others are waiting.
- There are no mistakes.
- You have every right to be here, and you are. Own the ground you stand on. Claim your space. What you do with the opportunity is up to you.
- You are much more than you think you are. More even than you can imagine. Can a caterpillar imagine itself as a butterfly?
- How you see the world says nothing about the world, but it proclaims loudly the state of your Awareness.
- Life is full of surprising twists and U-turns. Get used to the idea.
- Mastery begins with Acceptance.
- A soft, open hand gathers more goodies than a hard, clenched fist.
- If you continue to do what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got.
- Love your neighbour. You're looking into a mirror.
- If the teachers are in your face, you're ready for the lesson
- When you're ready for the lesson, the teachers will appear.
- We teach others how to treat us.
- You make yourself feel. No-one else on the planet makes you feel anything without your connivance
- You are the sole creator of your reality.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
FEEL INTO ME
Whatever we perceive, we are.
If there is anything we are not,
Then we could not see it (recognise it)
In anyone or anywhere else.
So whatever we recognise -- we are.
Become what you perceive;
Bring it on home where the perception belongs.
Be altogether
Together.
Whatever I see in you, I am.
Whatever you see in me, you are.
Own the reflections.
Just for a moment
Please don't try to communicate with me,
Or ask me to communicate with you.
For that presupposes some difference between us,
That you and I live only on opposite sides of some duality.
But maybe we can be closer than that --
More intimate;
Let's experiement
With Intimacy (Into-Me-See.)
Let's stop talking for a moment,
Let's not even touch.
If the honesty's too much,
We may not even look at each other for a while.
Let's stop communicating.
Let's just be with each other
And enter Communion
With each other and with the space surrounding that holds us both in its embrace.
Gently feel into me;
Feel me open up to you.
Let go into me
And allow me to let go into you.
Let's allow whatever arises to flow and ebb between us,
Without comment,
Unhindered.
Breathe.
Conspire.
This is Trust.
When communicating stops
Communion can begin.
We are one.
When we let-go into each other,
We allow the one-ness
That is.
If there is anything we are not,
Then we could not see it (recognise it)
In anyone or anywhere else.
So whatever we recognise -- we are.
Become what you perceive;
Bring it on home where the perception belongs.
Be altogether
Together.
Whatever I see in you, I am.
Whatever you see in me, you are.
Own the reflections.
Just for a moment
Please don't try to communicate with me,
Or ask me to communicate with you.
For that presupposes some difference between us,
That you and I live only on opposite sides of some duality.
But maybe we can be closer than that --
More intimate;
Let's experiement
With Intimacy (Into-Me-See.)
Let's stop talking for a moment,
Let's not even touch.
If the honesty's too much,
We may not even look at each other for a while.
Let's stop communicating.
Let's just be with each other
And enter Communion
With each other and with the space surrounding that holds us both in its embrace.
Gently feel into me;
Feel me open up to you.
Let go into me
And allow me to let go into you.
Let's allow whatever arises to flow and ebb between us,
Without comment,
Unhindered.
Breathe.
Conspire.
This is Trust.
When communicating stops
Communion can begin.
We are one.
When we let-go into each other,
We allow the one-ness
That is.
BLIND ARROGANCE
The blindest arrogance
Is to look at life from one favourite point of view,
Without allowing or exploring any alternatives.
Such arrogance finds it so hard to allow others
To see what they see
And to be as they are.
For the Bigots
There is only One Truth --
The source of all limitation.
They'd rather be right than alive.
Is to look at life from one favourite point of view,
Without allowing or exploring any alternatives.
Such arrogance finds it so hard to allow others
To see what they see
And to be as they are.
For the Bigots
There is only One Truth --
The source of all limitation.
They'd rather be right than alive.
OUR MOST LIMITING ADDICTIONS
Pleasure & Gratification
Favourite Emotions
Fulfillment
Control
Growth & Enlightenment
Purpose, Significance & Meaning
Connection
Acceptance By Others
Freedom from Addiction.
Do you notice something?
Most of our addictions can be traced back to basic human needs that have bolted out of perspective.
We have Needs;
We have Desires;
We have Preferences
But we don't have Addictions.......
Addictions have us.
TAKE WHAT YOU GET.....
There are certain things about ourself that we don't like. Right?
So we emotionally reject our "stuff"
And go searching for something more, something better, and/or something different,
Leaving the old stuff behind,
Buried where we won't have to look at it any longer.
What was it for you?
For me the coffin contained anger, frustration, resentment,
Boredom, jealousy,
Grief, hurt, anxiety and fear.
Quite a pile!
BUT
The journey kept bringing me back full-circle to the gravesite,
To find that some dog had dug it all up while I was away.
There it sat,
And there some of it is still,
Waiting to be integrated with all that I have learned along the way.
It is not until we at least begin to integrate and embrace the old
That enlightenment can possibly occur.
Are you in a job or a relationship that has lost its magic?
Do you want to quit?
Naturally! I can relate with that.
But if you quit while you're disenchanted,
You're just going to go out and create another just like it.
I'm not saying "Don't quit."
Some relationships and situations are toxic
And we need to get away.
But you must earn your exit....
Before you quit
Look at the stuff -- your stuff --
That killed off the magic.
It will be lying around just under your nose.
What is it that you tell yourself is wrong about this relationship, this situation?
What is it that you get to be right about by creating this situation to be the way that it is for you right now?
What are you telling yourself your partner is? Your boss is? The situation is?
What are you telling yourself that You Are?
Whatever is wrong about the way your partner is,
Whatever is wrong about the way your job is,
Whatever is wrong about the way your situation is......
Those are not The Problem;
The problem, for you, is that you don't think you can handle them being that way without getting upset about it.
That's your problem;
And that's all you have to deal with.
Fortunately.
(If your partner, boss or situation has to change for your life to get better, you may be well and truly fucked)
And.....
If you don't clean your stuff up before you quit,
You're going to take it all with you into the next relationship/job/situation.
Have a look at this possibility..........
This relationship,
This job,
This situation that is bugging the crap out of you
Is offering you the insight and the opportunity
To discover the crap you need to clean up.
Who knows?
When you clean up your stuff,
Maybe the situation won't be like you thought it was.
And even if it is,
You can break clean.
And that's the good news.
You might like to look at the possibility of being grateful
For the opportunity this situation is giving you
To get out of the rut you're in.
No, I haven't lost my marbles --
Gratitude for What-Is, if you can allow it in, is the magic ingredient "X"
That will transform you life!
If you can't find gratitude for the situation just now,
Don't worry;
You can still do it.
But gratitude makes the job so much easier.
So we emotionally reject our "stuff"
And go searching for something more, something better, and/or something different,
Leaving the old stuff behind,
Buried where we won't have to look at it any longer.
What was it for you?
For me the coffin contained anger, frustration, resentment,
Boredom, jealousy,
Grief, hurt, anxiety and fear.
Quite a pile!
BUT
The journey kept bringing me back full-circle to the gravesite,
To find that some dog had dug it all up while I was away.
There it sat,
And there some of it is still,
Waiting to be integrated with all that I have learned along the way.
It is not until we at least begin to integrate and embrace the old
That enlightenment can possibly occur.
Are you in a job or a relationship that has lost its magic?
Do you want to quit?
Naturally! I can relate with that.
But if you quit while you're disenchanted,
You're just going to go out and create another just like it.
I'm not saying "Don't quit."
Some relationships and situations are toxic
And we need to get away.
But you must earn your exit....
Before you quit
Look at the stuff -- your stuff --
That killed off the magic.
It will be lying around just under your nose.
What is it that you tell yourself is wrong about this relationship, this situation?
What is it that you get to be right about by creating this situation to be the way that it is for you right now?
What are you telling yourself your partner is? Your boss is? The situation is?
What are you telling yourself that You Are?
Whatever is wrong about the way your partner is,
Whatever is wrong about the way your job is,
Whatever is wrong about the way your situation is......
Those are not The Problem;
The problem, for you, is that you don't think you can handle them being that way without getting upset about it.
That's your problem;
And that's all you have to deal with.
Fortunately.
(If your partner, boss or situation has to change for your life to get better, you may be well and truly fucked)
And.....
If you don't clean your stuff up before you quit,
You're going to take it all with you into the next relationship/job/situation.
Have a look at this possibility..........
This relationship,
This job,
This situation that is bugging the crap out of you
Is offering you the insight and the opportunity
To discover the crap you need to clean up.
Who knows?
When you clean up your stuff,
Maybe the situation won't be like you thought it was.
