Ultimate Cause

Ultimate cause:

karma, Sanskrit word meaning action, is almost always misunderstood as punishment for wrongful deeds or a reward for our good behavior. Of course action itself is impartial, there's no judgement here, and we're simply living within the results of infinite choices made. With this in mind, there's really no escape from karma, we're literally choice making machines, results following our every single cause. 

so it might seem hopeless. 

we're doomed to the effects of our choices.

except in light of our ultimate cause...

and that's only ever seen through the lens of love.

 in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna counsels Arjuna on the transformation of karma, telling him that it can't be escaped but there's a promise of transcending it through the process of surrendering our every action to the Lord. Here we can see that the term Lord means our ultimate cause and that everything that follows forth is an effect of God. 

that's our surrender.

God.

Love.

again, the ultimate cause of all.

A Course in Miracles urges us to not concern ourselves with the world of effects and to turn within and see that we've completely lost sight of the ultimate cause. We've made a god of fear and have given it all of our belief and faith, projecting it outwards as a false idol for our worship. 

but it's an illusion.

if the ultimate cause is love, that is what we must turn to, it's our surrender, and we forgive our way back to it's solution. That's when we see the light, our own, the source of every true effect. This when we turn away from illusions and it's projections, we've escaped the sin of karma and now see every action as a cause for extension. 

we surrender fully to the effects of love.

for that is solely what we truly are.

and all we have to give away.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Everything We Need

Everything we need: 

So the questions are - how much of our resentment is justified? Are our grievances measured by the amount of hurt we hold right now? Or from the satisfaction we seem to gain from the suffering of another who might have harmed us long before? 

our ego will cling to one answer.

yet our heart always offers something more...

forgiveness gives us everything we need.

the ego will always say that grievances matter, having us believe that they're a protective armor keeping us safe within a harden wall of pain. It's the very identity of the ego to harbor these beliefs, justifying it's existence through the protection it claims to offer. But forgiveness cracks us open, shattering the illusion that we're separate from others. Real forgiveness is not measured by time nor distance, it's inseparable from our original innocence, an event of quantum nature, entangled hearts of our true existence shining through. We suddenly find ourselves beyond the need of any fortification, unable to be contained by the previous walls of ego. 

forgiveness shatters our every wall.

and only love remains.

spacious.

all embracing.

giving us all we truly need.

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Peace, Eric 

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Ego's Play

Ego's play: 

it seems the ego's plan is to always keep grievances alive, flourishing really, and with this there comes a sureness to its identity, that only by retaliation will our safety be found. Yet forgiveness derails this plan, surrendering grievances makes the ego obsolete and with this...

true freedom is found. 

we experience ourselves as only love.

of course it's a work in progress, and I find this true more than ever right now. At this point in my life my deep wish is to beyond grievances, my own, and being involved in others. Life doesn't work that way though, as long as the ego's in play there will always be vital work at hand. I could easily bemoan the fact that this is so, that after years, half a lifetime really, I am still enmeshed in ego's play of grievance. But that would miss the opportunity entirely - 

I am exactly where I need to be.

for whatever reason that it's so.

and as always...

my only role is to let go.

forgiving every grievance that is found.

~

Peace, Eric

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All the Way Down

All the way down: 

changed through forgiveness, a continuous practice but only because I'm still so drawn into my own petty concerns, grievances and resentments are now more clever in their appearance, and I often find myself caught in a subtle grip of self importance. Yet even with all this my joy has grown deeper and my smile more genuine than ever, I'm more relaxed, and forgiveness comes quick and unbidden to my mind. Mostly though...it's no longer really a practice.

at some point, and I don't know when exactly - I was changed through forgiveness, transformed really. By this I mean that it became no longer an option, it wasn't something that I did but now a deep reflection of what I truly am through all hours of the day. Of course, as mentioned above, there's still an awful lot of forgetting, quite often really, yet there's no punishment here, not even a resolve to do better. 

there's just forgiveness...

all the way down. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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Morning Prayer

Morning prayer: 

there's a morning prayer offered in A Course in Miracles that I dearly love - it takes the challenges of the day ahead and surrenders them to God, asking these questions:

"where would you have me go? What would you have me do? What would you have me say, and to whom? "

and with that, my role is over, I simply go where I'm directed, doing whatever is called for me to do, and speaking just the right words to those whom I meet along the way. What I most love about this prayer is that it could easily have been found in the Tao Te Ching, or the Bhagavad Gita. These are wisdom words asking for guidance from a greater source than mere ego, a non-dual stance of surrendering my own limited beliefs of a smaller self, and trusting in the intelligence of a truer self. 

it's just letting go...

and allowing life itself, 

in all of its spontaneous wonder, to take over.

the truth is, I often make a mess out of my little part of the world, thinking that I know best and forging ahead with my own ideas and plans. When I'm able to step aside and allow life, God, the Tao, to lead me in the right direction, providing me with proper words, the more apt I am to be happier and fulfilled. It's only when I cling to my own sense of knowing best that I make a mess of things. Yet I find that I still place my intuition and wisdom guidance aside and listen to my ego's voice, even after all these years and surely knowing better.

true surrender is hard it seems.

so each morning I pray...

where would you have me go? What would you have me do? What would you have me say, and to whom? 

and then I simply listen.

~

Peace, Eric

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Nothing to Forgive Here

Nothing to forgive here:

forgiveness largely happens on it's own, Our only real effort is one of remembering the original innocence of this moment and allowing ourselves to stay here. That's really all forgiveness is, just the reduction of a wandering mind to those thoughts of past hurt, to keep returning again and again to the present moment until not even a husk of a painful memory remains to cause us any harm. Anything other than this only serves as a ritual for our return to the present moment - 

our original innocence is always right now.

and there is nothing to forgive here.

~

Peace, Eric 

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From This Point On

From this point on:

as everything else is just prepares me for this surrender - that's the entirety of my practice, every struggle with an asana, each time my mind wanders from the mantra, 

there is always a surrender.

that's where the magic is for me, a sweet spot of letting go and finding myself within the free fall. My truest self is found here, unencumbered, no longer holding on to any false sense of balance. I find myself first in motion and then the stillness of surrender, poised, and without concern of anything beyond the freedom of this moment.

my every effort brought me here.

yet serve me no longer.

from this point on....

there's just the letting go.

~

Peace, Eric

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