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Restless Mind Syndrome

July 26, 2010
Many of us laughed over TV ads offering a cure for ‘Restless Leg Syndrome’ which may exist, but a ‘pill to cure it’? With all the infinite options for the 21st century mind to absorb, the mind is very busy looking for ways to avoid fears and find ways to happy pleasures rather than have to ‘look too deeply into oneself’!

Symptoms:
The urge to think
Burning sensation in the brain
Tingling brain
Random thoughts
Aching mind
Cramping in the brain
Painful thinking
Too much blabbing and talking over others
Confusion
Blaming others for your problems
Defending ‘words from Holy Books’
Pleasurable fantasies

Important Safety Information:

Medication may cause you to fall asleep or feel very sleepy during normal activities such as driving or having sex; or to feel dizzy nauseated, or sweaty when you stand up. Tell your doctor if you experience these problems or if you drink alcohol or are taking other medications that make you drowsy. Also, tell your practitioner doctor if you experience an erection lasting beyond 4 hours, increased gambling or other intense urges while taking medication. Or, Just Stop!

Meditation instead of medication?? What? It’s free? Is your mind too restless for meditation, or is meditation for the ‘restless mind syndromes’? Truth be known, there are many, many meditations available tailored for restless minds. Finding a ‘meditation doctor’ helps in applying the techniques to eradicate and let go of being so close together to spurious ricocheting thoughts that never allow the emptiness of the mind and the bliss that follows! Wouldn’t it be nice to be together with yourself, turning worries and restless unnecessary thoughts into joy, peace, and bliss (and, god forbid, love of self)?

Islam Replacing Christianity

July 25, 2010
Islam may be a ‘knockoff’ of Judeo-Christian ancient purported words of ‘god inspired’ information, but it’s centuries newer, and even includes Jesus as a ‘Prophet’. Christianity has become ‘watered down’ throughout churches in America as happened a long time ago in Europe where Islam is growing by leaps and bounds. Islam is growing faster than any world religion and expects to over take Christianity in numbers of adherents by the quarter century mark (2025).

Although many of the characters in Islam (Mohammedism) have been discounted as ever having existed by objective religion’s scholars/scientists, Mohammed is believed to actually have existed both as a ‘warrior’, prophet, and husband of a 9 year old girl who herself grew into a very evolved woman to help spread the ‘divine words’ that Allah gave to Mohammed. Anyone who has been around Muslims, know that most of them pray at least 3 times per day, unlike most christians who usually just give prayer ‘lip service’, Muslims regard it as a sacred duty.

The western world seems to be vilifying Islam (Islamophobia) likely out of fear of the competition of ‘holy books’ (bible vs Quran), and differences of opinion as well as Islam making Jesus a lower character than Mohammed. Muslim fanatics are a very small minority that if truth be know are really a product of a backward, uneducated culture.  The apparent enthusiasm of Muslims for their religion far outweighs most christian passions exemplified by the millions of ‘pews’ for sleeping, yawning butts on Sunday services.

Christianity has been a great excuse to ‘network’ over the past 3/4 century for both socializing and business. Now that the internet is in full swing, social networks, like Facebook, are fast replacing the need to make church connections. Christianity also has largely been replaced by ‘consumerism’, or a certain love of money, and what it will buy. Most folks tip waitresses more than they give to the ‘church money plate’. Divorce and family breakups as well as a growing single population dilutes an interest in Christianity. Each religion is eager for converts and both will use every form of advertising possible to attract new membership. God or Allah, up there in the sky, has to be so very happy that the two religions are finally at the beginning of an urge on the verge of a merge! Bottom line – love yourself and that love will love others! Peace Be Upon Her!

Bamboozled & Snookered

July 24, 2010
…Or Hoodwinked! This is the era of ‘the scam’! The advent of the internet has provided opportunities of shadowboxing with minds under the guise of a good deal that ends up being pure deception like never before. Also, on the positive side, deceptions of the ages, like in religions, are slowly being exposed. Truth is something that’s been modified, like our seeds for food, largely for greed and profit at the uncared about expense of the apathetic and purveyors of least resistance.

It’s no longer just the ‘used car salesman’ selling lemons, but the ‘sugar people’ are suggesting sweetening the deal with not only unhealthy sugars but offshoots no longer called ‘aspartame’ to trick the mind with cons like ‘low fat and dietary’ as the world wonders why it’s getting fatter inspite of billions spent on weight loss scams. Truth has become a ‘lemon’ and as rare as common sense is no longer so common. Gosh, maybe it’s wake up time before the clock strikes midnight.