And even if it is,
You can break clean.
And that's the good news.
You might like to look at the possibility of being grateful
For the opportunity this situation is giving you
To get out of the rut you're in.
No, I haven't lost my marbles --
Gratitude for What-Is, if you can allow it in, is the magic ingredient "X"
That will transform you life!
If you can't find gratitude for the situation just now,
Don't worry;
You can still do it.
But gratitude makes the job so much easier.
Saturday, May 01, 2010
CHANGE & EVOLUTION
The weekly shopping is not one of my favourite chores,
The evidence of Evolution solely by Gradual Change
Least of all when I get home and, try as I might, cannot add everything into the freezer.
Eventually, I have to empty the whole thing out and start stacking from scratch.
Amazingly, when I've finished, there is ample space left over.
Your Life, whether you feel it's working for you or not,
Is already full to the point of choking.
Cramming in more desirable behaviours and disciplines
May gloss over the dysfunctional mess within,
But ultimately they're also adding to the chaos.
To change the metaphor,
Adding desirable or deleting undesirable characteristics
Is already full to the point of choking.
Cramming in more desirable behaviours and disciplines
May gloss over the dysfunctional mess within,
But ultimately they're also adding to the chaos.
To change the metaphor,
Adding desirable or deleting undesirable characteristics
Does no more to transform life
Than do alterations, or extensions to a house.
Sometimes of course, change is enough;
But there comes a time, after years of modifications,
When the house becomes an architectural and functional nightmare
Of lean-to's, additions and work-arounds.
But we won't let go of it.
We're too emotionally attached to the dysfunctional slum we've created.
But we won't let go of it.
We're too emotionally attached to the dysfunctional slum we've created.
Usually it takes a new owner --
Someone without any sentimental attachment to admit the obvious,
Someone without any sentimental attachment to admit the obvious,
Bulldoze the mess to the ground,
And start over.
So it is with our own lives.
We retain sentimental attachments to parts of our life
That ceased to work for us long ago.
Transformation is called for,
Meaning that we must emotionally detach, empty out and die to old ways of being
And create completely anew.
Look at the process of Evolution.
Change is not the sole feature of evolution.
Change is not the sole feature of evolution.
If gradual change was the only process on offer
We'd still be living in caves, but maybe better ones
Illuminated and ventilated by burrowed chimneys,
Illuminated and ventilated by burrowed chimneys,
And still subsisting on raw meat and vegetables.
The evidence of Evolution solely by Gradual Change
Is too full of holes -- "missing links".
Evolution is a game of gradual change AND a game of quantum leap-frogging --
Instant generational jumps to a new way of being
That leave the old behind
To die out.
Change is incremental and, frankly, cyclic --
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Change has a short-term place in the grand scheme of things -- and --
Transformation is the name of the game.
NOTHING TO WORK ON
I approached the transforming challenge thinking
That, rather like renovating a house,
All I'd have to do would be to whip up a to-do list
And fix my "problems" one by one -- eg. my relationships, my anger, my low self-esteem. etc. etc.
But we humans are not compartmentalised --
Human growth does not work like "fixing" the stove today, the refrigerator tomorrow, and the plumbing the day afterward:
Everything in the human condition, just like the rest of creation, is connected to everything else.
I can not work on my relationships without involving my self-esteem,
Nor deal with my anger without affecting just about every other area of my life.
When one area of life changes,
Everything changes,
In and around me.
And that's very good news --
If I had to turn my life around department-by-department,
I'd need a lot longer to do the job than my so-called "three score years and ten".
Furthermore, during transformation, the original "problem" becomes irrelevant
In a larger and deeper process of re-creating everything.
In truth,
I've found there is nothing to "work on",
Away from embracing it all and finding a deeper balance.
Our "problems" offer us an avenue, a way in, an access point
To break into the wheel of repetitive patterns
And open the treadmill up to discovery and transformation,
Providing an exit into the wide world of Possibility.
The trick is not to focus on "the problem".
Drop it.
Your problems are not The Problem:
Focusing on anything keeps you hooked into it.
Give your attention rather to a process of inspirating, becoming aware, allowing, conspiring
And integrating "the problems"
Into a greater level of Be-ing
In an atmosphere of reverence, trust, gratitude and love.
ALL OR NOTHING
We humans are almost universally and inexplicably addicted to the entertainment of low-frequency experience.
So inured to it are we that,
Faced with the possibility and challenge of transforming the very basis of all our experience,
We may encounter an overwhelming urge to flee, deny, suppress or blow-off an opportunity for up-leveling.
Oh, we're prepared to change all right!....
But only the bits we want to change.
The rest we want to hang onto --
"Don't touch that, that's me -- that's who I am!"
Change is incremental and, frankly, cyclic --
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Change has a short-term place in the grand scheme of things -- and --
Transformation is the name of the game.
NOTHING TO WORK ON
I approached the transforming challenge thinking
That, rather like renovating a house,
All I'd have to do would be to whip up a to-do list
And fix my "problems" one by one -- eg. my relationships, my anger, my low self-esteem. etc. etc.
But we humans are not compartmentalised --
Human growth does not work like "fixing" the stove today, the refrigerator tomorrow, and the plumbing the day afterward:
Everything in the human condition, just like the rest of creation, is connected to everything else.
I can not work on my relationships without involving my self-esteem,
Nor deal with my anger without affecting just about every other area of my life.
When one area of life changes,
Everything changes,
In and around me.
And that's very good news --
If I had to turn my life around department-by-department,
I'd need a lot longer to do the job than my so-called "three score years and ten".
Furthermore, during transformation, the original "problem" becomes irrelevant
In a larger and deeper process of re-creating everything.
In truth,
I've found there is nothing to "work on",
Away from embracing it all and finding a deeper balance.
Our "problems" offer us an avenue, a way in, an access point
To break into the wheel of repetitive patterns
And open the treadmill up to discovery and transformation,
Providing an exit into the wide world of Possibility.
The trick is not to focus on "the problem".
Drop it.
Your problems are not The Problem:
Focusing on anything keeps you hooked into it.
Give your attention rather to a process of inspirating, becoming aware, allowing, conspiring
And integrating "the problems"
Into a greater level of Be-ing
In an atmosphere of reverence, trust, gratitude and love.
ALL OR NOTHING
We humans are almost universally and inexplicably addicted to the entertainment of low-frequency experience.
So inured to it are we that,
Faced with the possibility and challenge of transforming the very basis of all our experience,
We may encounter an overwhelming urge to flee, deny, suppress or blow-off an opportunity for up-leveling.
Oh, we're prepared to change all right!....
But only the bits we want to change.
The rest we want to hang onto --
"Don't touch that, that's me -- that's who I am!"
Even the threat of having to give some things up feels like death.
Transformation doesn't work like that.
There's a Law of Life that goes --
Nothing will change.
When everything is up for change,
Life transforms.
How do you feel about that?
Hopeful, or fearful, or both?
Some changes are earth-shattering, some are subtle --
But transformation changes everything.
In transformation
Transformation doesn't work like that.
There's a Law of Life that goes --
When you give it all up,
You'll get it all back.
And everything is brand spanking New.
Unless everything is up for renewal,Nothing will change.
When everything is up for change,
Life transforms.
How do you feel about that?
Hopeful, or fearful, or both?
Some changes are earth-shattering, some are subtle --
But transformation changes everything.
In transformation
There is surrender, death, gestation, and rebirth to a new form
That does not even vaguely resemble the old.
We die, to be "born again".
And nothing changes.
We die, to be "born again".
And nothing changes.
HUMAN LIMITS
We are limited
By what we allow to define us --
Outdated values, principles, beliefs, concepts, goals,
Opinions --
(Our own, and those of others we allow to matter);
Ideas about, reactions to--
Self-images, expectations
Fears.
We will become only what our expectations allow.
No more than that.
To break free of any rut we may be in,
We need only work on ourselves --
And our self-imposed limitations.
By what we allow to define us --
Outdated values, principles, beliefs, concepts, goals,
Opinions --
(Our own, and those of others we allow to matter);
Ideas about, reactions to--
Self-images, expectations
Fears.
We will become only what our expectations allow.
No more than that.
To break free of any rut we may be in,
We need only work on ourselves --
And our self-imposed limitations.
THE SOURCE OF SUFFERING
We live perturbed lives
Because we use ego-identity as a reference point
And forget our divinity.
Looking our through a vast picture window,
We allow ourselves to be distracted
By our fingerprints on the glass.
We focus on smudges in the foreground
And lose sight of the view.
