HERE DO WE GO when we're through with Religion (capital R), and Philosophy (capital P), and we've soaked up all the New Age ambience we can take, and we've read every book in the "________ for Dummies" series -- and we're still feeling not-quite enlightened?
WHAT DO WE DO* when we're through with all the beguiled Prophets and mistaken Saviors, and all the Gurus in all their various guises? And then, when we start to strip away our own self-deceptions, and our comfortable hiding-places, and our constant busy-ness? And when we let go of all Belief Systems (capital BS : ^ ), and we begin to relax our grip on methodologies and techniques, and on Structure its-very-self? What are we then left with?
When even the concept of "God" finally becomes meaningless to us -- and likewise the concept of Self, and of Other; all meaningless because redundant and indistinguishable -- we are left with nothing but naked LIFE, and the mystery of it. Be Here Now. Breathe out, breathe in.
Be. Here. Now.
When we really, really real-ize that, if we just BE HERE NOW (give our full attention to what is happening, wherever we are) and do our very best, at every moment, then everything else will take care of itself -- what a wonderful and deep sense of peace and safety it gives! The feeling that we are everything we need to be, right now, at every moment -- WOW!!! Fear? - Gone! Worry? - Gone! LIB-ER-A-TION!
That feeling has come to me sometimes, and it's absolutely, fundamentally, the best feeling I've ever known.
SO: THE PURPOSE OF THIS WEB-LOG is to chronicle our journey to achieving such liberation in a sustained (and sustainable) way, starting from the ground-zero of Be Here Now, disencumbering ourselves of every molecule of baggage we can bear to part with, and getting to the heart of pure LIFE, as honestly and innocently as we can.
I say "our journey" -- because "You" and "I" are just tiny, sub-atomic (and indistinguishable!) particles in the boundless organism of LIFE; tiny particles, and yet we are one with ALL of Life. I say "our journey" -- also because you're all invited to be a part of these pages. There's a form at the bottom, which will allow you to wade into my stream-of-consciousness at any point and contribute to the flow.
Please do your best to communicate clearly and succinctly; submissions will be posted (unless they seem flagrantly offensive, downright harmful, or wildly inappropriate) as quickly as possible, and links to relevant sites will be added.
Welcome aboard! The in-flight movie will be starting shortly....
* Have you ever wondered why, in English, we say "What do we do..." instead of simply "What do we...", as they say in other languages?!
Peter - 07:05 PM 3/9/2006
http://01010.org
At last! A sane blog! I love your Mission Statement and all I have read so far. You have an excellent way of putting into words what is beyond words I've subscribed!
Stephanie Kubicek - 09:40 AM 2/15/2006
This is probably my favorite part of your Web Site, though, I like it all.
Roberta Barnes - 08:04 PM 2/10/2006
www.naturalhealinglearning.com
It was interesting that this morning when I received your notice about the blogg I also received something from my sister that said, "Did you know there are two days in your life you can do
nothing about -- yesterday & tomorrow. Today you can live. . ."
It is amazing how life happens, if we allow it to unfold.
www.belgopress.com
Great stuff Don! A great do-ing about be-ing... In no-thing is every-thing...
Dorothy Beckett - 12:27 AM 2/9/2006
You have taught me so much about 'BE HERE NOW' that I do hope others can learn from it. It certainly leaves me with a much brighter outlook on life.
-- Your mother Dorothy Beckett
Thanks to all, for the replies!
Joan, you must have read my thoughts: I was chuckling at myself as I wrote about "stripping away...our constant busy-ness" -- which, of course, necessitated my own busy-ness at the keyboard! It seems, at the very creation of Life itself, the infinite Source had to go from BE-ing to DO-ing; from undifferentiated oneness, to the differentiation of "the ten thousand things"....and each of us has been in that same boat ever since : ^ ).
I was thinking of the author of the Tao Te Ching, who said something like: "The Way that can be written is not the real Way" -- and yet he continued writing, a whole book attempting to point the way to the real Way!
MMMM.... Okay, my long-intended reconstruction project here has not materialized (did you notice?).... What little time I have for blogging continues to be spent at zaadz.com -- so, until further notice, please find me there! The latest page of entries is at http://source-energy.zaadz.com/blog. You can backtrack and read them all in order, by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking the links for previous pages....
O MORE articles here until I get time to do a site-renovation; we're going to have a sleeker, faster BEYOND! : ^ ). So, in the meantime, the latest article is posted at zaadz....
