This blog is only about awakening, nothing more, nothing less. Anything that will contribute to the possibility of complete liberation from the dream, or from the mass hallucination of humanity, or from the mental matrix, or from the false self, or from the lie, or any other label you want to call it, is welcome here. The key words are FREEDOM and JOY. Sometimes I think this reporting about stuff just keeps the false story going and only adds to the insanity, and there's too much of that already. But something is trying to pry the lid off still, something awaits to be seen. We are all in this boat together, so here we go......have fun!
If I was to translate the enlightened state down into human terms, I'd have to describe it as contentment. Being nobody, going nowhere, needing no reason to exist. To the ego, that probably sounds a little boring, and of course to an ego it is. But then again, there's really nothing for the ego in enlightenment. In enlightenment, the egoic false self is rendered an irrelevant illusion, a mask, a character that nothingness wears while pretending to be human.
Not only is there nothing in enlightenment for the ego, the ego is really nothing but a defense against enlightenment. I'm not saying that ego is bad or evil because its not. I'm saying that ego is a social and personal construct and therefore an illusion. But there's nothing wrong with an illusion. A painting is an illusion; a movie is an illusion; a good novel is an illusion. The problem isn't with illusion; the problem is with the emotional attachments and addictions of ego.
Anon 1 : archaic : at once : immediately
2 : soon, presently /tomorrow will be here anon - Nathaniel Hawthorne/
3 : after a while : later /more of that anon/
You live in a Universe
that exceeds your perception of it
You may see it, taste it
hear it or feel it
And while it contains all those things
It is more
To name the Universe
is an attempt to limit
limitlessness
Yet there is a part of us
that speaks
And that part needs names
So let us call this Universe,
Reality
with the understanding
there is more to it
Then we can ever name
There is also a part of us
that wants to be free of naming
Wants to be free of detail
free of manifestation
A part that only wants
the underlying mystery and magic
of Reality
The historical conflict between these two parts
these two engines of the mind
Is perhaps the result of a misunderstanding
We often feel it would be best
to be one and destroy the other
But who would cut off his right hand
because he wants to be left handed?
Who would willingly blind himself in one eye
or deliberately destroy one foot?
Who wants eternal Daylight
or forever Darkness
Why then should we seek only to name Reality
or to end all naming?
It is in the balance
that we find the universal harmony
Perhaps this dichotomy
is part of the natural human heritage because
We perceive this Reality
through the filters of our human brains
the Left and the Right minds
The Left brain understands
Logic and Language
The Right brain understands
Love, Magic and Religion
The Left analyzes and dissects
The Right synthesizes and creates
But who would want only one or the other?
Who would want rainbows of only one color?
All mystery and manifestation within us
arises from our perception and reflection
of the Universe
But the Cosmos is not obliged to reside
only within our grasp of it
Who can truly say
there is no more?
Who can limit the limitless?
You have been told there are
Three dimensions, perhaps Four
Things are not Black or White but Grey
such dogma denotes limited thinking
Believing thus you bleed
all color, texture and taste from Reality
We live in a multi-dimensional Universe
Unbound in its responses
to our eyes
hands and pallet
Our waking and dreaming mind
And still extending beyond
Perhaps when you name a thing ugly
you limit the beauty you can find in it
Perhaps when you name a thing bad
you limit the good that you can see in it
Is this a really balanced perception?
We may limit our perception
but we can not limit the Universe
Living is balanced by Non-living
Arduous is balanced by Easy
Day by Night
Love by Fear
Light by Darkness
Hope by Despair
Heat by Coolness
Earth by Fire by Water by Air by Earth . . .
None of us can expect an endlessly easy life
we all must touch Reality
Or spend our lives trying to hide from it
But when overwhelmed by one extreme
remember the other is not far away
You will discover that Reality is balanced
but not perfectly symmetrical
Such Cycles are a means of Balance
Everything happens
It just doesn't happen all at once
That's why we have Time
Let us consider for a moment
the two aspects of Balance
There is static Balance
where all things stop
all motion stops
no sound, no heat, no matter . . .
Nothingness
And there is dynamic balance
such as a man walking
the middle of a curving road
Know the difference
You can not control a thing
by only stopping it
Control comes from directing the motion
of things
When Balance is achieved
Is it possible to act
without doing anything?
