Source Seminars

So plainly present EVERYWHERE

Inshallah

Good Morning!

I was walking among the amazing lilacs, abloom all over the mountain.  I was saying what I have learned of "The Light of Smiles" practice discussed here recently.  Thought is so powerful...it absolutely DOES create our mood, our circumstances, our destiny.

There is simply NO reason to allow negative thoughts, patterns, habits, control the quality of our life experience.  We can change it all quickly, by just changing our thoughts!

I was studying the SRF Lessons and noted again how important it is to develop deeper, longer, thirsty periods of meditation.  This inundation of our Consciousness with Connection to our INNATE peace and bliss changes our thoughts immediately.  We actually do start to see the world with Rose-Colored Glasses...as rose is the color of Divine Love!

I attended the 'magic' Idyllwild Meditation Group again last evening.  I don't really know how they do it...AND meditation with them is always off-the-charts.  The wonderful old-time seeker who was leading read some incredible pages from God Talks to Arjuna, Yogananda's interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita.  Starting on page 723, it wasn't long before tears were streaming down my face and the lady next to me handed me a tissue.  He was speaking of these incredible states of Consciousness.  All I could think was THIS IS HOME, THIS IS HOME....this is what I am longing to experience and exist in forever and forever. 

The verses, 9-10, of the Gita state:

"At the time of death a yogi reaches the Supreme Effulgent Lord if, with love and by the power of yoga, he fully penetrates his life force between the eyebrows (the seat of the spiritual eye), and if he fixes his mind unwaveringly on the Being who, beyond all delusions of darkness, shines like the sun--the One whose form is unimaginable, subtler than the finest atom, the Supporter of all, the Great Ruler, eternal and omniscient."

The interpretation goes on to describe the three worlds, physical/astral/causal in detail and how these are experienced by the advanced seeker at physical death.  As I heard all this read I thought of those with whom I have been in recent communication.  Some had been doubting the rewards of living a spiritually-based rather than a materially-focused life.  If they could just read these few pages perhaps they would understand at last.

More and more I am seeing God so plainly present EVERYWHERE.  When I am God-tuned and God-focused, my life is one of ineffable JOY.  When I am otherwise, I find myself restless and unsettled.  My Consciousness is seeking That Something Else...the missing of which negates all other experience.  With God, I have ALL...without Him, it is all only emptiness.

I wish myself and you days and nights and days and nights of total surrender unto This ONE GREAT LOVE!

Loving you always, k

Racing up the mountain

Inshallah

Good Morning!

I left Encinitas late just as evening traffic was building heavy.  I so chose to get to Mass in Idyllwild.  How could that happen?...it seemed impossible.  I began singing "Get me to the Mass on time" to the tune of the old My Fair Lady song of close title.  I kept adding Jesus in there as well, "Jesus, get me to the Mass on time."  Of course, I also called upon the ONE, God, each of my Gurus and Saints...I was lining up the Heavy Hitters.  I detached from my ego and let Them drive the jeep.

I have never weaved through traffic like that in my life.  I asked more than once that I not be rude, obnoxious, or unsafe.  Haste was still the watchword and this was set in the Divine context of getting to Jesus and the glorious experience of the Eucharist and even Father Charles's homily, if possible.

While merrily and one-pointedly driving and singing along, I often outpictured the wondrous taste and feel of the Host and wine in my mouth...the exquisite sensation of having the Body of Christ within me was exhilirating.

I often owned that it was my unwise choices of busy-ness during the day that had landed me in this out-of-time predicament from which I was choosing Their incredible intercession.  I asked grooves be cut in my brain that precluded all future auto-speeding except for Divine Purpose, like today's.  Of course I asked to be spared the lawful consequences of the speeding as well.  That was another good reason to allow Them to drive the car...surely the Great Ones don't have to concern Themselves with speeding tickets!

Actually, it was the first time I have ever made this trip with the radar detector.  Dennis had forgotten it in the jeep and now I  realized precisely WHY.  The whole 2 hour race I don't think it ever spoke the dreaded "K-A band".  Normally I spy a number of cops on this route.

Traffic was slug-like, yet They guided the little yellow fellow in and out of one lane and another seamlessly.  Finally I found myself behind an SUV with Encinitas boldly marked on it's luggage rack.  It was also racing...was it going to Mass too?  Somehow it adopted the jeep, and motioned  to "keep coming" on the squirelly mountain roads when I was unsure what lie ahead.  If Jesus was guiding the jeep, that must be John the Baptist up front making the way clear.  What a happy thought!

