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Deuter Music

June 24, 2010
Love is an ‘art form’! The canvas is you! Want to change another? Change yourself first and then ‘see’ like a sculptor looks at a huge boulder. When he sees himself as an artist seeking perfection, he can see in the stone a finished work of art. Likewise one must become centered within themselves having carved out all impediments to a full self realization of themselves, and then, be able to see the perfection in another but for their self realization unfulfilled.

Take time every day to turn inside and see what causes the mess of obstructions including anger, hatred, greed, jealousy, and all black holes of repression that are harbored within. Close your eyes, and open the eyes within to see passing dark clouds that obscure the clear view of who you really are without the relentless attachment to negativities that serve no purpose but to block who you really are. Those clouds obstructing the experience of knowing your perfection will always be in frequent, endless recurrence.

Because it’s all a mess inside, one is motivated to constantly look for pleasures on the outside so as not to deal with the chaos within that incessantly arises at any moment. It seems as some sort of ‘hell’ or ‘Hitler concentration camp’ rather than the paradise sometimes called the ‘kingdom of god within you’. It’s necessary, like a sculptor carving a beautiful work out of rock, to clear that which has no part in the beauty of the finished product.

Before ‘fine tuning’, there is a need to chip away the obvious barriers to seeing a more clear picture. That ‘chipping away’ is analogous to ‘catharting’ to remove that which one has attachment to having, nothing to do with a more beautiful, clear self. Catharting techniques can be any number of physical exercises from near about an hour of dancing,  creative calisthenics, running, laughing, crying – a focused activity to exhaust the mind followed by a few minutes of closed eye silence just watching what comes up with no judgment. In time, fewer and fewer clouds of disturbance will be in that relaxed silence.

These suggested ideas are active meditations to better prepare the way for following up with passive silent meditation. Soon the ‘art of inner discovery and harmony’ will begin to unveil itself. Slowly your blissful essence will begin to slip in as the ‘unwanted’ is thrown out.
Arhata

Heaven Knows …

June 23, 2010
Means, ‘you’, in your higher self, can see truth, and feel the bliss and joy at will of all life.
Love has not to be sought but is ever present for you. There is no more hatred, having been replaced by compassion and awareness. Everyone has the right to know and feel love and heaven within. However, all but a few get lost in the distractions of window shopping through life rather than shopping within for the pearls of wisdom within.

Where ‘heaven’ is, there is no fear. Love is existential. Fear is the absence of love or heaven within. The problem with any absence, is there is nothing you can do about it directly. Fear is like darkness, nothing can be done about it directly. Light need to enter. The way to deal with darkness is via light. There is no way to change darkness without light entering. The same applies to love and fear. Love is light, fear is darkness.

Problems will never be resolved by obsessing with the negative of darkness. One’s energy will ultimately find itself being overcome by exhaustion. Defeat is imminent and all because of fighting in the dark with something that is not really there, but only more darkness of fears and ignorance is given energy that only sucks out the light or truth. Making a problem out of fear and ignorance is only to be endlessly lost in the dark. Love is the question, and the answer. Seeking to find love within extinguishes the darkness. Finding love when only the negativity of darkness is around may take patience but that’s where the answers lie.

Love is an intrinsic quality you are born with and remains inside hidden by ones ignorance and fears waiting silently to be found. Giving adds energy to love starting with giving positive thoughts and feelings to yourself, your passions, and from the heart to others. Like painting, writing, music, or playing a sport, the more effort you give to it, the better the results. Give energy to your awareness of qualities that replace habits that serve no one but the lazy, greedy self. Giving has mathematics. The more you give the more the results.

Fear is darkness. Give, and one day darkness is no longer there! Heaven knows only love and joy!  All that you need, you have … waiting for a little light from you! Keep on reaching in!

Love Cancels Religion

June 21, 2010
Love is a magic that carries it’s own scriptures! Once it goes from passion to it’s depths, a ‘tabula rosa’ arises canceling all but the memories of any religion, and way of prior life. In that space, all attachments become a ‘past’ that can be only viewed from afar as if in another time, place, even the concept of ‘God’ takes on a new experience that really can only be understood by the rare fortunate. Words become unnecessary except for practical use. Love is a new start every moment needing only it’s energy to shine as bright as the first moment!

