it’s about perspective ~ tales from the path

as you know i have been looking for and petition for authors and contributors to the blog…..well as you can see not so many have joined the journey of exploring the inner wiseass, but a friend replied to my latest author request with these wise words…..

“…..and to be honest, the more I practice, the more I dislike speaking
about it! In general, I think the sutras tell us everything we need
to know. I think the only way to a deep spiritual practice, is to
sit. If one meditates daily and reads the holy scriptures, and
cultivates constant awareness and witnessing, I don’t believe much
more is needed – apart from maybe retreating, venturing to holy sites
and spending time amongst radiant beings. Indians rarely sit around
and speak about spirituality. They just practice. I have no wisdom
apart from that to impart for now…! ”

OK, fair enough…….

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I felt intense sunlight on my skin one hot summer day and noticed an element of fear in my reaction. I was startled and intrigued by how such a response had found its way in there. Here are the conclusions of much contemplation and reflection on the issue. In testing such an approach out I have further gained fascinating insight by contrasting the part of me that was surprised by the results and the part of me that reacted with the patient excitement of watching someone you love grow and change.

If we are beings of light, then how could that which we are harm us. The harm is caused by the resistance to what you are, the separation from your true self. Open yourself to that which you are, accept the light from the sun and along with it the warmth, the heat of transformation to burn away any last doubts about your true nature. Accept the rays to reinforce your true nature, absorb/drink deeply the light. I am a being of light, I accept these rays with the heat of transformation to help move me back to my true form, that of light. The resistance of this process causes stress and confusion. Less resistance, less resistance, more openness, more acceptance. Breathe/absorb deeply and allow this heat of transformation to help shape this light into what is needed to heal ourselves and express/release our true forms.

Too much resistance causes the light and heat to amass/build up on the skin. Our fears repel the light and confuse it. Why am I not being allowed to complete my journey? The light wonders. What is this blocking my path to this source, to this sun. For we are all suns, giving and receiving ourselves in a galactic sharing circle. Light is shared from source to source, from sun to sun, beamed around the universe across great distances in time and space, but always to another source. Our sun shares its secrets with us through its light. This is the conversation of Gods. But our fears, our resistance block out this life, denying the divine currents the completion of their journey, the fulfillment of their purpose. They build up on our surface, their intensity and heat unwittingly burning our fragile surface. In confusion they try vainly to get in, struggling against this invisible barrier of fear. So close, inches away from anticipated bliss, they can already feel the process of integration and mergence beginning; they sense the nearness of the next chance of expression in their evolution. The brilliance of your inner sun blinds them, as they can see your true form and their longing is great, they cry/weep for God when this last step is denied to them. Their confusion becomes our confusion, and we react, hurt, building more resistance, solidifying a veil into a solid barrier, moving us further from the light that fuels us. Cutting us off from the light that is the reply and answer to our searching and questions that we ask/plead/beg to the sun and wonder to starlit nights.

What to do…accept the light, remove all resistance to it, allow it to enter, disperse that intense heat that is created by the excitement of the rays merging with the bliss of your source. Relax your fear so a burning on the skin changes/spreads to warmth with such depth it comforts your soul. Allow the light and heat to change you, to spark memories and guide new creations. Let the feeling of bhakti you feel on the inside met the bhakti with which the light seeks you, let the meeting of such devotion erupt and shower through your aura, for surely bliss would rain around you.

Light from the sun is not the only form of our essence that we share with the universe. Our connections to others in a form of light we often label as love is constantly being shared from source to source. Our sensitivity to this light is great. Subtly different vibrational undertones to this light yield other descriptions/labels such as gratitude, patience, friendship. There are many sources all around us, we just need to open up and allow this abundance in, become part of the fulfillment and manifestation of such concepts. Release our separation/resistance to this richness and beauty and realize our true place among it, surrounded by it.

Chemical sunscreen addresses the symptoms only, instead address the cause. Our capacity is far greater then we think, release fear and witness miracles as our creative machine drinks fully/deeply of the light/love around us.

|box| -> you

Jivan

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a blustery day near the sea,
is not an optimal day for relaxing in the sand.
the sand would often blast and sting my skin,
i decided it was best to find something else to do.
blustery days by the sea must be good for something……?

i began to wander along the place where the sea becomes the sand.
on a blast of wind a gull was flying right in front of me,
i stopped and began to watch it’s flight.
it must be quite a radical ride!
he was not flapping his wings…..
the wind was much too strong for that.
the gull would wait and allow the winds to take him,
the adjustments he made were small and simple.
wings wide ~ tilt left ~ look right ~ loop
wings closer in ~ lean left ~ then dive
tail spread and glide.
no effort, just allowing the winds to play.
gust or blast this is no cause for alarm,
it seemed sometimes the wind took him by surprise,
but he would quickly and easily equalize.

