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The passing of my father

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:49:29 -0000

While I was in Orlando two weeks ago, my father passed. It was what it IS. During the week of hospital visits and final passing I painted on my parent's computer. I created a new folder in the "photos" with the paintings.

books

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:55:56 -0000

The combination and culmination that precipitates realization is impossible to measure or analyze; for it is the negation of knowings that reveals.

Here are books I have read.

May they open and elucidate.

May the knowledge in the books destroy the knowledge in you.

Unknowingly Advaita

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:41:24 -0000

Last week I realized the path I travel is Advaita. I had never heard of this teaching or of those that have realized through this way, but this is what I employed to find what IS.

I have just returned from Orlando in which my father passed during, and while there I began reading a book selected from my brother's large collection, "Ramana Maharshi - Abiding in Peace and Happiness" and resonated - similar to when reading Rumi, Adyashanti, Tolle. Reading this book is talking with GOD: the knowing within that we ALL are. I also picked up "I AM THAT" and resonated. I ended up being attracted to four books among the shelves and each was an Advaita teacher - how fun! Reading this book is like reading my heart and knowing. I see my lyrics and writings. I see my life and my understanding. I feel the truth that IS.

What we seek is not external: mind, knowledge, intelligence, religion, theology, powers, practices, healings, etc..., it is from which these things flower, and IT is found within.

What is it that creates the new desire that sends one into another externalized belief or concept?

Understand the impetus to understand truth.

Who is asking the questions? Who desires? All is love and GOD and whole, so how can there be a desire? This is what needs to be addressed. This is the direct path. What is it that makes you feel less than whole? Ask yourself and then listen.

Know thyself.

The kingdom of GOD is within, not without.

The ego is a vessel into and out of the dream; meditate upon this.

Life

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:00:11 -0000

It has been a while since I have been here. I am on fire. I am creating. I have written many songs these past two months.

I added some pictures from our week vacation last week kayaking and hiking.

I have a new site design @ http://www.richardschooping.com that has up-to-date info and music.

Enjoy,

Rich

Videos of Performances and more

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:36:17 -0000

I am singing more now and all is well.

Here is a perfomance I did at beautiful Woodside Church in Flint Michigan. It is low quality seeing it was taken with a "Flip" hand-hled recorder, but that is OK : ) If you need an enthused singer and speaker for a venue contact me to schedule.

http://www.richardschooping.com

Love,
Rich

North Carolina

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:59:34 -0000

I have returned from a fantastic trip to NC. I love this state. I have ancestry here and look forward to relocating to the Raleigh/Cary/Apex area soon. I interviewed with an amazing company and made great connections concerning performing. If you are in this area and want to connect, let me know.

Upcoming show in Flint, Michigan

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:17:11 -0000

I will be performing at the Woodside Church in Flint, Michigan May 15.
810-76-4911

The set list is:

Let There Be Peace On Earth
Because He Lives - Gaither
I Believe I Can Fly - R. Kelly
To Where You Are - J. Groban
You Raise Me Up - J. Groban
I Believe in Angels - Schooping
By Your Grace - Schooping
Shinto

I will be sharing Shinto understandings and chanting to close/open the show.

If you are near I would love to sing for you.

Rich

clarification

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:56:49 -0000

We are not here to deny life. We are to flow through in awareness, forever dancing and releasing.

Life is NOW and HERE to experience when we do not box it into a "past" or "future" belief.

We can still enjoy the dream, and fully when we allow Life to happen.

We can play with the lights and voices and angels and levels and teach and heal and court new mysteries as long as we remember that it is ALL A GAME.

It is when we THINK that what we are doing truly matters that we become ensnared.

When we remember it is a game no matter the experience, we are free to BE.

A message to "Healers"

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:43:01 -0000

Still learning and growing and here is some more of me.

OK; there are countless in the role of "Healer", or Dream-Healer to be precise, and I will now illuminate what is occurring.

Healers are dreamers healing dream-wounds and dream-dis-eases and dream-worlds and working with dream-masters when in truth there is only ONE. Dreamers are studying, mastering (for lifetimes), and then projecting healing dream-energies into dreams and then owning (personifying with) the results of dream rewards; deepening into the dream. These are all-mighty and powerful dream Wizards and Witches and Gods and Goddesses. We can see how deep into the dream this experience is. There is another that is tricky and that is of “savior.” Yes, these are more “real” roles to many, but they are still dream roles.

There is only one that is awakening. No other dream-particle will awaken the ONE, only the ONE will realize that it never dreamed through this observation.

What is happening within the game is that a sleeping consciousness believes that another in the dream is healing it; and just through this belief the level of this dream-wound heals by the observer observing the dream-“problem”, not because of the “healer”. The One’s belief is the only actor. The other had no involvement other than being a reflective catalyst for the ONE to create the dream-healing belief. Not to confuse, but there are “transparent” particles within the dream that only reflect truth; but this is rare, and “they” are not known as a “healers.”

One only heals by remembering there is nothing to heal because it is a dream. One only steps out of the dream through the composite realizations within dream experience.

The layers being worked with so strongly and passionately for this “group” are dream-layers; and to awaken, these dream layers must be seen as they are: dreams. The dream of a Dream-healer can be (seem) eternal to the dreamer who does not realize they are healing only dreams; seeing that the game is designed to be “lost” in, and the dreams are, at a certain “level”, Always.

There is no right or wrong just new information trickling into the dream to observe.

A wise one said upon awakening that “One can save the world and never save themselves.” This is TRUTH.

maybe? ;)

externalizing perpetuates the dream (an answer)

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:51:19 -0000

Well, here we are.

Without externalizing then what is left? We are. Own it, own it ALL to “know”. It is only US. Every moment is US. There is no mystery guiding, we are. Let the mythologies go. Let the parental and sisterly and brotherly and warrior and goddess and god archetypes go. It is US.