Just finished a book by the author Jack Olsen on Gypsy scams. Of course, fortune tellers are dotted around every city to pull in the gullible for money and to access the potential of future scamming the vulnerable from their life savings. As the post WW 11 babies retire and age with more money than their parents could imagine they will be joined by aging yuppies by the millions to be palpable victims of ‘snookering’ the elderly out of their savings. The ‘gypsy’ techniques are becoming ‘mainstream’ by con artists the world over not to mention governments and there thirst for putting taxes on the ‘dead’s savings’ called inheritance taxes.

The most insidious scams or self hoodwinks that are covertly hidden in plain sight through greed, lust, neediness or whatever one might call the desires of the biological urge that masquerades as ‘love’ but ends up being another lemon. People by the billions are worshipping a god that they have no idea how to define while deceiving themselves out of really knowing who they really are. Self deception is seemingly hardwired into humanity and passed on to generation after generation. The tools of self love and awareness gather dust as man muddles through everything imaginable to support his fantasies while ignoring the truths that bring far more joy and bliss than the ‘substitute sugars of deception’. Truths trump lies!

Knowledge Isn’t Knowing

July 19, 2010
Knowledge today is cheaply found on the internet or in the brain of the false, pretender of knowing what has not been actualized in self proven experience. Knowing is the real thing that separates the ‘gold from the fool’s gold’. Knowledge can be power without really knowing if it’s reality, applicable, or self experiential. ‘Knowing’ is not personally unproven, that’s knowledge. Knowledge of how to do something is less reliable than knowing it from clear, actual positive experience.

Religious salesmen and politicians have been selling loaded knowledge and misinformation to the masses for eons hoping that they don’t become aware and educated of contrary and better information, or worse yet, a contrary experience to what they have been fed. These ‘mind controllers’ have depended on the ignorance of the people who are often just too busy digging out of self created holes that they have created for themselves. Power of the controllers depends on the continuing ignorance of the controlled.

Buddha comes from ‘buddhi’ which means ‘intelligence’.  Only through intelligence can people become aware, and then the use of discernment of that intelligence to reach it’s highest form. Intellect is more ‘knowledge oriented’. Intelligence comes with knowing first hand. Fake is at best a mirror image of reality.

‘’I know that’’, is a common use of language but quite different than being able to actualize behavior into a consistent pattern far removed from ‘just saying it’. Frequently the user/abuser of intoxicating, mind altering substances claim ‘to know’ better ways of living or doing things, but in fact it is just knowledge unproven from their experience. Water seeks it’s lowest level as do most who ‘follow the crowd’ with out deep consideration that it’s not in the direction of knowing the conscious self. Thinking that leads to actualization of thoughts removes one from being the ‘Humpty Dumpty on the wall’ espousing trinkets of fake wisdom without having both feet on the ground.

Fear of walking away from the ‘crowds of knowledge’ for the asleep, takes the courage of intelligence and awareness that evolves one into an authentic knowing human, instead of a robot or parrot of someone else’s words’. Truths are found in knowing, not in borrowed knowledge. Always seek the highest level of knowing and truth!

Arhata

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

Til Death Do Us Part???

July 23, 2010
Marriage is a road to enlightenment. To ‘tie the knot’ in proclaiming unconditional everlasting love makes sense when people have complete understanding and unshakable intent on loving the other as themselves. Marriage, of course should not be between two people who don’t love themselves unconditionally. Imagine if truth were spoken at vows? “I John do not love myself, but I love you unconditionally ‘til death do us part”! Then the other says the same thing! Strange?!

I know of two people who are dysfunctional alcoholics pledging love for each other. No couple with not either each coming with strong self love, or the evidential commitment to both evolving, can expect anything but a dysfunctional marriage. Should people even bother with a dysfunctional partnership or marriage? Should prospective couples in marriage, that is basically also an agreement with the government for a license, be able to not pass a test to see if they have full understanding of common sense guidelines of responsible love?

Biological love dies on the vine if not risen throughout the being to become as honored as loving the self as much as seemingly possible. The ‘biological love’ is for fun, reproduction, or a doorway to the infinite mysteries of ‘divine love’ which always cares for the other as if oneself. The other must be seen as a representative of god or godliness and no less. Commitment to inner growth and care of each other with open communication is staying on ‘love’s pathway’.

Common sense of ‘loving thy neighbor as thy self’ also applies to whom one has slept with and committed to. There seems to be a universal misunderstanding of the depth of the meaning of love. Today the word ‘friend’ seems to be anyone you click on ‘Facebook networking’. The word ‘love’ seems also to have fallen in value. Endings and proper sensitivity for them, and the welfare of the other is a critical part of love. Therein, ‘til death do us part’ is necessary with common sense, and compassionate expression from the heart, both in dysfunctional partnerships, and of course loving ones. Real love circumvents Karma while the lack of it doesn’t! Hmmm….

Arhata