Reality Now!

Your mind is just a program of beliefs; a set of ideas.

It is your Being that is real.
By being, by allowing your being to be, by shutting off your egoic mind and experiencing your self as you are now, by immersing your attention into the present moment: you become existence.

When you fear nothing; everyone, everything, every moment is the same; this is it.
This is enlightenment.
Joy
Peace
Love

pics to ponder

How old are you?

 

Today’s blog has been inspired after an exhilarating conversation with Marroc (the hobbit)


So how old are you?
   You are essentially made up of the same stuff that makes up the stars and the planets in our universe. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and minerals like zinc, iron, potassium and so on. Iron and zinc is in your blood, potassium in your bones. You are about 70-75% water. That is simply hydrogen and oxygen combined. You breathe carbon dioxide and nitrogen. You are made up of the elements. Molecules containing atoms made up of subatomic particles, protons and electrons, neurons, gluons, quarks and mesons (ok lets keep it simple – it gets very, very tiny!)
   The subatomic particles and all that make them were essentially created during and soon after the Big Bang. That makes you physically very, very old. There are elements of you that are anywhere between 10-13 billion years old.
   The same atomic makeup in your body can be found in a flower, a frog, a tree, a stone or the air. You are made up of trillions of blobs of energy. Just like everything else in our universe. And so physically you are not more nor less important than anything else in this universe. Note: I say ‘physically’. (I’ll get onto the spiritual part nownow). You are as much a part of Life as a blade of grass or a leaf or a worm. What connects you and the decaying logs in the forest is that everything, including what makes up you body, will eventually be taken up as parts of something else. The Law of Transformation. You actually never die physically. Every atom just moves on to be a part of something else; just as it always has.
   Quantum physics reveals that there is intelligence in the space between all these tiny, tiny subatomic particles, quarks and mesons. Atoms show signs of memory. Atoms communicate. Molecules made of atoms can react to your thoughts. I.E. Water will freeze differently when subjected to positive or negative emotion directed at it. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto )

When we take our DNA into account, things can get very interesting too. How old is your blood? I know the cells themselves will be replaced, but the the intelligence therein, the code, gets passed on when the cells divide. Your DNA memory never dies. Your blood came from your mother and her mother and her mother and so on. The blood in you contains a memory that is thousands and thousands of years old. Possibly as much a 3 million years old.
You can barley tell the difference between that of a foetus of a human, an elephant and a fish, within the first few days.

So how old are you then?

I once had a dream I was flying over water. It was so real to me.
  Do you think I was remembering a time when my DNA was that of a bird?

During deep mediation you can go back to the beginning and see the end.
The paradox is that you can only do it now.

You may be old but you are still emerging.

Thanks Marroc, you inspired me to look at a few things I haven’t talked about in ages.

Keep Smiling

Finrod (the elf)


Some other interesting links.

We are in the middle of the size of the universe.

• http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/11/15/the-middle-size-of-the-universe/

The universe. A very good breakdown if you have the time.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe

Neurogenics

• http://www.dana.org/news/publications/detail.aspx?id=6316

String Field theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_field_theory

Quantum Physics

• http://physics.about.com/od/quantumphysics/p/quantumphysics.htm

A good start to physics

• http://physics.about.com/od/quantumphysics/p/quantumphysics.htm

Origin of the elements

• http://www.lbl.gov/abc/wallchart/chapters/10/0.html

Elements

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element

Recovery

What is this angst that grows within me more and more each day as I pursue my ‘death to self’ journey. I die each moment to immerge the next. Only at times of complete surrender do I feel the Joy and Peace of God. My angst lingers. My ego mind fearing that it will loose control of my will; handed over to the Holy Spirit within me. (Gods Will – Not by mine but Thy Will be done). I am beginning to finally understand Paul’s (Christian Apostle – see esp.1&2Corinthians) continuous referring to death and suffering as the first step to feeling the Love of God within. The angst, the pain, the thorn in the flesh.

The more I feel this pain, this death, the harder the practice of feeling it (this pain) becomes. It is all too easy to simply let the egoic mind take back control and return into the laws of man.  Money, power, ambition, greed, fear, material possession, status, etc. I know it would be wrong to let go of my practice and let everything return to the way I was living. My practice must continue along with the angst. I am beginning to understand the necessity and importance of ritual. The ancient religions had this all along. The annual, weekly, daily and hourly call to prayer - contemplative prayer. The letting go of egoic mind thought; the constant chattering, the controlling opinionated, judging voice. A ritual for communicating with Gods Being without thought or spoken language which is very limited when you try to communicate with  Gods Infinity. Words just don’t cover it.  A ritual that allows you to be openly receptive as apposed to expressive or wanting.

