Journeying into the Present
Why I need to discipline my mind? “Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. ”Buddha. So you’ve made a commitment. Maybe it’s taken you a long time to make that commitment, but you’ve now done it. And you intend with everything you have and you know yourself to be,…
In the beginning was the word, the Logos.
In the beginning was the deep, utter stillness of the pond – peace and happiness reigned supreme.
And then … a movement, a minuscule movement, a vibration shuddering through the pond, ripples forming, flowing outward from a center.
And…matter comes into view…born of nothing, wordless, infinite BEING into 10,000 things, as Lao te Zu describes in the Tao de Ching.
10,000 things: thoughts, feelings, images, sensations, activities and relationships through which BEING knows and experiences itself. A mountain meadow of wildflowers experiencing itself just being. A mountain meadow of wildflowers experienced through these eyes, this nose, these ears, this mind.
I am always coming Home. Always back to ‘me‘. Have you ever noticed that? We can get distracted with so much of life’s offerings, be they inspirational or devastating or anywhere in between. Eventually the sun breaks through and a quiet moment sparks a remembrance; maybe a walk in nature, maybe the rainbow of pure…
It’s time! Just as there is a time when a child matures into adulthood and is ready to move out into the world and begin his or her own life, so too comes a time when the maturing soul becomes aware enough of the massive ego influence in the mind and is ready to move…
Words matter. Unconscious words matter. Conscious words matter. Intentional words matter. Casual words matter. Thoughts you think no-one can hear matter. Words direct energy. Energy flows. A mass of thoughts by a mass of people can flow a mass of energy. Just look at the recent global protests. Look too at the fear and panic…
Dr. Zach Bush in a Facebook post this morning speaks of the deep, mind-shattering pain running through the world in the wake of both the COVID-19 and the George Floyd murder by police. Dr. Bush very eloquently speaks of the suffering of so many and the inadequacy so many of us feel in the face…
Into this mystery called Life. Duality and the deep inner knowing of who I AM has never been as clear to me as during this escalating world pandemic crisis. I have watched myself, along with so many others, get drawn into the news of the moment, into the shock and grief and too often –…
We’re always contributing in some form or another. The question is do we know what we are contributing? And how and where and why? When I am rooted in Presence, centered in peace, coming from a place of inner knowing and faith, I am contributing those qualities to the world – they are what I…
Now there’s a challenge to the mind. To the logical brain. You either do or you don’t. How can you do without doing? Do without doing and it all gets done is a phrase appearing often in the Tao de Ching by Lao-Tzu – a Chinese prophet who lived some 2500 years ago. Every time…
The question isn’t what is my dance? Or how do I dance? The question is can I let go of ego-mind thinking enough to allow the dancer I AM to flow through every atom of this body in abandoned bliss, so creating and expressing the purpose of this lifetime? I first heard this concept of…
It’s a kind of old fashioned word, faith, and it is perhaps one of the most powerful components of awakening to who we really are. Escaping the torture of the monkey mind is a part of the process of awakening – and often it isn’t until we are in a place of intense suffering that…
Present moments strung together, melt into the magic of the power I AM. Making space for presence as our days seem to get busier and busier is a challenge for many of us. The doing becomes the priority and the being tends to get lost in the details. It can even become an annoyance, a…
What is mine to bring into form for 2020? A great question to begin this new year and new decade. The usual way we begin a new year is with resolutions. My question is – what is the source of those resolutions? Do they come from what you see as not working from the previous…
To create a dream, all we have to do is carve away that which isn’t the dream, just as Michaelango said he did when he started work on a piece of marble. “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel…
Around the dining room table one evening amidst a group of friends in deep and meaningful discussion, I heard myself say, well, the world I see is merely a projection of me. The impression these words had on my psyche was instant – my granddaughter wrote them out for me and they hang to this…
There is a power within each of us; within every organ, every cell, every molecule, every atom of every life form on this planet. This power has been called many things throughout time and its name matters not. Those who are aware of this power know the depth and breadth of that power to be…
Be it health, wealth, relationship, work or any other of life’s experiences and challenges. Some journeys are more obvious, learning to deal with the death of a loved one, facing a serious illness or other catastrophic situations like a hurricane or a divorce. Other journeys which we may not think of as journeys are some…
They ripple through me – powerful vibrations of the frequencies of relief, joy and freedom. I see their box clearly from my perch on a new moon hanging in the inky blackness of an infinite void of foreverness, my trusty cocker spaniel companion by my side. This is my retreat, looking out into this all-powerful…
The moon is new, its thin curve slicing into the darkness. My cocker spaniel buddy, Cinco, sits on this curve alongside me looking out into the infinite darkness of nothingness that stretches out into eternity. I sit there, legs swinging below the edge of the moon, my arm around the warmth of the wee body…
Life Itself flowing abundantly through this body it has created, IS ALL THINGS. Nothing can be added and nothing can be subtracted. Evolution is what happens when the soul moves by desire. Some teachings say to be desireless – I like to think of desire not as something to want, such as an ego desire…
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