Teacher

Teacher:

that I'm a teacher of God, my directive clearly given, and that everything else is simply details. To be honest it has taken me awhile to arrive here, accepting this position, as if my own self-worth was questioning it's very consideration. My mistake was in the details, believing that a scholarly knowledge of A Course in Miracles is somehow more important than the subject of the heart. Yet recently my heart has heard the call, bursting open in understanding and a willingness to extend more and more love. I am a teacher of God because there is nothing else to possibly be. 

and I accept this fully now,

joyfully,

stepping into my role...and teaching only love.

~

I love you, Eric

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Truly Helpful

Truly Helpful:

the first meaningful and committed meditation practice, the one that helped deliver me from addiction and a reckless life was Passage Meditation as taught by Eknath Easwaran. It's based on a profound, yet simple premise - we become what we meditate upon. With this in mind Easwaran would urge those beginning the practice to memorize the Prayer of Saint Francis, believing it to be a powerful formula for self-transformation. 

it worked for me.

over the years I went on to learn, and eventually become a teacher, of vedic mantra meditation. But for long stretches of time I have returned to the beautiful passage of Saint Francis, especially during times when I feel for a deeper, more intimate connection with both God, and others. Political seasons almost always draws my return. For several months now I have been meditating on the passage, 3:00 am, perfectly solitary, silently absorbed in the words. And a wonderful thing has begun to happen, spontaneously, unbidden, the Truly Helpful prayer has entered my mind right after the finish of the Saint Francis prayer. Eknath Easwaran would instruct meditators to expand their repertoire of passages from a wide range of spiritual traditions and I believe he would have loved the Truly Helpful prayer for meditation. So both these prayers are have entered my early morning practice,

we become what we meditate upon, and most days we endlessly ruminate on grievances, judgements and our troubles. Passage meditation is a wonderful tool antidote. The Prayer of Saint Francis is a blueprint of transformation filled with the highest spiritual ideals. It's a prayer of surrendering ourselves to God's highest values and the Truly Helpful prayer given from A Course in Miracles continues on that theme. I feel that my life is now becoming one of greater service in a very quiet way. I'm called to be a teacher of God through demonstrating these values, being truly helpful in subtle, yet meaningful way. Like offering a heart-smile to a seemingly harsh world. My life feels more guided now than ever, Holy Spirit inspired and filled with a greater love to extend. 

I am here to be truly helpful...an instrument of peace.

~

I love you, Eric 

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Family

                                                                  

Family:

there's just one name shared between us, our natural identity is an expression of love, and is whispering through us right now. God's name is our inheritance. This is a beautiful reminder as we look about the world and see everything, all of us, divided by labels. We're confused about who we are, lost, and wandering about in circles, searching for our true home. 

we're lonely.

and yet God's name is our inheritance, shared between us, making us family in the deepest sense of the word. This is the most healing that that we can offer - that we share a single name, united, and that God is present within us all. I don't need to search for home, or family, nor ever feel alone in the world. I have you, a joined soul that recognizes me beneath the armor of my body. 

we recognize each other.

if only for a moment, a glimpse...still, we see.

family.

in the deepest sense of the word.

Father, our Name is Yours. ²In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. (ACIM, W-184.15:1-2)

~

I love you, Eric

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Echoing

Echoing: 

and here's the only true mantra needed, a silent repetition of the holiest name I share with God - drawing us to remember that we are already and always home. A Course in Miracles is really a meditation text, proving clear instructions on awakening right now. It's often said that the Course is holographic by nature, that any lesson or line contains the entire message. This proves true to me with lesson183: 

God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. ²To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. (ACIM, W-183.1:1-2)

that's the meditation, calling upon God's name in silence and listening to His return reply. The voice for God resides within me, a continuous whisper of love echoes through us all. I call upon God's name and hear my own true name in that echoing whisper. I can follow that voice home, right now, and the Holy Spirit reminds me that it is always right now. 

and with this meditation, I remember your name as well.

it's the same as mine, 

ancient,

holy,

being the silent name of God.

echoing through us all.

