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This is the year the world begins to reawaken.
If you watch carefully you can already start to see signs of it in the news. Toward the end of this year, you will see things begin to accelerate.
The dye is cast. All is well and wisely put.
I have repeatedly advised as to how to prepare yourself… how to position yourself wisely. It is now up to you.
Time is of the essence.
“No man e’er was glorious, who was not laborious.” – Benjamin Franklin
I would like to add that all want to be glorious, few are willing to be laborious. But what does it mean to truly be laborious? It is not about how much effort one expends. It is not about courage. It is about how deeply one senses the Divine within. Once sensed deeply and fully enough, one will do whatever it takes to follow that, wherever it leads No mountain is too high. No river is too wide. No ocean is too deep. One then with one pointed focus surmounts all obstacles no matter how laborious, no matter how long, no matter how far.
It has been said that the original love songs were written to God. In truth, all love songs have been, are, and will be written to God. All is God. When ones vision is clear ones beloved is seen to be what it is… God. God comes in many forms. Yet they are often veiled. The veil leads people astray. But the innermost longing is always the same one thing. The more clearly you hear the call, the more direct your path, the greater you become.
It is just that simple.
“He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.” – Kempis, Thomas
Everything exists on all levels of the reality continuum. It is fascinating to ponder what level a quote like the one above was conceived upon.
What did Kempis mean by “loves God?” Was it essentially an emotional level? Was it a level of enlightenment? Was it Cosmic or dualistic? Could it even be the level of Unity with God? And what did he mean by deed “for the common good”? Was he simply a good deed doer? Or was he living a life aligned with “the cosmic flow”?
Certainly, all levels of reality are interconnected. But the level an individual functions from most directly, most fully, says everything about who the person is and exactly what his words mean to him.
To understand a person is to sense, not the literal meaning of the words he speaks, but the level from which he speaks those words.
Pamla took this picture of my truck. The tire tracks were not planned at all!
I think there must be some good quotes to go along with it. Please feel free to offer your suggestion.
I thought of:
Nature organizes best.
Or
I’d rather be lucky than good.
My response to MB’s comment on “the Razors Edge” Blog:
Define “True.”
What does it mean for something to be true? If it is not refuted by anything… if it applies on all levels to all that is… is it then true? Well, not necessarily. You could conceive of something like “The Evil Deceiver” that philosophers conceptualized… sort of like the movie, “The Matrix”.
Yet there is a principle (Occam’s Razor) that says the simplest solution is the correct one. Once you grasp what I am saying, then it is so simple… so clear… so full… so all encompassing… so straightforward… so obviously true. Beyond that, it touches a place inside that knows… that has always known… that has no doubt it is true. That is not faith. It is not belief. It is called Knowledge with a capital “K”. All comes around full circle. You awaken to that one thing out of which all was born.
As you meditate and evolve, your perception of ‘it’ becomes clearer and clearer. You understand and feel it more and more fully. You become increasingly certain of its validity. It all starts to make more and more sense to you. Everything starts coming together within you. It can be compared to climbing a mountain. First, you are in the valley. The thick brush and trees obstruct your view. It is not possible to determine the lay of the land. As you climb higher, you begin to glimpse what lies a bit further out in one direction. However, once the mountain peak is reached, you see for 360 degrees. Everything falls into place and is clear, simple, obvious, and oh so beautiful.
The universe is born out of pure consciousness. A number of modern physicists say that the unified field is in fact, quite simply, pure consciousness. All is that. Like all in a dream is born out of your consciousness. Knowledge is structured in consciousness. As your consciousness expand and evolves your understanding of everything changes. That process culminates in a state where everything comes together. It is like standing on the mountain peak. What before seemed theoretical at best, is suddenly obvious. Yet as you ascend the mountainside, your feeling for it… you sense of its nature… becomes more and more clear. It all starts to make more and more sense. At some point, you reach the summit. You are certain it is true even though you still have a little way to go before you are actually at the peak of the mountain with a totally unobstructed view all the way around. Everything maps. Just as the mountain climber longs for that moment when the 360 degree view is first experienced, every individual longs for that moment when all of life comes together within them. That is true of all life, all beings, all existence. Everything gravitates back to wholeness… back to Oneness… back to God. See?
It is not just a concept. Everything clicks into place… not a philosophy, but as a self-evident state of being.
How do you know that 2+2=4? It is obvious. I offer a level of life where the very nature of all (that is) is obvious. It is not faith. It is not assumption. It is not just an intellectual model.
It is glimpsed by all beings to varying degrees. Once it is directly (fully) experienced everything clicks into place. It is then quite simply irrefutable.
That is called enlightenment.
In response to my Razors Edge blog, someone asked how you can recognize who is a real master and who is not. The one word answer is ‘discernment.’ You must cultivate discernment. Of course that leads to the question, “How do you cultivate discernment?”
That cultivation is a process. It can be compared to learning to play a musical instrument. It takes time, patience, humility, and a willingness to look beyond what you currently understand. You cannot just read a book about how to play the piano and then be able to play the piano. In the case of music, everyone knows that. In the case of spirituality, people generally do not know that. They think they can read a book and then ‘get’ spirituality. I call that the I Get-it Syndrome. The world is full of people practicing the I Get-it Syndrome of spirituality. It is a good beginning all too often mistaken for the goal.
It would be fair to say that all of my lectures, blogs, classes, etc. are all for the cultivation of discernment. Adi Sankara called the entire path of spiritual evolution the path of discernment. You see, discernment is not just done with the intellect. Absolutely not (pun intended). Discernment is done with the mind, the heart, and most importantly with the soul… the depth of the soul.
