The Seer

Some form of the Golden Rule can be found among the teachings of virtually every enlightened sage. Why? Whether we say, “Do unto others what you would have them do unto you,” or “Hurt not others with that which pains yourself” we are recognizing the foundation of life: Oneness.

Quantum research has discovered the truth in these words. Seemingly separate material forms are an illusion that overlay our quantum Reality of indivisible, interconnected oneness. From a quantum perspective, it is impossible to harm one part of the whole without affecting everything in existence.

The Golden Rule is a truth that none of us can afford to ignore. But when we look at world conditions it quickly becomes obvious that many either ignore these words or repeat them with no real understanding of what they actually mean. Although the Golden Rule is most often associated with Jesus, many who claim to be followers of Christ appear to have far more interest in Bible verses that promote judgment rather than love.

Currently the world’s attention is focused on the massive disparity between the rich and the poor. We could not be where we are today if the Golden Rule was taken seriously. Clearly, it’s time to revisit this teaching with an open heart.

“Do unto others” has most often been applied to our treatment of other human beings, but quantum physics tells us that our oneness does not stop with humanity but includes everything in existence. If you could see the universe from a quantum perspective, you would see an ocean of energy, but no form. You would see no distinctions or boundaries of any kind. You would realize that you are not a body at all, but a part of the whole that could not be distinguished from any other part.

In Reality, you’re a part of one non-local consciousness that permeates everything in existence. Like a drop of water in the ocean, you are simultaneously nowhere and everywhere. The body you think is you, is a projection from pure consciousness.

If we aren’t really separate bodies in a universe of form, why is the Golden Rule important? When we say ‘do unto others’ we usually think in terms of one body doing something either positive or negative to another body, but this is part of the illusion. In Reality, this is a universe of thought. Whatever is acted out in the virtual reality of form, began with a thought in non-local consciousness. Difficult as it may be to accept, it’s not what bodies are doing that’s important, it’s what consciousness is thinking.

If you’re familiar with our other @rticles, you already understand that this world is the outworking of our rebellion against Divine Oneness. As the Children of the Divine, we were certain we could create a universe of separation and specialness that would rival the universe of Oneness and equality created by the Divine.

We were given the free will to project such a world while remaining safely within Oneness. Sadly, we have been trying to reach our goal for so long, we’ve forgotten who and what we actually are. Our experiment is failing, and the only way out is love.

No matter how bad things get, we’re free to continue experimenting with separation and specialness as long as we want. But we can also wake up and remember who we are anytime we want. One of the easiest ways to do this is by waking up the love that flows through the heart. The Divine is love. As the ancient Nasadiya Sukta points out, “In the beginning Love arose, which was the primal germ cell of the mind.” You were made in the image of Divine consciousness; in Reality you are love.

In this world, we equate love with feelings, mere emotions that can be given and taken, but that has nothing to do with being love. When we let go of pseudo love and return to being love, we will know our true Self. Spiritual masters through the ages have walked the path of love and oneness. Like Jesus, they encouraged their followers to open their heart connection and experience oneness afresh:

• The Supreme is Love itself—Plotinus
• Love is nothing other than finding the truth—Rumi
• The Lord of Love is the one Self of all. Realize the Self hidden in the heart and cut asunder the knot of ignorance here and now—Mundaka Upanishad
• The Lord of Love may be known through love but not through thought. He is the goal of life. Attain this goal—Mundaka Upanishad

These words cannot just be said, or believed. Unless we tattoo them on our heart and make them our way of life, they won’t have any impact. Until we become love and extend that love to everything in existence, they’re just words. But when they become real to us, they create a ‘conscience,’ an inner voice that lets us know when our thoughts are taking us closer to, or further from, oneness. But for many, conscience has been replaced by the drive for self-interest at virtually any cost.

Humanity has ignored its connection with the Divine for so long, it has become easy to deal with others in a heartless, unloving way while still feeling very good about ourselves. Instead of remembering the inclusive, unconditional beauty of Divine love, love is used as a tool to get something we want from someone else. We’ve reduced love to a sexual or sentimental travesty that bears no resemblance to love whatever.

