No, I find it is Time!
You go enjoy your blisters.
There of your own making, so enjoy them.
dick blisters wrote:
>
> When my cousins and I were kids around 8 to 12 yrs old (about 60 yrs ago
for
> myself) we used to play this funny little game we made up.
> We would all sit in a circle and take turns making up a sentence and as
we
> repeated it, we would drop one word each time until there was nothing
but
> silence left. We would always give the person speaking our full focus
and
> attention.
> We would sit there for a time in the silence and look around at each
other
> until someone started giggling and then we would all break into peels of
> laughter and it would be someone elses turn.
> There was definately something powerful going on because when we looked
into
> each others eyes, it was like we could actually see and feel the silence
> inside the other person.
>
> Here's an example of the kind of sentence we used: (the dots represent
the
> silence aspect)
>
> ......I'm Dick Blisters and I live in Birch River
> ......I'm Dick Blisters and I live in Birch
> ......I'm Dick Blisters and I live in
> ......I'm Dick Blisters and I live
> ......I'm Dick Blisters and I
> ......I'm Dick Blisters and
> ......I'm Dick Blisters
> ......I'm Dick
> ......I am
> ......I
> .......
> .....
> ...
> ..
> .
>
> "Michael Turner" <Michael112658@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> THE CELESTIAL WORD
> - by Michael Turner
> © 1999, 2007
>
> (The following was originally published in the November 1999 edition
> of "The Sonic Spectrum". It is based upon the transcript of a satsang
> I gave on August 15, 1999, following reading from the chapter, "The
> Celestial Word" in Paul Twitchell's "Stranger by the River".)
>
> Sit upright. Close your eyes. Focus your attention forward, between
> the eyebrows at the Tisra Til. Three times, sing "Hu," a love song to
> God. Go within. Meditate. May the blessings be.
>
> The title of the chapter, "The Celestial Word," sums up what it's all
> about. It's about the Word. What's the path about? It's about the
> Word - the Light and Sound of God, particularly the Sound.
>
> It starts with a feeling I think everybody can relate to on some
> level. It's that feeling or perception that draws you to this path in
> the first place. You start hearing an inner sound like the wind. You
> know it's not the wind, but you're not quite sure what it is; and it
> eats at you a little bit. It's something that doesn't fit into your
> operating paradigm for reality. So you try to figure out what it is;
> then you try to forget trying to figure out what it is.
>
> When you're really ready for this path, the Sound is something that
> will stay with you. It won't let you rest, because you as soul are
> tapping into It. You are actively beginning to get a taste of the
> Holy Spirit and experience It. Soul wants to know. More im****tantly,
> it wants to get home; and you start really getting into this path when
> you start hearing that beacon call from Home.
>
> Most people have some sense of the Sound, but they usually just ignore
> It. There are all sorts of things that get in the way of your
> attention. But after a while, the Word begins to speak to you more
> and more clearly, and you can't ignore It, because It's the Sound of
> the Eternal.
>
> There's a great line right here: "All men could hear it, if they would
> stop and listen. Only some hear it more clearly than others. That
> is why you hear it tonight, because your spiritual ears are open."
> This is so true. It is a basic rudiment of the path that we talk
> about in Satsang, regarding what "Surat" means in "Surat Shabd
> Yoga."
>
> "Surat" is our attention, or more specifically the attention of the
> soul. Usually, our attention is dragged outside and down by our
> minds, our emotions, and the sensory input we receive. It is
> completely inundated with information, a cacophony of sounds and
> lights and sights and smells and feelings and perceptions and all
> sorts of things that keep the brain on a permanent scramble/unscramble
> basis, trying to make sense of all the data that's coming in. As a
> result, it takes conscious effort to tune out the sensory stimuli and
> mental stimuli, and tune in the Sound.
>
> There has been a focus in some circles for about 30 years now in which
> people have been using isolation tanks for sensory deprivation. The
> way it works is you lie in a pool of body-temperature salt water in a
> dark enclosure. There is no outer sound or sight or simulation of
> your outer senses because the water is exactly body temperature, the
> saline factor is so high that you float, and it is completely dark.
> This can be a good start for some people, as it can start them on the
> way towards inner exploration. But what it generally shows them is
> simply an act of mind. They tune out the body senses, then the mental
> senses come into play, and the mind has all kinds fun. But grokking
> the mind is completely different than grokking the soul, which is a
> self-aware particle of pure, eternal love.
>
> We are God's instruments for love. God sees the world through our
> eyes. God loves the world through our hearts. That's how It spreads
> Its love, and it's very im****tant. We each have to find our own way
> home for ourselves.
