The illusion
within our mind is the illusion that there is something we are responsible
for and that we need to create it. I call that the “BUILD THE FIELD”
anxiety. Then there’s this lunatic SENSE that we’re going somewhere, we’re
going to get somewhere and that things will arrive and get better when that day
comes. I call the LATER IT WILL COME craziness. And last, and the worst
of them all, the feeling that we know something and have to run around
ringing a bell like Paul Revere and tell what we know. The world calls that THE
PUNDIT complex. You see that last one in Religious freaks, healthfood
freaks, who just have to tell you how you can be SAVED from HELL Cancer and
DEATH!
The illusion or DELUSION of ‘build the
field he will come’ and I’m a pundit and I can tell you HOW to build the field
so Jesus will show up and What not to do sexually so that you won’t go to hell
and what to eat so that you won’t get Cancer --- is all just wired,frantic monkey mind addicted to busy-ness!
So, I just shot down an illusion
you have. That all that DOING and busy-ness was a good thing. Remember that
song, ‘be happy?’ that actually is a
good thing. Just be happy. Do what makes you happiest.
Get into an ecstatic altitude and from
way high up there, you will see that “building fields” and “waiting for later” and
“knowing how things realllly are and running around being Paul Revere and
telling folks” – That THIS IS or ISN’T a good life, a safe life”, is all just
an excuse to NOT do what really makes YOU ECSTATIC! Be absorbed in your art and
you won’t even go there and you’ll be a helluva lot more fun for US! Because
you’ll be original and entertaining. Not banal.
Now, banal platitudes sometimes do capture the truth. For instance, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution agree ‘all men are created equal.’ What does that mean? It doesn’t mean anything in a world where entry level workers get 6$ an hour and corporations pay CEO’s 60 milllion a year at the expense of stock holders so the workers will never get a raise.
Equal really means --- what they were
trying to say --- is that all men are always and have already always been equal
and we don’t see it and know it because we classify everything into a pigeon
hole, a caste system. Like CEO’s deserve 60 million and pipefitters 6$. Like
Irish are testy drunks; Germans are neat and organized, Jews are good at math
and good at staying in school without sex until they have their PHD’s. Mexicans
can put in a 14 hour work day because they eat beans not meat but they carry
knives and will stick you soon as look at you….
These urban legends may well all be
true. But Ignorance versus intelligence, poverty versus wealth, smart versus
stupid, power versus weakness-- all these things are totally insane opposites
that portray an illusion.
There’s only one consciousness, one
mind, and one system working in everything. It’s called cosmic soul, cosmic law,
cosmic essence. All men and women, all beings that are human beings, have the
same capacities and how they turn out is dependent on what environment,
education, circumstance, opportunities they have.
Belief in the illusion world that
fixes what we are and can do and makes us evaluate ourselves and categorize
ourselves into one of those pigeon holes is dangerous. All the categorizing is
done by me, you. No one is judging us. We are judging ourselves. And in the very
act of judging is created the illusion.
If you stop judging yourself, you
might be able to look at yourself in a neutral way and know that you are just
the silent watcher, the creator, the thinker, and the knower. But anytime you
think, know or create you get off the mark because you immediately start
judging, criticizing, opining and having some form of goal, need, intention --
which the road to Hell is paved with, -- instead of staying in that space and
place where you only recognize your God conscious self and we call it God or
oneness or love or freedom or all that is, or Buddha nature, or Christ
consciousness or Allah. And you’re quiet in that state. You don’t build fields.
You don’t wait for later. You are toe dancing in the now, without opinions or
blabber totally connected to the now like an infant sucking very relaxedly
on the teat. Relaxed, in touch with his mother, centered on his own, quiet
feeding.
Whatever word to describe that FORCE
that wells up in us when we’re quiet and contacting the ultimate source of our
being -- is not an illusion. We effort a lot at trying to find and identify and
name the source. The very reality of all of us
cannot be identified, named or truly known because it is the namer, the
knower, the thinker. And He is nameless.
The knower can’t be some system of
knowing. If it’s bigger than your scope of interpretation, that’s the good
news. Because, as Joseph Campbell said, the only reality is to follow your
bliss and what is your bliss but this happy God-conscious, free, unencumbered,
unfettered self which is who you truly are, always, now and forever and which
everyone else is?
Jesus was and is and will always be
remembered because all he was --- was a guy who saw everything and everybody as
perfect. The perfect mind of God was in me as it is in you and he went on the
cross only because he couldn’t tell them anything but that truth. "I am
the Son of God and you are all sons of God and even greater works shall ye
do". And immortality is the obvious reality. In nothing which is where we
live and have our being, in the void, the silence and in the invisible, we
exist in reality. There is no thing other than permanence, infinity, eternal
being.
Confusion arises only in the state
where you’re still thinking and figuring things out. That’s confusion. When
you’re not thinking and trying to figure things out, there isn’t any confusion.
So choosing to be not worried about having to figure things out creates the
ability to not be confused.
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The essence of how to live and
practice these great spiritual truths exists in the ability to be into the work
of transformation of yourself. That work mainly entails stopping the crap. Stop
beating yourself up and allow yourself to see where you are judging and
criticizing and living in the past and being hurt and being the victim. Stop
being the result of the things that have happened to you.
The blame game is like a lame donkey.
You saddle your habitual dysfunction with excuses -- some negative event that
led to some negative feeling that warped you, allowed you to have these
judgments of others, to become a sociopath, and now you get on that lame
donkey, shakily saddled and get on the freeway of life where all the normal
people are going sixty and you get smashed into the center divider!