The universe smiles when love is reached. The deeper it goes, at some point it reaches a nirvana that implodes within forever. Love only dies when it hasn’t reached it’s depths. Love in it’s deepest form, becomes a fulfilling of bliss and inner joy that transcends all challenges throughout life. Perhaps there is no beginning and certainly, no end. Love of a mother for a child lasts without end. Deeper into another dimension of love, happens when two souls meet in a higher and higher place. That space is a ‘superconscious love’ that begins a new life.

Love cancels ‘everything’ that ‘man’ conjures up whether allegedly transmitted by any God or holy spirit. Love manifests a world that no ‘religious salesman’ can possibly communicate, but instead relies on ancient scripture from men who were very talented in the use of words that keep all but a few incarcerated from the freedoms of love. The barriers to love are as plentiful as all the specks of sand in the world.

Trust no talk on love that is not experienced as a positive blessing. Naysayers are ‘love’s losers’. Fancy, poetic words must always be matched to the experience of the ‘author’ for verification of reality. ‘Fairy tale talk’ is of the dreamers of illusion, not the experiencer.

Ecstasy is an experience, not a word to just imagine. Ecstasy in love is not up and down, but in differing levels of surreal, tender, positive heart feelings of a magic carpet ride with no end. Those who have only had different experiences less than mentioned, are blinded by not having met love in it’s full array yet. Love that comes and goes is not the everlasting ‘divine’ love. Love is like a magic elixir coming from the higher dimensions, meeting and filling the soul of the whole human being endlessly.

Tippy Toe Friendships

June 18, 2010
Good Friends are like stars.  You don’t always see them, but you always know they are there! However, ‘good’ is a term often used too loosely in regards to friends.  It’s been said that friends met in a bar disappear like streaking  comets never to be encountered again. In all aspects of life, that is much the same. Move miles away to another location, and ‘time’ will extinguish most flames of ‘friendships’ into an invisible reality and a foggy memory occasionally remembered by the heart.

Friendships are like the ‘tango dance’ – it takes two fully committed to make it work! Friendships are like ‘gardens’, they take care and consistency as well as a deep compassion to weather the rains and the seasons of change. That change should at least include at least a ‘little conversation’ from time to time when possible. Always friendships need the openness on both parts to give ‘homage’ to the precious moments of mutual experiences.

Everyone has a self responsibility to cultivate an openness and compassion of the mind and heart, especially for friends.  All strangers are potential friends and all friends were once strangers. It’s always loving to oneself and others who have touched the heart, past and present, to keep open the doors of communication. Most do not, and only because they have not taken the time to love themselves enough to love others.

Current friendships, and seemingly friendships that have drifted away, grow best with all doors open to communication with no fears of having to ‘tippy toe’ on egg shells to maintain the ‘relationship’ on going. I’ve found that all but a rare person puts walls up, or locks doors to either giving energy, or improving the depth of a friendship. The very best friend you will ever have is locked behind that door, and in you. Why create a ‘suicide of friendship within yourself’? Is it ‘you’ who limits friendships? Never be the last one to ‘not connect’ – that closes doors to the sensitive.  Give love, and receive love – no ‘tippy toe’ stuff, and unlock the floodgates to real communication!

Arhata

Emotional Peepers

June 17, 2010
Before entering the lake’s water, we stick our toe in to feel the comfort level.  Fear of discomfort guides our decisions, even so far as to sadly avoid the comforts and joys of love’s many blessings. In the case of love, for most, it’s too hot to handle beyond the biological love that rushes to the head, jumping safely from the heart. Swimming in the ‘ocean of love’ and letting go of all fears, takes courage! And, where is that courage? In the heart!

Peeping into love, and fear of closeness, is cross cultural around the world, however it seems to be an epidemic disease of some cultures with few exceptions. Sometimes it’s the control of a religion’s close mindedness and/or the repressed culture of a country.  More broadly, it permeates ethnicities! Asians, for example, are typical of this malady, passed on for eons, of fears created, and continued on since prior to written history. This ‘type’ is manipulated, dominated, and controlled by ignorance and fear of ‘losing control’ of ‘whatever it is they think’ they are protecting, instead reaching for the ego of denial.