Because we use ego-identity as a reference point
And forget our divinity.
Looking our through a vast picture window,
We allow ourselves to be distracted
By our fingerprints on the glass.
We focus on smudges in the foreground
And lose sight of the view.
EXPERIENCE
Experience arises through the expansive Heart
Seeking to flower and flourish.
The frightened Mind, at best, trails behind,
Pretending it is in charge,
Taking notes, classifying,
Limited and limiting,
And ceaselessly carping and commentating.
The body enables the experience
And deals with the consequences.
Of the activities of both Heart and Mind.
Awareness watches it all
Without comment.
Seeking to flower and flourish.
The frightened Mind, at best, trails behind,
Pretending it is in charge,
Taking notes, classifying,
Limited and limiting,
And ceaselessly carping and commentating.
The body enables the experience
And deals with the consequences.
Of the activities of both Heart and Mind.
Awareness watches it all
Without comment.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
THE JOURNEY -- FROM HERE TO NOW
When I look back along a time-line of my life, I see that the whole journey for me has (so far) been circular. I started off realising with horror that my father and God (very closely related) might be right -- I might be a Nobody. So I struggled through decades of trying to be a Somebody, and now find myself arcing back to being No-thing, and discovering that "nothing" is another name for Infinite Possibility.
Nothing......
No thoughts that matter,
No feelings that matter,
No matter that matters.......
Just the Is-ness of being Empty-full.
I've just had open-heart surgery. Boy, oh boy! Does that return me to a state of nothing but the absolute immediacy of Now?!! There's no-where else to go! In the pain and confusion, there is no past that matters any more. There is no room for contemplating any future. My resources are fully committed to dealing with this moment. Everything, from a cough to a walk around the block, requires awareful choices and decisions, gathering of resources, and fully-focused love and attention. This is the absolute immediacy of life as-it-is.
I've also discovered something in the fine print about Goals. There was a time in the past when they helped be get off the arse of my ignorance and propel me into some kind of conscious authorship for and of my next moment. As a passive also-ran, I needed Goals -- rather like one needs all the prune juice one can swallow in order to get things moving after a heavy anaesthetic.
But there are riders to goals -- they must not be allowed to limit our thrust. Goals are only useful while they keep opening us up to New Possibilities and fresh lessons. If life takes us suddenly in another direction, we do well to drop the goals and make up some new ones. And don't get hung up on attaining our goals. Life as a human being is all about The Journey -- the destination will take care of itself, without any input from us, and there's bugger-all we can do about that. Heaven is not what we think it is, and is not a prize that has to be earned; it's where we came from and where we're bound. Hell is a man-made option that lies somewhere in between where we came from and where we're going to. Judgment Day, if we insist upon having one, is today!
Outside of our ego's individual me-ness, there is no judgment.
There is only Attention --
A presentness, availability and ever-deepening creative relationship with the Now.
Wherever we turn our attention, there is Creating,
And there is Love.
In this kind of fluid, flexible awareness
Notions of "success" and "feeling on top of it" become irrelevant.
When we become available and attentive to deep questioning,
We will always be brought to places that we do not know
And that we did not know that we don't know.
Attention will thus radically alter our relationship
With what we think we know.
And wasn't this how we were in the beginning?....
Before Innocence got confused with Ignorance
And we got pressured to grow up and get "knowledge".
I'll settle for Innocence over ignorance,
And for Knowing over knowledge.
Nothing......
No thoughts that matter,
No feelings that matter,
No matter that matters.......
Just the Is-ness of being Empty-full.
I've just had open-heart surgery. Boy, oh boy! Does that return me to a state of nothing but the absolute immediacy of Now?!! There's no-where else to go! In the pain and confusion, there is no past that matters any more. There is no room for contemplating any future. My resources are fully committed to dealing with this moment. Everything, from a cough to a walk around the block, requires awareful choices and decisions, gathering of resources, and fully-focused love and attention. This is the absolute immediacy of life as-it-is.
I've also discovered something in the fine print about Goals. There was a time in the past when they helped be get off the arse of my ignorance and propel me into some kind of conscious authorship for and of my next moment. As a passive also-ran, I needed Goals -- rather like one needs all the prune juice one can swallow in order to get things moving after a heavy anaesthetic.
But there are riders to goals -- they must not be allowed to limit our thrust. Goals are only useful while they keep opening us up to New Possibilities and fresh lessons. If life takes us suddenly in another direction, we do well to drop the goals and make up some new ones. And don't get hung up on attaining our goals. Life as a human being is all about The Journey -- the destination will take care of itself, without any input from us, and there's bugger-all we can do about that. Heaven is not what we think it is, and is not a prize that has to be earned; it's where we came from and where we're bound. Hell is a man-made option that lies somewhere in between where we came from and where we're going to. Judgment Day, if we insist upon having one, is today!
Outside of our ego's individual me-ness, there is no judgment.
There is only Attention --
A presentness, availability and ever-deepening creative relationship with the Now.
Wherever we turn our attention, there is Creating,
And there is Love.
In this kind of fluid, flexible awareness
Notions of "success" and "feeling on top of it" become irrelevant.
When we become available and attentive to deep questioning,
We will always be brought to places that we do not know
And that we did not know that we don't know.
Attention will thus radically alter our relationship
With what we think we know.
And wasn't this how we were in the beginning?....
Before Innocence got confused with Ignorance
And we got pressured to grow up and get "knowledge".
I'll settle for Innocence over ignorance,
And for Knowing over knowledge.
Monday, April 26, 2010
ABSORBING AND REFLECTING
A red rose absorbs all the colours of the spectrum, especially around the blue (faster) end of the vibration scale, and reflects its (slower) redness back to us, so that we see it as "red".
So we, as humans-being, absorb what we will
And reflect back upon others what we choose, unconsciously, not to absorb.
Similarly, we see others refracted
Through coloured spectacles of our own making and choosing.
If we see our world through "rose-coloured spectacles",
The reds will appear to be even redder,
And the blues will turn a drab grey, and may disappear altogether.
We decide.
Unconsciously.
When we were very, very young,
Without thinking about it,
We began filtering and colouring our experience
When we got frightened
To see, and be seen, as-is.
It was our way of protecting our selves.
But we got used to the hues and assumed that the world really is just as we now see it.
How good is the news
That we're mistaken about that??!
The filters we put over our seeing
Limit what we knowingly see.
Our unconscious filtering decides for us what it will allow us to see.
(And in our ignorance we're so sure we see all, just as it is!!)
Our past decisions now "decide" us:
We are now the unknowing, unwitting victims
Of our own limiting, filtering programming.
Become aware.
Remember that we do not see --
We think that we see,
And it is the "thinking about" that is the problem.
Awareness is enough.
Remember the filters....
In awareness, the filters will gradually dissolve
So that we can absorb more of it all
And see more clearly.
So we, as humans-being, absorb what we will
And reflect back upon others what we choose, unconsciously, not to absorb.
Similarly, we see others refracted
Through coloured spectacles of our own making and choosing.
If we see our world through "rose-coloured spectacles",
The reds will appear to be even redder,
And the blues will turn a drab grey, and may disappear altogether.
We decide.
Unconsciously.
When we were very, very young,
Without thinking about it,
We began filtering and colouring our experience
When we got frightened
To see, and be seen, as-is.
It was our way of protecting our selves.
But we got used to the hues and assumed that the world really is just as we now see it.
How good is the news
That we're mistaken about that??!
The filters we put over our seeing
Limit what we knowingly see.
Our unconscious filtering decides for us what it will allow us to see.
(And in our ignorance we're so sure we see all, just as it is!!)
Our past decisions now "decide" us:
We are now the unknowing, unwitting victims
Of our own limiting, filtering programming.
Become aware.
Remember that we do not see --
We think that we see,
And it is the "thinking about" that is the problem.
Awareness is enough.
Remember the filters....
In awareness, the filters will gradually dissolve
So that we can absorb more of it all
And see more clearly.
HONESTY
I've been spending some time lately on a dating site. There would hardly be a single profile that does not cite "Honesty" as an essential requirement in a prospective partner. That's hardly surprising.
But what is the writer's definition of "honesty"? And why has it become a "must-have" for the seeker? Is it because of past hurtful experiences of dishonesty? How seriously has the seeker looked "honestly" at her contributions to that past trauma. What work has she done to clean up the likelihood of creating/finding dishonesty in future partners? How aware is the seeker that:
There's some self-responsibility called for here. If someone has a belief that "Men/women/other people are dishonest and will betray me", then they're going to get to be right about that, sooner or later.