As we played life we climbed our way out of the darkness creating symbolic stair-steps, ladders, and lanterns; but they are still a dream because we created them from within a dream. A dream only begets another dream, and another; hence the game. Yes, there are endless layers to plumb, and no right or wrong, but they are still a dream; amazing, but still a dream.

IT IS YOU. IT IS ME. WE ARE ONE.

It is this simple. I can't fathom how "long" we have been playing seeing that involves time; how unexpectedly to awaken; how uneventful yet indescribable. No crowds of beings in white robes or castles in the sky. No booming voice or Jesus in the room congratulating.

We…
We just…
We just now…
We just now know and can rest.

All the energy spent fueling dreams is home, and thus we are full and wholly (holy) here. This is what those awakening are attempting to convey. But how do we tell someone, "Yes, I know, I know that you are you, and this is true, but you are also !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" This by design is illogical to the mind, it can only be experienced.

No wonder it is so difficult to share or teach; it is too close; too obvious; too literal.

I would not say it is a paradox, only paradoxical in our reasoning towards "it."

And unimaginably as it seems, each ONE that awakens is then worshipped symbolically and not seen as “The Way” (the process) and hence have then become another HUGE dream that countless dream in.

After ONE awakes truth IS: awake, not out to change; but is truth because truth IS. By design it seems "wrong" that truth in the world only deepens the dream, but it is not.

We desired the dream of all dreams: to forget, and then to travel back to the glorious, magnificent, and ONE-der-FULL knowing that we ARE, so here we dream. Does it not makes sense that every-thing would point us back into the dream, even spirituality?

Only at the end do we SEE the inherent WAY, or pearl within experience that is not seen until we have “eyes to see.”

When we worship ANY THING we are still dreaming.

This is the end of a loop; and it was what it was, a dream.

EnJOY knowing that it is a dream within a dream within a dream and one day we ALL awaken.

Interesting thoughts I am havin - take them or leave them : )

One angle of God

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:11:56 -0000

Humbly; God is the fullness of love potentials available for any situation through presence.

Touching Gratitude through the body

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:52:35 -0000

As you awaken; the moment before you open the eyes, pause and reflect upon what is being experienced. This is not the sameness the mind protests and suggests; oh no. This is new and all for you! Thank God/Goddess, the Universe; whatever you thank for life that you are again back in the dream. You have arrived back in the game in the same spot in which you fell asleep. Even YOU are new this morning; this moment; the cells; this Now. Nothing is the same. The sheets are in a new wrinkle, the light is adorned in new shafts of dusty asymmetry; even through closed eyes when you feel deeply you can sense that you are being born. We entered this world from womb to light like the opening and closing of the left and the right. We are born with each eye-opening; with each breath. Touch this knowing within before you open our eyes so that you do not step back into routine or habit; a lesser experience than may be experienced. Does this sound simple and silly? Well, it is; and is this not great?

When a child arises the day is fresh, fecund, vibrant, and pregnant with possibilities. What has changed? Do you think it advantageous to examine into this? We do. You are still that awareness which filled and observed through the child. You ARE. We ARE. You have the same, if not stress-weathered body, but it is the same body. What has changed? The perception has. The mind has changed. Knowledge and facts have been stored as best as they could, but we dozed off with the autopilot activated and now we are awakening and "cleaning" shop. Each time you close and open your eyes everything is new, it truly is; and we can get in touch with this knowing, like the juice from the pulp of Now as it runs down our smiling chin, through the gratitude gleaned through knowing the body.

As you open the eyes, become aware of the body, but slowly. Understand the true meaning of gratitude. We are not obligatorily sending gratitude “out” to some unknown and mysterious “thing” in the Kosmos. No, we are so deeply rooted in our experience and the knowing that this body can carry and act out our wishes that we can barely contain this joy; this gratitude for having body-ability. Without the body we could not be here; we could not play the game; we could not experience vibration.

Without this divine vehicle we could not smell the dreamy fragrances of nature, or the must of another, or the emptiness of the wind. Without smell we could not experience the multidimensionality of the food we eat or the signature of approaching rains, or even a version of time travel. Or what if we had no eyes? Without eyes we could not have explosions of indescribable colors fill us till we near combustion from the sensation of love and thankfulness. Without these magnificent lenses we could not see the indescribable pastel pallet of sunrise or burning hues of sunset, or the sparkling eyes of love in the eyes of another being who loves us just because. We could not see the undulating waves on the water, in the trees, on the sand, or through the clouds. We could not see the ever-shifting and ever-giving kaleidoscope of light which we Are; and if we no ears? Without ears we could not hear the words “I love you.” We could not hear the melodic hearts of singers or chanters, or of frogs, or thunder, or the rain onto flat stones or metal roof. We could not experience the music of prayers, or conversations, or instruments. We could not hear the sobbing of suffering or the laughter of Joy. We could not hear. What?

Are we starting to understand gratitude? There is no guilt just observation.

Without hands we could not caress each other or comfort those in need. We could not carry our children, or each other, or puppies, bricks, or the building blocks of construction; we could not express ourselves through art or word; we could not play instruments; we could not create our meals. What if we had no hands? Just imagine as you look at your delicate and amazingly designed hands what they mean to your life. Look at the bones and connections, and how it bends and grasps and spreads: the design is unreal. If we only lost one finger our life would be altered significantly. This is not drama; it is the way through gratitude to presence. This exercise can go on forever.

How much do we take for granted through lives of sameness and disconnection? What about the interior of the body. Without our organs we would cease to function. Imagine how loved we are in that we can eat whatever we want and our body will digest and assimilate our needs or us. Our body does all the work. It even heals itself so we can continue observing the glorious God of Now. We do not worry if certain enzymes are being carried through the blood, or if the heart has stopped beating, or how the bone marrow is doing, or if there are the correct hormones being released, or what to do with the billions of dying and birthing cells. We are so loved that we don’t even have to breathe because the body breathes for us. We can just sit here looking and observing without thinking about the body or its incalculable operations and BE. Do you think we should love this body? Yes. So, move the body. Help the body when asked by cessation or stillness or mobility. Be sensitive and listen... Stretch the body. Strengthen the body. Utilize the body. The body understands and enjoys these activities. Feed the body life and it lives. Run, dance, skip, climb, lift, wrestle, jump, play jog, make love; be in the body. This body can be your wildest dream so FLY.