Brilliant minds have little to do with a heart and mind that is willing to ‘let go’, and let the flow of love’s emotion conquer all fears of closeness. Of course, it’s not always wise to open one’s heart and mind with those who struggle with themselves, and can’t seem to find closeness beyond the biological urges.

There are two spiritual paths. One is the ‘alone path’ of meditation, and it’s infinite techniques to reach inner blisses of love. The other is the ‘love path’ where best expressed between two individuals who merge as one. Both paths open one’s ‘love being’ but not without their dangers. Accompanying the ‘love path’ to open ‘self realization’ requires also the openness of another which simultaneously opens sexual desires. Usually, but not necessarily so, the physical is involved. Whether physical, mental or emotional, the love path triggers fears causing a retreat of letting go all the way.

Why go through life with ‘love peeping out of the closet’ for fear of hurt or losing the ‘false’ self? Hell within sucks! Step out of the box with awareness and discernment into the path of unconditional love and, to keep it real, make it with a conscious adult. Courage opens the heart!
Arhata

Female Knuckleheads June 16, 2010 This is a ‘new dawn, a new day, a new ‘life and love’ opportunity! The ‘dawning of a crystal clear liberation’ broke loose from eons of oppression, repression, and living controlled, manipulated, and dominated existences that passed for a life of faded love, and drudgery. Rather man or woman, life for most was a prison with little light at the end of the tunnel. Humans had begun to rise above a life of few amenities and bare existence to liberate themselves from the shackles of ancient times. Now a few decades and lots of full moons have come and gone. Did ‘ancient man and woman rise from the ashes with this new dawning of the ‘age of aquarius’? Has the sun shined in on the caverns of secrets and futilities? It has, but seems humanity has trouble letting go of the ‘bridge from the past’. Man or woman, the ‘knuckleheads’ are everywhere with drugs to keep them unaware be it ancient religions looping in their heads, or medications from legal and illegal medicine doctors. ‘Technology and stuff worship’ have replaced the ‘mythical religions’ that the ignorant and fearful still cling to while looking and consuming themselves with their real desires. Men do what men have always done under the cover of darkness and deception as most women collect shoes, clothes, trinkets and infinite containers of ‘magical glamour promises’ while thinking of ‘Botox’ or plastic surgery. Ways to avoid who we are, certainly are within arms reach with the ‘bolstered by salivating, overflowing desires’ to have everything our predecessors never had or even imagined! The ‘age of aquarius’ is meant to be the age of enlightenment, not entitlement! Success is a new word in vogue the last few decades marketed by those who look to fatten their ‘take of the goods’, be it institutions of higher learning or corporate madness promoting the ‘American Dream’, albeit, just a dream! On the bright side, there is a murmuring among people learning how to love themselves with compassion for others while forgoing the ‘robotic’ looping of the past even in it’s new forms. The ‘new age’ is the ‘Now Age’ of waking up to the infinite possibilities and qualities within that have nothing to do with outer desires or achievements. It’s all about choosing to get in touch with the higher self that remains hidden in plain sight with a clear route between the mind and the heart! Welcome aboard! Arhata June 16, 2010 ThJune 16, 2010 This is a ‘new dawn, a new day, a new ‘life and love’ opportunity! The ‘dawning of a crystal clear liberation’ broke loose from eons of oppression, repression, and living controlled, manipulated, and dominated existences that passed for a life of faded love, and drudgery. Rather man or woman, life for most was a prison with little light at the end of the tunnel. Humans had begun to rise above a life of few amenities and bare existence to liberate themselves from the shackles of ancient times. Now a few decades and lots of full moons have come and gone. Did ‘ancient man and woman rise from the ashes with this new dawning of the ‘age of aquarius’? Has the sun shined in on the caverns of secrets and futilities? It has, but seems humanity has trouble letting go of the ‘bridge from the past’. Man or woman, the ‘knuckleheads’ are everywhere with drugs to keep them unaware