Archive for April, 2008

April 29, 2008: 6:52 pm: webmasterUncategorized

Without analyzing circumstance or life, there are some obvious patterns that coincide with “Cause and effect.”  The mind does tend to do much more with this than is effective.  However, I can look at the details in my life and know quite well that I have had a great hand in the creation of it – right down to the minutest detail.  This topic can be a useful one, to the extent that I AM willing to be actually present.  Though the gages that the mind uses are often colorized and inaccurate, I can allow myself two privileges.  One privilege is in knowing that I AM responsible.  The second privilege is in knowing that, in taking true responsibility, I must release the complete picture that I think I’m aware of into the largest field of inclusive radiance.  This is often called surrendering.  As I AM  surrendering to the absolute, I AM surrendering to Love.  This is not a form of evading taking responsibility.  This is the most complete way that I can allow all of the factors to be encompassed through the complete and inclusive Creative Process of Life.
 

The mind on its own chooses to arrive at false beliefs, as the mind’s solo journey speaks as if it knows saying that this begets that and that begets this, etc.  There is no room for discovery for anyone that thinks that they already know.  I can arrive anywhere in my life with a few different types of presence about me.  There is the ‘I already know presence’ (well that has to be a lie).  ‘There is the ignorant stance that pretends that it’s not aware of anything (and though this closer to the truth – its still a lie!’  But then there is also a stance of ‘open presence’ that holds the wisdom of living awareness – but is still earnest in discovery for what is coming forth, knowing that it cannot ever completely know!  This last presence is always the truest that anyone can have in their experience because it is open and connected.  While the mind arrives at certain points of hypothesis, it must be allowed the continuous release of it or it dries in its own cement.  We tend to want to use what we think is absolute, as a foundation to build things on or from.  Cement is often used to create a foundation for houses.  But for life, the only true foundation is an open one that moves in the living flow.  When we allow our truest foundation the opportunity of expanding and contracting to encompass our world, we begin to know what we are each here to do.  Our lives need to be able to be released into the true foundation.  The foundation that seems to be the most stable and resilient, in my experience, is Spirit.
 

Let my common sense work with the simplest approach to all things as I responsibly acknowledge the begetting relationship of life (Cause and effect).  While I do need to understand the world of ‘Cause and effect,’ I also need to release everything into the largest field of encompassment.  This platform is well beyond needing the name that give to it – but I choose to call it Spirit or the Spirit of Love.  Whether you name Christ, Buddha or any name that rings “The Divine One” in your heart, it is always based on a foundation of Love. “Let Love radiant without concern for results” or concern for the names that Love goes by.  Just appreciate the authors of Love…  There are many extensions from the One!  Let no author of Love be less in your heart.  As we each know the Truth in our hearts, we find that there is only Love to be offered and to be shared.

April 28, 2008: 6:04 pm: webmasterUncategorized

Where does One stand?  The answer to this question always comes in the form of a declaration.  No one really knows where another stands until it is absolutely declared from their own spirit – their own words.  As I allow Spirit to move through me, my declaration resounds at the deepest level possible.  Less than my personal declaration, through my unique spirit, is really not much more than me nodding my head – just going along with the program.  True passion and the zeal that occupies my inner soul can never be shown fully without allowing my spirit the freedom to declare the Holiness of Spirit through these unique capacities.
 

To honor Christ through my living form, I must declare through my complete capacities all that my spirit can offer.  Who could keep themselves reserved and away from their complete declaration of Oneness expressed through every part of their consciousness?  Is Life not waiting for each One to declare the truth of the only One that they truly know, from within and through their capacities?
 

The United State of America was wrought and founded by ones that drew up something called the Declaration of Independence.  Should your spirit offer less of a declaration than what our noble predecessors knew the importance of intuitively?  Though there are different forms of declaration, we each have much to resound, to offer outward, to share and declare so that Spirit is allowed its fullest representation through you - through each One.  The other side of the coin, which is equally imperative, is for each one of us to joyfully and completely welcome and encourage each and every One to come forth as their unique spirit was designed to do.  Deep down inside, there is no one amongst you that does not wish to be Loved whole.  “Let me be your comfort and you be mine” as we each allow Spirit to be completely expressed…

April 27, 2008: 9:49 pm: webmasterUncategorized

The words of Spirit don’t often pertain to earthly subject matter.  The words that Spirit speaks are offered to orient oneself to.  It is the place (the Source) of stillness and peace.  We talk of speaking in tongues and yet most do not know what that means.  There is not one exclusive language that equals speaking in tongues.  “Tongues” are the language of each person’s heart.  A dialogue is afforded directly to one’s spirit.
 

