XXIX
Imagine
all your possessions were lost, stolen or destroyed.
What
quality of consciousness would you manifest?
* * * *
Idealism
can be an exquisite form of self-torture.
* * * *
Warm-fuzzy
truth-seekers
Will
find truth neither warm nor fuzzy.
* * * *
There
is really nothing you need
Or can
prove to anyone.
You are
the proof.
* * * *
Dark
side, light side.
Same
coin.
* * * *
You may
be caught up
In the
swirl of your patterning,
But are
you attached to it?
* * * *
In the
same way you create a vision,
Godness
has created you and all appearances.
It is
all subject to the same divine logic.
* * * *
Whoever
has the most wants loses in the end.
* * * *
Being
awake in the world and waking to godness
Are two
very different qualities of consciousness.
* * * *
How
slowly can you chew, breathe and walk?
How
still can you sit? How silently can you
witness?
* * * *
The
nature of politics is negotiation and compromise,
But
with the ultimate there can only be complete surrender.
* * * *
This
manifest realm will never be heaven's unmanifest potential
Until
the disorder of desire and fear subside into timeless stillness.
* * * *
As long
as you maintain god
Is an
outward dualistic manifestation,
You
miss something more precious than life itself.
* * * *
Is
there really even any need for any religion
Once
you see your total nature?
* * * *
It all
takes care of itself.
All you
really need to do is be
What
you are here and now.
* * * *
What
life can clay have
But the
pattern it is given?
* * * *
Rules
change.
* * * *
What is
it?
More
accurately, what is it not?
* * * *
You
cannot solve anything
Until
you comprehend the maker of the problem.
* * * *
We
become the role we in large part choose to play.
* * * *
Flow as
a winding river does, patiently, without distracting concerns.
Despite
the many apparent obstacles, blocks and limiting banks,
Its
inevitable destination is into that which it has ever been.
* * * *
The
only way godness will ever manifest is through you.
* * * *
If you
can observe physical pain closely, without avoidance,
It can
be transformed into a distant sensation.
The
same is true of pleasure.
* * * *
Witnessing
what you are is not a matter of belief.
* * * *
You are
one with the source of everything.
* * * *
Godness
fills those who have the infinite
Longing
and patience to discern it.
It is
your anonymous reality.
* * * *
Articulate
it as best you might,
It is
ever an inarticulate journey.
* * * *
Own to
lose and lose to own.
* * * *
How
indefinable it all is.
* * * *
Differentiate
between none
And you
will see all.
* * * *
No
theater set stays up forever.
* * * *
Your
most ancient mind in time
Is as
instinct-laden as a lizard's,
Yet the
layers evolved since
Are the
trailways of potential
With
which to divine their origin.
* * * *
Put a
gun in any hand, a flag in its mind,
And the
division is bound to continue.
* * * *
If all
the lights are red, you may be resisting the flow.
* * * *
Your
suffering is due in large part to your attachment
To this
material dream and your ignorance
Of the
reality before all forms.
* * * *
No
matter how intricate, involved or convoluted,
All
your speculations remain speculations.
* * * *
All the
knowledge ever gleaned
Will
never alleviate your suffering.
* * * *
The
consistency of the patterning
Is
woven in all manifest forms,
But no
calculation or hypothesis
Can
ever touch its infinite nature.
* * * *
How
cruel we are to one another.
* * * *
Whether
life is dreary or exciting,
It is
ever your own projection.
* * * *
Imagine
it is your last breath
And you
must let everything go.
* * * *
All
your histories are stories
Which
contain only the importance
You
implant within them.
* * * *
Without
the manifest patterning,
You
could not exist in time and space.
* * * *
All
attempts to use the "I am" to ensnare others
Only
creates an infinite array of permutations
Of
cloaked confusion and irreconcilable division.
* * * *
That
impersonal nature you fear or relish, or perhaps both,
Is your
divine witnessing.
* * * *
What
exquisite self-torture this mortal consciousness
Is
capable of entertaining, seemingly without end.
* * * *
To be
truly sovereign allows others their sovereignty.
It is a
two-way street.
* * * *
You
will exist for as long as it is,
Not a
moment more, not a moment less.
Trepidation
only fabricates unnecessary suffering.
* * * *
Greed
is a dysfunctional aspect of the human psyche.
It is
not a moral issue.
* * * *
The
mind is capable of hatching any concoction.
* * * *
Wisdom
requires a clear assured confidence
In
one's own insight into the unseen realm.
* * * *
A lump
of clay by any other name
Would
still be as sweet.
* * * *
As a
manifest form you are locked
In the
illusory play of duality,
But in
the unmanifest awareness
That
false division fades into oblivion.
