"We Are" Consciousness

     We are one

     We are one people. We are one race. We are one race of human beings. No-thing divides us. No-thing can. We are one. We are one people. We are one voice. We have one purpose. One design. One measure. One body. One shared being. We are one.
     We have always been one, and we will always be one. In war, hate, strife, disease. We remain undivided. We remain united. This is the truth which we don not see. It is the way before us and behind us. It is the way now. We walk on this path together. We always have and we always will. We are one. What we may or may not think does not change this. This is stronger than what any human can build. It is intrinsic to us, apart of every part and every dimension of who we are. It lives within our cells and cannot be avoided in anything we say. This is the truth. We are one.
     Now, as we always have been and always will be, we are called to unite in humanhood across all divides. We are called by every ounce of our being to realize the unity of humankind. We are called to see through the cobwebs and the dust in our house and realize our shared inhabitance, our single body of human spirit and human wisdom. We have always shared this and we always will. We have been connected across the world since the dawn of time. Our hearts are undivided. Our feelings are the same. Our love is our love. We have one human feeling. One beating heart.
     We struggle to be ourselves, we struggle to realize our kinship, our unity, to fulfill our soul on this Earth. This is our destiny. This is our purpose. It is written in our hearts by the voice of God. We can't turn away from it, no matter how much we wish it. It is the aching in our chests from which wishes spring. It is the heart of our hearts. We are one. We are one.
     The awareness of this and the embodiment of this is the salvation of the human species and of life on Earth. We are tied to this Earth as we are tied to each other. Through realizing this we gain the power and the wisdom to restore the balance of life on this planet. We learn how to live in harmony with each other and with the Earth.
     We do not need to change who we are. For we already are perfectly one. Perfectly unified. Perfectly whole. If we see this in great numbers across the world, we will gain the power to be free.
     This is the undoing of all that we believe divides us. This is clarity and awakening. This is clarity and awakening. This is liberation. This is the pursuit of freedom, justice, and equality in their fullest sense; all of these emanating from the Divine Heart which burns in a passionate flame for the fulfillment and liberation of humankind. This is the heart of Christ. All Christs. All true Christians. It is the sacred heart that lies in the bosom of all true faiths and of all people who are awake to the unity of humankind. "We are One" or "We Are" is the consciousness that does and will unite all religions. It is the Universal Religion of Love, Joy and the worshiping of life: which is God. Worshiping creation, which is this moment and this life, as it is, right now. Worshiping all life and all people.
     "We are one" and "We are" consciousness is the revelation that creation is happening right now. This Earth is the body of God. It is the body of God being born anew every moment. "We are" apart of this creation, not only in body, but in ability. "We are" one with the Lord. We have the power to create as we will. We have the power to shape the world as we will. "We Are" and "I am" is the realization that we are not only one with the Lord, but that we are the Lord. We are Gods creating the Earth. We are a multitude of God beings sharing One God consciousness. This is the essence of "We Are" consciousness. Hence referred to as "We Are One". Our consciousness is undivided and single. It is one body, one being, one field. This is the meaning of "We Are One". All humans moving and being one succinct heart and mind. This is our highest and single aim. This is reality as we do not know or experience it, but as we are. In this way, it is what we know and experience.
     "We Are" and "I am" is the fulfillment of humankind in every way. It is the integration of all aspects of human thought and development into one body and one expanding intelligence. It is the integration and unity of the arts, the sciences, culture, religion, government and business into one body: into one thought. The thought of the wholesome expansion and integrity of humankind and life on Earth. This is why "We Are" consciousness promotes the sustainable and wholesome use of the Earth's resources. A sustainable consumption of the Earth's resources is a sustainable human civilization. This is not progressive Green politics, this is common sense. The are finite and the Earth's ecosystems which support our consumption are fragile and may collapse if we don not properly care for them. This is not politics, this is survival. This is prosperity versus chaos.
     "We are" consciousness is the simultaneous development and integration of all aspects of life. It is the development of science, technology, and manufacturing, as well as the cultivation and integration of business. It is the full embrace of the individual and the full integration of all individuals into one society with one consciousness. Like it or not, this is the way. It is the way of things now, it is just hard for many to see it as evolves through time. We are each little cogs in the machine that is generating Unity Consciousness. For a while, we will only see ourselves as little cogs among other little cogs, rather than as all of us being the Whole machine. This integration of human endeavors does not necessarily force us to change. It may be soft and slowly applied over such a time that we barely recognize this change happen. In other ways it is and will be sudden and swift. As much as this effort is human beings making human decisions, it is nature itself unfolding and evolving, consciousness itself uncontrollably evolving within humanity like spilled water spreading across a glass table, eventually making the whole table wet, without any effort save the force of gravity acting upon the inherent qualities of water. As much as it may be a human movement for the fulfillment and emancipation of human beings, it is simply the natural evolution of life and consciousness.
     This is why I know it to be something good. It is not forced ideology. It is the embrace of all ideologies, all walk of life. It is their embrace and dissection in a logical and intuitive way. It is in the spirit of distilling truth from our beliefs. This is not something novel, it is a perpetual process in all of our minds and hearts. We constantly refine our perceptions to distill deeper and deeper truths about ourselves and the world. The full embodiment of "we are" consciousness is merely the application of this distilling to all beliefs we may hold. In a way it is the complete distillation of our beliefs into divine direct perception. From believing into knowing from absolute clarity of sense perception. All humans already engage in this process of distilling, many of us just believe firmly that some beliefs are absolutely right and should not be subject to reason. We believe in believing. We don't yet see the limitations of belief based on blind faith. By distilling our beliefs into direct sense, we can see what is real and we can interact with life in a way that best suits us. This is one reason why it is good.
