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March 6, 2010
Ever seen a ‘truth catcher’ – not the ‘dream catcher’ that is so popular for ‘wishing upon a star’. YOU ARE the ‘truth catcher’ if, you’re not the one to be caught. Lies come dressed in all kinds of clothes from denial of the truth to outright omission or ‘coverup’ of the evidence.  Another form would be to ignore the obvious or, even to not see what needs to be the obvious and, not to ignore ‘deception’.  A train coming down the tracks is good reason to realize the impending danger of hopping off the tracks!

The governments are ‘professional liars’ paid by you to keep their jobs through sugar coating the distasteful to make the masses happy and, be controlled. Gee, that might even work in the millions of bedrooms!  The ‘cluck’ you sleep with is likely a combo truth teller/lie feeder better qualified to spin hogwash than the politicians you elect who abuse the trust while learning the secrets of spinning ‘truth and lies’ for the gullible. Lies are fed by stupidity and, living in fairy tales (lies).  I’m reading a biography of William Paley, the founder of the major TV station, CBS. Paley was a married philanderer of the highest order while his wife was in denial, instead basking in notoriety and luxury. Unwilling to  give up the perks while living in a ‘sexless’ marriage, she added to the lie by silently suffering in denial.  They both ‘lied’, as couples are usually ‘co-conspirators’ of lies rather than face the ‘fear of truth’.

Everything grows in truth.  Lies grow everywhere that ‘truth’ is hiden from.  Truth has no fears.  Lies fear the shadows of truth!  What’s going on is a question that ‘truth’ is always seeking the answers to.  Lies beget lies, while truth begets truth.  Fear fuels the lies of all life.  In fact, the real war is that war between ‘truth and lies’ from ones personal life to the life in the world. Lies work in the dark, truth in the light and, truth is love. There are no reasons to fear the truth when one discerns the best way to reveal the truth in truth. Truth stays away from lies or, at the very least, is always looking to shake down the lies to reveal the truth.

Living in truth is to live in love and awareness of every step along the way of life. Lies stumble upon themselves necessitating (?) more lies for the ‘coverup’. Lies breed lies as truth breeds more truth and trust.  Lies die where truth lives while trying to protect themselves from exposure. Seek the company of truth always, for what can be gained by lurking in the dark but stumbling and falling. In the aroma of truthful love all fear dies.
Arhata

March 5, 2010
Be a ‘puppet on a string’ or, cut the strings of attachments!  Freedom never comes from blaming or attributing life’s happenings to others but, taking responsibility for your own choices.  Life controlled by others will be a life of alternating misery and quickly fading happiness. Life has the potential of becoming a heaven on earth with commiserate challenges to convert to opportunities.

The possibility of missing the bliss and love in life are very possible. Few escape out of the ‘rabbit hole’ that they find themselves in. You are what you see yourself as even if it’s an erroneous opinion or judgment. The mind has many compartments that, if not cleaned out of these self judgments, becomes a prison where one becomes a ‘prisoner of the false self’ without ever knowing the bliss that resides in the other compartments that only need positive attention.  Few escape the prison of false self where blisses of life rarely are stored, in fact, way upwards of 95% of the world’s ‘walking cadavers’ ever get more than quick glimpses of the ‘sweetnesses of life’.

Makes no sense being shackled to the ‘conservatism’ of accepting ‘everyone else’ being responsible for what you’ve made a choice to take little responsibility for.  Step up as you step out of the drudgery of the ‘same ole, same ole’ dead conservative rut that only gets deeper as the light of possibilities gets darker and darker.  Today, in the ‘western world particularly, people rarely see that their relationships that have been numerous are always problematic and, escaping the love that their instincts say they deserve to have.  It’s all a matter of self choice which begins with seeing that it’s all yours regardless of what damage or traumas came before in childhood.

