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Spirit’s Bottom Line

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So, what is the bottom line of Spirit’s teaching?

A simple statement of fact, that awareness is the answer.

Of course, one must first be aware of the question, which is,

Why be good? Why seek to live a good life, as

we seem to intuitively know we should?

Spirit explains: To intentionally harm anyone is to harm ourselves.

The experience would leave its mark on our soul (or in our mind)

until it could be removed, and only removed by

personal suffering, in this lifetime or in another, and

who wants personal suffering?

So much for goodness for its own sake.  I disagree (how can I dare to?).

Something is missing from Spirit’s explanation, at least for me, for,

a calculated goodness, to me, is not goodness at all but,

the pursuit of self-interest.

Spirit agrees with me, even though

I expected a counter-argument. But, of course,

That was his point.

Did he think that I would accept his explanation?

Of course, not. He’s much too clever (and aware of my thinking).

He’s setting me up, again.

To teach Him a lesson on goodness for its own sake, knowing

that I am, for now, not skilled enough to do it.

Something is missing in Spirit’s logical argument of living a good life for self-interest

Feeling good about our choices is missing; emotional satisfaction, whether or not there is a long-term pay-off, and so

I must dare to challenge my Spirit Teacher, even knowing that

I do not yet possess his skills of debate, or his depthof of knowing.

I only know that I am right.

Concepts of crime and punishment belong to a world of fear, whereas

an ideal society must surely be based on compassion and love.

What about love? I ask.

What about love?

What does love mean?

What does love look like? Describe it to me,

You’re asking me to describe Love? I’m surprised and unprepared.

You seem to think you know something about the subject of love.

I only know that you’re wrong, wishing I could offer a more specific and

intelligent response.

How? Why?

I don’t know.

Yes, but you do know, intuitively, in a caring and approving tone (what a change), that

beneath the surface of our conscious thinking there are

motives and intentions beyond our capacity to understand or control.

Do I pass?

Yes.

We’re not there now.

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Spirit tells me that, wherever we may have come from, we’re not there now.

We have either moved forward or slipped back, unless

We have climbed up out of something; a place, situation, relationship or

a state of mind.and

Wherever we are now, the ground is moving

Under us, through us, and

Around us.

Nothing is static.

The Universal Law of

Continuous Motion

Applies to us, to everyone, and to

Everything, both

Individually and collectively.

I don’t know

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Spirit is into interrogation, again, or so it seems.

Who am I? What am I? And, what is ego?

To all three questions, my answer is the same.

I don’t know. But, two can play that game.

I ask Him, You tell me, first, if you can,

Who are you? What are you? and

What is the story about ego?

Who is an individual, He tells me.

I suspected as much.

What is necessarily form, or

Consisting of form.

Again, that agrees with my understanding.

Spirit beings exist, He tells me,

Whether or not they are visible

To the human eye.

Spirit beings can, with permission

(from whom?), materialize

In animal, human, vegetable, or,

Perhaps, in mineral form,

For their own reasons, or

As directed (by whom?).

Now, we get to ego.

Yes, Spirit begins, acknowledging

my understanding,

The human ego is not

in any real way disconnected

From the group ego, which

Is not disconnected from

An ever-more-inclusive mind.

Every area on planet Earth has

Both a local identity and,

at the same time,

a location within planet Earth.

No real separation exists.

What’s In It For Me

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After many years of sharing His wisdom with me, Spirit asks me,

What is in it for you (me) to study with me (Him).

How to answer? I’m taken by surprise.

Spirit rewords His question,

Which now sounds almost like

A challenge or accusation.

He goes on, And don’t give me

Self-righteous ideas of

Seeking to live a good life

For its own sake.

That just doesn’t cut it

With Me.

I almost sense a sneer

Of contempt, and then

The sneer becomes gentle and warm

When it had felt icy cold.

How can that be?

I’m totally bewildered,

Until I seem to become aware

That a lesson is being taught.

But, What lesson.

Whatever it was

I didn’t pass.

I failed, again.

Self-righteous ideas of seeking

The Life of Walk and Talk with Spirit

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It was going to be the adventure of a lifetime,

my lifetime.

It was never about money, and yet,

Money is a necessity, or

The means to the necessities

Of life. After all,

What can you do without money,

In our society?

I wanted to write about Spirit.

I seemed to need to write about Spirit and

About his intensely wise philosophy of

Simple living, but

How simple is still satisfying is

Where we disagreed.

He could, it seemed,

More easily talk the talk than

I could or can walk his walk.

There has to be a middle way

I tell Him. Even Buddha

Was aware of that.

Individuality as a minute in time

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Spirit tells me that He and I are, or represent, two dimensions of one mind that is, itself, just as one dimension of a more expansive expression of an even more expansive conscious and intelligent awareness that continuously expands, or, as some say, evolves.

I say, Wow! And how does that affect our relationship?

It doesn’t.

Searching for a Spiritual Guru

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You will find your Guru within yourself. Why can I not remember who told me that, a thousand years or more. I remember not being overly impressed with this seemingly casual remark. The speaker could not possibly have experienced the countless times when I thought I had found the ideal, for me, teacher of perennial wisdom, who would lead me, eagerly following, along the path, or way, of enlightenment – that magic word, which was to me as a promised fairyland might be to young children.

Sure, I thought, but was too conditioned not to be polite.

Perhaps meditation was the way to go. I’m told it works for tens of thousands of seekers, but this one falls asleep the minute she relaxes, or so it seemed during the TM sessions I attended, away back then. I wonder if they are still doing it?

Doing what? Spirit interrupts my reverie.

Meditating.

Everyone meditates, consciously aware of the fact, or not.

How could they not be aware of meditating.

If you were, no, when you are meditating, and you spend hours each day doing just that, how aware are you of doing so?

I’m not.

Great, then you’re doing it right.

The Limits of Relationship

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Spirit tells me that we can either be separate or merge.

But, I want both. Why can’t we have it both ways?

There are many more ways than one, He then tells me, to see, to think, to feel, and to hear. And, there are many more ways than one to do, to be, and to grow; to become. Every thing else is disposable, a means to an end, at best, or, a hindrance, unnecessary baggage, or a temporary pleasure that we can’t take with us, as it is. Even the pleasure or pan it brought into our being will, eventually, evaporate into nothingness.