~

I love you, Eric

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Devotion

Devotion:

and so we are an idea in devotion to the mind that has thought us...bhakti yoga brought to its conclusion, with no separation found between ourselves and our origin. That's the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles to my understanding, that we are ideas in the mind of God, a divine thought that has never left it's source. I love this as a practice, that the Course is truly a heart-journey of devotion, a bhakti path that leads us to the revelation that we are already and always home. 

God wills you learn what always has been true: that He created you as part of Him, and this must still be true because ideas leave not their source (ACIM, T-26.VII.13:2)

it's such a joyful discovery.

and truly then our devotion is towards each other, not as separate minds, but as beautiful ideas within the infinite framework of God. Forgiveness is the means of this expression, stripping away the false thoughts of identity and seeing each other we really are - it's a holy instant of recognition and the most loving thought that we can offer another.

forgiveness is the bhakti path...as well as the very end of our journey.

we're already at home in the Mind of God.

such a joyful discovery.

~

I love you, Eric

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Humble

Humble:

and if even a few words greet the page it's a gift, emptiness fulfilled, and maybe just a little bit of grace expressed. I love my early morning writing, 4:00 am, my first real moment of turning the day over to my holy guidance. It used to be that I was an author, disciplined, demanding that inspiration meet my immediate need of self-importance. I needed to be a writer, believing that I owned the words given and that it was a reflection of my talent. 

I'm a more humble now. 

and I don't mean that life has humbled me as a means of punishment in any way. This is somewhere that I've come to softly, a gentle awareness brought on through the practice of forgiveness. I'm not the author of my life, let alone a few words given to a page. What I am is an instrument of grace, at times gifted with the patience to wait in silence, trusting in the openness of a heart and mind made ready through forgiveness. Words always seem to appear on their own, arriving through the softest whisper of inspiration and guiding my fingers along the keyboard. 

how can I claim any ownership of this? 

and so, yes, I'm humble, in the most gracious way. 

The truly humble have no goal but God because they need no idols, and defense no longer serves a purpose. (ACIM, S-1.V.2:3)

what I am is inspired...

a willing instrument of God's grace.

and ready for whatever follows.  

~

I love you, Eric

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Forgiveness is the Mantra

Forgiveness is the mantra:

for over 30 years I've practiced mantra meditation, being a certified teacher as well, and it has profoundly altered my life in so many meaningful ways. Mantra is a Sanskrit word made of two syllables, manas (mind) and tra (tool or vehicle) which literally means that we are shifting towards another mind state with there repetition  - carried there upon a vibrational quality that calms and heals. My own practice begins and ends with a sankalpa, another Sanskrit word that means sacred intention. These days my intentions are forgiveness, living a life of surrender, and following only the voice of Holy Spirit. 

a sacred intention indeed.

and so A Course in Miracles has worked into every aspect of my life, seamlessly, as if it's always belonged there. After decades of practice, countless journeys through the workbook, and continuous reading of the text, the Course is truly my life-blood now. Forgiveness is my better nature, a mantra that shifts my mindset from a false identity of isolation to the reality of knowing myself as love. It's my awakening. And what's truly amazing is how it carries me off the meditation cushion into the everyday grind of life, yes, a vehicle that shifts my perception almost instantly in its passage. 

Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. (ACIM, W-297.1:1)

what I've found, at the point in my life, is that the Holy Spirit will use everything at his disposal to heal my mind. My day is filed with the mantra of forgiveness, a loving vibration that carries the sacred voice of the Holy Spirit to be heard throughout my life - and that my only true purpose here is to continuously extend it. Meditation is now a stepping away from my cushion and into life, whatever it holds within any given moment. 

forgiveness is the mantra,

it's the vibrational quality of my life. 

and my only true practice.

~

I love you, Eric

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