Jamie has definitely come a long way on her healing path. In fact, yesterday our roles were reversed. I have been the chief cook and caregiver since her surgery. I have been having this cold that expresses itself as bronchitis. Yesterday, I got up I felt good. I had a moderately good sleep with the help of a medicated cough syrup. However, after finishing the Morning chores, I just crashed; it was as if, all the energy had drained out of my body. Jamie did the dishes, cooking etc. I did my other chores but I mostly rested. It was good. Last night I was able to go to sleep without the cough medicine. I no longer had that dry cough. Perhaps, that phase is over; at this moment I feel great.
We often speak of raising consciousness. What does that mean? Let us have a discussion of that today, but don't make the mistake of thinking I know more about it than you. If I do, it is a just a little bit more, because I have been thinking about it. I imagine only the Great Ones, who have achieved it, can explain it.
Full consciousness has at its base, the awareness that everything is Love. It is understanding that the world we currently see is an illusion created by our separation from source.
Awakening, is in part, understanding our history and how and why we created the illusion we did. We need to face up to how we were manipulated with fear to believe a myriad of untruths. We will understand that war, violence, inequality and all types of division are not part of who we are.
The greater part of awakening is discovering who we are. We are great beings of light. We have our grounding in source. We could not really separate from source, we could only fantasize we could. Since we are creators we could make a very convincing case for separation. As we realize, we are unconditional love, the illusion will dissolve.
In our everyday life we will experience our expanding consciousness by our greater awareness and appreciation of nature. Everything is energy. Everything communicates. There have always been people who knew when a plant was stressed before anybody else could see it. There have always been people who could diagnose illness just by being in the presence of those who were sick. We always had this ability. It was denied, covered up and hidden in most of us. Still most of us rely on this intuition much more than we know. We have been convinced that we are logical thinkers. We will discover what a joke that is.
We have already traveled towards full consciousness. We already know far more than we realize. We have all had the experience of knowing when someone is lying. The energy of lying is not the energy of truth. We have always known the difference but have been convinced otherwise. Soon we will all see when someone is lying.
Is there anything really hidden? We have all had the experience of observing someone and sensing they were troubled. We ask them, "What is wrong"? and they say. "Oh, nothing. I am fine". You know they are full of crap. You could feel the energy of their thoughts, whether or not it showed on their face. We have been on both sides of this conversation. Haven't we?
Yes we are becoming more aware of what being one means. At the level of Spirit we share our oneness with Source. Experiencing life in these bodies, we think we are separate. Bodies are separate. But separation is not any more real than our bodies. Those who are open to it, always know what is going on, with those they share their life with.
Reading minds is not an obscure and rare talent. We all do it, all the time. Being aware of how everybody is thinking would create more static than we could cope with. It is easy to understand why we developed a protection from others thoughts. Most of us are not aware that we can communicate mind to mind. A few have always known it. Soon we will be studying this phenomena, as more and more people realize they experience it.
Since Source is one. All creation is one. We already know everything. Only our awareness is limited. Soon we will know answers to the questions that have haunted humanity. Are we alone in the universe? Are there other civilizations out there? Have they visited Earth. Are they currently in contact with us? Did we evolve the way our science outlines it? Were there outside forces in our evolution? What about our past? Were there ancient civilization we don't know about? Are the legends of Atlantis and Lemuria true? Do we die? What dies? When people pass over do they communicate with us? If we live forever, what do we do between lives? Why would we want to come here and struggle with duality? Wouldn't we rather just stay at some higher level and soak up the unconditional love? Why are we doing this anyway?
We have answers to some of these questions, but there are many, many more. Full consciousness means having a satisfactory answer. A final question. When we know and experience we are unconditional love, will we care?
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013
THE BRAMBLES ALONG THE PATH
Things are moving along here on Laughing Water Farm. The diggers are coming this Morning to excavate for the foundation of our addition. I expected them to be here at the crack of dawn. Perhaps, I am a little too eager.