To dance without moving?
Is it possible to be taught
without a teacher?
To have without holding?
To Act outside of Fear or Anticipation of reward?
Is it possible
to let things appear in the distance
move to this place
and let them go
While perceiving the balance
of this motion within Reality?
It is said that our current aspect of Universe
Began in a great explosion
or rending of nothingness into which
one tiny seed of energy became everything
The speaking side of the mind
sees the Wonder of this
The mysterious side of the mind
sees God
A beginning
a middle
what of the end?
Is this not in keeping with Balance?
The Past and the Future
fuse in this Instant
Anon
While the Matter/Energy of this Cosmos
remains balanced
The possibilities are without limit
The Universe is
the Well of first things
A storehouse of new and old things
ever evolving, growing, changing
The Universe is an ever opening flower
And You are part of the Dance
You are not divorced from it
how can you be an unnatural thing?
Are your atoms from somewhere else?
Is your pattern so bizarre?
You are human and share
in the heritage of human beginning
middle and end
How could it be otherwise?
Inside of You . . .
you are a universe
There is the infinite circular ring of You
surrounded the receding
Great out-there
and filled with the vast
Great In-here
The Universe touches your universe
at every points
and all points beyond
You can paint your walls
any way you like
Or you can learn
to see the subtle colors
already there
Hold to the center of the Universe
If you talk of it
and do not dance with it
you will become confused
If you paint it with all the pigments known
and do not reflect it
you will become murky
If you follow the rituals of others
with infinite attention to detail
you will become disillusioned
But if you face each moment
with an open hand
an open heart
an open mind
You will be the Master
of the Moment
And a life is built
of such moments
It is said that the Universe
is running down
But is in this degradation of energy
lies the integration of Life
Human life is the water
that runs uphill
Notice how beautifully
Order arises out of Chaos
without breaking any of the True Rules
The vast open spaces within the Universe
contain an indeterminate number of worlds
The Universe is always pregnant
giving birth to the New
This birthing is the rising up
from the ashes
The fresh breeze of Spring
within the depths of Winter
It is always present within you
How will you use it?
It is said
That which is not born can not die
Is that wisdom?
Is that eternal?
Perhaps . . .
But each moment is born
used
and passed to the past
If these moments are of no use
why do we build them?
Each is special, different
unique
Not a thing to be wasted
If you waste the moments of your life
you will end up
with a bunch of wasted moments
The Past touches the Future
As this moment
this instant
this Now
Anon
Right now
The waters of the Sea
are transformed into the mist
And in this same instant
the clouds are congealing and twisting
And in this same instant
the rains are nourishing all things
And passing through caverns
creek and riverbeds
Running away
away to the Sea
All in Motion
all in Balance
as it should be
There are myriad other examples
of this balance in process
and you should take time
to name them and see them in your mind
Do this and you will never grow bored
You must keep you mind ductile
In living
remember the Earth, the Air, the Fire
and the Rain
I know we have much fancier names than these
But you get my drift
Keep things simple
in your mind
Children have such complicated minds
to be truly simple
you must be older
Confront your adversaries
with your understanding of the Truth
Examine your own motives
seek counsel in wise people
Be Fair and Just
They are people too
and people generally will not do
things that they feel are wrong
If a person does a bad thing
he will have to lie to himself
Saying
"I have the right to . . ."
Or
"He hurt me and my honor demands . . ."
This is an attempt to avoid responsibility
to make the other an object
which can be destroyed with impunity
It is a lie
Try to avoid making such lies
But when the Truth is manifest
as it always must be
Forgive your opponents
forgive your friends
forgive yourself
Odds are its all non-sense
though it wont seem so at the time
Chose a vocation that you enjoy
Avoid over zealous competition
Commerce, like Life, is a process
not a means to an end
Avoid comparing yourself to others
Each of us has many attributes
and envy is not a nice one to have
Father and Mother your Children well
Any civilization
which does not prepare a place for
the children
Has about one generation
to realize its mistake
Twenty-five thousand people were attracted to my spiritual teacher
over the few years that he taught, and at each level of progress, the
teachings and disciplines got harder and harder.