>
> "The Voice of God is man's divine link with the Almighty." That's so
> simple. That is the path, right there. It does not get any simpler.
> When I first read that, I knew. I wasn't quite sure what I knew, or
> how I knew it, but I knew. This sentence states the ultimate reality
> in so very few words. "The Voice of God is man's divine link with the
> Almighty." It is incredible in its simplicity and its truth. It's
> the foundation of every religion that's ever been, every poem that's
> ever been, every heart that's ever been. It is simply the wave of
> love, the Voice, the Sound, always resonating, always singing, always
> loving.
>
> That's all the Word does, is love. All It ever does, has done and
> ever will do, is love. It doesn't operate from will. It doesn't
> operate from desire. It doesn't set out to bless us or punish us. It
> simply flows, out from God and back to God. Our state of happiness or
> unhappiness, ease or dis-ease, is simply a reflection of how closely
> we are in harmony with the Wave.
>
> Another beautiful comment in the chapter follows this. It's another
> great spiritual truth about the nature of Naam and this world. "It is
> the true Spirit Current, and it's like the great river yonder. For if
> you try to divert it one way, then it flows another. Stop it, and its
> wastes will overflow the banks. So it is better to open your
> spiritual ears and listen to the music of the seven spheres as it
> flows through you. Open yourself and your heart and your soul to It,
> unafraid and gladly."
>
> It's amazing that something as simple as the River of Spirit is so
> continuously subjected to strife, to schisms, to new religions, to
> competing paths, to people saying, "My God is bigger than your God.
> My Master is bigger than your master. My Shabd is bigger than your
> Shabd." And yet people do it over and over and over again. A great
> human vehicle comes along and the River flows through that person
> because he or she is a well-tuned instrument for Its purpose, for Its
> way. They express It well. They harmonize with It well.
>
> Eventually after they leave the scene there is some sort of temple
> constructed, a church built, and people start trying to build a dam
> around the River of Spirit, saying, "Ah yes. Our teacher was the one
> great, true teacher. This was the teacher of all teachers. This was
> exponent of all exponents. So we will build a monument to this. And
> we will house the great Spirit Current in this monument, so that
> people will always know that this is the one true monument."
>
> It's just like if you try to take any great river and dam it to
> intensely. Take, say, the Colorado River and the Hoover Dam. There
> are sluice gates and release valves that let the water flow through.
> It runs generators and things likes that. If you simply have a giant
> mass of concrete trying to hold back the river, eventually it would
> overflow the dam. It would eat away at the banks around it. It would
> undermine it, until finally the dam was destroyed, or the river cut an
> entirely new channel.
>
> This is something that the Current of Spirit always does. It doesn't
> care what a person's name is, what country they live in, what culture
> they belong to. It's just flowing. And when you try to contain It,
> It will simply (not out of malice or displeasure with your actions,
> like It's trying to punish you) find a new avenue for Its expression
> because that's what It does. Put an obstacle here, and It will go
> around. That's the way It always has been.
>
> So we do the best we can, in this moment in our lives, who we are now,
> studying this means of self-knowledge and God-realization, to
> harmonize ourselves with the Spiritual Current. We need to work with
> a teacher living here and now and who is a living, harmonious
> instrument for Naam's expression, and use that as a focusing point to
> immerse ourselves in the River of Spirit. Who knows what's going to
> happen in five minutes? Who cares what happened a week ago? The
> im****tant thing is being here and now in Naam.
>
> Paul makes several good points in this chapter. It's almost as if it's
> a Cliff's Notes version of the entire book, because there are some
> major keys here about the inner Light and Sound, like this next one.
> It's something that every Master I've read talks about at some point
> when they discuss the Light and Sound.
>
> Paul basically says that the Light is there for you to see where you
> are going, and the Sound is there to guide you back. Charan Singh
> once used the analogy of being lost in the forest after dark and
> trying to find your way back to your cabin. If you're a ways away
> from the cabin in a dense forest, you're not going to be able to see
> it even if it has a light on. But if there's music playing in the
> cabin, you can hear it, and you can walk towards the music. Now, you
> know how forests are. There are branches that get in your face and
> tree roots and things like that. So you have to have a flashlight in
> order to see where the roots and branches are. If you're stuck in the
> forest too deep where you can't clearly see the edge of it, the
> flashlight won't do you any good in actually getting out of the
> forest; you can walk around in circles. But if you're hearing the
> sound coming from your cabin, that will give you a beacon to walk
> toward and then you just use your light to make sure you don't trip
> over anything. In a nutshell, these are the twin functions of the
> Light and Sound.
