Being With Pain

Illness. Pain. The mind wants solutions… suggesting… trying… what if this, what if that…. it wants to escape the body pain… now! It’s so persistent in its quest to stop this actual ‘what is’ state. Jibber-jabbering away wanting to be helpful. I’m sitting here watching it do its thing… creating fear, scary thought, anxiety stories, all kinds and varieties of stories. I used to resist the mind and the body and the stories, but that just kept me tethered even more. So, I watch it do its thing. Jibber-jabber… when will it?… what if?… stop me in my tracks writhe, grimace involuntarily; disapprove of it as I’m sending it love and approval; call out to Uriel, Lester, god god god, a friend… what a cacophonous symphony. Not a distraction. Not to be denied, ignored, or by-passed. But to have the courage to dive into the apparent chaos where peace, pain, noise, silence, whatever-ness, and all of it resides. This is the challenge of illness… and life.
Courage to be with all of it, and to let it be all of what it is. Until it isn’t.
mu, 02/15/2016

Ojai, CA

On Happiness…

In the moment, there really are no problems. The mind will argue and make up many stories to try to prove that statement is false. But, it’s true. The mind, ruled by ego is not a particularly trustworthy friend.

Happiness (inner-peace) is a state of being that is accessible to anyone who sincerely desires it. Right now. Right here. Many claim to want it, but have actually built barriers to block it. Removing barriers and blocks is a conscious decision.

“Let go of judgment of self and other” is often taught, because it is so basic and essential to living in a state of inner peace (happiness). It is also a natural by-product of liberating oneself. Letting go of judgments of other and self, we remember where innocence and love is, and has always been.

When the mind/ego is working over-time manipulating feelings, thoughts and emotions; if it is obsessing about one thing or another, blaming or disapproving of others — even subtly, or feeling an urgency to do, say, control, or change something as it is (i.e.: get an answer, ‘fix’ someone or something, say something, get a manufactured ‘need’ met, or whatever it might be that is creating disharmony withIN…) #1) recognize it is happening, and #2) stop it. Literally, stop it. Give yourself a time-out. Breath and just be until you come back into a state of equilibrium and balance.

The ‘war’ is within. Happiness and peace have nothing to do with anyone or anything outside of yourself. Simply Be centered and grounded in peace as much as possible moment to moment, and your/the world changes… from the inside out.

I can say this and know it to be true, because I have experienced it myself.

“Sarvesham Shantir Bhavatu” (I desire peace for all beings.)

– mu
November 26, 2014

The Petri Dish of Suffering

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
~ Ben Okri

This life is full of tragedy and loss. Sometimes, it is challenging to wrap the mind around it, and painful to wrap the heart around it. What a trip… what a ride.

To ignore the sorrow or tragic aspects of the Whole, and attempt to “be” or see only the easy soft lovely ‘beautiful’ parts; to deny the juicy messy ‘ugly’ painful parts, is life only partially tasted, partially lived. It is unawakened or partially awakened believing it is fully awakened. When we transcend, even if only for a moment in time (literally) we then know it is all part of the deal. Not just some of it. ALL of it. It is then that the shadow, painful, tragic aspects, can also be seen as ‘beautiful’ if one chooses.

We are here right now in the midst of an earthly physical/mental firestorm day-to-day. How we think, act and react to whatever is, has been, or will be — including the tragedies, losses and suffering in our lives and the lives of our extended earthly family, is the material realm petri dish where TRUE heroes, TRUE sages, TRUE awakened and enlightened beings are born… again and again and again.

No human is excluded from this experiment, so let’s each, from wherever we are right now, consciously love one another in our individual and collective suffering. And let’s be courageous and embrace a little of the shadow aspects of our individual and collective humanity today — even if we weep until the sun rises tomorrow.