Billions live in various forms and degrees of misery. Bliss or misery it’s you choice! Might as well feel happy that you have succeeded in being miserable! If that’s not your choice, let go of it and, drop all patterns that create it.  Start new patterns that open new doors where bliss starts flowing in. Might just start with examining why you are so attached to so many things including emotions that are ‘self induced’.  Freedom comes in letting go of attachments, even love.  Only false love needs attachment. Real love is ‘free while it’s being responsible’.
Arhata

unbalanced
March 4, 2010
Love is like a ‘teeter totter’ that goes up and down sometimes with a resounding thud when out of balance.  The ‘teeter board’ is balanced on the ‘fulcrum’ like love that is perfect until, two people of different ‘self love’ hop into it.  With ‘love’, balance isn’t enough, for two people could be balanced with ‘equal and different issues’ that cause perpetual ups and downs.  Two people with deep love of self, balance love and enjoyment for as long as they choose.

‘Cross dressing’ of love bedevils the hope’s and imaginations of millions over the world. In the beginning, it’s assumed that each of two lovers are both ‘flying on the wings of love’ in tandem and synchronicity.  The sky appears to have no limits for the merge of two lives seemingly destined for a perpetual whirlwind romance, that is, until the likely inevitable clouds and thunderstorms reflect who each is underneath the stars.  Magic has been struck as if the sky opened with the illumination of angels blessing eternal happiness.

Love needs preparation.  Usually that preparation is unprepared preparation for what comes. Being ready unveils itself with two loves exploring the realms of bliss that, unfortunately, frequently turns to two individuals having trouble swimming in synchronicity and staying afloat, other than for survival skills that turn to endless ‘cries for help’ or, the seeming disappearance of the ‘wings of love’.  One wing is deep love with it’s unlimited gifts of compassion, commitment, sensitivity, truth, etc., with the other wing one of ‘awareness’ in always discerning that which only adds to the love of the flight.

Rarely, does one have clear insight into the mind of another to see how the other is feeling the love.  Two people may start in the same place internally with love but, as time travels on to another day, they usually lose sight of the moments that initially bonded them together.  Always, at least one should have demonstrated self love to a high degree and, at least the other be open to seek that journey for the sake of enduring love. Two in balance flying high meeting one another is as rare as two stars in the sky merging to further brighten the world around them.  For the world to become enlightened, the merging of couples in open loving perpetual ecstasy is necessary. Love’s real blossoming happens in that merging of a ‘superconsciousness’!
Arhata

March 3, 2010
Living for yesterday’s memories is like a ‘sleigh ride’ in the summer.  There is little future in the past!  Backing up on a freeway is to invite a collision with those moving forward. Past living is common for those who have no vision for the future.  It can start in young adulthood or more likely as time marches on.  I’ve heard many who talk of the good old times in college as if nothing has happened with joy between then and now.

Life is here to fill it with ‘thankful, happy experiences’ while minimizing those that one would care not to remember. Blocking the past, future and, now with intoxicants to feel good, while bypassing reality, is akin to a blind man on a dark night in a dark house searching for a black cat that isn’t even there!  Life is about challenges and finding the best way to positively deal with what is presented.  Life with no challenges is a life that will become a challenge to live with any enjoyment.  Challenges are not ‘stopping stones but stepping stones’ on a journey to uncover the many blessings that we all harbor inside but for illuminating them.

Your life is a movie but, not a life spent watching movies, window shopping, game playing and, anything to avoid following pipe dreams and treading water going nowhere. What one is inside is far more important than what one is on the outside.  Success in life on the outside is of little meaning when unhappiness exists on the inside.  Break the mold of what’s conventional and routine.  Passing the golf course the other morning, I noticed perhaps a dozen male players traipsing about following ‘golf balls’. On a recent Sunday morning, I passed an Indian casino and in the parking lot were enough cars to fill 5 supermarkets parking lots.  Do these people give back to society in a meaningful way? My guess is, they are living the ‘same ole, same ole’ or chasing fantasies that would be better fulfilled doing something to make life better for those who could use a boost and a helping hand rather than hitting a little ball for blocks or, winning money to lose more of it.

