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Why should you still the sands of your mind?
The ground of the mind is like dunes of sand. The wind blows the sand into different shapes. Chaotic thoughts cause windstorms in the sands of the mind. You cannot easily see the terrain. In fact, you cannot see the terrain at all. You see mirages, but they are only blowing sand which distorts the picture of the gentle, receptive, loving ground.
On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever…
When you calm the winds of the mind, you can see a clear blue sky, the dunes and the terrain. You can see the way to go. You can breathe easily. And you can see your footprints… :)
You can also create new worlds with the conscious winds of your thoughts, for this sand is holographic and pliable. But you cannot do so in the middle of a sandstorm…
In stillness, you can appreciate the beauty and givingness of the sky and the sand you walk on, and immerse yourself in gratitude; and more beauty grows inside you. But you cannot see anything to be grateful (great-full) for in a cloud of dust. You are concentrating only on how to breathe the next breath and see the next step.
These Steps Are Mine…
The Beautiful Dunes are all around you.
Quiet the wind in your mind and you can see them.
Their beauty vibrates the path.
Your eyes run into the lines of time.
You transcend the horizon’s call.
You listen in the sky for the blue of your soul…
the sun of your night…
and it is ever shining
and leads directly into the center of All That Is…
Its mind spread with rosy petals falling across the steps of time.
And you can know it, once you can say
These steps are mine…
I take ownership of my mind, its horizons, its sands and its skies,
And I live in it with love for all that has been created
And all that will be created,
As I live in the Divine.
All the World’s a Stage
Now when you have cleared your mind, it becomes a stage. You can see its clear pictures and call upon its wisdoms. In truth, Egypt awaits you, all past, present, and future await you.
If you would ask others to still the mind and meditate…
If you would ask others to still the mind and meditate, remember that you are asking for them to transmute being. Think about that carefully. Thus, you must…
Give them your heart.
Give them its treasures.
The more you give them, the more can grow.
Tell them they are blessed.
Tell them they are blessings.
Ask them to contribute their wisdom, to join in its unfolding.
Ask them to give this gift to the planet and to each other,
without judgment,
without withholding the love in which all were born,
the love they breathe called Air…
If you would study the Oracle nature of the mind, remember the gift of consciousness
To be an Oracle is to be still in the essence of beingness and simply come to know its corridors, its sands, its symbols, and see who comes there when all the dust has settled into infinities…
You need no vapors or chemicals or sounds to still your mind and see. It is an act of consciousness, and for this reason you have consciousness. Why else would you have consciousness?
Now, your mind is as still as you are. If you are never still and conscious, then your mind will never be still and conscious. By that I mean, that if you are only still when you are asleep, then you are only still when you are unconscious of being still. Does this make sense?
But you have been given the gift of consciousness, the gift of awareness. So, be conscious my friends, if you would see. Be aware in stillness. And this is what you can do:
Still the Mind and Calm the Body
Sit.
Do not talk.
Listen for the silence and understand in it.
You do not have to go anywhere.
You are already there.
You do not have to be anything.
You are already what you will be.
You do not have to do anything.
You have already done it.
You do not have to plan anything.
You are the plan.
You do not have to say anything.
Your being already says what needs to be said.
You do not have to think anything.
There are no words for now,
for when you have said words
or thought words,
by the time your awareness knows it,
they are already in the past.
Stay here now.
Still your body as it speaks to you in small ways.
Tell your body how much you love and appreciate its many small cells, its many small souls and silent runnings.
Tell your body that it is safe to be calm.
Tell your body that it is safe in well-being
And it will sit with you in silence and help you know…
for the body knows many things…
and in your stillness you will find them out.
When at last you are still,
You will find your place in a Book you began
long, long, ago in a place far away …
words that open to Mystery
open the doors of your mind
and there are many doors…
You are at last in the Book of You,
Part of the universe where you live as many
And know as One…
Remembering
And you will remember…
You will remember who you are.
You will remember the Others who sit with you.
For you have sat together in this room before,
many rooms and many spaces
have passed.
You have known each other’s hearts and destinies.
You have come to the Center of the embrace before
As you grew up together in the universe.
You may have forgotten them before,
But now you can remember
The
childhood of the universe
Which you have shared with all beings,
All sisters and brothers,
And now you find your place
in the sitting room.