It's not my responsibility, or any other person's for that matter, to show up in their space and prove them wrong. In my experience it's near-futile. No matter how long we live together, there will never be an end to it. Sooner or later I will do, or neglect to do something that will be interpreted as being dishonest. Worse still, the harder I try NOT to be dishonest, the more likely I am to slip up.
When I lift the covers I find, in around 80% of respondees, that "honesty" equates to an absence of deceit. Well, that's OK as far as it goes, but it's a limited, passive perception of what it means to be honest. In my lexicon, Honesty is much more than a mere absence of dishonesty. Honesty embraces states of being like openness, forthrightness, self-awareness and a willingness to open up to new ways of seeing, scrutiny and discovery. Honesty goes beyond the facts of a situation to exploring all the truths that surround it. True honesty calls on traits like courage and a willingness to open up to every possibility and stand alone in your own light.
Honesty is more than mere "not-telling-lies". It is more than just "telling the truth". Honesty is a way of being, open to all truths, and acknowledging the truth of all those experiences. Honesty involves the ability to incorporate and embrace all truths comfortably inside ones own skin.
If you want honesty in your life, start by creating it. If you find yourself demanding honesty, there may well be some dishonesty going on in you about which you haven't yet faced the truth.
But what is the writer's definition of "honesty"? And why has it become a "must-have" for the seeker? Is it because of past hurtful experiences of dishonesty? How seriously has the seeker looked "honestly" at her contributions to that past trauma. What work has she done to clean up the likelihood of creating/finding dishonesty in future partners? How aware is the seeker that:
Whatever we resist will keep showing up in our face.
and.....
We always find what we're looking for.
and its corollary............
Whatever we've got we, maybe unconsciously, once put out for.
There's some self-responsibility called for here. If someone has a belief that "Men/women/other people are dishonest and will betray me", then they're going to get to be right about that, sooner or later.
It's not my responsibility, or any other person's for that matter, to show up in their space and prove them wrong. In my experience it's near-futile. No matter how long we live together, there will never be an end to it. Sooner or later I will do, or neglect to do something that will be interpreted as being dishonest. Worse still, the harder I try NOT to be dishonest, the more likely I am to slip up.
When I lift the covers I find, in around 80% of respondees, that "honesty" equates to an absence of deceit. Well, that's OK as far as it goes, but it's a limited, passive perception of what it means to be honest. In my lexicon, Honesty is much more than a mere absence of dishonesty. Honesty embraces states of being like openness, forthrightness, self-awareness and a willingness to open up to new ways of seeing, scrutiny and discovery. Honesty goes beyond the facts of a situation to exploring all the truths that surround it. True honesty calls on traits like courage and a willingness to open up to every possibility and stand alone in your own light.
Honesty is more than mere "not-telling-lies". It is more than just "telling the truth". Honesty is a way of being, open to all truths, and acknowledging the truth of all those experiences. Honesty involves the ability to incorporate and embrace all truths comfortably inside ones own skin.
If you want honesty in your life, start by creating it. If you find yourself demanding honesty, there may well be some dishonesty going on in you about which you haven't yet faced the truth.
Saturday, April 03, 2010
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
I place great store by first impressions
And none at all in snap judgments.
How do I tell the difference?
Until something better comes along, I rate what I get on two scales --
And none at all in snap judgments.
How do I tell the difference?
Until something better comes along, I rate what I get on two scales --
Feeling -----------------> Thinking
Maybe Possible -------------------------> Damn Right!
First Impressions generally hover around the left-hand end of each scale: Snap Judgments sit squarely on the right-hand end.
It's a guide, that's all.
SOVEREIGNTY -- NOTES ON AN EXPLORATION INTO........
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Why am I afraid
To let go of what is keeping me rooted to the spot,
To jump into space
And own my sovereign power?
SOVEREIGNTY SPEAKS ---
You are attracted to me,
But you are distracted by the route you must take to find me.
You look to me as a source of Power and Control,
But they are not what I am.
Somewhere deep inside, you know me,
But you are distracted by the route you must take to find me.
You look to me as a source of Power and Control,
But they are not what I am.
Somewhere deep inside, you know me,
Yet you are afraid that I am dangerous.
You think that if you come too close to me, "you" may disappear!
You are right.
But by losing who you think you are
You will discover what you truly are.
But your ego trembles --
From where you stand at this moment
You are right.
But by losing who you think you are
You will discover what you truly are.
But your ego trembles --
From where you stand at this moment
I seem like a bottomless abyss
And you are afraid that , if you come too close, you will be gone -- forever.
So, to be afraid of me is natural.
I am a Possibility for Being -- a no-thing,
And who, in ego, is not afraid of a no-thing?
It is a habit for you to fear me,
But you cannot escape me either.
Wherever you may run to, I will haunt you,
I will perturb you, even in your safest moments,
Just to remind you that your destiny still awaits
Beyond. where you are at this moment.
I look at you now and I see
A sovereign being..... creating......
Creating your Now experience.
If you now feel you are the victim of some circumstance or condition,
Remember that every sovereign is allowed to create whatever he/she wants,
Including bogeymen to frighten and enemies to challenge and chase him.
You are already Sovereign
But you do not realise it yet.
That is as it should be......
As a fish cannot "know" water until it is out of it --
Consider............. possibly ............
You are using your sovereignty to create an illusion of Not-Sovereignty,
So that you can come to know what you are -- Sovereignty
When you are ready,
Come close
And see What-Is.
You will find as you gaze into me
That you are looking deep into your self.
The "You" that you've always thought you are
Will disappear,
And your True Self will be there.
Let go.
Flow
Like a river that flows eventually into the ocean from which it once evaporated.
Yes, the river disappears and becomes the greater ocean.
In its essence, it is still the same watery stuff,
But its form is now different,
Greater,
And it has contributed to that "greater-ness".
Let go of your "smaller-ness"
And allow yourself to flow into the "greater-ness".
You will not be diminished. Far from it.
In truth, there is no going back;
How can a river go back upstream?
Does a river seek to return to its source?
How far back would it have to go?
What is the Source?
Is it the brook in the mountains that feeds it? Or is it the melting snow that feeds the brook? Or is it the winter snow and rain? Or the clouds that foster the rain?
Where does it begin?
There is no "source"
And every stage in the cycle is Source.
To return to the ocean is the river's destiny.
To be the ocean is its nature.
The river is the ocean becoming.
Let any fear and resistance be there
And go with the flow anyway.
A sovereign being knows how the condition of being human puts certain rules and limits on his/her divinity, and chooses to enjoy that game rather than get bent out of shape by it. He also knows that, whatever the prevailing weather conditions, the game goes on. He knows, too, that sometimes the game conspires to eradicate temporarily the memory of his Sovereignty. He is induced to think the game is "real", just to heighten the level of entertainment.
What are some of the Characteristics of our Sovereignty?
As children, we were originally Sovereign but we sold out on it in favour of getting some immediate needs met. We vaguely noticed at the time that something had gone, but we didn't realise what that was.
We had handed our personal sovereignty over to authority figures -- firstly our parents, and later -- people like teachers, priests, God, the school bully, parking police and bosses. We began to revere and fear the power we had given them, and even managed in some instances to feel threatened by it and guilty in its presence..
By pushing away our sovereignty, we put our selves at the mercy of capricious overlords with their own issues and axes to grind that have little or nothing to do with our welfare. We felt vulnerable to seemingly meaningless and destructive winds and currents of outrageous fortune.
That indeed was a fall from a state of grace
Looking at the state of Sovereignty from the bottom of the pit we've fallen into,
It's impossible to remember
And difficult to imagine what life might be like for a sovereign being.
We cannot visualise ourself in that place.
We're bound to feel threatened, or powerless, or resentful, or jealous, or guilty
In the presence of anyone who is sovereign in their power.
It never occurs to us --
a) that we once had what we now feel victimised by; and
b) that we can get it back.
BE WHAT YOU ARE
Sovereignty is not just for an elite few.
Sovereignty is everyone's birthright.
Reclaim your inheritance.
SOVEREIGNTY #101
So I thought anyway
The value of taking this way seemed obvious and, at the outset at least, I had many companions on the journey.
But along the way, the topography has changed.
The way now leads me more into an open, immediate relationship
With all that I am and all that is -- weaknesses, warts and all.
On top of that, I have to greet each day with a growing emptiness of not-knowing.
All that I thought I knew is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
In this place, despair occasionally lies nearby, just out of sight:
I turn to face it.