We all have a ‘built in periscope’ to use to look above or outside ourselves to see what other intelligent people might see.  Some aspects of ourselves are best looked at and, examined for a smoother journey ahead or, in other words ‘watching where we are going’, and seeing who we really are not just who others ‘think’ we are. ‘Periscope up’ to look around, includes into the mirror! Look back while moving forward.
Arhata

March 2, 2010
The thing to know about love, is that it’s sometimes a lonely one way street with no lamp posts to guide the way.  How to light the way when no one is there to show the way?  Walking alone into the alone doesn’t need to be a lonely path even if the love seems so far away.  ‘One way love’ may be passing by what the heart yearns for. Lose the mind and, find the answer in the heart where love is always smiling in hiding.  Don’t make yourself crazy and, find out who you really are and, not who you have grown accustomed to think who you falsely are.

In the darkness of the nite of the soul, there are always stars guiding the way until the dawn of a new day and, a new way. Love always comes back around, so make it a total love that comes back around ‘cause ‘less than full love comes back too’! “The worst in Life is ‘attachment’ …it hurts when you lose it.  The best thing in life is ‘loneliness’, because it teaches you everything and, when you lose it, you get everything”.

Love from those who struggle to love themselves, is at best wonderful in the moment but like the falling snow that turns to cold rain.  One who has deep self love always is protected from ‘retractable’, momentary love.  Fear, as in fear of abandonment, lurks like a shadow with love that begins as a glowing star.  Night falls on insecure love sometimes with the slightest provocation.  Always let go totally and the love you feel will follow you through ‘love’s goodbye’.  People enter into our lives with lessons to give and, love to embellish the heart.  Love’s loss is the clearing of an opportunity for a fresh love to warm the heart but, only when the ‘no show’ love is but a pleasant memory and, not attached to.

‘No show love’ also happens to the person not showing up usually for the rest of their life, so have compassion for those that walk away into the night.  The night’s are ultimately cold and lonely as the stars fade ever so quickly leaving emptiness. Sending warm thoughts keep one’s heart also warm.  Why settle for half way love when once love is deep and genuine, it feeds the heart forever.

Arhata

February 28, 2010
Whether spinning the ‘roulette wheel’ or walking on a ‘tread mill’, it’s all going round and round where it will stop nobody knows and, why care? It’s just a mystery for those living in fear. Is your life one ‘merry-go-round’ with occasional ‘roller coaster’ rides of ups and downs?  Is it the ‘same ole, same ole’ year in and year out, ‘til all it comes to is a ride on the merry-go-round as the years gather the feelings of needing the security that amounts to a boring non productive life?

Fear turns to denial, greed, slothfulness, self indulgence, apathy, insensitivity and, every negative possible round and round they go all ending with the explanation or root cause called ‘fear’. As time finds itself speeding up to an unknown ‘stop’, the roundabout carousel slows to a crawl where all the same life becomes more visible but, few get off their horse to share the wisdom that should come with age to the wanderers.  Those on the roller coaster of fear and exhilaration also go round and round, unable seemingly to break out of the circle that goes no where.

Rich, poor, gifted or dull, there are few who see life as a never ending opportunity to give to those who might want to jump out of the round box and see outside of the illusions.  Life is not just an amusement park for the ‘freeloaders’ passing through without discovering that life is an opportunity here and now to extract all the jewels within to illuminate the self as well as others who struggle in a ‘looping monotony’ of futility.

All your life is inside you, your dreams and loves that may or may not pass through into the physical.  Be open to receive that phenomenon as well as being open to giving to all of life the manifestation of the dreams both for yourself and for others. The love you seek must first be found within to find it’s match in the world of manifested dreams.  Breakout of the slumbers and see what you can give back to life while it’s still available in this dimension.  Life is not just a ‘slurpee ‘ to gobble up but, infinite carnival rides to both enjoy and to help others to enjoy as the rides aren’t just for one lonely soul in the carnival. Is it time to demount the wooden horse and, see the nectar of life beyond the fantasies?
Arhata

February 27, 2010
To drop and let go of all false programming is to wash and clear the brain that was innocent and impartial as to what’s right, wrong and, otherwise. The brain is very vulnerable, particularly in children, to all stimuli and information.  Words that come from authority figures become embedded deeply influencing behavior throughout ones adult life.  To extract information that engenders ‘fear’, if ignored, is usually permanent and, resulting in one becoming identified as it being part of who they think they are.

