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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

February 21, 2010
Wall St. is a heaven for those who did well in school and desire to make a good living.  Wall St. represents the pinnacle of our education system occupied by the best and brightest. Wall St. is the top of the heap for monetary rewards available for those dedicated in their passion to do the best that they can do. There are ‘rules of the jungle’ like anywhere else as well as, an oversight by the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) to monitor as best can be, in the moment, the activities being honorable and within agreed upon limits.

Allah has very little representation on Wall St. compared to the rest.  Jews and Wasps
(white anglo saxon protestants) run the show.  All mormons or muslims are but a minor glitch in the mix. God on Wall St. stays at the foot of Wall in the old Trinity Church or, it’s graveyard.  Rarely does this phantom God peek out the stain glass windows and, look down Wall St. The elevators are all filled with the money hustlers, their support and, those looking to share the loot (which is what I did).

Wall St. is about ‘salesmen’ making the economy spin in the world and, at home here.
Greed exists here as well as anywhere in the world but, a certain amount of it keeps things rolling to a bull market.  Anyone, even ‘allah followers’ can put on a tie, shirt, suit and get their shoes polished if they have the desire to do so.  Those who sit crying in the farms, factories, woods and so forth over ‘why me’, likely had a choice to take a better gamble while young.

People lose money whether a farmer, working at McDonald’s, or on Wall St. Sometimes it’s for lack of awareness to diversify and open opportunities where they may best lie.  Love is not a big factor on Wall St. Sex, cocaine, income potential and, hard work are.
Seeking people’s illusions of what ancient holy books offer is near non existent, thankfully.  Knowing the rules of the outer world are very important.  Becoming attached to them as a pedophile is to kiddie sex, is to kill the human spirit and soul. Know when to put the rules of the outer world in the back part of the mind and, the infinite aspects of the inner world at the forefront.  That’s where the real billionaires and the rich are. Leave all ‘belief systems’ home away from Wall St. where there is more Godliness than in the churches, temples and, mosques that harbor the real ‘bullshit’ of a ‘Bear Market’.
Arhata

February 20, 2010
Man is still on ‘training wheels’ like a little child learning to ride his bicycle for fear of falling.  The ‘training wheels’ are belief systems, religions, obsessions with drugs, money, porno sites, sex and, the list goes on.  Staying in one place even while running from one end of the earth to the other is just ‘spinning tires’ in the snow getting no where that one considers somewhere.

‘Running on intellect’ isn’t the same as running on intelligence.  Love, barely on ‘training wheels’ is the extent of where ‘intellect’ and biological urges will take one. All the money and even good deeds in the world are seemingly not enough to drop the wheels of fear to ride the 2 wheeler of risk that even falls short of having the courage to ride the unicycle or, loving one’s own heart within.  The evolution of humans into a super race won’t come just with the development of the mind, much like the exponential increase in technological advancements.  Sooner or later man becomes so identified in awe with the toys of technology that he allows it to be used against his inner development.

Living life as what amounts to a ‘checkout person’ in a supermarket with a slick ‘stick house in the suburbs’ wondering not only who but, why you are with the partner who tags along on this boring road of going no where is but an uncreative ‘cookie cutter’ life that billions slumber in.  Grabbing more and more toys off the shelf that only tethers one to attachment of the ‘outer’ is a curse to finding who it is who can just enjoy themselves without all the bells and whistles.

It’s wise to learn the rules of society and then, use them when necessary while putting them in the back of the mind to navigate freely in ways that explore the inner values and treasures that society can easily numb with it’s temptations to follow the crowd and ‘keep up with the Jones’s.  Jones the Jones’s and find your own way of the heart that creates the birth of intelligence while the intellect is in the back pocket to navigate through the hearts wildness.
Arhata

tiger woods sex
February 19, 2010
The ‘World’s most famous person’ at this time has been undergoing ‘sex addiction correction’ – a scam for the public and, his wife. Breathing, eating, crapping, and sex are involuntary!  If I were a 34 year old world’s most famous athlete as well as the most famous person in the world, I wouldn’t make a promise of ‘fidelity’ that I couldn’t possibly  keep!  There are thousand of girls who deserve to have a ‘hole in one shot’ that could change their lives even if it’s just fun!

