Everyman's Journal 2011, #42
© 2011 Rev. David Seacord
March 15
Watching my mind is an increasingly subtle process...
I am so grateful for being able to listen to my mantra-like remembrance songs repeating themselves hundreds of times each day from the semi-subconscious platform of the 'second mind'. It is a bit humorous (God's humor) to watch my still hookable ego-mind having a tantrum or argument with the universe (i.e., liking or disliking), while the soundtrack in the subtle background of my mind continues chanting Om Namah Shivaya or one of my more recent installations: such as an english language tune delivering the message that "There is only one of us.... In your eyes it's me I see.... There is only one of us.... You are my reflection.... There is only Love" which I learned at a local church recently.
Personally, I am in mantra-song collection mode these days, stimulated by leading a Sacred Singing Circle each Sunday evening since the first of February. Normally small (5 to 7 people), this past Sunday there was no circle....(nobody came for a while) so I just sang in the empty yoga studio for a half-hour to my favorite audience.... a standing room only full house of spirit-side angelic entities. I say they are my favorite audience because they always give me such complete appreciation, i.e., there's a loop that happens... a self-validating of the most intimate musical expressions of my heart, as if from inside my own soul. And no matter how misaligned-to-truth I may be when I start singing and playing my guitar, their sensed presence guides me to an always richer and deeper faith in the unseen hand of good that provides for my every true need.
The result of remembering that all good is given me is being able to relax in this world, and to be at peace despite all the drama in it. What I mean when I say that watching my mind is a increasingly subtle process is simply that new levels of that peace are becoming more visible... by seeing where what I thought was peace was actually a suppression of it. That's what I popped to on awakening one morning recently, suddenly seeing (like as a gift of grace) that there were many places where I was still holding anxiety about certain things. As I saw that, a prayer of my heart formed.... "God, let me deepen my acceptance, let my trust in You grow, that I may know true happiness". Then arising, I went to yoga, which that day delivered to me the most true union I had had since starting the classes.
So here is the point. All things are connected and cumulative. A breakthrough in anything....self-honesty, for instance, will alter Being enough that all things appear suddenly new, and with that newness come possibilities that could not have been seen before Being altered. It's just the way things really work. Everything that IS is working together, always for the good... always for our good. In this moment, that is the only proof I need... to know and trust "why Love is"...
Namaste,
David
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Rev. David Seacord
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