“All is provided.” As the wise one’s state; and just as every other statement of truth is multi-layered so is this truth. All we need do is be grateful and observe this bountiful and humbling gift we are forever receiving and we will BE. Do you feel this? Is this not utterly mind-blowing, and then again perfect and sensible? It is beyond understanding, so we don’t need to understand it. Love loves us so much; WE love us so much, that anything we could ever need is provided; anything at any level – incredible! This feeling you are feeling is the present.

So, if we listen attentively with our eyes open to the sounds of where we are, then close our eyes and listen and then reopen, we know that all is new. The record of life is still playing for infinity, it does not stop and restart; this is what the mind does not the river of Now. The river flows onward. As we now listen there are new animal songs and calls and mechanistic whirs, bangs, beeps, grinds, creaks, etc... There are different frequencies of tones and hums abounding. Even in silence there are waves of variance within the full emptiness; subtle waves of gossamer knowing. Nothing is the same; the mind is only replaying programs of the past and projected future which create the illusion of sameness which then stales and dulls the experience. It is akin to spending one’s life sitting and staring at a small scene being played out on a table in a room when outside of that room there is a never-ending play of newness with scope unknown.

Now that we have connected deeply with the body through this exercise let us rise from where you sleep and feel the awakening and birthing muscles, joints, and bones, as you stand. As you stand connect with the body in silent knowing of thanks and begin your day. Feel the floor and the shifting of the feet as you walk. See the angle of the walls and doorways shift and bend as you move, or as it moves by you. Listen to the shapes of the rooms and how the space feels differently through the home. Be aware of the depth of breath and clearness of mind as you wash the sacred body. Love the body as you clean; not because you are supposed to clean the body, but because you LOVE THE BODY. Every brush of the cloth and swipe of the soap and splash of water is the language the body knows, so be present and observe as you shower or bathe. (Languages are not only in the forms of sounds or words.) Love your body; for it has carried you up until this point healing fevers, hangovers, bones, the heart; and will continue to do so just because it loves you; because you love you. Look at yourself deeply in the mirror as you brush your teeth or shave, really look; for you are AMAZING. See yourself. See US.

Stay grounded as you prepare your meal. Smell the aromatic food and feel the shiny, hard utensil. Watch the mind as the thoughts and programs begin to load as it staggers awake, knowing that you are present as this occurs. You are now free of these programs because you have observed them. At this point it only takes the discipline needed to dismantle the habits. This can be achieved through the body awareness we did, meditation, Yoga, or praying, etc… Create silence daily to connect with this knowing and it will, by way of inner observation, clear the habitual and limiting programs of the mind. The minute we realize we are outside of a situation, we then are. We may feel completely lost when we are in a thick forest, not realizing that the exit is but a few meters beyond the edge of the thick wall of trees. But once we realize this we are then outside and inside of the woods simultaneously, and thus we are free to know the woods wholly, without fear or stress. All experience can be this way. Each time we step outside of a situation we are then free to experience the next layer, and so on; as we forever expand into the newness of Now.

Gratitude is a gateway to grace.

Try and practice gratitude utilizing the tangential perspective we tested earlier throughout your day. The more present we are the richer the life experience. Try driving in presence. Start the car and feel the vibrations. Feel you hand, (thank God for hands) on the wheel, the temperature of the plastic and the shape of the curves; stay in “touch” with the moment through tactile sensation. Let’s not listen to the radio today, OK? Feel the way the body sinks into the seat the longer you sit, and then drive. Push the gas and feel the acceleration and the shifting weight on the axles. Notice how everything blends into one moving panoramic scene as you observe the whole, and not the pieces. Try and look out through all of your eyes, not just the center. There are no individual pieces just one happening through the senses. Listen to the engine symphony and the aria of the road surface. Here the syncopated percussion as you travel over the variances and seams in the road. Hear your breath and your heart; this is possible the more you observe. There are countless beautiful sounds drowned out but the incessant chatter of the mind that will surface and resound through presence. Let people be in the other cars as you experience the drive. Can you sense how thick the drive is becoming? Can you feel the empty/fullness of not worrying about others or of anything but the drive? Let the traffic traffic; it does not concern you as you are now free. Expect nothing and you are never let down or upset. Support yourself and no one can drop you (let you down) or push (upset) you over. People drive and cars zoom. Some are late and some are early. Be present. If someone cuts you off then they cut you off and back to driving. Don’t become attached, for attachment does exactly what it states; it attaches you to something as the river flows onward. Stay in the river through acceptance and gratitude. Anyone can have a bad day and be irritable on the way to work; hence they are not present and not aware of driving wholly. Let them go on in their way as you observe. Observation is not attachment. Observe the day. Observe people at work. Observe the trees and sky, and be free. Let it go. Let it happen.

When we observe we are neutral. We are full of the potential needed in any situation through our presence, and then we are free; for just as the body does all that we need, so will the “now available” potential of presence. Again, it is applicable to use as above, so below.

There is an alert knowing and fullness of moment for which we are eternally grateful.

By the grace of God may you taste the inexplicable through this travel.

The Emptyfulll Sun

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:19:37 -0000

Groundless of being

Veiled in a web of stained-glass dream

Eons weave timelessly

Knowing rains

Specks fill with teeming life

A connected matrix of Love

A conscious collective

Space

Flowing

Surging

Growing

Merging

Carrying the sediment

The sand, the souls

Home

We deepen

We widen

Touching

Dancing

Embracing

Advancing through fractal fancy

Stars into the Sun

The emptyfull Sun

One river

One ocean

One

There is but One teaching One

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:57:35 -0000

There is but one student and one teacher which are one in the same.

