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What is Natural is Natural Across the Board

5/18/2020

Einstein said, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

Solutions of the deeper level of consciousness Einstein is hinting at cannot be understood from the more surface level of consciousness. From the limited surface perspective the universal deeper perspective may even actually seem naïve or unrealistic or maybe even unloving.

This is why it is so essential that we are open to see beyond our individual, surface beliefs to what each of us intuitively universally senses. Across cultures, races and genders we all have a sense of what is natural. And when we begin to trust the naturalness of peace we come to realize that what is natural is natural 'all across the board.'

We come to sense that peace is not only a natural 'end'; it is also natural to 'the means'.

This understanding shifts everything.

If what you want is peace -
why not be open to being peaceful now with whatever is in your experience?
Thoughts, feelings, images -
allow them all
and see for yourself
if peace is not only the end but the means.

Hurt People Hurt People - Period

5/11/2020

Here is the link to a very short article
I wrote titled:

Hurt People Hurt People - Period

And How Can People Not Hurt?

Hurt People Hurt People - Period

The Possibility of Resurrection Now

4/13/2020

Yesterday was Easter – the day Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.
To me, this resurrection symbolizes all that is possible.
Not only for us individually but collectively.

It's the dissolving of the old that gives way to the new.

The other day I watched the video of John Lennon singing Imagine
and it brought tears to my eyes as I sensed what is fully possible for us together.

As structures shift and dissolve around us,
(and within us)
may we all hold steady
as we welcome the dissolving of the old and the birthing of the new.

The Gift of Conditions Reveals What Is Unconditional

4/6/2020

Most people on a spiritual path
don’t feel that life will ever get to a point that it is free of challenges –
but do feel that challenges will no longer confuse them out of what they know to be true.

When we have some glimpse of Wholeness – this ‘All is Well’ sense of life –
it's very helpful to then see challenges as opportunities
to find out if Peace is fleeting or ever present.
Not to assume either way but to directly find out in the moment.

Is Peace, our true nature, based on certain conditions
(my body being healthy or my loved one being sensitive)
or is Peace actually unconditional (present regardless of any condition)?

This we can’t fully discover by only sitting on a meditation cushion.
We can only discover if Peace is unconditional
in the midst of all kinds of conditions
such as an illness or a loved one’s insensitivity.

May all those reading this who are on a spiritual path
not waste this challenge we are now collectively facing
but fully open to it gifts.

Just as the sunflowers' inclination is to turn toward the Sun
regardless of what is happening around or within it,
may our intention for Truth hold steady
no matter what is happening.

Fearlessness In The Midst of Fear

3/29/2020

Recently, a friend said something like
"It takes a kind of fearlessness to stay open to this inner work."

It's so easy to get sidetracked when things don't go as expected.
It's easy to close down to the inner 'work' and go into fear, resistance, judgment -
the 'This is awful' kind of story - when things are challenging.

We're all now experiencing a challenge that we've never faced before.
And for many the global spread of the C-19 virus is bringing up a lot of fear-
so how can we be fearless in the midst of fear?

Fearlessness is not about experiencing no fear -
it's about being fully open to the experiencing of fear.
Fully feeling the fear - yet without identification with the fear.

This distinction is so key.

When you notice fear - stop everything and feel all feelings fully.
Like a welcoming host to these visitors - allow them to be felt wherever and however
they want to move in your body.
And at the same time or when the feelings have largely subsided -
notice the One who is hosting them.

Notice if that One is diminished in any way whatsoever by any fear passing through.

Stopping The Inner Busyness Is Huge

3/20/2020

The other day I got an email from a friend who believes she may have the coronavirus.
She is fully at peace with what is happening and, with her permission,
here is part of what she wrote:

Last night, I listened to an interesting perspective on what's happening, spiritually.
That the world is being forced to stop. Stop all the busyness and looking outward.
Many schools and institutions are closing, businesses coming to a trickle or stopping altogether.
Countries quarantined. We are being forced to stay home and face ourselves.
This feels huge.
Who are we when we are not constantly in motion?

Time to turn within and go a little deeper.

The stopping of so much of the external busyness
is a kind of invitation to go deeper to the stopping of the internal busyness.
When we're not in constant motion 'up in our head'
who are we really?

The Power of Peace

3/6/2020

The universal principle that peace is not only the end but the means
makes complete sense - when it relates to world peace.

But somehow when we turn within to inner peace
the understanding that peace is also the means
doesn't seem to make sense to many.

Many seekers continue to believe that they need to
change, fix, eliminate or fight with their thoughts and feelings
and don't consider the possibility of simply being peaceful with them.

Notice - how when you're not fighting with thoughts and feelings
you can sense a space around them.
Notice how powerful this peaceful noticing is -
and what it reveals.

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It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face."
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Einstein said,
"No problem can be solved
from the same
   level of consciousness
       that created it."

To see new solutions
   we must see differently.

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What is Natural is Natural Across the Board

Hurt People Hurt People - Period

Here is the link to a very short articleI wrote titled: Hurt People Hurt People - Period

The Possibility of Resurrection Now

The Gift of Conditions Reveals What Is Unconditional

Fearlessness In The Midst of Fear

Stopping The Inner Busyness Is Huge

The Power of Peace

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Here is the link to a very short article
I wrote titled:

Hurt People Hurt People - Period