- Repentance -

Jesus' teachhings have been so badly misunderstood.It really makes me sad how people have given upon following His advice to meditate and better yourself through direct God-Communication. The entire concept of what He was getting at with repentance, is highly misunderstood and lacking half of the original meaning behind His words.The English word repent, which is deriven from the Latin word paenitere meaning "to be sorry", is actually about giving up attachment to material things, a yoga lifestyle, considering the fact that the word is used to translate from the original Greek in which this New Testament was written, and the Greek word being metanoein, meaning "to turn ones mind in the opposite direction, to change ones mind by adopting a new view".From meta-"to change, to be in opposition to", and nous-"mind".Obviously this does not mean to directly feel sorry forour sins and beg for God's forgiveness, like that one sacrament practiced in churches, confession or whatever.It means that we should turn our mind away from selfish ego desires and attachment to material possesions, andinstead directly concentrate on the temple of God within us using meditation, or yoga. Simply saying your sorry for your sins, doing some rounds on holy beads, and telling a preist of your wrong doings, does not give you an exucse to go right back out into the world, forget your connection to God, and live an un-Godly lifestly.Learn the real meaning behind the Book and the Christ's teachings before you go ahead and assume you are afollower of that which you may not really even understand.-

Christ teaching Kundalini? Kriya Yoga?

'And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life' (John 3: 14)Lifting up the serpent in the wilderness?How does this sit with you? Do you have a personalinterperataion, wether literal or esoteric?I tend to see this as Christ referencing the practiceof yoga. Raising the Kundalini from the base of thespine, up through the 7 chakras into the mind, in orderto attain God-realization.Kundalini, from the saskrit root which means 'coil', islikened to a serpent that lies dormant in our spine, thesource of our life energy that is only partially awakenednormally and concentrated on one or a few chakras, causingan imbalance of kundalini energy.The chakras, if you arent already aware of their functions,are life-energy centers, 7 in all, that exist along our spinesadmist jumbles of nerve connections, and when the energyis focused on a specific center, imbalances occur.Kundalini awakening is to awaken to Self into God-realization,to become One with God rather than an individualized ego conciousness seperated from the Self.Literally, Kundalini is the cosmic dreamer, and we are thedream in the mind of God.To awaken our own conciousness in this dream is to be Onewith God.Living in the Sun.As Christ mentions here, seems to me that He is explaining that through yoga we atune to our chakras, all of them at onceand become first entirley concious of our bodies, and by doing so we further awaken the kundalini energy up the spine intothe 3rd eye chakra (Christ Conciousness) and then up into theseventh chakra (Crown chakra) thus merging into the infinitebliss of divine soul union with God.Sat Chit Ananda. I wonder what any Christian or non-Christian thinks on the matter, insulting remarks regarding the level of my mental stabilityare, as always, completley welcome. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In response to Craig and my method of approach the the Bible's words : Yea I know Craig, I've read the Old Testament as well.But the staff, actually the rod that moses held in hishand, became the snake, symbolizing his power of God-realization.Satan, in this sense, can be seen as the evil of the human desires, which influence us to act in a negativelight, and awakening of the Kundalini goes hand in handwith the mastery over one's conciousness to dispelldesire.I dont take the Bible literally either, and I believe thatwhen Christ speaks of Satan, He is also referring to desire.Remember when Satan came to Him in the wilderness andpicked Him up, took Him over the city and put Him on thetop of the Temple and said he would give Christ all controlif only He would bend down before his will?I think in this instance, the temple of the body is what isbeing referenced, again, the Crown Chakra, the top of thetemple of the human body, where God-realization is actualized.Christ refused because He already attained Christ Conciousnessthrough the spiritual eye of spherical insight, allowing Him tosee all and merge His conciousness into a state beyond theNirvanic plane, that of total Oneness with God, Sat Chit Ananda.Just another thought lol -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------By the way, many Hindu's carry a staff as symbolizing this power of the spinal centers, I'mnot sure if you've ever noticed this in pictures ofvarious Guru's... -Your friend, John Rively ---

Easy Day ~

The sky is wearing a new blue and my soul is singing a new tune. Breathing is my instrument and the playing gets loud when I close my eyes. I smile differently and the sun feels so much warmer. I want to learn from the trees, how to always change while remaining still. I want to learn from the wind, from the stars and the sea. Not all the feelings have been named, not all the lessons have been learned. Such a tiny piece from an infinite thing, with you I feel so much bigger. I never saw where I was going, but like water that flows in the river, I go with no rush because is such a fun journey to take.
Life’s offerings enhance the experience and my only wish is to share them and I’ve noticed they grow when you do. I got nothing more than blank pages and I’ll forever write in them.