It is the Holy Spirit’s peaceful yet radiant direction that allows my spirit (we each may know and say this) to move with what is natural through the Angelic template of mind and heart as it is actually oriented to the Holy Spirit.  Our consciousness is an antenna for Spirit – the Holy Spirit.  But it requires our absolute quietness in Being.  It is the greatest mountain that was ever metaphorically conceived, within one’s own capacities, that One must embark on to hear the whispers of Spirit!
 

For me, the calls of Spirit bring a sensing of the need of staying very still, in these days.  There is not a lot to say, but there is something to know within each of our hearts.  Perhaps, after the mind finishes its usual superfluous examinations of everything, from every direction conceivable that ignorance and unassurance can come up with, it may begin to actually start being present. Thinking that we know the direction where someone needs to head themselves in (including ourselves) is so far away from the truth of our Being.
 

As I actually know Being, I AM the invitation that never even needs a response.  The true invitation is only to BE!  When an invitation is actually an invitation, it is not an invitation that calls to any result or any creation in form.  The invitation is just one of Love.  Being is state that can be referenced to – but only through the absolute stillness of it.
 

A child looks to his or parent and might say “I just want to be with you.”  The child (sometimes) knows much more than adults do about “BEING.”  What is more valuable in life than your presence?  It is not intellect through extraneous pontifications of the mind.  It is not the whining heart.  It is surely not the noise that one makes as they seemingly get bored or afraid of quiet moments.  No.  Being complete in the quietude of “Being” is the beginning of the invitation, and extension, of Spirit.  Unless one allows the quietude of their Being to open the atmosphere for Spirit, one will continue to regurgitate and recreate that which has passed – and what has already past is very much dead!  That is why it has already passed.  Only Spirit knows what is to BE in accordance with the Holy Spirit’s Design of Life.

April 25, 2008: 8:32 pm: webmasterUncategorized

And even the birds began taking flight to try and escape, as the mighty winds burst forth with their galling force. Trees uprooted as waters began to rise, darkened from the loosened earth. Lightening so brightly filled the sky that day seemed intermittent with night, as the flashes seemed to have no end. The howl of the wind was so loud that the earth seemed to vibrate through its path, as the rain fell so hard and fast that one’s eyes could barely see.

Nothing would ever be the same again, as a turbulent and stark ending brings forth a new beginning from bare and basic remains. Something begins to be known, as we each can carry nothing into this new place. For all of earthy things are no more, all of the things that man has built that serve no true purpose. And a beautiful rainbow will show us that our simple earth is still so perfect, as the surviving birds take their flight once again.

Life demands our simplest Being, as we each learn what it means to walk hand in hand. Holding another’s hand in Attunement with Love has been forgotten until this new day that shall come. We had lived life cutting trees to make paper, trying to write down what we should already have known in our hearts. The natural state of “Together as One,” we tried to replace with something that we called a “Tone,” so as to fit into the ‘yester’ feelings and forms from very old and other times that had already passed. No one wanted to take responsibility for Being present NOW – always fearing that they/we are not enough. The concern for what ‘was provided’ had taken over for what ‘One is providing.’ No one knew how to become naked and BE unashamed.

There is no shame in Heaven. As some of us will learn in due time, we can only walk in His hallowed space without the cloaks that we formed and created to hold an illusionary identity. The Heaven demands our nakedness. The efforts of recollection give way to my able presence of Being. The skins of the old peal off, as the serpent’s skin is left new, fresh, clean and naked. We realize that our skins only become old as they die and begin to peal away. The death happens in our hearts. Our skin only mirrors our hearts.

The Heaven is a place where I care so much about you, and all of the you’s, that only Love and gratitude typifies my outlook in every direction. Even the games that will be taught to our young will be well thought out, as it’s realized that one only wins when each and every one wins together. We will not let a spirit of competition ever separate our hearts. Love will always be elevated to become the host of all victory. The strong will assist the weaker and the weaker ones will sooth the stronger with appreciation and their unique other forms of strength, created through the Love in their hearts. In Heaven there is gratitude expressed for each One and everything. This consciousness is what is natural and also affords the natural knowledge and ability to care for the earth and each other properly.

