Friday, October 23, 2009

To Share!

Awareness:
Have you ever tried to meditate in order to notice and experience the Divine and not notice anything at all?
Have you ever felt afterwards that you suffered from a lack of awareness because you did not inwardly experience something great and fantastic?
How many distractions of the busy mind, outside noises, problems, body twitches, etc., were the blame?
All this to become the rigid mortar that builds upon the walls of your unworthiness, and how did it all become an experience of more unworthiness?
Did you notice yourself trying to notice the Divine? Did you notice you noticing all the distractions?
I’m sure you did! And with that I say, “I can think of nothing more Divine than that, now that's Awareness!”
How easy can one’s beliefs of unworthiness that will discount and ignore the very thing we want the most, “Self-Realization”.
All My Love
Rob.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

A Story!

Ask And Receive:
A Lover decided to audit a spiritual group worship, for he so enjoys the Beloved’s diversity of creative expression.
The worship opened in song and the Lover basked in its celebration, as he noticed such a great talent of self creative expression regardless of the seeming lack of professional training, and he was humbled.
Then came the opening words of prayers and greetings to all that attended this worship and he so enjoyed the a wondrous moving intention to honor thy brother and sister.
For he noticed the Oneness of creation’s natural ways blossoming and dancing amongst the seeming ways of the world, and again he was so greatly humbled.
Then the leader came to the front with a peaceful smile as a portrayal of deep centeredness and the she began to speak.
Her features changed and her voice became filled with passion as she spoke about the concepts of “Ask And Receive”.
She exclaimed the power of this law, where if you ask God, God must give it to you, for this is the promise that God must fulfill to you.
The Lover watched as those attending that service excitedly embraced their empowerment as this leader exclaimed, “God is bound to this law and thus God owes you everything you ask for.”
Then the leader proclaimed her repeated request for God to fulfill, she asked that the Beloved send many more members to the group and also an abundance of money to relieve the organization’s fiscal restraints.
Then she pointed to random members and asked, “What is it that you want God to give to you?”
One said relationship, another said money, another said career, another said a baby, and the leader proclaimed, “say it with conviction, remember this is the law, God must fulfill this to you.”
The Lover noticed the great passion and Love in the unlimited possibilities of the Beloved’s creative design as it expressed throughout the excitement of the congregation, and again a humble thankfulness overflowed in him.
Then the leader pointed to this Lover and asked, “What is it the God must give to you?”
The Lover responded, “I do not know, for I have just be given so much this day already, for the wonder of God never ceases to amaze me.”
The leader assumed the Lover’s response was because of her own power of speaking Truth, exclaimed, “have some confidence, surely you have something you need, come on! God has given you a promissory note so take charge of yourself and tell God what He must give you.”
The Lover realizing this softly said, “the law you speak of and how you are applying it, I have not understood it that way.”
The leader proclaimed, “that is why God sent you here today so I can teach you a more enlightened way, I have been working with this for many years.”
The Lover asked, “How long have you been asking for more members and money?”
The Leader became testy because of the question and stated, “for many years, for my devotion to my service is unwavering”, and the group clapped.
The Leader then asked with a now confident chuckle, “We embrace the Truth that All is One and all is Divine even you sir, so enlighten us on your understanding of this law.”
The Lover stated, “your embrace of that Truth is beautiful and that is the Truth I embrace as well, so I mean no disrespect, and in fact I very much respect your creative desires.”
The unrelenting Leader feeling she that her understanding was greater than any present other.
“For she was the leader and then she asked, “Well sir then embrace your Divinity as god and tell us on how you are going to support our desires, I ask that you become a member and support our creative desires of fiscal ease?”
The Lover stated, “As you have revealed to me of my Divinity and the Divinity we already are in our Oneness we know as the Beloved God, all that you desire has always been present and unlimited and never withheld.”
“Hence these vehicles called the laws are designed to teach, yet the need to pay out what is owed, has already and always been given as the divinity we all are.”
“Thus the law of cause and effect that teaches us that our highest good and the realization of our creative desires lies in our willingness to allow our divinity clearly as the embrace of Oneness.”
The Leader not even considering his words, for she was only focused on her Truth prevailing stated, “that is not what I asked, now give me my desires!”
The Lover humbly bowed and immediately got up and said, “Thank you for allowing me to see you and support you with respect of all that you freely choose”, and he promptly left.
The moral of this story is that to understand the laws, one must first accept the Divinity of their Nature as always Whole and present, and without that your highest good is only a sliding scale of the outcome of your choices.
Any perceived debt owed from God was paid in full the instant the Beloved birthed you into being, for you were created with everything God is.
So please understand that nothing was ever withheld from you and you only need to rise to your occasion and allow and accept what was given to you so long ago.
This is the potential of understanding what Oneness is, and this is that the purpose of these laws were not of a promise from God as the separate other.
It was only a vehicle of understanding to direct you to understand your always present Divine Nature and how this creative abundance can be experience when first not allowed and accepted as what is always Whole, One, and Truth.
How many eons must a person travel gathering tiny little morsels of dried crumbs left by the seeming other, before they realize they were never in lack thus owed nothing.
For their plate was always full of the most abundant and tasty food.
Know God as you know no other, so you can know yourself, and know yourself so fully so you can truly know the other and lack will never try to make you try to get what was never withheld.
It is pointless to ask for what already has been given continuously, rise to your occasion and understand, that the only thing that is in your way is your denial of your Natural Nature.
Perceptions of lack only inspire more hunger, and the knowing of your nature will dissolve any hunger pangs that only contrive and perpetuate recycled and seductive misunderstandings. Thank You!
All My Love
Rob.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Wisdom!

