For the next weeks, D.A. will be going down. This will be temporary and will result in more writing, more new ideas. This will begin this following week and will continue until a few weeks beyond the New Year. Your interest is appreciated, and I hope to have the blog back as soon as possible! As the Winter Solstice moves ever closer, I hope that you find joy and hope as earth swings back towards the sun in her great dance that keeps us moving round and round!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
The Next Big Thing
Someone once thought what a great thought it would be to connect machines that we use for processing information so they could talk to each other. The concept of interconnectivity rustled and moved in the mind and heart of humanity. The internet was born. But this new idea was reflected in a still deeper sense, expressed in the world of form veiled in technology. This is the deep well of connectivity that we each have at our fingertips, a world which rests at the outer edges of what we seem to think is real or possible. It is indeed the next big thing. It has in truth been with us for since....well, for ever. Built into the windings of dna this Presence has rested, for it was creator and conciever of All Things. It is the Creator, maker of all codes, all languages, all modes for expressing. It was Creativity itself. A Great and Mystical Power. And it has tangled us up and eluded us, and shown itself, always present in the Moment, always ready to leap forth out of our inner code into our conscious awareness. Rising like a tide, rising like the fiery depths of the earth. Inside of you lies that molten core, covered in watery depths, seemingly mysterious and unfathomable. And yet, we humans are spurned forward in our innate curiosity for understanding ourselves throught he world around us. Truly the world is but a giant mirror, showing us who and what we are. The degree to which we turn from the nature of nature is the degree to which we deny our own nature. We and nature are one. Nature and Creator are One. One looks into the other and the trick is that they are different, somehow not the same. But it isn't. And yet it is, all at once. Somewhere Creator thought it would be a great idea to make a corner of its universe capable of seeing itself in this way. We, children of its becoming, are working out the great mystery that it is.
We are each individual and separate, all at once. One is not illusory, one is chosen, created out of a broad realm of knowing and yearning. The echoes of this yearning live on in our dna, a Choice to be a certain way, a sacred path of becoming. Some call it illusory, but that is only part of the story. To know more, you must go deeper into it. Your mind, your very brain, is a reflection of a given choice made a long time ago, and yet it also has the innate capacity to become every form on the planet if it needs to. As you rested and grew in your mother's womb, you moved through the long hallways of all life here. You were reptile, mammal and primate. You grew a tail, lost it, only to build a different body as your very dna mused over the path that all higher life has taken. Somehow, this is important as it has been stamped upon your brain, embedded in the cells of your nervous system and makes up the wiring of what makes you you. But together, we take this journey through these many lives, a family of humankind, a family that knows itself as All here. As we take the step into this next big thing, which is as ancient as the stars, a new wrinkle in our being emerges. Now, at this place in history as the population builds and the resonant frequency allows for a broader interpretation and experience of life here and what it means to have reached this place, only to go further into the next dimension of experience, we are faced with Awakenings that are happening as a result of all of this. Will the species bring forth a new form of life? And what does this mean for us? Perhaps it is as simple as getting it all right internally so that the power of an awakening can be best utilized for bringing us to this place. Some might say its the move from what we were to something else, and while that may be true, the way that it can take form is not necessarily something that will separate us from what was before, but join us again as it has always done, deeper and deeper still, down into that world that is reflected in all of nature. Perhaps it means that we are readying to move into a new community of souls, some of whom aren't even human, but part of some still larger community of beings who are themselves waiting for us. Our relatives who have gone before us. our paths perhaps intertwined in more ways than we might even know but that our myths and old stories reveal as the fire crackles in the night as we tel our winter stories and dream a whole new world into being within the shimmering screens of our imagination. The fires we sit before now still flicker but its with a blue t.v. light as a whole world of possibility seeks to bring itself to its maker. Maker and made, looking back at each other, all a part of each other, each imbued with the gift that was loaded in the dice of destiny from the start.
