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Inside Job!


July 21, 2010
Who really are you? On Wall St. they call it a ‘friendly takeover’ as against a ‘hostile takeover’. Friendly takeovers are often an ‘inside job’. In the life of the personal, information is planted into the accepting, non questioning mind early in ones’ life to create what could be considered a hostile takeover that’s against the ‘examined truths’ available with critical thinking. To move into the ‘light of self evolvement’, one has to commit to an ‘inside job’. Outsiders should only be consulted as an aid to further move one into seeking what are the answers of knowing and loving oneself inside.

The forces of the world, without a ‘filter of discernment’, leave one empty of inner self direction above the forays of the cacaphonies of existence, and it’s subtle ‘brainwashing’ one accepts but is erroneous for personal growth. ‘Too late for positive change’ is a ‘state of mind cluttering’ that needs clearing for the truth to be seen, in other words an ‘inside job’ that only you can do. It’s always time to make yourself your favorite person to know and love.

Checking out of any less than positive, passionate routines, and to be replaced by things more conscious, are building blocks to greater inner blessings. At the same time, letting go of old habits that wouldn’t survive intelligent people’s viewing is another step. The infinite methods of meditation an hour or more a day are ways to clean out behaviors that stunt all growth. If it’s more love and less chatter in the mind you seek, meditate, live with more positive, focused intentions, and if possible seek out some as a friend who lives that talk. That in and of itself will possibly be a journey that’s very elusive but will save you from always going down the wrong tunnel for the cheese that’s not there anyway.

Step away from ‘crowd mentalities’ be they religions, political, economic and otherwise. Crowd mentalities steal away your individuality replacing it with dogma that’s not really you. It may take courage to escape living through lies and seeing deeper and deeper truths. Fear comes up because you live through lies and deceptions. As truth arises, one starts seeing through the lies that a whole lifetime has been invested in. Kick yourself out of environments that have made you believe what others and that environment have convinced you of. Invest in a ‘total inside job’ to bring out an extreme makeover to find your real self. To be high on life is your natural state to return to!
Arhata

Love Requires Conscious Mate

July 20, 2010
Finding love with someone who doesn’t exhibit deep love for themselves is like driving a malfunctioning, old car cross country, while trying to lose 100 extra pounds, and all your problems, while hoping to meet the love of your life along the way. Love, typically and unfortunately, has a great breakdown, spinout track record that finds itself marooned without any help to put itself back to ‘operational’ for the long journey.

Love can be a spiritual path, but unlike the ‘meditation solitary path’, it’s an evolving coupling of two people rising in love together. Either path is fraught with complexities that without a ‘conscious leader’ is likely to breakdown and lose the path of rising. You can seek, search and find on your own but there are thousands of ways that lead nowhere and life is too short to accommodate relentless trial and error let alone the likelihood of finding the inner love happening between two people or even oneself.

The ‘gifted in love’ person must first of all be a friend. A friend who is in a conscious position of self love and who is willing to help you eliminate the decisions of seeking love that is nothing but endless blocks going nowhere. Sex may or may not be involved as sex is just one of the expressions of ‘rising love’. The deep manifestation of love is the key, and that’s available with anyone at any age, if one is open to let go and be emersed in the unbreakable ‘spell’ of love. One of love’s expressions, for example, that needs no physical bonding is ‘devotion’ or the overpowering heart need to give back to the source that aided in the ‘unlocking of love’s hidden ways’.

A ‘master of love’ cannot give you the truth, but can indicate the paths you need not go down and become more lost. He can suggest eliminating those paths. Without one in ‘conscious love’, you will have to go through the infinite paths and eliminate them yourself. That’s a near impossibility in one lifetime. It’s much better to have one who knows eliminate them for you. The adept at conscious love is a friend, nothing more, nothing less and one who saves you endless frustrations of going down the wrong path of love. Love is life’s delicate blessing that runs from your fears of ‘letting go with awareness’, but hides in plain sight for the surrendering heart.

