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The Boringbar War
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First Level Introduction: Number Harmonics Law of the Ever Expanding Circle Discover or Uncover? We are all generally looking for something. A better marriage, a faster car, more Sex, spicier food... Always something. Yet as soon as we find joy in the toy, the pleasure turns to pain, and the wheel of Becoming Starts all over again. Always moving, never ceasing, this tide of distraction, emotion and need. This is NOT freedom. What is TRUE BEING except that which remains as the Constant Presence. And sorry to sound so corny, but the only anchor True Being has is LOVE. If we have a Love for ourselves, it is easy to be with ourselves. If we have a Love for our Partner, it is easy to be with them. It's that simple. The expression of a spiritual quality of BEING generally only arrives after many bad turns, dead ends, and dumb choices, however. This is life, a playground of reward and pain that we either learn to laugh about, or cry about. When we do not like our present state, we tend to look for avoidance measures that fit the pleasure principle. Drugs are the classic attraction... Easy to get, involving no responsibility, and we are (usually) only hurting ourselves. The real attraction people are looking for when they use drugs is actually themselves, but this is generally not recognised at the time. We might call ALL experiences in the pursuit of the Happy Moment of Transient Bliss many names, but a "high" or a "low" will suffice. Either way, they are simply removals from our present state, and a shift to a different one. These pursuits... all of them... are temporary, often fraught with serious health risks, and they often go against the morals of society... but this does not make them WRONG... They are simply diversions from grasping the day, and ways to avoid our own Soul BEINGNESS. Nothing is 'wrong' as much as nothing is 'right'... But many things distract. But as we have a morality based in Fear and Shame, let's look at 'wrong' for a moment. It is the attitude of "wrong" that destroys the expression of free society. The child who grows up under the cultivating umbrella of guilt and shame will do two things. They will either cave into this, or rebel, or maybe both. In essence, however, the natural learning curve, the natural curiosity, is perverted. What is more, the respect for self and for those who understand the nature of life is diminished... THIS is why we adore facetious talk show hosts and pop stars. They do not challenge our fears. The child grows into the adult ,,, But this adult is wrapped in blankets of fear and bias. We look inside, and become caught up with the concept of how we appear, how we look to others. We get locked inside ourselves, and the ability to be open, to share, and to BE simply fades. Worse than this, our self respect is replaced by a set of rituals such as smoking and bad dancing... (Sorry, too many raves!) The young propel themselves away from the rituals of the old, creating their own, and we now describe this as symptoms of a generation gap. Yet it need not be so… If children are given a basis is REALITY… If they are shown the fascination of art, geometry and the perfection that underlies the symptoms of existence, then the view on the world changes. The world becomes an interesting place, where divinity and the common place link in an ever expanding dance of truth. More than this, the child has a connection point with the adult. A point of agreement where their is evidence of stability and perfection. Instead of contracting into our selves, we expand into the experience and joy of living… We become part of the Ever Expanding Circle of Truth, rather than the ever contracting fear and doubt that is the inheritance of modern society. Can you see that the Ever Expanding Circle is far more than a Geometric principle? It IS you, it IS your experience. We are either growing and expanding in consciousness, or shrinking.
EXERCISE: Imagining the Freedom You are a bubble floating in the air. Feel how the wind picks you up, how light you are. Feel this freedom... Feel the lightness. Then it all changes. You brush against a sharp stone, and the bubble bursts. What remains? What is looking? Rumi once said: What we are looking for is what is looking...
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