Jamie is getting better. I am still chief cook. Yesterday, I burnt the pot roast. I didn't know that was possible. It looked like it had plenty of water and I didn't know it was burnt until I discovered it was stuck to the bottom of the dutch oven. Oh well, it tasted okay. The gravy was a little flat. It won't be long before Jamie takes on her former role; especially if I burn the food.
I am experiencing bronchitis. I am rarely ill. But in the last several years if I get a cold, it will be bronchitis. Everybody else in the family just gets a cold and I don't get much of a cold, but I do get bronchitis. Often it won't bother me all day but when I try to sleep at night; forget it.
After we have been on this planet several decades, we come to the conclusion that we are authors of our life experience. I can't escape the notion that I bring troubles, health wise or other, upon myself. In fact, when I started showing symptoms of a cold, the thought occurred to me that I was punishing myself. I had been behaving like a jerk the day before. Now source doesn't punish. Source is unconditional love. We punish ourselves. First we follow our ego into some outlandish behavior and then our ego makes sure we mete out punishment against ourselves. This is part of the old world that has to go.
Years ago I read somewhere that life is like following a beautiful flower strewn path. Everything is set up perfect. We are like children and our hands are held firmly by the hand of the universe. Although, we cannot completely lose the grip of Source; we can stretch and pull and find ourselves on the other side of the flower border. There we encounter brambles of all sorts.
When we are heart centered and follow our guidance, the path may twist and wind. We may see troubles along the way. We are safe on our path and peace, love and joy are with us.
If we follow the ego's guidance [the guidance of separation and judgement] we find ourselves in the brambles. We find ourselves believing in fear, in punishment, in sin; we doom ourselves to pain and suffering.
So! We have learned. We know better. How is it that we still can experience negativity? We have been on this planet for a long time. We have many old programs to dissolve. Many people are having old judgmental thoughts come to the surface. Judgements of themselves and others. Memories of old hurts, where we were both victim and perpetrator.
We can easily put these behind us by forgiving ourselves or the other. All that we need to do is acknowledge it. Look at the behavior and forgive. Imagine a big column of light. A beam of unconditional love. Let the beam of light shine on that old program and melt it away.
As long as we express ourselves through our ego, there is a danger of some of these old programs coming back. There is an old saying, "The devil can only do the Lord's work". We can restate this by saying, "The ego can only do our work". Built into the struggles, the ego takes you through, is learning. We will only touch that hot stove so many times. Eventually, we see the path through the brambles is not for us.
Regardless of the path you are on, it only heads in one direction, a reunion with Source. Let us learn the easy way, through guidance. Meditation will help quiet the mind and help us see the path. The path is Love. We are Love. We are naturally attracted to our correct path. Let us learn to appreciate the flowers and stay out of the brambles.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Jamie is getting better. I am still chief cook. Yesterday, I burnt the pot roast. I didn't know that was possible. It looked like it had plenty of water and I didn't know it was burnt until I discovered it was stuck to the bottom of the dutch oven. Oh well, it tasted okay. The gravy was a little flat. It won't be long before Jamie takes on her former role; especially if I burn the food.
I am experiencing bronchitis. I am rarely ill. But in the last several years if I get a cold, it will be bronchitis. Everybody else in the family just gets a cold and I don't get much of a cold, but I do get bronchitis. Often it won't bother me all day but when I try to sleep at night; forget it.
After we have been on this planet several decades, we come to the conclusion that we are authors of our life experience. I can't escape the notion that I bring troubles, health wise or other, upon myself. In fact, when I started showing symptoms of a cold, the thought occurred to me that I was punishing myself. I had been behaving like a jerk the day before. Now source doesn't punish. Source is unconditional love. We punish ourselves. First we follow our ego into some outlandish behavior and then our ego makes sure we mete out punishment against ourselves. This is part of the old world that has to go.
Years ago I read somewhere that life is like following a beautiful flower strewn path. Everything is set up perfect. We are like children and our hands are held firmly by the hand of the universe. Although, we cannot completely lose the grip of Source; we can stretch and pull and find ourselves on the other side of the flower border. There we encounter brambles of all sorts.