We nod an acknowledgment of familiar friends
And continue on our way.
As I venture through the Gate of Loneliness.
I find myself resisting loneliness,
Looking around to see if anyone else is taking the same steps
Looking for confirmation from others,
Looking for Approval, Reassurance and Recognition,
So as to assure myself that I'm on the "right" track,
And that I'm not alone.
Eventually this, too, has to be surrendered:
The journey is no longer being made for anyone or for any purpose
Other than the journey itself.
I do not know,
Cannot know,
Nor need I know if this is the right way.
I'm still supported by a few true friends and relatives.
They cannot know what I'm going through
But they love me enough to hover nearby anyway,
Knowing that their company is important to me.
Alone in company I walk on,
Yielding to the fullness of my Unknowing.
To be Sovereign
We have no choice but to stand
Naked and defenceless in our own light,
Yet in rapport with all that is.
There is nowhere left to turn aside
For we are enveloped by Is-ness.
Sovereignty is a state of integrity so demanding
That when anxiety and despair occasionally come to sup with us, we ask in anguish and radiance --
"Why this? Why me? How did I get here? Is this where I'm supposed to be?"
There is no answer to that.
Just the awesome silence of What-Is.
At this point the roller-coaster has broached the crest;
Gravity has taken over;
We have passed beyond the place of choosing either for or against.
Living solely from the immediacy of this experience here/now,
Without any props of past ex --perience or future assurances to sustain us,
We are no longer able to act from any conviction of being "right".
Even the old crutches of hopes, visions and fantasies
Crumble to dust.
Even they are a rejection of the omnipotent, omnipresent Is-ness.
In Mastery we engage with life, meeting it on its own terms;
In Control, we disengage from life and separate ourself from it and the source of all being.
A sovereign being truly sees
That he/she has never been in control.
In Surrender he finds Integrity.
CHOICE AND CHOOSING
A lifetime of choosing is leading to Choice-less-ness.
Having committed to live a life of awareful integrity,
It came as a bit of a surprise to discover
That my only other creative choice
Is whether or not to choose that I have no choice.
We are invited to surrender to a fundamentally wiser process
That is organising the flow and direction of all life.
This wiser intelligence cannot be demonstrated nor proven,
But becomes miraculously real to us when we surrender
To choicelessness.
Without that surrender, ego keeps dancing distractedly around on the spot,
Blocking the view.
To choose Sovereignty acknowledges an inner realisation
That there will come a time when we can no longer continue life on our terms;
The intelligent person surrenders willingly as soon as possible and gets on with living -
The stubborn person waits until he's forced by catastrophe or failing health and strength,
And resists dying, all the way to the grave.
There's more on offer in Life than not-dying.
The instant we surrender our ego to the flow of life,
Questions of Choice and Free Will fall away,
Subsumed by a feeling of one-ness with Life and Purpose in its deepest sense.
Sovereignty awaits us inside.
Hidden behind Choice awaits the infinte possibility of Choosing;
Hidden behind Free Will awaits the Freedom of All Will.
(The notion of "Free Will" is loaded with "Won't"s -- hadn't you noticed? The Freedom of All Will is that it says "Yes" to every possibility.")
Once surrendered, I found that life on MY terms had been severely limited
To what I could think of,
And what I could imagine.
No wonder then that life resembled a cracked record/cracked record/cracked record...........
The best that I could think about at the time
Brought me back time and time again
To struggle against crises and suffering.
Every time.
How about you?
When I finally gave up the struggle
And surrendered "my's" insistence that life turn out as I thought it should,
I began to discover how surprising and wonderful life can be.
When we stop pestering, interfering, controlling,
When we get out of the way and let life happen --
Life opens up to us.
Our choice is always
To choose the road that empowers, or the road that disempowers.
How do we tell the difference?
Discerning one from the other isn't as hard as it may seem.
One road looks safer; the other feels scarier:
One road looks "right"; the other sports a sign that says "Wrong Way -- Go Back".
Operating on the principle that "If I do what I've always done, I'll keep getting what I've always got",
I now usually choose the road less travelled --
The one that looks like the "wrong" way, the scarier of the two.
Ultimately, of course, it doesn't matter which branch you take --
You'll get to where you're going to whichever way you go.
But the fork less travelled is always far more interesting, revealing, and possibly quicker.
The Will we have to access to plunge deeper into Be-ing
Is not the same "will" we need to push life around for attainment.
The Divine Will packs possibilities
That become activated when we give over our "self"
To the process of living and to each other,
In such a way that there are no considerations of "winning" or"losing".
The Will of Ego and the Divine Will are polar opposites.
One difference between them is that the Will of Ego cannot contain Divine Will,
(Ego thinks it IS God!)
Whereas Divine Will allows individualistic Will to be.
LOVE THY GODNESS; LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
Something got lost in tranlsation.
I have a hunch that, when these famous words were first uttered,
They were less of an admonition to "Obey this, or else..."
Than a statement of What-is......
"This is a fundamental fact of being human --
We love our divine nature,
We love each other;
And the way we love others is exactly how we love ourselves, and vice versa."
This is What-Is.
There's no choice about it.
There's nothing noble or esoteric about it;
It comes with the condition of being human.
At the cost of your own alienation from yourself and others,
You can deny or ignore it until the cows come home;
But the fact remains that you, me, god, the person in your face, and all the space in between
Are all of the same stuff and indivisibly interconnected.
How well our lives are working has a lot to do with
The level at which we acknowledge and co-operate with this state of affairs.
It's a reflection of the level of our attunement
To the highest, finest energy of Existence.
GETTING BACK INTO BALANCE
A truly sovereign person is sufficiently poised, relaxed and empowered
To stand alone in an unobstructed, free-flowing relationship with all people.
When you lose your equilibrium
Take some time and space out for yourself,
Re-consecrating yourself...
As our power returns, so does our consciousness of our place and purpose in the scheme of things.
We know we make a difference in the world
And we set about joyfully doing just that,
Empowering and enabling others along the way.
There's a paradox to get comfortable with here --
Once you can embrace the paradox, you'll find that your life circumstances DO change, without any pushing and pulling from you.
It may not be easy at times. But it is simple....................
And you are afraid that , if you come too close, you will be gone -- forever.
So, to be afraid of me is natural.
I am a Possibility for Being -- a no-thing,
And who, in ego, is not afraid of a no-thing?
It is a habit for you to fear me,
But you cannot escape me either.
Wherever you may run to, I will haunt you,
I will perturb you, even in your safest moments,
Just to remind you that your destiny still awaits
Beyond. where you are at this moment.
I look at you now and I see
A sovereign being..... creating......
Creating your Now experience.
If you now feel you are the victim of some circumstance or condition,
Remember that every sovereign is allowed to create whatever he/she wants,
Including bogeymen to frighten and enemies to challenge and chase him.
You are already Sovereign
But you do not realise it yet.
That is as it should be......
As a fish cannot "know" water until it is out of it --
Consider............. possibly ............
You are using your sovereignty to create an illusion of Not-Sovereignty,
So that you can come to know what you are -- Sovereignty
When you are ready,
Come close
And see What-Is.
You will find as you gaze into me
That you are looking deep into your self.
The "You" that you've always thought you are
Will disappear,
And your True Self will be there.
Let go.
Flow
Like a river that flows eventually into the ocean from which it once evaporated.
Yes, the river disappears and becomes the greater ocean.
In its essence, it is still the same watery stuff,
But its form is now different,
Greater,
And it has contributed to that "greater-ness".
Let go of your "smaller-ness"
And allow yourself to flow into the "greater-ness".
You will not be diminished. Far from it.
In truth, there is no going back;
How can a river go back upstream?
Does a river seek to return to its source?
How far back would it have to go?
What is the Source?
Is it the brook in the mountains that feeds it? Or is it the melting snow that feeds the brook? Or is it the winter snow and rain? Or the clouds that foster the rain?
Where does it begin?
There is no "source"
And every stage in the cycle is Source.
To return to the ocean is the river's destiny.
To be the ocean is its nature.
The river is the ocean becoming.
Let any fear and resistance be there
And go with the flow anyway.
o-o-o-o-o-o-o
Every one of us is a sovereign being.
The only question is whether we real-ise it, or not?
Why would we not?
Because we'd rather manipulate and control
Than be Sovereign.
A sovereign being has no more excuses
For withholding his sovereignty.
Why would we not?
Because we'd rather manipulate and control
Than be Sovereign.