– mu

July 17, 2014

 

 

Sadhu: A Precious Gift

A subtle shift of focus… the precious gifts…

My missing Sadhu (our loyal 14 year old dog son) in the physical is overshadowed by the precious gifts. The gift of his presence in my life. The blessing of knowing he is free and infinitely part of All now. Unbounded. No longer apparently limited by the physical body. That gives me a profound sense of peace and bittersweet joy, just as it did in the moment of his leaving. Being fully present with each gut-wrenching second of all of it as I sang him to sleep for the last time. No regrets. No if-onlys. No what-ifs for me…or for him. It was all said. All shared. All known and felt. A good-bye gift.

The Love remains in hearts eternally connected. The gift that keeps on giving. Through all of our hellos and our goodbyes, that’s what this life is all about. – mu, June 6, 2014

 

It’s All a Gift…

“ Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” ~ Mary Oliver

It’s ALL a gift. Shadow/Light. Yin/Yang. The journey of this life experience is never a straight line on level ground. (How boring would that be anyway?) When we honor the ride through dark nights of the soul; through pain, grief, fear, sorrow and weeping or whatever else arises in the moment… maybe, just maybe we can also allow ourselves to enjoy and appreciate the shadow for what it is — an integral part of the whole. Unwrapping the gift of darkness allows light to get in.

mu – 02/15/2014

Letting Go of Your Story

New MuTube video about becoming freer and lighter by letting go of the pictures and stories in your mind.

“Dropping the Mind Stories”

http://youtu.be/VoE6OJgJf24

Seven Qualities of the Divine Revolutionary

Seven Qualities of the Divine Revolutionary

New MuTube video of Mu reading an abridged version of the Waking Times article “7 Qualities of the Divine Revolutionary” by Sera Beak.

The full article link is in the description section of the MuTube video.

Be Here Now

Pure unencumbered joy and bliss.

A state of mind – before / without years of conditioning, history, loss, pain, disappointments, heartbreak, baggage. Underneath all of the AGFLAP*.

Life is this… Right here. Right now.

Welcome home!

– mu
*AGFLAP = Apathy, Grief, Fear, Lust, Anger, Pride

Always Remember…

Always Remember…

You are a worthy human being. Not for what you do or don’t do… or how you do it.

Not for what others think of you, or who they might want you to be. Just for simply BEing alive.

You don’t need to please anyone to be worthy of love. Just BE who you are.

Always remember…

You are so much more than just a mind and body. You are miraculous. The one infinite source of everything that is made manifest through you.

BE the pure love that you really are… that you were before the conditioning, before you were smothered by the weight and folly of the physical world.

Liberate yourself of ego baggage. Let it go and BE free. BE who you were before the moment of conception… before the moment of arrival… pure unconditioned Life en potentia.

Always remember…

You are not alone.

You are connected to everything and you are everything.

You are love and you are loved.

Always remember… who you really are and just BE that.

– mu

We Are All One Soul Mate

That rare moment when you realize you have found another living human being who seems to have had the exact same or very similar experiences, has come to the same or a very similar understanding, and has or is following the same path (spiritually, healing, or whatever it may be)… and it is just pure mind-blowing *synchronicity* at it’s best – down to minute details. PRICELESS!

I am in awe of how we can be lead (or lead ourselves) to others of like mind and consciousness in the most unexpected ways. It’s like “divine manifestation” out of, or within, seemingly random chaos. I’ve found the great stuff in life usually happens like that. Sometimes I’m just way more in-tune and aware of it when it does happen. (In the Flow).

And I think it’s happening more and more as the current paradigm and associated shifts are occurring. We are being faced with choices – some minor, some challenging, some life-changing; always and ultimately transformative choices. If we don’t choose, the choice will be made for us one way or another.

Sometimes, when I run across another human who seems tied to me soulfully, my (monkey) mind tries to “figure it out”. It starts asking, “What does this mean? For what purpose is this? What do I do or learn from this random (or not) mind-blowing encounter with this stranger or person?” My soul replies, “They are your reflection reflecting back your own journey. Keep on your path. Share it with others — without expectation or attachment. And don’t give up. Never give up.”

So, stay open and aware of  “soul mates” (we all are really) all around and found in the most seemingly curious and unexpected places. They/we have a story to tell. It’s the story of our own journey.

Have a synchrodipity day!