be it ancient religions looping in their heads, or medications from legal and illegal medicine doctors. ‘Technology and stuff worship’ have replaced the ‘mythical religions’ that the ignorant and fearful still cling to while looking and consuming themselves with their real desires. Men do what men have always done under the cover of darkness and deception as most women collect shoes, clothes, trinkets and infinite containers of ‘magical glamour promises’ while thinking of ‘Botox’ or plastic surgery. Ways to avoid who we are, certainly are within arms reach with the ‘bolstered by salivating, overflowing desires’ to have everything our predecessors never had or even imagined! The ‘age of aquarius’ is meant to be the age of enlightenment, not entitlement! Success is a new word in vogue the last few decades marketed by those who look to fatten their ‘take of the goods’, be it institutions of higher learning or corporate madness promoting the ‘American Dream’, albeit, just a dream! On the bright side, there is a murmuring among people learning how to love themselves with compassion for others while forgoing the ‘robotic’ looping of the past even in it’s new forms. The ‘new age’ is the ‘Now Age’ of waking up to the infinite possibilities and qualities within that have nothing to do with outer desires or achievements. It’s all about choosing to get in touch with the higher self that remains hidden in plain sight with a clear route between the mind and the heart! Welcome aboard! is is a ‘new dawn, a new day, a new ‘life and love’ opportunity! The ‘dawning of a crystal clear liberation’ broke loose from eons of oppression, repression, and living controlled, manipulated, and dominated existences that passed for a life of faded love, and drudgery. Rather man or woman, life for most was a prison with little light at the end of the tunnel. Humans had begun to rise above a life of few amenities and bare existence to liberate themselves from the shackles of ancient times. Now a few decades and lots of full moons have come and gone. Did ‘ancient man and woman rise from the ashes with this new dawning of the ‘age of aquarius’? Has the sun shined in on the caverns of secrets and futilities? It has, but seems humanity has trouble letting go of the ‘bridge from the past’. Man or woman, the ‘knuckleheads’ are everywhere with drugs to keep them unaware be it ancient religions looping in their heads, or medications from legal and illegal medicine doctors. ‘Technology and stuff worship’ have replaced the ‘mythical religions’ that the ignorant and fearful still cling to while looking and consuming themselves with their real desires. Men do what men have always done under the cover of darkness and deception as most women collect shoes, clothes, trinkets and infinite containers of ‘magical glamour promises’ while thinking of ‘Botox’ or plastic surgery. Ways to avoid who we are, certainly are within arms reach with the ‘bolstered by salivating, overflowing desires’ to have everything our predecessors never had or even imagined! The ‘age of aquarius’ is meant to be the age of enlightenment, not entitlement! Success is a new word in vogue the last few decades marketed by those who look to fatten their ‘take of the goods’, be it institutions of higher learning or corporate madness promoting the ‘American Dream’, albeit, just a dream! On the bright side, there is a murmuring among people learning how to love themselves with compassion for others while forgoing the ‘robotic’ looping of the past even in it’s new forms. The ‘new age’ is the ‘Now Age’ of waking up to the infinite possibilities and qualities within that have nothing to do with outer desires or achievements. It’s all about choosing to get in touch with the higher self that remains hidden in plain sight with a clear route between the mind and the heart! Welcome aboard! ArhataOsho.com

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Emotional Roller Coaster

June 15, 2010
Ahhhhh! The beauty of mood swings!! Love the ‘highs’! Personally though, I prefer the sweet feel of few mood swings, or one’s that convert rapidly to a consistent blissful state. It’s always a choice! Falling in love with an ‘emotional roller coaster (ERC) type’ is bound to fall off the track up the mountain of love (hence, ‘falling in love’). However, it’s more frequent that ‘ERC’ types bond with others of the same type to do their journey into living chaos with the only light at the end of the tunnel being the experience of endless ‘train wrecks’.