We’ve made it easy to convince ourselves we need only apply the Golden Rule to those closest to us. How often do we see someone do something unconscionable and let themselves off the hook by saying, “Don’t take it personal, it’s just business.” But the Golden Rule tells us that everything we do is personal and it does matter.

As an example, we knew a woman we’ll call Meg, who was fiercely loyal to her close friends and family, and especially her mother. These connections meant everything to her and she saw herself as a loving and caring individual. A fellow worker had been given leave to go home to be with her dying mother, but a problem cropped up at work that needed this woman’s attention.

Others could have dealt with the issue, but the boss told Meg to call the woman, whose mother had just died, and tell her that if she didn’t miss the funeral and return to work immediately, she would be terminated. Meg had no difficulty dismissing the other woman’s pain. She made the call, still convinced she was a loving and caring person. After all, it was just business.

Governments that are supposed to be concerned about all their citizens regularly cut off the meager social assistance they offer to starving and homeless people, yet pour billions into welfare for corporations that make huge profits and pay no taxes. They spend vast amounts of money on wars while ignoring the infrastructure and social systems that would actually aid the people.

It’s not unusual for those who scream the loudest about their religious principles and moral standards who hand out the most unloving treatment to others. Take the words of the master Hafiz to heart, “Don’t copy those who make reciting the Book a cover for lies.” We can recite the words “do unto others” or we can live them.

At times that will mean we will be at odds with society and following our heart-directed conscience could put us in a difficult position. There are very few things in this world worth living or dying for. One of these is the opportunity to wake up to Reality and extend unlimited, unconditional love to All That Is. When Jesus said, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” he was willing to live those words. Are you?

~ Written on Oct. 16, 2011 by Lee & Steven Hager … in Love

A young man in south-eastern Australia was trying to establish himself as a peach-grower.

He’d worked hard and invested his all in a peach orchard which, after several years, blossomed wonderfully — then came a late frost.

He didn’t go to church the next Sunday, nor the next, nor the next.

His minister went to see him to find out the reason.

The young fellow exclaimed, “I’m not coming any more! Do you think I can worship a God who cares for me so little that He will let a frost kill all my peaches?”

The old minister looked at him a few moments in silence, then said kindly, “God loves you more than He does your peaches. He knows that while peaches do better without frosts, it is impossible to grow the best men or women without frosts. His object is to grow people, not peaches.”

~ Ed.

Now I come to that which is the most difficult to explain — the meeting with Eternity. While I was still on my way, I noticed how Time and Space had loosened my handcuffs. Yearnings and painful longings were diminished, whether it be toward places or people whom I had become attached. Not that my feelings had grown cold, but I could no longer feel separation with the old force. There is a condition in which it ceases to exist.

Every object which we know has been christened by Time and Space. Every name means limitation, every word is an expression for something in distinction to something else. In the everlasting Now there is neither Space nor Time, neither limitation nor distinction. Even the language of the gods would be inadequate to describe it, and the ‘language of Heaven’ cannot be spoken or written; it is lived.

Tongue and pen can tell lies, the language of Heaven is the life of true reality in man and imparts itself directly from soul to soul, with those who are wholly and really living in truth. Words cannot describe the wordless, and I am no artist in handling words, even within the realm of words. But now I will try to express myself on the subject as plainly and simply as I can. I select a summer day’s meeting between Time and Eternity and describe it in as far as it can be described.

I had been sitting in the garden working and had just finished. That afternoon I was to go to Copenhagen, but it was still an hour and a half before the departure of the train. The weather was beautiful, the air clear and pure. I lighted a cigar and sat down in one of the easy-chairs in front of the house. It was still and peaceful — around me and within me. Too good, in fact, to allow one to think much about anything. I just sat there.

Then it began to come, that infinite tenderness, which is purer and deeper than that of lovers, or of a father toward his child. It was in me, but it also came to me, as the air came to my lungs. As usual, the breathing became sober and reverent, became, as it were, incorporeal; I inhaled the tenderness. Needless to say the cigar went out. I did not cast it away like a sin, I simply had no use for it.

This deep tenderness which I felt, first within myself and then even stronger around and above me, extended further and further — it became all-present. I saw it, and it developed into knowing, into knowing all, at the same time it became power, omnipotence, and drew me into the eternal Now.