After a period of
about three years, almost everyone had dropped out; near the end, there
were only 72 people left – one of which was yours truly. Eventually
there were only three of us left. It was that tough.
The
disciplines imposed by our teacher were difficult because they required
you to be extremely spontaneous. So my teacher would phone and say,
“There is a meeting next Wednesday evening in southern Spain at seven
o’clock. Be there!”
There was no question of: could you afford the
travel expenses, get the time off work, were you happy with the idea,
or was it convenient for you? It was a matter of “be there”! If you were
even one minute late for a meeting, you got tossed out forever. There
were no ifs, buts, or maybes; we were cut no slack.
I remember a
session that was held in California, at Big Sur. The meeting was called
for six in the morning. A number of us flew from London, including two
South African friends of mine. We got to the hotel the day before and
checked in. My pals were up early next morning and decided to go for a
little walk before the meeting started. They arrived back at the meeting
room at three minutes past six.
They were not allowed to enter –
in spite of the fact that they had flown all the way from London. That
was the last I saw of them – on that particular path anyway.
What I
learned from those experiences was that spiritual growth and the
getting of a higher awareness is not necessarily convenient. That’s why
most never make it. They want to reach a higher place from within the
considerations of the ego and its limited consciousness – which often
defines life into self-righteous, cozy little boxes, creating a
self-indulgent energy that has the potential of a slug in a puddle.
The ego likes little boxes it is familiar with. But when considering
an infinite consciousness, the first thing you have to do is burn the
boxes. Lao-Tzu talks about it in the first few lines of the Tao Te Ching
– when talking about the Infinite Self, the Christ consciousness, the
God Force, the Tao, the Buddhahood, whatever you care to call it – is
that it runs through all things, its everywhere, so it has no
definitions.
Only the ego needs to define, discriminate, quantify,
and measure things in order to create an edge or framework to life so
it can feel secure and comfortable with what little it knows and
comprehends. But the eternity of the grace of God flows through the life
force of plants, trees, animals, humans, and all things. It doesn’t
have a boundary or definition.
You can define the position of a
tree because there is a definite space around the tree where it is not.
Here’s the tree, and there’s the space around it where it is not. But
the God Force is omnipresent, meaning it’s everywhere, it can’t be
defined. It is the “nameless” from which everything flows. If the God
Force is omnipresent, it must also be God, because God is everywhere.
The God Force and God must be one and the same.
You can work it
out. There is a law in physics that states that no two particles can
occupy the same space.
So, if the God Forces is everywhere, and God (He,
She, or It) is everywhere, then God must be the God Force, and the God
Force must be God – because you can’t have a particle of God existing in
the same place as a particle of God Force.
Either you’d have to
have a particle of God Force and a particle of God side-by-side, and
then both of them are not omnipresent, or they would have to be
superimposed upon each other, which is not possible.
So the God Force
and God are one and the same.
The act of defining life limits your
perception of it. In the Tao, nothing is considered high or low, short
or long. One could say, a journey is long because it takes you four
hours to drive from A to B, but it’s not long when compared to sending a
satellite to Mars. And that isn’t long compared to the distance from
earth to the Andromeda galaxy.
Tossing our definitions of high,
low, good, and bad is the first step towards grasping the indefinable
nature of the Infinite Self. This can be a little unnerving for the ego
because it likes the idea of my body, my people, my house, my car; I am
here, and I’m not everywhere else. Of course, that is true in a strict
physical sense, but in the realm of consciousness, your energy is bigger
that mere concepts of my body, my life, my car.
As you expand
your heart and go past your resistance to letting go, you comprehend
yourself as an omnipresent, eternal being – one that dwells in a
multidimensional state, timeless and immortal. Meaning, you existed
before you came to the earth plane, you exist now in a physical form,
and you will exist after you leave the earth place – after your body
quits in the earth place.
The idea of the Infinite Self is
beautiful, but it’s hard for the ego and the personality to grasp. If I
say to you, “Think about Infinity,” you can try to imagine something
going on forever. But if I ask what does infinity feel like, you will
probably not have a precise feeling you can identify with. You might
say, “Oh, yes, Stu, I think I know what infinity is like.” But thinking
you know is only the first run on the ladder.
