Drifting Through The Commandments

Oh so boring is One Source

Alone!

Poor Source 

Brilliance!

Taking energy

Forming matter

Creation! 

Solid rock

Energy from photons

Enlivening the rock

Evolution!

Slimy things to crawl upon rock

Creatures that can fly above rock

 

Beings that can worship the rocks, the sun, other beings

Source peeking out

Love! 

Loving to be loved

Witnessing the creation

Enjoy!

Enjoying it all…

The First Commandment

I will unfold The Three Commandments further over a few blogs.

          1-There is only one Source.

                    2-Love everything.

                              3-Enjoy yourself.

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-three-commandments.html

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/04/enlightenment-part-5-final-secret.html

The First Commandment is really, really, boring.  There is only one Source. 

Source is All-That-Is, and All-That-Is-Not.  Not very exciting. 

Oh, within deepest meditation you can talk to the dead, animals, and fantastic beings, and see fantastic colors, visualizations, and take Shamanic journeys. 

And, within deepest meditation can arise deepest feelings of Truth, Beauty, and Joy. 

The brightest light and the darkest dark… all at once. 

But, the appreciation of whatever this is, is what is exciting.  There is no appreciation within deepest meditation. 

When it all slips away there is no you, no Witness, no self, only Self. 

Within the brightest light and darkest dark… is… nothing. 

Source by itself just is not very interesting, all one thing. 

In order to appreciate Itself, it hid Itself away from Itself. 

That is why Source divided itself into the “10,000 things.” More like billions, trillions, and icky-illions of things.   

Possibly infinite numbers of things, whatever infinity is. 

Playing hide and seek. 

Source hides.  Now we have to all go and seek. 

We can feel this pull.  Yes, we can hide this pull to recognize Source behind addictions, shopping, and so forth. 

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/02/enlightenment.html

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/02/addictions.html

So that is where things get interesting. 

We are each unique manifestations of Source. 

What motivates us to Seek? 

That is the subject of The Second and Third Commandments. 

Be-ing and Do-ing

To Do is to Be

To Be is To Do

To Do is to Do

To Be is to Be

Be-ing as meditation, wisdom arising. 

Do-ing as walking in the world, compassionate acts arising. 

Breath in, Breath out. 

A pause at each end of the breath. 

Riding the swinging door.  

Wordless Wednesday

How do you hold beliefs that are vastly different than your own?

 What happens when a complete stranger sits down next to you and starts to speak to you “about Jesus?”

What do you do if you hear about a way of viewing the world that is far different from your own view?   

What do you do when you feel your view is the correct one?

Do you try to convince the other of your “correct view?”

Do you enter a dialog, exchanging ideas, so that you both have an opportunity to see through a different lens?   Is there an opportunity here for adopting a different lensing system? 

Do you first listen carefully, and decide whether this person speaks dogmatically? 

If they are fundamentalist in their thinking, then a true exchange of ideas is less likely to take place. 

When you have a fixed single lens, there is much less opportunity for change, much less opportunity for seeing through a different lens. 

 

Nonetheless, perhaps, it pays to plant seeds.  Perhaps only a few choice words, said with love and compassion. 

That seed might remain dormant, forever. 

Perhaps the seed will sprout in the future. 

Perhaps we were the one who received the seed.  Perhaps within us a new lens will sprout and grow, and we will be different then we were before. 

Seeing ever more clearly.  

Friends

Went to a couple’s 60^th birthday party celebration.  I’ve known them since 1976.  Thought I’d gather some quotes in honor of friendship.

True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

The measure of a life is not position, or wealth, or even wisdom.  But the few kindred souls who share our dreams, passages, triumphs and tears.  Whose laughter is our music, whose faces warm us, whose hearts comfort and console us.  They are friends, and every life is measured by this possession alone. 

Lynn Kessinger

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

William Shakespeare

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.

Even longer,' Pooh answered.

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

A good friend will come bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying...'Damn, that was fun!’

Unknown

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Jim Henson, Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets

No friendship is an accident. 

O. Henry, Heart of the West

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Kahlil Gibran

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Hmmm… is there a word for a friend that one has not yet met? 

Namaste

Of Mothers (and Fathers)

My friend Willow would ask, “Have you finished your work with your mother and father?” 

Have you made peace with the positives and negatives of these relationships?

Can you think about these individuals without being flooded with emotion? 

Can you say Metta or Tonglen for them, whether or not they are physically present in this world? 

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/02/gentler-meditation.html

Can you hold them gently, like a butterfly?