A sovereign being has no more excuses
For withholding his sovereignty.
A realised Sovereign Being --
- Is empowered by nature
- Is empowering - nature-ally
- Gives authority to ....
- Authorises ...
- Gives ability to ...
- Enables ...
- Permits and allows ...
- Is authorised by the author of his/her being, to be effective in this world .
A sovereign being knows how the condition of being human puts certain rules and limits on his/her divinity, and chooses to enjoy that game rather than get bent out of shape by it. He also knows that, whatever the prevailing weather conditions, the game goes on. He knows, too, that sometimes the game conspires to eradicate temporarily the memory of his Sovereignty. He is induced to think the game is "real", just to heighten the level of entertainment.
What are some of the Characteristics of our Sovereignty?
- Sovereignty is not physical. It cannot be found in any particular place; and it can be felt in many places simultaneously.
- Sovereignty is not bound in the confines of Time. It remains changeless in the face of constant, relentless change.
- Sovereignty is not understandable; it can only be known by declaring it, and becoming it. Sovereignty is not capable of being proven, no matter how insistently our minds may demand it. Like a lot of things, Sovereignty just IS. We cannot see it or prove it, but we can see the evidence of its presence.
- Sovereignty is not judgmental. It allows. To be sovereign is to be wholly open to all that is. It judges no-one and no-thing, not even the harshest critic. Nor does Sovereignty experience Itself as being judged by any one or any thing. It is above all that petty stuff.
- Sovereignty assumes the perfection in every situation. For a sovereign person, nothing needs to be eliminated for any reason; and nothing can be eliminated without destroying the integrity of the whole.
- Sovereignty is larger than mere mind. Life for a sovereign being isn't a riddle to be understood or solved, but a mystery to be lived, and the perfect answer to every question that has ever been asked.
- Sovereignty is the power to limitlessly and unconditionally let-go (forgive). It knows that any resentments destroy its freedom.
- Sovereignty is the power to create and dis-create on its own authority.
- Sovereignty is willing to fully play the game of life by going along with the pretense that it's not a game. While the game is on -- it plays "as if" it's real, but when Mum calls us home for tea, game over.
- Sovereignty is willing to create intrigue by pretending not to know, thus making exploring and learning a willing entertainment.
- Sovereignty is willing to allow comedy, intrigue and drama by pretending not to love every one and every thing absolutely and unconditionally at all times.
- Sovereignty is the One-ness of many facets.
- Sovereignty is the source of all natural knowing.
As children, we were originally Sovereign but we sold out on it in favour of getting some immediate needs met. We vaguely noticed at the time that something had gone, but we didn't realise what that was.
We had handed our personal sovereignty over to authority figures -- firstly our parents, and later -- people like teachers, priests, God, the school bully, parking police and bosses. We began to revere and fear the power we had given them, and even managed in some instances to feel threatened by it and guilty in its presence..
By pushing away our sovereignty, we put our selves at the mercy of capricious overlords with their own issues and axes to grind that have little or nothing to do with our welfare. We felt vulnerable to seemingly meaningless and destructive winds and currents of outrageous fortune.
That indeed was a fall from a state of grace
Looking at the state of Sovereignty from the bottom of the pit we've fallen into,
It's impossible to remember
And difficult to imagine what life might be like for a sovereign being.
We cannot visualise ourself in that place.
We're bound to feel threatened, or powerless, or resentful, or jealous, or guilty
In the presence of anyone who is sovereign in their power.
It never occurs to us --
a) that we once had what we now feel victimised by; and
b) that we can get it back.
BE WHAT YOU ARE
Sovereignty is not just for an elite few.
Sovereignty is everyone's birthright.
Reclaim your inheritance.
SOVEREIGNTY #101
- There are no rules for attaining or maintaining Sovereignty. All that you need is the Willingness to let go of Victimhood and be sovereign once again, Awareness, a creative relationship with all of life, and a growing love for the truth of yourself, including all of your contradictions and uncertainties. Without these basics, however, forget it.
- The return to Sovereignty does not necessarily mean your circumstances will change; it calls for a change in your view of, and attitude to them. If you take on a quest for Sovereignty to "better yourself", you're in for a rough time and possible disappointment
- Sovereignty is a no-thing. I cannot point it out to you on the street. We cannot pick it up and handle it. But we can certainly recognise someone who lives in it. It is a state of Be-ing.
- Sovereignty begins with choosing whatever is to be exactly as it is - for now. When you feel light, be light. When you feel dark, be dark. Whether it is day- or night-time outside is irrelevant.
- To be sovereign, you cannot be passive, but you must be surrendered -- ie. engaging creatively with what-is. You can surrender to a Purpose, a Stand, a Context, a Vision, and/or a deeper level of self Commitment, all of your choosing. You choose them for no reason other than they appeal to you as a new way to live your life. You are re-learning how to learn -- from your self -- in the very areas where no-one may ever have taught you how to learn.
- A sovereign person stands, relatively happily, in Uncertainty and Discomfort, knowing that they are signs from the ego that new ground is being broken (something egos don't like), and that he/she is creative enough to surf on through the turmoil. A sovereign person knows deeply that the discomfort arises from the fact that our ego's inability to embrace the largeness of what is going on, and its unwillingness to learn growth lessons, are being stretched beyond previous limits, bringing us more and more into an unobstructed and more creative relationship with ALL that IS.
- As a surprising and paradoxical consequence, Sovereignty will not help us feel either secure or invincible. It may instead bring us often to the door of Frustration and the apparent impedance of our desires. We may hit The Wall, and there's a creative reason for that -- Frustration and Impedance present an invitation and a challenge to review our predetermined expectations of the way we thought this would work out, and to re-evaluate our relationships to life and to what and who we think we are.
- Uncertainty is a good sign. A sovereign person stands in Not-Knowing and Discomfort, calmly confident that he/she is available to infinite creativity.
- Not surprisingly, Sovereignty is therefore the road less traveled. Human minds will do anything to avoid Uncertainty and Not-Knowing. While almost universally present in pandemic proportions, inner confusion and anxiety are not popular topics for cafe conversation in polite society. They remind others of their denied discomfort. "Friends" are defined unconsciously as "someone who'll go along with my lies,as long as I go along with theirs." In fact, most of us would rather DIE than tell the truth to anyone (including ourselves) about just how unsure we are. But this road is one of transformation, where one is challenged to surrender all ideas and projected images of self, and yield ones life up to unknown and unprovable possibility, without any reassurance of outcome. Here we face the biblical Eye-of-the-Needle, the Gate of Aloneness, where we have to leave all our baggage behind, and where the motivation to pass through comes less and less from outside sources, and more from some inner light.
- Sovereignty in relationships is a balancing act. While not being anybody's doormat, a Sovereign being commits to a relationship with life and others that says........... I will not withdraw from an open-minded, honest and vulnerable relationship with this (person). I will be available and attentive. I will seek to see and stand upon the other point of view, and allow that it is also mine. To the best of my ability at the time, I will accommodate this "other", even as I consider my self.
So I thought anyway
The value of taking this way seemed obvious and, at the outset at least, I had many companions on the journey.
But along the way, the topography has changed.
The way now leads me more into an open, immediate relationship
With all that I am and all that is -- weaknesses, warts and all.
On top of that, I have to greet each day with a growing emptiness of not-knowing.
All that I thought I knew is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
In this place, despair occasionally lies nearby, just out of sight:
I turn to face it.
We nod an acknowledgment of familiar friends
And continue on our way.
As I venture through the Gate of Loneliness.
I find myself resisting loneliness,
Looking around to see if anyone else is taking the same steps
Looking for confirmation from others,
Looking for Approval, Reassurance and Recognition,
So as to assure myself that I'm on the "right" track,
And that I'm not alone.
Eventually this, too, has to be surrendered:
The journey is no longer being made for anyone or for any purpose
Other than the journey itself.
I do not know,
Cannot know,
Nor need I know if this is the right way.
I'm still supported by a few true friends and relatives.
They cannot know what I'm going through
But they love me enough to hover nearby anyway,
Knowing that their company is important to me.
Alone in company I walk on,
Yielding to the fullness of my Unknowing.
To be Sovereign
We have no choice but to stand
Naked and defenceless in our own light,
Yet in rapport with all that is.
There is nowhere left to turn aside
For we are enveloped by Is-ness.
Sovereignty is a state of integrity so demanding
That when anxiety and despair occasionally come to sup with us, we ask in anguish and radiance --
"Why this? Why me? How did I get here? Is this where I'm supposed to be?"