Well don’t saddle that donkey. Have a
little compassion, first of all for yourself, that you did this to yourself,
that there’s no shame or blame necessary. Excuses make lousy saddles, throw
them away.
That being so, love, compassion,
oneness and generosity are the only things that we can offer to each other,
that we can offer our goodness, that we can offer our forgiveness, our ability
to serve and do whatever is wanted by the other, even though the other doesn’t
understand these principles themselves, you make yourself be those things and
then everything in your world of relationships, in the world that you
encounter, will notice that you are coming with peace and love, with your heart
worn upon your sleeve.
You will give this compassion, love
and understanding to others, allowing them to grow at their own pace but
recognizing the need in yourself to be totally conscious and selfless, not
worrying, not doubting, being trustworthy and faithful.
Therefore, there’s nothing you need
do. When you’re a student you just learn what the master teaches you, that in
the absolute reality of your soul, we are all one. There is no need, no
pressure out there, no negativity. These are illusions in the world of duality,
a world constructed out of perception and misperception.
Our job is to only be the seer, to see
things differently, to see things clearly, perfectly. To see that there is
nothing we have to do, we’re not going anywhere, there’s no place to go. Just
remember that God within us is the God that is going to carry us through life
and through all there is to do.
So, if all there is -- is now, then
you choose to be upset, angry, to be conscious or asleep, to be giving or
selfish, the choice is yours. Make the choice for good. Make the choice for
love, peace, for being in the moment, a student, receiving the essence of your
soul which is perfect and always was perfect, perfect meaning that it is all
one, invisible essence that supports and creates all that is. All that is -- is
just a dance, a play, a drama. You’re not to be the victim or the victimizer in
the drama. You are only to be the creator, selflessly creating beauty, love
goodness to all and everyone that you encounter. Start now by promising
yourself to only be this saint, this gorgeous person who gives compassion,
peace and love continuously. In the very act of doing that, you create an art
of being, an art that makes you see.
You will see how to discipline yourself and make your life into joy and ecstasy
and nirvana and nothing but harmony and happiness which is your birthright
which is who you are before you were born and who you are now and who you are
forever. There is no such thing as all these ups and downs, negatives and
positives, life and rebirth and so forth. They are just the forms we create to
play in, to play with and to be occupied with as the dance that the God that
you are wishes to create. But don’t be involved in any way being sucked in and
attached to any of those games, those forms, those dramas. Be in them as the
creator, as the essence, as the one who has the control and the power. Always
gravitate toward your higher self, close your aura to anything else. See
yourself as that strain of beautiful music that is always playing ‘I am God, I
am God, I love myself as I am. All that I see, encounter, is me, is God. We are
all one. I love them. I love myself. I forgive myself for ever thinking
anything else, doing anything else or being anything else and for ever being a
victim of the world. Rather, I see that the world does things as it does
because it doesn’t know this truth and I forgive them for they know not what
they do and I love them because behind their ignorance is the truth and is the
essence of God, love and peace.
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The only question then, is --to be or
not to be. Can you be practicing this or are you NOT going to be practicing
this? Can you be the truth of it and remind yourself that when you don’t do it
and you go back into your story and drama and victimization role -- that you
can catch yourself immediately and get off it. If you catch yourself saddling
the donkey or worse, on the donkey’s back, just stop. Get off.
You practice this and never again out
of your mouth is spoken any word except words of positive truth. Because you
cannot drive that lame donkey on today’s freeways. Okay?
Do not mistake your patting yourself
on the back and still carrying the weight of every ego frustration, fear, doubt
and worry in that backpack. They cannot be reconciled. You can’t have a
thousand pound weight on your back and think you’re going to stand up straight,
alert and be clear and fast and zoom down that freeway.
***
There are three men. One is a banal
and bourgeois Republican. He says: God has been good to me always". This
man gives money to the church so he’ll get more good luck. He tells you he’s
grateful to God but he’s really anxious for the fruits of his generosity to
return to him post haste.
Then there is a third man: He’s a hipster
and he’s in total bliss. He knows that HE is God and he is good to himself. He
doesn’t vote or tithe or donate at church or let the King tax him one cent!
Maybe that’s part of why he’s in bliss. That man spends his money on his art
training, teachers, lessons, paint, canvases, brushes, piano lessons, pianos,
MIDIs, computers, scanners, carving tools, marble….and he’s creating master
pieces and they’re on sale at his website for a buck. You want to be that third
guy.
Everyone is seeking happiness and joy and good and beauty
and peace and love and excitement and ecstatic light and the only one who can
give it to you is yourself by knowing that you’re all that is and that’s always
the way it’s been.
In that place that you are, always now, present, being
all that is, see yourself, clearly. See everything clearly. Listen to
everything openly. Receive in to your soul and give from your soul because
that’s all that actually exists and everything else is a reflection or not a
reflection of your ability to live or not live as your soul. It’s not an as,
like you have a choice. The soul is how you be you. So be you the soul and you
will be you and you will then know yourself and all others. Without any gap
between the invisible and the manifested, physical reality. You will no longer
be at the effect. You will simply know that you are cause and there’s no need
for anything.
***
The impossibility is forgetting who you are. The
possibility is that you won’t remember who you are. In that, you might say
"if I’m not remembering, then I’m forgetting." Well, in a reality
called the soul always knows and is always here, now perfect and is a master,
in that sense, you could never forget. And there’s nothing to remember because
who you are right now is all that is. At the same time, we go through all these
conversations about how to reach it. There’s no place to reach it to because
the reaching it is in the remembering and you’re already there. So that’s the
paradox. You must fulfill your own destiny by realizing there’s nothing else to
do except realize that you are already there.