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While salmon is a great food source and quite delectable, served a variety of ways, there is an old adage–only the strongest salmon survive  while swimming upstream to spawn–that can offer a negative connotation.   A consciousness of having to separate, to be stronger than the rest, has often created a residual definition that continues to create separation from the “Whole.”  Much of the separation to which  I am referring to is the uncreative aspect of holding a “competing” consciousness.
 

While competing can be a healthy way of striving to generate excellence in sports and other competitive genres, at the end of sporting competitions it is looked upon with greater reverence when the competitors honor each other through communications that depict their deepest gratitude and respect of one another.  However, as one takes this evolved graduation in essence into the world business and commerce activities, for the most part it seems to disappear.

An example of such disappearance would be in seeing scenarios whereby a person was stable in their vocation and was able to support others who were less fortunate – but then time changes and the person’s vocation becomes obsolete or in less demand than before.  It was time for a different venue’s success and for those who mastered the new venue.  The question is, will the new heirs to “success” appreciate and take care of the older ones who were able to, and did, support the younger generation heretofore.  As the work and its commanders change hands, will the new generation remember and appreciate the old or those that came before?  The striving consciousness that was taught to the competitors must evolve with radiant presence that offers grace and gratitude for that which has preceeded.
 

In our Nation and throughout the world, a fuel energy base and respective economic shift is occurring.  This will automatically provide new jobs for those who are inclusively equipped with the youthful abilities and time allotment of learning and practicing a new vocation.  Realistically, this opportunity is narrowed by reason of ease of practical transitional ability.  Given this fact, the new ones are indeed put into a position of divine opportunity, responsibility and obligation.  Gratitude, appreciation and reverence are certainly the appropriate attitudinal response from the ones who inherit such a legacy with which to continue.

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Well, things just aren’t going the way that they should be.  Look at the incompetence that surrounds us…  Those are words that many, and perhaps a frightful number of humans have been thinking, speaking and building a fort on for an awfully long time.  I just read a Service offered by an old friend named David Karchere, entitled, “The Impulse of the Ages.”  David offered a pretty clear message through his words.  Yes, we have been quick to blame and judge everything in the past, including our leadership.  I will not say that that is what is happening right now – because what is occurring right “now” is being discovered and that is something that I have the opportunity and responsibility to divinely empower through what I acknowledge.
 

Look outside your window at the workers – perhaps they have shovels in their hands and are digging a trench.  It is clear to you that the job is not being done very well.  If you go with the way that you may have thought yesterday, you might just make a statement about the incompetent workers.  However, there may be another option.  You could actually speak with the foreman or if there wasn’t such, with one of the workers.  What if you said, “You guys are working really hard.  I am so grateful.  I was watching how you are doing a certain part of this task at and remember seeing it done differently before.  Did you think of doing it this other way instead?  I mean, I don’t know your job, but I was thinking that doing it this way versus that way looked easier and perhaps is more efficient.  In any case, as I said, I am so grateful that you guys are getting this done.  Thank you so much.”
 

Another option might be actually asking if you could assist because you remembered you enjoyed doing this with a few friends that you once assisted and then picking up a shovel and demonstrating another approach.

The shovel could be anything, but the metaphorical message should be clear.  We can assist our worlds.  We may not always be well received.  But it is our approach that often affects the type of response that we receive back.  We also must be open to the thought that we may not be correct about knowing “the better way of doing something.”  In any case, taking a new generatively complimentary approach can be most constructive versus building an atmospheric fort from a blaming or critical approach.

We always have the opportunity of creating allies with each other.  It is about “letting” the truth of our Oneness shape our interactions.  Sometimes there are dissonant qualities that make an appearance on the way to creating a harmonious “Tone.”  The “Creative Process” is a process and processes tend to have a life of their own that is best accepted and appreciated.  Upon our acceptance and appreciation of the process, we begin to work with it more creatively!  As we each declare “Being” the answer, we can find ourselves sharing the Oneness of such outworking…

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What conversation do we take into our Life in each moment?  Did you ever notice how much stuff we have to say about almost everything…  There hasn’t been much space created to actually be present.  The busyness that has been present in the mind has had to do with a thinking process versus a “Being” process.  As the mind is stayed on determining things, it is clearly not available.  But the Bible said this, and here is something else that we need to address.  Oh yes, we have consciously “addressed” so many things that we forgot where we actually lived!  Imagine relinquishing the controlling aspects of the mind.  There is really nothing that our minds are here to determine.  The whole determining aspect of conscious thought is not very conscious.
 

Trying to consciously determine things has become an addiction – an addiction completely based in illusion.  Going back a couple of decades, I experienced hallucinogenic drugs such as acid, marijuana and a few others and the state of illusion that can be the byproduct of such an experience is perhaps magnified, but not greatly dissimilar from any other illusion.  Noise, silent or audible, is the incubator of illusion.  We can’t notice anything “real” while our conscious capacities are filled or are just plain “busy.”  We have created a lifestyle where “goals” are frequently set and effort made to adhere to them.  How might that affect our ability to move in Life’s flow?
 

Frequently, I hear a young 13-year-old girl, who is like a daughter to me, say,  “I’m bored.”  Well, I have to give her credit for her honesty  in this regard.  Heretofore, many or perhaps most people have created an addictive lifestyle.  We have been stimulation junkies.  We don’t really know very much about being present because our “cause” has been focused on how we feel and think about things.  There has been an almost constant focus on trying to get or create an experience of feeling better.  And we say things like, “All good things come from God”.  Well, OK, what doesn’t come from the Creator?… and what is ‘good?’  The flow of Life doesn’t require a separate determining factor.  Life simply flows and while one doesn’t need to live Life as if they were oblivious to what is working out, we can only truly be a creative instrument by “letting” things flow .  Discoveries are made as I/we let these capacities be still and unobstructed.  From the stillness of “Being,” we each know our completeness and may glimpse through our telescopes the new land that lies before us.  Be still and “Know!”