Inside of you lives the next big thing. It is not something your mind can conceive. It means bringing what we think of as being our more rudimentary senses or sensibilities. Within the hands of feeling lie our ability to conceive as broadly as the oceans spread and surge before us. The path to this place is through feeling. Your imagination carries the keys. Never think that your imagination is anything less than real because what is real is the least understood thing here. Our greatest sages and gurus all want to agree that this is all illusory, but for them, that was the next big thing, but the big thing keeps expanding as our ability to imagine and conceive expands within our awareness. In truth, its endless, our awareness, we just have to learn how to feel into it and once in it, move through it with the facility that we each have. Time to grow up, time to enter the great cosmic community. A world interconnected. We are dreaming it, becoming it, trying to understand it in all its shades and possibilities, with freewill at the helm always. We rise and fall on that one simple element planted in us, not a scourge but an opportunity for learning and becoming. Will our need to discover and move forward overcome our need to destroy the very life that sustains us? I am hopeful. And if not, then a lesson it will wind up being, and it wont be the first time. But with each step, we come closer to something deep and ineffable, entirely mysterious and deliriously wonderful.
As we move into the deepening winter, I hope deeper things still for you, for in those depths lies the story of who you are to become within the shifting sands of freewill, the very tool that allows for creativity to unfurl within. It makes YOU a co-creative being. We each have a voice in all of this, each of us combining and bringing into the Collective Interconnectivity of the planet. Drops becoming waves, waves becoming the tsunami that washes up on shore, washing away what was before, making room for something new. Its big, and its in you. Blessings!
We are each individual and separate, all at once. One is not illusory, one is chosen, created out of a broad realm of knowing and yearning. The echoes of this yearning live on in our dna, a Choice to be a certain way, a sacred path of becoming. Some call it illusory, but that is only part of the story. To know more, you must go deeper into it. Your mind, your very brain, is a reflection of a given choice made a long time ago, and yet it also has the innate capacity to become every form on the planet if it needs to. As you rested and grew in your mother's womb, you moved through the long hallways of all life here. You were reptile, mammal and primate. You grew a tail, lost it, only to build a different body as your very dna mused over the path that all higher life has taken. Somehow, this is important as it has been stamped upon your brain, embedded in the cells of your nervous system and makes up the wiring of what makes you you. But together, we take this journey through these many lives, a family of humankind, a family that knows itself as All here. As we take the step into this next big thing, which is as ancient as the stars, a new wrinkle in our being emerges. Now, at this place in history as the population builds and the resonant frequency allows for a broader interpretation and experience of life here and what it means to have reached this place, only to go further into the next dimension of experience, we are faced with Awakenings that are happening as a result of all of this. Will the species bring forth a new form of life? And what does this mean for us? Perhaps it is as simple as getting it all right internally so that the power of an awakening can be best utilized for bringing us to this place. Some might say its the move from what we were to something else, and while that may be true, the way that it can take form is not necessarily something that will separate us from what was before, but join us again as it has always done, deeper and deeper still, down into that world that is reflected in all of nature. Perhaps it means that we are readying to move into a new community of souls, some of whom aren't even human, but part of some still larger community of beings who are themselves waiting for us. Our relatives who have gone before us. our paths perhaps intertwined in more ways than we might even know but that our myths and old stories reveal as the fire crackles in the night as we tel our winter stories and dream a whole new world into being within the shimmering screens of our imagination. The fires we sit before now still flicker but its with a blue t.v. light as a whole world of possibility seeks to bring itself to its maker. Maker and made, looking back at each other, all a part of each other, each imbued with the gift that was loaded in the dice of destiny from the start.
Inside of you lives the next big thing. It is not something your mind can conceive. It means bringing what we think of as being our more rudimentary senses or sensibilities. Within the hands of feeling lie our ability to conceive as broadly as the oceans spread and surge before us. The path to this place is through feeling. Your imagination carries the keys. Never think that your imagination is anything less than real because what is real is the least understood thing here. Our greatest sages and gurus all want to agree that this is all illusory, but for them, that was the next big thing, but the big thing keeps expanding as our ability to imagine and conceive expands within our awareness. In truth, its endless, our awareness, we just have to learn how to feel into it and once in it, move through it with the facility that we each have. Time to grow up, time to enter the great cosmic community. A world interconnected. We are dreaming it, becoming it, trying to understand it in all its shades and possibilities, with freewill at the helm always. We rise and fall on that one simple element planted in us, not a scourge but an opportunity for learning and becoming. Will our need to discover and move forward overcome our need to destroy the very life that sustains us? I am hopeful. And if not, then a lesson it will wind up being, and it wont be the first time. But with each step, we come closer to something deep and ineffable, entirely mysterious and deliriously wonderful.
