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Much of my spiritual life is spent listening,
and then it is occupied with interpreting
and understanding what is being conveyed.
At times, there appears to be a theme or
concept connecting what I am inspired to
write and record.
I received the Meditation Guidance
below titled New Ground.
NEW GROUND
We attach ourselves to the function of things,
to the sequence of things, to the process,
following the ritual required, hoping
to find structure, concreteness, and order
where only fluid change exists – eternity,
where only impermanence abides; today
let us release our grasp and allow the fiction
of control to ease, moving toward looser,
more spontaneous paradigms; mindful,
aware, stretching each moment by truly
being in it, engaged and ultimately unscripted,
a free-range being without role, egoless,
forsaking the comfortable for new ground,
virgin, fertile - requiring the shedding
of repetitive being.
NOE G. 3.29.2017
I rarely ever receive guidance that
is not in some way personal and related
to my life. When I received this guidance,
I was drowning in my output, still
going strong writing the Finding God On
The Train Story - Notes On Enlightenment –
with well over seven hundred pages, still
seeing no end in sight.
I needed to step back and seek new ground.
This new ground, if fully embraced, would
require a radical shift in my consciousness:
most notable; the desire for permanence;
the need for control, the ability to just let go –
and the most difficult, at least for me,
choosing spontaneity over preparation.
Being spontaneous rather than prepared,
almost beyond graduate business school
and professional conditioning to comprehend,
let alone actually do. My favorite phrase
underscores the challenge of this note
for me to live -
“ultimately unscripted,
a free-range being.”
The second offering below, Free The
Fireflies is an inspired poem from
a Sunday morning meditation.
FREE THE FIREFLIES
It is the ramifications of fierce expectations,
formed in off moments with fleeting desires
that limit and spoil our possibilities;
forever taking infinite possibility,
truncating it, squeezing it
into our preconceived containers,
our goal-directed edict, our years
of misguided conditioning –
like fireflies jarred
on a summer night,
these bits of magnificence
lose illumination and darken,
only to fade from existence
and our grasp.
Let us endeavor to shed our forethought,
expecting less of ourselves, others,
life itself - learning to live, to be again.
POEM G. 4.30.2017
Again, a plea for more spontaneity,
as well as the elimination of expectation
and forethought, moving toward
the “shedding of repetitive being.”
Offering, for me, a rather radical
approach:
“expecting less of ourselves, others,
and life itself.”
What I like most about these two notes,
is that they convey what has been
the spiritual wisdom of the ages for those
seeking enlightenment – expressed in
a more soul-catching garb, difficult
for me to ignore or dismiss.
In all of this, I was able to see a fresh
approach for my book with too many
pages.
WITH LOVE, G.