Journeys Into Enlightenment Podcast
Episode 27 Blog Celebrating BEing Life in the Moment
Our Journeys Into Enlightenment are all about exploring,
while alive, the freedom that we tend to associate with being in the Spirit
form. They are Journeys Into Enlightenment, not to,
Enlightenment.
If we are fortunate, what comes at the end of one’s life is
a contented Essence. A lifetime that was filled with adventures and challenges
and delights in Being in Form. The delights in being able to feel, physically
and emotionally and think and how they reflect and nourishes the Essence, Soul,
Spirit we each hold inside. It is the
totality of BEing.
There is a strong orientation and subsequent belief
structures we humans have created that to be in form, in a body, means to
suffer. Religions have been built around this premise. Suffering is held up as
the central theme. Salvation comes only in death, when we are released from the
body. The truth is that this is only one
approach and experience about Life. There are many.
Surviving to live another day is a balancing act and we
will judge, quantify, defend and deny in the process. This is Self. We seek control
in the world around us. This is Self again. It is only illusion. For the next
breath may happen or not despite our efforts. Coming to terms with what each
life is about is an individual’s awareness. And those witnessing that life will make their
assumptions based on their own sense of being.
Life is coming to terms with Self and Essence as partners
in being in form. As humans, we find this physical realm of life on this planet
organized around contrast. It is the land of This and That, This or That,
maybe “to have This we must have That” and then there is “This, That and the
other thing.” There are duality,
polarity and scalar dynamics present as frameworks of relations along with time
and space.
Life is incredible and priceless and unique and like much
of what we find around us, we value it cheaply all too often. We cannot create
Life even in a lab. They have to use already living matter, cells, to create
more living material.
That spark that Life is, is a moment, in the blink of an
eye as it comes and goes. Tragedy reminds us to appreciate and demonstrate love
and caring now, not later for there may not be a tomorrow to share. We have no
guarantee of a next moment. None of us do. We only have an assumption. Heartbeat
stops and Life stops. Immediately. Alive one moment, dead the next. It is that
simple.
We are fascinating creatures. We have the ability to take
in phenomena around us. We then interpret, give meaning to that phenomena, due
to our inner bias and story settings and then we embody and express that
phenomena. We also can change the inner biases at any time in response to the
incoming information. It is rather remarkable the ability to change one’s mind
and subsequent behavior and story line. It is the dynamic of evolution.
We are going to judge what anyone’s experience is, and it
will guide us through a lifetime in relation to that judgment. We build
behaviors out of our sense of experiences and they create a story of references
that become our identities.
They will, in stories that demonstrate Wholeness,
provide moments in a range of emotional reactions and resulting feelings and
thinking in response. We can start to judge the phenomena, information and
conclusions that we draw in those reactions and responses. We might look to experience
avoidance and look to eliminate or control in order to feel okay about our sensory
evaluators of phenomena. We question
what we see, hear, feel, think, sense when the incoming doesn’t match our inner
catalog of references.
Phenomena is only information and we will judge and name it
based on that building catalog index of our story. What we think is real and
true is often only the projection in the bias of some sort. Wisdom is being
able to sort it all out, based on present information and the existing interior
index and drawing new conclusions.
Being present means being open to input, new
evaluation, and the references of the past able to integrate the new input.
Being present is a constant dance of the Life spark. Being
able to experience Life, to feel, to see into and out of, to hear on the many
different levels and ways we can, our interpretation and changing of
orientation is awe in action. In new
ways, evolving ways, to be able to reason and feel and be moved and enjoy the
unexpected and to feel loss and outcome. These senses and qualities come
together in each of us.
A quote from Abraham, courtesy of Esther Hicks, is that you
cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy life. I would add don’t get caught up
in what you think happy is. Living rich lives full of Oneness and Wholeness
awareness provides textures and complexity, simplicity and clarity in the depth
of nuances that reflect what Life is about and what is possible.
Celebrate the vibrations of Consciousness expressing.
Celebrate BEing Alive in 2020!