Eye of the Needle

July 17, 2010
To pursue riches and at the same time following a spiritual path is akin to a rich man going through the eye of a needle – not likely! Serving two ‘masters’ is heading down a path damaging to both ‘masters’. Leading a material life of comfort certainly is one in which to sit back and admire all the pretty things, but for the one choosing the spiritual path, life can’t be bought. The inner joys are the riches to enrich the spirit.  In the bible it says, it’s easier for a rich man to go to heaven than a camel to go through the eye of a needle! Is it true?

I never paid much attention to that saying but remember it from ‘childhood sunday school’ as do millions who continue to be told over time. Never gave it much thought as being true or false, but just a saying that I let drift to the back of my mind, until recent years when I could experience and also see that manifestation. During most of the ’70’s and early ’80’s I lived very much in the New York City corporate world while living in a 5 room rent controlled, bohemian apartment with a roof garden. Until the early 80’s, I was able to balance a ‘spiritual life’ with a relaxed life in corporate sales that was easy for me to earn a living to support a lifestyle where little was needed for rent.

As the 80’s progressed until 1990, I left the ‘life serving two masters’ to one working hard in a Wall St. career. That consumed more time and energy, but payed for more material rewards that were quite enjoyable and comforting. That time came to an ending in a 40th floor luxury apartment over looking NY’s Central Park and the whole skyline down to the World Trade Centers which no longer is there since the 9-11-01 terror attacks. As I stepped back over the years into living a continuing more bohemian spiritual life on the Pacific Coast, the ‘eye of the needle’ story has become a reality that I can see more clearly, and experience.

It’s not just the rich that are kept blind to the mysteries of divine consciousness but those who fill their mind with desires of greed, substance abuse, self loathing, apathy, the drudgeries of common married life, etc. Self realization and evolving into self love needs clarity from ulterior motives that block one’s consciousness from moving into the ‘lightness’ of deep love and divineness. Coming to a ‘stop’ in moving in ways of fears, ‘self serving’ desires, denial, and all negatives is necessary in changing directions leading to an entry into the gates of the nirvana within. Real freedom comes when having gone through the eye of the needle.

Arhata

Genius Morons

July 15, 2010
Rarely is a ‘so called genius’ not ‘compartmentalized’ in their ‘genius’ while being an idiot or moron in some of the most important qualities every human should evolve into. Geniuses usually are blessed with high IQ’s (intellectual quotients) which tend to give them an ability to do well at certain tasks including and beyond ‘scholastic’. Society seems conditioned by a strange reverence for ‘high scholastic aptitude’ that, at this time, gives little outward appreciation for other important qualities and abilities.

Many of these ‘genius level’ folks struggle in their personal lives often projecting their troublesome dilemmas in smooth personal relationships as the fault of others. Many times they are equally, or even more, at fault with those they have recurring conflicts with. Both the genius and non genius get caught up in societies enabling accolades for what only amounts to one aspect of a being that often is so focused on that leaving other qualities to go ‘undernourished’ or undeveloped.

Losing track of reality and depending on the ego’s lapping up the merits of one aspect of many that makeup for successful harmonious living is frequently the terms of confinement for these ‘other wise morons’. There should be sympathy for them but it’s hard to get through the self adulation. It’s like the beautiful sexy young female who has no sense of herself other than the swarm of attention she may elect to bask in. A ‘gift’ whatever it might be needs to be humbly accepted while focusing on the evolvement of other inner qualities that round out a person.

