Happy Holidays 2011
The end of the Mayan Calendar came and went and I am still here with all of you.
These lines of demarcation are for the special event that happens within the Self. The Self that is always awaiting our return to being more and more of what we came here to Be. To realize the depth of our Relatedness, our Love and our Thanksgiving for the rare privilege of existence.
Inspired Writing
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
The Hot Coal
One day a woman came to him and told him a story about a hot coal, how generation after generation this hot coal is passed down to the one who would hold it. Every time the coal is passed down the reaction is “I don’t like this at all!” and it is passed or, thrown, or projected on to “nearest and dearest” without anyone quite knowing what’s happened. Something didn’t feel good but what to do or how to get rid of it became a process of denial: ”I didn’t do anything to deserve this!” The hot coal continued to be passed down the generations.
Finally there was someone who realized that the hot coal was a source of pain for anyone who held it and said, “I’m going to find out what this is all about.” For many years the person felt like a victim, that everything was happening to them, and they had no control. “Why me?” they said and the answer came back “Why not? Might as well be you.”
Many years passed as the coal burned and twisted and filled the person with many experiences and there was no getting away from it. The person tried to make it the “others” fault at great destruction to the hearts of those who loved them. In the end the person surrendered and sat with the coal until it cooled down. The mere action of no action made the heat dissipate, while the tossing and the resistance caused friction and made the coal burn brighter.
Talking to the coal, the person said, “who are you and what do you want?” After a long time of listening the coal said “I am the disowned part of you. The one you don’t want and you “don’t like. I am the unfelt feeling of life times. I am the part of the spark that was given to each person when they entered the world, and I am your treasure.”
"I help to you discriminate and let you know what you don’t want so that you see what you do want. I am divisive, I make the differences seen and felt, and I have a tremendous energy that can be used for good or ill. Once you know who and what I am, as part of yourself, you will be able to use me to do anything with this vast reserve of energy that I Am. If you resist me I will drain you of everything you think you have.”
The person was thoughtful and realized that rather than resisting, and running from this “problem,” that in sitting with it, it had a lot to say. Instead of running from, ignoring or denying the so called “problems” that came up in the course of life, these experiences were transformed into rich “compost” that fruited the vines of the beautiful garden the Master sat in.
Many people came to learn the lessons that the coal had to teach: transmutation and discernment from sitting with that which burns the hottest and listening to the messages that these experiences had to gift. Much was understood and continued to unfold in the coming time, but from now on the hot coal and the person where one, and all was well.
In a Perfect World of Love
Friday, August 1, 2008
In a Perfect World of Love
It has valiantly been doing its job of protecting and adapting. Coupled with the influence of toxic metals, chemicals and drugs, the brain creates a disease or a system failure waiting to happen. The sensitive neural conditioning actually starts to take on the appearance of post-traumatic stress disorder, OCD's or an autoimmune disorder.
The treatment of brain chemistry imbalances with the use of prescription drugs is only masking the underlying condition. The designed action of the drug is to block receptor sensitivity or neutralize the excessive natural chemicals without addressing the original creation of the condition. Over time, as the underlying condition worsens and we go to stronger and stronger masking agents, we eventually have to deal with our imbalanced nature through the physical manifestation of disease. As we balance our brain, we create a new perception of life and a new world of optimal health.” James C, Cole
From my Ayurveda Tutor at Wellpark College:
SRINIVASAMURTHY VIJAYENDRA
"When you watched this movie “What the bleep Do We Know" the scientist talked about Columbus and the Aztecs not to being able to see the ship when it arrived because they had no example of anything like that in their experience. Their neurons where not developed to identify it until the shaman came and pointed it out and then they said, “Yes, we can see the ship.”
It is a similar experience when you do not have another perspective and continue to believe that there is no reality outside of the one you know. It is not just the brain in your head, which is doing the job of making sure all the channels communicate with each other well. There is a little brain in every part of your body. Every cell has it’s own intelligence, every cell is its own being, because every cell is an organism in itself. What is that which holds all these millions of organisms together to become your or me?