When we are heart centered and follow our guidance, the path may twist and wind. We may see troubles along the way. We are safe on our path and peace, love and joy are with us.
If we follow the ego's guidance [the guidance of separation and judgement] we find ourselves in the brambles. We find ourselves believing in fear, in punishment, in sin; we doom ourselves to pain and suffering.
So! We have learned. We know better. How is it that we still can experience negativity? We have been on this planet for a long time. We have many old programs to dissolve. Many people are having old judgmental thoughts come to the surface. Judgements of themselves and others. Memories of old hurts, where we were both victim and perpetrator.
We can easily put these behind us by forgiving ourselves or the other. All that we need to do is acknowledge it. Look at the behavior and forgive. Imagine a big column of light. A beam of unconditional love. Let the beam of light shine on that old program and melt it away.
As long as we express ourselves through our ego, there is a danger of some of these old programs coming back. There is an old saying, "The devil can only do the Lord's work". We can restate this by saying, "The ego can only do our work". Built into the struggles, the ego takes you through, is learning. We will only touch that hot stove so many times. Eventually, we see the path through the brambles is not for us.
Regardless of the path you are on, it only heads in one direction, a reunion with Source. Let us learn the easy way, through guidance. Meditation will help quiet the mind and help us see the path. The path is Love. We are Love. We are naturally attracted to our correct path. Let us learn to appreciate the flowers and stay out of the brambles.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, September 27, 2013
RESISTANCE
We discussed guidance the other day. After reading my blog, Jamie ventured that guidance is always available but we resist it. We resist doing what we could do for many reasons, some trivial, some basic to our personalities.
During these last few years, I have been paying attention to my urgings about doing things. In the past I would get a urge to mow the lawn, go to the feed store, go get the eggs, etc, fairly trivial stuff and I would often override it. Something I read caused me to pay attention to these urgings. I began paying greater attention to them. I found that it made my life easier and more graceful. For example: I might be reading the paper and I get an urge to go do the afternoon chores. I look at the clock and see it is only 3:30PM and I usually don't do the chores until 4 or 4:30. I follow the urging and just as I get back into the house and pick up my paper, a neighbor comes over to discuss something with me. Since I have been paying attention to these promptings I have experienced a similar scenario several times. We are much larger beings than we perceive and we know far more than we can imagine.
We are creative beings capable of great things. Yet, because of resistance, we limit our abilities. We don't take on projects that are completely within our abilities because we are afraid we can't do them. This is an area where ignoring our guidance ceases to be trivial. It can have to do with our comfort, our lifestyle, our well being. We can resist ideas for improving our lives because we feel unworthy. We can resist moving to better housing, sending our kids to better schools, finding a better job, getting more education, taking a vacation etc.
Guidance comes to us in different ways. I am not speaking of the ego promptings that have to do with status, power or social prestige. They will never make you happy. The guidance I am talking about is a quiet urging. It is about loving yourself and wanting what is best for yourself. It is about recognizing yourself as a creative being. We won't see how we are magnificent if we deny our intuition.
How we feel about ourselves is the biggest contributor to our denial of our intuition. We have been carefully trained to feel unworthy. Are we afraid to feel we deserve more? Are we afraid it will be taken away from us? Are we afraid God will punish us? We have all kinds of negative notions we need to give up. These negative notions lie deep in our consciousness. We need to look deeply and honestly to release these negativities.
We have been taught a negative view of responsibility. In our culture responsibility is laced with shame and guilt. Failure to be responsible means you are blameworthy.
The truth is we can't help being responsible. We are! We are responsible for the whole world! We are responsible for everything! We can't be anything else. We are one. Every thought we have affects everyone else. Every word we pronounce affects everybody. We can't do anything without affecting the whole.
We are responsible! We are also blameless. When we err, it is because we do not, yet, see clearly. Even when people, intentionally hurt people, they are not to be blamed. They do what they do because of how they are stuck in their world view. They are victims of their negativity. Blame and punishment won't correct the problem. Only love and compassion can lead to the reeducation they might need.