One of the common aspects of the genius is something called eidetic memory better known as ‘total recall’ (which is a built in ‘born with’ quality of being able to remember far more than the average person). Take that away from them and the genius often disappears into living a tattered self, empty of many other developed qualities. Genius has contributed much to the world as well as having been destructive. Balance of mind, body, emotional, and spiritual is the real gift that reverberates love in relationships and the enlightenment of the world. Never put all your marbles or eggs in one basket and expect the real joys and blessings in life! Intellect is only a part of intelligence. Love requires no genius.
Arhata

Perfect Sheeple

July 16, 2010
The world is perfect as it is. People are perfect as they are! The ‘imperfect’ is perfect considering what has come before. ‘Sheeple is a word to describe those majority people who voluntarily acquiesce to a perceived authority without really knowing what’s involved in that decision. This unconscious decision is a giving up of their own rights to think for themselves outside ‘the box’.

Sheeple are a collective grouping of people who believe and/or do whatever they are told without any critical examination for the authenticity of the instructions, or who they came from. They find little motivation to go outside the comforts of what other invisible purported holy people have allegedly said, and if what they said needs to be corrected or elaborated on. Sheeple accept perceived ‘authority figures’ has having the last and final word as if from god. Research into the sources of ‘pronouncements’ are anathema to them.

‘Perfect world or a perfect person’ is not a literal analysis but one open to perception of the context of meaning. ‘Perfect’ is often a figure of speech that must be understood in the manner in which it was used. Everyone I look at, I see as a conscious and perfect human.  Sheeple cannot at this time see or visualize due to their attachment to unresolved issues or perceptions, for whatever reasons, that need to be detached from or reinterpreted in a positive way to best serve their evolvement into seeing that they are indeed as perfect as any previous being on this planet has been.

The journey out of the shackles of ‘sheepledom’ is a spiritual journey like climbing a mountain. One can’t just expect to take an instant path (like in a helicopter) to arrive at ‘nirvana’ without facing unknown challenges. Knowing how to handle challenges and using the most skillful means, makes the always continuing journey more rewarding. At some point ‘perfection’ becomes a meaningless word as the excitement and joy of discoveries of the mysteries of life come more often, and more meaningfully. To be an individual, free of all mindless following, and yet surrendered to all life is the entrance into a perfect realm of living life and love.

Arhata

Self Fighting

July 14, 2010
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing

Kung-fu-fighting! I’ve met some of the world’s best King-fu-fighters! The most hidden popular kind! Those who fight themselves and project it on others. Maybe it all started as little kids who when messing in their pants blamed it on their other sibling with innocence. Regardless, it’s one of the most perplexing and frightening displays of ‘shadow fighting’ known to man! It’s most popular in the arena of couples where one or both battles the ‘rif raf’ inside themselves leaving the other getting brainwashed into thinking it’s just them instead of watching with inner amusement at the display of ‘self anger’ before them and the other.

These ‘troubled souls’ come in all forms from the street bums talking to themselves to the ‘mogul attorney’ having to be in court daily with himself but pointing the finger at everyone else! Life need not be a fight but a flow in the direction of harmony and love. People become very good at fighting with themselves – no coaching needed! Beware of the overly friendly person as often they are always shopping for new stranger friends who have not experienced their ‘infighting’. When ‘unhappy self fighters’ become close to anyone they seem to seek reasons to feel annoyed, slighted, or any kind of irritation that comes with a reaction that often creates a reaction in the other to shove the blame on. It’s contagious as well as harmful to a peaceful sensible calm connection.

‘Friendliness’ is an important quality in a spiritual journey especially when from the heart and a clear mind. Buddha regarded ordinary love as below friendliness.  Ordinary love is tethered to the biological needs of sex while ‘friendliness’ is free from biological constraints. Take love out of sex and it is, the lowest form of friendliness, if even that.

Humans are the only animal that can face each other in sex, creating a potential bonding that is unknown in the animal kingdom. Fighting becomes replaced by a culture of love and bliss. A deep friendliness arises in the exchange of love when sex rises above the biological urge into a realm of ‘nirvana’. Love deepens when opening the eyes and looking into each other. All inner ‘kung-fu-fighting’ dissolves, and possibly permanently. Embrace self love, not self fighting.

