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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