personal energy and universal energy

Consider that there is personal energy and universal energy. The first is limited, the latter limitless. Thought arises from both realms. Thought arising out of personal energy is generally "roof-top chatter" about self and its beloved trio: I, me, and mine. It rattles on forever, unable to bear silence. Yet silence is what is needed for existing in and as universal energy. When one opens out of the shielded cocoon of personal energy, universal wisdom comes through. Thought and actions come from a higher wider deeper realm. When living in personal energy, one lives in a linear, cause-and-effect world. When living as universal energy, one lives in the realm of the eternal now, where all is unfolding.

rocket science

Rocket science: In and as the wider realm of being that we are, our little sense of separate self is perched atop a massive energy that is going where it already is.

the whole duck

The duck's feet paddle unceasingly and at times ferociously. Above the water, the duck floats serene.

We often live our lives as duck feet, moving, moving, always moving. Bodies moving, minds moving, emotions moving. "Head 'em up! Move 'em out! Rawhide!" "Yeah, Baby! Yeah!"

We may try to balance our duck feet self with "exercises" designed to help us become the above water serene floater. Meditation, prayer, walking, biking, yoga. We take a "breather" from our ceaseless paddling.

We switch back and forth. Feet. Floater. Feet. Floater.

The true art is to become the whole duck.

nondual

We stand atop our constructions like standing atop the zen 100foot pole. The next step is to leap. This is no leap of faith. Faith and doubt are two patches of the same Velcro.

your approach

your approach is your approach
your approach is not the only approach
your approach is the only approach for you

you do not know what you are approaching
nor who it is that is approaching
that does not stop you

you are your approach
what you are approaching is you
soon you will see the back of your head

do not turn around
you are being approached
by you

the holy trinity
the approacher, the approach, and the approached
the eternal game

flow and cosmopathy

There are two modes of being. One is to love life as it unfolds, allowing the creativity flowing from its wellspring. The other is to use life to accomplish other things. The latter produces and requires a certain cosmopathic stance (cosmopathy: sociopathy extended).

beings from the future

We help bring about on earth the future in which we live. Much has been made about living in the present, but we must be careful to not dwell in too constricted a present. We are beings of telos with the gift of envisioning a future. We help bring about on earth the future in which we live.

When our future vision is of our own personal enhancement to the exclusion of all else, we help produce that earthly condition. All earthly creation suffers to our own glorification. This, of course, brings about our own doom.

We help bring about on earth the future in which we live. When we live now as beings from a future where all life on earth lives in harmony, awareness, and right relationship, we help bring that to pass. We help bring about on earth the future in which we live.

jedi meditation

In the northern climes, the old farmhouses have a "boots and coats" room, an antechamber between the outside storm and the house proper with its cheery warmth and light. Similarly, in formal meditation, one enters a psychic antechamber away from the external storm of being, shucks one's accumulated garb, and prepares for entry into the warmth and light of Being. Over time, one walks through daily life in all three places at once. This is sometimes called in-form-al practice, practicing without form.

Noah's Ark

"You shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you." Genesis 6:19

I think it is time to build an ark in which all duality can exist in harmony. An ark of consciousness. No need to look out there. It has to occur within.

I am convinced that external societal change will only occur by a change in consciousness. "As within, so without." Noah's ark provides the imagery for such change. The animals were taken in two by two, no pair excluded. The pairs were subsumed by a larger structure, one capable of containing all duality, all twoness.

This is the consciousness required of us on earth today. One that speaks to integral awareness, to an awareness that contains all duality, a container that has no bounds.

Each of us is responsible for our own consciousness. We can continue to squabble and squirm in the dual duel while the earth is being destroyed around us. Or we can open our consciousness beyond duality, beyond its fingerpointing and blame and shame. We can live in the light of integral awareness and operate from here.

The waters are rising. The dualistic poise is a poison destroying the earth. We must move into the non-dual, open to a higher inclusive awareness. We must move to planetary and cosmic citizenry. Otherwise we are lost.

the eternal temps

Existential facts: When we live in the eternal present, dropping all schemes, judgments, and other cognitive and emotional paraphernalia, naked, vulnerable and open, no bounds, we are One with our Source.

When we live in a temporal linear world, we are divisive creatures looking to save ourselves from lostness and the anxieties of separation. In the past few decades especially, we have attempted to do so through becoming a huge mouth of consumption. Our spiritual / existential bellies have not been filled and the earth is overflowing with our defecation.

In the temporal world, we look to HAVE faith. In the eternal present, we ARE faith. Along with faith comes grace, humor, and per-sever-ance (ability to cut right through illusion).

In the temporal world, we frantically seek security where there is none. In the eternal present, we live in the relaxed security of no security at all.

This is what is truly meant by being born again. We are born out of the temporal into the eternal present. It's funny. This is what is known in the trade as "stress reduction." We look to relieve our creaturely stress and find the vastness of our being.

us

Everyone HAS a story.
We like that.
We like our stories and want to tell them.

Everyone IS a story.
We don't like that.
We say no no. We are more than our story.

When we drop our story then, who are we?
Don't answer. That's just another story.