Awakening is our real "common domain".....how we each express it takes different forms. In this spirit, your comments are invited. Name, email, URL all optional and comment will post after review.
May 18, 2008
(another) spiritual currency (pt.3)
Here's a different twist of the word "currency:" as in being current with what's happening, with current events. Truly being current is really being in the present..........where else is anything happening?
Then our life-current circulates freely, without obstructions; it circulates directly, without distractions. It's like an energy stream flowing from our inner reservoirs, our "inner accounts" (see "currency").
This leads us into the "eye of the needle" through which none of our baggage can pass. Following the thread of spirit through it, we approach the threshold of the Beloved Oneness within. (also see pt.1 and pt.2)
May 14, 2008
spiritual currency (pt.2)
What's the difference between spiritual currency (see pt.1 ) and the standard issue (see "currency")? Both are the same "stuff" of life (the code behind our genetic code); both are the basic units of awareness, the software behind our thoughts, wants, and actions.
But one type diminishes the ego makeup; the other reinforces it. The price for converting one to the other is called purification in many spiritual traditions.
It goes further than conversion..........eventually all of our baggage gets thrown overboard, the good as well as the bad. It's a case of purposely throwing out the baby and the bath water.
As the deck gets cleared we are left with less distractions. We are left with more awareness of and more attraction to the Oneness of the Beloved One.
May 11, 2008
spiritual currency (pt.1)
Spiritual currency (see spiritual eco.) is a means of payment that's very costly to our ego-mind.
The exchange rate varies according to how much (of limits and bindings) we're able to throw overboard. Less really can become more.
One unique feature: this "cash in hand" can't be stolen or counterfeited. Each one's account is as unique as their own fingerprints.
Its purpose and value is simply this: to get on track to the Real Treasure, the inheritance we are all due. Then nothing is lacking.............and all currency becomes meaningless. (also see pt.2)
May 07, 2008
spiritual economics 101
Inflation...........The more filled with ourselves, the less room for anything else. It's like carrying around a sign reading "occupied;" actually more like "preoccupied." When ego-mind inflates, our lives pack less value.
Deflation............The less self-infatuation, the more room for inner longing to emerge. Then our resources turn into spiritual gold. Then the inner treasure starts manifesting.
Currency...........The "stuff" of our lives, "cash" in our inner accounts; the "imprints" that structure our psyches. It's what we "spend" our time, our lives with......
It's what we experience the give and take of living with, and what we finally exchange the false for the Real with. That outcome sounds like a very good deal.
