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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