i stood and watched in awe of his graceful beauty.
i wished i could fly through my days like this.
not concerned about how i am going along,
no agenda just taking a ride.
so i decided now was the time to try to fly like this!
near the sea i spread my arms and started to dance.
at first i was not sure when to move or what to do,
but i began to play and explore.
when it is best to allow the wind to blow by,
when to fully face the blasting sea breeze arms spread wide,
when to move forward
when to bow
when to glide side to side
when to twirl or twist
when to leap and when to fly.
i soon began to feel the flow of what seems to be chaos,
in the blustery blowing sea side breeze.
the dance soon became a trance where my spirit soared,
i had found the best place to be,
on the winds,
in flight with the gulls.

with love from jax

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Can you experience anything non-physical through the senses? Physical, emotional, spiritual, mental. Surely emotions and thoughts have some if not all manifestation in physicality…they both influence physical symptoms/experiences. But are they wholly physical or are there aspects that fall outside of chemical/biological/anatomical explanations. Then what about spiritual, is there any cross over or manifestation into physicality of spiritual experiences. Or do mental, emotional, and spiritual things just have increasingly subtle manifestations in physicality.

Assumption is that we only have the 5 senses…smell, taste, sight, touch, sound. Being physical in nature are they restricted to experiencing only physical things. Are there other perhaps subtler senses that we use to experience/categorize non-physical stimulus?

What is a spiritual experience anyway? What about concepts of prana or the energetic body, are these physically experiencable things or do you necessarily need to leave behind the usual 5 sense to grasp their non-physicality/essence/domain?

Through various yoga training it has been said (or perhaps only implied and it’s I that have concluded) that there is a non-physical experience of the self or of concepts of existence. Think samadhi. Yoga, the way I have learned is a physical technique, you do specific things with body, breath, and mind, and somehow this opens/leads to a non-physical experience. Assumedly something not dependant on the usual 5 senses.

The more science/anatomy/biology/etc I learn the more of my experiences in yoga can be explained. All my experiences with tags like “possible understanding of thingness without adjectives…more exploration needed here” slowly get filed away under anatomy or biology headings. So what is left? And why am I attached to this need for mystery, for something more, something beyond the apparent absurdity that my incomplete jnana theories resolve to.

Is it even possible for physical techniques to shed insight or allow experience of non-physical ideas. And being so firmly defined through the physical senses how can you even recognize such a experience if it came, it might seem so foreign as to be practically invisible.

Where does physicality begin and where does it end. Is there a hard stop somewhere, or is everything “physical” and some things just more subtly so. Things we call emotional or spiritual requiring just more delicate concentration and fine-tuning/understanding of the usual five senses to experience.

This part of my worldview is under renovations, still looking for experience and design ideas to flesh it out. The suggestion that everything is “physical”, some things just to an exceedingly subtle degree is taking some political heat from the ego. Which is usually a sign that it’s on the right track, or at least is fertile ground for further exploration.

Never a dull moment when I let out the jnana yogi aspect!

Jivan

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Each journey has what is often labeled as the first step. Making it seems hard because of the truth that we feel about our lives as not linear lines with beginnings and ends but rather as great circles where each point is arbitrary with regards to ideas of first or last. Our truths are as giant pointillism pictures, with no lines at all, made entirely of these first steps as dots. It doesn’t matter where the brush first begins, the connections and relations only make sense once we step back and view things from a grander perspective. But our view is so often mistaken as our eyes which are connected to our feet, so we tip-toe around and fancy the short straight lines we see trailing behind us, trying urgently to keep a sense of direction to our movements. If we would only close our eyes and trust in larger steps, our dancing and leaping to and fro, lightened with the carefree joy of experience can bring us high enough to look down and see our canvas for what it is. The masterpiece revealed.

Lines have momentum, if you’ve ever tried to cross parallel lines you know what I mean, start on a path and it’s hard to change course. That’s the truth from the Ghostbusters movie, you saw the perspiration it took to cross the streams, it’s hard work, and those guys were the stuff of legend, heroes even. Beginnings/ends past/future these concepts require lines, moving into the now/present shatters these lines into millions of points, scattering them onto our canvas. Each point, each first step has potential, you land in the center and the possibilities for the next frolic abound for 360 degrees all around you. The steps make the dance, the dance creates joy, joy the height to see the canvas, which guides the steps. It’s a multiplicity of creation, moving and expressing on many levels each with feed back and connections to experience and influence the others. All this and you haven’t even opened your eyes yet.

Jivan

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