PRACTICE SEEING

This Morning I am going to go with Jamie to the Amish to get milk and then we are to do some shopping. I am under some time pressure as she wants to leave in an hour or so. That is plenty of time to write a blog, if one has any idea of what they have to say. I don't.

Next Monday I have a dentist appointment at 9:AM so I will have to work around that.

We managed to get eleven of the twenty-two broilers in the freezer. That was too many to do in one day for this old codger. We took a couple days off and decided to finish this week at a more leisurely pace.

I have often talked about suspending our beliefs. Our beliefs create a perceptual screen through which we see the world. We don't see reality. We only see the illusion that we create with our perception.

Suspending beliefs is a very difficult task. I am not talking just about the big beliefs; whether we believe in God, Source, Love, etc. I am talking about thousands, perhaps millions of little conclusions we have made since the day we found ourselves in little baby bodies squawking and mewing.

All these little conclusions [judgements] helped build the screen we individually and collectively see the world. 

It is not likely that we are going to be able to suspend all these beliefs and see what is really there. All through history a few people have managed it through years and years of meditation and a few unusual folks seemed to have the gift of seeing without an obvious struggle. Most of us are prisoners of our perception.

The promise is if we practice being in the present enough, we will stop time, our minds will be free of the time continuum and we will 'see'. I am sure it is true. I haven't done it.

What I can do, and what we all can do, is understand that what we see is the illusion created by our belief system. Further we can know that we can modify the illusion by choosing how we look at it.

We may not be able to suspend all the myriad beliefs that we have developed, but we can alter and thin the screen, we see the world through, by consciously deciding to see everything with love. If every time we are uncomfortable with the experience we are having, we ask ourselves "what am I not loving". Or "am I judging someone or something". When we begin to practice awareness; that is paying attention to what we are doing with the stimuli that we are picking up from the world with our senses, we will be amazed at the automatic conclusions we jump to. We will find this true with smells, tastes, sights, feelings and especially emotionally engendered feelings.

If we have the conclusion that there is a reality created by an unconditionally loving Source and we are blocking the experience of that reality with our perception, then it behooves us to alter our perception. The best way to do that is to determine to see everything with Love.

We can do it. We will do it.

Love and Peace,  Gregg