In India, 3,000 years produced a generations of healthy people and thus they had time for wisdom. Why would someone sit in the Himalayas and ask “what is self?” in search of self-realization, what’s the meaning behind creation?” It is because they didn’t have to worry about their sinusitis, their diabetes or their mortgages. They created a Life Style, which helped them not to worry about these aspects. They had a preparedness to look at the more meaningful aspects of life and thus came the wisdom of Vedas."
SRINIVASAMURTHY VIJAYENDRA
MG: For me these two ideas: one from the internet when I was investigating the biology of fight or flight on the nervous system as it relates to the lungs and heart called “In a perfect world of Love” related so well to what my tutor was say regarding the way the Reishis of old were able to bring forth the Vedas: it was because they didn’t live surrounded by the constant toxic soup we all swim in: the tragedies, real and imagined, that plummet our health into a perpetual state of imbalance and disease.
We don’t even have a community to uphold those of us who are single parents, who go through the ravages of divorce, those of us who have lost EVERYTHING we based our lives on: jobs, partners, homes, and health. The poverty of life that co-opts the peace needed to bring forth revelation: something that is inherent in us as our good.
I have tossed around the hot potato of values, morality, virtue, good and evil and what I keep coming up with is LOVE. Love changes everything. Until we come to this experience, which society denies us, then we may go from one external something to another without any satisfaction, and, at the same time, sensing that something's missing or there has got to be more to life than what we are seeing, feeling or experiencing.
In my searching I have realized that things are perfect in the moment, right here and now. Even if the worst thing imaginable happens to us we are in the perfect place because our actions or Karma have placed us here. Instead of cursing the externals for bringing us here, we get to thank them for freeing us from our Karmas, giving us a chance to examine where we are and how we got there and thus be able to be in a position to chose again from a place of Love, versus what ever it was that prompted us to be in this position in the first place.
Like:” she took the money and run.” How often do we ask the question: "Why?" There is a slender thread that leads back to how we got ourselves into the situation we are currently faced with. Take any situation from the World Trade Center to why bad things happen to good people. Poverty drives this machine: poverty of consciousness, of resources, of understanding and especially Love. There is a connection to wellness or ill health, experience, environment and their is a remedy, a way to come back into balance within our separate worlds. Taking 100% responsibility for what we have created is a first step.
When we come from a place of Love there are no considerations at all. We become aware of this present moment as being the beginning of a whole new chapter, or new world. Anything is possible. We are open and allowing.
Which gets me back to the other idea I had of the holding tank; the way station we get to sit in until the time is ripe, we are ripe, to pop into our true beings, our authentic selves: authors of our own experience. Even though there is nothing to do about anything, we can unravel the Karmic actions by bringing ourselves into balance with what we know to be true: whether it be values, good health, forgiving everything etc. Here in lies the compost of our ripening souls and it is from this rich dark compost our future self is born.
Enough for today. 2/8/8
Verge- Edge-Margin Notes for 27 August 2010.
- Thoughts on notes, note taking and writing in the margins (our little Verges).
- A note book is a container in which to put our sacred thoughts.
- A book is many things: entertainment, escape, an awakening, a FAQ, a biography, an instructive.
- The iPod. is shaped like an note book in which you store your sacred songs.
- The church is a temple in which the sacred was shaped by The Council of Nicea about 350 AD - many ideas taken from ancient pagan practices and astrology! Did you ever notice: the door of the church are like opening the pages of a book? Religion contains people based on hope and fear.
- Speech was the first evolution, the first turning, the wheel. Then came agriculture and people living in community; the printing press; the industrial revolution; The information age - just because you can find it on the net doesn’t mean it’s true. Whose information is it anyway?
But how do we filter what is truth? Whose reflection are we seeking? In the end it all comes back to the Self. Be your own author. Write your own book.