     Not only is it t eh cultivation of liberated perception, it is the full embrace of everyone and everything. It is Universal Love and the practice of Universal Love. it is a Love that doesn't stop with sexual orientation, race, belief, religion, nation, politics, or social standing. It is a love that is divine and is free from the bondage of dogma. It is a Love from an awakened heart and an awakened mind. I'm not sure if the heart can be fully open if the mind is not fully awake; for the mind and the heart are one. The bodies in our minds are the same as the bodies in our hearts. We cannot give ourselves fully to the world if we are deeply immersed in dogma. I think as dogma is innately a closure of the mind, it is also a closure of the heart. I think a transcendent Universal Love is the highest love and I think it is only accessible through some form of "We Are" consciousness. "We are" consciousness fully embodies is both perfection of the mind and perfection of the heart. It is perfection and fulfillment of our human destinies. This is why it is good.
     "We are" consciousness is enlightenment. It is the perfection and the full realization of a human being. It is a "Universal Religion". It is the liberation of human beings in mind, heart, body, and spirit. The darkness of delusion envelops human potential in every way. Full realization does not end with awakened mind and hear. It is a transformation of the body as well. It is a transformation of the whole of our being. This is what awakened mind and awakened heart truly mean. The reorientation of our cells from aggressiveness and agitation to the highest harmony of cellular function. Perhaps even to perfect cellular function. I believe that it can lead to the conquering of disease, old age, and even death. It is and leads to the complete transcendence of the darkness of delusion and all the consequences of delusion in our world. Ridding ourselves of delusion frees our minds, hearts, and bodies. When darkness is removed from our souls and is replaced by Light, our bodies have been cleansed and endowed with greater intelligence. This intelligence is not merely greater harmony within the body, but the awakening and developing of unused faculties within us. The removal of delusion releases one from what we believe are permanent limitations on our abilities. Not only are we released from the limitations on our inner sight, which make us feel separate from God, we are released from any physical or mental limitation into the field of infinite potential and infinite creativity.
     We begin to see the body and all external forms merely as objects in mind which can be manipulated, as one will, through the correct focus of one's imagination. The Earth seems less solid and our bodies less fixed. The Earth seems not just to be floating in outer space, but within a boundless field of mind. Part of this perception is the feeling that anything in this mind field can be manipulated. It is if is the powers of our imagination, which can creating anything in an instant, applies also to anything one can perceive. The universe appears holographic and the awakened mind possesses the intelligence to alter these projections of light however it sees fit. "We are" consciousness is the root of this awakened intelligence.
     "We are" consciousness is Christ consciousness. It is the Christ self that dwells within all form, and is all form. Christ consciousness is the heart of wisdom. It is awareness of the Whole that allows us to guage the universe accurately. Christ consciousness is our conscience. This is why it is important and useful to listen to our conscience. One's conscience is the intelligence within themselves that is aware of the whole of reality. Because it is aware of the whole, you can trust that it won't lead you astray. Christ consciousness creates wholesome order on Earth and in the Universe.
     "We are" consciousness is Christ consciousness from an interpersonal perspective. From the dimension of "We" or "Us" compared to the dimensions of "I" or "It". "We are" Christ together. "We are" wisdom, truth, the Light. "We are One" means that we are the One Christ that lives within all forms. We are the single intelligence, the single being that lives within all things. We are not separate beings, we are one being. "We are one" points to this spiritual truth. This consciousness call on us to overcome our differences in the Light and truth of our Unity as a people. It calls on us to come together in celebration of this truth. To unleash our infinite creativity and infinite intelligence, and direct both towards the liberation of the human species. To right the wrongs on Earth and restore the balance of life. It is a call for each of us to step up and get involved. To tune into the Divine truth speaking to us from within. To overcome our personal struggles and direct our full attention to the liberation of the human species and the protection of life on this planet. To realize that, "I Am" this. This universe, I am the Lord, and so are You. We, (you, I and all of us together) are one, and our bond is the glory and Light of Life. it is our purpose and our deepest desire to live from this awareness and to create peace on Earth through the awakening and liberation of the human species.
     To integrate the arts, the sciences, technology, business and religion in the wisdom of Christ consciousness for the purpose of the fulfillment of humankind. To transcend fear, dogma, and to use our integrated intelligences to unlock all dimensions of human potential. To create infinite energy technology accessible by all people; to solve the mysteries of life concerning sickness, death, and old age; to unlock our psychic powers becoming telepathic, possessing telekinesis, to levitate, to teleport, and transform our entire bodies into pure energy and travel through all dimensions of our universe; to create anti-gravity technology, warp drives, devices that can construct any object from energy. These are but grains of sand of the desert which approaches. This is the future and the destiny of the present. The time is NOW  to activate and to unite. To awaken and to imagine and to create. We have the power now to liberate ourselves and each other through the pursuit of Love, Joy, and the science and alchemy of the transmutation of the self. Awaken! Awaken NOW!. We are the power and we are one. Rise now! We are one NOW!. We are one!