First you sell the ego-personality the idea as an intellectual
principle. Then through discipline, meditation, opening yourself up,
moving beyond fear – through coming to a more compassionate
understanding of this planet – you finally comprehend the Infinite Self
as feeling. Then you’ll be able to say, “Yep, I feel eternal, immortal,
and infinite. I feel I am everywhere and nowhere, I dwell in the realm
of spirit.”
Next, it’s important to grasp, early on, that
spiritual growth is not necessarily convenient or comfortable.
This is
not only because you have to discard an awful lot of your beliefs and
definitions – things you hold sacrosanct – but also because your can’t
get to the Infinite Self without traveling back through the
psychological and metaphysical reality of who you are and the memories
of what you have done in this lifetime.
Looking at yourself can be
uncomfortable. It’s difficult to learn to control the ego and
discipline the mind without it reacting. However, it’s a vital part of
the journey, and you have to raise your energy gradually, over a period
of time.
Angelic Transmission in 2004, Published in Sedona Journal 2009
People say that they want to transcend, that they want to meet and know
God. And then when God begins to rattle around in their consciousness
the fear erupts, for there is no “known” identification with this
frequency. There has been a loss of memory. For most have been invested
for so long, for so many cycles, in the human world – in this
disconnected state from the rest of themselves.
This is the cycle that is ending. And in this process, in order to stay
in form and rejoin with Creation, or the Universal, there is a complete
loss of identity - a complete surrender, as you say, to allow the form
to be governed by the Universal Self. It does not mean that all
relationships perish - all of your persons, places and things - it does
not mean that they all perish, never to be seen again. It is that you
press the restart button, and from that point forward you are relating
in actuality with others, versus to relating to an image that you have
designed within this human construct.
Why would one want to resist becoming Universal? There is no marker;
there is no book; there is no story on your planet that prepares one for
the actual meeting of the Unknown. Therefore, it is feared and
resisted. There is no way to prepare for this, except gradually. And
even those who have been preparing for years to allow this
transformation – the full reversal from separation to Universal – even
with these persons there can be resistance in the end, for they have had
but glimpses of the Universal. For some it has been longer than
glimpses - but the primary foundation of their life, in order to keep
consistency with those around them, was to be focused in the conditioned
world with the memory and the understanding that this is not all there
is.
You see, they carry that knowing for a time. And you call these people
"enlightened", by the way. They know, yet they still primarily operate
within the human construct. They may pass on what they learn… report on
what they have learned of the More, but your next step in your evolution
is to BE that MORE – in all ways – including in physicality, in
relationship with the earth, in relationship with what is actual.
The guidance at this time is to continue in your present-moment
interactions, whatever that may be for you. Whether it is in words in
this way or in a strictly feeling experience of it, you will be guided
through this process to actual demonstration. Some of you have been
consciously requesting and recalling portions of your overall intention
for the life – to demonstrate the Universal on Earth… to be That Which
You Are in form. In the past this has been theory, strictly theory, for
how many examples have you experienced of the Universal Consciousness
awakened on Earth? You have your stories about those characters long,
long ago who seemed to have achieved this. This is not sufficient for
you obviously, to make the transition yourself. For you have your
examples embedded in your stories, icons, archetypes, but how often have
you thought... how often have you wondered about That which is in you?
How often have you asked to become That which you have projected onto
others as beautiful; as loving; as powerful; as compassionate? That is
the next leap for all of humanity and the opportunity, as we have said
many times in the past, is to achieve and integrate this consciousness
while in form; while maintaining your physicality. It is possible. And
the possibilities are growing due to the willingness of some humans on
Earth to take this next evolutionary step. Your dramas that you are
experiencing now on the various stages throughout your human world, they
will dissolve and there will be little memory of them when this choice
is acted upon - to become That Which You Are - Heaven on Earth as you
say.
Morpheus: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
Sovereignty (noun)
• supreme power or authority • a self-governing state
Sovereignty is the quality or authority of being independent and in charge of the conditions you live under.
Please note: that sovereignty carries with it responsibility. Meaning... if you take your life in your own hands you also take upon yourself to act responsibly and with integrity in regards to your own life... your family, your community, your fellow human beings and the planet as a whole.
We have been courageous in our choice to enter this level of density with complete AMNESIA!
