The Value of Being Open to Each New Experience

Be open to each new moment. Accept with gentleness what comes and you will get the most from it. If we take a stance, a posture of defense or attack against what we think is about to happen, what we fear might hurt or control us, then we enter into the experience like a lump of wood thrown into a pool of still water. Our solid form disrupts what it meets and creates a loud splash, a collision with the people and circumstances we encounter. 

Be instead like a graceful diver, or a blade, slipping into the water with a minimum of resistance and disturbance. Be like the manager who motivates staff with support and encouragement, rather than controlling them with demands. 

Did you ever walk on a sprained ankle? Did you notice how the more you tense the damaged area in expectation of pain, the more it hurt? But to breathe naturally, fully relax the area and walk instead with gentleness we find that it hurts much less. If we tense then every tiny sensation is perceived by our mind as pain, because that is what we expect, that is the color of the lens we are looking through. When we are open, gentle and careful to notice what is actually happening we realize that there is feeling, maybe an increase in sensitivity, but it is not pain, not yet, and maybe not at all. Keeping the area relaxed we do not stress the damaged muscles and ligaments, we let the joint take the weight, just as it is designed to do. As long as we keep mindful, walk with care and don't try to push ahead we can keep walking in comfort.

We must be open to each moment, dropping the stress we usually carry with us through each experience of our everyday lives. Instead of reacting to each experience as we expect it to be, we learn to respond intuitively to each moment as it really is, we move in a harmonious dance, surfing the wave of Now and learning to accept the gifts it has has to offer.

Stepping Lightly

Stepping lightly

from moment to moment

I dance with Life.

Silent song of the stars

melody of mountains

sounds to lead my soul home

to That place

that never was.

The Distance Inside

Behind the noise of my mind there is a place of peace.

It is not far, just a single step away, but you could walk a thousand miles and never find it.

The only step that will take you there is a step taken in absolute surrender.

Come,

walk with me,

forget the idea of being in control.

If you have learnt anything by now

it should be that we are nothing more than dust on the wind.

Or we are the very wind itself.

The Bottomless Well

Waste not your love.

It is too precious to be thrown into a bottomless pit,
hoping one day to create a well.

The dry leaf feels not the coolness of water,
the fickle heart cannot return your devotion.

There is no blame,
for
sometimes
that is simply the nature of things.

How long can you chase the timid fawn through the woods,
your very approach startling it into escape?

You will tire first,
and when
exhausted
you lay down to rest,
you will not be there to feel it's gentle tongue upon your cheek.

So I say to you
all who seek thirsty lips to offer the overflowing cup,

Lay such purity and innocence where is worthy

At the altar of your own being.

And then one day,
maybe,
you will drink from the bottomless well,
the fawn beside you.

Is the coming evolution of the human species to a higher state of consciousness real or just a mass delusion of hope?

My honest opinion is that it does not matter.

If there is some evolutionary, benevolent force emanating from the source of creation through every one of us then all we need do is drop our attachment to the current way of thinking that has given us the world we see around us today, and be open to accept the growth and awakening to our full potential and true nature, working with the process instead of clinging to the seeming security the old ways of being.

If, however, none of this is true and all this fuss is a collective grasping at hope then what we have is a huge creative force at work. Millions of individuals, each with the infinite consciousness of Life itself at the core of their being, following their own idea of the best way to exist in this reality and the vast majority of them with ideas around a central theme; to realize our innate potential as beings of infinite consciousness, to become aware of the oneness of all life and to play an inspired role in the drama of life as part of that oneness.

For anyone who has experienced their own thoughts or desires creating changes and manifestations in their life around them, you will know exactly how powerful such a collective intention will be.

For those who haven't, wake up and see what you are really made of.

If enough of us choose to create this inspired reality for ourselves and in our own lives then such a collective intent will raise the frequency of the whole planet profoundly and others will surely follow suit.

All we have to do is quieten the mind, be open to inspiration and let it flow through our thoughts, speech and actions into the world around us.

Look at what the collective mental state of mankind has created on planet earth today. If we were to begin working together to create a better future for the planet and all it's inhabitants we could achieve it a lot more easily than we created the possible fatal state of the planet today.

As a species humanity is functioning at a competitive level of survival, believing that others must go without so you can have, even if it means the destruction of opposition. Even wild animals don't live this way.

What we are faced with now is the opportunity to change our way of thinking, to evolve to a higher way of understanding and living this life. We can each of us make some basic changes in our life and as a collective species mankind will be changed. The more each of us awaken and become aware of our true potential the more the species becomes aware as a collective and in this way the actions of the few affect the whole.

The change is already happening, be it driven by evolution, divine inspiration, astrological forces or simply by the realization that the current way of living doesn't work and we need to find something better before our expensive experiments cost us the earth.

The only question really left for us is whether we take part in manifesting that collective inspiration in our reality even quicker or we wait and let others do the work for us.

"We have to live this life, why not live it in the highest way?" - Paramahansa Yogananda

The Dance of Light and Dark

There is not Yin and Yang, two halves of the same thing.

There is YinYang, one complete whole with with a dualistic nature, each indivisible from the other.

When you look at the black and white symbol of YinYang you will see that black contains a speck of white and white contains a speck of black. The shape of each is determined by it's relation to it's opposite.

Light can only exist in relation to darkness, within creation as a whole and within each aspect of that creation.

As above, so below.

Microcosm, macrocosm.

That is the dualistic nature of creation. When the duality ceases all is One, manifest reality ceases to be.


This is the goal of the Kriya Yogi; to transcend attachment/aversion to the dualistic reality, the cosmic drama, and realize, to know through direct experience, the Oneness of existence.


The One field of infinite consciousness that we call God is our very own nature, the essence of our being. We only appear to be individual souls, in Truth there is only one soul manifesting in infinite forms to experience itself.


Aversion to the darkness is the opposite and equal to being attached to the light.

In darkness we have fear and desire to experience light. In light we become attached and fear return to darkness.

In either case we are caught in the trap.

To recognize this truth, to live in a blackwhite world while our awareness is clear and grounded in the realization of Oneness is to be living free. Playing our role in the drama of life without being caught up in it.

Thus we become the Cosmic Dancer - Nataraj.

Love is . . .

. . . this.

I speak,
you listen,
love flows.

a pause . . .

You speak,
I listen,
love flows.

a pause . . .

we breathe,
together,
love flows.

a pause . . .

love flows.

no pause,

love flows . . .

endlessly.