   

Journal Entry #14 Being, Ego, Dreaming, Being Awake, THE RETURN OF THE POINT (The point V)

What is there to see here?
Trees, boards on a deck, a watch on my wrist
What's going on?
Moment and stillness
Life and nothing
Presence
Every and any kind of flow
Floating in the void
Is there anything behind what I see?
Perhaps. What is behind that?
I think I seek merely to see what I am
Which is my boundless nature
This is my sole purpose
To be aware of myself
To live in awareness of myself
This is what I am.
Being. Awareness
All that I am. No more.
When I am and do not see this, I suffer.
I suffer in how I do not see this.
In how I believe I am other than this
This is all I am
Being.
Perhaps not even this.

Everything else appears secondary
Transient and unimportant
It simply seems like it is
All of this seems transient
This moment seems to pass before I experience it
I feel like I'm grasping at it like something not quite here
Something not quite formed
I know that I am formed, but I do not see it or experience it clearly.
At least I don't think that I do.
It is probably all I do see.
My brain is stuck wallowing in despair
It lacks the proper balance of chemicals and energies.
It clings to it's fears like a fading dream lingers in our minds when we awaken and begin to go about our day
The mentality we have as participants in our dreams still affects us after we awake. It slowly moves to the back of our mind, diminishing. The same is true of the ego; it slowly diminishes in our minds, occupying dimensions of less and less importance. The illusory reality of it's existence, it's struggling and desiring, exist and pass just as dreams pass from the mind as one awakens from sleep. At first easily confused with waking reality, then,  as we gradually come to our senses, more and more obviously perceived as sputterings of an imagination disconnected from reality. (I refer only to the manufactured aspects of dreams here. The superficial images and environments that are in no way real, but do contain real feelings and thoughts of the dreamer.)