As we move into the deepening winter, I hope deeper things still for you, for in those depths lies the story of who you are to become within the shifting sands of freewill, the very tool that allows for creativity to unfurl within. It makes YOU a co-creative being. We each have a voice in all of this, each of us combining and bringing into the Collective Interconnectivity of the planet. Drops becoming waves, waves becoming the tsunami that washes up on shore, washing away what was before, making room for something new. Its big, and its in you. Blessings!
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
The Lineage
Your being here is no mistake. Your being composed as you are of salt water is no mistake. Your being arranged as you are is no mistake. The masculine is composed in the physical as a mirror of the spirit, just as is the feminine. As we create new life physically, we create new life spiritually.
You were born of a being that was both mother and father to you. Out of this infinite self you were conceived outside of time to live in time and space. Only through the interplay of the creative force that is moved only by the interplay of the masculine and feminine, did you come into being. Only in this way are worlds formed, and ideas nurtured. If you are reflective and can observe calmly as you are creative you will feel the masculine and feminine move within you. those who are highly creative do this without giving it a single thought, but if they were to do so, they would feel how the currents and tides of the feminine await the flow of the masculine through her. And through her, his invigorating force is given voice, purpose. Without her, his is a frustrated universe that can teeter into madness. He needs Her just as She needs Him in order to know what her great capacity for nurturing the infinite can be. The wo are not separate, but opposite ends of the same continuum. The attributes we assign to each we do so out of a deeper knowing. No man is complete without his inner feminine and no woman is complete without the masculine as well.
To know your parentage, your great spiritual lineage is to embrace the paradox of being. its a bit like looking into a hall of mirrors. In you lies the seed of the creator. In you lies a channel for the creator to move and flow, like a landscape that has rivers flowing through it, bringing it life and purpose in creation. And while the mirror of the creator lives in you, you were born or a lineage, and the consciousness that gave you being was itself given the breath of individuality by a still greater being dreaming itself. Your parents are you, and you are your parents. You can trace your awareness back to them and through them, you can know the vastness of being of which you are a part. The cell that lives in your left elbow is every bit as much the body as the body is itself. All parts move together, and at no point can you say there is an individual because there is a dizzying array of individuals living in you right now, and you live within a still larger body that is the cosmos. Your family is the human family, and the seeming final border of your skin does not keep you from exploding out into the world, into this great cosmos.
You were born royal and were born into this world like an orphan. But the orphans of this world will discover their lineage in direct proportion to how deeply they sink into their essence. You do not need any intermediary, for your soul is boundless and knows the realm from which it was given life. The great trouble we have is in concieving that humans are unable to touch upon their lineage, and thus are kept in a kind of slavery to ideals that never served them. For as holy as some may be, their words if distorted, do not serve us. In this small piece of writing, this sense is expressed, even by a greatly revered man:
Go to site HERE
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We are in our physical small, but we are the petal on a still larger lotus, and in being part of that lotus, can find the path towards a still greater awareness of being. And in that awareness, we know we are far more than what we seemed we were. To do this is nothing extraordinary. It does not require you to go to the mountain. You merely need to feel deeply into yourself. It only requires reflection, openness, a willingness to think anew. If we do not, we will live as orphans and never know the great lineage from which we have sprung. It is time for this lineage to emerge like brilliant lines of gold ringing the planet. It is not a grandiose thing, but a silent thing that has been with us always, waiting for when we were ready to dream it. But to dream is not to imagine only, but to create, to enter into those worlds like this world, to find the deeper truth in what it is to be gifted in this way by Creator. Our lineage will ring throughout the world as each person wakes up to the truth of their being beyond the pain that they feel defines them. How about the joy that defines you? How about the divinity that defines you? How about the great mystery that awaits you in this vast world juicy and ripe?
