When one heart breaks, all hearts break.
When one soul suffers, all souls suffer.
When one person leaves the earth, a little bit of every soul leaves with it.
We are connected via an invisible empathetic fiber called One.
– mu
09/12/2015
Tag Archives for peace
RESOLATION
“To have a fulfilling relationship you have to relate…” ~ Deepak Chopra
It’s been true in my experience. All types of relationships. Ever tried forcing ‘RESOLATION’? (Resonate/relate. I just made that word up) It won’t work. It’s there or it isn’t. That may or may not shift and morph over time as all the Cosmic cogs do their/our thing. But, I don’t hang around waiting for that may or may not to happen. I let go of what doesn’t resolate and know it’s all perfect.
For example, have you ever tried resolating with a true Narcissist? It’s not happening. And this is coming from the mouth of an Idealist. I believe/know anything is possible — I see it.
You can’t authentically ‘relate’ with a Narcissist, because it’s all about ‘them’ in all ways all of the time. Where is the space to resolate there? There isn’t any. And trying to make it happen when you don’t or can’t is like paddling against the current up Shit Creek.
I have found it best to surrender to the will of the resolation gods and drop the paddle. Let the stream float me away… to that which is resolating with me for Real.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily…
– mu
July 26, 2015
Ojai, CA
Just Be Yourself…
Ramana Maharshi said self-realization is just being ones self. Not knowing or becoming anything.
That’s not necessarily an Absolute Truth, but that is what one man said, because he found what worked for him. People connected with what he found worked for himself and wanted to imitate or achieve that. And it could be any or all other spiritual ‘teachers’ ‘gurus’ ‘masters’ as well.
I see people really struggling to achieve a certain spiritual ‘level’ or ‘state’. Believing there is somewhere to get to, some thing or state to accomplish in order to be ‘enlightened’, or awakened or Realized. Thinking they must become something or someone other than they are to get ‘there’, wherever they think or have heard ‘there’ is. I think it’s much simpler than most ever realize (pun intended). When Everything is holy (‘spiritual’), it’s not a separate place or state of being to get to. As I always say, it’s All connected. It’s All God. There is nothing that is not. Including me, including you. Just be yourself.
We ALL stumble around in the dark. Every human ever in a body – nobody is/was excluded. Some have found something that works for them, that makes this experience easier (or easier to cope with trauma, pain, suffering etc.) temporarily or for however long. It works for them. That’s all. But it is not necessarily the highest/ultimate/be all or end all for everyone else.
Some things are an inherent part of this experience. There will always be what we call ‘ego,’ fear, suffering, and all the ‘good’ stuff as well. For me, allowance of all works. Befriending the ego. Befriending the fear. Befriending all of it and allowing it to stay…or go. It’s not always easy, but it’s easier than fighting with, disapproving of, or resisting what is or apparently is. It can be challenging for me during times of extreme pain or discomfort. But when I am in the center of that ‘either way is okay’ place… it’s All holy and all god… it is okay to stay in this body, or not be in this body… there, there is peace.
There, I am not knowing or becoming anything. I am just being myself. There, I feel free.
mu
December 13, 2014
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
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.
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
Simplifying
Ahhhh… simplifying.
If it isn’t congruent with my inner truth and being, doesn’t nourish my soul, or resonate with my heart… it’s okay to say goodbye… thank you…go in peace.
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
Synchrodipity! 