April 22, 2008: 5:07 pm: webmasterUncategorized

It has been said by many learned ones that the whole universe is contained within each one of us.  Every atom and molecule has a story of its own from its travels.  Each of our bodies are constructed from these atoms that have lived lives well beyond our knowing.  Imagine that there are parts of your body that have possibly been traveling for eons, playing a multitude of roles throughout the universe.  So when one thinks of themselves as small or insignificant, in actuality parts of you have played a role in all things at a levels of Being and that you will always hold a true and very real connection to them.
 

When one realizes the vast potential and possibilities of being so connected to the universe, it can be both enlightening and bring great questions that call to ones usefulness and purpose.  We look at our bodies, our organs and various systems and realize that there is a miraculous design that hosts our very life.  To apply this reasoning to the universe as a whole, one can begin to entertain a larger system with a specific and miraculous design also.  Going back to the glands and systems of our bodies, we can accurately say that when one organ or any body part is affected that it also has affects the rest of the body. This would also have to be true of the larger body that we are a part of and very connected to - the universe.  As our actual living experience usually only directs us consciously to the smaller aspect (our physical bodies), we don’t think in terms of being very connected to anything else.  Even in the case of our bodies, we try and slide along while not taking good care of them.  In fact, we so often try and take advantage of our bodies, abusing them versus caring for them through natural healthy design.  For the most part, we are not aware of the natural health design of our bodies which is divine in nature, its systems and/or the other parts of us that compose our Being.  We are aware of some of the factors that we discern through our consciousness that we presently have.  However, our current state of understanding is convoluted as are our perceptions.  It will take a gradual overall healing process that will head us in the right direction as that which is of the true design is allowed to be recreated.  Lifetimes and even several generations may be required as the shift continues to our full adherence to divine design.  The lesson could not be much greater for man and for the rest of the universe that patiently waits mans recovery.
 

Invariably, we may be driving our living vehicles with our tires only have full.  You can’t go too quickly in this particular state.  You also use a lot more energy to move forth and turning seems to require more effort.  But we are slowly moving forth and we’re doing it very much together even though most are not particularly aware of it.  It is a destined travel through eternity that we’re all on together, as one true Being that is awakening to divine purpose and understanding.  There is no one that is exempt  There is no One without essential purpose.  As one cell, atom and molecule is the conduit and platform for all of life’s expression, each and all are contained within you and within me.  Remember that we are truly One at every real level of our Being!

April 21, 2008: 6:30 pm: webmasterUncategorized

Years ago, there was a simple exercise that I participated in through the martial arts.  I was blindfolded and stood in an empty area where soft rubber balls were thrown at me.  In the beginning, as I tried to focus on where the balls might be coming from (trying to anticipate it) I found that I got hit by the balls and felt very disconnected and blind.  It was like getting pummeled by things in life that I felt I had no power over – as I was blind and disconnected.  But then I let myself relax, as I was instructed by my Sensei to do, and just feel what was actually happening.  As I did, in fact, relax sufficiently I found that my arms and rest of my body moved naturally and I was actually able to block and/or avoid almost all of the rubber balls before they hit me.  The more that I relaxed into my place of Being, the more effective I was.  Being actually available with my being put me into a place of connectedness to that which was actually present and in creative motion.  I have found the same to be true through all of life.  As I relax and presence my Being, I find myself with the experience of being connected – Being at-One.  Actually, I cannot think of anything that this does not apply to.  When I open my sensory apertures, not being focused on the form, I begin to be able move in conjunction and in tandem with what is really moving in the Creative Process.
 

Mankind deludes himself in thinking that he can know more of what is pertinent to the Creative Process by focusing on the forms of things of anything.  Our sciences, as created by man, are focused on the forms.  So called, man’s objectivity, relates to man’s application of forms through a tunnel vision of disconnectedness.  As I look for an end or a result, I am blinded to the larger and most creative process.  We see one dry branch on a tree and begin watering the whole tree until it is drowned in water.  Seeing only part of the equation, through our focus (or lack thereof) does not serve the fitness of the whole.  It is only through my availability that I may move in rhythm, creatively at-One with the Source of my true Being.  The place of Source, is my Source and truth of my Being, is the absolute place from which Divinity is expressed.  Being truly available in life boils down to more than just being able to block a few rubber balls, but life is all one thing that includes the variety of what one can perceive as needing to move with circumstances or with your particular aspect of what might be construed as another rubber ball. All of the aspects of life in motion can include my participatory conscious availability.  It all works best when I AM truly present!