The teacher teaches the teacher.

The artist paints for the artist.

The singer sings for the singer.

The dreamer dreams for the dreamer.

The addict is addicted for the addict.

The healer heals the healer, etc…

The design of life is incredible, incalculable, ingenious, ungraspable, and to just be accepted due to the scale in that life is created so that the one can see itself to then experience desires until desire-less through knowing wholeness.

Why walk? Why sit? Why do anything, and how? A desire is needed to do; hence a life of desires. Desires are integral for the illusory machine.

We are not saying to deny desire, but to know desire and the multidimensional gifts therein.

Desire is a doorway to the end of doorways. Of course there is a gradient within the amalgam of desire: an inherent evolution of knowing that is proportionate to less desire, but this is still desire. We may understand to accept the Earth and her societies and the physics and states and stages and developments etc…, and still ponder the beyond. This is still desire.

Why does a teacher teach? What is being accomplished? What is truly happening? Who is the student? Would a teacher teach if a teacher knew? Would a teacher have any desire to teach if wholeness is known? A teacher would be no more. The artist would be no more. The dreamer would be awake.

Wholeness is whole; there are no nouns or verbs or adverbs or adjectives - you name, it is not there, but the potential IS. Would a singer preach through music if peace was known? Why are songs sung? What is inspiration? Who is listening? Are they reaching out to the mystery on melody? Yes. Are they venting the frustrations of experience or triumphantly sounding the joy of being? Yes; but not realizing that even a celebration of life is not wholeness; for how can one celebrate a “thing”, or an illusory departure?

We are home.

All is provided.

Be free of desire through observing desire.

When there is no mystery there is no mystery and this world is known. The game has been played. Will it start over? I have no idea, but the mechanics are in place so it seems logical.
We build Disney here for fun. Would we not then create life for fun as well? Is there more after this? After? There is no after, it is Now and only Now, so let go.

This does not mean we disappear. On the contrary we are here fully.

Wholly.

Holy.

We enjoy the flowing grace and gift of existence through desire-less presence.

There is nothing to desire when everything is here Now.

We observe the flow and do naturally according to it.

Obviously I still have desires : ) and on some level am enjoying the game of re-remembering.

“As above so below.”

Is there not but One? So there is one mouth and one ear and one eye and no eye and no mouth and no ear and no thing at all. The moment we do, we are doing to ourselves and for ourselves, this is the only way. If you know, then you have no desire to filter that knowing through the senses until it is again unrecognizable. We know.

If we become a teacher it means we have not accepted that all is exactly as it should be (we have not become desire-less [we want more of the game]) and we must teach ourselves until we realize this. We are fruitlessly attempting to know another when the only one to know is the self.

It is beautiful to be compassionate and loving and want to help, but there is desire to do these things else you would not DO them.

There is no right or wrong, only One that helps by being.

The amount of books that are flooding reality is a testament to the teacher and the student. Look at all teaching all, it is astounding. This is the time for the teacher and the artist and the architect who are all the same: 1. Remember that we are the teacher; in that everything we do, through every experience is a unique reflection to wholeness. All we need do is turn away from the mirror and into ourselves to know.

So, here I am writing to the one, expressing through dwindling desires in words a few “things” with myself.

If you write a book, it is for you.

If you sing a song, it is for you.

If you create a foundation, it is for you.

If you suffer, it IS FOR YOU so let it be.

Else you would do none of these things.

(I wonder, as I see this planet of teachers and healers if there is not a loop occurring. I get the sense many are here to save everyone and everything (horizontal healings) and in the process are at vertical stagnation. There is a lot of worship and externalizing to penetrate. It seems that many are awakening to a level of teaching and healing which can easily create a loop of teachers healing and healers teaching, or a critical mass jump will happen. How interesting I am now here observing.)

The Space we ARE

Tue, 06 May 2008 19:12:15 -0000

It seems I am still talking to myself. I am not out to teach, I just find myself writing.

The only way to know is to surrender the need to NO.

Why do we have sameness in our experience? Or to put it simply, what causes a rut in our life?

Why do we experience the same things over and over when life is a dancing eternal change?

What creates this limited and repeating scenario?

If life is forever anew then we can conclude the catalyst for sameness is within. There is an internal structure created from a narrow understanding that is attempting to contain one fragment of the whole which in-turn causes suffering as life struggles to free itself, as we struggle to free ourselves. We have placed so much of our being and energy into one fraction that we have become lost in an artificial world and time-line within the "rut", never realizing that we have stopped flowing with the eternal breath. We are then subjected to endless energetic circumstances, dramas, and beliefs that are not rooted in reality but in one's idea of reality. Are these circumstances worthy? Of course, because the design is immeasurable and always love, but much of what is gleaned would be naturally learned within a less turbulent flow of experience.

One can learn the waves by observing or panicked and up to the chin. They are the same waves, only the perception has changed.

Life is out to love, and it is how we accept the love that determines experience.

If we experience the same life over and over with the same type of friends and lovers and teachings it is because we have brought them into our reality through our belief systems which communicate through vibration. If you become a certain belief you can guarantee this resonate will draw the like unto itself; this is not mysterious, it is physics. This also explains how one’s belief can be continually fed and fueled and strengthened though energetic synchronicity to where it is then a self-fulfilling, self-contained prophecy and not the river of life. As we resonate, those that resonate will be drawn to us.

We will draw to us each other according to vibratory signature or light signature. This can draw beauty to itself or illusion. We must remember to balance the noise with silence.

If we seek change and (r)evolution we change the belief through the observation we have the belief, it is as simple as that. Better yet, we believe nothing but what we experience with each breath; for life is alive and not to be caged into any box no matter the decoration or composite.

Time erases and the Sun replaces until we ARE.

Yes we can work with laws of nature with the understanding that these too are ephemeral. All we are to believe in is that EVERYTHING changes, and to appreciate this. We can employ certain relationships and structures for order amongst ourselves as long as we remain open and hyper-aware for the subtle beliefs that permeate our life.

