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Hurts & the Rising Sun

August 9, 2010
Grass grows by itself. As the snows melt, and the Spring comes, life renews itself virtually forgetting the past. The seeds of change and adapting wait through the winters of challenge always ready to save themselves and seek the light of life. Likewise, we as humans experience the failure of expectations where they perhaps shouldn’t have been. Those expectations may go from selfish greed to unrequited or unreciprocated love.

We are all here on Earth to learn lessons for harmonious living, and hopefully to find ways to grow out of life’s negative ‘rainy days’ clouding that pursuit. The grass grows by itself if left to it’s own nature without man’s interference. Likewise, we humans grow with the stimulation of inner consciousness rising to it’s highest levels even among the hurtful storms. Where there is a will, there is a way, ‘querer es poder’ – if you have the motivation and desire you can achieve.

In darkness, the grass waits for light to rise, as do each of us, but in our case that light comes from the endless source within. Life comes with infinite possibilities as well as choices on how to accept and/or deal with them. Attachment to what amounts to fictitious options, accumulate to create a barrier between the truth and what you are attached to. People walk around with barriers to awareness and love, accepting the minds fictions instead. It’s time to puncture the boil of denial, fear, and resistance to climb the ladder of change!

The sun also rises in the evening too, and not just the morning. The sun rose when you were born, and in living life fully, will rise when you die. You must live life rising above all challenges as the sun rises each morning. Never become attached to the sun in the morning thinking that there is no evening.  Accept all with great joy and appreciation finding ways to make the best of it. Learn to love inspite of challenges that make it seem like an endless dark night. The moment you see the sun rising in the evening, you have become ‘saved by the light’ of divine blessings!

Provoking Thoughts & Picnics


August 6, 2010
‘Same ‘ol same ‘ol’ is a comfort zone that usually takes priority over making a change that opens new doors beyond the ‘looping’ monotony of daily grinds. Backing out the door of unexamined behaviors just might incite new and more refreshing ‘insights’. Routines are often best replaced by new, stimulating ideas and adventures. To awaken sleepy consciousness’s needs a ‘wakeup call’ or a mental/heart nudge to move beyond years of repetitive, non productive doldrums.

Take our addiction to oil for example. It’s really an addiction to old habits and the apathy to step out side of the ‘comfort box’ and make a difference personally and collectively. In the past year I sold my Ford Bronco, that had been in mothballs anyway, to revert to my past New York City way of joining millions who use public transportation. With the recent ‘earth shaking Gulf Oil Spill’ that created a ‘poverty’ for hundreds of thousands in part because of our dependence on a resource that no longer is serving our ‘consciousness’ and a better ways of living, a wake up call for millions has been alarmed. That alarm is an opportunity to consider other viable ways of transportation that are economically and environmentally intelligent.

For the price of a loaf of bread, and with a picnic lunch,  I and a friend can catch a round trip day journey for two to our beautiful state capitol in Olympia, Washington and, while watching the amazing scenery on the way without worries of having to drive. Often busses here are 80% empty, subsidized by our taxes, and few elect instead to pay for that, plus ‘vehicle expenses’, including gas. Why not a ‘chauffeur driven’ experience often less than the individual cost of a quart of milk or less than a ‘Starbuck’s cafe latte’? By the way that trip to Olympia one way is 100 miles!! Make’s the ‘car addiction’ seem a little ‘stuck in a rut of foolishness that has negative personal and societal implications! Yes?

Talking to my ‘bus chauffeur’ the other day about the ‘low ridership’, she said that when the gas prices were double than at the moment, ridership increased 50%! People were ‘provoked’ by the pinch of money, but now have reverted back to old unconscious ways again. Unexamined routines ‘roll over’ into taking the easy way out, but with hidden negative implications.

Provoking the self with awareness and a sense of exhibited love for new, more thoughtful action is the spiritual way of consciousness. Seek ways that put awareness, simplicity, and the love of life first!
Arhata

Romancing Sleepyitus

August 5, 2010
‘Sounds of minds jungles’ rumble through the restless minds of the sleepless and sleep deprived nightly. ‘A good nights rest’ is an illusion or dream for the restless sleeper. Sleep patterns are as varied as people. The phrase and wish for another to ‘sleep well’ is generally given as a ‘good night’ gesture without any particular acknowledgment of it’s importance in reality.

Adequate and quality sleep are as important, if not more, as the food we eat. Humans need calmness with a loving, harmonious life, but can exist on lesser levels with lesser degrees of functioning. An inner stress often hidden from view can cover up ‘sleep deprivation’ but with karma that may only silently leak out to the detriment of others, especially a ‘loved one’.