There All contemplate the pulsing strings
of divine growing
And the sound of eternity,
A soft hum in your mind.
You know its notes through and through.
Still the mind and you can hear your own music.
Still the mind and you can make music together.
Still the mind and you can glow forever
for that is why you come to be still today.
The Common Ground Is Creation…
You learn together as a unit and must synthesize yourselves into One which can learn both separately and together. What you learn to create together here is unusually powerful. This is a class in creation as much as stillness, and it needs all of its brothers and sisters, its children and its parents, from this and other times, from this and other planets, to join in the One Mind.
Your mind is yours to enjoy as a vehicle of consciousness. But as you come to be still in the moment of now, you will see that your mind is the critical piece in a larger puzzle. It must be still and in place before the total picture is formed and visible to All. The ultimate picture…
And that is the special bliss of calming your mind. You can see its joining and know those who form this universe at your side…they are not your enemies but your partners or Makers of the larger picture, co-creators of the mystery in which you live.
But you cannot find common ground until you can know your own ground in stillness. Until then you have no ground. That makes you anxious, for you know that you are running blind through an unknown world and want to stop it from spinning. And if you do not know why you are anxious, your body knows; listen for its messages. It will cause you to sit still when you can run no more in peace…
And that is the reward for stillness which will surprise you: To know your own still mind is to know the still mind of others and to find the common ground which is creation.
Dancing with Obstacles…
Then the individual life that you can create for yourself will be in harmony with the common ground, and you will find yourself gliding as if by magic through a life you find surprising you each moment. That is bliss, and it is the bliss that escapes you now:
The bliss in which life surprises you in each moment and you are there to receive the abundance of these miraculous surprises.
But now, they come to you and you are not there to receive them. You cannot see them. So they fall to the ground, the ground you cannot see. And they fall there in chaotic heaps.
And what was meant for you as a life of joyful presents/presence, instead is lost in the sandstorms of your mind, where you are blind and cannot hear for the winds…
You step over the very miracles you seek every day and think they are but obstacles in your path, for in the storm you cannot see their real shapes and do not know that they are part of you.
I repeat: Your obstacles are part of you, the part that you do not recognize as little miracles you can learn from and transform into clear paths of happy surprises.
Life Is Meant to Surprise...
Life is meant to surprise… That is the path your being has chosen, to be in life here; that is the gold vein you seek, in its breathtaking mystery, in the adventures of its myths and symbols. Do not try to explain away and deny the mystery. Become the mystery. For in your still mind, you are one of the most profound mysteries of the universe…
Knowledge lies in your pursuit of mystery, mystery which ever deepens and recedes before you and inside you with awesome majesty… It is the food for your still mind’s eager hunger for joy, for love, for redemption.
In Parallel Universe, Rom has said: “Be surprised by life, and it will surprise you back.” That is it, in essence.
You grow life when you live in the glow of its surprises and relish them all with joy. You serve life and amplify free will when you are vulnerable to life’s mysterious surprises and dance with them. Do not be afraid of them. They came here to dance with you. And you put them in place…
In essence, you create by transmuting a fleeing mystery into the blissful trails of life. It is your way of creating experimental life forms. You truly become conscious. And to do that you must first become still and listen, for the mystery takes many subtle forms. Do not miss its shadows and its tiny clues that travel with fleet foot crossing your mental landscapes.
Appreciate that which is mysterious in the world and in your mind, and the treasures of sight await you. Do not fear or hate the unknown, the unfamiliar, do not seek to destroy a mysterious being or wonder if it will destroy you. For both you and the mystery are One Thing. The blood and heartbeat of a universe, its driving engine lies in its mystery, its surprises, its secret open spaces which await you. Go for them. They are yours.
The Myth and Mystery: Nothingness (No-thingness)…
It is said in myth and mystery, that the ultimate stillness, the ultimate meditation is to reach a state of nothingness, a bliss of nothingness or
"no-thingness" in which All is All and That is It.
If you think that there will be no surprises there, then you do not yet know
"no-thingness," for it contains the ultimate surprise. And oh, my friends, oh, my friends, I beckon you to open its doorways…
Thoth
Egypt awaits you...
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