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The need for awareness and to
develop habits that
serve us is reflected in the parable of the precious stone and
the subsequent discussion.
Humans have a particular trait that is best described as the ability
to have desire. Desire is inherent to our being and we desire things
or experiences on all levels of our being. We will have spiritual,
mental, emotional and physical desire. Desire itself is neither good
nor bad is just is part of the process of creation.
But, more important than the desire is the intention that underlies
the desire we have. It is this intention which is the vehicle the
causes creation and propels us thought creation. Unless we become
aware of our desires and the intentions behind our desires, we will
create habits that do not serve us much as described in the story
below.
The issue with desire is that desire coupled with the ability of the
mind to form habits and the numerous distractions of Creation we
tend to loose ourselves in creation. We then think that creation is
mysterious as to how it operates when in reality it is only our own
internal process that are not understood. The following story
characterizes rather well how we live our life in desire and we
loose ourselves in our own unlimited creativity.
There is a story about a man who was told there was an extremely
precious stone that was carelessly lost on one of the beaches next
to a particular sea. This precious stone was rather unique. If an
individual just look at the stone, it would look like any other
pebble. But, when viewed through sunlight by holding the stone up to
the sun and looking inside, the stone revealed a beauty that was
indescribable. It was just something that needed to be experienced.
The man, desiring this precious stone, went searching the beaches
near this sea for this stone. As you may have suspected, the beaches
were full of pebbles which explains why it was lost when it was
first dropped. To find the stone, the man had to pickup each and
every pebble. He had to hold it up and look up against the sun to
find that particular precious stone. As was said, at a distance, it
really didn’t look that much different than a pebble. It was only in
the light of the sun passing through the stone could one see its
exquisite rare beauty.
The man picked up pebble after pebble year after year looking for
the particular rare precious stone. He would then thrown each
discarded pebble he picked up into the sea next to the beach so that
he would only look at each pebble once.
Then one day he picked up a rather normal looking stone but in the
beauty of the sunlight he was mystified and in “Ah” with the
experience. He had never experienced such beauty in his life. He was
entranced with the beauty. His whole being seemed to be transformed
by what he saw. But before he could do anything with the stone, he
threw it into the sea out of habit.
We too are like than man searching the beach. We form some type of
desire in our mind and begin to look for the experience of that
desire. However, unless we live life in awareness we will be like
the man on the beach and out of habit we discard that for which we
have been looking before we realize what we have obtained.
Two particular problems faced the man searching on the beach that
resulted in his habit of throwing the stones into the sea. First,
which is a problem that we all have, is that the universe is
infinite. While incarnated, we each have a limited view of this
universe and must experience it one experience at a time. In our
story, the man could not look at all the pebbles on the beach
simultaneously. He had to look at each an every one, one at a time.
Every moment in time, we are experiencing an infinite number of
possible experiences. We may focus on the major experiences and
describe a few details but what you are really experiencing is
something that is infinite. For example, just sit and look forward
with you eyes open. Allow all that is within your peripheral view to
be present and all that your body is sensing with all of its senses
and be aware of everything external to you and internal to yourself.
Then try and describe it all in detail. If you are honest with
yourself you will have to admit you have an infinite view and an
infinite number of experiences all happening simultaneously and you
just can’t describe them all in detail. You have to choose one over
all the others.
If you don’t believe what is said here is true, get a pencil and
piece of paper and try listing it all and leave nothing out at all.
Do forget to include the fact that your are sensing things but
unless you place your awareness and attention on what you are
sensing you probably not registering the experience in
consciousness. For example don’t forget the feeling of your clothes
on each portion of the skin.
It is extremely difficult to try and explain the details of the
infinite in finite terms. Whenever we attempt to do this, we are
presented with what appears as a mystery. In this exercise we know
that we can see everything. We explain any one piece in detail. But
we just can’t do it all. We don’t have enough time before we are
distracted. What need to be understood from this experience, is that
each piece of the universe is very describable and explainable. We
are very good at describing and explaining the pieces. It is in
understanding and viewing the whole simultaneously that we have
problems explaining.
The second problem the man faced in the story was that it took time
to pick up and look at each stone. Very quickly the man developed a
habit. If he was not aware of each stone he picked up, he began to
operate out of habit. He may have observed each stone such that he
saw the stone he was looking for but he acted out of habit before he
could capture that stone and hold onto it.
Realizing that we can describe and look at each part of what we
experience in exquisite detail in sequence coupled with the fact
that we only have a finite view, our problem in life become much
more like taking a particular cup of water from the ocean than
looking at pebbles. Look at the experiences you have in life as
filling and emptying your cup all the time sampling the ocean. As
long as your are content with what is you will be completely
fulfilled in filling and emptying your cup with the ocean water as
its.
Now assume that you ask for a very specific cup of water. A cup of
water with a specific water temperature and a particular salinity
with a certain population of organic life and/or nutrients. That
desire poses an whole new problem. It may take you eons to find that
exact cup of water in an infinite ocean. Yet, if you persist, and
hold to what you desire, and move around sampling different points
moving in the direction of the parameters that you are seeking, you
will find that perfect cup of ocean water that you desire.
Nevertheless, you are puzzled as to why it takes you so long to find
that perfect cup. You know it exists in the ocean. But why can’t you
just go directly to where conditions of the ocean are exactly what
you need? The fact is you can if you understood the currents of the
ocean and how the ocean interacts with the life that is in the ocean
and how the ocean interacts with itself. The most significant reason
why it takes so long is because the way you sample the ocean.