In relaxed states of calmness, love is nourished and grows leaving experiences and decisions on a higher level that the mind is capable of alone. Decisions in life are influenced by a healthy consciousness, or by a stressed mind that doesn’t relate to the heart with consistency and quality. You can function in job tasks with ‘erratic sleep’ before, but with less quality of performance than having had a restful sleep.

Having a loving life will always be impaired for the ‘poor sleeper’. The poor sleeper is often cursed with fluctuating moods, recurring moments of aggravation, irritibleness, restlessness, anger, despondency, and general bouts of negativity, etc. Good sleep has the rewards of seeing life in a more positive way with more open answers to all challenges. Good sleep opens compassion, understanding, sensitivity and generally all aspects of the body, mind and heart. Peace apart from the mind comes.

Medication for a good nights sleep, unless in rare circumstances, is no substitution for the meditation of calm relaxation. In America, there’s a pill for every ailment, including the disease of sleepyitis, which is a ‘dis-ease’ to all of life’s encounters. Love comes from a happy heart and a happy relaxed mind, otherwise it’s ‘faux love’ with endless chatter to convince oneself, and another that it’s real. Love flourishes with romancing sleep to be a friend! Happy sleeps make happier people!
Arhata

W or M Love Destruction

August 4, 2010
WMD, or the phrase coined by ex President Bush for preemptive reasons to attack the sovereign nation of Iraq after the attack on the World Trade Centers is applicable to the phenomenon of ‘love’. Love’s attackers are all fear based with essentially no basis for infiltrating love. A ‘preemptive attack’ or dissolvement of all diseases to love is to nourish love to it’s full growth.

What creates this fear, and all of it’s tentacles such as jealousy, anger, hatred, lying, self loathing, etc.,? The ego! The ego is the false self and the creator of the weapons of mass love destruction. The ego is a necessity, but can be negative or positive. The negative spawns the many fears that become like a poison to love’s growth. The ‘positive’ ego is necessary to function in the world. The ego is a social need that is not you but a reflection with the interaction to society or others. It is an adaptation to others in order to relate as a functioning, acceptable being.

The ‘real’ can only be known through the false, hence the necessity of the ego. One has to pass through the illusion to know the truth directly. You first have to know what is not true, or untruth. In that experience you have the choice to know the truth. Seeing false as false, will open the awareness to the truth. Dropping the false or the ego, the obstacles to love begin dissolving, and love begins to grow within.

‘Love with awareness’ reveals the truth that you are not the physical self but consciousness, and not as the body, subject to aging, harm, illness, and death. Destroy the ego that blocks getting to the love within. Pay attention to when the false self arises while moving into the heart, the real self slowly emerges. Close your eyes, feel and focus on the heart that fills the soul with love’s energy. Stay in the moment detaching from the past and the ‘attached to expectations’ of the future. The past needs the open heart to reinterpret any pains of the past. The ‘strings of the heart’ bring harmony to the moment!

Sex Repression Ridiculous

July 30, 2010
In centuries past, humans relegated sex for mainly reproduction, selfish pleasure, male rape, and a sin to be avoided rather than for the beauty it enjoys with love and romance in higher consciousness. Deep love is the highest form of sexual expression and puts one on the right track of living a loving life as the most important expression of one’s being. Love comes with pain and pleasure, but only with the polarities does one become aware and in balance.

Repression of what is natural and healthy is to put one on an unnecessary track of needless recurring misery and self doubts. Beginning to condemn sex and love will only cause repression that will seep out in less than desirable ways and ferment in the cellar of your mind. Prayer arises only out of a life of love and taking the sweet with the bitter.
Out of awareness of both, wisdom and a deeper love arise. They are needed to make one more aware. To bask in pain, or to seek only pleasure primarily for selfish reasons, dumbs down the human inner qualities of compassion, sensitivity, joys, and bliss.

Freedom unfolds within as one begins accepting all aspects of the self rather than withdrawing from ‘loves’ track, or denying ones behaviors and habits that are not sensitive to others particularly those close to. We are not meant to come to earth to spend it foolishly chasing ‘wants and desires’ without accepting that love has a priority that should not be avoided. One needs to be grateful and thankful for having the opportunities presented without ignoring that the biggest opportunities are those waiting to flower with the attention nourishment that must come from oneself.

