Well, I had had some trouble when my blog suddenly changed into Chinese and certain areas were unreadable for me- yes my reading and writing of the language still blows. But it is still here and I am back. It's time, like my wise friend Gary has said, "to get our stuff out," meaning to put what is inside us into some tangible form that others may choose to learn from, or simply enjoy. The world is connecting more and more, and so many people can now share ideas that may benefit few or many around the world.
My goal for right now is simply to be as honest and fearless as possible in putting myself out there, in exposing my insides to whoever might listen, not so that my ego can get a boost from the approval of others, but so that someone else might find meaning in the writings that pass through me.
I'm reading Messages from the Masters right now by Brian Weiss, M.D., and yes i believe in reincarnation. I have for many years now. Call it my influence from living with Ananda Marga monks, or chalk it up to many years of reading various books on philosophy, transpersonal psychology, or metaphysics. In any case I am a believer that the energy which inhabits our bodies - call it a soul if you like - will some day exit these vessels and continue on. Physicists say that energy is never created or destroyed. It seems therefore probable that the energy which maintains our bodies simply transmutes, but does not extinguish. Yogis would say that our life essence has a particular vibration, a collection of waves so subtle and complex as to contain echoes from every deed we have ever done, and every action visited upon us. This is what is known in sanskrit as karma, the reactive force of past lives. It would seem as humans our nature is to evolve, and while we cannot grow in one life beyond our physical containers, it is our nature to expand non-physically, or spiritually. How do we do this? Love seems to be at the core. To give love and be capable of receiving, to foster the ability to perceive love in all aspects of life, in all manifestations of reality. There are tools the yogis use to reach higher states of consciousness, higher states of love awareness, and these are the practices of yoga and meditation. Meditation allows the ego to be silent, thereby allowing a more knowledgeable self, a kind of superego, to have awareness of the more subtle flows of mind, of consciousness. A deep sense of well being begins to rise up in us as the mind grow silent. We begin to perceive sounds outside, body sensations within, until those too cease to be, and all that remains is our thoughts. Ripples eventually quiet, and we are left floating calmly on a glass lake by moonlight. It is here we begin meditation, here that feelings of freedom, love, well being flow through us as waves of positive energy.
