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Bliss Blog: Diving Deep Together
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This bliss gathering covered a number of themes. We confirmed that the overall intention of the group is to support through our collective each One's individual intention to be free. That the intention to be free is often regarded as the highest intention as all other intentions require manifestation of some sort. The intention to be free requires unmanifestation ... unlearning.
We saw that thought was one of the tools the group was using, ironically, to support our recognition of ourselves as Unmanifest, and comprised essentially of energy and 'no thought'.
We recognized that society and culture creates a pseudo 'concensus' of thought that acts as a sort of energetic barrier or boundary that we as humans can easily 'buy into' through socialization. I call this the 'social code menu' that we are born into and often don't realize that we can order off the menu. International travel can often provide a wonderful wake-up call and insights into this phenomena of human consciousness. Our menu in the U.S. is different than in any other country.
I shared that the true meaning of the word education stems from the word 'educare' meaning 'to bring out that which is within'. We decided it would be neat to explore the group's capacity to support one another's freedom by sharing the ways we have 'unlearned' this month.
Blissings & Love, Catherine
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Here the gathering took a deeper course of inquiry with a couple of new people bringing in the new year. At first we continued our collective inquiry into knowing ourselves as everything and nothing at once ... both formless awareness and all form simultaneously. Then some concrete and specific examples were shared that sparked our attention to look very deeply and clearly at what is appearing to be upcoming planetary challenges ... economically, environmentally and culturally ... and both our personal roles and the roles that those that appear to be spiritually advanced on the planet, are contributing. We saw that the Dalai Lama is playing perhaps the biggest role in supporting a shift in planetary consciousness, and we saw that gatherings such as ours may be having untold positive reverberations in consciousness as validated by the work of scientists like Rupert Sheldrake. We saw also that the common spiritual concensus of the purpose of disaster on the planet is to wake people up to their true nature as consciousness ... and our fears, concerns and assumptions may be best used in service by allowing them to deepen our own awakened awareness as being one with all things.
My subsequent insights have had to do with the power of memory, both personally and in our collective consciousness as a species. Our gathering was infused with the energy of memory focused on global disaster. It seemed loaded with images, emotions and physical sensations that had their own reality. Yet the beauty and grace of inquiry into the true nature of any apparent form is the blossoming choice to be internally still with what is appearing. In this case, finding the core of each and every memory to be ephemeral, easily dissolved and also equally as still. Then internal stillness itself can be inquired into, and recognized to be the sum and substance of everything and no-thing at once ... and our nature, and nature itself, regardless of the births and deaths that appear and disappear is still or empty for lack of words. And yet, through words and the reflective use of our body-mind, we can be simultaneously reveling in the grace of our ability to share and deepen in this recognition by virtue of the circumstantial peace that is currently being afforded us.
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We began with a celebration of new life, with one of our members being a new grandmother. We saw how the rhythms of life and death flow through us like breath. We saw how the upcoming winter's solstice contains deeper opportunities to explore life from a place of darkness, emerging into greater light on the planet ... and how this effects our bodies. We examined upcoming astrological influences and the effect they may play on our abilities to remain present to those we encounter each moment ... particularly the energies of male and female, yin and yang. And a deeper exploration of ourselves as both the still point and the movement of these energies, both everything and nothing at once.
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How do you experience either Causeless Love or the Power of Letting Go in your own life? How does this support your recognition of bliss?
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We began with a song called 'For Giving' about the power of letting go ... "there's something about the power of letting go, there's something in the way you ask me to go, down to the depths, down to the rhythms, down, down into the darkness. There's something about the power of letting go, there's something within ... the way ... the heart can move through the depths, the rhythms, up to the light".
Each member reflected on the intimate connection between faith, forgiveness and letting go or acceptance. All three of these played key roles in our lives towards a deepening recognition of a larger sense of self than what could be conceived by thoughts.
We recognized ways we can trust in life itself as it generates wondrous, yet ever mysterious storylines.
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We met in causeless love. We found it on the internet, reconnecting with a long lost high school friend. We found it in the properties of elements, minerals and crystals. We found it in a bowl of soup. We found it in a song about the faith of a rose in wintertime. We found it in ourselves, teaming life through each unique expression that just appears each moment ... effortlessly ... without cause or will. We saw it expressing differently throughout our unique lifestreams, while reverberating the same intimate glue. We found our will to choose to accept all that causelessly appears to us. We met in causeless love.
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