Dog Poet Transmitting.......
I've been noticing a trend of late. As
you know, trends are a big deal to me, probably bigger than is
apparent here. The same goes for Phrenology and you
can find a lot out about it here. Let's add a little irony and
have you check out item number
3 in the list just below the one first mentioned. That's
interesting, isn't it? Heh heh...
Okay... as Jackie Gleason used to say,
“and away we goooooh!” I used to love Jackie Gleason. For a heavy
set man he was incredibly acrobatic and agile and boy! Could he
drink? Uh... yeah. There is a story told about him. He was on the
golf course one day and he liked to take one of those collapsible
directors chairs with him. On this occasion he was sitting on the
edge of a hill with his usual drink in his hand and... for whatever
the reason (maybe he was drunk?) he fell over backwards and rolled
head over heels and did not spill his drink. He rose up and emptied
it. I don't know if he said anything or not but... that was statement
enough. Maybe I had a reason for saying that and maybe not. True
story. I remember reading that Gurdjieff drank 24 shots of liquor
every day, mostly in his coffee. It was anecdotal. I don't know if it
is true or not. What I do know is that the ineffable empowers people
to do all sorts of things with apparently very little damage for
whatever his reasons are. I am living proof of that though, I do not
take it for granted.
One of the best and most well informed
writers these days is Gilad Atzmon, whom I also count among my
friends. He has a wealth of anecdotal information and this
is but one example. He is also responsible for my learning
something that I have never forgotten. It was a lesson similar to the
one I got from my girlfriend Svargo a few decades ago. I had
developed a dislike for Gilad. I won't go into the details.
However... I was invited to speak in London at a convention by my
friend Tyler and Gilad was also on the menu. I remember walking up
some steps and he was at the top of them. The way he greeted me is
something I have never forgotten and through the course of that day
we saw how many similarities we had in common. Suffice to say we
spent a lot of time together and I got to meet his wonderful family
as well. That taught me a lesson I have not forgotten. Concerning
Svargo, one day we were discussing something and I made a comment and
she said, “You're wrong.” I was absolutely sure I was right and
imagine my surprise when I found out that I was wrong. Six weeks
later, the same thing happened again. I know the ineffable set that
up. On both occasions I was completely convinced and... I was wrong.
I have never forgotten that. Svargo saved my life by being with me in
the most critical part of it. That was the ineffable at work again.
Why have I mentioned this? Too many of
us do not realize that the ineffable is intimately involved in EVERY
aspect of our lives. Nothing happens in our life that the ineffable
is not aware of and if we would only recognize that and live with
that awareness uppermost in our minds, the ineffable will also become
proactive in our lives. Perhaps he always has been but with a little
effort on our part, it can become noticeable.
If ever there were a time to begin to
take this seriously, it is now. Certain social phenomena are becoming
more and more manifest due to programming coming into the minds of
those who have no command over their minds or their hearts. Here is a
classic example of the profane, the ridiculous and disingenuously
deceptive, playing on hot button issues as a
defense against really bad behavior.The comments at youtube says
it all and illustrates the tensions burbling beneath the surface of
this alcoholic and narcotic wet dream of a declining culture.
I don't want to be part of the problem.
I don't want to be one more person yelling into a mob of people also
yelling. From what I see of the trends we are only in the beginning
of what will soon be more common than 'most of us' would like and it
is because not enough of us are engaged in letting our light shine
and letting the ineffable live our lives through us. It is far easier
than one might suspect and it is far more powerful than one might
suspect. If you make the effort to greet everyone as if the ineffable
were greeting them and you look into their eyes in search of the
ineffable, you will find the ineffable because there is no life in
anyone that the ineffable does not make possible. Every moment of
every life is an opportunity to change yourself and to change the
world.
We touch, affect and influence everyone
we meet. We touch, affect and influence everyone in the radius of our
passage, whether we know this or not. The vibration of our being
extends far out from our physical form and especially when the
ineffable is growing in power within us in every moment that we get
out of the ineffable's way.
The same way that a plague of disease
and ignorance and rage can spread through a population, so can love.
Love is by far the most viral and powerful contagion of them all and
we increase our sphere of influence by magnitudes as we simply
practice love. We don't have to say a word and when we do it can be
so wonderful if we let the ineffable guide and inspire it. Each time
I go into a store I make it a point to see the people around me; the
customers, the cashiers who have been there for hours, the ones who
frown because of the conditions of their jobs or the ongoing
indifference of the customers going by each day, the thought of the
conflicts at home and a thousand other things. I know they are all
suffering because, as
the Buddha said, “All life is pain caused by ignorant desire.”
So... what I try to do is to touch those cashiers and customers at
every opportunity, to make them smile and even laugh. I go into those
stores and walk on the sidewalks outside and I am singing, audibly. I
was with my friend in the supermarket a couple of weeks ago and I was
just leaving the checkout location when this woman came up to me and
said, “Thank you.” I asked her what for and she said, “for
singing. I used to do that all the time but I started feeling strange
and hearing you today made me laugh and I started singing too, so
thank you very much for reminding me how powerful that can be.” I
thanked her and walked away, very much moved by what she had said. My
friend and I looked at each other. We didn't have to say a thing,
silently Wow! passed between us. Similar experiences have taken place
and they increase in numbers as I practice getting out of the way.
This kind of activity REALLY makes a
difference and if only a small amount of us act in kind it can change
the world and what it really amounts to is changing ourselves. Like
all of us, when I was ignorant of the living truth of what makes life
possible, I acted in a selfish manner and I did a lot of stupid
things but it doesn't matter what we did on our way to finding the
Lord of Perfection and the forgiving heart of the master of all
things. What matters is how we answer for that forgiveness and the
investment made in us. It is not possible for me to articulate what
love has done for me but I can surely say that it has given me the
impetus to share it at every turn. There's nothing like it and all
the credit goes to the one who made it possible and who makes it
possible for every one of us.
When we move through the world, we need
to recognize that EVERY situation is a golden opportunity to touch a
life. It is made so much easier when we possess the certain
conviction that everyone we meet is ourselves at another point in our
evolution to an unshakable union with the ineffable. One single
individual who is committed to this exceeds a much larger number of
selfish acts that happen every day. Look at all the great things
achieved in this world by a small group of people and sometimes by
one person alone, though I am of the opinion that no one does it
alone.
How do I communicate the force and
power of letting love move from you into the world around you? I know
there are people who will never trust me for whatever their reasons
may be and that is of no consequence to me. I know where I am coming
from and the joy that it gives me cannot be measured by any
instrument that exists. As the Buddha said and I paraphrase, 'only
pursue a wrong doer to show him the way'. Well... the ineffable
pursued me. I cannot outrun God, who is at the beginning and end of all
things, nor do I want to. I am simply an undeserving recipient of
grace and ALL of us have this available to us should we seek to live
it. It isn't easy, especially in the beginning. It only becomes easy
when we are no longer the one doing it.
Let love rise in you and burn away
everything that stands in the way of love's fullest expression and
you will never regret having done so.
End Transmission.......