Let everything Be and the many levels of illusion will work them selves out.

It is when we stop pulling on the knot that we can begin to loosen and unravel the cord.

Closed systems fail despite, their “spirituality.” Tibet is a prime example.

All must recognize that it is interconnected and vital to the all.

Life doesn't believe; it is too busy doing.

A belief is an attempt at categorization and departmentalization of Is-ness.

As long as we remember that EVERYTHING is a stepping stone we continue.

It is when we try and tie down the wind or waves that we struggle.

A lightning bug dies in a jar.

Belief infers that somehow life has stopped long enough to be defined, when in reality only the exploration has stopped.

We know life from BEing life.

There is no need for conviction because there is nothing to believe.

Start up again. Throw it all up like the fall leaves and watch life carry the pieces back into the mystery. Let the actors return to their parts and continue observing, for the joy is in the observing not in the observed.

The gift is the experience.

The present is in the presence.

Celebrate the changes that continually pull and provoke for these are what keep us moving back into our self. How we understand life is how we experience it. If life feels confined and confused, then that is how we perceive it. Dismantle the belief system to allow life in and re-connect to larger and more mysterious relationships that are unending in complexity and order.

We do not have to know to know; this is the paradox (pair of docks) leading to the same body of being.

It is not the walls, windows, or doors; it is the space that creates the room, or the experience.

Space is not empty it is impregnated with every imaginable experience.

Meditate.

Space has no things for it is the womb of all things.

Sit with nature.

Space is wholeness because it is the mound and the hole.

Reflect in quietness.

Embrace Space. Become the Space we are by letting the beliefs and concepts go.

Pray.

And what remains after we are free of these “things”? The empty fullness of BEing.

God.

Release the thought-children and come back to the moment with open arms and senses until new children pause, play, and proceed off again.

A vibrant, golden-haired child is walking along a winding river when a glistening flat stone catches their eye. Instantly they bend, grasp, straighten, and hurl the stone into the clear, blue water watching it skip several times before submerging - delighted. The child threw the stone and is continuing down along the river, in the river of life. This is life being life. This was spontaneous. This is beautiful. This is freedom through expression. Only the mechanical laws of thought were needed to move the body and act upon the moment, nothing else is required. We are free to be, always: Now. All is provided.

An older person is walking along a river and sees a flat stone. They do not act upon the request of the moment but continue to think and thus the flow stops and time lengthens. They ask questions based on stagnant and deteriorating beliefs that are not based or grounded in presence, and the moment fleets like sand through fingers. They ask "Should I pick up that lovely stone? Maybe I should throw it in the river. No, I am too old to do that sort of thing, what if someone sees me? This rock is placed here by God in harmony and I should let it lie. What would a monk do? What would Jesus do? Maybe I could take it home and paint something wonderful on it? I used to love to paint. I remember when I was young when we used to throw stones down into the well on the farm." From this perspective we can clearly see how the beliefs formed the thoughts which assisted in the artificial time-line that created a bubble.

Thinking creates time: it creates a line between what was and what may be; and now like a tightrope one walks forever along this alternate reality unsure and fearful of the fall, when in reality there is no tightrope. And what is amazing is that as we walk they continually recreate the past and future points that sustain the timeline, forever crossing an imaginary expanse in an illusionary bubble without even realizing.

Pierce the belief and the bubble will burst.

Why does a monk or do certain people seem at peace, or enlightened? How are they calm and happy in a world filled with complexity, pain, disease and war? Are they superhuman and different then the rest of the world? No. They are us. Then what is the difference?

By delving into themselves through meditation, solitude, nature, or a form of quiet reflection they have through observation understood, cleared, and healed the mind.

By creating space within they have become that space.

We are intelligent space. This is not abstract, it IS.

We can now realize that the more we empty the fuller we become.

We are consciousness experiencing itself through vibration: material forms.

We are always free even when we do not remember. There is nothing to fear.

Just remember to continually let go and to create space in your life so you can remember you are that space. How incredible!

If we sit without moving, doing, or even thinking we are still aware, right? So we are then nothing that we are then able to observe.

We are the observer.

We observe from quark to quasar; grom glitch to God. Anything we observe is not us. If we can see it, hear it, touch it, taste it, feel it, it is not us. It is vibration, and we now understand that we are before the vibration observing the interplay.

When we are free of trying to do, then we just, we just ARE. We IS.

We are not "weighed down" with the burdens of collection but are en"light"ened and present enjoying the experience.

Be.

let it go

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:13:44 -0000

The value of life is not known until you let it go.

The value of anything is not understood until you let it go.

You do not have to literally throw physical things away, just the attachment; for it is the knowing that frees not the object or subject.

Honor what is in your life, be it object or lover because you have brought this to you in love. LOVE all that you know; it is the attachments that cloud your view. All that you know and are and are experiencing IS love.

The mind is the stage, not the world.

Let every idea go, even if you feel it is "it" or important. If you need it for wholeness then it is the most important thing to devalue.

The moment you hear yourself say you have found that something, you are then the furthest from that which you seek.

No thing is that which is not.

Desires are communications that reveal attachments no matter how evolved one feels they are, so honor and release.

War is within you.

Holy war is within you.

Angels are within you.

Demons are within you.

Global warming is within you.

Peace is within you.

Pain is within you.

Anger is within you.

Disease is within you.

Dissatisfaction is within you.

Uneasiness is within you.

Any idea or concept that speaks of less than wholeness is within you and not of you.

All experience is within you.

All IS you.

All is perfect.

Do not stop, keep going.

Deeper. More stillness until you know.

See not with the eyes and hear not with the ears and feel not with the skin and taste not with the tongue: know.

There is the propensity at this time for gatherings and collections within ancient beliefs and Dogmas that are at beautiful heights, but yet are still on a "path."

There is no path.

We are always here.

Know that the most powerful thing concerning this it to LET IT ALL GO at every "level" of understanding.