Blame, only keeps us from being responsible. When we see clearly, that we are blameless, then it is a simple matter to take responsibility.
We have a New World to create. Knowing that every loving thought, deed or action affects all, is very helpful. It motivates us to be scrupulous; to glean our consciousness of negativity.
All the judgements we make, throw a smoke screen over our creativity. It blocks our intuition and blocks guidance.
Knowing we are responsible is freeing. We know we can have the world we want and now we need the creativity of everyone.
Happy Friday. My urgings tell me I better get to the feed store before it rains.
Love and Peace, Gregg
During these last few years, I have been paying attention to my urgings about doing things. In the past I would get a urge to mow the lawn, go to the feed store, go get the eggs, etc, fairly trivial stuff and I would often override it. Something I read caused me to pay attention to these urgings. I began paying greater attention to them. I found that it made my life easier and more graceful. For example: I might be reading the paper and I get an urge to go do the afternoon chores. I look at the clock and see it is only 3:30PM and I usually don't do the chores until 4 or 4:30. I follow the urging and just as I get back into the house and pick up my paper, a neighbor comes over to discuss something with me. Since I have been paying attention to these promptings I have experienced a similar scenario several times. We are much larger beings than we perceive and we know far more than we can imagine.
We are creative beings capable of great things. Yet, because of resistance, we limit our abilities. We don't take on projects that are completely within our abilities because we are afraid we can't do them. This is an area where ignoring our guidance ceases to be trivial. It can have to do with our comfort, our lifestyle, our well being. We can resist ideas for improving our lives because we feel unworthy. We can resist moving to better housing, sending our kids to better schools, finding a better job, getting more education, taking a vacation etc.
Guidance comes to us in different ways. I am not speaking of the ego promptings that have to do with status, power or social prestige. They will never make you happy. The guidance I am talking about is a quiet urging. It is about loving yourself and wanting what is best for yourself. It is about recognizing yourself as a creative being. We won't see how we are magnificent if we deny our intuition.
How we feel about ourselves is the biggest contributor to our denial of our intuition. We have been carefully trained to feel unworthy. Are we afraid to feel we deserve more? Are we afraid it will be taken away from us? Are we afraid God will punish us? We have all kinds of negative notions we need to give up. These negative notions lie deep in our consciousness. We need to look deeply and honestly to release these negativities.
We have been taught a negative view of responsibility. In our culture responsibility is laced with shame and guilt. Failure to be responsible means you are blameworthy.
The truth is we can't help being responsible. We are! We are responsible for the whole world! We are responsible for everything! We can't be anything else. We are one. Every thought we have affects everyone else. Every word we pronounce affects everybody. We can't do anything without affecting the whole.
We are responsible! We are also blameless. When we err, it is because we do not, yet, see clearly. Even when people, intentionally hurt people, they are not to be blamed. They do what they do because of how they are stuck in their world view. They are victims of their negativity. Blame and punishment won't correct the problem. Only love and compassion can lead to the reeducation they might need.
Blame, only keeps us from being responsible. When we see clearly, that we are blameless, then it is a simple matter to take responsibility.
We have a New World to create. Knowing that every loving thought, deed or action affects all, is very helpful. It motivates us to be scrupulous; to glean our consciousness of negativity.
All the judgements we make, throw a smoke screen over our creativity. It blocks our intuition and blocks guidance.
Knowing we are responsible is freeing. We know we can have the world we want and now we need the creativity of everyone.
Happy Friday. My urgings tell me I better get to the feed store before it rains.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
THE EVENTS IN OUR LIVES
I am writing early, this Morning. We have a busy day before us; at least the first half of the day. We have errands to run. We have to take Rosie, our little dog, to the groomer, get milk from the Amish; then go to town and go to several places.
Jamie is definitely better. She went out on her own last evening. She had agreed to teach a canning class before she had surgery. She didn't fully realize the impact this surgery would have. She met the challenge without a problem and came home feeling very good and she wasn't excessively tired.
