My teacher

Good Evening!
Here comes another blog I've been meaning to post for some time.

We saw Slumdog Millionaire, an incredible movie set in India, last evening.  Oh...it's got it's downs and shocks, but it really portrays such a sense of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and unconditional love that we highly recommend it for adults.  Besides which, it ends well. ;-)  The story encompasses the very difficult life experience of a penniless boy from the slums...and his life-long search for the little girl he has loved since early childhood. 

As this drama came into my mind during meditation, I realized something profound...at least for me.  The human race as a whole seems captivated by tales of romance and love.  We seek reenactment of this obsession in movies, magazines, novels, biographies.  What's that all about?  I realized the drama of human love is an artful forgery of the true lost LOVE of each of our lives.  We seek these stories of lost and found love because we, ourselves, are subconsciously driven to find once again our ONE True Love.  We have been separated from our ONE for eons...and these tales remind us, albeit subconsciously, of the ONE for whom we have been longing far too long.  When this realization hit me, like a ton of bricks, I began to weep.  No wonder, no wonder, we seek our life companions with such vigor...no wonder, no wonder, we feel lonely and alone so much of the time, whether we are paired or not!  No wonder we surround ourselves with social interaction and noise of radio and TV, and just plain busy-ness!  We are seeking to staunch the terrible sense of loss within our very selves!  Quiet yourself down as much as possible, stop all distractions, and you will feel the longing of which I am speaking.

So what of relationship, then?  If it is not our soulmates we are actually seeking...what is the purpose of relationship?  I am getting it more and more that our close relationships are our teachers.  In my case, Dennis has the capacity to stimulate every trigger I have!  I really require nothing else in my life to mirror my unfinished business.  He does this best...and most thoroughly.  He is my teacher.  I know without a doubt that when I can remain even-minded and self-controlled REGARDLESS of what he puts out there, I am HOME FREE!  Lately when he does or more likely SAYS something my ego thinks is totally unreasonable (or does NOT say...think appreciation/acknowledgement/recognition), I mentally and sometimes verbally softly utter "my teacher."    I am endeavoring with as much strength as I can to view the episode in an entirely new light.  I am "seeing" that he incarnated to bring me to the heights of even-mindedness and self-composure.  That's part of his job.  And frankly, I believe I do the same job for him.  We CHOSE this relationship, our final earth relationship I HOPE, so we could get the job done this time!

Over the past several days I have spoken with several grads who were being severely tested in relationship.  Some of them were spousal, some were with children, or other significant people in their life.  In every case I suggested these folks were there to be their teachers, and they were being given an incredible opportunity to both purify themselves and expand into the LIGHT.  They always agreed.

It's time, folks, to get REAL.  We are not victims, targets, poor me's.  We are in relationship with those who can teach us the most...but mostly, they are the means of our Enlightenment! We must stop the lock-step, knee-jerk reaction, if only long enough to get the word "teacher" in our heads.  Then quickly we must compare the incredible Joy of our final Liberation with the very short-lived satisfaction of REACTION.  Truly...in one hand, Liberation, in the other, Reaction.  Choose!  So get the game plan down..."teacher", compare, Choose!

We set this thing up before we ever took embodiment.  Let's get it right this time...and GET OUT!

Loving you! k