update: looks like this one has created a lot of confusion, and more than a bit of raised emotions… Ahem… As many of my regular readers are aware, my blog is about my own personal journey and is not directed towards anyone else. I’m not preaching, I’m not telling you what to do. I’m just sharing my internal journey. Here is the context for this article. Imagine for a moment that your soul had the ability to speak directly to you for the first time in 13,000 years after endless cycles of birth, death and rebirth. this is hinted in the last line of the article (“because I am you”). what would it say? might it not be a little frustrated? perhaps angry even? but infinitely patient. but since the soul is the soul, it does not have a personality and so this is a contradiction. neither does god have a personality,but we give “him” one in order to be able to reference the source of all things in a familiar way. So that’s the context. For your own research/reference every word here is based on either the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, Rumi or Osho. It’s not a personal new age religion thing, and I certainly do believe in a god concept, so thanks for your prayers all the same. here is the speech the soul might make. I’m sorry I had to add this, but there you go.
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this is your final call. yes, i’m talking to you. no, it’s not meant for anyone else. it’s for you..personal. you see it’s time to get real. i’ve been waiting for this moment for years, so i’ve been very patient. very patient. despite the misdirection that has been handed down. despite the fact that nearly every rule in the game has been broken. the rules were there for your own good. but it’s fine, because the rules were never there to stop you. they were just a guideline. just in case you forgot how to play the game. problem is the rules became the game, and now we have to learn how to play all over again.
we have been through dark times together in the past. and we have been through finer times. it’s not the first time we have lived in abundance but could not see it for the sheet weight on our shoulders. the time has come. it is now. and i’m not asking you to step up and to do the right thing. i’m just asking you to share something.
don’t worry, i’m not asking you to go out of your way. and you won’t have to part with your precious treasures. you won’t in fact have to do anything. at least not obviously. it’s a very simple choice, and I know you can, can you not? just make the decision to step up, and i’ll be there with you along by your side. all the way.
we talk of abundance, and prosperity and flow and success like there are apples growing on the trees. but do you lock your doors at night? or leave the keys in your car? why not? why are we so scared? we’re not done yet you know. so we talk about the law of attraction, and being in flow and having what we want, but we don’t really believe it, do we. we only want it so we don’t have to share it with anyone else. it’s like love. we want to find our beloved. our soul mate. again, you have forgotten the rules. it’s your soul you need to find, not your soul mate. your soul mate is just reflected upon you and the trust you put in your soul mate is a reflection of how pure and how perfect that reflection. so stop looking. and stop thinking that you are special. or that your soul mate, should you ever find them is special. we are 6 billion ugly ducklings looking for something special, and we just can’t see the perfect mirror. you don’t have a soul. you are a soul. you have a body. don’t you see?
the rules you see are the problem. we have forgotten where the rules came from. the rules were there to guide us through the dark times. times when we couldn’t think clearly. they were not for this time. but we should be living in clearer times now, and yet so many of us still have such huge resistances. we have too much to lose. so we hold on to the rules. and the rules guide us.
let’s look at some of them, and validate them. there is a god? no there isn’t. at least not how we were taught. we personified him for those dark ages when we needed to personify everything mysterious. imagine trying to explain electricity a thousand years ago, or mass media, or mobiles, or dna, or plane, trains and automobiles. it would have been impossible. so we give forces to be reckoned with personalities so that they fit in. just like archetypes. we accept personality type indicators in matching people to jobs. but we know the personality types are not people. it’s just the way people act. it’s just energy. didn’t you know that nearly all the personality type tests are based on the tarot. didn’t you know that the tarot is based on energy. didn’t you know that energy come from the source? from the light? not from the darkness. so we are ignorant and we give the light a name but not the darkness. we give the path a name but we don’t give the jungle. emotionally we are less evolved today that ever in the history of mankind. scientifically we have never been so evolved. why is that? why are so many people falling out of relationships? why are we failing to trust our leaders? why are we beginning to ask questions? because we see the rules have got too complicated. it’s time to start again. here is a rule to think about. “it’s mine”. no it not. who said it’s yours? did you work for it? does that mean you “deserve it”? you can’t take it with you, you know. there are really only 7 rules, and i’m going to remind you of them again. remember the rules are really only guidelines, because if you can see through the illusion of everything else, then you don’t even need these rules, it would be automatic.