Our collective consciousness on the planet creates a thought field that is very dense. The resulting density of these thought patterns carries a level of frequency equivalent to a force or object with mass.
Bill Hicks: All matter is merely energy condensed into a slow vibration.
It is the collective consciousness that holds this holographic/virtual reality in its present existence. Human thoughts trapped within lower frequency waves results in human confinement to this matrix.
Put away those bad feelings. Prevent those bad thoughts from happening. Please. They are the bars of your prison. Or more simply, the 'bad' in your bad days.
Running here and there to find freedom is a sign that we have not grasped the true understanding of sovereignty. When we continue to find ourselves plagued by fear, jealousy, guilt, shame, doubt, attachment and all the adverse emotions that prey on the mind, it is evidence that we are not free. We are ultimately held captive within our own minds.
We exist in our minds. So free your mind and the rest will follow.
Bruce Lee: Knowing is not enough we must apply, Willing is not enough we must do.
To simply be aware of the illusion of separation will not be sufficient. We must passionately invoke the will to move beyond the illusion. Should we fail to invoke this level of passion, we will continue to exist based solely on the old experiences being stored in the brain. All thoughts are then formed from the old programming. Why not hack into your mind... and re-write your program? It is of great significance that we focus on our own transition and uphold the understanding that every moment is divine. In doing so, we can begin to rid ourselves of the lingering judgment of others as well as of ourselves.
Morpheus: It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell, or taste, or touch... a prison for your mind.
As we stumble through this game with amnesia for the event...the key to remember is that transcendence requires sovereignty of mind.
Agent Smith: I must get free, and in this mind is the key, my key.
If we stand in certainty of our connection with source and detach from the need for a go-between or third party... we would discover truth. And through this realignment we let go of the dependency on guides, religion and gurus, and know...All things are you.
Until we can consciously reclaim this hidden knowledge and transform our minds, we will remain imprisoned to all things external to us.
We spend so much time struggling to achieve freedom in an external manner, but true freedom can only come from within, through freeing the mind... and TO GET OUT WE MUST GO IN.
As long as human beings continue to return on the wheel of reincarnation they can easily be redirected to new experiments (times, civilizations, races, etc...) within an old game. If all souls were to awaken to their greatness there would be no souls to participate in these experiments. The overpopulation of Earth is evidence of the many souls locked into the karmic wheel. Karma means cause and effect, not fate.
For those who believe that they are here for a grand reason, such as assisting in ascension or to hold the energy... realize that becoming all that you can will greatly assist the evolution of this species. In so doing, we impart to the whole the energy of alignment through the process of our personal alignment.
BE ALL YOU CAN BE!
What is the only thing that could keep you from doing that? What is the number one tool for keeping us bound and controlling and entire population? Fear.
Frank Herbert: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
For the controllers, fear is the real black gold.Fear does one thing... it denies freedom. Fear is the result of imagined lack. It's the manipulative emotion witnessed in attitudes reflective of jealousy, hatred, anger, envy, doubt, distrust and the enslavement of and to all things, people and places.
Morpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind!
War. Poverty. Violence. Human misery. Fear and uncertainty have become ways of life.You may argue that it is society that needs fixing, not you... don’t treat the symptoms, cure the disease. But you alone can’t solve the world... it's a collective effort... and it must first START WITH YOU.
Right now, this moment, the only reason you can read these words is that
you're awake. You're already awake. You're as awake as it gets.
You're already fully awake.
Given that you're already fully awake, how then could you wake up
further? Since you're already awake, does that idea even make sense?
You can't wake up more from where you are right now. And you can't
wake up again.
If you want to read a book through that body, or watch a video, or send
it to a retreat for further clarity or to get some context that has the
potential to open to the door to further clarity, that's great. But
before you do, notice that you don't need to read another book, watch a
video, or go to a retreat in order to wake up, because you're already
awake.
If you want to do meditation, drum, dance, chant, or what have you, for
the sake of grounding yourself in that present human experience you're
having, or calming that unit's mind so that you can better hear yourself
talk to yourself, and better watch yourself dance for yourself,
terrific. Have at it. But, be absolutely aware that you can't practice
yourself into awakening. You can't achieve what you already are.