April 19, 2008: 4:57 pm: webmasterUncategorized

Many or most of us want others to agree with us.  The type of agreement that most have sought after applies to an idea or an outworking in form.  There are many aspects of this type of agreement that individuals find attractive.  The alignment of another’s opinion, interest or agreement is a form of support.  We feel supported when we are agreed with.  The tricky thing about relying on ideas or forms as the conduit or foundation for a shared agreement; is that ideas tend to prove incorrect or insufficient as the forms of things continuously change.  The spirit shared between people is always subject to the quality and depth of their shared agreement or lack thereof.  As the quality of our relationships is a byproduct of agreement, one often observes instability as ideas or forms are the basis for our agreement.  It’s like trying to walk a tight rope in gail force winds that continually shift or change (very difficult or impossible).
 

Through the life process, many of us have come to the realization that agreement is a tone of allowance and interest in harmonious blending that can be from a higher place within us – a foundation or tone expressed through our capacities of allowance.  The learned one does not choose to allow misalignment of ideas or forms to foster the opposite of agreement or a disagreement.  Instead, there is an allowance through our patience of letting the creative process bring everything into its own creative outworking that allows agreement.  This is a way of living where decisions are not needed to be made and choices are not based on forms but rather the next step is naturally and harmoniously revealed.  Agreement is a letting process that often requires patience such that an interest for the tone of agreement outweighs any particular outworking or result.
 

As one is truly concerned with optimum results in circumstances, inclusively, one allows or surrenders to always “letting” things work out naturally.  This level of agreement comes from the highest place possible in consciousness.  It is the agreement that I may offer to life and through its Creative Process.  While each of us learn to allow ourselves to participate in life’s living process, where our agreement is based in the spirit of agreement; a tone is created - an atmosphere of Oneness, life is empowered by invitation to creatively manifest from Source (God).
 

By offering my spirit of agreement continually, I stand in a place that says “Yes” to life.  I don’t have to agree with any particular idea or belief system to come a place where I AM offering the spirit of agreement with life.  Through this level of agreement, I AM in my true place through all circumstances and outworking through my absolute creative connectedness to the whole – of life itself!

April 18, 2008: 4:44 pm: webmasterUncategorized

Without exception, every Being on this planet is an invaluable aspect of Creation.  But, sometimes, we look at each other and cannot understand or see any value at all.  There are times that the qualities that we deem as goodness in a person seem absent.  However, I have always been grateful to find that there are reasons for everything that I perceive in another.  The key to the acceptance of another has little or nothing to do with agreeing with them.  I have always found that if I let something work itself through me, my inner experience of another takes my understanding to a higher level.  From a higher perspective, I begin to realize appreciation once again.  As I see that what a person provides through their spirit is actually very connected to a much larger and vital creative process, I find myself going beyond mere acceptance (or just the toleration of the person) to an actual experience of deep appreciation.  I also find that the process of my gaining appreciation has much more to do with me than anything else.  The effectiveness of the spirit of appreciation is almost greater than any other.  Being Loved and appreciated completes each One of us at a very deep and spiritual level.
 

There is a poem that I wrote just about 6 weeks before 9/11.  It is called:
 

An Awakening
 Calls call from the darkened halls, through mankind’s piercing wane
The tremor of waiting doubt, where nothing remains the same
 

Dawning an awakening world, by the wielding of a sword by Knight
The death of undeserving flesh, as the rebirth of Holy Right
 Buildings and monuments crumble, that were built in vein
Unveiling the bare beginnings of beauty and birth remain
 

Split a piece of wood and I am there, lift a stone and you will find me
Unmasking the naked truth and perfection that mirrors Thee
 

As I look back and read these words, I remember that the heartaches of the world are always products of the hurt that people have experienced by others not understanding or appreciating them.  People have tried to replace the experience of being loved by others by getting greedier.  There is an old cartoon and children’s book called “The Grinch.”  As through the depiction of this story, even a child knows and can appreciate the power that Love can have on the world or on any individual.  Do you remember, the heart of the Grinch grew 5 times because he was Loved?  The meanest one of them all proved to have the largest heart – the largest capacity to Love!  Everyone, at some level (myself included) has had a much too intimate inner revelation of who the Grinch can sometimes be.  Hey, do have a mirror handy?  I’ve already looked at my Grinch.  But the power of Love always triumphs.  We don’t have to wait until the end of the story to close the chapters of being disloyal and unloving to each other.  As buildings crumble that were not meant to be, we can acknowledge the loving truth of each other – because that is what is truly meant to be!

