Balance

What is balance? How much is enough? How much is too much? Where is the balance?

Balance is constantly changing. We can't "lock in" balance. Because balance is a point on an ever changing continuum called life. Life and experience. As we move, grow, shift, morph, the weight on one side changes. In order to keep balance, we need to move again, grow again, shift again, morph again, finding a new point of balance until the next time. Which is already now.

Part of keeping in balance is learning to be fluid enough with the change factor, without giving up elements that keep us stable. And of course, to be fluid enough to recognize when that which was helping us stay in balance begins to actually throw us out of balance.

So we dance the balance dance. And don't be afraid to fall, because that's part of it too. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen said "Standing is having learned how to fall in all directions." By falling we learn about opposing forces, counter forces, and how to ride the line between push and shove, light and heavy, good and bad, you and me.

Oh balance, ye fickle bitch! Watch me fall!

Respect

Just when we thought we were in control...

Sandy.

Moral of the story? Take nothing for granted. Everything we have is a gift.

Victory

Nothing like a World Series to bring people together. I'm not a sports fan per say, but I really love watching mastery in action, and the giants played baseball at the master level.

In the spiritual world, and I do understand the church of baseball idea, when aspirants seek to be near the master in order to get in his/her energy field, to receive or be in the presence of darshon, that little sumpin sumpin. That "stuff" that comes from being in the presence of greatness. It inspires, motivates, feeds, nurtures us. It can empower us. It elevates us.

So whether you seek a guru or master, or just plain mastery, it seems like most people want to be near it. And tonight, we feel the city of San Francisco getting their "darshon" on. It's awesome! And hopefully we can channel that energy to elevate our ideas of each other after the party wears off. That's the thing about it- getting a blast of shakti is one thing. Keeping it going is where the real power is. That's one reason why we want souvenirs - to remind us of the awesomeness of mastery, and how we felt in its presence. So shine on!

And btw- I still want one of those orange hoodies!

Are you ready?

Readiness thing-- stay brilliant! Remember who you are! Enjoy more, worry less.

Easier said than done? Well, uh, yeah!!! Worth doing? Well uh yeah!!!!

Digestion

Life. Food. Food. Life. Can we digest it all?

If life is still fun, an adventure, a place where the day before your birthday is exciting and filled with wonder and limitless possibilities, when you can fall down, scrape your knee, feel ok about the groovy scar or the batman bandaid you'll get, then yes, your digestion is probably just fine. You still have the capability to have an experience, digest it, and move on. But when things get too fast, we get too full, life is so rich we can't even taste it (or even don't want to taste it), them yes, it's time for some digestive enzymes.

What do these look like? Meditation, r and r, time to relax, time to regroup. This means finding a real state of relaxation. Not that state of having a still body where the mind is constantly beating up said body about doing more, but a state where both body and mind take a break from all things matter. All things that "matter" (see earlier posts about matter mattering) then take a back seat to things that are non matter.

And tonight, I'm going to just let that hang, so if you have a comment, question, concern, let me know via email or carrier pigeon. And until then, feel how you feel. Is it working for you? Is it time for a change? And would we be able to recognize that change when opportunity strikes?

All elements of good digestion.

So it's a balance, having enough to keep it interesting without having so much it strikes us down.

Digestion. Assimilation. Agni.

Finding yourself

How can we not see who we are? Because at some point we put on glasses to see ourselves as something separate. We talk about finding our roots. Staying true to where we came from. This is much more than a city, a demographic, a socio-economic status. It is about the essence of who we really are. The primordial us. Find those roots. Stay true to those roots. Cuz when we do, the rest of the shit doesn't matter.

Surrender Dorothy!

From yesterday's blog, wrapping our heads around what our hearts already know. Our heads may never be able to wrap around that which our hearts know, due to the "thinking" function. Since that part of our brain, the thinker, is so highly developed, it thinks so strongly that it knows, what is or isn't physically possible. It collects evidence, looks for proof.

Perhaps the element if surrender comes in when we let go of having to "know" from the brain's point of view. When we can allow the brain's point of view, but also allow the heart's point of view.

It's not such a big leap really. For some reason, when we talk about head and heart, head vs. heart, listening to my heart, my heart says, etc..., we all know what we are talking about, even though we all know from biology class that out hearts are organs made of muscle pumping blood to the brain, the place where thinking happens. Yet we all Know of this other Knowing. In spite of biology.

Don't think about it too much. Because we can't talk ourselves out of knowing what we know. Surrender Dorothy! That bigger point of view is already in there! And it's not such a hard concept to grasp because even pre-teens know all about the brain in the heart. Even scientists know that the ideas of genius come from somewhere other than logic. The idea comes, then being the Gods that we are, we figure out how to prove what we know. Some (including me) may venture to say, that we actually create a new reality to back up a new idea. We create something from a seeming nothing. So who is creating the universe? You. God. The Whole. The Same.