KAY -- if you recognize THAT song, raise your hand -- you and I are in the Dinosaur Club, my friend! If you DON'T recognize it, you're a "young whippersnapper [alt. snippersnapper]" -- who probably doesn't recognize that, either! And, likewise, who probably knows nothing of the movie the song came from, nor anything about its portrayal of Butch and Sundance; and ditto for any knowledge of the original duo themselves!!
usion: the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
< L fusion- (s. of fusio) a pouring out, melting.
Confusion: disorder; upheaval; tumult; chaos. lack of clearness or distinctness. perplexity; bewilderment. Archaic: defeat, overthrow, or ruin.
< L confusion- (s. of confusio).
What started me thinking about these 2 was a new razor. It arrived in the mail one day -- a free sample. It's called "Fusion". Remember, some years back, when someone invented the twin-blade razor? Two parallel blades, very close together. The idea was, the first blade would hook into the whiskers and, before it could cut entirely through them, the second blade would hook into them further down (because the first blade would be pulling on them) and would cut them at that point. And our faces would end up as smooth as a baby's!
Well, that was great. Twin-blade shaving became the order of the day. Then someone invented the triple-blade razor. Then the quadruple-blade razor. And now -- you guessed it! -- the famous "Fusion" razor has FIVE blades!! I'm really eager for the 20-blade razor, because that will cover so much area, my whole face will be shaved in about 4 strokes! I hope I can afford it, though; I bought some blades for the famous "Fusion" machine, to replace the set that came with it ... and 4 cartridges of blades cost me about 12-and-a-half dollars, plus tax (and that was at Walmart!). Good thing I don't shave more than every 5 or 6 days!
Anyway, this razor started me thinking about the words "fusion" and "confusion". ....
"BY THE WAY, the Tao that can be spoken of is *Love*...."
Words of wisdom from my dear friend Steve: right on-target, as usual!
HE WAS writing in response to my latest blatherings here. I wrote back to him, then he to me, etc. -- and pretty soon we had created a long dialog about all this. I'm posting much of it here -- an amalgamation of our email back-and-forthing -- in hopes that others will find bits of wisdom in it, or at least food for thought, or at the very least a chuckle or two:
"If there is a Universal Mind,
must it be sane?"
(Charles Fort -- thanks to Steve!)
ES, IT MUST BE -- just because it IS! Because, eventually, everything makes sense, everything drops into place....
I LOVE this Don Miguel Ruiz! I keep waking up with revelations, after reading his words.... I read his book The Four Agreements several years ago ... and, in The Voice of Knowledge, he talks about using the Four Agreements as a tool for unlearning the lies we have come to believe in, which run our lives and imprison us. And, this morning I awoke with a great, liberating revelation, arising from his Second Agreement.
The Four Agreements are:
"Be impeccable with your word."
"Don't take anything personally."
"Don't make assumptions."
"Always do your best."
For some time, I've been feeling betrayed by someone. Totally, absolutely betrayed.
T'S OCCURRED to me so many times, that the Fab Four truly did say it all with that one!
Yes, I'm back on my favorite topic, L-O-V-E -- and mainly because of the following comments submitted by my friend Vicky (posted here with my responses interspersed):
eh eh, I was rereading your posting on the subject of: The Greatest Thing Revisited, as there was something that was bothering me... What bothered me was the fact that Love also means, going TOGETHER through difficult times; as that is what makes love and the relationship with each other, strong and grow and tight.
#### Good point! -- though I think there's a distinction here between Love and the expression of Love. The Love exists, even if it's not expressed....
H, WHAT A DAY indeed! Started out with an 8.1 earthquake north of Japan ... which generated tsunami several feet high in places on O'ahu and Kaua'i...! Meanwhile, here in the magical kingdom of Hilo, I was having an absolutely SUPER day. Weather-wise, it was totally spectacular: blue sky, bright sun, a few puffy white clouds, and gorgeous deep-blue surf topped with brilliant white!
I was also having a great day internally -- even though I had been up working till 3:00 a.m., and had gone to bed and shivered the rest of the night, unable to sleep (I know, this is Hawai'i, it's not even cold here ... but, when I go to bed that late, my body heat is totally gone, and the bed will not get me warm!). I was having such a great day. I went downtown on the bike, first thing, reveling in the gorgeous weather, and got a dollar's worth of baby bok choy at the Farmers' Market. But the main reason it was such a good day was ... just that it was! A very good Be-Here-Now day for me....
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