I had planned on going with her. It turned out that Naomi, who is in her last year of Nursing, had a clinical to attend and I had to stay home with Elijah. He had kindergarten this Morning and needed to get to bed on time.
I never thought I would be sitting here today, looking back on the last few years and realizing what a gift having our daughter and grandson living with us has been. It has been a very enriching experience. Elijah was a baby when he joined us. We went through [or at least observed] all those wonderful things you go through with a growing child. Crawling, walking, toilet training, teething, pre-school, kindergarten; it is all rather amazing and wonderful. I think the energy helps keep an old codger like me young.
We have discussed, how we are the authors of our lives. It is pretty easy to see how we create our experiencing of situations with our thoughts and feelings. We have learned to see how our relations with others is effected by our preconceived notions and how we may actually create the interactions, we have, by how we were feeling and thinking. We can see how some of the actual events of our lives are formulated by our thoughts.
Yet we are puzzled by others that happen and don't happen. Why haven't I won the lottery, I am certainly open to it? Why did that hawk kill my chicken? Why do my feet hurt? Why? Why? Why? These may be complaining whys or curious whys. We would like to know.
If we can look back, at the events of our lives, fully and honestly, we may discover something. We learned and we learned and we are further along on our path because of our experiences.
We are all on a path to oneness. We are on a path to unconditional love. We are on a path to realize who we are. We are on a path to know we are perfect beings of light. All of these and more. Every persons path is different. No one of us is able to perceive all the aspects of someone else's path. Judgement is not just foolish, it is impossible.
Looking back, we will see, that the things, that happened in our life, are exactly what we needed to grow. We may need to do a little forgiving and letting go of resentments, etc. But when we do, we may perceive, and with gratitude, that these experiences were given to us.
Life is an amazing and fascinating adventure. We can only make sense of it when we love it. As time goes on it becomes more fascinating and more loving. Know that the events in our lives come to us because we called them to us. We needed them to learn. We are learning.
Our learning is speeding up. Welcome all the changes in your life. Know that we wanted them and needed them to become the loving beings we know we are.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Jamie is definitely better. She went out on her own last evening. She had agreed to teach a canning class before she had surgery. She didn't fully realize the impact this surgery would have. She met the challenge without a problem and came home feeling very good and she wasn't excessively tired.
I had planned on going with her. It turned out that Naomi, who is in her last year of Nursing, had a clinical to attend and I had to stay home with Elijah. He had kindergarten this Morning and needed to get to bed on time.
I never thought I would be sitting here today, looking back on the last few years and realizing what a gift having our daughter and grandson living with us has been. It has been a very enriching experience. Elijah was a baby when he joined us. We went through [or at least observed] all those wonderful things you go through with a growing child. Crawling, walking, toilet training, teething, pre-school, kindergarten; it is all rather amazing and wonderful. I think the energy helps keep an old codger like me young.
We have discussed, how we are the authors of our lives. It is pretty easy to see how we create our experiencing of situations with our thoughts and feelings. We have learned to see how our relations with others is effected by our preconceived notions and how we may actually create the interactions, we have, by how we were feeling and thinking. We can see how some of the actual events of our lives are formulated by our thoughts.
Yet we are puzzled by others that happen and don't happen. Why haven't I won the lottery, I am certainly open to it? Why did that hawk kill my chicken? Why do my feet hurt? Why? Why? Why? These may be complaining whys or curious whys. We would like to know.
If we can look back, at the events of our lives, fully and honestly, we may discover something. We learned and we learned and we are further along on our path because of our experiences.
We are all on a path to oneness. We are on a path to unconditional love. We are on a path to realize who we are. We are on a path to know we are perfect beings of light. All of these and more. Every persons path is different. No one of us is able to perceive all the aspects of someone else's path. Judgement is not just foolish, it is impossible.
Looking back, we will see, that the things, that happened in our life, are exactly what we needed to grow. We may need to do a little forgiving and letting go of resentments, etc. But when we do, we may perceive, and with gratitude, that these experiences were given to us.
