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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