Don't root, flow.

All is balanced for there is no other way.

GOD is love.

GOD IS.

Reality exists to show you who you are so listen with all of your awareness.

Acceptance is freedom.

Gratitude is not judgmental.

Take all the energy you have invested into swirling concepts, ideologies, studies, histories, and let them go to be here NOW.

Be the bubbling fountain of love expressing itself within this exact moment and not an echoing loop of yesterday or tomorrow.

Now is the moment, the only moment to BE.

Recognizing Enlightened Habits

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:54:50 -0000

We spend lifetimes trying to measure the measureless as the fruits decay and fall to the soil.

Let us eat and enhoy the fruit Now because there is fruit on the tree.

A tree is a tree no matter how many languages and words describe. The only way to know a tree is to expereince it.

Life IS no matter our attempts to define. We can create charts and diagrams and new teachings but the true teaching is acceptance and appreciation for the experience. Can there be appreciation without acceptance? Can there be joy if one does not find joy in this life experience? Can peace be found if one is not at peace? Can enlightenment be known if one is not light? These are simple questions with profound, and seemingly obvious answers.

One is what one experiences.

There is a point when acceptance engulfs the desire to know and life IS, the tree IS.

There is a realization that the tools are only pointing to what one already knows and then IS is ALL.

It can not be stressed enough to observe habits even if they appear enlightened so as not too lose self to the control of the habit.

Stillness is not immobility, but unimpeded mobility through lack of acquisition.

Enlightenment is the lightening of the load. It is the energy expended to balance and understand the ALl that that dims us.

Flow through all that you do and experience it fully and then set it free to continue freely.

The incredible design is so that upon exhaustion of understanding it is not failure encountered, but freedom through knowing.

In stillness all settles like sediment and truth is revealed.

Interesting Email sharing with a "Peace Activist"

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:07:09 -0000

This is an email that GOD sent into my awareness from an "activist" and our conversation.

SUB: OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN REFORMING SOCIETY

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

It Is Not Enough To Be Good; One Must Also Show The
Right Path To Others Who Might Otherwise Do Evil.

God Almighty brought us into existence, endowed us
with millions of blessings, granted us uncountable
sorts of eatables, provided us modes of relief,
respite and adornment so that we could live a
comfortable life. As there is no order greater than
that of God, therefore, we should get a complete
knowledge of His directives and spend our life
according to His will, and should not follow the path
forbidden by Him. And we should be grateful to Him
every moment for the blessings He has bestowed on us.

You know that to eliminate all kinds of vices from
the world and to promote good is the responsibility
of every person. Everyone amongst us is a caretaker
and is responsible for his subordinates on the Day
of Judgment. Rulers will be answerable for the
citizens of their state, every family head will be
accountable for the members of his family and will
be asked as to what he did for their reformation,
education and better life. He will be asked as to
whether he forbid them from adopting the bad ways,
and helped them in leading a pious life or not.

The world history reveals that until the people
performed the task of commanding the others to do
good and barring them from doing evil, the pious
people remained dominant in those societies and there
was peace and tranquility and satanic forces were
subdued. But, when this collective responsibility was
designated only to clerics, and the common people
ignored this task, in spite of the efforts of the
clerics, waywardness spread quickly. A wave of
offenses, terrorism, tyranny, evils, sins, ignorance
and anarchy engulfed almost every segment of life.
Disorder, commotion and chaos were on the rise in the
world society, wrecking the peace of all mankind.

The world is facing disaster upon disaster every day
and people are expecting a major catastrophe. The
deeds that have been forbidden by God are being
committed openly. The evils are increasing, while the
virtues are fading out gradually. Tyranny, oppression
and carnage are going on, liars and cheats are
overcoming. Terrorism, bribery, corruption, evil,
nudity, vulgarity and wickedness have assaulted the
world. It seems we have reached inferno before the
Last Day. History tells us that such a situation
arises when people are being cursed by God.

It is feared that members of the previous generations
will be accountable for their individual deeds on the
Day of Judgment, but present generation will be
thrown as a whole into hell after a collective
prosecution, because the nobles of this generation
remained as silent spectators instead of restraining
the Wrongdoers, Terrorists and Separatists from
committing, cruelty, sins and misdeeds.

The Divine punishment to an ancient civilization
seconds this fear. There were three groups during
that period. One was of knaves, the second was of the
people who did good deeds but did not halt the
disobedient from transgression. The third group was
of the people who followed the Divine doctrines as
well as restrained others from disobeying them. When
God cursed the nation, the people exempted from this
torment were those who had been observing the limits
fixed by their Master and were stopping others from
wrongdoing as well.

There is another but similar happening. The residents
of a town had been engulfed by an ocean of sins.
However, there was a noble man who was always busy in
worshipping God, but he did not bother about
persuading others to give up their bad ways. When God
ordered the angels to destroy the town, He said:
" Overturn the town on the person who was anxious to
save himself from the Divine Punishment, but was not
endeavoring to save others from it".

I advise the virtuous people of the world that they
should not only depend upon their prayers to save
themselves from the Divine Punishment; rather they
should lead the Evil Doers and followers of Satan who
have gone astray, to the right path. They should
undertake this task against Evil Doers with full
determination. Only then will their virtues and
prayers save them from the Divine Punishment.

S.A.Rehman
Peace Activist
PAKISTAN

My initial reply:

History is conjecture and subject to whomever records it, so it is NOT truth and never will be.

We admire and become the qualities of love through our resonance with wisdom, nothing else need be memorized or understood.

Reality is NOW. Truth is alive and flowing. Love IS.

Go into yourself until all that you know is love and then BE; then you are what you seek in the world: love.

Fear is an illusion flowered from shallow understanding by prematurely stopping too early on the spiritual path and grasping to a belief.

There is nothing to fear.

GOD is love, period - anything less was created out of one's ego and needs to be surpassed.

This is not the word love that we throw around blindly, it is an experience of totality that recognizes that every piece comprises and is valuable to the whole.