     The ego seems to be a projection of light onto a movie theater screen. We sit in a seat in the theater, which in this case is in our minds, and watch the film, our lives, play out. For a while we are completely captivated by the movie, fully immersed to the point of forgetting that we are sitting there watching it. We believe that it is our life, who we are. Then we slowly remember that , "Wait?, I don't think this is real." "I think i am something else." "Oh ya!, I'm just sitting in this theater watching this film." "Ah, this is who I am. this is what is real."
     This is the nature of the ego and of waking up from the dream of the ego. Much of our world is hypnotized by the dream of the ego, utterly confused about the nature of reality and who they are; believing that they are these little people with little dreams about little things. In no way is this bad. It just is. Just as trees and plants blossom in Spring. It does cause wars and suffering. Still, not bad, just painful and perhaps sad. Definitely frequently unpleasant. It is our very ego that says, "This is bad." "We must change it." I don't think we need to get rid of the ego because it is bad, I think it may be reasonable to get rid of it because it hurts so much. It may be awful. This too may be the trappings of the ego. But, I think it is not egoic to wish for people to be happy and well, but perhaps it is. Perhaps it is still blindness and imaginings of separation between what may be.
     Is it egoic to feel compassion for individuals who suffer? Are we judging them? I think it is true that they are sad, yet it may also be true that they are not; for I believe who we are underneath the sadness is always unblemished. And perhaps what we are sad about is something that we ought not to be sad about.
     It is confusing to imagine that "ultimate reality" is the same thing as egoic perception. That even in our blindness, we are whole and awake. This has been and still often is pretty confusing to me. The truth is that we are awake, yet we live in a world of delusion. ??? I wonder, is this still the reality of ascended masters like Jesus, the Buddha, and St. Germaine? You would think by their titles that they have "ascended"delusion and have "mastered" maya, the world of delusion. I feel that it may be possible to be perfectly enlightened, perhaps like them. But is this just a waste of time? Are we not perfectly enlightened now?
     This quandary is apart of my daily struggle for motivation. Why do anything if I am perfect as I am? Why strive for perfection of mind, body, and spirit that i already possess? I am perfect. I am awake. I am fulfilled. It seems like I am awake, within the mind (imagination) of delusion. Like, I am a star (awakeness) shining Light out into the darkness (delusion). Delusion is simply one of the infinite number of forms in the universe. The promniverse! Lol. Part of me desires to shine brighter, to use delusion as fuel for my becoming more of myself. I guess part of who I am is still immersed in delusion and believes it needs to break free of it, to be something more. This delusion still operates as delusion within me. the key is not forgetting that there is no difference between being awake and being asleep (lost in delusion). A key I often misplace. I imagine my desire as being different from desirelessness. I imagine that my pain is separate from my joy, that doing is somehow different from non-doing. That there are things such as doing and non-doing. I think I've been missing the point and I still think I do good and bad. What is the answer? What is the point?
     Well, I think the point is not the point I thought it was. And maybe in this way, it is what I thought it was! Lol. I think I have been just trying to get out of my pain, not necessarily find the truth, but the truth was the way out because I was in pain because I didn't see who I am. Because I was asleep. Life doesn't wait for anything to ketchup. It just goes.
     I think the point may only matter to those (that) which does not see the point. And the point may only be something to those who do not see it. When your awake being is just being. It isn't anything special or different than anything else. Because everything is the point. The point is everything. One big point. One little point. All around, point. Point, point, point. Point! Point. Point...This is it. This is it. We are searching for life itself, which is our very selves, our searching mind. It is absurd, yet it is the truth. We think we are lost. In many ways we are, but in our search for ourselves we truly have got the wrong idea. What we are now is what we are searching for. Not some deeper "what we are" that we don't see, literally what we do see right now. This is it. This is the answer. This is the point. Nothing else but this. Right in front of your eyes, right in your hands, whatever your thinking, feeling, imagining. This is it. When you look for somewhere else you're wrong. There is nowhere else. Nothing for you to find. You are it as you are now.

Bam!!
 
 

Black and white

Do we have control over our feelings? Do we just experience them? How much control do we have over our lives? 

We wish to change our feelings and our lives to avoid being upset. We think being upset is bad. Does changing and avoiding unpleasant feelings actually work? How much of our experience is more like a roller coaster going up and down, twisting and turning, where we are here merely to experience the ride rather than to control it's direction?

I see that I personally do make choices that affect and create the world around me, but this choosing seems equally outside of my control as it is in my control. Perhaps even less in my control. Who I am appears to be awareness and self-awareness computed from the data gathered through my senses and filtered through my mind. I do not feel that I am truly separate from my environment in any way. I only perceive that I am separate in my imagination. In fact I don't know exactly what I am at all. I don't think I know what anything is at all in an absolute way...Except that I think that I am love and I am the whole universe. But as much as this is a definite thing it also is equally open and uncertain and unknowable. I find that I find myself when I am totally open to not knowing myself. When I let go to the unknown I begin to be. I begin to be in a place where I know things. Here, I think the universe is still unknowable, but aspects of it are definitely knowable. I can know things for sure. How I feel and if what I think is true. I can accurately describe the world around me.

Whether or not we can change the world, we subjectively live in and experience a world where we do change the world, where we have volition. Denying this reality entirely without actually knowing isn't helpful. It seems like it's just suppressing unwanted and difficult feelings such as responsibility, guilt, embarrassment, and shame. Fear would also be a good one to mention, anger too. 

I think for nearly all of us, it is more helpful to embrace how we feel, this subjective dimension of our lives, where we struggle with our power to control ourselves and our environments. I think through facing it and accepting it, we can come to understand it better: whether it is real or not, whether we have free will or not. An all out denial seems like immaturity and delusion to me. A mindful embracing of this subjective experience seems much more healthy. I think for most of us, this subjective dimension where we experience choice is a permanent aspect of our lives. Whether it is real or not, we are stuck with it. Denying it won't eliminate it from our lives, it will just put it in a little corner of our minds where it will constantly bite and burn us. 

On the other hand holding on too tightly to control is equally problematic. Fearing what lies outside our control. Never letting go, never letting life flow on its own. This is another kind of hell. If we live in constant fear of the unknown: what is outside of ourselves, what is outside our control, we lack a healthy balance with our environments. We live in "forced" certainty where we desperately and tyrannically cling to what we know, and fearfully shove away everything else with all the strength we can muster. We are ruled by our fears and survival sense whether or not it is wise to do so: whether or not we are missing out on valuable opportunities and solutions passing right in front of us. We won't let ourselves know the unknown because we perceive it to be far too dangerous. We are cut off from the spontaneity of life, the unknowable uncertainty of life that provides solutions if it is given a chance. Our compulsive boa constrictor hold onto our life suppresses the energies, intelligences, and instincts that adapt to new circumstances: overcoming what once were seemingly insurpassable obstacles. 

