How we might make a global shift was suggested in the previous
issue: “We must all move toward Truth together.” I
also suggested a way to think of Truth, or God: “love,
abundance, harmlessness and ever new joy.” This corresponds
to what I believe each of us is really like—everything
else is packaging. What each of us is, is the same: we are Truth,
we are each like God.
All that is, is God,
manifest as the world and non-manifest as pure potential;
because God is without limitation, we are without limitation,
so anything is possible for us.
Even though we are each unique as individuals, we are all the
same in what it is that we really are. This commonality connects
us with each other as a unit, one family that shares these same
qualities:
We are each unconditional love, abundance,
harmlessness and ever new joy.
These are my own beliefs, which are based on scripture, what
I have learned, and my own experience, but I realize that they
are not universal. Some would say that there is a God, but that
this God is not everything. This belief may seem contradictory
to the idea that we are each essentially God-like, but unless
you see God as having a competitor (enter the devil), or unless
you see yourself as not like God, not “in the image of
God,” we are each still left with this same divine quality.
It is this sameness that makes a global shift possible.
The moment we start thinking of defeating some evil, fighting
the devil, battling a disease, etc., we create a thought-belief
that is contrary to what I am proposing. Many people do believe
in this duality however, for they see the suffering in this world — war,
famine, disease, and worse — and cannot see how God could
ever be love, abundance, harmlessness and joy, and allow these
things to happen. They make a good case. However, there is an
explanation: God didn’t do it, we did.
In what it is that we really are, we have the same features
as God. One of these features is the ability to choose, or “free
will.” With this ability, we can make choices that are
harmonious or inharmonious with our true nature of love, abundance,
harmlessness and joy. Because we are all connected through our
sameness, our choices not only affect ourselves, but everyone
else as well. But we have a positive effect on everyone when
we think and act in harmony with our true nature. This is what
I am suggesting we begin to pay more attention to, and act accordingly.
We affect everyone positively when we think and act harmoniously
with our true nature: unconditional love, abundance,
harmlessness and joy.
Some may call an inharmonious choice, “sin.” Once
an inharmonious choice is acted upon, it is sin — we “miss
the mark,” which is what the word means, and we can make
some real whoppers. We affect everyone with our mistakes, and
we all make them. But once we get the idea our divine nature
and our sameness, and put this together with our power of choice,
we begin to see that we are SCARY POWERFUL.
It takes more courage than most of us have, to accept this much
power. But guess what...we already have it. We have had it all
along, so we might as well use it to advantage. We must face
being this powerful if we are to contribute to shifting things
away from suffering to our natural state of love, abundance,
harmlessness, and joy.
I am not asking you to change any beliefs that you already have,
but I am inviting you to expand them to include the possibility
that this is true: that you have power, that you are divine love,
abundance, harmlessness and joy, and that you can cause a positive
shift for yourself and everyone else by thinking and acting accordingly.
Consider it an experiment.
If you need a crutch (don’t we all?), I offer a
video and an audio that you can use until all
this feels real to you.
Every step you take is progress, and takes every one of us with
you.
Thank you.
Namaste (I bow to the Divine One that You really are),
Durga Ma
“You Are Divine” (8 minutes)
Audio (mp3
- You can download this to your computer or iPod)
Video (This will open a web page. Click on the title to view
the video.)
The
Preston Paradigm
Radical Meditation Issues
Part 1 - Radical Meditation
Part 2 - Personal Experience
Part 3 - Meditation as
a Subversive Activity
Part 4 - Shaktipat Initiation
and Kundalini
Part 5 - After Initiation - Mysticism
Part 6 - Needful Things - Dharma
Part 7 - Needful Things - Shaktipat Prep
Part 8 - Shifting Perception
Part 9 - How to Make a Global Shift
Epilogue - The Absolute and the Relative
Radical Meditation © 2011,
Durga Ma
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