April 17, 2008: 3:52 pm: webmasterUncategorized

In my experience, the type of hindsight where I find value is not one where I am required to leave the presence of, or from, where I AM.  I believe, as I have been given, we each have been given a consciousness with a vast reservoir of information that is naturally stored in the subconscious mind.  That which is needed, and of true value, in each moment naturally rises into consciousness without a grinding effort.  Basically, as I truly allow myself to BE – I already know that which is needed to be known.  Now, in the world of man, this probably sounds outrageous because of the constancy of agendas that man has put in place.  The creative natural flow has a design that is continually revealed, but this is not an isolated agenda.  It is a free flowing, inclusively radiant, encompassing generation.  But here we all are in a process of evolution that characterizes its current and evolving state.  To realize that there is still very much of a reality to having both the experience of Being Angelic, and also of being in transformation realizing our Angelic nature, is the combination state which we are experiencing.  It is said, “Keep your feet on the ground as you keep reaching for the stars.”  Reaching is not always an easy thing, but it does assist our evolution.
 

The key of knowing more fully the Angelic truth of Being seems to point to just Being present.  This, more than anything else, aligns oneself through purposeful conscious awareness.  Complete presence brings the fullest awareness of perfect Being.  This is a delightful experience where an experience of awe is everpresent.  This is the experience that transcends the evolution into Being.  The effect that comes from Being is a radiant effect of unified radiation and blessing.  Looking at the word “Being’ can compose an interesting point to consider because people think of a state of “Being” as some kind of guru seated in the lotus position in some kind of meditative dream state.  Though I have, and still use that position periodically for radiant meditative purposes, it doesn’t necessarily have to have anything to do with the simple state of Being to which I refer.  If a person were never taught to sit or to be in any particular position, they would invariably still know Being!  For me, Being is simply just a state with increasing awareness.  I do not speak of awareness as being something where the brain is drenched with more information or stimuli.  Being is an open focus where everything is at-One – perceived through connectedness, in its entirety and completeness.  But one doesn’t, and should not, ignore the details of the evolution of our world from a Being state.  An aware person is not ignorant and not complacent.  Nor does he or she wish to be.  But an aware person comes from, and creates through, all circumstances without leaving their true point, and expression, of Being.

April 15, 2008: 3:21 pm: webmasterUncategorized

There is a delicate conscious balance and great difference between being in the flow and trying to realize a destination.  Being in the true flow may very well depend upon our ability to relax in Spirit.  There are choices that are hosted by great effort and then there is just the natural compulsion to move.  If there was a history of our collective journey that depicted natural abilities of our flowing with Spirit, we would probably not struggle with it nearly as much.  Creating a steady course in life, in this light, could not be more essential to our “whole” purpose (the purpose of the whole).  The word purpose is a huge one because it helps keep the mind stayed in a selfless direction.  That is, of course, as your purpose is that of selfless service.  However, the mind just can’t seem to wait for an opportunity to try and take over.  One’s focus of purpose can go to the next step which is that of “availability.”  Singular fulfillment of purpose always negates the purpose of and for the whole.
 

There is an invitation that Spirit extends for One to take Loving responsibility for the whole.  This message from Spirit seems to be, often, misinterpreted.  The message does not mean that a single individual should try to direct others.  Instead, by virtue of the individual’s living, there is a simple demonstration of living in life’s flow.  Mastery is the outworking of ease through all circumstances.  A person that stands in a place critiquing others does not know the ease associated with mastery.  As I AM in the flow, I demonstrate the ease of mastery.  An honest look at my own life reveals that there is still a ways to go in probably most areas of this consideration.  Thank God that the Creative Process allows me, allows each of us, to continually discover the way of the flow.  Eventually, our personal boats (my personal boat) may travel in the flow at a sufficient pace whereby I let Spirit do all of the steering.  As each of us try to take over the steering, we always find ourselves out of the flow and having to negotiate the wakes that are present as one is out of the flow – removed from the natural channel of movement.  Let each of our lives remain in life’s perfect flow and let that begin with me in every NOW.  This doesn’t mean that I don’t take notice of the things in life that are around the mighty flow of life’s river.  This doesn’t mean that I should not make special effort to improve the conditions of life that are a result of not having been, or not being, in the flow.  But all true outworking is found through ease of Spirit and invitation.  I can still be passionate as I extend invitation to others to join me as we joyfully take responsibility together.  To be in the flow of Spirit is the greatest of joys.