Life is an amazing and fascinating adventure. We can only make sense of it when we love it. As time goes on it becomes more fascinating and more loving. Know that the events in our lives come to us because we called them to us. We needed them to learn. We are learning.
Our learning is speeding up. Welcome all the changes in your life. Know that we wanted them and needed them to become the loving beings we know we are.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, September 23, 2013
GUIDANCE
What is guidance? I see it as inspiration. A flash of intuition, perhaps. Whatever it is, we use it a lot. Writers and artist depend upon it. For them it is obvious. But we all do it. Whether planning a dinner party or the best way to dig a drainage ditch, we get guidance or flashes of intuition helping us proceed.
Where does this guidance come from? The answer depends on your orientation. Some would say the group mind. Some would say your higher self. Some would say your unconscious. Some would say a guardian angel. Does it Matter? We depend on this process much more than we realize. We have convinced ourselves that we use logic. Actually logic plays little part in our ongoing life. We go from moment to moment doing what we do. We continually make small decisions that decide the outcome of our day. Some are based on the past. Some are just what we always do. In a very few cases do we stop and evaluate something logically and more times than we realize we have an aha thought, a flash of intuition and we follow it.
What if we went through the day moment to moment making all these little decisions [many are so small you don't even know they are decisions] with Love. What if every time we remembered, we brought love to the surface and based our decision on what felt the most loving. What if every time we had an intuitive flash, we passed it through a love filter? A filter that felt out the most loving direction. What if in our moment to moment awareness, we became so practiced in remembering love, that love became the underlying guidance in both our logical and intuitive flashes?
Let us do it. Let us see what a world we could create!
We have a little excitement at our house today. We are planning an addition to our house 14X26 feet. Jamie's reasoning is that as we get older, we may require or at least desire a bathroom down stairs and we do need a better laundry setup and we can always use more library space. I concur, but it would not have occurred to me. Jamie is the one with the vision in these areas. I will begin my eightieth year on planet Earth on January 24th, I might not want to trudge upstairs to use the bathroom.
The excitement is the builders are coming today for a final look and do any necessary planning. They will have it all built and insulated before the doorways are cut into the existing structure. I say that because it seems late in the year to begin but actually it isn't. It won't take them long to get it up. They are going to construct the shell and insulate it and we will be doing much of the interior ourselves.
We are heading into a busy time. We have potatoes to dig, chickens to butcher, canning, and getting ready for the Winter.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Where does this guidance come from? The answer depends on your orientation. Some would say the group mind. Some would say your higher self. Some would say your unconscious. Some would say a guardian angel. Does it Matter? We depend on this process much more than we realize. We have convinced ourselves that we use logic. Actually logic plays little part in our ongoing life. We go from moment to moment doing what we do. We continually make small decisions that decide the outcome of our day. Some are based on the past. Some are just what we always do. In a very few cases do we stop and evaluate something logically and more times than we realize we have an aha thought, a flash of intuition and we follow it.
What if we went through the day moment to moment making all these little decisions [many are so small you don't even know they are decisions] with Love. What if every time we remembered, we brought love to the surface and based our decision on what felt the most loving. What if every time we had an intuitive flash, we passed it through a love filter? A filter that felt out the most loving direction. What if in our moment to moment awareness, we became so practiced in remembering love, that love became the underlying guidance in both our logical and intuitive flashes?
Let us do it. Let us see what a world we could create!
We have a little excitement at our house today. We are planning an addition to our house 14X26 feet. Jamie's reasoning is that as we get older, we may require or at least desire a bathroom down stairs and we do need a better laundry setup and we can always use more library space. I concur, but it would not have occurred to me. Jamie is the one with the vision in these areas. I will begin my eightieth year on planet Earth on January 24th, I might not want to trudge upstairs to use the bathroom.
The excitement is the builders are coming today for a final look and do any necessary planning. They will have it all built and insulated before the doorways are cut into the existing structure. I say that because it seems late in the year to begin but actually it isn't. It won't take them long to get it up. They are going to construct the shell and insulate it and we will be doing much of the interior ourselves.