There is NOTHING spiritual about promising something that goes against nature and hurts NO ONE with ‘COMMUNICATION and honesty’.  It is normal for humans to desire others, it’s what they do with that desire that is the issue.  Very few men would have trouble with a choice of a ‘million dollars with no sex but with one person forever or, the freedom and means to enjoy sex with whomever was willing. Not long ago, I was close to someone very famous in sports who made headlines for ‘sexual indiscretions’. He knew and I knew, that the lesson was to be even more discrete.  We both agreed, there seems to be little evidence of a ‘star athlete or politician’ to be publicly chastised once he has been!

I support Tiger Woods enjoying sex with as many women as he wants but, in consciousness and, with communication and agreement with his wife as long as she is married to him.  Pretending to be pious when if the truth be known, one just enjoys healthy connections with others is at the ‘basis of all the lies in the world’.  Couples need to put everything on the table and find the best way to adapt to the realities and, that will require a creative sex life.

Possessiveness by either partner in a marriage can only be healthy with mutual agreement and, in heartfelt consciousness.  Hiding in the shadows a behavior that is perfectly fine but for sensitivity and compassion is absurd!  A tiger in the woods must have conscious freedom!  To assume that a bee isn’t going to check the flowers out for honey is …..just insane. Mutual agreement acceptable to each other goes a long way! Fairy tales are wonderful but, life in awareness and love is better!
Arhata

February 18, 2010
How many butts sit in the same chair groking illusions to make them feel themselves?  Author Robert Heinlein coined the term ‘grok’ in his best selling 1961 novel, ‘Strangers in a Strange Land’. In his view, groking is “the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed.
From the novel:
Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthly assumptions) as color means to a blind man.

I love some movies like anyone.  I also use to love looking at Playboy magazines until ‘reality’ became far, far more exciting.  Thousands of novels, including ‘romance novels’, are written every year for the money that ‘window shoppers of life’ buy to read as they avoid the nuances of a reality that when harmoniously merged with, is a heaven on earth.  The ‘Muscats’ of the world know only what comes before their eyes and, titillates their varied erogenous zones.  Life is such now that one can be born in front of movies, live their lives weeping the ‘on screen Disneyland virtual realities’ and, on to the grave with a TV set thrown in for rotting eternity.

Hollywood or, Bollywood in India are ‘grape crusher’ illusion machines that keep the masses drunk while rarely serving up a ‘fine wine’ that is worth the expenditure for soda and popcorn that cost more than the movie.   If the movie doesn’t make you feel a ‘drunkenness, at least you get to non mingle with people who are also drunk in silence.  Movies remind people of the things that they should live or, avoid, from tragedies, adventures, comedies, to romances and, documentaries of life’s trials and tribulations.

Looking around at the world it seems that most find ways to avoid the realities of anything to do with ‘evolving consciousness’ in favor of settling for the ‘tinsel’ that requires a minimal of participation while avoiding the search and, finding a deeper meaning of life and love.  The lights are on in the world as never before in memory for personal movies without a camera.  Lights, camera and, action – you’re up for your ‘lifetime minutes of fame’.  Watch and engage in ‘yourself, love and, the world’, while giving and spreading the infinite goodness found, without the soda and popcorn. Each can be a god-man ‘Johnny Appleseed’ of spreading the news of loving yourself and, not stopping there!
Arhata

February 17, 2010
Sex is the greatest meditation tool available. But, not ’just enjoyable sex’ or, sex for the enjoyment of one partner.  Deep, deep love making where the participants disappear into a blissful emptiness is a state of enlightenment that eludes most of humankind and, is meditation. Pot is for knuckleheads who need a form of ‘viagra’ to stimulate the function of the organs. Pot or, any drug is a temporary stimulus with no particular positive lasting effects. More and more, people seem to be looking for outer ways of sexual satisfaction which have little to do with ‘consciousness opening’ of the mind and heart.