So what is the soul? Well, you know about the Absolute, i.e. the Transcendent… pure consciousness… that which lies beyond relativity. It is pure No-Thing-Ness. Cannot be grasped. It is pure consciousness … the Unified Field… that which birthed the entire creation… pure Is-ness… God. You can not touch it, but you can feel it radiating out through you. Just as you can feel the Sun, but you cannot touch it. The soul, then, is the glow of God welling up through and permeating your physiology. It is your life force. It is the source of all intelligence, wisdom, harmony, and love that flows through and feeds you and all that is. As you evolve, your perception of it becomes clearer. The clouds, veils, and cobwebs of life clear away.
Everyone feels his soul. Even an earthworm has some primitive sense of self, of the soul. But the nervous system of an earthworm is not developed nearly enough to perceive the full grandeur of the Absolute, even though the earthworm is (like everything else) the Absolute. In other words everything is God, but your degree of evolution is the degree to which you perceive and embody the full value of that.
Discernment is done with all levels of your being. As you evolve all those levels integrate with one another, and most importantly, with the Absolute. Discernment with the body is sometimes called a ‘gut feeling.’ However, if you are riddled with bias, then your gut feelings are not clear. They are not in clear harmony with the absolute… with God. They are confused.
The spiritual path is the path of clarification of your relationship with your True Nature, with God, with the Absolute. See?
If you evaluate from the perspective of your biases, you go astray. You need to look deeper. You need to ponder. By ponder I mean strive to find truth within. This means looking beyond mental, emotional, and psychological bias. It is a sort of double bind. You must use what discerning ability you have to cultivate more discernment. You must ‘pull yourself up with your own bootstraps’. That is no simplistic task, which is why so few are willing to do it. They would prefer to listen to someone pat them on the head and tell them what a great spiritual being they are. As a result, spirituality is often reduced down to an ‘opiate of the masses.’ The New Age is most certainly no exception.
Spiritual evolution is indeed the Razors Edge. That is why a true master is so important. The student keeps slipping to one side or the other. The master holds the beacon light that illuminates the way.
I was asked the following:
A master who talks about the light body says that you can transform your body from flesh to light. Is that true?
To which I reply:
There is an important lesson here. Yes, what you say here is valid, but the true meaning of words often eludes the use of the words… even for those who speak the words.
My purpose is to offer deep understanding of profound truths. Superficial interpretations of profound truths have cast the field of spirituality into a garb of mystical mush. A big part of my purpose is to clear up the confusion.
You ask for deep understanding. Are you willing to do what it takes to achieve that?
For many, the most difficult step is discerning to what you should listen. For others, the challenge is to take the time and effort required to really discern.
We live in a time when people want quick, simplistic, short answers… even in fields where such answers only scratch the surface and mislead. Thirty-second sound bites will not suffice, though they are what the mainstream mentality demands.
This is Kali Yuga… the Age of Ignorance. So many are thought of as Masters. So few are.
You must think carefully or be led astray, even by so many who may be quite well intended.
Choose wisely.
The most common barrier to success is not situational. It is not financial. It is not lack of sufficient intelligence. It is not lack of creativity.
The primary barrier to success is emotional. How do you emotionally respond to challenges, obstacles, opposition, problems, conflicts, etc.?
If you keep your emotional balance in such situations and remain committed to the task, the solution will come. If you spin off track emotionally, success will likely slip away. To keep your head, even when all around you are losing theirs, that is the key.
This does not mean to be unemotional. It has more to do with managing those emotions wisely while moving forward.
Wise management does not mean suppression or denial. It means keeping your balance and dealing with those emotions while not losing yourself to them. You must find your own unique way of doing that. It may mean taking a break from things for a while. It may mean venting those emotions in a non-life-damaging manner.
Note that venting and indulging are two different things. A pressure cooker needs a pop off valve, but you don’t put out the fire by fanning the flame.
Anger comes in two forms.
That born of the True Self, the Divine Self, one’s own True Nature, which commands the world to align with Natural Law.
And that born of the conditioned, programmed, personality self, with which most are identified and which demands the world conform to its petty will.
Based upon observation, the latter almost always perceives itself to be the former.
Even when one knows it to be the latter, the individual is rarely able to confess to that… particularly to those most deserving of the confession.
Though a great invention with many practical applications, the on/off switch has overtaken our lives. Turn off the lights, turn on the car, start the computer… there is no end… ongoing throughout the day.
However in nature, the day gradually turns to night and the night to day. The seasons change gradually. Temperature, climate, arrival of a storm and then sunshine…. it all happens gradually. The few things in nature that are ‘on/off’ are at least somewhat shocking to the nervous system… for example lightening, thunder or an earthquake.
We run our physical life with on/off switches. It is no wonder that people try to run the rest of their lives that way asking, “What is THE right answer?”, “What time does it start?”, “How much do I owe?”, etc. We are taught to answer when, how, and why all of them with on/off, yes/no, types of answers. Then people wonder why they are so stressed by life.
The only straight lines in nature are sunbeams and moon beams. You can’t grab on to either one. Enlightenment is life in accord with Nature, your own true Nature.
You can function through a world of on/off. That is fine. But cultivate a state of awareness that is not lost to on/off. Life just doesn’t work in accord with your on/off switches. It’s time for a new way of thinking.
After writing this, my wife told me that Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs could not stand on/off switches. My iPod does not even have one. Interesting.
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