‘Train wrecks’ happen when there’s a combination of a tough start on ‘laying the foundational tracks’ as a child for a smooth, evolving life/love ride through life, and a penchant for going up a path relentlessly that is bound for endless repetition of the ‘same ole, same ole’, different day, different circumstances, but same ‘roller coaster rut’. History tends to repeat itself not only on a world level, but on a very personal level!

Sadly once alone, for whatever time, this type is likely to delude themselves into thinking that they have evolved above the past ‘frays’ of emotional traumas. It’s like the spiritual seeker who leaves his Master after being put through the ‘awareness wringer’ to dry out their illusions. Seeker goes away, thinks they’re enlightened when not involved with the Master, and out in the ‘market place’. Later, they return thinking the Master will be impressed that they have found some ‘nirvana’ within, only to find the Master mirror to be more clear and reflective of ones same old illusions!

As long as one is drugged on the ego, not to mention the drugs that are crutches to avoid looking into the clear mirror of the inner, the illusions of inner grandeur will continue to be ‘enabled’. There is no end to the masquerade and the beginning of it matters not when the choice is ‘now’ to stop, get on track, and begin moving with the heart. The mind, on overload with illusions, is a cancer to the heart. See, feel, and be sensitive to the voice of the heart! Alway acknowledge to another when you are at fault for ‘riding the roller coaster of emotional dissonance’! An ‘emotional roller coaster’ that verbalizes responsibility for their negative moods, is a blessing!

Arhata

Fat Food Contest

June 14, 2010
Or ‘Stupid Markets vs Organic Markets’!

Being curious where the fattest people shopped, I did an ‘on site’ survey the other day at two local stores of 100 people exiting each store. One was a typical ‘stupid market’ with aisles and aisle of every kind of food imaginable, and a dead meat market 1/2 a block long. Processed foods, aspartame and every additive imaginable were added to fancy packaging to make the show more ‘stimulating to the unquestioning palette’. Being 15 pounds over weight in a tall body, I felt rather fine with it as I noticed many taking up half an isle. My criteria for over weight was much more ‘delicate’ with about 40 – 50 pounds, being the beginning ‘rule’ for fat.

The other market was an organic ‘Food Co-op’ owned by the customers, with a third of the amount of isles.  People who shop exclusively at the ‘stupid market’ have one of the excuses being, ‘it’s cheaper’! Not true when it comes to ‘organic food’! Checked two stupid markets, and both were higher priced on organic food than the organic market. Few also realize, that those who buy and eat ‘processed foods’ are likely to eat more of the unhealthy food, thus spending more (not to mention the medical costs later). Also, I noticed a few people lighting up cigarettes after leaving the ‘junk food market’ (added expense).

I have been thinking about the ‘fat problem’ for a few years, particularly while doing public free speech displays both in Venice Beach (LA) and Port Townsend, Washington for the past 16 years. I’ve had tens of millions of people pass by my displays looking one way or another, smoking or non smoking, doing this or that, and always I do my own ‘mental surveys’ of what I see.

Lately, I’ve watched a Brit named Jamie Oliver on TV (promoted by Ryan Seacrest of American Idol fame) attempt to change eating habits in schools at a West Virginia town know as one of the most ‘overweight towns in America. His passionate goal is to create a food revolution in eating habits. Jamie is focused on making a difference in people’s healthy condition by changing eating from ‘processed foods’ to ‘real foods’ without additives, pesticides and so forth that both endanger health and are the main cause behind obesity in America.

The results of my two surveys of percentages of people over weight at the two stores was: 48% of those shopping at the ‘stupid market’ were overweight while just 14% were at the ‘organic market’! An amazing difference worthy of a major change in buying and eating habits for healthier lives! Poor food feeds on itself to encourage eating more ‘unreal food’. The same thought occurs in our personal lives in that what we put in our minds creates the variation in quality, or lack thereof, in out look, experiences, and love of self.

Arhata

Chained to Best (?) Friend

June 13, 2010
Sleeping with the enemy who masquerades as one’s ‘best friend’ is not the coolest way to be an alleged best friend, particularly when married to who wouldn’t be your ‘best friend’ if you were not married to them. Ever think of treating your self as your best friend! It’s strangely ‘fashionable’ to regard your partner as the ’best friend’ while it’s likely one has little time for others to see if there might be a better friend.