Living intensely with all circumstances and situations, good or bad, rather than repressing or ignoring the natural ones on the track of love, life rises to it’s peaks. Life isn’t waiting around with blessings at the end of the tunnel without one growing in wisdoms and truth. Life is now and here waiting for no one. Things change ….life is in a flux with nothing remaining the same. There may be challenging times, or great spaces where nothing happens. They are all opportunities to see, adapt, and grow positively. Use sexual energy as a means of enhancing all love from the inner, to another, and to the multitude of life’s infinite facets. Repression only results in missing life’s fragrances.
Arhata

Love Between the Armpits

Aug. 3, 2010
Between the two armpits is the center of peace, calm, and love. The body has many centers from biological, gut or intuition, creative, higher consciousness, and so forth. Become aware of the need for the harmony of balance between them so as not to be ‘unbalanced’, and the cause of self misery. Skewed use of one or two with little attention to the others is likely to create a frequent self disturbance.

Love creates happiness, and misery fluctuating. Love must become independent and not dependent on the other where a co-dependency arises, especially when a peaceful love is not in the other or in you and the other. A different kind of love can arise within the peaceful, loving heart that moves in a giving way to others. Relaxation opens up a peace and love that comes from the heart to all areas of the body emanating love out to the world.

Anguish and anxiety come with dependent love that needs the other to enter into your experiences creating an endless fluctuation. Only in the rare combination of two imbued with an inner relaxation of peace and love does love always come up to the surface as it is an endless source of energy easily activated within.  They are always there in infinite supply but for resistances that are left undissolved, usually by unconscious choices of being unaware.

Close your eyes and feel the area between your two armpits in the middle of the chest where the heart is. Bring a total attention and awareness to the heart while experiencing only that area excluding the rest of the body. Feel it filled with love and peace energy. No need to search for love, it’s within the peace in a relaxed heart not dependent on another. Finding love without the inner peace both within the self, and another, is a dangerous path that gives glimpses of love cohabiting with dark valleys of conflict, hurt,  and anger. Seek the inner peace, find it, and love will blossom. Sharing with another having the same blessing, and love blossoms to a more ecstatic beauty radiating within endlessly.

Arhata

Fear, Anger, & Forgiving

August 2, 2010
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Love inside triumphs over the mind that hates in it’s many forms over negative feelings. Negative feelings toward someone needs love and common sense to set situations to the most positive framework possible. It’s possible to be both ‘framed’ in a negative way, or positive, as well as framing all situations in the best way to avoid ‘negative attachment shrapnel’.

To detach from  all that causes pain, and feelings of negative emotions, one must make a choice.  That method and sense of choice is largely determined by the ability developed to have compassion and empathy. ‘Love of self on the surface’ means the mind and it’s fragility is leading reactions. ‘Response’ as against ‘reaction’ comes from the open heart, and wisdom accumulated in life’s experiences. Fears reaction of anger or hate is symptomatic of qualities not nurtured and developed.

All manifestations of fear that have no practical meaning, such as being alert in dangerous situations for survival, are from a life that has not embraced a deep personal love of self. Awareness and owning of who one really is, with all one’s emotions and viewpoints, is to have created an automatic response garnered from a higher consciousness. ‘Street reactions’, which are common to those not paying attention to life’s sensitivities, are filled with bad judgments which typically are not self analyzed for understanding, and improvement for the future. ‘Street shoot from the hip of unawareness reactions’ are unblessed with a ‘boomerang effect’ to come around for unexpected pain causing deeper buried fears.

Those who have proclaimed love of another, especially a ‘love partner’ need to treat them as they would like to be treated under all circumstances including endings or transitions. Failure to do so is a failure to see the love within the self.
Authentic love never stops manifesting to corroborate it’s authenticity of deep meaning. Love gives and sends love to the other always and without conditions. If you find yourself in a hole … stop digging and climb out! Get out of your own way!
Arhata

Male Pontificators


Aug. 1, 2010
Many males get impressed with their pseudo wisdom of acting as if they are the last word on a subject and usually without first hand knowledge! This behavior gets revved up when the talk is of conscious matters of life. Walking the talk with demonstrated proof of the talk is a whole ‘nother ball game that separates the ‘talky talkies’ from the real ‘McCoy’s’. It’s been said, ‘talk is cheap’, and give a man a little ability to gibber jabber and the ‘bull’ flies. (Let it be said that it’s a different jibber jabber form from ‘gossiping’ – if you get the drift!).

The world’s mind has been controlled by males who put themselves in the position to control by words. Examples that come to mind would be two of the ultimate ‘snake oil salesmen’ – politicians and ‘religious salesmen (men of the cloth)’. Oh, and the pontificators of the ‘coverup’ – wandering husband! To ‘know’ from experience and positive wisdom is quite different than ‘intellect babbling’. Better to spend time examining the inner and seeing the results of manifestation than spending life pontificating what amounts to meaningless conjecture.

