Obama -- a great President

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Obama

I will vote for Obama.

The Four Agreements

Reading a book by Don Miguel Ruiz that hit home again today (I traded an "est Werner Erhard tape for it.)

"In your whole life no one has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else."
...
"The more self love we have, the less we will experience
self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection and self rejection comes from having an image about what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal."
Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don't accept ourselves the way we are. And why we don't accept others the way they are."
---

Deserata

DESIDERATA

Go Placidly Amid The Noise & Haste & Remember What Peace There May Be
In Silence.

As Far As Possible Without surrender be on good terms with all
persons.

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the
dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

* Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the
Spirit. If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain &
bitter; for always there will be greater & lesser persons than
yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

* Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real
possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in
your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let
this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for
high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

* Be yourself, Especially do not feign affection. Neither be
cynical about Love; for it is perennial as the grass.

* Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the
things of youth. Nurture strength of Spirit to shield you in sudden
misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many
fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome
discipline, be gentle with yourself.

* You are a child of the Universe, no less than the trees & the
Stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear
to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.

* Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors & aspirations, in the noisy confusion of
life keep peace with your soul.

* With all its sham, and drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a
beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.**


--- (One of my favorites)--

Lao Tsu

Lao Tsu says in the Tao Te Ching:

"Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind rest at peace.
The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their
return.
They grow and flourish and then return to source.
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
The way of nature is unchanging
Knowing constancy is insight.
Not knowing constancy leads to disaster.
Knowing constancy, the mind is open.
With an open mind, you will be openhearted.
Being openhearted, you will act royally.
Being royal, you will attain the divine.
Being divine, you will be one with the Tao.
Being at one with the Tao is eternal.
And though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

More Alan Watts quotes

"The individual is an aperture through which
the whole energy of the
Universe is aware of itself,
a vortex of vibrations in which it
realizes itself as man or beast,
flower or star -- not alone but
as central to all that surrounds it.

These centers are not, as may
seem, apart from their surroundings,
but stand in mutural
relationship to them -- center to circumference
-- in the same way
as the magnetic poles.
It is thus that each center anywhere implies
all centers elsewhere." -- Alan Watts (1915--1973)

Fiore

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Short Poem Esoteric

Sometimes Through A Mask Of Words
Spirit Seeps
Like Dreams Of Cause And Being

Spirit Uncontained
Forever Remains
The Cause And Structure Of All

Poem © Gustaveson 1989, 2002

Meditation

What is God's Will?

Before all actions ask yourself what is "God's will" for you in this moment.

Read further if you wish to

Learn How To Meditate



--By Rob Gustaveson

Advanced Preparation For This Beginning Meditation

Enter this moment with an open mind and heart.



The Purpose of Meditation is God Contact!

Come back when ready--suffer less, give up fear, evolve, remember, learn. Refrain from red meat and pork. Try to cut down on dairy and all meat. Do not smoke anything for several weeks or do alcohol or drugs if you are serious about learning to meditate.

Strict vegetarianism will facilitate this process (this is not a requirement but is strongly suggested). Think auruvedic. Do not combine meditations. Don't do while driving.

If you know Yoga or how to stretch -- do a few moves you love slowly and consciously (such as the "Sun Salute" prior to beginning)

Take a breath.

Ok now unplug your phone, turn off your beeper and disconnect all electrical devices that could interfere with your-time: the next hour, lock your door, hit the restroom, loosen the top button on your pants... Take a breath.

Find a place where you live that you will not be disturbed and where you can regularly do this. Get comfortable (shoes off, sit on a wool blanket facing East -- have the blanket below your feet wrapped over a chair -- an armless straight backed chair ).

Slowly exhale all the air in your lungs and then observe your lungs as they refill on their own.

Shut your eyes (you might read through this easy Meditation a few times. Or even tape record it and listen to it while you do it for the first few times until you learn it). Make time for God now. You will always be busy...do this now for yourself and for humanity!

Meditation is silence, stillness, attunement to God.

Meditation is the actual knowing not as a theory or belief -- but an actual experience of God -- a knowing. God is ever present--all around and through our very being. There is no separation. There is oneness. The Kingdom of Heaven IS within you (and all around you).

Remember even Science thinks now of the atom as being Light! God is Light! All is God.

Your attention should be 100% focused on God and the starting point for that is in front of your forehead between your eyebrows (actually about 3 inches in front of your forehead).

Start by sitting on the floor reach down your leg (first to the left leg (take your time) and then to the right leg (slowly stretch with consciousness) -- then reach toward both legs at the same time grabbing wherever it feels right to you -- not forcing or to the point of pain. (If you feel emotion such as sadness do not hold back. Let yourself go for a few minutes.) Then relax. Breath.

Consciousness IS Soul. You are Soul.

Keep your attention in front of your physical forehead.

Meditation Technique

"Your Soul is ever one with Spirit."

Formal:

Part One

Exhale all the air in your lungs.
Take a deep deep breath through your nose. Hold it. Exhale. Do this ten times. (Hold a count of 10 ((whatever you can do comfortably)) or more -- equal inhale, equal hold and equal exhale).

*Hold the seed thought in your mind:

("I love you God" or "I am That I am -- "I and my Father are One!" or OM).

Now Relax your body.

Relax your feet and toes.

Relax your lower legs and upper legs.

Relax your thighs & butt.

Relax your stomach muscles.

Relax your chest and back (lower, middle and upper)

Relax your arms and hands and fingers.

(Take your time, breathe fully).

Relax your shoulders and neck muscles.

Relax your face and the muscles behind your eyes.