Divorces are popular, but they don’t seem to unfold into two people agreeing they are that ‘best friend’ of yesteryear. Also popular is the ‘non divorce’ which is really a ‘prisoner of love long gone’ situation that slowly degrades into some type of ‘commercial -like’ business arrangement for the sake of others, and money concerns. Abuse of love is rampant wherever some semblance of love once was.  It’s like a garden that if left unweeded and not nourished, loses it’s ‘garden status’ into just a bunch of overgrown weeds out of control.

Traveling through life on cruise control when there is enough inner conflict to last a lifetime, is a slow suicide. Teaming up with a so called friend who is experiencing the same dilemmas, is a case where two heads are worse than one! Life is more fair than one would sometimes assume. Karma of what you put out comes back eventually, and often is very fair especially for those who elect to make good choices that move beyond self imposed limitations. Why live in a boxlike prison littered with old negative thoughts slowly building on each other, preventing a new fresh approach that perpetuates evolving into a greater love of self and all of life?

Being chained to any friendship that’s stuck on negativity is an opportunity to use ‘skillful means’ to distance oneself to be more harmoniously positioned to best appreciate, and give ‘breathing room’ to a friend who has drifted into an ‘enemy-acquaintance-friend’ state.  As people age in their unresolved rubbish, they and others like them, only reluctantly have each other as ‘acquaintances’ to be involved with. Looking for a positive, evolving partner becomes an exercise rarely not in futility at this time of ‘great dissonance and distractions in life. Everyone, with few exceptions, becomes like a poorly maintained, somewhat wrecked used car with ‘champagne ego’. That ego’s demands are really fantasies far removed from the reality of stopping and seeking to open the inner letting out of the ‘blocks or garbage’, to be replaced by a new sense of life, and self love one step at a time! Dissolve the ‘chains’ with love and awareness.

Arhata

Divorces are popular, but they don’t seem to unfold into two people agreeing they are that ‘best friend’ of yesteryear. Also popular is the ‘non divorce’ which is really a ‘prisoner of love long gone’ situation that slowly d

BIG,Fat & Beautiful!!

June 11, 2010
Inner quality is a hidden diamond to be uncovered! You are great as you are, it just seems to be a struggle to find that inner flashlight to see what’s deep inside! Everyone’s inner is perfect, it’s just that some ‘wrong turns’ have clouded the picture of that. To see that inner beauty is easy for the rare outsider who sees their own inner truth inside already. Paradise is in everyone, but just mixed up with doubts, fears, denial and general self loathing!

Feed yourself ‘junk perceptions’ of what others say, coupled with what you routinely  think, and feel is to create a bigger and bigger pile.  The real ‘fat’ are those mind thought/feelings accumulated and sent throughout the being which in turn blocks all energy to activate healthiness. No one under all circumstances needs to cement past negativities into the false self which only serves to compound the negativity endlessly.

Hiding the real inner beauty and releasing the false into it, has little to do with ones state of being, fat, thin, age, color, status, attitude or anything. It’s a choice!  A choice of direction,  is best into a healthiness from the inside to the outside. No one climbs the lowest or highest mountain without one step at a time.  The journey, like life’s journey, is one of challenges that evolve into opportunities if one stays aware, especially with a passion for reaching the endless positive results.

Slowly the ‘love of self’ will emerge through groping in the dark into a greater light. Love is a prayer of joy, gratitude, forgiveness, thankfulness, and compassion fulfilling the intention of reaching the endless source of ‘nirvana within’. Have the courage to take it step by step, opening the heart which lights the way. When one is in the ‘mud of frustration and self loathing with awareness wide open, a lotus blossom will appear to give new energy on the road to unearthing the inner beauty that has aways been there. The first sighting of love is the first sighting of the inner wisdom that blossoms into the highest quality of self love.

Learn the ‘art of love’ step by step!  It is that which ultimately provides the nourishment needed to see and accept the inner self as the highest state of godliness to weigh upon the soul. Love of self is the greatest balancer of healthiness in life.
Arhata