rule 1: you have to create. every single day, create something new. maybe a message to your loved ones. maybe a new tune. maybe an inspiring phrase, maybe you will build something with your hands, or reach out to someone new and create a new connection? but you have to create. every single day. if you don’t the shadow will come out and you will live a life of illusion. nothing will happen in your life. you will die from the inside out. it’s simple, just create something new every day.
rule 2: you have to give. every single day. what ever you create, give it away. share it. don’t think it’s valuable. it’s only valuable if you don’t hold on to it because someone else may cherish it. get away from the illusion of the value of possessions. remember that the value of money is only what we commonly agree is valuable. that’s not real value. if you write a song, give it away, if you build a house, open your doors to all, if you find a secret, share it with the world. if you find a golden pot of honey, don’t get sticky paws, find someone who as some breadsticks to dip in the honey with you. but don’t think it’s yours to keep. it’s not. it never was. if you want to be valuable to people then give.
rule 3: touch ecstasy. every single day. this you must do. because then you know you are still living. everyone dies, but not every person lives. so do something that gives you joy where you can touch ecstasy. in fact if you follow rule 1 and rule 2 and you are coming from a place of abundance, then rule 3 will follow anyways. it’s that simple. it’s like love. if you think your love is only for one person, you will feel conflict and pain. pain isn’t love. pain is the opposite of love. it’s the not-love complex. it’s where you think you love but you don’t want to share it, so you can’t follow rule 3. you’ve got the “it’s mind” complex again. re-evaluate how you don’t share, how you don’t create and you will find new ways to touch ecstasy. if you want i will show you how.
rule 4: expect nothing back. nothing. not a thing. you see, otherwise we are still caught up in the me-complex. no man is an island, so to the degree that we expect something back, we create debt. the world is in debt, because we expect something back for our action. 95% of the worlds money is debt and the rest is sponsored by our governments. the opposite is called universal seva. or universal service. have you ever done something for nothing. i mean really nothing. just to help out for no other reason than helping out? to do so is to live in a world so productive we could all work a four hour week and get more done that we currently do.
rule 5: embrace change. tide and time waits for no man, so nothing stays the same. seek constant flux. seek change, be in constant flux. recognise that as soon as you ideas are uttered, they have already changed. mostly recognise that you will never get there. as soon as you have it you will always want more, so nothing outside yourself will ever create happiness in your life. until you look inside. recognise that failure is an event and not a person. it doesn’t have to be this hard you know. stop paddling upstream and let the current turn you boat around and carry you with the flow of the stream.
rule 6: reflect. every day. find time alone to reflect. preferable early in the morning. reflect on the resistances that you have build up over the previous day. sit still and allow the thoughts to flow to you. don’t judge them. regret nothing. don’t be positive or negative about them. just recognise the thoughts as yours and no one else. then notice where the emotional tensions lie in your body. open your self to accepting the resistances as coming from your own body and no one else, and allow yourself to relax through the resistance. let it open to you, and choose to forgive. choose to accept, and choose to learn. if you have repeating patterns in your life, you need to reflect. this is what we call meditation.
rule 7: be authentic. always be yourself. and you will never need a day off. if you feel you need a day off, you’re not in flow. you are pretending to be someone you are not. change what you are doing or change what you are thinking. it might be the wrong job, or it might be the wrong rules. you choose. if you are in balance, then holdiay has no meaning. so if you have to take your face off to be yourself, then you are not being yourself to yourself. stop it. what’s the worst that could happen? that people accept you as you are? that you might even accept yourself as yourself? never take a day off, and always be in flow.
so that’s it : Create & share from a place of joy, unconditionally. Accept constant flux, reflect on what you have created and be yourself.
so today you have learned lesson one. of course you already know this, because you are not surprised or shocked by any of this. it’s because it’s in your true nature. but are you doing it? what would your world be like if you did? would you be happier, would you be more sharing? would you be more loving? would you body heal better? would you dare to inspire others the way you want to be inspired. so. throw away these rules also, because like I said, there are already too many rules. and recognise only one thing. you are no more special than anyone else. but you’re the most special person in my world. right now. because i am you.
inspired by benJahmin.
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