>
> We are in the depths of the forest, down here on earth. We're way
> deep in the big muddy. Simply working with the light, even the cosmic
> light, will not get us out of the psychic regions of duality, because
> the light that we're seeing emanates from the mental plane and so all
> we're going to see, if we're lucky, is something that will guide us
> back to the mind. If we only rely on our own efforts, using the light
> by itself, and without a guide, we'll still be walking around lost.
> The inner light might be a bright flashlight, it might be a high beam
> halogen, but even then, it will give you only an extra 20 feet of
> clearance in the woods, as opposed to say, the 10 feet you have with a
> regular flashlight. If you want something that will really get you
> out of the forest of the lower worlds and back home to the Creator,
> focus on the Sound.
>
> Of course, sometimes the mind can ricochet the sound around too. The
> mind is like a combination giant mirror house and echo chamber that
> reflects the sound in the same way it reflects light. That's when you
> need to tap into the Shabda, the one Shabda, and have a true guide who
> will take your hand and say, "It's over here. Keep focusing on the
> sound on the right, and let it lead you to the center. Don't focus on
> the left; that takes you back down to the lower worlds. Focus on the
> middle and then go up and in." If you simply hang on to the hand of
> the inner master, unwavering (kind of like Lois Lane holding on to
> Superman's hand in the first Superman movie when they are flying
> together), the guidance will be true and focused and you will
> gradually melt more and more into the wave of love, the wave of Divine
> Sound.
>
> As you unfold into self and God-realization, the Master will anchor
> you on to the Light and Sound of Sat Purush's Sat Naam, the True Word,
> and make it a clear transition from here to there... or perhaps I
> should say, from here to here. This is part of the process and you're
> getting to experience that. You come right back to square one and
> you're just the same, only different. You're back to being a real
> person. You will know when people are going to be receptive to
> talking about Spirit, and when they aren't. If they are not into it,
> all you have to do is smile. Your eyes and the smile and the tone of
> your voice make all the difference.
>
> Often, the most spiritual thing you can do for any person you see, is
> simply open up to Naam, look them in the eyes and smile. Smile with
> your heart. Smile with your soul. Don't say anything more than
> "Hi." Just say "Hi," and smile. The River of God will flow through
> you and touch any person you meet, and It will lift them up in It's
> own way. If nothing else, maybe they're having a bad day and suddenly
> when you smile at them, they smile back, and they feel happy.
>
> There's a lot of talk in Sant Mat literature about inner bliss. When
> you find the inner regions and really focus there, you will find
> fountain springs of inner bliss. I think there might be a tendency to
> think of that as being like a giant lotus blossom, lotuses that are
> 10,000 feet across, you know and you're just sitting there with
> fountains of ambrosia pouring all around you kind of bliss. Now, that
> is part of it; but inner bliss can also simply be having something
> that sparks Divine Love inside of you, and makes you happy.
>
> We spend a lot of time in this life not being happy. Sometimes it's a
> necessary lesson. But when you can tap into that inner joy or
> happiness, it's a beautiful thing. When you really start merging with
> the River of Spirit, that's when you start moving into becoming a co-
> worker with God, becoming an instrument of It's expression. Just by
> being. Look at somebody and say, "Hi, how are you? That's great." or
> "I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better. Have a great
> day."
>
> Simple things like that will lift people up and bring God into their
> lives, and almost invariably do far more for their spiritual
> upliftment than talking about the path. People who want to hear about
> the path will let you know very clearly. People will say "You seem to
> be so happy. You seem to be so together. You've got all this stuff
> going on in your life; I'd be freaking out, but you seem to be very
> calm. What's your secret?" Or you might in passing mention the fact
> that you meditate; letting it casually slip out. Those who are
> receptive will say, "Really? You meditate? What kind of
> meditation?"
>
> It's easy to want to talk a lot about the path. I know it's a phase
> that I went through. These days, I'm a great fan of the Law of
> Silence. Simply by being, observing, and loving - you will know.
> People will know. Often, there will be an attraction, and they will
> want to be around you. In this way, by merging with the Celestial
> Word, you become a radiant, harmonious, expression of God.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Michael Turner
>
> "Those who have communed with the Word,
> their toils shall end,
> and their faces shall flame with glory.
> Not only will they have salvation, O Na****,
> but many more shall find freedom with them."
> - Guru Na****, Jap Ji - Finale
>
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