1-27-12   Kin 139  9 Cauac

When in Rome do as the Romans do; when in a local bar room and the customary brawl breaks out, either get under the table or start swinging. It’s that simple! A declarative sentence states something. Dogs chase cats. An imperative sentence commands. Go to the store. What is the difference between the two? (Nothing, really; or everything, depending on your particular frame of reference) It’s all in how you perceive what is being said; then, unconsciously your selected individualized response appears.

How accurate we are in discerning what takes place next is totally inconsequential. The apparent fact that we involved ourselves in the flavored episode is quite enough. Or, is it? Understanding the vent, comprehending the various threads entangled and appreciating the vivid lesson arrive much later; IF, it ever shows up, at all. Most often times, we are far too busy to recapture ‘mull over’ what happened unless, in some way, we get the benefit from it. Benefit? What a strangely attractive word, yes? NO. Benefit does not bring to us Santa’s sleigh full of goodies. On the contrary, those things in our life that have been apparently beneficial have cost us far more than the passing moment of thrill associated. Why? Because we wouldn’t “leave ‘well enough’, alone,” as my Capricorn grandmother used to say.

Yes, once having felt the thrill of elation or the demise of depression, (either one, matters none), we selfishly intended to push the moment past the immediate gratifying occasion. We wanted (expected) some sort of recognition or gratitude either to be given or shown by, or to the other. Why? Because of our need to feel ‘special’, entitled and deserving of the extra moments of attention in glory or pity. We all do it, continually. Whether we are conscious of our ‘grasping hands’, we openly look for the incidents, that once again, set us apart as separate, distinct and unique. We never stop to consider that how we understand, perceive, react and receive the detached event determines the level of consciousness imbued to us from our precious ruthless soul. In other words, we are offered one more circumstance to stand back and ‘watch ourselves in full animated action’.

How correct we are in comprehending the energetic movements becomes the gateway into self-realization. Not that we will ever be able to truthfully dissect any event or relationship, but the sheer observance of it (like as in physics) causes the relevance to change. Our words and actions defy us as far as they convey disguised relevant detriment! Wow! What does that mean? It means we are the undeniable necessary part of the sacred process which unfolds through the soul’s experiment in human activity. Am I implying we are something beyond human beings? I think I am. Possibly, we are Masters of Divine Essence who have simply forgotten our sanctified heritage. In other words, we have no need to prove we are so special when we already occupy the realm of defied flesh.

It’s sort of like when we purchase an object simply because it catches our fancy on that particular day. But, after the novelty or spark of interest wears off, we simply forget about it. Toss it in a corner, drawer, closet, attic, or garage and never again pay attention to it, again UNTL we accidentally run across the item while engaged in some other momentous life-sapping activity of importance in the distant future. Then, we callously, curiously remember for a second---IF we care to invest that much concentration--- of the day, place and hour and reason for having purchased it. WE may at that precise instant, if we so decide, comment upon its by-gone value, retrieve for present admiration and/or quickly dispose of it forever. Did the item diminish in value simply because it was forgotten? No, does it become more ‘special’ simply because it was restored to a place of recognizable merit? No.

We could realize, if we so choose, at the moment we purchase any thing, the enormity it does, will and shall continue to possess as an object of our unconscious affection; which means something more than what it appears to offer. We cannot merely dismiss the things, toss them out or forget their point of origin any more than we can denigrate our celestial beginning. When we discharge those parts of ourselves which are sublime in nature and inappropriately try to replace them with a false reproduction, as such, by/through the magnifying of emotional events, people or salutary events of hoopla, we decompose our sublime psyche. Yes, I am also referring to those irrefutable blatant times when we blow up circumstances of distress, anxiousness and despair. Whether exalted or abased, situations which cause us undue unrest and turmoil, excitement or elevation are noteworthy human experiences.

We are responsible for the observance of our interactions with that thing (person, place, event), not with the obsessive need to possess, attach or control the thing, the care of our immediate attention of reverence, acknowledgement of the thing, the nurturing and appreciation of present association of that thing and finally the disposal and disintegration of that thing, as returning into ourselves. Needless to say, unless we can wear, digest or use the thing as a mode of evolutionary transportation, it would be disadvantageous for us to reach out and obtain any THING. It is reported that Jesus said, “I and the father are one; IF you have seen me, you’ve seen the father.” When we invest our human effort, energy, thought and total being in a conscious sanctified interaction, knowing fully well, that the things, (people, places and events) are all endowed with the same hallowed intent, then and only then, are we released from the toilsome burden of the adversary’s debilitating desire to be recognized ‘as more’ than we already are. That stark definition, alone, is a devil’s hell where there is no quenching relief!