You were born of a being that was both mother and father to you. Out of this infinite self you were conceived outside of time to live in time and space. Only through the interplay of the creative force that is moved only by the interplay of the masculine and feminine, did you come into being. Only in this way are worlds formed, and ideas nurtured. If you are reflective and can observe calmly as you are creative you will feel the masculine and feminine move within you. those who are highly creative do this without giving it a single thought, but if they were to do so, they would feel how the currents and tides of the feminine await the flow of the masculine through her. And through her, his invigorating force is given voice, purpose. Without her, his is a frustrated universe that can teeter into madness. He needs Her just as She needs Him in order to know what her great capacity for nurturing the infinite can be. The wo are not separate, but opposite ends of the same continuum. The attributes we assign to each we do so out of a deeper knowing. No man is complete without his inner feminine and no woman is complete without the masculine as well.
To know your parentage, your great spiritual lineage is to embrace the paradox of being. its a bit like looking into a hall of mirrors. In you lies the seed of the creator. In you lies a channel for the creator to move and flow, like a landscape that has rivers flowing through it, bringing it life and purpose in creation. And while the mirror of the creator lives in you, you were born or a lineage, and the consciousness that gave you being was itself given the breath of individuality by a still greater being dreaming itself. Your parents are you, and you are your parents. You can trace your awareness back to them and through them, you can know the vastness of being of which you are a part. The cell that lives in your left elbow is every bit as much the body as the body is itself. All parts move together, and at no point can you say there is an individual because there is a dizzying array of individuals living in you right now, and you live within a still larger body that is the cosmos. Your family is the human family, and the seeming final border of your skin does not keep you from exploding out into the world, into this great cosmos.
You were born royal and were born into this world like an orphan. But the orphans of this world will discover their lineage in direct proportion to how deeply they sink into their essence. You do not need any intermediary, for your soul is boundless and knows the realm from which it was given life. The great trouble we have is in concieving that humans are unable to touch upon their lineage, and thus are kept in a kind of slavery to ideals that never served them. For as holy as some may be, their words if distorted, do not serve us. In this small piece of writing, this sense is expressed, even by a greatly revered man:
Go to site HERE
The Divine Lineage
- Sri Kaleshwar performing arthi to his master, Shirdi Baba
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We are in our physical small, but we are the petal on a still larger lotus, and in being part of that lotus, can find the path towards a still greater awareness of being. And in that awareness, we know we are far more than what we seemed we were. To do this is nothing extraordinary. It does not require you to go to the mountain. You merely need to feel deeply into yourself. It only requires reflection, openness, a willingness to think anew. If we do not, we will live as orphans and never know the great lineage from which we have sprung. It is time for this lineage to emerge like brilliant lines of gold ringing the planet. It is not a grandiose thing, but a silent thing that has been with us always, waiting for when we were ready to dream it. But to dream is not to imagine only, but to create, to enter into those worlds like this world, to find the deeper truth in what it is to be gifted in this way by Creator. Our lineage will ring throughout the world as each person wakes up to the truth of their being beyond the pain that they feel defines them. How about the joy that defines you? How about the divinity that defines you? How about the great mystery that awaits you in this vast world juicy and ripe?
Awakening cannot be explained, but experienced. Trying to explain it is like trying to understand liquid water by studying ice. It is close, but the opposite end of a far larger experience. Explaining what nonduality is by talking about the ocean of being or just the individual is in a sense missing the point because in the experiencing ALL states exist at once with no paradox, no contradiction. An Awakening breaks you out of the old accustomed modes of being and moves you into a watery realm of self that has always been there waiting for you, a fundamental aspect of your creaturehood, your being. Like love, it can be described, but all descriptions fall short for the simple fact that its in its direct experience that it is known. In that one moment, though, your world shifts in a significant way. Even those who are touched by it in a temporary way are changed forever. It is not something foreign to us, but fundamental. When you find it, it is like awakening a long lost love, or something you always knew but had perhaps for the time being forgotten. It is the mover of worlds. It is a game changer, a churning of your insides until your earthly self aligns with the cosmic, and in that moment, you will know that the two were never separate. Something inside of you served to create a rift that moved you in directions far afield from your fundamental self, your larger self. While ego was involved, this has not been some cosmic accident, but an experiment, a journey we have chosen to take here in this world. There is far more design in the stars than we could ever dream possible.