I asked, repeatedly, for new thought grooves to be cut in my brain that would occasion more God-directed choices throughout my day so that such future travel could be ease and grace and timely...without pulling out all the stops for Divine Intercession.

Still we ALL raced on....eyes roving on the ominous clock now and again.  Maybe Father Charles would not start at 6:15...maybe he would begin late.  Maybe he would be extra slow....maybe,  maybe....I just had to TRUST.

Sweetly, I had been able to pass many cars at the appropriate places.  It was so different not feeling I was in charge.  I did not have the normal fear-rush when passing, or even a feeling of ego-blush or triumph.  This was  NOT my show...if we made it, it would  have zero to do with moi.

Usually there are numerous slow vehicles after the passing lanes are no more, yet today there were no slow vehicles past Garner Valley except the one place there was a passing lane.  Going so fast, at this time of day, was virtually absent from my prior experience.  Together, the ONE, Jesus, my Gurus, Saints, and myself charged on.

I allowed my intuition to take the route to which it was guided and got to the center of Idyllwild more quickly.  O...the parking lot was full!  There, right out in front of the church, was a spot waiting for the jeep.

I walked in just as Father was preparing to share his homily.  He beamed at me as he said, "Oh, we have a new arrival!"

My eyes filled with tears.  I know my Beloveds got me to Mass on time.  They each assisted me in this miraculous race up the mountain.  For nearly two hours (and how could have I have arrived so fast in rush-hour traffic that usually requires 2 and a half???) I had sang robustly to my Beloveds.  Later, Father shared that he had begun 10 minutes late.

My Divine Posse assembled behind me, truly the wind beneath my wings, to enable my soul-thirst to be once again quenched at the well of Jesus.  Almost two hours wedded to Them and Their Divine Possibilitiy, Their Divine Upliftment, had indeed presented me humbled, bliss-filled, penitent, and utterly grateful at the feet of my Jesu.

Loving you  always, k

For the Love of my ONE

Good Morning!

I was reading an SRF Lesson last night with Dennis...we are now being good about doing so daily (most of the time).  The topic was why people do not find God...and how to surely find Him.

Three reasons were highlighted:

1) we feel we are helpless victims of our already formed habits and circumstances.

2) we do not know the technique of psychological victory.

3) we do not put forth the continued effort necessary for perfect success.

I could relate to most of that as could Dennis.  It is not enough to squeeze this or that technique or recommend into this or that part of our day.  I know there must be a continual focus on the Goal throughout the day.  My true Goal is to have God the only desire in my heart; that implies to me the desire to be ONE with Him, to love Him ever increasingly, and to serve and please Him as a demonstration and natural outcome of that love.

At the moment, I feel the encapsulation of that focus would be to keep the Thought of the ONE, and the feeling of Love for the ONE, running in the background of all my activities, thoughts, feelings.  The ONE is the Power behind all of these, and the underlying purpose of all I do, say, be must become Love.

It is Love alone that gives any of us the strength and motivation to be more than we are or have been thus far. It brings out the best in us: selflessness, gratitude, perseverance, hope, and faith.  We can observe this even in our human interactions based on True love.

This major paradigm shift in my operating system seems the key to full transformation.  Taking it piecemeal has been ineffective and slow.  Bringing in the container that I am doing this, or that, for the Love of my ONE, makes a harmonizing and inspiring WHOLE out of many perhaps seemingly disparate aspects of my life.

Living for LOVE alone can give me the faith and inspiration to overcome unenlightened habits inculcated ages ago.  It can give me the sense that I WILL be victorious in this most important Desire of ALL my lives.  It will motivate me to persevere and make whatever effort may be required until, yes, I do attain perfect success.

Reflect upon what over-arching theme may unify your living and seeking as well.  What can sum up and make sense of all your doing, thinking, feeling?  We are Awakening into a Red-Letter Life.  Let us each make the most of it and find our way HOME!

Loving you always, k P.S. Happy Birthday brother!

The other side of the sense-fence

Good Day!

I sat in my meditation chair at the finish of my devotions.  Meditation when fasting is ALWAYS so much better!  The body does not suck up energy to digest food and there are no food toxins to cause restlessness in the mind.  It is fairly easy to withdraw this greater flow of energy within.  When that occurs there is an infinite experience of unending peace.

Today, as I sat, absolutely surfeit, the John Denver song, "You fill up my senses" came into my mind.  That's exactly how I felt.  So full with this divine love and peace there was no room in me anywhere to put sense experience.  I was utterly complete...nothing more required or anticipated.

