Everyman's Journal 2011

Everyman's Journal 2011, #38

Feb. 25

Returning from my evening yoga class, Karen Drucker's song "I am so grateful, I am so blessed" runs repeatedly in my 'second mind'.... that level of mind that you suddenly recognize has been singing the same jingle for hours... that's 'second mind'. Karen's song, and the Gayatri Mantra have been the two running in mine for the last few days, sorta taking turns.

On the surface mind, well, it's been busy 'doing something'..... in the past, I would have also said, 'something important', but that idea doesn't fly so well in my space these days. 'Self-importance' is sort of like 'but the Emperor is naked'.... at least it's on that same level. These days, it's pretty clear that not much we/I used to believe was important REALLY is. My proof? Just look at it (whatever 'it' is for you) from a larger context and see it if still has the same energy. Take like, say... politics... that's something that I've had very strong opinions about in the past. Now, because I know 'there is only one of us here', I just ask my heart.... as I listen as deeply as I am currently able to Everyone (who is actually just other me's).... what is the breakthrough that would allow Peace to exist, or be remembered, in this situation? And the answer is almost always "See from a bigger picture"... i,.e., shift the context. Remember the other day I mentioned accidently web-surfing onto a temperature-gradiated close-up image of the sun? And that I got what it actually was?.... emotionally (not intellectually).... that it wasn't just a bright quarter-sized spot in the sky that made me warm, it was instead a gigantic, huge, awesomely powerful atomic furnace that could, almost absentmindedly (if anything caused it to change it's behavior patterns) end all life on earth. That's a context shift, for example. And it redefines our/my world (until we/I go numb to it) because it helped me to get myself as a consciousness in Space (or, as 'on a planet in Space). And as in an Infinite Space. Because even though I am in a currently breathing body that eats and talks and is made of materials of this planet, and that seems like 'reality' most of the time, it really ISN'T Reality at all. Real Reality is as much beyond my habituated self and it's self-concepts of what is important as 'the world outside' is to a trained flea circus in a jar. (Fleas in a jar jump all the time. Put a lid on the jar and they learn to jump just short of the lid, so they don't hurt themselves bumping into it.... once that has happened, you can take the lid off... they still continue to jump just like the lid was on... even though it's gone. That's a trained flea circus.)

Most of us are pretty similar, even for those who seem to be pretty free, it's really a self-reflective relative thing... we all listen to the voice of our conditioning from birth to death... some have learned to distinguish the subtler inner dimensions of our being, that's all. That's why it's great to learn to meditate deeply, and to be awake to the 'second mind', and a lot of other mystical knowledge. Because it cleanses the conditioning.... first the dark and the negative so that our lives 'get better', but eventually, it also cleanses what we used to think of as our positive, our value, the stuff we used to believe was so important.

Adyashanti has said that what he sees is that most people, if something takes them into the unknown so far that they actually could realize they were free... that almost everyone immediately freaks out...WAY TO BIG... and scurries back to more known and safe 'realities'. The Buddhist mantra "Ga-te, Ga-te, Para-ga-te, Para-sam-ga-te, Bodhi-swaha"...which transliterates as 'Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond, Gone Beyond Beyond, Hail the Goer"... that second 'Gone Beyond Beyond'... that describes 'the journey' that we're talking about here.

The source of all this? My mother said something real to me today.... she said "When I woke up this morning, I felt lost". It was one of the most real statements I have ever heard her make. I stopped what I was doing, and asked her to explain. She said "I don't know why I'm doing what I'm doing anymore... all these things I do to fill my time don't seem to mean much suddenly". I said, "Mom, that is not a bad thing. In fact, it is very natural, and perhaps that feeling is not something to push away....maybe it's your friend... etc, etc, etc. It's not important what I said really, it's just important that there was a mother and a son talking with honest hearts to each other. It was a moment, a learning moment, and we won, because we listened to each other. And, after a while, both she and I went back to doing what we normally do, like as if it was important, but knowing that in Reality it probably wasn't. I think that's the soil humbleness grows well in.

Namaste,

David

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