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The Way of Movement: Step Into the Now

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When you step into the Tao, you step into the now 

By Sleep Sunshine

It’s always the ‘suddenly it’s 3am’ moments that last in our heads

And though they last, the past has past and suddenly

the night turns your mind to blur into a delirious  ‘I don’t know’

What’s in your head could be said to be silence and stillness and nothingness

For nothing is needed to achieve something lasting

Everything came from nothingness, stillness

Think about the eyes of storms.

You can analyze and question everything in your wake

But to awaken requires shutting out certain thoughts


Analyze everything into the acceptance that there is only one answer

and one direction

For we tell the same kinds of stories all the time

Time and place, faces and places, it’s all just the setting

The same lesson, the same lessons chosen

It can’t be explained to a T, but it can be felt in steps taken lovingly

For when you step into the Tao, you step into the now

Devil

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“This is what I’m doing. So I’m going to do it because when it’s done, it’s done.”

The title is only Devil as I no intent on speaking of the Devil in the form of the ego at this moment. My process “said” de-evolution to which I thought Devo-lution so this title fit best imo. The reason de-evolution popped in to my cellular brain phone is to be explored today…

What type of evolution am I even talking about to move back from? Honestly, I am in a place where I see it all sitting side-by-side, hand in hand, if anything is going elsewhere it is how I view the world.

The non-conflict that I find myself in, is one of what to do?

I enjoy writing, helping people, living, traveling, etc. But that’s It. That’s all that life is. It isn’t about accomplishments though that is a part of It. It isn’t about relationships though that is also a part of It. It is about all of It. About the holistic system, in the body, the community, the countries, the world, the Universe. It is all Sacred.

So feeling strongly about this, can see how it all fits together in that way (mind you I am not saying I see, know all, I just reached a place where it isn’t just an intellectual process to write this, I am relaying an experience as best as I can). As It all fits together, what should I do. I can do anything. What do I want to do? Many things…

And that is where the de- part of this equation fits. We have evolved into doing everything that others say while not listening to what it is inside, what it is that we want.

I grew up hearing: get a career, retire, save for rainy days, be afraid, what if, there is only one way, you can’t be who you are, etc. la la la

And I bought hard into it and was miserable.

Tons of things that I had been told and tried to mold myself into, which wasn’t what was going on inside of me but really pissed that part off.  All these things don’t matter it is all a part of the grand Divine Comedy, the Universe, God, the Middle Way, more words for describing It on this level of conscious experience.

War, not great, but it’s still going to go down, so why worry?  Natural disasters, waste of time to worry or fear, if they happen, they happen.  Death, Yogananda called it the only Holiday we all experience, so for sure we should celebrate it.  Being alone, we only fear it because we have been told a lie that we are not enough as we are so we look into others to be that which fills us, when really others are just reflections.  Bad childhood, everyone is scarred in childhood and parents love as much as they can, that’s how it is.

Desires, feelings, thoughts, they all come and go in each New moment, New Now. So walk through what you do, as you do, engaged and both detached b/c whatever it is that you’re doing is It. And It is all there is.

One giant mirror. One grand reflection. With cracks in the glass, smudges here and there, and beauty throughout it all. That’s It. That’s life.

I spent so many years escaping into extremes when I knew all along I desired balance. And balance is Light and Dark, Good and Evil, Love and Fear. It’s feeling it All, allowing the expression as it Flows through you, and yeah. Bam!

Cause when It’s done, It’s done.  Great wisdom that.  Thx Tune.

Okay-Ness

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“Change yourself.  That is enough.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Yogananda is the man.  Hands down.  If I may opine, and I will, he has strung together some wonderful teachings, in a simple fashion, that are applicable regardless of creed, and cover all the bases.  Like seriously, he has enough discussion on God and Jesus for the Christians and oneness, reincarnation, etc. for everyone else.

As I continue to pursue my own change, each day, sometimes multiple points of expansion throughout, I realize how stubborn and set in my ways I was.  For wanting to be out of the box.  I totally boxed myself in.  For believing that we are meant to fly in life, I didn’t even allow my wings to spread.  It was always my own cage, the worst cage, the cage of my mind.

I always jumped around too.  First a cage of fear, then into the cage of love.  Or bad, or good.  Whatever b/c I realize that everything that happens, happens, and that is okay, the moment just is.  Everything, as it is, is okay. Breaking up can be devastating and liberating.  Death can be filled with sorrow and transformation.  Every possible expression is within each moment and we choose how to view the moment. And that is okay.

I like okay versus peace, b/c though I feel peace, peace is hard to relate to.  But most people can relate to okay because it’s a base point.  For example: “How are you feeling? Happy, sad? Nah, I’m okay.”  The extremes keep us out of the okay-ness vibe.

In reality, Light and Dark sit next to one another.  Good and Bad live on the same block, in fact, they walk their dogs together at night after work.  Point being, the moment as it is, is completely okay.  It is where our awareness is directed upon the different elements within each moment that impact the interpretation of the experience.  So for the hippies, it is all sunshine and rainbows.  For the fear-mongers, the world is going end.

We cannot change a damn thing about the world but we don’t have to.  We need only change ourselves by allowing the okay-ness of the moment, allowing the balance of nature to be as it is, present, always.

Thank you Yogananda and all the people I meet each day, old friends, new, for all the teachings you share with me.  I feel Okay and that makes me stoked.