Arhata

July 11, 2010
Yeeeks! Time is a valuable possession! Is it slipping by more quickly than desired? Wondering if you’ve given life at this precious, magical time all that you’ve got? The only time left is NOW, and running around doing this and that is never going to work fully if you haven’t taken the time to repair what’s inside that needs it to find the greatest joy and blessings within. There is no blame, particularly of others. It’s just stepping away from the heart of the matter! Hmmm? I guess you don’t mind, it don’t matter …  mind over matter? Or, is a game of self denial, the oldest con game?

Hopefully, you run outa time on the slippery slopes of making money that only anesthetizes you into a numbing of false happiness and hope. I meet thousands and thousands of people naked of all their possessions to see more clearly who they really are. It’s quite a different picture than seeing them in their poverty or riches. It’s actually a great leveler of humanity when one has to show up naked of possessions and fineries, uh, and makeup masks! It’s like wakin’ up in the morning with a stranger in bed!

Their are stars in your soul yet rain in every life wherever you go. The roses need smelling and can’t be smelled from speeding by in the ‘Beemer’ car going to and fro for what and where, who knows? Life is like a New York minute always moving on still being available to the ‘conscious ville’ stop to see what’s ‘really goin’ on’! Seems most everyone has a cell phone that has a ‘signal bar’ to let us know how ready it is to talk and hear.  Likewise, each person comes with a ‘’signal bar’ within to measure how conscious and sensitive the heart and being are. It’s hidden in plain sight like on the cell phone!

Put your head on the chopping block to drain out all the piles of shit that only serve to modify the shit below that. Stop, look in, and see the unnecessary ‘flotsam’ that needs to be catharted to float away to sink into an unretrievable ocean. Jesus saves? Muhammed is the way? The truth for you is only in you! Anyone else can, at best, only point out to the direction of truth. Time waits for no one but marches on leaving the carcasses of procrastination and ‘self stupidity’ behind. Each of us is a loving and brilliant human hidden in plain sight, but for seeing it inside, and not outside in the infinite distractions! Move toward the enlightening light!

Arhata

Food Kills Love?

July 9, 2010
Picky or a sugar glutton? Whether you’re the ‘eating disordered’ one, or the other is, it’s antithetic or poison to loving relationships. Tolerance and having to adapt to suit the so called success of a relationship is to ‘tolerate’ what amounts to a common, functional relationship always on the rocks. What one puts in the body (or doesn’t) can adversely affect the quality experience of love in a relationship. In any case, it’s often a question of what comes first, ‘the chicken or the egg’.

Eating habits often are the outward indicator of a persons current ability to grow in love.
People’s eating habits are as diverse as people are in general. Making assertions is certainly fraught with possible misjudgments, however that being said, healthy eating not only consists of eating healthy food with discernment, but eating in quantities favorable to the well being in all aspects beyond physical. To be mindful of one’s food intake being less than healthy is to pay attention to the love of self which affects any love of another!

In the spectrum of observing eating patterns, I’ve encountered everything from the ‘won’t eat this or that picky eater’ to the slob who gorges on any thing ‘tasty’. Substance abuse aside, each of the two polarity eaters seems to be the result of buried issues unaddressed and not overcome. Sometimes that issue is the result of physical abnormalities. Does any of it create behaviors that cause the up and down reactions in love relationships? Likely! What to do (in addition to loving oneself)?

Always, loving, common sense communication overcomes liabilities if agreed upon and fulfilled. Owning one’s obstacles to promote a loving relationship as often as the other requires is paramount in overcoming effects that have not been cleared for smooth and  harmonious merging. Marriage, or any love relationship, is about merging two souls into one and creating a ‘mutual soul mate’ which is a third entity called an ‘us’ or ‘we’ that ‘thinks’ separate from each individual. The ‘us’ is concerned with the healthy eating habits on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level of the individual, and it’s positive effect on the full expression of creating the ‘soul mates’. Love is a gourmet meal and not fast food or ‘picky’. Be open to possibilities beyond the questionable routines! The ‘power of food’ and the ‘power of love’ are related!