You're just not who you think you are; that's the only issue here.
You're undergoing a case of mistaken identity, and all you need today is
a little light reflected from this mirror, this mirror of clear
language that is also you. There is only you, but you tend to get a bit
cloudy sometimes, and forget that. It comes with the territory when
your spaciousness contracts around human beings, and it's no big deal.
It's fine. When you're ready to be clear you find a bright mirror, so
here you are, back in front of the vanity mirror.
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity! This is all you, every bit of it--you
dancing for you, you preening for you, just you showing off for
yourself, to yourself and loving it.
You think you're the human being reading these words.
You're not. Well, you actually are that human also, but you're not that
person exclusively. You're the awareness that's reading these words
through that human being. The human is not reading the words; you are.
The human is a reading tool for you just as reading glasses are a tool
for the human. Reading glasses never mistake themselves for being the
reader; humans almost always do.
You think you need to wake up. You don't. All that has to occur is for
you to recognize yourself as what you are. "Awaken" makes it sound
like something really new and different needs to happen. It doesn't.
Recognition, on the other hand, is simply about noticing what already
is. See how much lighter the idea of recognition is versus the idea of
waking up? Why make it hard on yourself, when you're clearing longing
to see/be your true nature again.
Be easy on yourself. How much effort does it take for that human to
recognize itself in a mirror? None. The same is true for you. You
just have to be willing to look in the mirror and see the reflection
instead of the projection.
As a butterfly lost in a flower. As a bird settled in a
tree. As a child fondling mother’s breast. For 67 years of this world I
have played with God - Sasaki Roshi
In search of a hotel, I wander down a side street and notice a sign
that says “Tibetan Guest House”. I walk up a narrow staircase and a
pudgy 14-year-old girl comes to the door. Her pleasant demeanor captures
my imagination. She and her six brothers and sisters are huddled around
a television watching Bill Cosby. I take a room.
The girl brings me a huge bowl of vegetables and noodles with
chopsticks, followed by the best coffee I’ve had in India. Her little
brother climbs up on a chair, grabs of pack of Four Square cigarettes
from atop the refrigerator and offers me one. Their mother brings me a
soda. Their father walks in with fluorescent bulbs for the whole house,
as if my arrival has brought them spirited rejuvenation. The kids
surround him and wait for their turn at a hug. Some are content with a
pat on the head. These are people who know intimately the secrets to
happiness. I need to stay awhile.
I wonder if praise is not one of our biggest mistakes. When an Ituri
Pygmy hunter comes home from having killed a springbuck, he gets no
praise from his fellow tribesmen and is the last to receive his portion
of meat. Out of this silence the hunter learns humility. He learns that
his fate and that of his tribe are one. Praise for his efforts would
only create a schism of the whole and fill the hunter with arrogance. In
America, when one praises a friend exceedingly, that friend often
begins to mistreat his or her admirer. To praise someone is to put them
on a pedestal – separate from the masses of un-praised others. It is a
product of dualistic thinking athe root of scores of flawed Western
philosophical underpinnings.
This conundrum may explain why I always feel that I need to leave
America where I treat everyone as if they are intrinsically good.
Westerners, trained in dualistic thinking, take this as weakness on my
part. They see my kindness as a green light to take, to gain some
emotional advantage. I do not find such a dilemma in India or for that
matter any other Third World nations I have visited. Here kindness is
greeted by reciprocation.
I guess Reagan and his supply-siders are right in one sense about
their trickle-down theories. An evil government imparts its paranoid set
of values to its citizenry, whose collective denial of a bloody
colonial history only reinforces the “taker” mindset. To stop and
question the rules of this rigged game would be to risk losing one’s
television or VCR or, God forbid, one’s cherished automobile. Westerners
live in a state of guilt, shame and fear – knowing in their guts, but
never acknowledging, the trail of tears they have left in their wake.
Their penance is their work, their half-hearted daily grind, their
boring monotonous meaningless assignment from the cruel Great White
teacher. Their weekends are spent indulging in a swirl of contradictions
that, by gosh, they deserve after spending all week doing penance. They
break out their speedboats, gorge at fine restaurants, guzzle copious
amounts of alcohol and throw their hard-earned money back into the
whirling cogs of the system. They do not deserve freedom. They must
repent. They are the system.