This is the comparison my Teacher speaks of when He extols meditation.  He says in order to be able to withdraw from misery-making sense experience we must have a comparison with something so much better.  He did not say ALL sense experience was bad....and I think each of us know which sense experience attaches us to limitation, and which can be enjoyed without servitude to the body or mortality.  Introspection will provide the answer if the ego is coy about it.

The senses exist as part of the play of Maya or Cosmic Delusion.  They seduce us into an attachment to our physicality and the limitation of our human body.  This attachment to sense experience in the physical world keeps us coming on back to human bodies life after life.  "What's so bad about that?" many may say.  Well...again, it's all about comparison.

This attachment sparking reincarnation also drawa you away from an incredible realm of light where there is no greed, warfare, insects, hatred, selfishness.  This is the realm from which come our "memories" or conception of "heaven".  Basically our attachment to sense experience draws us away from a sublime state back to all that we know of the world here....The good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful.  To put it bluntly, this attachment to the earthly senses gets us kicked out of PARADISE.

When we meditate we become aware of a higher, finer vibration...and we enjoy a more subtle and sublime experience of joy and light.  We start to realize there is so much MORE than the physical universe and it's toys.  (That's why Den and I call life on earth "the Fraud World".)  We have been sleeping and living in the amnesia of those who forgot their Divine and noble heritage.  We are sons and daughters of The Great King...the ONE, and as such are privy to ALL that the ONE is and has.  We, too, can become Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient.  If you consider that, even briefly, you may understand why it is worth disentangling yourself from sense enslavement. 

You can soar, a free soul, in the skies of omnipresence.  Or...you can lock yourself up in eating, drinking, sexing.  We always have free choice...that's the way the ONE set it up.  Just make sure you are fully aware of your choices!  That's  a chief reason why we meditate...to have EXPERIENCE of what is awaiting us on the other side of the sense-fence.

Loving you always, k

The ONE in many; the many in the ONE

Good Morning!

I am on my second day of fasting, today on the oranges provided by my sweet bro-in-law.  I fasted just a week ago on the same orange harvest, yet they are even more tantalizing today.  How can that be?  Perhaps because they are following a day on water, or some lovely hours in the meditation dome followed by a delectable sunbath on this sunny/windy day.  The wind chimes are in full force and the symphony is delightful!

I was riding on the bus in SF just a couple of days ago.  I noticed an older woman who was obviously 'spent' by what appeared to be overwork.  She was lugging a computer and flopped down wearily in her seat.  I began praying for her and something singular occurred. Suddenly I recognized her as part of the ONE I love so much.  Of course that is exactly TRUE, yet I had never FELT it quite like that before.  I experienced loving the ONE in her with the same intensity and fervor that I feel when turning my devotion directly on the ONE.  I glanced around the bus...there were these "altars" of the ONE in each form!  I could find my Beloved in the souls of each one, and send my waves of love and gratitude to the ONE in these ragged, human forms.

This opened a whole new opportunity for me regarding the meaning of prayer.  We can and should pray for the egos and the unending trials they experience during this challenging life AND we can just love the souls underneath the clothes of the ego.  Once I made the association between these forms and the ONE whom I love, it was simple and easy to share my love with them.  I know this is a next step for me in learning to do this when egos may be hurting my ego, or hindering it in some way.  I have a choice whether to get into an ego-struggle, even if only in my mind, or just go to the soul level, and inundate that soul with love.  Can you imagine living in this way, moment to moment?  O my God!  Such a love-fest!  Surely this is what the Saints and Saviours do.

This morning in the dome I had the opposite experience...or the other end of this spectrum of creation.    I was experiencing the pure Force, Love, Power of the ONE behind ALL else.  I then experienced what one could perhaps term the "next layer out"...the Saviors, Prophets, etc.  I could grok that They were directly channeling the  Love of the ONE which was  pouring into Them out into us and all creation.  There was no "hierarchy" or "territory" only Consciousness/Love expressing through each into the many.  My eyes teared up as I realized the fighting and injury among those on less conscious levels about which one of These was the most important, the true, the only, etc.  There is only ONE God...and These Holy Ones distributing that Love through Their pure crystalline Consciousness's certainly do not entertain such pettiness and limitation.  O why can't we live in Peace and Love...the Peace and Love These Great Ones personify?  There are many, yet They are ALL part of the over-arching ONE.

May we each REMEMBER WHO is housed in these temples around us...human, animal, plant altars of the ONE.  May we honor, respect, and love deeply that ONE in each!  May we also REMEMBER ALL the many Great Ones are reflections and conduits of the Love and Goodness of the ONE.  They have no thought of Their "ranking", "status", import...They focus only on giving that LOVE received from Their ONE.  May we live in Their sublime example!

Loving you always, k