THINKING ...

My Teacher used to say to me “And that’s a thought.”  When I would come to him with all these thoughts that seemed so important and it would stun me momentarily.  Sometimes I would wonder how he could say that to the important information that was going to impact my life and the lives around me and he could be so calm and although he would listen to my plight, he would eventually again point to me and say “And that’s a thought too.”  And he would smile and I would frown and stomp away wondering “what have I done wrong that I don’t see” (not seeing that that was just a thought too). 

He did this for many years, I would come to him again and again with problem after problem and in his infinite patience, he would listen or he would do whatever the moment called for which sometimes was a scolding or a praise, there was not a time, even to this day that I could predict what he would/will do, but that is another of His Great Teachings.  Many times I would go thinking I would get a praising, only to hear I had done something wrong, and then other times thinking I would get the scolding of my life, only to find him praising me for something I had done.  This over time became the blessed teaching of “not knowing.”  

Which leads to the title of today “Thinking.”  Thinking is knowing, even if you don’t know ... you think you can know by thinking.  But thinking is not real…it is not part of reality.  See these words come on the screen by the fingers not by thinking.  This is not always easy for one to see, for like I shared above, I knocked on my Teachers door with question after question and problem after problem, until one day the draw to Stillness became the Answer.  Even in moments now there is “thinking” and there is thinking that there was/is an answer and there is …but the answer is in Stillness/Silence. 

Now that can be even more infuriating to the mind that wishes to know reasons and answers for all things … to hear that they are all answered in Stillness, is to negate the “mind/thoughts.”  Again it all boils down to a frown or a smile, sometimes even a laugh or a punch in the face…depends on how serious one is in knowing answers. 

Since life is just happening and all you get to do is watch it, then living with unanswered questions is actually the gift.  To let things be as they are and watch as them appear is the gift and the answers do come, not in your time or your way, but naturally they appear.  Recently, a Friend of mine said she stays informed on my life through the writings I send her, and I wrote that I was annoyed because how do I stay informed on her life when I don’t receive any writings from her.  Then lo’ and behold, she appears on the street the very next day sharing with me what is going on in her life.  (((Smiles)))

Be willing to be surprised.  I know sometimes it doesn’t seem easy to do … especially since the thoughts usually say you know what is going to happen and it’s not going to be good.  But see how silly it is to think that you know the answer and that the answer “isn’t going to be good” wouldn’t it just be better to wait and see ... if the alternative is shitty anyway :o)

All you have to do is look at that your life has worked out perfectly this far, you are reading this right now and all is well right :o)  Even if you are thinking it is not LOL!

SLAVERY & LOVE

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Went to see the movie “Lincoln” the other day and was quite moved by it.  If everything they say is true about him, he was quite an amazing man that shifted the way the world sees things over the last century and will continue to for centuries.  When one sees a movie like this, they may sit there and wonder how people can be so blind to their ways.   However, this blindness to “slavery” continues on today.  There is a “slavery” that continues and it is not race related or gender related (though those are included), it is the ultimate “slavery,” and that is to the mind.

When one is a “slave” to the mind, it doesn’t know that there is anything else.  This is the same as how it was when there was slavery of people.  It just was the way it was.  No one was looking to see if there was any other way of doing things.  This is the same with the mind, not many look to see if there is another way of living, a free way of being and living, where one is not caught up in how the mind says things are, but how they actually are.   This is where Love comes in and since today (at least in the United States is a Holiday in tribute to Love) it seems appropriate to speak on this. 

One of the reasons slavery lasted as long as it did (and there were many but let’s just go with this one) one of the reasons slavery lasted as long as it did, is because people were afraid.  They were afraid of what they would lose if they offered freedom to another, after holding them captive for so long.  There is a saying that was recently (cannot remember who said it) but it was good; “No one is afraid of the dark, they are only afraid of who might be there with them.”  (Not an exact quote but close). 

This is how it is with slavery, the fear that if you give, then you will lose.  If only one knew who they gave to.  That saying “Was blind but now I See.”  Is seeing that the one you hold captive is “You.” 

Back to Love.  So you are in the dark (slavery, slave of mind) and you become afraid because you don’t know who is there with you, that it is YOU, always and only You.  Now you can open your eyes and greet yourself with a smile or with a frown, but it is always yourSelf you greet. 

The “reason” this is not obvious, is because the “mind” continues to tell you it is not so.  That what you see around you, those who come before you, in front of you, behind you, those that show up, not just human, but animals, all life … is YOU.  But not the “you” that the mind/thoughts are telling you … you are.  That is where the confusion comes in, but if you are willing to be confused and not understand how this can all be, but just willing to just have a crack in the belief system, then you will begin to SEE and blindness will begin to disappear.

A Slave of the Mind, thinks that only what it sees, and feels and thinks is real.  Just like a person that had slaves didn’t believe that the man sitting next to him was born equal … different body, equal being.  Now the slavery of the mind says that the one sitting next to you, is not You, because it has a different name, different life experiences, shape and form, but before the name, life, shape and form … I AM … You Are.

HAPPY DAY OF LOVE … EVERYDAY.