Shooting for the ‘moon’ when the rest of the universe is at hand but for clear consciousness is like filling one up with ‘junk food’ before a gourmet meal.  Getting ‘stuck’ on ‘fast food enjoyment’ of sex while not taking the time to drop the mind and allow the zone of deep union is pedantic or, just insane. Chasing ‘pipe dreams’ while not spending the time to melt into existence, be it with yourself through meditation or, the mating of souls, is to bypass the essence of life.

Today, more and more are looking for the stars through the smog and fog that only gives the illusion of the real experience.  Meditation may be necessary to begin to clear the mind and heart of ‘issues’ that linger as blocks.  Drugs (ie., pot or, cigarettes) just delude one into thinking they have ‘arrived’ when what has happened is that all personal growth remains ‘stuck’ until the next high and the next high endlessly. To meet a partner continuously in an altered state is another way of saying that you need a ‘mind altering stimulus’ to enjoy the other person.

Real IQ is ‘intelligence quotient’ and, not just ‘intellectual quotient’ where the heart and being is largely put aside.  Meditation increases the ability to be aware unencumbered by clinging personal and social issues. Deep meditation and/or deep love making elevates one to a far greater conscious level than a dependence on the mind is capable of doing. Throw out concern about IQ’s along with the ‘pot’ and, go straight to the source which is the ‘breath of life’ that becomes a conduit to Godliness.
Arhata

February 16, 2010
The ‘real rebel of love’ walks out of the chains of the past and, it’s apathy, ignorance and, violence. Love is creative, never stagnate and apathetic. Love knows no boundaries of possession.  Love keeps the flame of passion burning through all trials and tribulations. Until now, most so called love relationships are no more than apathetic, insecure couplings where the ‘love juice’ has soured and turned to a ‘reactionary’ affair slipping into ‘lovers oblivion’.

The ‘rebel lover’ is not concerned about living ‘forever after’ with one partner but, with the quality of communication, compassion, agreements, and mutual positive honesty.  Rebel lovers always seek to deepen the love and meaning of life.  There is no big event at the beginning followed by a slow withdrawal into individual personalities with unresolved issues.  The direction is always toward more love and understanding of each others needs and wants, even compromise is sometimes necessary.

This type of arrangement is open and in tune with all situations in terms of focusing on the loving connection. Coupling has been destructive of the values of two souls for continuous mating and, looking out for each’s needs of individuality and freedom where ‘trust’ becomes ‘hard wired’ into the relationship.  A deep reverence for love and life always predominates every moment.  There are no secrets hence, the possibility of minimizing reactionary behavior that so limits ‘coupling love’ worldwide.  Conforming to societal models of ‘marriage’ is likely not followed in rebelling love.

Divorce or separation for the ‘rebel lovers’ will be a time of loving sensitivity to each other’s path into a life always remembering the beauty of past moments together and, a validation of each moment into the future that is blessed because of that experience. No love is completed flowering until all obstacles are removed to open the doors to reach the highest peaks. Rebel love is ‘creative’!
Arhata

February 15, 2010
I went from watching ‘looney tunes’ on Saturday mornings, delivering newspapers and, visualizing girls suddenly to receiving ’orders to kill’ sanctioned by the President of the USA! Talk about a ‘wake up call’ into a surreal reality! We are all born with the seeds of survival, sometimes, unfortunately, that takes the form of violence, Humans are still ‘wild’ inside with few having the consciousness to manage that ‘wild side’.  Always we must learn to walk in love and discernment of  what comes before us.

Hidden behind the facade of love in the unconscious is violence. Humanity continues millenniums of violence unabated except among the few who live in love and awareness of avoiding situations more likely to cause the experience of violence.  However, carrying an umbrella doesn’t mean that one won’t get wet. “Civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All civilizations, our own included, have been based on slavery and “warfare.” Incidentally, the latter term is a euphemism for mass murder.”

There is no where to go but inside, if people only would see that that’s where the peace in the world they so ‘swear they want’, hides waiting for a ‘look see’!  The ability for violence is a necessary part of the formula for all living creatures for at least self protection.  To initiate violence where there is none is to resort to ‘stone age’ flippancy with little regard for the ethics of love and compassion for life. No one’s going to speak to us more than our awareness and, sense of right and wrong that needs to be developed.

