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How to remain devoted

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The following I believe to be a teaching from my inner guru:

Devotion to your teacher,  devotion to your parents,  devotion to your friends,  devotion to a stranger,  devotion to a prisoner,  devotion to your enemy,  is devotion to oneself.     Devotion to the poor is as devotion to the rich, your birthright and your refuge.  Be devoted to improving the lives of others.   Neither hinder nor prohibit their way on the path which they walk.  Do not tear open the chrysalis of a being’s experience.  The path must be walked fully for it to be understood by the traveler.  Know that you are here to walk with your brothers and sisters; not to walk for them.   In each case the end will be the same,  the full telling of the story of awakening.   Let’s read it together,  have patience and take your time.

When we look at the path of others we are looking at our own path,  the difference is a trick of perception; separation is magic of complexity and nothing more.  Rest in the knowledge that you and I are with each other in the calmness of awareness as it has always been.  Do not fear anything this world shows you regardless of how horrific it may seem.   Feel compassion for the violent dragon as he will one day kneel and weep and know.  Open your heart to the mirror gazers for they will look upon a withered face.   Know that the ladder climbers will reach a summit and find the same hunger waiting for them there.  There is no eternal joy in aspiration or attainment.

There is a place where joy never ends, beneath the façade of placement and acquisition.   You will know it when you realize that you have always been there.   Let go of your likes and dislikes. Let go of your restlessness and anxiety. Have no fear and release all doubt that you are joyful, content,  peaceful, and complete in this moment as you have always been.  It is only the illusion of the thinking self, its intent of mastery, its desire to extinguish, and its fear of loneliness and death which hides the true nature of our being.  Rest in the understanding that the passing of these thoughts are only a novel dream of difference.  You are beyond the need of healing, you are.

Allowing the world to heal: How can I help to make the world a better place?

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The following I believe to be a teaching from my inner guru:

Make no mistake,  there is an awakening happening in human consciousness.  In every locale, every culture, every nation, and every religious belief system,  people are realizing the true nature of who they are and embracing our true Self.  Although the world seems steeped in fear, aggression, and violence,  underneath it all,  there is an awakening of being.  There is but one problem you must contend with in this existence and that problem is the insanity of the egoic mind.  A simple study of human history will show this to be true.  The standards of behavior for human culture throughout this world include immense hostility, cruelty, and the institutionalized abuse and extinguishing of human life.

Our world is currently at a crossroads.  In one dimension, there is the egoic reality of power, control, unhealthy attachment, and aversion to allowing others to choose their own path.  On another, there lies the delicate and inevitable blooming of a new world guided by awareness of being, the reality of unmeasured love, boundless compassion, the sharing of unbridled joy, and a peace beyond all understanding encompassing complete acceptance of everything as it truly exists in this timeless moment.  Rest assured that a new understanding of conscious existence will emerge even if the road ahead is tubulent for history yet to be seen.  Remember that the passing of decades are but the flash of an instant in the grand unfolding of our ineludible destiny. 

What can we do to aid in the healing of human consciousness and unfolding of the awakening?  Practice patience; the caterpillar cannot be aided in its metamorphosis, it must emerge from the chrysalis in its own time.  Remain present and aware; receive the healing of fear-based thinking that is given to you in unlimited abundance in this moment.  Do not entertain the ego’s desire to compose horror stories of future tragedies, do not engage its fantasies of vanquishing evil and crushing those who it deems unworthy, do not wish for a better tomorrow simply know that its dawn is inevitable.  The awakening will happen through the forgiveness of ourselves and all others and the realization of our mistaken path of subjugating the wicked and achieving a justified dominance.  This is at the root core of the ego’s fallacy,  the idea that there is a distinction between what it views as good and evil.  Allow the destructive madness of the ego’s desires of righteous intention to slip away and dissolve in the winds of time.  Return to the breath and celebrate each realization of the moment as though it were your first.  Do this faithfully and with a full heart lacking all doubt.  Be calm and know that peace is always with you; it is ever present and lies just beneath the noise the ego propagates.  It is only through the peace of complete acceptance that we will progress towards a better future and a new awakening with all others, not one left behind.