This matters if we have choice. If we have the ability to both realize this and then change our actions to avoid these two scenarios. 

To me it seems like there are two dimensions which I operate in. Two dimensions, two sides of the same coin that is what I experience, that I cannot currently deny and that by participating in I gain peace and insight. 

I feel that these two dimensions are truly one. The first is that all that I am, all that this is moves in a way totally transcendent of my personal will. Life, space and time, is a river flowing downstream. I am either a whirlpool in the river, or the river itself simply flowing as it may. What does this mean?

It means that everything is a culmination of everything else, everything is determined by everything else right now. We don't have personal control. We just are the way we are and now and this is all there is to it. We just are. Life just is. This seems to me to be the bigger gear in the clock. My personal will, the other dimension, seems to be a facet of this reality. My personal will and feeling exist within the undivided spectrum of boundless being, where life moves and we move in an interdependent and non-separately fashion. Where I can't change this, because this is all there is. Personal will seems secondary to being. Although the reality is that even if our personal will is secondary to being, it is also apart of being and for a time as this person evolves and is, we have choices to make: we feel like we have willpower and we feel that our choices matter. This is where denying this truly subjective experience isn't helpful, and embracing it is. This is where this matters to us. Truly, really. 

It is clear to me that a healthy development of self always results in the embrace of one's inner feeling, or of the wisdom that we grow through this inner feeling rather than by suppressing it. In my own experience,  broader truer perspective has been gained through the embrace of my own feelings. Objectivity and clarity gained through a development of the heart. These have actually been impeded my ignoring and suppressing my feelings. I discovered the broader dimension of the Flowing River of Life  through an expansion and deepening of my feelings to something that went beyond myself. Seeing this bigger picture brings stillness to my heart. Seeing this solidifies the unity of myself with the world a little more every time. When I see it, my sorrows and my joys seem more one than two. Like intertwining currents in the same flow of divine light and bliss. I feel less opposed to my sorrows and more comfortable going with the flow. It's all going to the same place anyway. In his autobiography, Yogananda Paramhansa describes life similarly to this . He says that he saw a war in a vision and felt how the terrible current of this war was completely apart of a divine play that encompasses all the effort of humankind and all of life. Divine or not, negativity seems inseparable from positivity. In fact these are just words that separate the experience of the world in our minds, that in no way separate sorrow and joy in the world as it is. From this perspective it seems that the attempt to avoid any negativity is in fact delusional. Because we can't avoid negativity and there is nothing wrong with it. Attempting to avoid it will actually bring it to you. There is in fact no direction that is better than another. All roads lead to nirvana.  

I have felt this recently in a Zen sort of way. Like no matter what I did, I would experience suffering because of my karma, but that that suffering would end because my karma, all karma, leads to the gold of liberation. It felt like it was useless to attempt to pick a better path, because all paths were the same. The perception of "better" was just that, a perception. A delusional attempt to get to fulfillment. In reality we are already on the path headed towards liberation. There is nothing we can do to deter ourselves from that eventuality. We just think we can avoid pitfalls on the way. I don't think we can. On this level, our task is not to choose a direction, but to keep on walking. To simply be ourselves and by simply being ourselves, purifying our consciousness and attaining nirvana. 

So to answer my inquiries. Do we have control over our feelings? We may feel that we do, but this control exists within a bigger picture of total flow. Do we just experience them? Yes, but we also experience ourselves having control over them. How much control do we have over our lives? Some perhaps. Even if we do have control, it seems like no matter what choices we make we arrive at the same destination...One more thing. This destination we arrive at, the level of all levels, is the present moment. It is right here and right now. It is this. Always this. And no matter if we do or don't perceive it, it is the end and beginning of who we are, it is the answer we are searching for, and it is us doing the searching feeling we are lost. 

Peace!

Walking in a forest

The beginning of this poem may be disturbing and may cause misunderstanding. This poem describes the process in which the ego is transcended. The description of the animal, and of the flesh being ground down are metaphors. They illustrate what an individual goes through when the ego is dissolving into awareness. It passes like an old animal may die, unsightly in its broken down condition yet still clinging to life even though the end is inevitable. Something new must come, and what exists now must pass away. The "Flesh ground down by the stones of the Earth" refers to the hardness and opposition that the Earth brings to bear on all life that eventually ends all life. Our lives and wills are slowly ground down by the titanic forces of nature. It is meant to cause a visceral response. Through this response, the senses are awakened and the truth can be seen...

