THE MOMENT

 

It is a drizzly Morning, It has been raining lightly, but steadily, for the past twelve hours. We had ¾ of an inch the last time I looked at the gauge. I am having a slow Morning, I had to pry myself out of bed, I feel good and I am happy, but I am not bursting with energy; well not yet. Who knows, I may set out to conquer my world, yet. Well it is easier, to just give myself to the moment, and go with the flow. Life goes by in an unending script; we are both the writers and the actors. Much of the time, we forget, we are writers and producers of life, as well as the actors.

If we can stay in the moment, we will see, a future unfold, that is not corrupted by our past. All those little pains and hurts that we hang unto affect our thinking, hence our ongoing experience. Because of the past, we bring fears into the present, that help shape our future. We get lost, and think we are only the actors of our drama, not realizing we are writing, producing, and directing with all our fears, both little and big.

We have the Great Ones' words, plus many living masters, that assure us we can live in the moment without fear. Unless we have had the experience, of the absolute peace and quiet, of the mind divested of fear, we have a hard time accepting it. But think of it, we all have known that peace, even if it is severely time limited. We don't have to experience deep meditation to know it. When we are deeply involved in a project, creative or mundane, we can find ourselves focused only in the moment. Our hands may be busy, but our minds are at peace.

We can be focused in the present all the time. We can be at peace. No, I haven't done it, but, I am beginning to know how it works. We, usually, don't pay much attention to our minds, even though we experience, powerfully, what they wrought.

I can be sitting quietly, and realize, I am not particularly happy, perhaps mildly disgruntled; if I pay attention to my mind I will observe some negativity, a fear thought, maybe just a wisp, something that is affecting my state of being. If I choose to dig, rather than lift myself out of it, I well generally find I am holding onto a judgement, usually a self-judgement.

We can, generally, lift ourselves out of a funk. But, when we keep being revisited by the same flavor of negativity, it is time to dive deep and find out, what is the generator of those fear thoughts? It can be something deep in our past. Something that we did, or was done to us, and we haven't forgiven ourselves or the other. We will be able to look at it, examine it, forgive and release it. Whatever the event, bless it and thank it, for the opportunity to grow.

When we observe our minds, think of anything, that is not love, as fear. There are neutral thoughts, when we are thinking about building something, or trying to figure out a solution to a problem; but those idle thoughts, those wisps of thoughts, that float through the mind, at seeming rest, they are love or they are not. Those thoughts, that we are not aware of inviting, are rarely [if ever] neutral. Going with one of these so-called neutral thoughts often leads us down the path of negativity.

Another way of saying it, is don't entertain anything that disturbs the quietness of the mind. Loving thoughts will enhance and never disturb the quiet.

Through the eons of separation, our minds have become magnets for fear thoughts. Fear was disguised as protective. We have, only recently realized, that fear is always destructive. We are now involved with reversing this process. We have grown to the point, where we realize, there is no advantage to fear. Love is our default state, as it were, we have always been love. How we got seduced, away from love, as part of our separation, is a long story. I have written about it before, sometime I may revisit it.

As we awaken, the intensity of love, increases. It is becoming, easier and easier, to eschew fear for love. When we are able to release, all our fear thoughts, a whole new world will appear before our eyes. Just remember, there is only Love, nothing else is real.

Let us be in the moment. Let us be love.

Love and Peace, Gregg