* * * *
What
are you attached to
But
your thoughts about it?
* * * *
Call it
father, mother or whatever you please,
We are
all one with its infinite nature.
* * * *
We have
conditioned ourselves into a busy frenzy.
* * * *
The
mind locked in identity is a play of habit,
Moving
in linear fashion from one fixation to another.
* * * *
You can
bet few have-nots have ever had much say
In how
things work or what is written in history books.
* * * *
Merely
being born puts you on a suicidal journey
Unintentional
or calculated, of one form or another.
* * * *
Chances
are you do not recall asking to be here,
So why
succumb to the inanity?
* * * *
Does
the father create the son,
Or the
son the father?
* * * *
Every
society or group
Must
someday pay a price
For its
collusive mindset.
* * * *
God's
show will play
Until
every imaginable
Manifest
possibility is cast.
* * * *
It is
all about connectedness in the highest sense.
* * * *
You
have really done none of this.
There
is nothing you can protect,
Nothing
you have not been given,
To
whatever end your form is allotted.
* * * *
Generally,
you will only be told
What
your collusion agrees to tell you
Through
a wide variety of message-givers.
You
have been told what to believe, and you do.
* * * *
How
many of your thoughts are your own?
How
many have been placed there by your mythos?
You
came in with a clear slate and only you
Can
wipe away the collective's imprint.
* * * *
The
so-called creation, genesis, big bang,
Call it
whatever name you may choose
Was
also the creation of godness.
Before
that, who can say?
* * * *
Systemized
education is not much different
Than
obedience schools for dogs.
* * * *
From
and to point zero,
All
appears and disappears.
* * * *
To kill
merely to kill.
What is
the point?
Have
you no insight
Into
vastness of consciousness
In
which all forms reside?
* * * *
The
grip of any given status quo
Is
often tenacious even unto death.
* * * *
How
will you ever serve heaven
If you
cannot create it here and now?
* * * *
That
inner void of aloneness you so dread
Is the
oblivion you may someday embrace.
* * * *
Believing
you are the sun of god, and realizing it,
Are two
entirely different qualities of consciousness.
* * * *
Real
revolution allows the cosmic play
To play
out the consequences of its illusory game.
Real
revolutionaries respond, but do not react, to foolishness.
* * * *
What is
boredom but a flag that you are only interested
Because
you think experience should offer you
Some
reward that it really never can.
* * * *
All
your fabricated thoughts are a knotty tangle
Which
can only be cut with the sword of discrimination.
* * * *
You may
not be the hundredth monkey,
But
your awareness contributes to the potential.
* * * *
Personal
mythos generally reflects the framework
Of the
mythos from which it sprouted.
* * * *
Time-bound
movement of the flowering
May be
slowed or quickened,
But
never reversed.
Eternally,
all returns to essence.
* * * *
It is
neither up above or down below.
It is
right here now.
* * * *
You are
in all life
And all
life is in you.
* * * *
The
clayness is without desire,
The patterning
is desire's result.
* * * *
Instinctual
living does not need to deal
With
the conceptual born of free will.
* * * *
Eternal
union is a seed dormant within all.
* * * *
All
that really suffers psychologically is your vanity.
* * * *
To
value only your own genetic line, your own tribe,
Is a
shallow time-bound comprehension of love.
* * * *
Find
the courage to breathe through adversity.
* * * *
The
mind's specialized adaptation
Is that
which will lead to its destruction.
* * * *
You
need not respond in a prescribed manner.
* * * *
Reality
is staring you right in the faceless.
* * * *
Your
mythos has no interest in you
But its
own synergistic continuity.
* * * *
Your
maker is within.
* * * *
What is
never born,
Yet has
ever been?
* * * *
The
awareness, the soul, is eternally immortal,
But the
body is worm’s meat from the get-go.
* * * *
Gravity
and other physical laws
Are
pretty good at what they do.
* * * *
You are
all destinies written in time.
* * * *
To put
godness outside yourself
Accepts
the premise that duality is real.
* * * *
As soon
as you try to prove it you are lost.
* * * *
Godness
created a variety of natural concoctions
That we
might discern its presence within ourselves.
* * * *
How
aware are you of that portion of your mind
Which
once ruled this manifest world as a lizard?
* * * *
It is
the patterning, not the pattern
Which
must ultimately be understood.
* * * *
Even if
everyone in the world knew your name
And a
few idle tidbits of your persona,
What
would it really matter?
* * * *
Ever
notice how it just sort of happens
Without
any real effort from you?
* * * *
Funny
how we always seem
To
leave it to the next generation
To make the paradigm change.
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The
Stillness Before Time (Compendium)
©
Michael J. Holshouser 2009
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