Can we create a solar system or the night stars? No. Then how can we dare say we understand and know what is "right or wrong"?

There is no right or wrong, only acceptance and gratitude for larger and larger harmonious relationships that we can then enjoy, become, and express.

Be YOU S.A.Rehman.

Let the world go and do YOUR inner work and then be the present though your presence here with us.

Be silent NOW and listen.

Keep going before you become too controlled in this passion.

I am

His reply

Many thanks.

I am a peace activist trying to sow the
"Seeds of Peace" by sending different E-Mail
messages.

Regards,
S.A.Rehman
Peace Activist
PAKISTAN

MY MESSAGE FOR PEACE AND HARMONY   ( For Everyone )

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

We all need to pray for one another, and to love one
another. We should always pray for the safety, peace,
love and brotherhood for people all over the world.

Too bad we can't have an independence day for the
entire world. A day of freedom from ignorance, hatred,
war, illusions, power and control. A day where we can
all love each other as human beings and toss away the
weapons of war, and cast out our fears and hatreds
from our hearts into the graves. We must mourn the
graves of the innocents all over the world, and give
the children of the world the hope of a peaceful,
loving and beautiful world.

A world full of love and without hatred or fear. A
world where we can join hands together and accept one
another, regardless of our skin color, ethnic
divisions, religion or nationality. If we don't unite
as a human race, then we have condemned the future
generation of children a dark and very grim future.

Think of love, compassion and peace always...

MY PRAYER FOR PEACE AND HARMONY

Merciful God, You made all of the people of the world
in Your own image and placed before us the pathway of
salvation through different Preachers who claimed to
have been Your Saints and Prophets. But, the
contradictions (made by us) in the interpretation of
Your teachings have resulted in creating divisions,
faith based hatreds and bloodshed in the world
community. Millions of innocent men, women and
children have so far been brutally killed by the
militants of several religions who have been
committing horrifying crimes against humanity and
millions more would not be butchered by them in the
future, if You guide and help us find ways to reunite peacefully.

IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE COMPASSIONATE, THE MERCIFUL,
look with compassion on the whole human family; take
away the controversial teachings of arrogance,
divisions and hatreds which have badly infected our
hearts; break down the walls that separate us; reunite
us in bonds of love; and work through our struggle and confusion to accomplish Your purposes on earth; that, in Your good time, all nations and races could jointly serve You in justice, peace and harmony. (Amen)

Regards,
S.A.Rehman
Peace Activist
PAKISTAN

My second reply:

This is better, but do you truly know that all that has happened or is happening is not love?

Is horror not the ego afraid (fear) that it does not know so it grasps at what is immediately in front of it?

Is it really grim? Is this planet the only planet in God's creation? Are we the only peoples?

We are born into the direct message of a ceiling of countless lights in the night sky that bespeaks that what we are experiencing is but a drop in the ocean, so let the mechanics do what they will and "be still and know."

If you are sewing seeds then sew only the seeds of what you know which is who you are and the song of your heart.

Discover...

Let activism go, it has served you well, but there is so much more to know.

Step out of that illusion and illuminate as you shine from above.

Your heart expression is the gift to All, not just being another caught in the ways of individual ego history and its traps of fear and mythic stories.

Do you not see that when you think you need to save someone you have judged them to determine this?

Send love and your expression through emails if you desire but go deeper and recognize when less of love has entered your words.

One can only be at peace not create it.

We can create harmonics and relationships, not peace. Peace is the total acceptance of life and surrendering to the knowing that GOD knows what GOD is doing. Peace is not having to do but doing out of the sheer knowing of the moment.

No matter how we persuade a flower to bloom it will bloom when it blooms, not when WE desire it.

If we spend energy trying to "make" peace then we are not the peace others need when they begin to awaken.

We are stars of truth unknowingly just by being love so that when another raises their head out of their illusion they can use our light to guide them home.

The design is so amazing and complex all we can do is surrender to the knowing that no matter what we do, it is perfect.

The perfection does not change, our evolving perception of it does.

Accept and mature into more of what you are and not what the world is making of you my dear S.A.Rehman.

Be love now. Know love now. Love is, it is not dependent on what we think of it. Love all you meet now. Love those around you. Be the qualities you are praying for: mercy and compassion, not fear or dogma. There is nothing to fear.

If we let everyone be who they are and worship their unique form of Love then the fighting will lessen just enough for each child of God to step out of ancient fears and taste the peace and love that always IS when we pause.

                        I love you
                        I honor you
                        I accept you
                        Thank you for you
                        Have an amazing day

I am

His final reply:

Thank you,
S.A.Rehman
PAKISTAN

Conclusion:

May all Peace Activists become " Peace Actionists" through this understanding of IS-ness. We do not magically activate peace by turning on a hidden switches within another or the air. Peace resides in our unique NOW expressions, understandings and NON-ACTIONS.

Peace arrises when we stop spending our energies on defining and accepting what IS.

Activism is a shallow reaction to unknown aspects of one's reality that through refelection and observation will flower into the peace desired, for there is always peace, truly.

I AM

Flooded

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:40:36 -0000

OK, I am being flooded with new business ideas daily. Ideas are crystallizing and arriving whole. These are not building upon anything I am doing or thinking, just sort of showing up. So now what? Who to contact?

All of these ideas are big, huge in fact and too big for just me. Many are ways to lessen our burden on the planet. Some empower us and excite us with their application at conserving and creating energy while utilizing existing business structures.

This is not new with me; I have watched many of my concepts take flight through another over my life and this is fine. Some have been in evolutionary direction and some are just being developed. But now I am curious as to the process of bringing an idea to fruition now.

What do we do with epiphany?

I seek a team.

Collective Dialogue - Part 1: Mindful of Questions

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:12:17 -0000

Apparently I am working on things but nevertheless enjoying the process. I know this is not new information; but through my experience it is. Reading philosophy and spiritual writings is valuable, but it is when we experience these truths through our own action that we grow and step into the understanding of the originating author.