Aura*

Single Sound ~

I was thinking about the single sound recently.It is really an amazing thing, I mean most things arenot really amazing, and a truly diciplined mind wouldnot rejoice nor lament over such basic principlesof Nature, but I cant help but feel attracted to thefeeling of this vibration.Before I mentioned how Life is vibration, but I am assumingthat some people who read that statement dont fully understandthis concept. I myself dont fully understand it, but I feel that I get closer to coming to terms with its prescence and merging into Oneness with it on every passing day.The sound is actually, the source of all sources, though itis without source, really. It has never been uttered, yet it neverceases in sustaining infinite vibrato, infinite varying tempo, infinitepitch and harmony. If you were to take a single wave of sound and slow its rateof vibration down to the point of perceived near immobility, youwould find at the heart, core, the center of this wave, this sound buzzing happily away with life energy.It is the self sustaining energy, without a beginning or end, andall life dances forth, lost in the trance of its melody. Like on enlightenment, to shed light, when we turn a light on the bulbbuzzes to whatever key with electricity, but it is always buzzingin harmony with the Single Sound. And from there, we are giventhe light to see the truth around us.Well, mental enlightenment I imagine is very much the same basic idea. We turn the mind on, tune into this frequencey of soundand realize that it is surrounding us in every direction infinitley, stretchingaccross open valleys, bouncing back and forth off of mountain peaks, burried under blankets of thick forest carpet, and swimming accrossvast oceans of water.The sound I am mentioning here, is AUM. Or, Om, whichever youknow it by.This sound is the song from ancient realizations, and we have only been able to recall the simple, repetitive chorus in modern times.But it is the opus with life breathed into itself given by our grand cosmicsymphonic conductor, and into every strand of genetic code in our bodies the notes are penned.When we make a sound, we are not creating anything, there is nonew noise we are making. We are simply pulling at the sound aroundus and manipulating that which has always been.We can not copyright this noise we can only accept and appreciate it.And when you turn you mind on, listen to the birds singing, hear thebugs buzzing, feel your heart beating, and you will be able torecognize how your whole existance is in sync with itself, the rythmof life, the heart beat of the cosmos.And when you notice that your ears ringing, rejoice! Let the Lovefill your innocent heart and pray in Lotus because it is God'scall to you to meditate.
The entire of Nature, the myriad Universes, are but a reverberation of the syllabyl OM
NamasteOm ShantiOm Shanti ~

True Love ~

True love is like being dettached from material possesions in a way.Because true love does not ask for anything in return, not even love.How can we claim to honestly love another person, if we dont have lovefor everything and everyone as a whole?Why do we get angry, annoyed, or upset with our significant other?Why do we feel jealous of them, why do we distrust them whenthey are giving undivided attention to another person?It is because we dont really love them, we love ourselves.Becuase if we did truly love them, we would not ask for emotions,we would not ask for love to be given back to us.It is like a person who writes poems and desires fame, and a personwho writes poems and cares not if anyone reads them.You either desire praise in return for your effort, or you are happy withwhat you are, not asking for anything else.Not desiring to better yourself.How can you better yourself, without first understanding what it isthat your truly are? Same with our family.How do we love our children?When our child is sick, we feel bad.But do we feel bad for our children? Or do we feel bad for ourself?If you really loved your child, you would not push them to be confinedto the prison of conformity.You would teach them to have unconditional love and to be free.Not to be like yourself.And to truly be free, to truly have love, not divine love, or personal love,but love of all without desire, we must create an atmosphere to live inthat is free of fear.Fear makes you conform, fear makes you want money, cars, a nice house,a beautiful wife, a religion to believe in.And what is religion, really? What is God?Think of your mind like a window that has collectedthe dust of many generations of superstition.Do you know what a soul is?Or do you know what youve been told a soul is?Clean off the window, search for God yourself,dont rely on what others have taught you.Clean away all the dust, the illusion, wipe it totally clean, and then, and only then, can youtruly see for yourself what God is.God is not in a temple, God is not in an iconor a statue. A statue is like a shadowof the Truth, but it is not the Truth itself.Just as a shadow of yourself is not really you.Love, Freedom, Truth, God; these things canonly truly be understood by your person, yourtrue Self, when you have no fear, when youdo not conform to the social machine that EVERYONEaround you is pushing you into.We must be constantly in revolt, internally and externally.Truth may only be discovered when we are constantlyin a state of dissatisfaction with everything.But, we must know how to be in such a state of unrest anddissatisfaction while maintaining and inner joy at the same time.And you can not know that you are happy, that is not true happiness.Happiness is felt only when you arent searching for it. And weare ALL searching for happiness.It is like when we are having fun, time flies by and we live lifefor what it really is; in the moment.But the moment we notice we are feeling happy, the happinessfades and ceases to be.So do not search for happiness, just live.As we can say to the student and the teacher;I AM ALWAYS LEARNING.There is no enlightenment, no way to know everything,even the teachers must be taught to dispell fear.Fear will cause you decay and misery.True Love and true Freedom is brought on by yourselfwhen you learn how to BE yourself, without desire tobe like another (envy).God is everywhere, but no one but yourself cansee for yourself what God is.