There is no answer to that.
Just the awesome silence of What-Is.
At this point the roller-coaster has broached the crest;
Gravity has taken over;
We have passed beyond the place of choosing either for or against.
Living solely from the immediacy of this experience here/now,
Without any props of past ex --perience or future assurances to sustain us,
We are no longer able to act from any conviction of being "right".
Even the old crutches of hopes, visions and fantasies
Crumble to dust.
Even they are a rejection of the omnipotent, omnipresent Is-ness.
In Mastery we engage with life, meeting it on its own terms;
In Control, we disengage from life and separate ourself from it and the source of all being.
A sovereign being truly sees
That he/she has never been in control.
In Surrender he finds Integrity.
CHOICE AND CHOOSING
A lifetime of choosing is leading to Choice-less-ness.
Having committed to live a life of awareful integrity,
It came as a bit of a surprise to discover
That my only other creative choice
Is whether or not to choose that I have no choice.
We are invited to surrender to a fundamentally wiser process
That is organising the flow and direction of all life.
This wiser intelligence cannot be demonstrated nor proven,
But becomes miraculously real to us when we surrender
To choicelessness.
Without that surrender, ego keeps dancing distractedly around on the spot,
Blocking the view.
To choose Sovereignty acknowledges an inner realisation
That there will come a time when we can no longer continue life on our terms;
The intelligent person surrenders willingly as soon as possible and gets on with living -
The stubborn person waits until he's forced by catastrophe or failing health and strength,
And resists dying, all the way to the grave.
There's more on offer in Life than not-dying.
The instant we surrender our ego to the flow of life,
Questions of Choice and Free Will fall away,
Subsumed by a feeling of one-ness with Life and Purpose in its deepest sense.
Sovereignty awaits us inside.
Hidden behind Choice awaits the infinte possibility of Choosing;
Hidden behind Free Will awaits the Freedom of All Will.
(The notion of "Free Will" is loaded with "Won't"s -- hadn't you noticed? The Freedom of All Will is that it says "Yes" to every possibility.")
Once surrendered, I found that life on MY terms had been severely limited
To what I could think of,
And what I could imagine.
No wonder then that life resembled a cracked record/cracked record/cracked record...........
The best that I could think about at the time
Brought me back time and time again
To struggle against crises and suffering.
Every time.
How about you?
When I finally gave up the struggle
And surrendered "my's" insistence that life turn out as I thought it should,
I began to discover how surprising and wonderful life can be.
When we stop pestering, interfering, controlling,
When we get out of the way and let life happen --
Life opens up to us.
Our choice is always
To choose the road that empowers, or the road that disempowers.
How do we tell the difference?
Discerning one from the other isn't as hard as it may seem.
One road looks safer; the other feels scarier:
One road looks "right"; the other sports a sign that says "Wrong Way -- Go Back".
Operating on the principle that "If I do what I've always done, I'll keep getting what I've always got",
I now usually choose the road less travelled --
The one that looks like the "wrong" way, the scarier of the two.
Ultimately, of course, it doesn't matter which branch you take --
You'll get to where you're going to whichever way you go.
But the fork less travelled is always far more interesting, revealing, and possibly quicker.
The Will we have to access to plunge deeper into Be-ing
Is not the same "will" we need to push life around for attainment.
The Divine Will packs possibilities
That become activated when we give over our "self"
To the process of living and to each other,
In such a way that there are no considerations of "winning" or"losing".
The Will of Ego and the Divine Will are polar opposites.
One difference between them is that the Will of Ego cannot contain Divine Will,
(Ego thinks it IS God!)
Whereas Divine Will allows individualistic Will to be.
LOVE THY GODNESS; LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
Something got lost in tranlsation.
I have a hunch that, when these famous words were first uttered,
They were less of an admonition to "Obey this, or else..."
Than a statement of What-is......
"This is a fundamental fact of being human --
We love our divine nature,
We love each other;
And the way we love others is exactly how we love ourselves, and vice versa."
This is What-Is.
There's no choice about it.
There's nothing noble or esoteric about it;
It comes with the condition of being human.
At the cost of your own alienation from yourself and others,
You can deny or ignore it until the cows come home;
But the fact remains that you, me, god, the person in your face, and all the space in between
Are all of the same stuff and indivisibly interconnected.
How well our lives are working has a lot to do with
The level at which we acknowledge and co-operate with this state of affairs.
It's a reflection of the level of our attunement
To the highest, finest energy of Existence.
GETTING BACK INTO BALANCE
A truly sovereign person is sufficiently poised, relaxed and empowered
To stand alone in an unobstructed, free-flowing relationship with all people.
When you lose your equilibrium
Take some time and space out for yourself,
Re-consecrating yourself...
"To all that is, and to the watcher within."
We know we make a difference in the world
And we set about joyfully doing just that,
Empowering and enabling others along the way.
- Being Sovereign is a result of choosing -- choosing to engage creatively with whatever is happening, while it is happening.
- Being Sovereign is a result of a personal commitment to live as much as possible in the Now
- Being Sovereign is a result of celebrating that you are what you are, and you aren't what you aren't, and seeing in gratitude the perfection of that.
- Being Sovereign is the result of saying "Yes" to what happens, and "Yes" to what doesn't happen. That includes saying "Yes" to your Yeses, and "Yes" to your No's. Resistance is not only futile, it's the kiss of death to creative and permanent change. "Revolution" and "Evolution" are different words for a very good reason.
- Sovereignty begins with first giving an unqualified "Yes" of acceptance to what is so in your world, and an equally unqualified "Yes" to what is not. If something needs changing, a Sovereign works first on him/her self, seeking to change in himself whatever is being reflected out there. Having dropped all resistance to the situation he is then free to deal creatively with it. A Sovereign knows how radically our world transforms when we do.
- Whatever a sovereign being fears or resents (or any other feeling reaction for that matter), he says "Yes" to the feeling, and chooses it to be so. He fully and gratefully embraces the experience of it as a message from his emotions, telling him where some housekeeping remains to be done on his addictive programming. That which a sovereign being fears/resents/ is jealous of..... may disappear; it may not. If it disappears, he says "Yes" to its disappearing, and doesn't trawl back looking for it. If it does not disappear, he says "Yes" to its non-disappearance, and drops any expectation or addiction that it should be some other way than just as it is. He does all this without any rationalising or efforts to explain "why". For a sovereign, What-Is .. is; and What-Isn't .. isn't. Period.
- Being Sovereign is the result of choosing to creatively surf the events of your life.
There's a paradox to get comfortable with here --
- You are the source and creator of all your experiences; and
- You don't have the least control over what happens..
When you want what you've got, you'll always get what you want.
Once you can embrace the paradox, you'll find that your life circumstances DO change, without any pushing and pulling from you.
It may not be easy at times. But it is simple....................
Create with what you get, when you get it;
Don't sweat what you don't get, when you don't get it.
Got it?
BEING HUMAN -- SEEN AS A HOLOGRAPHIC REALITY
- What we assume is "real" is a 3-dimensional image created by the interference pattern of two "lasers" -- Mind and Spirit? For this holographic reality to work, one laser beam must be a pure and coherent reference signal, against which the other beam interferes and interacts.
- The resulting image is 3-dimensional, but non-material. There is no "thing" where the image is seen and felt, but we see and feel it anyway. We think it is real.
- When the holographic plate is smashed (Big Bang), the whole image is inherent in every fragment of the plate: every individual piece of the chip carries the imprint of the whole. (If we could really get a grasp of this phenomenon, over half of our suffering and all of our illusions of powerlessness would be over in a trice)
- In smaller fragments the image may diminish slightly in distinctness, but it is there. When the smashed plate is restored to wholeness, however, its time-space properties will not be the same as before. (I think God would be pleased about that.)
Friday, April 02, 2010
SECOND CHILDHOOD
Oh! To be as a little child!
In an undifferentiated
And undifferentiating state of consciousness,
Gazing shamelessly
And appreciating unjudgmentally
The whole of experience
Simultaneously.
But we follow instructions and "grow up"
To live imperfect, fractured lives
Because we use Ego-Identity as a reference point
Instead of our more natural Divinity.
Having tired of "maturity",
We return
To learn all over again
How to intuit the whole puzzle,
All of the time
Rather than piece-by-piece.
In an undifferentiated
And undifferentiating state of consciousness,
Gazing shamelessly
And appreciating unjudgmentally
The whole of experience
Simultaneously.
But we follow instructions and "grow up"
To live imperfect, fractured lives
Because we use Ego-Identity as a reference point
Instead of our more natural Divinity.