Where Is The Divine:
To notice God where a person would never guess God would be?
Imagine that if you went to do a little task and for what ever reason this task fell into shambles by your own doing.
Yet upon you realizing the mess you just made, you also realized how
wonderfully blessed and sacred you and your actions were.
Notice beyond the lessons you think you have learned through that experience and discover a life experience that needs no measure of optimism nor comparison to Love the Self more, nor any desire of outcomes for the infinite truly know no ending.
Notice yourself beyond your own reason, not as far off distant layer of
awareness, for layers of depth were only a vehicle for you to accept your
infinite Divine presence moving as you every moment of your life.
All My Love
Rob.

Wisdom!

What Wisdom Will Not Do:
Wisdom will never tell you what you did wrong in any situation, yet it will tell you Divinely you created in that situation.
Wisdom will never compare your Grace to another’s, yet it will sing of the beautiful oneness that two celebrate as.
Wisdom will never scold your limitations, for wisdom has no view of any lack in you.
Wisdom will never make you travel or move differently, for wisdom knows the blessedness of every step you take.
Wisdom will never darken your path, for wisdom is that which illuminates every step you take.
Wisdom will never send you to far away lands to find the Truth of creation, for wisdom knows its Nature everywhere.
Wisdom will never tell you that your Nature can only be revealed in another’s ancient scrolls, for wisdom knows of the greatest library of Truth lies within the very heart of your being.
Wisdom will tell you all about what you truly are, so if ever you asked Wisdom.
Where is the Divine? Wisdom will sing, “You Wondrous Dear, You!”
All My Love
Rob.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

To Share!