Walking in a forest

Run down and run out
Mangy fur and shaking hind legs
Flesh ground down by the stones of the Earth
A lake of black in the mind
Stress and fatigue
The way is ground down
What shouldn't be is exposed
Like a jagged wound
The corpse is mostly bones
Some protruding from a mound of Earth
More apart than not apart of the surrounding forest
It is mostly covered in grass and ferns
They have grown through the skull
Grass, ferns, flowers on a mound with bones in Spring
There is a faint trace of what used to be there,
But there is also the gentle warmth of the sun
And the fragrance of new growth and delicate flowers
One door is nearly shut
Another is slightly more than halfway open
I can feel Spring flow through it
Warmth, fresh aromas, and life
Something died in the past
Something has been growing in the present
It can no longer be ignored
The light is bright
And requires one to shield their eyes
At least for a while...
It is pleasant
And invigorating
Their is a gentle breeze
Cool and fresh
Bringing fragrant smells
Making you curious
Making you want to walk around
Sleight excitement from the calm and quiet
You stand up and stretch your legs, arms, and back
Energy begins to pour within you
Filling up your body, from you feet to your head and from within to your hands, your face, and eyes
Swirling inside of you, exciting you,
Your body begs to move and it does
You move without thinking and take in your surroundings through your senses
You are one with the world, you are one with the forest

Plan for "We Are" Consciousness part II

Yo Peeps! This is my second burst of thought on my plan for "We Are" consciousness. Unity consciousness spreading across Earth! How do we do it? This is part of it! I wrote down my planning on notebook paper and then recorded/explained this work on these two video files. It's just audio. The written plans mentioned in the audio are posted below. Hope you enjoy! Just getting better and better! Rock on friends! : )

The Power of Spontaneity

     Spontaneity connects us positively to the form and flow of the present moment. This harmonizes the various energies of the body and mind. It is important to understand that the mind and body are not two. They are one.
     From dead thinking, it revitalizes the body, sharpens the intellect, and awakens the heart. To cultivate spontaneity is to cultivate a sense of interconnectivety between oneself and the world. It is to mingle the individual will with the will of the world, in contrast to erecting a will in opposition to the forces and energies of one's environment. This environment includes one's own body and one's own very nature. it is a reawakening of life in an individual. A reawakening of spirit and self-consciousness.
     Spontaneity appears in sharp contrast to the ever deepening compulsive nature of much of mainstream society across the world. This compulsiveness is a deadening of the human spirit and a weakening of the collective human will. The spirit of spontaneity is alive. It is what makes life, life. It is the creative novel formulation of life in the present moment. It is rejuvenating. It is the ever-rejuvenating spirit of life. Taking the old, right now, always now, and making it anew. This is the way the world is, we just don't recognize it because we are often dead in spirit. Dead thinking, dead doing, and dead being. Sleeping in the mind as we go about our days in our bodies. We are asleep to the spontaneity of life and because of this, the life in our bodies is diminished.
     True spontaneity is the key to the rejuvenation of the self. The re-awakening of spirit and the human spirit in the body. True spontaneity carries within it the spark of life, that when found can not only awaken an individual, but also reinvigorate society and civilization as a whole. True spontaneity is sight, or a glimpse, of the Whole. When properly cultivated, this sight matures into a direct awareness of the Whole through the awakened senses of the body: which include the senses of the mind and the powers of the intellect. I use this awareness or sense of the whole constantly. I use this awareness, or sense, of the whole constantly. I use it to write. I am using it to write right now. It is how we are inspired by and interpret the truth. So it is essential that we maintain this connection as we maintain ourselves and our world. Without it we are lost in darkness.
     Spontaneity is the doorway through which we enter into the room that carries the torch of wisdom, which we use to maintain and enhance the integrity of the world. It is one of the gates to the divine and sublime through which we may pass through in times of darkness to re-awaken the human spirit and to cast aside the dangerous forces of evil. I do not mean evil as in the moralistic duality of evil versus good. I mean evil as that which degenerates consciousness and wisdom. I use the word because it evokes a powerful response within us. A response that will bring the vital importance of what I am saying to bear. It is a matter of life and death: the degree to which we participate in this alchemical transformation, one way or another. The degree to which our species participates is the degree to which we are saved from the debts we have incurred on our planet.
     One Christ will not do, we already have more than one. We need many more. Hundreds of thousands if not more. And the time to awaken is now. We can become angels. The angels of our own salvation. I cannot stress enough the importance of such an undertaking... And I cannot stress enough the importance of the degree to which we transform...
     We must strive to eradicate all pretense and presumption from our minds and hearts. To clearly see the scope in which dogma has invaded our consciousness and our consciences, and to understand how to supplant it. To not only see and understand, but to act and to be increasingly committed to liberation. Of oneself and eventually of all peoples.
     So why spontaneity? Who not write about intuition or God. Like I said before, spontaneity is about intuition and God. Spontaneity is the force in direct opposition to the compulsive and conditioned beast that has overrun our world. It's the opposite and end of dead rigid conventional thinking. It's dead when its totally disconnected from anything meaningful or purposeful. When it feels like your shoveling more dirt onto a coffin that you reside in. The stifling of life's exuberance, the deadening of the heart's passion. The sleeping of consciousnesses and amnesia of being anyone or anything at all. Empty wood and a cold fire. Cities without people in them. Where has the life gone? Out the window of a now empty room.
     I believe the Dalai Lama said that our present times are like a room full of nice objects without anyone in it. He describes here our bodies without spirit, joy, presence, or self. Without being. When we are completely lost in senseless thinking, we lose feeling, we lose touch with reality, our senses, and cease to exist.
     Spontaneity keeps us grounded. It keeps us alive. It allows us to smell, to think and feel. It opes up space where we can be. Where we can explore our feelings. Where we can see the world more clearly. Where we can wonder who we are and why this works the way it does. It keeps us curious and can make us more curious. Maybe to the point of going deeply within ourselves. Perhaps to the point of discovering who we are. Here, and Now. 

