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DANCING LIGHTLY
“And
heavy is the tread of the living, but the dead returning lightly dance.”
(Edward Thomas)
“The
desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
Not to be born is the best for man.
The second best is a formal order.
The dance's pattern; dance while you can.
Dance, dance, for the figure is easy.
The tune is catching and will not stop.
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters.
Dance, dance, dance till you drop.”
W.H. Auden
DARKNESS VS. LIGHT
(Welcome back to all.)
Maharaj
said: “ . . . The source of all that is, is the Infinite Possibility, the
Supreme Reality, (namely, that which has always been, which is, and which shall
forever be) which is in you and which throws its . . . light and Love on every
experience.”
Yet the guru and / or the inner guru can shine the light about for minutes or
days or months or years, shining the light on every self-destructive,
personality-driven fear or desire and on every insane thought and word and deed
that those generate;
however,
those being driven by the hidden agendas of their personas will move along with
eyes wide shut . . . refusing to see anything that runs counter to the wishes
of whatever ego-state or states have taken control of thoughts and words and
deeds and have moved one onto a collision course with the worst imaginable
consequences.
Ego-states are like certain mushrooms: where most everything requires light if
it is to thrive, those mushrooms actually thrive in the darkness.
Just as the
light can fade out the colors of a painting left outside to the point that
eventually nothing is left on the canvas, so it is when the light hits
personas. They fade away.
But if they show up and take control, they become one of the most powerful forces
on the planet. What is authentic wants no power and has no power, so it has no
chance at all in a “self” vs. “Self” struggle. Why?
Because
that is not the actual struggle anyway. The self is a mirage, so what has
happened is that one has become divorced from the Real and in that void,
self-delusion has moved in and is in charge of all thoughts and words and
deeds. Consider:
How large is the source of light in this solar system? The sun is huge, yet one
can use something as small as the palm of a hand, can raise it and put it over
the eyes, and the light of something as huge as the sun will be blocked out by
something as small as a palm.
When the relative challenges arise, what arises simultaneously is the duality of perception and mis-perception. If it is the pure, universal consciousness which is witnessing, then all will be seen in proper perspective via the light. A sense of lightness will prevail.
If
self arises, then the light will be blocked, all will be mis-perceived, and the
lightness will end. Darkness and heaviness will come.
Maharaj: “In my light they [i.e., things relative] come and go as the specks of
dust dancing in the sunbeam. The light illumines the specks, but does not
depend on them. Nor can it be said to create them. It cannot be even said to
know them.”
A friend faced the challenge of being at the center of three converging
storms which left “her” with such an overwhelming sense of vulnerability and
want and need and desire that the personas that were generating all sorts of
fears and desires raised their hands to block out the light.
In
that rejection of the light, the lightness was also lost. She was tossed off
center by the storms, something that can seemingly happen to “selves” but never
to the authentic which is the center.
Persona-inspired emotions led to motion (to fear or desire-driven actions) and
those always lead persons to move into the darkness which, in turn, generates a
sense of heaviness and misery and suffering or pain or all of the above.
When she finally stepped back from the brink and allowed the light to be shined on her mis-perceptions, she came to see that all is well; yet not a single circumstance had changed.
Not even one of the storms has dissipated, yet she is
witnessing it all from the platform above it all, from the platform where the
light is shining down on all of the snakes that had seemed to be ropes.
How easy it is to see in the light that the snake is only a rope, but how far
more difficult it is to see a snake when it appears to be a rope that is being
tossed out to pull one out of the stormy seas.
In the darkness, it is
impossible to see clearly, to see Reality and to see reality (That and the relative AM-ness),
to differentiate true from false.
Maharaj: “It is like entering a dark room. You see nothing - you may touch, but
you do not see - no colours, no outlines. The window opens and the room is
flooded with light. Colours and shapes come into being
“The window is the giver of light, but not the source of it. The sun is the source. Similarly, matter is like the dark room; consciousness - the window - flooding matter with sensations and perceptions, and ‘the Supreme’ is the sun, the source both of matter and of light.
“The window may be closed, or open, the sun shines all the time. It makes all the difference to the room, but none to the sun. Yet all this is secondary to the tiny little thing which is the ‘I am’. Without the ‘I am’ there is nothing.
“All
knowledge is about the ‘I am’. False ideas about this ‘I am’ lead to bondage,
right knowledge leads to freedom and happiness.”
And who but the insane do not desire happiness? To desire happiness is not the
fault. The fault lies in the mis-perceiving, in mistaking a nightmare for a
dream solution which could finally bring the much sought-after happiness and
lightness.
Maharaj: “Desire by itself [is not either] right or wrong. It is nothing but
striving for happiness. Having identified yourself with a speck of a body you
feel lost and search desperately for the sense of fullness and completeness you
call happiness.”
Emotions are unnatural. Feelings can be natural, allowing one to be fully in
touch with all that the relative existence can bring, but even those are to be
transcended for they do not in the end bring freedom and happiness and
lightness.
You deserve nothing less than an existence which is marked by the incredible
lightness of being. You also deserve the means by which emotions and feelings can
both be processed when they bring on darkness so that you can again return to
the light which, in turn, brings lightness. You deserve the opportunity that
then comes to dance lightly.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
