Zen-Haven June 27 2013
Today I’m going to tackle a subject and a half… starting with some statements and questions: We project our minds into imagined future events according to our analysis of what we see, hear, and accept as real in the present.
We reject experiencing one future scenario and we fully embrace another based on opinion, past experience, hopes, fears, beliefs or obligations. None of it is real of course, unless we make it so.
And now… what abilities do we utilize in order to emerge beyond the mind and emotions into actually being within a preferred reality?
Whenever I consider starting something new, I wait for a very helpful person who seems to intuitively know it’s time to call. He calls and asks what I’m up to. For me the conversation is going to provide a map called checking in with the ‘shoot it downer’. For him, the conversation is the reasonable, experienced businessman interjecting a little reality into my mind.
I tell him the plan, and then I listen to him tell me why it won’t work. He asserts that his reasoning is much more in tune with what’s real and how life works than mine is. I listen and tell him I’ll give his warnings my consideration. He hangs up the phone with a touch of friendly encouragement, “Well, go ahead and try it… because you always do what you want anyway… but don’t put any money in it.”
Then I get my chance to sit back and look at the rock wall he has constructed. These rocks are the mind’s reasons why it won’t work. Next step? I let myself be like water, and find my way through the cracks and holes in the wall.
Of course I’d rather talk to someone who believes in me, but the shoot it downer is helpful too. He’s a spiritual experience; testing my ability to trust inner knowing, and feel the river beyond the barrier of the rock wall. In meditation I can align with the feeling of the river beyond, and then proceed.
Alright now… we’ll start the bigger subject: anticipated reality and the collective consciousness. Using the tools of the system: emotion, mind, reaction, action, inaction; people anticipate what is coming and they attempt to prepare for it… or not. Some believe it will be bad and we’ll be overwhelmed, some believe things will change slowly and we’ll be okay, some believe they will be spared due to God’s love for them.
‘What will befall me’ depends upon the system… what will the powerful do and how will I handle it when they do it?