I believe the journaling is an impulse to make sense of an insane world, as well as a way to get the voices out of our head. It is an act of desperation and creation to be able to express the inner world to the outer.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Ocean of Love
You were right when you saw you were creating this play. You see the people, the players, the cast and you see that some are in pain and some are entrenched in the world. Yet they all have a way, which is magical, to go to the deeper places and so there is a recognition where you rejoice upon meeting them.
Do not be deterred from your course. Keep connecting and going deeper inside to the mystic places. Keep your heart open and creative and free. Move your body like never before while you have one, because as you go towards this symbolic tipping point, this place of no return, you must be ready for the comfort of your body to be light as air, with your feet solidly on the ground of your being. This is the place of safety and refuge.
Build that temple of love within your being and be that place that issues forth the light for all to see. Be the representative of love that you seek on the outside to make it know that it is possible to attain enlightenment - like the light house you sometimes see in your visions showing you the way around rocky shoals to safe water.
Not much is need to go to this place. The smallest of bags, the lightest of wings to take you home to the Ocean of Love. My little salt person, you are continually arising within yourself to meet me and melt into my embrace.
No yoga, mantra, tantra need be. You are already here in the heart space of love. You've made the distinctions that the three D world have afforded you which are the sharp outlines of what is helpful and not so great. With no judgment, you witness and you relate back to the heart. The heart knows what you do not know. Drop in to that place to know where to go next. Rest and take your time and go easy and simple. Simplify at all times.
Relationships truly are the arks of our ascension. As you are preparing to ascend we are waiting for you on the other side in celebration and homecoming.
"Swim little fishy, swim if you can" over all the perceived obstacles in the waters and rivers of life. Observe and sing your love song for all the world to hear. Sing your heart song. Sing. Sing as if there were no tomorrow. Prepare for Reunion.Monday 25 January 2010
Magic Mirror
Sunday, May 2, 2010
"Life is like a ride at an amusement park. When you go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. You enjoy the ride for a while and then you come to the point where you ask: “Is this real or is this just a ride?” Others have remembered and have come back to remind us “don’t be afraid ever because this is just a ride.” And we kill these people . It’s just a ride. It doesn’t matter because it’s just a ride no choice, no effort, no job, no savings account, just a choice right now between fear and love."
Each one of us has the magic mirror. The secular critic in all of us holds us the magic mirror and goes Whew! Big trouble, we need this. This is important.
Contributing work. So many of us are dedicated to holding up the mirror of “what’s wrong with us?” What’s wrong must be illumined.
The next part is part of the process and the journey. We wave our hands over it and turn it into a window: and look how beautiful it could be. New precious life, and re-dedication.
With a wave of our hand it becomes a door, “let’s go there now.” This is “window, mirror, door” time. Focusing where we focus will begin to open up. Whenever we focus on something, look to how does it make us feel when we focus on it, versus beating the drum of what’s wrong?
The whole system we live in drills into us that we are powerless, weak that our society is evil, that it’s fragmented. It’s all a big fat lie. We are powerful, beautiful, extraordinary. There is no reason why we can’t understand who we truly are where we are going. There is no reason why the average person cannot be fully empowered. WE are incredibly powerful beings.
I spent so many years of my life trying to be good at something. I thought “I’m not o.k. the way I am but if I got good at things then maybe I’d be powerful.” I had the game wrong. The game was to find out what I already was.
Taken partially from The visionary Activist Show - Caroline Casey 2010
Each one of us has the magic mirror. The secular critic in all of us holds us the magic mirror and goes Whew! Big trouble, we need this. This is important.
Contributing work. So many of us are dedicated to holding up the mirror of “what’s wrong with us?” What’s wrong must be illumined.
The next part is part of the process and the journey. We wave our hands over it and turn it into a window: and look how beautiful it could be. New precious life, and re-dedication.
With a wave of our hand it becomes a door, “let’s go there now.” This is “window, mirror, door” time. Focusing where we focus will begin to open up. Whenever we focus on something, look to how does it make us feel when we focus on it, versus beating the drum of what’s wrong?