Give a person a ready made belief system or ideology (might even be money investing!), and they’ll devote all portions of their brain to ‘hardwire’ themselves much to the exclusion of all other information, much of which is likely to objectively counter what they claim to know. Religious pundits can be the worse. Those who make money selling god are usually well educated and primed from religious biblical college indoctrinations on how to sell the masses. It’s shameful but they only tell the followers in the pews what they want to hear to keep donations flowing in.

Go it alone without the intruders of the mind. Love is always a welcome ‘intruder’ for the open heart. Move with ‘watchfulness’ while letting go of judgement which is like a boomerang always seeming to come back as a judgment. As in the piece ‘Desiderata’ by an Max Ehrmann in the 1920’s -
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence….Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.”
Silence is the best teacher – listen to your heart!

Kaput Love & Flakes

July 29, 2010
According to the Wiktionary, kaput means broken, useless and no longer working or effective. After the main course of love,  it seems that most flake out as love goes, or becomes ‘kaput’! Humans need to be nourished by love or life becomes dry and meaningless as the soul shrivels into a cripple on unfulfilled loves. What people are waiting for is a mystery, when the comforts of love are behind everyone’s nose, if not somewhere in front.

Diluted love is popularly bandered about like the love of material possessions that meet the apathetic fate of replacement with newer interests. ‘Serial love’ is flakey love that, like snowflakes falling in Los Angeles, either never really happen or just disappear. Love is frequently primarily ‘biologically driven’, which is fine if it takes hold, and doesn’t disappear before it’s really begun.

‘Puppy love’ is thought to be that ‘crush’ between young people not mature enough to find deep, responsible love. Sadly, many adults never really mature and stay at ‘doggy love’ level that is driven by biological needs as well as a sense of guilt to maintain a facade of love. Unconsciously knowing this, millions either settle into it, or particularly in the western world, withdraw into ‘substitute worlds’ that serve to keep their interest while protecting and denying their loneliness’. In a sense, ‘love is kaput’ as they flake even on the love of themselves which, by the way, opens a love attraction for another.

Bodies come and go, love remains. Love walks on water, and through all circumstances impervious to love’s ‘kaput’ers. Love remains even if hidden, but in plain site for those who let go and open the heart. Skimming across love avoiding the closeness of a soul merger is missing the eternal gifts of love that from my experience are very real, providing comfort for the heart through all changes. Always available is the love of oneself, and in that state you’ll find those who are also, or those open to looking for it. The real crime is not to embrace life’s greatest gift – love.
Arhata

Internet Replacing Christianity

July 27, 2010
Most churches are havens for social networking.  All the sermons are at best talk that one can find anywhere on the internet with far better non indoctrinational contemporary inspiration. People essentially go, if not for networking because they live in fear of being cast into a mythical hell for eternity. Facebook and other boutique social networking sights are far more appealing to connect with for, not only ‘lost friends’ but, new exciting ones!

There are more than a quarter of a million edifices for worship in America that are on significant pieces of property ‘tax free’! Yoga and meditation centers that serve to clear minds of all negative and hell/fire thoughts are, sadly, taxed, and with no large parking lots! Vacant large church parking lots are taking up space that could be a community park while the church could be converted to a space of prayer, meditation and yoga that was open to all at many times during the week. No ‘exclusive proselytizing’, but centers for promoting ‘self love’ for all without a fee.

Churches and their ‘religious salesmen’ who run these ‘indoctrination houses’ are actually ‘gatekeepers’ for the status quo that leaves generation after generation following their ‘hidden fears’ into dumbing down critical thinking and healthy living free of
‘man made god’s overpowering influence. Free, healthy, open minded, spiritual people who find the answers of a godly-like life are very uncommon to find in a modern 21st century that seems to be over focused on consumption with the newest technology.

If Christianity was really working would we have such a medicated citizenry? Legal and illegal drugs are in every neighborhood. Are churches unknowingly ‘dispensaries of psychological drugs’ that serve to confuse people and create more fears to condition both those who attend while turning off those who choose to walk on the other side of the street to avoid what could be better found, even on the internet?

The best real answers to peace and bliss within are neither on the internet or in the churches of boredom, but within each individuals open heart and mind. Networking common sense, the heart, and mind with an increased sense of awareness and discernment move one into a blessed, healthy space to experience a love far deeper. Is there anything higher than the infinite manifestations of a godlious love? Each can ‘upload the divine’ without computers or ‘churches of status quo’.
Arhata