Wonder ~

What is lazyness?I believe being lazy, involves ignorance.I also believe that lazy would describe one who does not follow theirheart in life, rather, does what they are told, to conform, in orderto avoid the discomfort that goes hand in hand with the path we createfor ourselves.I do not think being lazy involves not cleaning your house everyday, or going to work everyday at a job you cant stand, where you do not actually contribute more than you have to (or feel that you are contributingat all to anything more than your own bank account or wallet).Everything we do involves some sort of work, but the work that bearsinstant fruit seems to go by unnoticed. So what really is lazyness?Ignorance, pure and simple. Is a man lazy when he sits under the trees and listens to the sounds around him, the buzz of life that constantly flows through us, allowing the Earth to swallow his mind whole and overwhelm him? Is he lazy if he lays in bed on a Sunday morning and does the same beforegetting up and going about his "important" chores for the day?I dont think so.An ignorant mind, devoid of real love and innocence, is the only kindof lazyness I can imagine.And in reality, this kind of lack of life is definitley rooted in fear.The main reason we all conform to jobs we dislike, people we dont love, andactivities we cant stand, is because we fear being alone and exposedto the world of people and rules which consume us, no matter where we are.Sure, if you take out on a lifestyle where nobody is willing to help you, like your parents not paying for your schooling since you chose a subjectthat interests you, instead of them, then you most likely will be alone, gohungry at times, maybe have no where to stay. But when you actually live life, the truth is that somebody Will help you. Somebody will say, "Look at this person, he/she does what theirheart feels is right" and will come to your aid.So long as your hearts rightful path is good in nature, of course.And life is like a bunch of individual shallow puddles sitting next to a flowing river.We dig ourselves these puddles to make us feel secure, outside of the ever changing, swift foreign beauty of the river, which can be seen as a real life.Our puddle is stagnant with the same water and bacteria that was presentat the time of its creation. Like a wall we build around ourselves, to keepreal life at bay, since we actually have a deep fear of change.And in this puddle goes religion, god, the soul, our parents, siblings, children,jobs we dont love, expensive cars, big houses, everything material really.Because these things are 'known' to us, and we fear losing them.We fear losing the known, so we create our own unknown in our own image.Like god for example.Most of us do not truly understand what love, or God, really is. We just accept what we are taught in some book, or taught by some teacher orguru, and we blindly accept it because we have fear.All conformity is confined to this pool we make for ourselves, while lifeis going by in the river right next to us.Maybe we should learn how to bridge the gap between our stagnant waterand the fresh, new water of the river, so that we might cleanseourselves and breathe a new life into our daily habitual, decayingexistance.You only get one chance at this, there is no 'practice' life.So, take some initiative and grab life for what it is.Otherwise, you are not living, you are dying.

RELAYER

Love can be seen as a teacher, an emotion, a longing, adesire, or it can be seen as desireless form, unattachedreality comingling with its own essence, the Oneness of thepositive energy of the Universe.As a teacher, it is as an ever-unfolding flower that callsus back to the ancient knowledge stirring in our bones andin our hearts, minds, blood. It rocks our bones, it soothesour broken, selfish hearts, it vibrates in our mind and it warmsour blood. It is like a foreign, attractive term that is calling us to awaken the Truth that is inside all of us human beings.When it is used as an emotion, in the selfish sense, it leadsus to become blind, irrational, judemental, and jealous.But if we can learn to experience True love, of all sentient beingsand all matter equally, we will perfect ourselves by balancingthe initial vibration of sound that created us and flows throughour very bodies like the subatomic particles vibrating in the wind.Life is vibration, feeling that vibration is awakening, awakeningis fine tuning our perception, fine tuning our perceptionallows us to see reality for what it is.And reality is indeed, empty.Void of past, lacking future, and intangible at all times savefor the present moment to moment, blink of the universe to blinkof the universe.I chose my screen name after a music album, but I feel that ithas come to take on a new meaning now.I am not wise, smart, intelligent, perfect, enlightened, or aboveand or beyond anyone other person on this forum, nor on this planet,nor in this universe, nor in the myriad universes.I am simply in love with all, equally, and I exist now onlyto serve my fellow brothers and sisters by relaying the message of love and Oneness to all whowill listen, all who focus proper attention, not on me alone, buton life, love, the True teacher of us all.By focusing attention, I mean tuning the mind intoall that is around you, perceiving everything by allowing the sounds, tastes, emotions, smells, thoughts, feelings, sights, tooverwhelm you, sink into the very core of you being, and realizethat it is only your ego, and you are not your ego.We are all One, beyond the Universal Conciousness, because thatis just a word.One means One, simple as this really.Much love to all who have listened to me in the past andto all who have shown me nothing but love, kindness, and respect.I continue to learn from every single one of you everyday whofrequent these forums, and I truly love all of you with my whole heart.Om Shanti, Namaste, Peace and Love, Love and Light ~