Relax your forehead and scalp.

Now, Allow a feeling of well being to permeate

your entire physical organism.

Silently sound an om using your throat muscles.

Notice if your stomach or some part of your body is still tight. Relax that part. Take a deep breath.

Relax Your emotions

See your emotions as a quiet pool of water.


Remember Thou Art Soul ever connected to Spirit Divine.
We are all children of God made in his image and likeness.
We are never separate from Him except by our own conscious or unconscious choice(s).

You have the right to be here.

Allow your emotions to quiet down. They are calming, relaxing. Letting go of the day -- of the week. The past and future do not exist here. All is now. Have your attention in the area of your forehead. (Try to see or feel a small golden sun -- the Christ Consciousness center there aka Ajna). Notice if you are breathing.

See your emotions as a quiet pool of water.

Just witness them.
Consciously choose to listen to God.

Silently sound an om using your throat muscles.

Mind

Watch every word, thought and action in your daily living. Watch every reaction within yourself.

Now watch your thoughts.

Allow them to quiet down. Your mind is quieting down.

Your thoughts are quieting down. Allow your thoughts to cease.

Just witness them. If they are there accept them. Relax. Breath.

Silently sound an om using your throat muscles.


Simple Meditation Technique

Continues Part One - B:

Now pay attention to the point between the eyebrows
(a little higher--about 1-3 inches in front of your physical forehead).
It is known as the Ajna center* or the
Christ Consciousness center--point of will.

Christ-ness is your potentiality. One of the main
reasons we are here & incarnate over and over again on Earth until enlightenment is reached or remembered.

Ajna is short for Arjuna -- Arjuna was a disciple of Krishna (The Hindu Christ).

Put your attention there at Ajna. Exhale all the air in your lungs slowly. Now inhale slowly through your nose with your attention and eyes focused upwardly -- but not to the point of strain. (Practice this having your eyes in an upward direction to the Christ Consciousness center often as you can for the next six months while your deeper connection is being built).

Do the seed thought and breathing with your attention here at the Christ Consciousness center.

"I am the soul here and now, I am that I am."

In the course of your day say aloud often: "Persona get thee behind me I the soul shall lead." (Whenever needed). One is not the body, emotion or the mind. One is the Soul ever connected to Spirit. There is no separation.

God is Love and Light.



Now move

your body,

emotions

and mind

into the small unit in front of your physical forehead

called the ajna center.

And silently sound an OM uniting them into one unit

receptive to the overshadowing spiritual soul.

(Use your throat muscles as you silently sound an om with your attention in front of your forehead--your eyes in a slightly upward direction).

Ajna (also known as the Christ Consciousness center) is the sixth chakra.

This is your point of reference from now on--whenever possible throughout the day.

Pull here wherever you go whatever you do (continuously)--throughout your day. The Christ Consciousness center is the switchboard for all the chakras from heart down.

Knowing God and serving God and his creation is this path.

The path of wisdom. It involves much much more.

Fear Not. "Spirit Is Truth." God is Love.

"Love is an act of Will!"

Take a slow breath--fully empty your lungs then refill them.

Now breathing with your attention focused at Ajna think of the creator

put your attention over and over again back at the ajna center.

Send Him your love and feel thankful for all you've been given. And are.

Send that Love to your own family whether within incarnation or not. Take a few minutes.

Now send that love to your friends. Your attention is at Ajna.

This love is being sent like a pebble being tossed into a still lake.

Don't go with the ripples -- stay focused at the ajna center allowing the ripples (of love)

to go outward to your family

and friends

and so called enemies

and outward to humanity

(and all the leaders in this world).

Finally Allowing (Sending) (receiving) Gods' Love and Light to pour through your own mind

and emotional body

and physical body

outward to all humanity.

Remaining at ajna being receptive to God's will and energies -- doing nothing but allowing his Love and Light to pour down to and through you (outward via ajna)

to humanity

and all the kingdom's of nature.

Now sound an Om.

Three times. Aloud.

~om peace amen~

End of formal beginning to a particular type of meditation.

Poem by Rob

violent emotions

over doomed politics

not cushioned

by the falling dollar

and the climbing egos

of hate strewn streets



that linear thinking

more crooked than

a lopsided republican spine

a creaking body without a clear thinking mind

its nose in the milk of mad cows



its feet mired in the oil

of a thousand unjust wars

where the 1st commandment still unlearned

is not kept by the mobs of corporations

who rule via fear and greed via media and government

and governed and soldier-police who never learned the word NO.



lets pretend we are good

(but not THEM, not those guys over there other than us)

and greys are not in shades for hades is the reward

of the coward who hides behind the USA Patriot Act



let loose that Dr. Strangelove bomb from above

the beloved land I once called home

too much now like Rome

in it's desperate fall

clawing at its slippery slope



unrepentant unsaved souls now toast

after that spasm of American vacuous facism

invoked by the Darth Vader nursing home money laundered

to wage the war of continued wrong activity



black knight in the forelorn house of white

on a chessboard ruled by desire

where religious symbology

is an excuse to war for land mostly sand



myopic glass not polished mirror enough

to see the purified lense

potential in us

the ocean refuses no river



after that spasm of facism has faded

we begin again to shuffle off

the beast hyde & again be human

and lift ourselves triumphant to Soul's mighty height



when we have again thrown off the tyrants in the white house

next time the middle east then who knows where

like musical chairs now here now there over and over again

all terrorist we be

terrorist all we be



be all you can be in the army

evil training evil to create more evil

no where to run

all sides accountable

all sides accountable

-- Rob G.