Hello Rob,
I like your questions, It seems to be my process to do it a different way. To me I am burdened by a sense of self that never seems to be absolute,
______.
Hi _____: A wonderful and very powerful post. It was not that long ago ____, when the experience of "nothing was the eternal everything" and the "something that was me was the experience of nothing". Where the questions I posed to you led with Rob instead of ____, yet back then it was much more harsh than I posed to you at this time. It also seemed to me that my way was different, yet the path of that journey is a well worn path traveled by many before you and I. Is the trip different? No it is not in Truth for there is only One Truth, one creative flow that moves all things regardless of its very own perception, (illusion). Is your way unique? Very much so and therein lies its paradox and the great omnipotence of the eternal creative Self.
In the infinite power of our personal honesty such as the, "burdened sense of self", the harshness or coarse experience that we can call our way and at the same time our pariah that keeps us from embracing the very thing we have longed to surrender to. Is my way a better way or different? No it is not. Yet in my quest of what was Truth and what was illusion, lied in the brutal honesty and Love of the very thing I saw as my pariah, (in my way), which was me and my perception of the way of the world we live in. What a contradiction is it not? The very thing that was my burden was also the resolution of the embrace of my divinity. Oh how the venom would spew from my lips as one koan posed its question after another. The great contradiction that defied all that is seen as logic, to where the illogical was infinite in its absolute truth, the logic that prevails over all other logic. The very thing that must dissolve, the very thing that was my burden was also my everything. Please know _____, that if there was a pot hole to trip over in this path we call Enlightenment, I think I fell into it, and over a relatively short period of time. . Talk about feeling like a yo-yo.
How can the nothing be the everything and the something be nothing??? In the question itself when I posed it, I noticed that all it really did was flip around the defined identities of the words and in my harshness of that time my morbid humor would proclaim, if Mr. Webster of Webster's dictionary knew what I was doing with the definitions of the words he would flip over in disgust in his grave, and then my inner voice would crustily say, well that's what happens when you live in a box, whether a coffin or duality! It may be morbid, yet it had me busting a gut. . I guess there is a little bit of a rebel in all of us. In my opening as dramatic as it felt and overwhelming as I experienced my burden of making the bad guy go away so I can be the Divine guy that by the way is nothing and something at the same time. My journey's experience started as a sudden wake up for me, where I had the answers and yet did not know how I knew the answers. Is it different than any other path? No it is not, it was just uniquely experienced. Back then it was like looking at an algebra question, which I always had hated, where the answer is easily deduced and yet to write out how I got the answer seemed most important and yet there in lied a great paradox of this Journey we all walk. The resolution of the answer is not mathematical, it defies all boundaries and definitions of difference. So trying to work out a mathematical problem that goes like this; If, x=1 and a=12 and b=7 the problem goes as this; a+b=x, now make it true and logical. How does the many equal One? How does the something equal nothing and the nothing equal the 'everything something'? And now let the duel to the death of Rob I go! where one experience of conscious awareness dueled with the other, (the other being this small, imperfect guy named Rob the pariah) Which by the way did not stand a chance of defeating the conscious awareness of my eternal self. So in went the sword and pierced the heart of my small ego every time and die he did in dramatic ways only to resurrect again to dual again a next time I went into the silent eternal being of my nothingness. This old hunter and trapper felt like Elmer Fudd, no matter how many times I shoot that dastardly wabbit, it won't die! This Trapper trapped himself in a perpetual cartoon where no matter what I try the rabbit won't stay dead. I'm making light of it now yet back then oh how my burden was heavy and exhausting where as much as I tried to rest I could not sit and every step I made in my journey to the great mountain of enlightened nothingness seemed to never get closer. It seemed to me I would run towards this destination, and it would be getting closer then I would blink my eyes to see if what I was perceiving was real and then find myself back to where I started my sprint. Nothing changed. OUCH!!!!!
So this Outdoorsy guy gave up trying to kill what I could not kill, I stopped trying to get to a mountain I couldn't get closer to because of the pot holes I kept falling into led me always back to a beginning. In the anguish of my futile burden, A day came where the burden of knowing the truth and yet not being able to resolve how it was that way. I just collapsed under the burden of my anguish and that inner voice that continually posed the wonderful questions and gave me all the answers said, "this was so much fun, wanna do it again". I can say without a doubt If I could have, I would have killed that voice/My Beloved in the most horrible of ways. How could it have put me through such anguish and the angrier I got the more it laughed. One may see this experience as the epitome of Evil? Yet the thought never crossed my mind. Instead the exhaustion of anger took its toll on me and then, the burden became light, the illogical became logical, In the infinitude of the nothingness of my experience the something celebrated within the nothing and not as difference, In the infinitude of the unmoving absolute Truth, the question, (confusion, untruth, need to know, the burden, illusion, perception) and the answer, (Truth, peace, resolution, comfort in knowing) moved as a single thing called Wisdom. Truth is the unmoving and wisdom is the motion within the unmoving, not something separate, not different. The inaction, and the action within the creative celebration of the self expressing within itself in fresh and new ways, (uniqueness). I understood how inaction was the greatest action, how the nothing is the something everything, A+B=X!!!! It lied not in the koans of my questions, nor the profoundness of my answers. It was in every blessed and sacred thing that small ego did that I perceived as limited, and that could not be killed. The Christ is the creative motion of that which is not moving. This creative constant that I perceived was Rob the pariah, the Ego, the small identity in my way was the celebration of the unmoving eternal Self's fresh and new ways. I Truly savored thankfulness for the first time in my life and how small my beliefs of the power I thought it was, was small. The Beloved that laughed at me was not mocking me, it was this celebration of glory and praise of the thankfulness of a creative flow expressing as the unmoving Self in fresh and new ways. The world did not unravel, Rob did not die or dissolve into nothing, my perception of Rob and the world was the illusion, my belief that logical and illogical were different was illusion, my perception that nothing and something were not separate, their path and the others path were not separate and different, wrong became right and right became wrong and it all makes sense not in the answers but in the single motion of the question and answer, (the greatest action known as inaction) where the something is nothing and the nothing is the everything something!!!!!
Enlightenment lies not in the difference of our path for there is only one way, enlightenment is experienced in the realized thankfulness of your unique perceived burden, that is your uniqueness as _____! The illusion of creation is not the small self, it is its perception or belief of ______. The ego is not the pariah in Truth it is the celebration of the Beloved expressing His grand wonder occurring in fresh and new ways.
In a nutshell no matter how many times Rob dissolved into the nothingness, the guy keeps coming back! We can't kill what can never be killed we are the eternal self constantly creating in fresh and news ways, thankfulness/celebration/bliss. To travel to the distant mountain of enlightenment is ridiculous when you are One with everything thus, there is truly nowhere to go because you have always been there. It's like loading your car up to go on a big journey to travel to your big toe! This distance between your eyes and your toes will always be relatively the same, we can bend down and touch it and say I'm now there but if we try to hold that contortion we will get sore and have to stretch out and relax only to realize that the distance has returned to its original distance. My thoughts!
All My Love
Rob.