Dog Poet Transmitting.......
Success can be a funny thing. Most of
the time this is because we determine, collectively, that success is
all about material accomplishments. Closer scrutiny shows that
material success is often accompanied by a host of material problems;
all of them, new material problems, unlike the problems one might
have had previously, many of which were probably generated by the
pursuit of success and the conditions one was forced to deal with due
to the lack of material success. There are also spiritual problems
that come with success, though these are of lesser concern to many.
It is an enduring truth that most
people do not come here for spiritual concerns. It is usually all
about a handful of interests and necessities. The interests are often
combined with the necessities, by example let us say one is driven to
inhabit battlefields and one must be there anyway to complete the
necessities of their Karma. Keeping this in mind one might say there
is a possibility that one's interests and necessities of appearance
are ALL Karma. One might further speculate that one's spiritual drive
or lack of it are also the result of Karma but there has to be more
to it all, though there are various masters who say “fugeddaboutit.
It's all Karma.” You don't hear as much from these teachers as you
do from the new age salesbots who want you to believe that you are
completely independent of all restraints; a god in the making in the
Presto Shake 'n Bake mold and free to do as you please at any time
you wish because you are only being held back by your programmed
mind, which they will be glad to help you deprogram for a nominal
fee.
It seems to me that there are
alternatives to the 24/7 all Karma, all the time construct, if we
come into an awareness of something more. Our awareness of it makes
it a reality already within our minds. All that is left then is for
it to precipitate into the manifest and this IT WILL do if one's
attention is placed upon it in a positive aspect. This is no
different than what the ineffable does when the ineffable shines upon
the plant kingdom through his visible medium, The Sun ...and inspires
the appropriate representatives of The Devic Realm to bring the rain
down upon the nourishing Earth. We've seen this at work, even when
all too few of us recognize and celebrate the beauty of its perpetual
occurrence. It happens anyway. It is what it is, even when we are not
what we are but we are here to come to an understanding of that. This
is the purpose of our transitory presence here. This is the essential
motivation of all our suffering that comes about through misplaced
desire, manifested upon misidentified objective. Suffering is meant
to teach us that our choices are wrong. Eventually we come into an
awareness of this.
Everything is awareness and this
determines how we label things and the value we place upon them. The
temporary nature of everything is temporary for a reason and so the
loss experienced from their departure; be it a house, or a pet or a
person, is designed to inform us of the transitory nature of the
phenomenal world. This is meant to provoke us to look deeper into
life for the more permanent truths. It's a system. It's a mystery to
most but it is there forever as... for whatever the reason, it takes
near forever for some to become conscious of it. It also goes on
forever that people are endlessly inspired to come here for whatever
their pedestrian, or even wonderful, reasons may be, so that they can
pursue and engage in all the fabulous enterprises we see around us,
as well as endure all those unfortunate conditions and circumstances
that we hear about every day. Some of these are not unfortunate but
no matter what they are, they are temporary.
Success, given the nature of what has
been stated so far, is quite possibly something other than what is
generally understood about it and Life... arranges itself in such a
way to prove this to everyone who thinks they have achieved success
because most success is also temporary and fraught with all manner of
peril and difficulty, depending on how it is exercised.
For myself, success covers a few areas
...but most importantly, success as a human being always looms
uppermost in my mind. This is not to say I have been very good at it
because I have had a few spectacular fails but those were either
engineered (and not by me) or they were reactions to untenable
conditions and I wasn't wise enough to figure a way out of it without
going nova. You don't succeed without making mistakes and if you are
afraid to make mistakes you will learn zip. So far as I know, 'zip'
doesn't look good on a person's curriculum vitae.
True success has to do with
accommodating one's ungovernable will to the single will that
manifests and maintains everything; creates it, composes it and is in
separation among its parts and yet remains apart... always in the
greater portion of itself. As Swedenborg noted, “the spiritual sun
never hits its zenith” because then it would descend and set and
that does not happen, except when it chooses to dissolve into the
time of its contemplation and rests in The Night of Brahma...
apparently on The Sea of Milk but Vishnu could probably articulate
that far better than I (grin).
It's all arranged and it always has
been. Defy the almighty at your peril. Every one of us when we were
young thought we had come up with some original idea. No such thing
exists. Every seemingly new and useful thing comes out of the mind of
the one who inspires it. Anyone who is any good at anything is only
so empowered by the one who powers everything. One either gets this
or one doesn't. I get it and that is success to me because no matter
how many times I may fail at the grand objective, I know I am guided
and I know I am loved and the latter is all the reward I could ever
ask for. This makes all the the trials and tribulations a walk in
the park. Of course, it is not walk in the park when the heat is on
you but you manage, somehow.
There are portions in the Bible that I
love, they have to do with sweet honey from a rock and one being fed
in the wilderness. On these things I truly believe because I have
experienced them and that... more than once. I have been freed from
prisons by seemingly magical agency; more importantly I have been
protected while in them. God is real. Make no mistake about that.
Certainly that indefinable being is oft veiled and entirely hidden
from the eyes of those whose minds are captured by the interplay of
dancing dust. Sometimes it might seem as if there is no God but that
is directly relative to the level of investment you have made in what
is not you. Of course your own duplicity is a perfect concealment.
For me, logic and reason are amazing
things to be in the possession of. I can prove to myself what I can't
even see. It is a sort of canny algebra that shoots around corners
and visualizes what can't be imagined by simply pinging off of what
can be imagined. As has been often stated here, “I don't have to
convince anyone of anything. I only have to convince myself.”
When I read a book like The
Kybalion or The
Way of Life, or any of the
remarkable texts that have been left as good footprints by those
who have passed on, I often weep at the discovery, cause I know they
left that there for me. They left it for anyone who cares enough to
look. These days the dust of the world obscures the mirror of our
better self and it does it so quickly that if you do not polish that
mirror on a daily basis you will very shortly no longer be able to
see your own reflection and this becomes problematic when you then
cannot see the light in others; when you can no longer see yourself
in everyone else.
I never had a problem loving god. It
has been the great romance and obsession of my life. I have had a
real problem loving myself. It took me a long time to come around to
getting this. My advice to you is not to wait so long, nor be
intimidated by what broken people told you when you were too young to
defend yourself against it. You are the crown of creation. I advise
that you act like it, with all the attendant humility that implies.
However well one might come to shine, it is no match for the sun.
Anyone who gets anywhere on this path understands that. Until you can
generate so much light that entire solar systems respond and life
manifests along with atmospheres to contain it, I don't want to hear
about your imagined majesty and magnificence. It should come as no
surprise that pharaohs and warlords all must bend the knee to death.
Death is final determinate of your power and legacy. Humility is a
passport to the world's beyond. It should come as no surprise that in
order to live in the celestial realms, you need to know your place
and there will be a place for you.
“the power of the pack is in the wolf
and the power of the wolf is in the pack.” The law of the jungle is
an ancient thing. Kipling picked up on that.
Anyway... greetings and salutations to
all of you.
End Transmission........