December 22, 2006
As if in a dance step
If you have agreed to perish in a burning house, would you have fear of houses or flames licking your feet?
No, for the fear of death is never of the exact way you will die, but of the unknown.
If you could but know your ending, it would come too soon. For you would seek it out, if only through fear of the unknown. For this reason no one is told of the precise circumstances.
Sailing through the thunder and lightening of daily events, yes, you wonder about the timing of your return. In the aftermath of these storms, you find yourself washed up on the shore, waiting for your very next passage - booked and waiting for the vessel to arrive. It does not take long once in flesh to gather the wits to know you would have been better of never arriving at all.
But if one was to understand beyond the grave what death would befall them, and pleasure could be derived from that knowledge, then it would indeed be a simple acknowledgment of time bringing the moment, as if in a dance step, perfectly executed.
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March 6, 2005
One day you know
Right now your thoughts are filled with the day ahead, and it is a day opening to be used in the schemes of setting the stage.
Will you allow yourself to be swept away in this stream of thoughts, all connected to the outward manifestations already in play? Or will you turn your mind to the work at hand, making a better way for yourself?
Defeats cause you to seek to blame others, when they are actually your own well-chosen faults being pictured for your approval. Yes, approval.
If you know the experience is being presented for your approval, will you not approve it and be done? The day is filled to capacity with these well-intended pictures of blame.
How best to release this from your thoughts? Liken this day to a day without pain of any kind: no physical pain, no emotional pain, and no pain coming from your inner world. Thus there is nothing you need to pay attention to but your own actions or reactions to the scenes right before your eyes.
Live in this moment, as if you know your place is within the event, not the event itself. If you know this, and are able to pay attention to the details of the way all things seem to be brought together for the sake of all involved, you are living to the fullest ability you own.
If this day is a sample, so to speak, of every day you are alive, will it never seem to be one day you know already, lived through over and over again, until you see enough, and claim the key to unlock the door, and then, only then, walk through to a new way to view the world you are making?
Coming to any conclusion will align you with the end result. For it is that we seek, that ending of all concern for the outward appearance of things.
Imagine yourself being sent into the event without knowing just where it will lead to, but trusting it will take you to the next step up. This alone will let you rest within your own outlook.
Leave nothing to happenstance: be present in your own thoughts, always seeing your own nature being displayed. Soon in time you will learn to recognize yourself in all things about the human form and fashion.
This allows the laughter of the guides, as we walk along through the human landscape. And when laughter is allowed, all else seems to be a mirror of a past you can think upon and release - as if once it was good to know but now it’s very unsettling, or funny, or at the very least, uninteresting.
Yet this outward expression of your inner realm is all being examined at once without the necessary understanding to do so. Or so you think, for the human believes this is true.
To understand your actions and reactions, you need only to trust yourself in the action or the reaction. This will allow you to know your own nature as it has been shaped for this lifetime - a very necessary thought, do you not agree?
Once you manage to know your own nature, you begin to see how you set the stage: always in your favor. This is good, but not always wise. The wise one would be settled within any circumstance, and know it will work to their advantage, for trust has been developed, and trust will always win the day.
Thus today trust is the issue; nothing else matters in any circumstances you find yourself within.
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February 26, 2005
A break in the play
Admitting you are all ready to know the sense of release, will finally step you up into release. This is rightly attuned to, for life is about to release you from many forms of need.
Be certain you know just what it is you are asking for. Look for the distance you see before you now to end, in a single thought of being no distance, but only illusions passing in front of your eyes.
Liken your moment in time to a break in the play, when the characters all change their costumes. Some give up their roles entirely. But others stay and see themselves in roles that have been expanded (for the lack of participation by those choosing to pass out of sight). To notice the changes would allow you to invite these "stay to the end" individuals into your circle of friends and loved ones for a closer look.
Now begin to name the price you are willing to pay for this life adventure. "Heaven on earth" is not the picture we mean to paint. But a clearly defined picture would be the subtle outline of the way you would have your life begin to unfurl its signature.
Posted by Adam on February 26 at 8:15 AM in Black Mountain | Comments (0)