Marital Greed or Bliss?

July 8, 2010
Marriage activates the inner qualities, but most ignore it for the superficial ‘outer’! Legal marriage is a contract between a couple and the state, make no mistake! It is about money and taxation, which is ok, but all that amounts to a life of up and down misery with no cure, but with wisdom, it makes sense for priorities to put ‘love and compassion’ ahead of the state! It’s never too late to have an interview with the ‘self’ for a job that was lost early in the marriage!

Life is a bit of a ‘merry-go-round’. Get on the wrong one and it just goes ‘round and round’ with getting off being even more misery unless there’s joy in the ride that leaves a ‘love buzz’ through its ups and downs. How many can say from their heart that they would do it all over again and again for the love that they had? Love is ‘self pumping’ into more love, but needs a self intention and activation to make certain the heart stays open and filled with the magic elixir of love’s juices.

Since the last third of the 20th century with the increase of women in most work fields (and women’s equality is very important), the increase in a significant 10’s of millions of couples income has skyrocketed. Along with that is a kind of ‘greed’ used with the purchasing power that seems to feed on itself. As I walk through cities and towns like greater Los Angeles (8th largest metro area in the world), I see hundreds and thousands of ‘mega homes’ that would once have  been called ‘castles’ all over.  The American ‘bubble dream’ is that of ‘living a dream-illusion’ in deference to others, and really their inner souls.

Marriage is an opportunity to ‘soul mate’ with each other in a rising of love and consciousness that defies the common naysayer’s thinking. A true marriage is a meditation! Meditation is a rise in consciousness as is a marriage with two partners in sync to reach to the highest qualities of emotion and being possible. Most marriages are ‘bottom feeders’, rich or poor, of the skeletons of something they persist in calling love for who knows whose benefit! Marriage is meant to be a state of divineness regardless of challenges it may incur. It’s all a choice. Rarely does the focus on the pursuit of accumulations and marital bliss go together… love is selfish!

Arhata

Escape from Chains

July 7, 2010
Time to unlock the chains of the mind, heart, and routines that have shackled you to an endless ‘walking in place’ to nowhere. The ‘chains of the centuries’ are still imprisoning humanity inspite of incredible technological developments and access to incredible information to assist inner growth.

The chains are infinite: God, heaven, hell, christianity, islam, judaism, hinduism, buddhism, political, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and relationships – the list is endless! When I take a whack at any of them, anger comes up from those attached without an openness to examine the alternatives. They claim is that it is I who is hateful and angry when it is really the reverse. They are angry and have attempted to attack me not realizing that I’m just the messenger with no animosity whatsoever.

One of the most restricting chains to break loose of is the ‘chain of apathy’. Not caring or being concerned about self evolvement or making a difference in family, community, and the world at large is no longer an acceptable mode of behavior. Snoozing habitually on couches was a lazy habit of the last part of the 20th century that has faded into a wakeup time where you and the world needs participation not fraternization with apathy and a sloviness of sensitivity for everything of internal quality. The ‘wake up alarm clock’ is ringing.

Difficulties of breaking out of the doldrums of mindless routines are certainly challenges, but those challenges should be looked at as ‘friends’, though hidden, and not as enemies. Those contentious of new ideas and growth, even if they fade away or disappear, will unknowingly be at least lightly affected to reach a greater openness as the consciousness of the times slowly drowns the negatives of the past centuries. View life as a bed of fragrant roses with thorns that disappear in the light of a loving, positive perception beyond the cobwebs of perpetual negative redundancy. Let go of every belief and concept you’ve been taught and you might surprise yourself at the immense freedom to arrive at a space far beyond someone else’s words. Freedom begins inside!
Arhata