The whole system we live in drills into us that we are powerless, weak that our society is evil, that it’s fragmented. It’s all a big fat lie. We are powerful, beautiful, extraordinary. There is no reason why we can’t understand who we truly are where we are going. There is no reason why the average person cannot be fully empowered. WE are incredibly powerful beings.
I spent so many years of my life trying to be good at something. I thought “I’m not o.k. the way I am but if I got good at things then maybe I’d be powerful.” I had the game wrong. The game was to find out what I already was.
Taken partially from The visionary Activist Show - Caroline Casey 2010
Sunday, September 18, 2011
True Values
True Values
I have chosen to listen to the inner voice - The One who Informs My Every Breath. When I do that I am never being led by the nose, whether it be, "do this, be that, think this way, or to buy this idea, or product."
Do we need to improve on perfection?
We are o.k. just as we are. This is the starting point: to become aware of who we are and what we stand for. From this comes social movement and from social movement comes the inner power to create the world a new, moment by moment, sung in a different tune. When we are not listening to one another it's hard to hear the love song, and invitation to step up to a greater wisdom and awakening. It's about being authentic - that's what leadership is about: being the change you wish to see in the world. Living it - Being it. Revealing your core - your juicy heart.
Gandhi saw an immediate need and filled it. He exampled his convictions and he effected social change. He went to jail for it. He was killed for his beliefs because they challenged the agendas of the money changers, the handlers and the ones who hire assassins. If you want to effect change you do it in a large group with no leader and you spread an idea to a group of people who are ripe for it.
There is no fixing of any kind. There is a" Being-ness that leads to action," as Amit Goswami says, "Do- Be-do-Be- do." The Tiger is chasing its tail as we step aside to let it pass. There will be a real need for "Havens' on Earth" were people who are in so much pain and tenderness, who come to refresh themselves. - an Oasis that belongs to all of us in our own unique flavor.
Let's put our resources and finances together to create projects that self-generate income into Genuine Wealth Funds so it's not up to one person or group but rather opens to the flow of abundance that is already there, not seeking a thing, all are inclusive. and where humanity benefits. We lay this at the feet of the Indigenous Peoples of the Earth - the Meek who have been stripped of everything ho have nothing to lose - these are fast becoming our children and jobless as the Economies of the world are flattened. There is an immediate need to shift our resources, ourselves towards our own abundant communities based on True values. Let's do it Now!
I have chosen to listen to the inner voice - The One who Informs My Every Breath. When I do that I am never being led by the nose, whether it be, "do this, be that, think this way, or to buy this idea, or product."
Do we need to improve on perfection?
We are o.k. just as we are. This is the starting point: to become aware of who we are and what we stand for. From this comes social movement and from social movement comes the inner power to create the world a new, moment by moment, sung in a different tune. When we are not listening to one another it's hard to hear the love song, and invitation to step up to a greater wisdom and awakening. It's about being authentic - that's what leadership is about: being the change you wish to see in the world. Living it - Being it. Revealing your core - your juicy heart.
Gandhi saw an immediate need and filled it. He exampled his convictions and he effected social change. He went to jail for it. He was killed for his beliefs because they challenged the agendas of the money changers, the handlers and the ones who hire assassins. If you want to effect change you do it in a large group with no leader and you spread an idea to a group of people who are ripe for it.
There is no fixing of any kind. There is a" Being-ness that leads to action," as Amit Goswami says, "Do- Be-do-Be- do." The Tiger is chasing its tail as we step aside to let it pass. There will be a real need for "Havens' on Earth" were people who are in so much pain and tenderness, who come to refresh themselves. - an Oasis that belongs to all of us in our own unique flavor.
Let's put our resources and finances together to create projects that self-generate income into Genuine Wealth Funds so it's not up to one person or group but rather opens to the flow of abundance that is already there, not seeking a thing, all are inclusive. and where humanity benefits. We lay this at the feet of the Indigenous Peoples of the Earth - the Meek who have been stripped of everything ho have nothing to lose - these are fast becoming our children and jobless as the Economies of the world are flattened. There is an immediate need to shift our resources, ourselves towards our own abundant communities based on True values. Let's do it Now!
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