No one’s heart is sad at birth. No one is filled with gloom when
their tiny eyes first awaken to the world outside their mother’s womb.
No amount of phony social Darwinist propaganda can make it so. Charles
Darwin, whose “survival of the fittest” terminology is often invoked by
wealthy fat Republicans as justification for their callous journey
through this life, actually argued that the most important key to human
and animal survival was “cooperation within species”. The entire debate
over whether man is naturally good or evil is itself a dualistic
windstorm that could only take place within the simplistic minds of the
colonial West.
Surely man has the ability to do both good and evil. He must choose
which path to embark upon – one of fear and greed, or one of love and
compassion. Yet his circumstances greatly influence the nature of his
soul. His environment plays a much greater role than his DNA. Most pit
bulls are socialized to be family protectors or worse – stone cold
killers. But some pit bulls are not instructed so, and are as gentle as
lambs. A grizzly bear in Kodiak, Alaska – well-fed on salmon and unused
to human interaction – is much less likely to maul a person than one in
Yellowstone National Park, where his habitat is a tiny island of
government protection and where ignorant humans are constantly pestering
him for photographs.
While the Aryans have a lock on colonization, there were rapists
among the Zulu and murderers among the Lakota. These bad apples likely
were impacted by negative events in their childhood and the like. But
Aryan history books exaggerate these anomalies in an attempt to justify
colonial endeavors. Tribal peoples treated their offenders much more
compassionately. Wrongdoers in tribal cultures were shunned and sent
away for a period of time. Wrongdoers in colonial cultures are executed,
upsetting the cosmic balance and reinforcing the dualistic thinking
that alienates industrialized man from both earth and other cultures. We
can kill criminals because we believe in the dualism that they are the
bad people and we the good. The fact that tribal cultures did not kill
their criminals speaks volumes to their humility, to their lack of
dualism-driven fear and to their earth-inspired wisdom. By all accounts
the shunning of offenders worked. Recidivism among Lakota offenders was
virtually non-existent. The person knew he did wrong, but he also
discovered that his life was too valuable to be taken. Thus, the value
of all life was reinforced in both his mind and in the collective mind
of the culture.
Modern-day prisoners in South Africa, Israel, the US or China – all
subject to death at the whim of their governments – hold no such respect
for human life. Nor do the people who live in those countries. The
nature of human existence holds no relevance in arguments for or against
the death penalty. Nor does it matter in any discussion of social
policy. Our decision is one of which path we shall take from right here
and now. Will we choose a path of darkness and nihilism, or will we
choose one that restores balance and harmony to earth and its
inhabitants? When we feel good about who we are we do good things.
Happiness and justice are two results of harmony – one and the same
thing.
McLeod Ganje sits above Dharamsala, which is perched at 6,400’ above
sea level. McLeod is a refuge for Tibetans who fled their homes
following the 1949 Chinese Revolution. Their spiritual leader the Dalai
Lama led them to this new mountain home, also a refuge for travelers to
India who grow weary of the hot crowded hassle-ridden lowlands. Here
there is much compassion and deafening silence, echoing cheerfully off
snow-capped peaks.
Today the 14th Dalai Lama speaks at a three-day celebration of
Tibetan culture. His presence is gentle power to an open heart. His
message is compassion, which is the central tenet of Tibetan Buddhism.
This ideal emerged from the philosophies of Ghautama Buddha, who
centuries earlier in northern India, recognized that of all the values
revered in his native Hinduism, compassion was the only one that really
mattered. The Dalai Lama does not blame the invasion by Chairman Mao’s
Red Army for his people’s tribulations. He attributes the act to the
karma of the Tibetan people themselves. He discourages divisive language
of any kind since it creates a reality where dualistic thought becomes
the paradigm. Without duality there can be no enemies. He encourages
compassionate living as the path to good karma and nirvana. To en-courage is to be courageous. To dis-courage is cowardice.
This tiny village is living peace – heaven on earth. I have not seen a
happier, more content or more compassionate people. I feel it in the
simple gourmet food, in the sparse spotless hotel rooms that you pay for
when you leave, in the suddenly smiling Westerners taken aback by the
joy of the place, and in the Himalayan foothills that surround the
village and remind me of my smallness – peaks now shrouded in gray-white
billowy clouds through which even more remote villages come into view.