The Christian calendar (Liturgical year) includes the period of Lent, leading up to Easter. A time of 40 days devoted to fasting (self-denial), penitence, alms-giving and prayer. (more on this in a post comming soon)
The Islamic calendar too has the month of Ramadan (9^th month). I remember a Muslim colleague a few years back who would not put sugar into his tea during the day and no food before sunset. I admired that but I could not understand such radical obedience to ritual and I labelled it institutional and fundamentalist. How wrong I was! I understand now, the need for ritual and re-enactment. How else do I stay dedicated to my faith while at times of this painful angst? How else do I drag myself by my bootstraps and face my death, to emerge from this death; to face each moment as it comes. To have faith in God! Absolute Faith!

I feel such pain when I am silent. The human race is in such a mess. We are in so much trouble. So lost in ego, so lost in the past and the future and so, so selfish. I don’t believe God feels pain nor sadness nor joy nor happiness. We feel it. God IS and that’s it! God is action not feeling – or words. God is Love. Simple! God is Being. And thats it! The Beginning, the End, Was, IS and always Will Be.  Our job, as man, is to understand this and be in tune with God. If all is right with the world then we get to experience (feel) permanent JOY. And so too, if all is not all right we get to feel the pain. Through the Holy Spirit of God we allow ourselves to be guided. That is how we stay in tune.

And to do that we need to be silent.

Be still and know that I AM GOD.

I don’t care if you are a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Wicca, Hindu, whatever… just choose a ritual and stick to it.

Be Jesus, be Paul, be John, be Moses, be Noah, be Mary, be Buddha, be Krishna

Just Be Still

For a moment

And do it as regularly as you can.

It worked for Mandela

Peace.

 

Forgive your original sin

Not only Jews, Muslims and Christians but all ancient cultures teach original sin in one form or another through mythology, parables and legendary stories of creation.  We all (Westerners) know of the bible version of ‘The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil’

Eating from the ‘Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil’ is a symbol of dualistic thinking. In other words, tasting the fruits of good and bad, love and hate, peace and war, all the way along to cold and hot, big and small.

‘The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil’ is a symbol that expresses the concept of judgment and choice. To decide for yourself, to make a decision based on your own calculated opinion.

He lives, she dies. My bombs are better than your bombs. My God is better than your God. Your God is not a God. Fast is better. Simplicity sucks.

To have an opinion.

To judge the past.

To have a desire for the future.

Sin is when you are not ‘being in the present moment’; part of Being.

Fully aware.

Fully Acceptance.

Fully Thankfulness.

Fully Joy.

Isn’t this what all the great masters, prophets, teachers or gurus have tried to impart to us?

Be still and know that I am God.

Live in the Presence of God (Present Moment).

Do not judge.

There is no right or wrong.  (Could this also be why so many of the great masters taught through paradox)

There is no opinion to be had.

You must let go of your ego centered thoughts.

To get to this state of mind, Joy, you must let go of judging each moment, dwelling on the past or anticipating the future. (Isn’t this what faith is?)  In letting go of dualistic thinking, you forgive yourself, you loose opinion.  You forgive your original sin.

At times of deep, focused contemplative prayer, being still and allowing the presence of God to be part of your consciousness, you enter a sinless state. A state of Peace and Joy.  

This is the great mystery.

When you learn to forgive your original sin (dualistic thought), you become whole and sinless and still.

Like a child jumping into water.

Love.
 

I AM JESUS

For my contemplative prayer (meditation) this morning I chose 'I AM JESUS' as my sacred word / chant. Chose (as in my choice) is not the correct word to use. Rather 'led by the Spirit' I should say. 
I breath in thinking ' I AM', and I exhale slowly saying 'Jesus' in my mind.
Breath in: I AM
Breath out: JESUS

I AM signifies the present Now of Being. Not I was or I will be. Simply I AM, right now, present, with no other thought.   As my two favourite teachers of  The Now Richard Rohr and Eckhart Tolle put it, there is no other moment than this moment. Now, and then again this moment, Now....Being, Present, Alive, Now, I AM.


A few days ago I did a breathing exercise where, for about 15 minuets, I tried to simply 'Be' by breathing in the words 'I Live' and then 'I Die' as I exhaled. Each with a small pause between breath and exhale and breath. During the pause I would reflect on each word and identify with it. I would live then die then live then die...Each a choice. Each necessary at that moment. Symbols of the paradox of life. A few days later I read Eckhart Tolle in 'Stillness Speaks' that the opposite of death is not life, it is birth. Together they are life. Life is. Next time I will try the exercise with I am born - I die  or even better... I emerge - I die.

So how does this relate to today’s experience? Today my chant was I AM JESUS. The out breath being JESUS. 
Was my out breath reflecting death? Yes and no. 
Yes because Jesus died. That is a fact. I will die too. Every moment dies to be replaced by the next and so I should die to the next moment too, so that I emerge into the next. I am constantly being re-born. 
No because through Jesus’ death and all the symbolism therein, I live again.

If in every moment I die to the moment then I Am.
Life.
I Am
Being.

And so too are You.

Love n Peace.