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It is said that a pro makes a job look quite easy.  That makes sense because the more times that one does something; the more one becomes used to the process and could possibly be blindfolded while achieving the same results.  When we know that a pro is working away at the task at hand, we don’t feel the need to look over his shoulder.  And yet, whoever has not entered the land of mastery in some way, shape or form in his life, often doubts that another has or could enter that learned place.  And so the “Doubting Thomas” has been born from such unsure scenarios.  Doubting has been one of the largest aspects of existing in a fallen state, which has created struggling.  One of the characteristics of doubting is attitudinal in nature and revealed by way of an unsure countenance.  When one is unsure, one often tries to figure things out; looking for the answers and that gives birth to a measuring and monitoring perspective.  However, not very much creativity comes from measuring and monitoring anything.  The confidence that a person derives from working at something over time and becoming good at it sets the stage of mastery.  This is why children are best encouraged in the creative areas to which they are attracted.  We are building the essence of creative mastery. 

One of greatest and most important aspects of building creative mastery is the joy that always accompanies its expression.  Joy allows generation that needs no measurement – just expression and celebration.  In times past, we have stuck ourselves with result-oriented goals that have departed the truly joyful aspects of the creative process.  And guess what, whenever the joy is dropped or discounted the yoke is heavy and the burden disabling.  I must remember to let the mind be used in the here and now.  Measuring does not denote this outworking.  The world does not need to be “re-created” as the measurer always does– the world needs to be continually created new!
 

I often say to a dear friend of mine that all that is really important is the “Tone.”  The “Tone” is an atmosphere which each of us can create in each moment.  We can do any creative thing together creatively as we allow our joyful presence do the creating.  Spirit doesn’t care very much about the forms.  Spirit cares about carrying forth the Tone into all of the forms.  Forms manifest perfectly when Life’s Tone is set.  But it didn’t go the way that I planned it!  Don’t worry about your old plan – just let Life’s plan continue working.  Once we realize that Life had it perfectly planned all along, we begin to know the importance of providing the Tone!  Just keep pouring, Blessed One!

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.

For that matter, what is wisdom?  It actually can sound like a heavy word.  This has been the case because people have been looking for something.  The mind, while still sitting on a throne, needs to be convinced – and so the convincing process has continued heretofore.  Has there not been a plethora of convincing?  Ease, lightness, peace and tranquility are certainly not byproducts of convincing.  Could true wisdom be found in the silly little man or woman sitting in the corner?  A simple grin that says, “So what, relax!  It’s all going to work out just fine.”  But you don’t know what I’m working with.  At best, no one really knows too much about anything.  Wisdom doesn’t live in knowing; it lives in “Being.”  But where does that leave me with all of these things that I am responsible for?  Hmmm, that sounds like a pretty heavy question.  What happened to ease, lightness, peace and tranquility?  It is true that we may each be privileged to work with unique circumstances.  But is it really a big job that we are here to do?  The easiest opportunity in the world can be made difficult.  “But the job has to be done right and that’s not so easy…”  This is a part of the illusion that I (possibly we) have bought into in times past.
 

What does it actually mean to be at ease?  Do you sense a shift with your Being as you entertain creating such a place of tranquility?  Life is moving at a rate of speed that cannot and should not be attempted to be measured.  The mind cannot relax – it can only be “available” – present!  The wise man and woman are busy in the corner making funny faces.  It’s not that they don’t take Life seriously – because making funny faces is serious stuff.  It may be one of the most important things that we learned ones (and who would that be?) learn to do well!

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Life and death seem to be important topics of late.  A question might be asked – who is really living?… and who is actually just existing in a dying state?  It is said that one’s earthly orientations must pass away so that One may actually know Life!  My friend, who recently chose to leave this realm of form, spoke about things not being real.  He said none of this is real.  He was referring to people being locked into consciously determining cause and effect.  It’s like death trying to control life.  In many ways, it has previously done more than a fair job of that.  Mother Nature’s tears have been streaming from her face.  Tallies have been constantly taken – which means, of course, that the counter has been only available for counting!  We say things like, “what’s mine is yours and what’s yours is mine,” without really knowing the true meaning of those words.
 

Plans have been made for tomorrow very carefully because we haven’t known how to trust right now because we’ve actually not been “present” and we’ve been making a whole lot of noise about it all.  Basically, we say in many ways, “you better not screw with what matters to me most” – that’s what is echoed whenever you hit the red button that connects to where a person’s heart really is.  The truth of that will always speak the loudest.
 

Did something or someone come into your life for no reason?  We’ve been good at pointing such words at other people.  However, it looks like the obituaries are going to be filled with a lot more than just people’s carcasses.  Death?… yes.  There has been and there may continue to be plenty that is dying in every single person’s experience!  Are you an exception to that outworking?  Perhaps you’re too busy holding funerals for others.  Personally speaking, I don’t see much more than ashes when I look into the mirror.  In the deepest part of my heart and soul I know that each of US is so much more than what we have known through our experiences of forms.  The ashes are not really ugly.  They are rich with the components that let Life rise from within them.  Well, when is the rebirth from out of these ashes?  As I am concerned about that, there will not be a rebirth.  Cast away those parts in consciousness that are trying to keep track and record of Life.  Oh, one more thing.  There may only be “birth” in the truth of creation.  The “re” part always seems to have us measuring a result to recreate.  However, Heaven is NEVER recreated!

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.