No orgasms, reluctant orgasms, light orgasms, many mini orgasms and, the manifestation of having less than a ‘nuclear brain clearing’ one, are symptomatic of one needing  a ‘let go’ of memories that clog the being. Not many years ago, not only could this not be recognized but, women were largely dumbed down (as most are still in most of the world) from the orgasmic pleasure.  Men were fearful of women enjoying sex resembling what they claim to enjoy, although most men accept much less than is available.  Deep love, not displayed as such normally otherwise, is a consciousness awakening through the birth of the melting of two souls in complete inhibition.

In the clearing of the mind and heart, a new presence evolves in the being, much more sensitive to both oneself and, the outer world than possible in prior times before the second half of the 20th century.  In the East, for centuries, mystics have experienced that ethereal, consciousness raising state through other forms of meditation alone.  The availability of the union of two individuals was near impossible with the social and caste systems preventing the freedom of sex as well as love. Opening of consciousness and the heart through ‘alone meditation’ although, doesn’t necessarily translate into a ‘godly like’ love union with another. The ‘other’ may be filled with ‘unsolved mysteries’ that cling from earlier intrusions of unwanted information or happenings. Also, the conscious meditator may be like the superstar basketball player who fails at other sports endeavors.

‘Commotion in the emotions’ will impede the bliss that is the right of each being.  Freedom, in the real sense, comes from within but, is superficial with outward manifestations mainly.  The suffering mind seeks worldly pleasures that only leave the true ‘self expressions’ buried in the dark untouched. The only ‘substance’ needed for deep and enduring love is air. Love is in the air, just breath it deeper with a clear awareness – life becomes a ‘valley orgasm’ with, unexpected peaks of bliss!
Arhata

Commotion Emotion

February 26, 2010
Drop all discipline and, be in awareness, with discernment, of what you are doing! It’s what ultimately works best that counts most.  This is not to suggest being a ‘drama queen or, king’!  Nor is it to suggest being a ‘controller of emotions’ in every aspect of one’s life. To be emotional at times is healthy as is controlling emotions and, using common sense at times.  It’s balance, like walking a tight rope between two buildings with a ‘balancing pole’.  With experience and, evolving wisdom, one finds what ways create best balance.

Many, many people, male and, particularly female, are like ‘yo-yo’s’ inside moving from this emotion to that one with no balance or insight in how to convert negative emotion into an energy that works for a good healthy experience.  A guest here at the center took her dog of many years to an Animal Shelter yesterday for adoption to a new home as she found her busy schedule not conducive to making the dog happiest.  Her view this morning was that she had to keep busy to not think about it.

I suggested she be happy for the dog who will make someone very happy and, she is also creating good karma through giving something she loved to make another happy, including the dog, who will adjust.  Years ago, when my mother left ‘this plane’ in her late 40’s, my youngest brother (of 6) was extraordinarily upset. I, on the other hand, just arriving from New York to the West, was in a sensitive but cheery mood which further upset my younger brother.  I knew from an early age, that mom had told me she would not be with us very long.  I understood that, and decided to keep an ‘up tone’ at the ‘celebration of her life’ and, spend the rest of my days, thinking and feeling her presence from time to time. No commotion but, lots of loving emotion will always continue as well as, small miracles that seem attributed to her in some way unexplained.

Commotion stirs up the mind and heart from it’s serene centering where blessings come in like the gentle waves of the ocean on a calm day.  It’s important that we don’t hold back emotions in many circumstances particularly positive one that need be let go totally with a partner. Deep love is best to ride on an emotional trackless track to even deeper emotion and love. Holding back is about fear.  Fear of letting go and exposing everything that comes up. Always go all out, even sometimes in anger, but being the watcher!  Empty the mind and the heart with totalness while watching.
Arhata

February 25, 2010
Mothers are Guru’s to the newborn. Good ones, great ones, or troubled ones but, guru’s of love for the innocent child never the less.  I was raised by a ‘single, teenage, high school dropout mother’ the first two years. She was from the same town where they filmed ‘The Officer & Gentleman’ starring Richard Gere (ironically across the street from where my center is now). Dad was a Naval Officer similar to that in the movie filmed here and, was away those first 2 years. ‘Guru love’ has nothing to do with status or education.

