MIND

When I first looked at the thermometer about 8:30 AM it was 36F. I was surprised, it was gloriously Sunny and it didn't appear to be cold. It must have frosted last night, if it was still that cool.

Jamie is at PT. She is doing traction and learning how to care for her injury. The prognosis is excellent. Other folks in the family have had similar injuries, so she has people for advice and commiseration.

So I am sitting here wondering what I should write about. I was thinking about writing about mind. Most of us don't understand mind very well. We know, from out of the body experiences, and near death experiences, that mind is not the brain. I know some reductionist still hang unto that idea, but, two thousand years of teaching, says something quite different. Traditional spiritual teaching has it that minds, are separate and one. This seeming contradiction is explained by comparing a drop of water with the ocean, or a pomegranate and the individual seeds. Or some prefer the leaves of a tree, or blades of grass that make up a lawn. The understanding that we are both separate and one is an ancient teaching that goes back as far as we have records.

It is only recently that we have lost track, of this teaching, in some intellectual circles. Modern science has followed reductionist thinking, to the point of refusing to accept anything, that cannot be demonstrated. Most of what we know is empirical, it is experiential. If we are honest, we will admit, we cannot explain much of what we experience in existence. The fact that it IS is obvious, however. With the advent of the current advances in physics, science will acknowledge the unity of mind.

Though our spiritual teachers have always emphasized the unity of mind, we have been 'hell bent' in exploring the separateness of mind. The, 'everybody' is out for themselves, philosophy fit well with those interested in exploitation. If one didn't get their piece of the pie, it was their fault. It is much easier to control a bunch of people who don't appreciate their connection to each other. Manipulators constantly play on the wish, to be better than your neighbor, and our propensity to judge, when we think we are separate.

We know our separateness. We have felt alone. We have feelings we don't know we can share. We have experiences, we ache to share with someone, and we don't know how. Our minds seem to operate separate from all others. We understand being the grape or the pomegranate seed; we know little about being the bunch of grapes or the whole pomegranate.

I don't know for how many years mankind has pursued separation. It seems like we have explored it to the nth degree. I think there was an overlap, but humankind seemed to turn a corner, in the last hundred years, and began again, to explore oneness. At the same time, much of humanity was going headlong to the exploration of separation, to the aforementioned, nth degree. We have definitely turned the corner.

There now seems to be more people pursuing 'oneness' than separation. Since 'oneness' is our natural state, time is collapsing, and the understanding of our connectiveness, will soon be universal.

When we accept our unity we realize we can't judge others without judging ourselves. We can never appreciate what another experiences in their individualization. It is not so much that we shouldn't judge; we can't, we do not know enough. Never mind that all judgement affects everyone because we are all together.

Knowing that we are beings of light, creating in unison, means that paradise is here waiting for us. All we need to do, is see who we really are. It always comes back to "Love your Neighbor as Yourself". Funny thing isn't it. We heard that all our lives and some how couldn't hear. However, we did love our neighbor as ourselves. We hated ourselves. Lets fall in-love with ourselves. We are beautiful. We are marvelous. We are great beings of light. Let us love everyone and watch paradise emerge.

Happy Friday!

Love an Peace,  Gregg