SUMMERTIME

This morning I was sitting out by the barn. The sheep pasture on one side and an enclosure for my broilers on the other. The broilers are temporarily fenced in, but they are on a lush mixture of weeds and grass; when they get a few weeks older and not a magnet for feral cats, I will open the gate and they will have the run of the known world. I shut them in the barn at night to protect them from the night predators. The foxes and coyotes seem most dangerous at dawn and dusk.

I was sitting there with most of my attention on the chickens, they are so full of enthusiasm for life. They run, they jump, they chase each other, they have mock fights, they catch bugs on the weeds, they eat grass, they pause to drink and they cock their head and look at me, as if to wonder, who that big daddy chicken is on the other side of the fence. Must be a metaphor here somehow.

Despite the baaing of the sheep, they like my attention, and the chicken noises, it is easy to drift into a meditation. The morning was cool, no mosquitoes for a change and for a little while I could experience a quiet mind, devoid of the clamor of the ego. I make a practice of having these little meditations whenever I can. According to my sources of inspiration, the vibration is very high and help is readily available. There is an urgency in the message, implying a great spiritual upliftment on the horizon. The implication is that it is time to turn away from the demands of our egos and listen to our higher selves, our intuition.

Unfortunately, our egos do not give up gracefully, they constantly invite us to worry {in anyway were vulnerable}. The ego focuses on any kind of perceived lack and exaggerates it way out of proportion. The ego will draw your attention to your body wants and give them an urgency they don't have. As you grow and listen to the ego less, it in turn becomes frightened that you won't need it, and its defense, is to attack you and make your life as miserable as possible.

Understand that the ego is not inherently evil. It comes to represent evil when it personifies separateness. When we decided to have this experience in bodies, and experiment with what it feels like to be separate, we made the ego to help us negotiate. It was an aid in negotiating a separate existence. It was a tool of the mind and a useful one indeed. Somewhere in our evolution, as we lost touch with source, the ego became dominate and portrayed itself as the fount of knowledge and wisdom. Instead of being a tool to help us live in this strange and dense world, it became a tyrant, attempting to rule the mind. Of course, it is completely inept at this task. Fortunately, most of us pay attention to our egos, only some of the time, and put a higher value on our intuition.

Meditation is a way of clearing the mind of the clamor of the ego. In some way or another it is necessary. It certainly doesn't have to be a formal meditation, however, one can meditate while weeding the garden, washing dishes, playing or listening to music. The goal is to clear the mind and make it available to inspiration from our higher selves.

If I understand it correctly, mankind is on the threshold of a new evolutionary step where we are about to experience reality without duality. We will learn to experience, without filtering everything through judgement. We will begin to SEE. What we will see will be paradise.

Time to do my dishes and a little meditation.

Love and Peace,  Gregg