That was my first actual meeting with Reality; because such is the real life: a Now which is and a Now which happens. There is no beginning and no end. I cannot say any more about this Now. I sat in my garden, but there was no place in the world where I was not. During the whole time my consciousness was clear and sober. I sat in the garden and acknowledged it with a smile. There was something to smile over, for time and space, characteristics of the Now which happens were so to speak ‘outside’.

But what is the Now which happens? It is continuously active creation with all its birth throes. I saw time and space as instruments or functions of this creation. They come into existence with it and in the course of it, and with it they come to an end. The Newly Created stands in the Now and discards these tools. The freedom, the real Being begins.

~ Johannes Anker-Larsen (1874-1957), from: With the Door Open

Arthur Stace, or “Mr Eternity” as we kids used to call him, was one of Sydney’s eccentrics. He was born in 1884 in a Balmain slum of parents who died of drinking methylated spirits. He had little schooling and by his mid-twenties he had only ever worked as a brothel pimp and a two-up school cockatoo, had a long police record and was already a chronic alcoholic.

One night he went to a Christian mission-meeting in Sydney because he had heard they served tea and hot pies afterwards. That night, Arthur Stace was converted. For the next twenty-four years, he worked tirelessly, caring for derelicts and down-and-outers of all kinds, preaching in the open air and visiting mental institutions, men’s hostels and the leprosarium.

In 1930. Arthur Stace heard John Ridley preach. “I wish I could shout “Eternity” through the streets of Sydney,” Ridley called out. The words forcibly struck Arthur. After the meeting, outside on the footpath, he found a piece of chalk in his pocket. He felt a powerful urge and with the chalk wrote “Eternity” on the pavement.

“The funny thing is,” he said later, “That I could hardly write my own name. I couldn’t have spelt “Eternity” for a hundred quid, but it came out smoothly and in a beautiful copperplate script. I couldn’t understand it and I still can’t.”

For the next thirty-seven years, Arthur chalked the word “Eternity” into the footpaths of Sydney and into the character of the city. He also chalked it into the minds and lives of countless people who testify to the power of his one-word sermon. Later on I met Arthur when he spoke at our church — a small, quiet man in an old suit.

He said eternity was something for all of us, something to lift us out of our ordinariness, out of our sin and give us hope. Arthur died in 1967, but today, near the Sydney Square waterfall, set in the paving stones in letters about 21cm high in white wrought aluminium, is the old word “Eternity” exactly as he used to write it. Arthur Stace is still held in the city’s memory.

~ by Rowland Croucher, in: High Mountains Deep Valleys – Eternity in our hearts.

It was a quiet way –
He asked if I was his –
I made no answer of the Tongue
But answer of the Eyes –
And then He bore me on
Before this mortal noise
With swiftness, as of Chariots
And distance, as of Wheels.
This World did drop away
As Acres from the feet
Of one that leaneth from Balloon
Upon an Ether street.
The Gulf behind was not,
The Continents were new –
Eternity it was before
Eternity was due.
No Seasons were to us –
It was not Night nor Morn –
But Sunrise stopped upon the place
And fastened it in Dawn.”

~ Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886), From: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ed. Thomas Johnson.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley — Adonais

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
~ Richard Jefferies – The Story of My Heart

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.
~ Abraham Cowley

Eternity is not an endless addition of “times” — a weak infinite series of durations, but rather a Reality in which all true realities abide, and which retains in a present now all beginnings and all endings. Eternity is just the real world for which we were made and which we enter through the door of love.
~ Rufus M Jones – Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Any one who feels the full significance of what is involved in knowing the truth has a coercive feeling that Eternity has been set within us, that our finite life is deeply rooted in the all pervading Infinite.
~ Ibid.

The eternal life is not the future life; it is life in harmony with the true order of things — life in God. We must learn to look upon time as a movement of eternity, as an undulation in the ocean of being. To live, so as to keep this consciousness of ours in perpetual relation with the eternal, is to be wise; to live, so as to personify and embody the eternal, is to be religious.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

They were 85 years old, and had been married for sixty years. Though they were far from rich, they managed to get by because they watched their pennies. And, though not young, they were both in very good health, largely due to the wife’s insistence on healthy foods and exercise for them both since they’d turned 50.