We are heading into a busy time. We have potatoes to dig, chickens to butcher, canning, and getting ready for the Winter.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, September 20, 2013
TIME
Those who read my comment know that I found my apple map. Or rather Jamie did. She finished reading my blog and she was spurred to look in a place that we missed. It was nice to discover the Haralson is the one full of fruit. Northern Light is the name of the other. I, also, planted two pear trees that year, a Summercrisp and a Ure. They have bloomed but not set fruit. They are, supposed to be, pollinators for each other but they are not blooming simultaneously. Perhaps I will need another tree for a pollinator.
This week has flown by. It is hard to believe it is Friday already. Time has been fickle lately. It has flown by these last few years, yet, suddenly I have been experiencing days that seemed to slow down. All of a sudden I seemed to have more time between events, I find my self waiting to do the next chore. Days seem to slow, yet weeks still fly by, that is what an illusion is. It is illusionary.
But I can't speak about time. I have read much intellectual stuff about it. I still experience time as real. However, I accept the word of my teachers that it is not. Accepting, that time is an illusion, is not hard for me. It fits with other conclusions I have drawn. Yet for me, it has become more illusionary, but I experience it real.
When I practice being in the Now; I can experience a bit of eternity; the Now being forever. {Then I glance down at the clock to see how late it is getting}. I will learn. We will learn. Soon we will understand and appreciate living in the eternal now. That is where love is. That is where peace is.
Well, in the meantime. What does, mean time, mean? Time that is mean? Mean being the middle point, perhaps? Meantime being actual Sun placement? Something like that I am sure. What we mean by meantime, is what is happening Now. Full circle. So while we wait to understand time we live fully in the moment that is now.
And while all that is happening, what else is happening. It is starting as a trickle. Truth Sayers are coming forward. Soon we will be inundated by information about how we have been tricked and fooled and used for the last several centuries. It will be mine blowing for some and freeing for many more.
When the floodgates open there will be a lot of misinformation with the solid data. Don't be concerned about it. The truth has resonance in our being. It will, all, help us open our eyes. Those who begin to "see" must help those who are trying to sort things out.
Well I am scheduled to do some active meditation with the dish water. Happy Friday!
Love and Peace, Gregg
This week has flown by. It is hard to believe it is Friday already. Time has been fickle lately. It has flown by these last few years, yet, suddenly I have been experiencing days that seemed to slow down. All of a sudden I seemed to have more time between events, I find my self waiting to do the next chore. Days seem to slow, yet weeks still fly by, that is what an illusion is. It is illusionary.
But I can't speak about time. I have read much intellectual stuff about it. I still experience time as real. However, I accept the word of my teachers that it is not. Accepting, that time is an illusion, is not hard for me. It fits with other conclusions I have drawn. Yet for me, it has become more illusionary, but I experience it real.
When I practice being in the Now; I can experience a bit of eternity; the Now being forever. {Then I glance down at the clock to see how late it is getting}. I will learn. We will learn. Soon we will understand and appreciate living in the eternal now. That is where love is. That is where peace is.
Well, in the meantime. What does, mean time, mean? Time that is mean? Mean being the middle point, perhaps? Meantime being actual Sun placement? Something like that I am sure. What we mean by meantime, is what is happening Now. Full circle. So while we wait to understand time we live fully in the moment that is now.
And while all that is happening, what else is happening. It is starting as a trickle. Truth Sayers are coming forward. Soon we will be inundated by information about how we have been tricked and fooled and used for the last several centuries. It will be mine blowing for some and freeing for many more.
When the floodgates open there will be a lot of misinformation with the solid data. Don't be concerned about it. The truth has resonance in our being. It will, all, help us open our eyes. Those who begin to "see" must help those who are trying to sort things out.
Well I am scheduled to do some active meditation with the dish water. Happy Friday!