To take cup after cup without paying attention to how the water is
different each time you sample you never become aware of the
gradients in the ocean. You never become aware that parts of the
ocean are very different than other parts. However if you being to
pay attention to what you area actually sampling, you can being to
find your way rather quickly.
The question is, “How long does it take to find that particular cup
of water?” Do we continually apply our attention and awareness on
each cup? Do we observe what each cup of water is telling us about
the part of the ocean we are sampling. Or, do we lose concentration
and not pay attention to the water that we are actually sampling.
There are three things of which we need to become aware if you wish
to start removing some of the mystery about ourselves and the world
we are experiencing.
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The first is to learn to become mindful of how we are sampling the
ocean and what we are observing with each sample. That is simply
become aware of how we are living our life and what we are learning
and experiencing as we live life.
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The second is to hold to our attention to our intention and make
sure we don’t fall into the habit of routine as the man searching
for the gem on the beach such that when we find what we are looking
for we are aware enough to realize it.
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Third, understand why we have set the intention that we have and
whether or not it will give a lasting internal satisfaction or will
only be a hollow experience once our intention is achieved. To
search for a gem of rare beauty, the man knew that worth of what he
was looking for. Yet if you are only looking for a particular cup of
water, what will we do with it when you find it?
What needs to be understood and hopefully you will fully come to
believe after experiencing this material is that all will be
revealed and all will be made available to us. But to find what we
are seeking, no matter what it is, there is a process. We must ask
to find what we seek. Then we must hold our attention to what we
seek with an unwavering focus until we find it. Additionally, while
we are doing this, we need to become aware of what we are finding
and observing as we seek our intention. It needs to be understood
that what we observe will tell us where to look next.
It really doesn’t matter if we believe God creates reality and
grants our requests or we believe that we some how create our own
reality. We must set the
clear intention and tell the universe or
God, “This is what I intend.” Both ways of asking will work and do
work The only real difference between the two ways of asking will be
in how we choose to manage our creative life energy and our power to
create our reality after we ask and our request begins to be granted
in some way. We will being to lay the foundation for a habit based
on how you are choosing to respond.
If we look at the
physics of the creation process and the creation
and annihilation of process, the Universe, our God, or however we
wish to look at what is happening, will rush to meet us and we will
find what we seek. But we must listen to Them as they communicated
to us. We are the one who has asked and we are the one who will
receive the information. Other may be the occasion to supply the
information that we seek but we are the cause. We are the one that
must actively respond to what the Universe or our God communicates
to us. Exactly how They communicate to us is something we each must
learn in our own way.
When we find what we seek, the question then becomes, “Is what we
find and what we have obtained going to satisfy us or are we going
to begin to look and seek again?” What we will eventually have to
learn is to start seeking that which will last and endure. Otherwise
we will be caught in endless cycle of desire, constantly seeking
something new.
Humans are very prey to falling into a trap. Desire is what propels
us into creativity and the joyful experience of life. Yet, if we
cannot learn to be happy with what is and what we have created as we
have created it, we are caught in an endless cycle of desire.
Ultimately we need to face the mystery within our own being as to
what intention or desire is propelling us forward into life.
However, as we face this question and pursue its answer, we are
faced with two more fundamental question.
One of these questions is, “What in life will give us the inner
satisfaction and the inner joy of being that allows you to be happy
with what is as it is, such that in the end it doesn’t really matter
if our desire is met or not because you are happy with what is?” For
example, the discussion here is about our desire to understand the
seeming mystery of Creation. We can ask ourselves what inner
satisfaction do we need such that although we desire to understand
the mystery that seems to exist in Creation, we would be happy to
live in understanding or to live in mystery?” Or, maybe a more
appropriate wording of the questions that we face is, “Why can we
not be happy with what is, as it is, for this is all there is?”
If we want to know the mystery behind our own desire no matter what
it is, or the mystery of creation, we just need to ask to understand
and it will be revealed to us in a way that we can understand.
The second question that we are going to be faced with when we look
at the origins of our desire is, “Why are we living life at all?”
One desire that we all seem to carry is to not die. We desire to
live. So why do we desire to live? The Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material the reason for our life and the experiences we
are seeking in life are
encoded on our hearts and is the reason why we
incarnated on the physical plane.
Ultimately there is a question that we face whenever we successfully
obtain any desire that we may have. Whenever we find that particular
cup of ocean water in that infinite ocean as in our example above,
there is a question. The question is, “What do we do with it when
you get it and how are we going to feel about having obtained it?”
It is in how we answer these two questions that will determine the
future we experience. If you explore the Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material you will begin to see why the answer to this
question will determine your future.
It needs to be realized, before long, no matter how long it takes,
we will find what we have been seeking. Assuming we don’t cast what
we have been seeking into the ocean before we become aware to what
we have found only to have to start looking again, we will have to
ask what do we do with what we have found. If we have not somehow
obtained an
inner satisfaction either from what we have been seeking
or from the journey itself, we will being to look again.
There is really no mystery to Creation and what we are here to do.
It is only our habits that interfere with us seeing that for which
we continually seek is what already is and. that which we always
have. We need to become mindful and aware of that for which we are
look and why we look. Then we need to be aware so that when we have
found that for which we look, we do not discard what it is we
sought.
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