It’s been alleged that less than 5% of the people create 95% of the violence in the world and, that includes inciting it. Initiating violence is ‘psychopathic’. Staying out of ‘harms way’ is just pure intelligence!  ‘’It is difficult to live sanely in an insane world — but that is the only life there is, and one has to find one’s way to live through it.’’ Love yourself and, spread the seeds of love hoping that it may make it a better world.

February 14, 2010
To be any type of addict, positive or negative is to be attached to behaviors that are not valued enough so as to look at ‘other alternatives’.  The ‘positive addict’ lives in denial that life has many dimensions that are beyond ‘perception of what is positive and, to one may be negative to another’ or, may have no credibility whatsoever.  An example would be people with religious fervor beliefs feeling that anything less than their worship is negative, dooming the person to everlasting Hell.  Another is one who lives attached to hope endlessly without acknowledging ‘reality’ and, balance with common sense.

One could say that the positive addict is actually ‘negative’. However, be it as it may, the world is currently consumed by the vast majority being attached to negative thoughts and, not pursuing climbing up to a new way of thinking and behaving of ‘positive living’.
Negative addicts on some level enjoy the ‘sugared vitriol’ they lay out endlessly.  Many are too lazy to examine their self induced habits that spark attention in others.  For the first known time, the lights are on in the world for all to wake up to see what’s going on and, to see ‘who they really are’ – it’s just a matter of turning the ‘hide and seek’ into ‘look and see’!

I’ve been able to watch a few drug/alcohol addicts over time in my spiritual community/center with the observation and thought that these people were addicts in many, many other things stretching from food intake obliviousness of healthy foods, to insistent behaviors that defied sensitivity to others and, just pure common sense. They are addicted to past habits that have not been examined for faults and replaced by more positive, acceptable ones. In a real sense, they are addicted to past bad habits that they are basically to lazy to trade in for a new set of ‘acceptable habits’.

Reaching inside and pulling out ‘bad habits’ is a good ‘new routine habit’!  Start with one habit and replace it with a good habit.  Roll it around in experience then, pick out another one and, continue the procedure until all have been replaced by healthy positive ones.  It’s not so hard!  Begin with a new habit of just paying attention to what you do and, if it is among the best selections for yourself and, others sensitivities. Make it a habit to live and love from the heart more and more as bad habits disappear. Be a ‘walking good habits’ with a habit of smiling along the way! No more ‘rollover bad habits’!
Arhata

February 13, 2010
Why would an intelligent person carry around unresolved issues?  Emotional clearing is to ‘reposition or eliminate unresolved issues’ where possible and, generally it is.  These ‘barnacle issues’ follow one where ever you go, especially when intimacy is desired. Nature is usually, although not always, fair in that what one puts into the self, one eventually gets back.  Neglect the self and, dormant issues that are behind most behaviors and, the discomfort, will always continue to rear their ugly head.

To me intelligence begins with realizing that you deserve the best opportunities in your personal life to further the growth into a harmony within.  Intellect has little to do with that.  A balance in all aspects of the self from sexual, emotional, mental, physical, spiritual all contribute to maximizing ones totality as a human being.  Using all that we have inwardly to elevate ourselves to see a joy within makes complete sense as against just doing the same old stuff that creates problems that are never fixed.

Have known innumerable friends who I have a great fondness for but, have obvious ‘flaws’ that cause them repeated forms of anguish.  The ‘emotional issues’ that are left unresolved keep that way because of a ‘stubborn ego’ that won’t challenge itself to be vulnerable and more and more discerning who they attract and, who will find their qualities attractive. Had one friend who was well educated, great athlete, successful in business and investments but, refused to look at himself when it came to any intimacy beyond ‘hi – come home with me – thank you and, bye! He never even met a girl’s parents! His problem, and millions of others, rests with dropping the outer to look at the inner and taking responsibility to fix what kept him from ‘harmonious connections’.

There is ‘one thing’ more important than all the medals, accolades and, successes in the world and that is finding the ‘you’ that can genuinely be loved at all moments and, that at ‘least’ one other person finding themselves to be in full agreement. There are two times to ‘kill the enemies inside’: Yesterday and, if you didn’t do it, NOW! Try meditation techniques to help!
Arhata