Having tired of "maturity",
We return
To learn all over again
How to intuit the whole puzzle,
All of the time
Rather than piece-by-piece.
THE FULL MONTY
Have you ever seen a partly pregnant woman?
Me either.
We cannot transform selected bits of ourself --
It's all or nothing.
Me either.
We cannot transform selected bits of ourself --
It's all or nothing.
I-DENTIFICATION IS LIMITATION
Any thing we give our attention to,
We enliven.
But any aspect of our self that we I-dentify with
We separate from the whole,
Claim special ownership to
And fix into the foreground,
Preventing it from ebbing and flowing back
Into the vast awareness from which it energed.
A part of our self is not the whole of self --
It is a limitation -- less-than.....
So when we I-dentify with any part of our self
We I-dentify with Less-than,
Cut it off from the Source,
And suffer.
We enliven.
But any aspect of our self that we I-dentify with
We separate from the whole,
Claim special ownership to
And fix into the foreground,
Preventing it from ebbing and flowing back
Into the vast awareness from which it energed.
A part of our self is not the whole of self --
It is a limitation -- less-than.....
So when we I-dentify with any part of our self
We I-dentify with Less-than,
Cut it off from the Source,
And suffer.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
PRO-DOTES TO FEAR
When we create the future as frightening, the things we do to make ourselves "safe" eventually destroy our peace of mind.
How's your level of fear at this moment?
That's not a glib aside --
Check. On a scale of 1 to 10........?
A new awareness embraces energies that are represented by words like ---
Done? Good.
How's you fear level now?
How's your level of fear at this moment?
That's not a glib aside --
Check. On a scale of 1 to 10........?
A new awareness embraces energies that are represented by words like ---
- Trust
- Balance
- Allowing
- Appreciating
- Gratitude
- Surrender
- Love
- Humility
Done? Good.
How's you fear level now?
SEPARATION & RELATIONSHIP
It all started when Thought thought about itself:
"I Am" said "What am I?"
An illusion of Separation was created --
So that One-ness could look at Itself
And have a relationship with itself.
Then Oneness found the image in the mirror boring,
So it created different manifestations of itself
By simply becoming them.
This is more fun! Each manifestation can experience its godness in a different way,
And can experience other manifestations of the same godness, each having their experiences.
The purpose of relationship is so that "we" can compare notes.
For the fun of it.
Without the illusion of Separation,
Relationship would be neither necessary nor possible.
Ego is obsessed with division and relationship,
Departure and Destination
Me and Not-Me
Togetherness and Separatedness
"I" and "Me"
Internal and External
Right and Wrong
Left and Right
Up and Down.......
...you know how it goes.
In school we were instructed in the realm of Facts --
The territory of absolutes, definitions, differentiation and distinction.
There's nothing wrong with that, except that isn't all there is.
We acquired intelligence and knowledge,
But little experience of Knowing.
Now that we have graduated from the classroom into Life,
We are challenged to dissolve the boundaries
Between self and experience
Between what we think we know,
And How we come to actually know it.
Ego is my relationship with all that I experience:
"I am", though, is the detached Awareness of all experience.
No separation. No other-ness.
No relationship
"I Am" said "What am I?"
An illusion of Separation was created --
So that One-ness could look at Itself
And have a relationship with itself.
Then Oneness found the image in the mirror boring,
So it created different manifestations of itself
By simply becoming them.
This is more fun! Each manifestation can experience its godness in a different way,
And can experience other manifestations of the same godness, each having their experiences.
The purpose of relationship is so that "we" can compare notes.
For the fun of it.
Without the illusion of Separation,
Relationship would be neither necessary nor possible.
Ego is obsessed with division and relationship,
Departure and Destination
Me and Not-Me
Togetherness and Separatedness
"I" and "Me"
Internal and External
Right and Wrong
Left and Right
Up and Down.......
...you know how it goes.
In school we were instructed in the realm of Facts --
The territory of absolutes, definitions, differentiation and distinction.
There's nothing wrong with that, except that isn't all there is.
We acquired intelligence and knowledge,
But little experience of Knowing.
Now that we have graduated from the classroom into Life,
We are challenged to dissolve the boundaries
Between self and experience
Between what we think we know,
And How we come to actually know it.
Ego is my relationship with all that I experience:
"I am", though, is the detached Awareness of all experience.
No separation. No other-ness.
No relationship
I-KNOW-SENSE
(a.k.a "Innocence")
Ego is the world-weary, ignorant adolescent in each of us,
Who knows everything, and experiences nothing.
Further knowing, other realities and possibilities are denied.
"I-am" is the innocent child in each of us,
Who knows everything, and experiences nothing.
Further knowing, other realities and possibilities are denied.
"I-am" is the innocent child in each of us,
Who simply knows nothing and experiences everything,
With no pre-conceptions of any kind --
No concepts, ideas, opinions, judgments, beliefs, mind-sets, prejudices or conditioning patterns
To limit, modify or classify the experiencing.
In Innocence all knowing is available . In Ignorance, none is possible.
In Innocence all knowing is available . In Ignorance, none is possible.
In the divine state of Innocence, there is no separation and, therefore, no need of relationship.
THE THOUGHT THAT THUNK US
You and I
And the stars above and the earth below
Owe our very existence to,
And are given definition by
Another dimension --
The Thought that thunk us,
The thought-glue that holds us altogether in its mighty embrace.
This is why it is possible for human consciousness
To go beyond its human-ness,
To meet up with a divine origin-ality
That orchestrates all that is.
We connect with it by simply noticing the evidence of its presence.
But this only can happen while we are awakened and alive to that connection,
Sensing into the Knowing that is beyond the human body/mind,
Feeling our way into higher frequencies that we cannot see or hear.
We have a level of consciousness, one that has been asleep for decades,
That is capable of sensing vibration that is too quick
For normal consciousness to notice.
This new sensing has nothing to do with straining to listen and hear.
It is something that comes to us when we stop efforting at finding.
When we stop the quest for Finding, we will be found.
Nor is this new education about intelligence;
It is my experience that logic and reason divert us
Time and time again,
Away from the realms of "feeling-into".
How is your level of Trust?
Limited as you are
By knowing what you think you know --
Can you now drop your Awareness in to the void
Of the unseen, unheard, only-felt Thought/Force of all-that-is
And experience its unconditional love, knowing and support?
How is your level of Trust?
Limited as you are
By knowing what you think you know --
Can you now drop your Awareness in to the void
Of the unseen, unheard, only-felt Thought/Force of all-that-is
And experience its unconditional love, knowing and support?
In this divine space
You will discover that you know nothing
You will discover that you know nothing
And you will instantly remember the higher levels of "In-tuition"
Where we meet All-Knowing ----
The Thought that Thunk Us.
The Thought that Thunk Us.
MASTER CLASS
What do you want from me?
Tell me.
If I have it, I will gladly give it to you.
Do you want Answers?
To what?
Have you formed your Question yet --
The question of all questions.
Whatever it is,
That Question is for you.
I have no "The" answer to it.
For I am not you.
Only you know.
What I do,
And all that I can do,
Is to conspire in your life
To keep on throwing you off-balance
So that you can find your own way
To a new equilibrium.
I have to do that every day for myself;
Now it is your turn, for your self.
Find your own Questions --
You already know the answer.
I do make this commitment with you --
I will join life in a conspiracy FOR you;
I will stimulate you, tease you, poke you,
I will slap you silly,
Provoke, tickle, press, squeeze, seduce and insult you.....
Anything to knock you off the concrete pedestal of your present viewpoint.
Not because it is wrong,
But because it is not the whole vista
And you have been loitering on it for far too long.
Tell me.
If I have it, I will gladly give it to you.
Do you want Answers?
To what?
Have you formed your Question yet --
The question of all questions.
Whatever it is,
That Question is for you.
I have no "The" answer to it.
For I am not you.
Only you know.
What I do,
And all that I can do,
Is to conspire in your life
To keep on throwing you off-balance
So that you can find your own way
To a new equilibrium.
I have to do that every day for myself;
Now it is your turn, for your self.
Find your own Questions --
You already know the answer.
I do make this commitment with you --
I will join life in a conspiracy FOR you;
I will stimulate you, tease you, poke you,
I will slap you silly,
Provoke, tickle, press, squeeze, seduce and insult you.....
Anything to knock you off the concrete pedestal of your present viewpoint.
Not because it is wrong,
But because it is not the whole vista
And you have been loitering on it for far too long.
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