My brother has a viable, beneficial, and potentially lucrative business model he is developing; and seeing that I am his brother and that there is no wall between I am by extension a part of the process. The main issue at this point is what is the best way to go about protecting an intellectual idea? After a lengthy and impassioned discussion we had two days ago a peculiar awareness began to present itself to me. I realized many things from this conversation, most having nothing to do with the topic. I realized that I was habitually using a guise of an ancient modality of playing the devil’s advocate in a way so as to illuminate possible pitfalls. I thought I was being wise in sharing my past experiences with him. At one level this is fine and loving, but something cracked open within me. My brother said a few times that he was thinking of the solution and nothing else and I finally HEARD him. His statement is the inspiration for this writing.

It seems this statement was the key into something much larger than I imagined.

Upon observance of our dialog I realized that my initial response to his principle question was my final response of the conversation. What I first replied was now the first step I offered for him to take after our conversation, but what a travel we took to hear this. Of course many other illuminating insights were gained, but I wonder what the conversation would have been like through mindfulness. I am not saying that my brother is not mindful, but I feel we would both benefit from practicing evolved forms of observance while conversing.

I have been aware of something beyond words for years concerning semantics and word usage, but only to the extent that it existed at my current understanding. I was naturally being drawn towards a more symbolic way of communicating. I had always though that my poetic and visual way of speaking was a distraction and immature, I am beginning to see another explanation. Now there is a lot more to observe in dialog which seems more symbolic and poetic in its meter and space. I also realized that there has been a slight frustration within me concerning myself and my brother’s conversations, and how I feel some are compared to the past and not dancing in the mysterious present. I was observing our dialogs harmonizing more, and I was curious as to what had created this new and smoother way we shared. I realized that there is no way not to speak excluding foundation; it is just where we place our awareness during collective communication that opens us up to new evolving dialog. I am sure this is part of what unconsciously sent me searching of a way to create a more productive space for us in this regard.

We had traveled through a circle, and not for the first time. In fact, I have been noticing this within most conversations I have, and of those I observe in others; degrees, status and intelligence not a factor. It seems our conversation now as I reflected instead of being comprised of parts was being experienced wholly as a “thing” or a living being, revealing a larger rhythm, revealing nature. I found myself hyper-aware of the arc traveled. It is so interesting that this larger awareness even shows up in a simple dialog, actually, because it always IS. As I observe our conversations now I am aware of the conversation as a whole and the mechanics we employ. Somehow my brother and mine dialog illumined a larger relationship: how do we talk to each other and what is going on as we do?

What is the flow of dialog and what affects that flow?

Is there a mindful way to observe ourselves as we speak, or not, with others beyond concept?

Is there a way to be aware of the flow; a tangible way to assist by strategically saying less?

I started to think about these questions and their inherent value. What is a question and what is really happening when we ask a question in conversation? What happens to the flow when we ask a question? I realized as I observed this whole aspect of dialog between us that questions strongly affect flow. I see dialog as a larger wave. It is as though the flow is moving forward and the question has the ability to remain harmonious or divert, even halt inspiration. You may be walking in the middle of nowhere peaceful and unaware of where you are and then someone asks you a question and it is as though you step out of the flow to answer. Of course this may be relevant at the time. I just wanted to plant a visceral seed for the remainder of this writing.

I observe degrees of “stepping out” in conversations. Many questions do not empower, they create intersections and intricate intersections at that which usually lead anywhere but the current topic. How many business meetings have we sat in only to observe nothing accomplished? Everyone comes together and waves their flags and asks useless and empty questions only to exit unaware of the larger potential that existed for the group. Can we answer or reply with a question that allows the flow to continue? Are not the questions derived and supported by the existing knowledge base of the questioner prone to ego tendencies? Yes, everyone's. It is as though the one who asks is searching for weakness in the other to validate themselves through knowing the answer to their own question or even negating the topic all together, often bringing the conversation to a level that only includes them: their ego. So, just as we observe ourselves through meditation we can employ observance within collectives. We can begin evolved dialog by understanding our questions and habits.

Too many questions are empty. “What do you mean” is not conveying to the person what needs clarification. What do you mean does not address anything it just places the conversation into the one asking, and proves that they are not thinking beyond their comfort zone. "What do you mean?" is someone saying nothing - even "please continue" takes less time, words, and energy to say and it is empowering. The individual ego accepts that it does not know, and by this admission the collective continues. The flow has morphed from containing to being contained. Could we not say “please elaborate;" meaning I have been following you but need more information? Or “I like where you are going and would like to add my idea.” Look at how this affects the larger flowing inspiration. It is an empowering statement that says “keep flowing.” It says “flow keep flowing and let’s see where we get to because you are larger than the parts.” It is creating the space for the idea to continue. It also creates a space for everyone to feel unified instead of diversified by the myriad (usually overly intelligent) questions. It simplifies the conversation by transcending the individual ego that habitually presents itself allowing the larger dialog to Be. How many conversations are circuitous? We say the same things over and over with different words because we are not being mindful of the larger relationship inherent in the flow. Our ego is stuck in a loop when only awareness affords the next step. Dialog can be a way to experience a larger space with others, opening us up for amazing collective possibilities. If we could see a model of the mind we might see these shallow thoughts and questions buzzing near the surface in an “automatic reply zone.” Instead of deeper cognition and inspiration, these automatic “knee-jerk” responses play out and do nothing for the conversation or meeting but dilute. Instead of 15 minutes of valuable and cohesive dialog in two hours how about an hour? How much more could be achieved by being mindful enough to avoid habits within conversations?

Yes, what if we practice mindful dialog through our observance of questions? Can you sense the magnitude of letting ideas and topics flow unhindered into new harmonic territories? If we have evolved to this level with the aid of the individual ego in the process of dialog than what can be experienced in this paradigm of listening and empowering through questions which take into account the larger flow?