Later when kids become adults, the effects become apparent. Never does one need to stay ‘molded’ to some dysfunctional love from a parent but, few seem to be open to rising above the unclaimed issues that become hardwired if not ‘unattached’ from. Unrepaired love moves through infinite generations of beleaguered souls.  Male and female are blinded from knowing real love but settle for some form of ‘functional’ love to struggle through life’s consequent turmoils.  Busyness with outer endeavors for survival, children and, all kinds of commitments, pile up to bury any attention to one’s personal evolvement.

When two people merge with ‘unfixed’ issues, love will never reach an ‘unconditional’ state without a mutual focus of seeing and acting through and beyond the fixed issues.  Each person is ‘perfect’ as much as a human can be but, they either can’t see that or, circumstances may cloud the perfection. If one partner truly loves themselves, they can see the others struggle but, can also see them in their perfection.  The ‘struggling partner’ must be willing to cooperate in the relationship to reach for higher love at all points.  Both partners are always equal in love but rarely do two people acknowledge that.  There is no higher and lower, only some kind of ‘darkness’ where the light doesn’t shine to see the truth. It’s not about ‘changing one’ but, uncovering the attached to falseness.

At this stage of life, the female can rarely elevate a male in lower ‘self love’ to a higher place that she is in.  It’s very important for a female seeking a ‘real, unconditional love affair’ to find a male who is in that place already and, be open to uncover obstacles.  With few exceptions, females rise in a coupling, males slip with other interests followed by the female then stopping her full expressions of love. Love must be the ‘guru’ to meet and bond with.  A male already bonding with that may pull up his mate but, very unlikely the other way around. Females are good at receiving as long as the male is good at giving and, in a strong self love place.  Freedom in a coupling only happens in a space of unconditional mutual love. Arhata

February 23, 2010
Pot Smokers create reasons to justify their habit. A popular one is, ’ever hear of car deaths from pot smoking’? Ever hear of car deaths attributed to smoking cigarettes?
Ever hear of early death caused by smoking as well as second hand smoke recipients? Just because pot smoking isn’t popularly known to be the cause of accidents doesn’t mean it isn’t the result of other problems – problems that dumb down self love, ambitions or, responsibilities for example!

No question, a focus on self love and knowing oneself is the number one selection for improving inner self and the consciousness of the planet. People who are walking around with inner problems usually seek a ‘quick fix’ be it alcohol abuse, drugs from cigarettes and pot to crack, meth, heroin and all kinds of designer drugs including Big Pharmas mulit billion dollar ‘pills to cure all’. Only an idiot of the highest order would think any smoking is going to result in more inner self realization than learning that ‘breath techniques’ can’t do better but, not as fast as ‘quick fix’ wishful thinking.

People with inner self love and a centeredness, are not ‘pot smokers’ which doesn’t mean that they never take a puff here and there.  Pot smokers who claim that if it were not for pot they couldn’t do this or that or, have the creative mind they lay claim to, are examples of what pot does to you – clogs commonsense and self love.  Relationships are a necessary and vital part of life, especially loving ones that work nearly all the time. No one needs pot, alcohol, cigarettes or religion to make the heart filled with love that can manifest it with others. Pot clears the mind for self delusion and clouds the mind for the inner truths.

I would like few things better than to see one church service per year dedicating pot smoking to everyone in the stinking pews passing around a joint then, spending 1/2 hour hugging! I’m as pro choice to have an abortion as I am ‘legalizing pot’ however, avoiding both is not a bad idea.  People who truly love themselves and, are able to manifest that with another don’t need pot to enhance it any more than a barbecue needs gasoline thrown on it. People with inner issues that block ‘self love’ don’t need tranquilizers to correct the malady! Love comes rushing in with ‘letting go’ and, infinite forms of natural breathing techniques. Pot blocks heart growth while appearing to stimulate the mind of those being knuckleheads. A computer doesn’t need pot to have millions of times more information than any ‘ego head’ however, it has NO heart!
Arhata