Dharma Field

     We live in a field of dharma. Each one of us has a unique dharma position. We each live in a unique set of circumstances with unique feelings and perceptions. Life calls us to act in a specific way according to our own unique setting. This way we act is our dharma position. The dharma is the teaching. It is the way that we learn and the way that we teach others. We teach others by being who we are. Simply through being our unique self. We do this effortlessly, it is not something we have or need to learn. It is the truth that emanates from us as we are now.
     The whole world is full of dharma. Full of truth and wisdom. Dharma that we learn by being who we are. We each have our own unique dharma position. When we learn to see it, we can let go of what we are not and we can be at peace with what we are. We try so hard to be something different than who we are. This is the cause of so much of our suffering. We fight we we are and what is because we are afraid to be with who we are now and what is now. we have pushed ourselves away for so long that who we are takes the form a a terrible demon. Who we are resides in hellfire within ourselves.
     This is within our minds, within our imagination. Who we are is really the best way that we can be. it is the only way we can be. Recognizing this is what frees us from the hells we live in. We think these hells reside within ourselves in a place we must avoid, or in the world in enemies and fears, but they reside in our minds. In our imaginations. We don't quell these fires by changing who we are or by fighting the world, we quell them by being present and still within ourselves. By letting go of our fears and attachments, and looking out at the world with our own eyes.
     It may be our dharma to be lost or to be found, to be free, or to be full of hate. It is these things that show us who we are. We learn through our unique dharma and we learn through the unique dharma of the world. Out of the limited nature of the world, out of it's limited wisdom do we discover truth. out of darkness comes Light. Out of confusion, understanding. What we do and what we don't know live in perfect balance. This balance is the reality of being human. We are ignorant, we are are limited. Through this we find ourselves.
     We find ourselves through our unique dharma position. We do not find ourselves by transcending it or overcoming it. We find truth through our limitations. The truth is who we are now and what is now. Not who we will be tomorrow or who we were yesterday. Who we are now with all our limitations and setbacks. Who we are now is the way to peace. Who we are now is the way to liberation. And is through ourselves, our unique dharma, not against or in transcending ourselves that we find this peace.
     We live in a field of dharma. We live in a field of truth, not only in words and ideas, but of living things. Birds, trees, rock and stone. Mountains, flowers, insects, animals. All resonating in and emanating dharma. We are apart of this truth. We live in this field of dharma. We are not separate from it. Our bodies are composed of the same elements as the soil and the Earth. We are not separate from it. We are and extension of it. We rise from the soil and we return to the soil, like all life on this planet. We are born from it, from our mothers, who are the Earth giving birth to us who are the Earth. In our confusion we destroy and maim it. In our wisdom we bend down and embrace it. It is our very body, our very life. We celebrate our home with all its natural wonders. Sparkling waters, green grasses, and craggy mountains. Food for our spirit. In this wisdom we seek balance with life, we seek harmony with each other. Our dharma becomes the dharma of love and compassion.
     Much of the dharma in the world today is the dharma of confusion and madness. It is hard to resist it, to not compulsively follow a path or paths of confusion and madness. This is the world screaming at its disconnect from the Earth. From the natural wisdom of our bodies which are ignored and abused. We thing we need to do all these special things to our bodies when we really just need to listen to them. Hear what they have to say, what they want to do. The more we listen to them, the less they'll want to fight. Te more they'll want to be in harmony with the natural world, with each other. The less they'll want to poison themselves or others with substances and words. The more they'll want to be at rest, in awareness of the natural world unfolding around them. the more they'll be at peace being at rest with the natural world.
     The dharma tells us what to do in each moment. It is intelligence. The deeper our dharma, the wiser we are. The more wholesome we are. The more we see things as they are and the less we are attached to the ideas in our minds. The deepest dharma is seeing that all intelligence is of the same intelligence. This intelligence is the dharma. All awareness is of the same awareness. All awarenesses are seamlessly connected. They are all unbroken awareness. Just awareness. No self, just dharma. Unbroken dharma. When you see this truth, you see that everything is dharma. Trees, plants, rocks, even buildings and cellphones. Lol. All dharma, all awareness, all truth. This is why I say we live in a field of dharma. Everything around us, right now, is apart of this dharmic field. These are all forms in the field of dharma. These forms are the dharma field. They compose the dharma field altogether all at once, right now. right now. Here and now. This is it. This. Dharma. Now.
