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(03 June - 25 June, 2008)
June 3, 2008: Life is the way it is.
I am going to let you in on a big secret. Life is the way it is. If we
want it to correspond to our fantasies, we are setting ourselves up for
self-defeat, anger, frustration, negativity and ingratitude.
The first delusional fantasy is expecting others to live outside of the
universal laws. Sometimes we expect only half of our partner, spouse,
friends, sister, neighbour, classmate, or a stranger. We want people always
to be nice without ever being mean, always kind without ever being cruel,
cooperative without ever being competitive, etc. We only want the "good
stuff". Expecting people to be one-sided beings is like expecting
to find a one-sided magnet. Have you ever seen one? The second fantasy
is expecting others to be living outside of their values. If we expect
them to abandon their values and live according to ours, we are guaranteed
disappointment and frustration. Anger is nothing but a projection of our
own values onto someone and expecting them to prefer our values to their
own.
Dr John Dimartini
June 4, 2008: God be with those who Explore
God be with those who explore in the cause of understanding; whose searches
take them far from what is familiar and comfortable and leads them into
danger or terrifying loneliness.
Let us try to understand their sometimes strange and difficult ways;
their confronting or unusual language; the uncommon life of their emotions;
for they have been effected and shaped and changed by their struggle at
the frontiers of a wild darkness;
just as we may be affected, shaped and changed by the insights they bring
back to us.
Bless them with strength and peace.
Amen
Michael Leunig
Jun 5, 2008: The Voice of the Heart
(John Perkins talking with Tampur, an Amazonian shaman and warrior.)
"Have faith in your destiny," Tampur continued, handing the
gourd to his wife. He stood to push a log into the fire. "Do as your
spirit, your heart, directs. Don't think too much, the way my grandchildren
are taught to do in the mission schools. Thinking is fine when we have
to figure something out, like how to place a pole to help us get fruit
from the spiny chonta tree that is impossible to climb. But when it comes
to most things in life, the heart has the voice to listen to, because
the heart knows how to follow the voice of the spirits. So I listen to
my heart a lot, and I psycho-navigate to the spirits themselves. I have
faith in them and their desire to help us."
"How do you follow your heart? How can you be sure of what if says?"
"I listen." He lifted a cupped hand to his ear. "Your heart
is part of the universe. If you listen to your heart, you hear the Voice
of the Universe. We call it the Voice of the Universe or the Voice of
the Soul. It speaks to us all the time. We only have to listen."
He turned to me. "What do you hear?"
Everyone was still. I could only hear the fire and the sounds of life
in the forests around us. Then I heard something, what I have been taught
to call a 'thought' but which really is a kind of voice. "I am told
that I don't do this enough, don't listen. And what great wisdom is being
spoken here tonight."
"You see?" Tampur slapped his knee. "Great wisdom is spoken
every moment by the Voice of the Universe. You only need to listen. Your
heart is always listening. Crossing your hands over your heart may help
you to remember." Slowly he raised his hands and laid them across
his heart. "Do this sometimes."
John Perkins "Shape Shifting"
Jun 10, 2008: Well Adjusted
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti
June 16, 2008: If you want peace and purity, tear away your coverings.
A certain Sufi tore his robe in grief, and the tearing brought such relief
he gave the robe the name faraji, which means 'ripped open,' or 'happiness'
or one who brings the joy of being opened.
...
If you want peace and purity, tear away your coverings. This is the purpose
of emotion, to let a streaming beauty flow through you. Call it spirit,
elixir, or the original agreement between yourself and God.
Opening into that gives peace, a song of being empty, pure silence.
Rumi "The Soul of Rumi"
June 17, 2008: Loving the world
A warrior must love this world, in order for this world that seems so
commonplace to open up and show its wonders.
Carlos Castaneda "Tales of Power"
June 19, 2008: The Celestial Wash
I experienced an all over bodily shudder, which began at my head and rushed
all the way down to my toes and into the earth. It felt as though someone
had opened the top of my head and poured warm-scented oil through my body.
The sensation was ecstatic, most pleasurable, and caught my abdomen with
the thrill one experiences from a soft dip on a roller coaster.
"I call that shuddering sensation you felt the celestial wash,"
said dona Celestina softly. "It is a response of the energy body
to something that thrills it. The sensation cannot be forced or manipulated
like an orgasm purely of the sexual physical body, and rather than beginning
from the bottom and working its way up, this ecstacy, originating within
the energy body, begins from the top, opens and melts downward.
"It won't happen if the individual is not ready to be moved,"
she said. "If their islands are not swept clean, people sabotage
themselves with trivia. And then there is the matter of being blessed
on the inside. One must cultivate a free-floating, genuine, magical nature,
not an easy thing to do in this world. Such a nature is rare."
Merilyn Tunneshende "Rainbow Serpent: The Magical Art of Sexual
Energy" p.154
June 20, 2008: Hold to the Reins of Love
Hold to the reins of Love and don't be afraid.
Hold to the real behind
the false and don't be afraid.
..
You must know
That the Beloved you seek
Is none other than you.
Hold to this truth and don't be afraid.
..
Rumi "In The Arms of the Beloved"
June 24, 2008: But We've Moved On
But we've moved on. We've learned a lot over the last few thousand years
about who we are and about the context in which we have emerged. And one
of the most important things we've discovered is that the movement of
time is not cyclical, but a linear developmental process. Fourteen billion
years ago, a tremendous energy burst forth from the void, and over time
evolved from light to matter to life. And with the emergence of life,
consciousness entered the stream of time. Life and consciousness are one,
and the greater the complexity of the life form, the greater is its capacity
for consciousness. What is so miraculous about human beings is that because
of our highly evolved brain, we have the unique capacity to know that
we know. In human awareness, consciousness has gained the capacity to
know itself and everything that exists within it, including the entire
evolutionary process that gave rise to that very capacity.
The Evolutionary Enlightenment teachings of Andrew Cohen
June 25, 2008: There's no such thing as a Soul
There's no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare
kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson.
Bart Simpson (character in "The Simpsons")
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