Spirit asks me to make a promise to be.
To be what?
The best that we can be.
The best what^
What are we?
I don’t know.
We are seekers of ever-greater light.
I think I am, now. But what to do with the light I find when I know there must be even more?
Share what you have found while still reaching for more.
This could become a long-term project.
It is. It lasts forever, but, so do we, in one form or another, or in no particular form at all, if in any.
Spirit explains I Ching 52 – Mountain.
Mountain follows Thunder and will be followed by Gradual Progress.
As the seasons of our life each follow the one that came before it,
So it is with each new generation of Seekers of the Way. We cannot
Be, see, or do as any other previous one.
We each see and understand as no-one else, if we dare to see from
Where we alone are, while respecting the visions of the elders,
Mentors, and teachers from the timeless past.
Wow! And the message for me?
Yes.
Spirit tells me that the destiny of an acorn is to become
An oak tree and the destiny of an infant is to become an
Adult. Each will unconsciously strive to manifest its
Predetermined destiny. Life has given each a goal.
Life has also provided humans with the capacity to
Consciously choose to commit themselves to a goal,
Or to believe that they have chosen what is also a
Destiny, for them, if for no other.
Seekers desire to learn more and more about whatever
It is that interests them, whether it be in the field of
Sports, music, theatre, business, cooking, academic
Studies, mechanics, farming, whatever.
Spiritual seekers are no better and no worse than those
Who seek to climb mountains. They are each following
Their own chosen destiny, if it can be considered as
Being chosen when we feel an inner drive to achieve
Something that means much to us and possibly little
To some others.
Be true to oneself?
Yes.
Spirit tells me that we are here in physical form
To refine our essence, and our essence is potential.
Each mountain we climb, and each and every struggle
Is as climbing a mountain, prepares us to climb ever higher.
From the valleys to foothills and then to the highest peaks.
And, as we climb higher and higher, we serve as inspiration
To those who struggle to follow, not us, but the way
We follow our dream.
And, as high as we might climb, we seem to know that
Ahead of us there will always be heights beyond heights,
Where other climbers who, like us, are seekers of the limit.
Spirit tells me that there have always been Spiritual teachers
Who cared enough for their community to risk their lives
To share the wisdom that had been shared with them.
There have always been people who needed to understand
What life was all about and what purpose socially accepted
Rules served in their particular time and place.
How can we understand rules whose purpose has not been
Explained to us? Or does not seem to make sense?
Spirit tells me that leaders have always feared being
Questioned abut the purpose of rules they impose on
Their followers. The very nature of rules requires that
They are not an option and must be obeyed.
The problem arises, claims Spirit, when these rules
No longer serve their original purpose, the best interest
Of the community and, instead, serve, or seem to serve
The personal interests of those who enforce the rules.
Then a new teacher rises up out of mass discontentment
With old ways of thinking, to share a new way of living that
Requires new rules.
The old game then begins again. Young people insist upon
Change while the elderly remember that they too were once
Young and had listened in their youth, and followed a then
New teacher and new leaders with new ideas of new rules.
So, what is the solution?
To what?
To sharing new ideas of how to live.
There are no new ideas of how to live.
Spirit tells me that
Other seekers of enlightenment
Who read of my struggle to learn
From Spirit, while maintaining, or
Attempting to maintain, devotion to
Physical as well as spiritual life,
Alone or with others who are
Alone together, more or less,
May find that my struggle
Offers something to think about
That may help them grow in
Understanding of why
Life is as it is, or
Seems to be,
An endless cycle or series of
Experiences, designed,
If they are,
To teach us what?
Spirit tells me that
We share what we care
To share, nothing more, and,
Nothing less.
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.
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