Everyman's Journal 2011, #9
© 2011 Rev. David Seacord
January 10
"The trick", my spiritual friend Peter said perceptively to me, "is to completely finish all the old karmas, without at the same time, creating new karmas". When he said that, something profound that I had been waiting a long time to see clunked into place.... answering all at once many longstanding questions about why my life looked like it looked. "Oh", I thought, "it's all about not creating new karma....!". RIGHT! (said my VfG [voice for God]).
You need a context? OK. For most people Yuma, AZ is a 'past-though-quick' kind of place, a small summer-sun-blistered city situated out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by miles of wasteland deserts, and filled in the winter with older-generation snowbirds ... which leaves many people who don't know why it's even here wondering why it's even here. (Which is a different story, and not tonights...). BUT, for lightworkers willing to work pretty much solo andwilling to leave the normal comforts of being around other lightworkers, (and/or living in a lightworker hotspot like Santa Fe, Ashland, Berkeley, LA, NYC, Boulder...etc) Yuma is on the priority list of places needing volunteers. Most of us that are here have our stories of how we discovered we had volunteered... usually AFTER the circumstances which had brought us here had morphed a few times and we finally got that (at least for now) we were here.
However, Universal Central Intelligence (UCI) has both humor and compassion, and in it's equivalent of military USO shows, UCI sends regular spiritual mentors to assist us desert front-liners in keeping a clear perspective of our missions. One of those UCI mentors is Peter (Victor), who has come once a year for (I believe) 27 years, offering a week of satsang gatherings, and discussing the subtleties of Vedantic understandings with those of us that gather.
Tonight was night two. And almost everybody there was a hardcore lightworker, with a clear and active mission. Peter made his comment to me as I was giving him a report on what I had gotten out of the first nights talk, which was about 'What is the ego, and Karma'. I had seen that the place I was in was still quite rajasic (active), but that I was feeling the call to purify quite strongly. ("As are many", he said.) And I had also realized that what my activity was all about was to complete things so that I could put them down, let them go, and move on to a more contemplative, more inward life. That's when Peter made his comment.
I pray the clunk that came together stays together for a while, it felt so good to have a perspective that allowed my personal life to make some sense.... (let's just say you don't know everything about me yet, ok?...). Because the answer to just about everything (for me) suddenly is: To not create more karma.
Example? OK.
1. I meet an interesting 'her'. Why don't I make a move? A. to not create more karma... not that I know that consciously, but something does, and it says 'no', so I don't. (See, I'm still cleaning up karma from past relationships... and, it's like Papaji said: "If you touch it, it will bite you!" Do I know this? Yes! Absolutely! So what to do... A. Nothing.
2. I've sidestepped offers from art dealers/promoters that could perhaps have been quiet lucrative. Why? A. to not create more karma.... again, not consciously, but something inwardly says to me, 'that's not your path...' so I don't act on it. Do I wish to have my art appreciated worldwide? You Bet. But am I willing to do Anything for that? NO. Now I see (because of this insight) that why I have hesitated is that I have known that it has to happen in a very clean karma way.... AND, just so you know I know... I know it will.
Instead, I have waited and responded to a completely different scenario like a bee to honey. I refer to: the Calls to Serve. And where are they not? Nowhere. They are Everywhere. And they use pretty much every talent too... (you know this all yourself, don't you... I know you do...) Yep, it don't matter what it is, if I or you can do it, we're gonna find it on our to-do list some time or other. Well, THAT IS TOTALLY LAWFUL.
What I mean is that service IS the primary fundamental way of completing karma. And if we are lightworkers, it is what we do, and continually, and continually with love. What is that Biblical quote? 'Love is patient, love is kind, longsuffering, generous,.... it lists a bunch of attributes like that.... all true.
So the main point of all this is: to do this lightworker mission of ours, we've got to be power-connected to an unending Source. Less than that is a breakdown prescription. So whatever it takes, do this: Take inventory of the wiring to Source. If it needs maintenance, make that Priority # 1. Keeping our own batteries full is not being selfish. That is ego talking. Keeping our own batteries full is simply The Way to have 'a light to give'.
Namaste,
David
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Rev. David Seacord
Fine Art Painter / Sufi Cherag
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