Tuesday, November 19, 2013

when we

When we no longer stand and look
When we are the looking
When the we and the are and the looking
No longer exist
No longer exit Is ...

we each

We each are the Cosmic Christ. We open our eyes as Earth, die many deaths and continuously resurrect, born again and again and again as this Earth body ages and metamorphs into Pure Spirit it has always been.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

journey

The Unnamable Becoming births all Life: the Universes, the Beings, the sustaining Energetic Flow. We call the Unnamable Becoming God.

God is a Great Consciousness, a Great Awareness. Human consciousness is a subset, a holographic bubble of this Vast Consciousness.

A portion of our sphere of awareness is unaware of God. Otherwise we would not exist (ex-ist: to come out of the ist). A portion of our sphere of awareness is aware of God. Out of this duality comes conflict; we reject while seeking. Out of this duality comes reassurance; we find and are found.

Our awareness and our unawareness ebb and flow. Sometimes more one than the other. Sometimes more the other than the one. We look for our eternal home while it resides within us.

This is our Journey. This is our Path. Individual embodyings of Awareness. We open our sphere of Awareness with no bounds and no end.

Friday, November 1, 2013

God

Just because there are cretinous bigots with pus filled brains of hatred who claim exclusive use of the word "God" does not mean that I cannot wrest the word from their clammy grasp, reclaim it, restore it to its proper place of honor. I so do. 

I know there are many who leap and snort and tremble like a horse confronted with a flapping plastic bag at the very mention of the word "God." Blessings to you but I will not let that stop me.

"God" is a beautiful word for The Wellspring, That Which Births Us. God is as near (and nearer) to us as our breath, is the very Life that animates our being. God is also a Personality. In fact, the entire Cosmos teems with personality. Why do some of us not see this? Because we do not care to look. Our attention is fastened elsewhere. Our third eye, so to speak, is not yet open. As Avicenna's "Recital of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" says, this lack of vision is due to "the wretched state of (our) faculties." 

Contemplation (con-templum-ation), deliberately going to the templum, the clear open space of seeking, is essential. Like the augurs, the diviners, of old, one goes to this clear open space and sits expectantly with either a question in mind or no question at all. Revelation comes. The "third eye" opens.

A Presence is revealed. As Hafiz put it: "God and I are like two fat people in a boat bumping into each other and laughing."