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
MEDITATION
Since the month long drought broke we have had two rainfalls over an inch. A couple days ago, we received an inch and a half. It drizzled all night long, last night, but there wasn't much in the rain gauge this Morning. It looks like we will go into the Fall with adequate soil moisture. All the deep rooted plants look very good. The apple trees have produced a bumper crop. I planted four young apple trees about five years ago. They came into production this year. I made a map delineating which apple tree is which. Now that they have apples on them, I want to know. We can't find the map. I know two of them, a Fireside and a Honey Crisp but I forgot the other two. I think one is a Haralson, but which one? Bummer! This has happened before, but this time I thought I was smart by making the map.
Have you been trying to stay in the present? In the "now"? Our teachers have exhorted us to meditate and learn to stay in the present. It is difficult. We find thinking about the past hard to resist. We find thinking about the future seductive. Yet, our lives occur now. We create now. In a very real sense the past and future don't exist. The past only exist as a shadow in our minds. The future has never happened. Still most of us miss the present because of our preoccupation with some time that doesn't exist.
We are creators. We create with every thought. We shape our future with our thoughts Now. It behooves us to pay attention to our thoughts Now.
Our teachers have recommended meditating every day. We can learn to quiet our minds and observe thoughts, that pass through, without attaching ourselves to them. If we let the stream of thoughts pass through, without focus on the individual thoughts, they will gradually slow down and eventually stop. Another technique, is to focus on everything we experience with such intensity that our minds empty. We can consciously practice both. We can see it as active or passive meditation. When we run across a meditation teacher, we should not pass up the opportunity to learn. I learned from a hodgepodge of sources, including self hypnosis. I have been meditating for over forty years but I would not call myself accomplished. There are no accidents; if a meditation teacher becomes known to you, avail yourself of the learning.
Quieting the mind relieves us of the tension that accumulates, from living in this world. Tension keeps us from experiencing our peace. Without peace we cannot love. We cannot bless the world. We cannot bless our neighbor. Without peace we cannot create the world we want to live in.
We are constantly contributing our consciousness to the group consciousness. The group consciousness needs our love. We need to pour as much love into the world as we are capable of. The combined love of humankind has changed the world we live in. Look for the positive changes, they are there. The media is having difficulty ignoring the positive changes that are occurring. Soon the love that has been growing beneath the surface will break through, like a mushroom that breaks through the forest floor, emerging from the litter, full of glory.
Hey this is a great day! We are alive!
Love and Peace, Gregg
Have you been trying to stay in the present? In the "now"? Our teachers have exhorted us to meditate and learn to stay in the present. It is difficult. We find thinking about the past hard to resist. We find thinking about the future seductive. Yet, our lives occur now. We create now. In a very real sense the past and future don't exist. The past only exist as a shadow in our minds. The future has never happened. Still most of us miss the present because of our preoccupation with some time that doesn't exist.
We are creators. We create with every thought. We shape our future with our thoughts Now. It behooves us to pay attention to our thoughts Now.
Our teachers have recommended meditating every day. We can learn to quiet our minds and observe thoughts, that pass through, without attaching ourselves to them. If we let the stream of thoughts pass through, without focus on the individual thoughts, they will gradually slow down and eventually stop. Another technique, is to focus on everything we experience with such intensity that our minds empty. We can consciously practice both. We can see it as active or passive meditation. When we run across a meditation teacher, we should not pass up the opportunity to learn. I learned from a hodgepodge of sources, including self hypnosis. I have been meditating for over forty years but I would not call myself accomplished. There are no accidents; if a meditation teacher becomes known to you, avail yourself of the learning.
Quieting the mind relieves us of the tension that accumulates, from living in this world. Tension keeps us from experiencing our peace. Without peace we cannot love. We cannot bless the world. We cannot bless our neighbor. Without peace we cannot create the world we want to live in.
We are constantly contributing our consciousness to the group consciousness. The group consciousness needs our love. We need to pour as much love into the world as we are capable of. The combined love of humankind has changed the world we live in. Look for the positive changes, they are there. The media is having difficulty ignoring the positive changes that are occurring. Soon the love that has been growing beneath the surface will break through, like a mushroom that breaks through the forest floor, emerging from the litter, full of glory.
Hey this is a great day! We are alive!
Love and Peace, Gregg
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