Unlike some, I do not feel that our more icy side is a false self. All aspects of being serve a purpose, and we chose the arrangement of self for a purpose, which has been to learn the myriad ways that consciousness can arrange itself and express itself. This purpose has served the infinite self in its quest for experiencing a boundless realm of awareness. All of this, every scrap of it, is a creation, and suggesting that the creation is any less real than the consciousness that formed it forgets the nature of the infinite which is itself creative energy. In fact, you can work your way through an Awakening by learning to allow this creative energy to flow through you. This energy is freeing, opening, and liberating. It actually breaks away the ice of your former being so that you may begin to experience the more watery realms of your awareness. It isn't that the ice isn't of any benefit, its that it has its place within being, but so does the infinite ocean, and when the ice clogs the self so that the watery self cannot flow, we become limited in what we can ourselves experience in the moment. We feel cut off from some still larger source of purpose, which is the foundation of our creaturehood; the creative. The egoic self, the individual is a part of being, its just not the whole story. There are vast realms of awareness quite different from the ones you know now, and it is in this broader awareness or state of being that will show you in a direct way what awaits you. The beauty that you are, the beauty that is the universe, lies nested ---curled--- waiting to unfurl, bringing great fruit to bear in your life.
Since creation is itself an act of love, creativity is itself unifying and a bringer of love. This is why those who are creative, regardless of their discipline, will love what they do. Its because the work, be it a physicist, mechanic, librarian, teacher, lawyer, or artist, bears the mark of the creative. Otherwise, the work become work, instead of ones passion, and everything becomes ordinary, perhaps even perfunctory. Observe anyone who is great at what they do and you will find creative energy, innovative thinking, a willingness to break out of old modes and molds. In truth, our creativity is our connection to our divinity. Ringing within us are the faint echoes of the first impulse of creation, the very essence and secret of how worlds were formed out of a seeming "nothing" that was itself full of everything. This is why the experience of Awakening is full of passion and power, of beauty, and grace. Its is beautiful and terrifying as the old you, so crammed with ice, finds itself on unsteady ground while the volcanic passion of this experience seethes up all around you, threatening to swallow you whole, threatening to destroy everything your egoic self has worked hard to install, protect, and propagate. It only seems a threat at first because of how conditioned you have become to feeling like your individual self was all there was. The ego is threatened and swings into action, creating body pain, trying to keep together the old alignment based more on a limited understanding than on anything enduringly infinite or larger than itself. Because it is a young self, it cannot be expected to move with the same depth as the soul, the infinite self. It tries, and slowly slowly, it learns, but knowing already exists within you and it lies deep within your breast, deep within the yearning that is but the tail of a much larger tiger. Hot blooded and alive, it moves with the certainty that its divine being has conferred. The only threat that it brings is the threat of change. Uncertain, there may be fear at first until you are utterly seduced and brought into a new way of being, and of feeling. Out of the intellect and into feeling, you learn that the one language in the universe is Feeling. It is through this that we commune with the entirety of All That Is. Here, secrets unlock and we resolve into beings who are unmoved by those secrets. It isn't that a secret isn't juicy and wonderful sometimes, its that using the secret it simply no longer necessary, for the secret is that it is Us. Whatever it is, we are One with it, for this Watery realm of our being means to heal the separation that our individuality has served to create through its having been created.
