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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
REQUIRED FOR LIGHTNESS:
FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE
Next,
the invitation is to review some of the key pointers so far and then sit with
them in the silence, not seeking a samadhi state but entering instead into a
state of focused awareness that will allow for additional understanding.
** Just as “bliss” is totally misunderstood by most (leaving most desiring “more”
even as they claim devotion to this philosophy or that philosophy which touts
de-accumulation), the same happens with the search for happiness.
** As long as the ever-in-motion consciousness inspires motion / doing / going
/ zooming and fluctuation, the stage will be set for emotional and / or feeling
intoxication.
** Freedom - the prerequisite for peace - comes only when one moves off that
stage (located in The Theater of the Lie) and witnesses all that happens from
the platform of awareness.
** Since when is lightness not enough? A few fawn occasionally racing and
kicking and jumping their way back and forth across the front yard
notwithstanding, few of the trillions of species living naturally on this
planet appear to be “blissful” or “exceptionally happy,” but most of the time
their existence does seem to be marked with a sense of lightness.
** The deer laze about, grazing here, dozing there, doing the work they must to
survive but balancing that out by also pausing to lounge in the cool blue
shade, relaxing, basking in the ecstasy of occasional sexual contact, just
being and being natural. But persons believe they must have more than that?
Really?
** An ever-present urge for accumulating more and “getting” more is often set
up in childhood. In cultures of accumulation and capitalism, the vocabulary
early on reinforces getting:
“Get a good education so you can get a good job and get a good house and get a good spouse” or “Get this or that augmented and get these clothes and that ‘look’ and then you’ll get a good life because you’ll get someone who will provide that.”
The programming trains persons as children to “get” and then sets them up to believe that the source of bliss or happiness is always external, not internal. Yet the lovely house or any other externals - which persons have “gotten” by whatever means - cannot be carried about 24 / 7 and used as a comfort blanket the way that a child drags about its favorite cover.
That
which is carried about 24 / 7 is internal, never external, and what is carried
about 24 / 7 is what will determine whether a sense of lightness or a sense of
heaviness is also being carried about.
** Maharaj: “Nothing can make you happier than you are.” How the masses hate
that pointer. How quickly they react and how quickly they protest about how
false that statement is, citing example after example of the things and people
they have which “make them happy.”
What an unnatural and impossible task to be strapped with, to be the one responsible for making someone else happy and then assuring that she or he stays that way.
A woman about to marry said, “I have promised my husband that I will never make the mistake I see in other marriages where one partner bores the other.” The reply: “Ah, so you are going to become his own professional entertainer?
You
are the one who will assure that he will never be bored, even though you are
never likely to find his deepest secret which would reveal what he would truly
desire from you if he were totally honest? Interesting.” Talk about co-dependency,
yes?
Program a child to believe - as 97% on the planet do - that there are gods or a
god who is all-powerful - but who can be made sad or glad, made happy or
unhappy, made proud or disappointed by you - and as an adult, the belief will
be accepted without question that,
“Well
of course all relationships with not-all-powerful persons can surely be
co-dependent. If I have the power to make god glad or happy or proud, then
surely I can make any person the same.”
Thus, the agreement becomes, “I’ll make you happy, but you be sure to make me
happy.” As some in the Far East have suggested: “You might as well search for an eagle’s
nest on the bottom on the ocean floor as search for someone or something
external to make you happy.”
If “A” is enjoying the lightness and “B” is enjoying the lightness, then “A-B”
will enjoy the lightness of each other’s companionship. If either or both are
fixated in the heaviness, head out to the ocean floor.
** The light - which can allow the false to be exposed as being false - is
omnipresent. While the surface of the moon reflects the light of the sun and
appears to be surrounded in darkness, the fact is that there is as much light
surrounding the surface as there is striking the surface.
Persons
can close their eyes and not see the light, or they can cover their eyes with
their hands and block the light, but the light is there nevertheless, ready to
facilitate the seeing of Truth if the love of all things false (and all persons
false) is set aside.
** Maharaj: “ . . . To find the immutable and blissful, you must give up your
hold on the mutable and painful. You are concerned with your own happiness and
I am telling you that there is no such thing. Happiness is never your own; it
is where the ‘I’ is not. I do not say it is beyond your reach; you have only to
reach out beyond yourself, and you will find it.”
** To abide in full awareness of the facts surrounding the composite unity, and
to transcend all notions that you or are “something more” than the elements and
air and temporarily manifested conscious energy, calls for the question:
“WHO
is happy? Earth elements? The air? A speck of energy? And WHO is sad? Earth
elements? The air? A speck of energy?”
** To transcend all sense of personal, individualized WHO-ness is to abide in
the sweet respite of beingness, and when the incredible lightness of just being
manifests, and when all is merely witnessed from the platform of your original
nature, what WHO could be taken seriously when it thinks it needs “more” to be
anything, including happy?
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.