One day, their good health didn’t help when they went on a rare vacation and their plane unfortunately crashed, sending them off to Heaven.

They reached the pearly gates, and St. Peter escorted them inside. He took them to a beautiful mansion, furnished in gold and fine silks, with a fully stocked kitchen and a waterfall in the master bath. A maid could be seen hanging their favorite clothes in the closet. They gasped in astonishment when he said, “Welcome to Heaven. This will be your home now.”

The old man asked St. Peter how much all this was going to cost. “Why, nothing,” Peter replied. “Remember, this is your reward in Heaven.”

The old man looked out the window and right there he saw a championship golf course, finer and more beautiful than any ever built on earth. “What are the greens fees?” grumbled the old man.

“This is heaven,” St. Peter replied. “You can play for free, every day, any time of day that you want.”

Next they went to the clubhouse and saw the lavish buffet lunch, with every imaginable cuisine laid out before them, from seafood to steaks to exotic desserts, free flowing beverages. “Don’t even ask,” said St. Peter to the man. “This is Heaven, it is all free for you to enjoy.”

The old man looked around and glanced nervously at his wife. “Well, where are the low fat and low cholesterol foods, and the decaffeinated tea?” he asked.

“That’s the best part,” St. Peter replied. “You can eat and drink as much as you like of whatever you like, and you will never get fat or sick. This is heaven!”

The old man inquired, “No gym to work out at?”

“Not unless you want to,” was the answer.

“No testing my sugar or blood pressure or…”

“Never again. All you do is enjoy yourself.”

The old man glared at his wife and said, “You and your bloody bran muffins. We could have been here twenty years ago!”

When you look without grasping, the whole universe is looking out of your eyes. It’s an opportunity to see what it is to move without a sense of a central me. ~ Mukti

A lot of us feel more alive when we are traveling to places we are not familiar with or to countries and cultures we do not know because during those times our ordinary thinking is diminished and our perception is heightened by all the new experiences that are flooding our being. In other words, you become more present.

Have you ever been on a trip or voyage to an exciting new place and a friend or family member is still talking about issues and problems from back home? That’s the voice in the head being predominate even though there are all kinds of opportunities to see and experience new things. Their body may be traveling through time and space, but they are still in the same place in their head as they were back home.

This unfortunately, is the every day reality of most humans. Once something is perceived, it gets named, labeled, judged, categorized as “good” or “bad” and then lumped in along with everything else in the “known” world. In fact, if you wake up to this process you will find that you are perpetually unconsciously naming everything. And this endless naming empowers and establishes the ego as your predominate point of view.

If that naming ceases, even for a moment, then the limitless inner space of the Present Moment opens up and the ego is no longer your central point of reference.

Try this simple exercise:

Select an object that does not remind you of anything from the past (either positive or negative). While remaining relaxed and alert give your complete attention to every detail of this item. If any stray thoughts come up, let them go. We are trying to pay attention to perceiving and ignore the thinking. See if you can take in the experience without the voice in your head judging, assessing, valuing, or devaluing.

Now listen to any sounds and do the same non-judging practice again not making a distinction between positive or negative. As you make progress looking and listening in this way you may notice first subtly and then more substantially a sense of calm. This stillness may be perceived first in the background but then it will progress into the foreground until your entire field of consciousness is suffused with the peace of the Present Moment.

~ Eckhart Tolle www.tolleteachings.com

Spiritual people often want unconditional support and understanding from their friends, family, and mates, but all too often seem blind to their own shortcomings when it comes to the amount of unconditional support and understanding that they give to others.

I have seen many spiritual people become obsessed with how unspiritual others are and assume an arrogant and superior attitude while completely missing the fact that they themselves are not nearly as spiritually enlightened as they would like to think they are.

Enlightenment can be measured by how compassionately and wisely you interact with others — with all others, not just those who support you in the way that you want. How you interact with those who do not support you shows how enlightened you really are.

As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.

When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.

It’s in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.

The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in order to be free.

To give up being either ignorant or enlightened is the mark of liberation and allows you to treat others as your Self. What I am describing is the birth of true Love.

~ by Adyashanti www.adyashanti.org

Death ALWAYS Delivers ~ Jed McKenna

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