This evening the sound of Tibetan gongs mingles with the chattering of
rhesus monkeys and macaques playing in the surrounding forest. The few
cars here carry Indian tourists back down the mountain, leaving in their
wake a silence so profound that I feel every dry swallow and breath of
air. The sun lays itself to rest over the Changra Valley and the gentle
hand of the Buddha blankets McLeod Ganje in starry darkness.
After my usual breakfast of lemon curd cake and mint tea at the Toepa
Restaurant, I begin my ascent towards the Tibetan children’s village,
where a festival is in its second day. I pass dancing monks in
outrageous costumes and a monastery where young monks debate with the
fire of Fidel Castro. I can’t stop walking. Soon I arrive at Dal Lake. I
turn left on a road heading up into the Daula Dar range. I pass through
the village of Niddi, where Gadi nomadic herder girls tend their sheep
and goats. At the next village of Talanu the pavement ends. I take a
narrow winding dirt path around the side of a majestic mountain and
suddenly, I am struck with awe.
My friend Avtar leads weekly meditations from our digs in Atenas, Costa Rica. This is the first attempt to record and share his latest communique. To learn more about what's up in Costa Rica, check out the web site HERE, Facebook HERE, and Avtar's blog HERE.
This is Santa Muerte, otherwise known as the Angel of Death.
There
is a criticism that as a remover of barriers I may at times remove too
many barriers between the subject and the objective.
My
response to this has been that whatever barriers you might see before
you are simply illusions to the objective that you wish to achieve.
So
for those who are not so good at “delayed gratification” know that
their expectations are not unreasonable. It is possible to have
everything you desire NOW. It is only your own creation of those
barriers that prevents instant gratification of all that you desire.
It
is to some degree (to a large degree) a product of a linear mind. You
feel that you need to deal with things one at a time, so you place
before you / between you and the objective, barriers to manage the flow
of information your brain needs to deal with.
But
your heart exists in every possibility as a multidimensional organ.
This is why sometimes you hear the suggestion that the heart can handle
what the head cannot. The heart can handle everything that is thrown at
it, it is the brain that needs to take information and events in little
pieces. By knowing this it is possible to allow the focus of the mind to
see what it needs to see and not be bothered by the fact that the heart
is taking in so much more of the whole. This is becoming whole-hearted.
So how is the mind trained to stop focusing / requiring linear events?
The
answer to this lies in the philosopher’s stone. It is a stone that
philosophers use. This is important because it is not a stone that is
used by someone who builds things, or by someone who manages money, or
by someone who wants to turn lead into gold! It is used by someone who
wishes to know how to think with their heart.
When
you are given a philosopher’s stone, you might be disappointed to learn
that it is nothing more than a clear faceted gem. You are encouraged to
look through it, and see not the gem or the gem’s facets, but the world
around you. What do you see? Probably not very much, but you become
aware that there are multiple views of the same thing. It is after all
the reflection of the world that a diviner sees when scrying a water
vessel (bowl). And then when one removes the crystal it is possible to
continue to see every aspect of the world in this manner. In the Wizard
of Oz, Dorothy might have been given emerald glasses to view the emerald
city. But perhaps by donning those glasses she was in fact able to see
the path to defeat the evil witch. The two events are not unrelated, but
a critical part of the story often left out of the final telling. [I
also hear "Agartha", in that there is a key to how it is revealed here.]
So
how does this relate to the process of alchemy? Alchemy is
transmutation, which is changing “matter” from one form to another. So
what matters to you? And how much can you change what doesn’t matter
into what does matter? That is an interesting question and key to the
process of changing lead to gold. Is changing lead to gold really what
matters to you at this time? What matters more? By analyzing these
questions you might find that you have higher priorities. So the
philosopher’s stone (that which you hold now in your heart) tends to
transform matter into that which matters. If you pay attention to your
timeline you will see that this is true in every case. This can be a
difficult thing for the mind to deal with because what matters in the
heart and what matters in the mind are not always the same thing. When
they become the same, you have unlocked the secret of the philosopher’s
stone.
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