Beyond who you are, and what you think is possible, is something still more. In our conventional thinking there exists all manner of distortions and presumptions that do not serve our larger unfolding. Knowledge is not the key to unlocking the universe. It is love and the creative, and all of this is spoken in the language of the Creator which is FEELING. This is the bright sun that shall melt away your ice and bring you to a new alignment to your being. The secret to all of this is learning to feel deeply. And in those depths of water fire and even ice, we discover through wonder what it is to be a human reaching for the stars.
Unlike some, I do not feel that our more icy side is a false self. All aspects of being serve a purpose, and we chose the arrangement of self for a purpose, which has been to learn the myriad ways that consciousness can arrange itself and express itself. This purpose has served the infinite self in its quest for experiencing a boundless realm of awareness. All of this, every scrap of it, is a creation, and suggesting that the creation is any less real than the consciousness that formed it forgets the nature of the infinite which is itself creative energy. In fact, you can work your way through an Awakening by learning to allow this creative energy to flow through you. This energy is freeing, opening, and liberating. It actually breaks away the ice of your former being so that you may begin to experience the more watery realms of your awareness. It isn't that the ice isn't of any benefit, its that it has its place within being, but so does the infinite ocean, and when the ice clogs the self so that the watery self cannot flow, we become limited in what we can ourselves experience in the moment. We feel cut off from some still larger source of purpose, which is the foundation of our creaturehood; the creative. The egoic self, the individual is a part of being, its just not the whole story. There are vast realms of awareness quite different from the ones you know now, and it is in this broader awareness or state of being that will show you in a direct way what awaits you. The beauty that you are, the beauty that is the universe, lies nested ---curled--- waiting to unfurl, bringing great fruit to bear in your life.
Since creation is itself an act of love, creativity is itself unifying and a bringer of love. This is why those who are creative, regardless of their discipline, will love what they do. Its because the work, be it a physicist, mechanic, librarian, teacher, lawyer, or artist, bears the mark of the creative. Otherwise, the work become work, instead of ones passion, and everything becomes ordinary, perhaps even perfunctory. Observe anyone who is great at what they do and you will find creative energy, innovative thinking, a willingness to break out of old modes and molds. In truth, our creativity is our connection to our divinity. Ringing within us are the faint echoes of the first impulse of creation, the very essence and secret of how worlds were formed out of a seeming "nothing" that was itself full of everything. This is why the experience of Awakening is full of passion and power, of beauty, and grace. Its is beautiful and terrifying as the old you, so crammed with ice, finds itself on unsteady ground while the volcanic passion of this experience seethes up all around you, threatening to swallow you whole, threatening to destroy everything your egoic self has worked hard to install, protect, and propagate. It only seems a threat at first because of how conditioned you have become to feeling like your individual self was all there was. The ego is threatened and swings into action, creating body pain, trying to keep together the old alignment based more on a limited understanding than on anything enduringly infinite or larger than itself. Because it is a young self, it cannot be expected to move with the same depth as the soul, the infinite self. It tries, and slowly slowly, it learns, but knowing already exists within you and it lies deep within your breast, deep within the yearning that is but the tail of a much larger tiger. Hot blooded and alive, it moves with the certainty that its divine being has conferred. The only threat that it brings is the threat of change. Uncertain, there may be fear at first until you are utterly seduced and brought into a new way of being, and of feeling. Out of the intellect and into feeling, you learn that the one language in the universe is Feeling. It is through this that we commune with the entirety of All That Is. Here, secrets unlock and we resolve into beings who are unmoved by those secrets. It isn't that a secret isn't juicy and wonderful sometimes, its that using the secret it simply no longer necessary, for the secret is that it is Us. Whatever it is, we are One with it, for this Watery realm of our being means to heal the separation that our individuality has served to create through its having been created.
Beyond who you are, and what you think is possible, is something still more. In our conventional thinking there exists all manner of distortions and presumptions that do not serve our larger unfolding. Knowledge is not the key to unlocking the universe. It is love and the creative, and all of this is spoken in the language of the Creator which is FEELING. This is the bright sun that shall melt away your ice and bring you to a new alignment to your being. The secret to all of this is learning to feel deeply. And in those depths of water fire and even ice, we discover through wonder what it is to be a human reaching for the stars.
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