     It surrounds us and fills us. It is who we are, looking out at ourself. It is everything about us. This is the deepest truth. This is the end and the beginning of our intelligence. The end and beginning of ourself. The more we see this, the less we resist who we are. The less we fight what is. The more we see this, the more harmony we find in our lives. The more we feel connected to the Earth, and the more we feel connected to each other. We are of one consciousness, one self, one body of awareness.
     In at least Tibetan and Zen Buddhism this is called one taste. I think I can say that Genpo Roshi, an apparent Zen Master, would call this Big Mind or Big Heart. You might know it as God or Cosmic Consciousness, Universal Consciousness, Universal Self, Self with a capital s. It's basically the boundless experience of reality as it is now. This is the "underlying" reality of our everyday experience. I use quotations because it is not in actuality underlying, it just appears to underlie ordinary consciousness in the feelings and perceptions of people who are wholly immersed in identification with form. God is not a distant father separate from us. God is us. God is the ordinary state.
     We often, if not always, think that and feel like we are separate. This is what I mean when I say that One taste or Big Mind appears to underlie ordinary consciousness. We feel separate because of our immersion in attachment to forms. This Big Mind, this unbroken consciousness, this seamless field of dharma appears to lie under or within our everyday perception of a universe full of separate forms because we discover the non-separateness of the world (this perception of separate forms) by looking within ourselves (our separate self perception). It may appear that this non-separate universe (God or an unbroken field of consciousness) is other than the (perceived) universe of separate forms because when we first find it, we still are very immersed in the perception of separate forms. We believe that both God (undividedness) and a universe of separate forms exist simultaneously and that both are real. I would say that only the undividedness is real and that the perception of separateness is a real subjective but temporary and illusory experience. God appears to rise from within our minds or within our hearts. The only way this perception can develop is from within the perception of a universe of separate forms because, at the time all we experience is a universe of separate forms. Wherever we may find God, outside of ourself or within ourself , God is arising out of separateness fully surrounded by separateness, hence God arising from within separateness. The outer world is a world of separate forms and our subjective inner world is the world of a separate feeling subjective self. Wherever God comes from, it comes from within (separateness) and appears to be distinct from separateness because initially when we discover God we are still under the sway of thinking that we are separate and life is full of separate things. God is undividedness and we feel separate so we couldn't possibly be God. And God appears to underlie ordinary consciousness because when we first see it, it is born in a field of our separate feeling imagination where we know that it is undivided, but still believe,feel, and perceive that we are separate. This is an illusion, because in reality God is not other than separateness. Undividedness and separateness are not separate, they are the same. So God does not underlie or come from within ordinary consciousness, God is ordinary consciousness. Until we realize that our very selves, even in our separate feeling perception and limited nature, are undivided from everything else, we will imagine God and perfection to be something other than who we are right now and we will chase ourselves all over the universe looking for the person who is doing the chasing.
     Anyhoo, the deepest dharma is the dharma of no dharma. No dharma because all there is, is dharma. There's just this, no teaching because we are the teaching. We are the field. We are the dharma. We have nothing to learn because we are the field and we already are the teaching, we already have learned. We have already attained hishiryo consciousness, we already are the highest and deepest dharma. We already are one with God, One with the Universe.
     This is why we don't need to change. Why the way is not out, but in. Not who we can be, but in becoming who we are. Not needing to end all of our limitations, but to fully embrace them. To fully embrace who we are right now. This is why Yoda tells Luke, "Your still looking to the horizon." "Your still not right here, right now." Luke is trying to change the world. He's resisting and fighting who is is. He's not listening to his body, he's warring with it. He's holding onto his anxiety and fear, he's not letting go. And when he finally does, he saves his friends and becomes one with the Universe.

In the field we are one with the force, and the force is one with us.