YES! things are definitely shifting, since the "firing of the grid". i woke up this morning with one of those lighthearted, ancient, Beatles tunes playing in my head:
Listen....
Do you want to know a secret?
Do you promise not to tell? -- whoa oh, oh
Closer....
Let me whisper in your ear
Say the words you long to hear....
I'm in love with you....
i hadn't thought of that song in EONS -- and here it was, at this particular time, giving me such a good feeling; a feeling of, "yeah, things really are just fine, in Reality" ... and it reconfirmed my knowing that Don Miguel Ruiz is right when he says that our only job in life is To Be Happy!!
wow! and i WAS happy! and i AM happy.... i was happy all night, in fact. i lay there in bed, hardly slept at all -- just being HAPPY. i lay there and brought some of my friends into my heart, and held them, and shared that happiness with them. and then this morning, before i got up, that happy song was in my head....
ON MONDAY, some things that have been percolating for many months began pouring out of me, in the form of words, for this website. and, in the days just before that, i noticed a very uplifting change in the way i was feeling -- about some particular things, especially, and also in general. even better, the feeling blossomed into action, which then made me feel even BETTER ... which led to MORE action, etc...!
and yes, i do feel this is connected with the "firing of the grid". i've lived through a bunch of these much-advertised cosmic events before -- Harmonic Concordances, Harmonic Convergences, and Whatever-Elses -- and i've never felt much of an effect from any of them (i know, other people have; i just happen to be rather dense in certain ways; it takes a pretty good jolt to register with me sometimes!). but i really am feeling after-effects of this one....
in case you're interested, here's a page showing what was measured "scientifically", by the Princeton University random-number-generators, during the hour of "firing the grid"....
Monday was really a special day for me, and the most special moment af all was just after doing reiju. there's a place on a particular beach, which has recently become one of my favorite places. i like to go there in the morning, and again in late afternoon. at the very end of the beach, the ground rises away from the ocean; and there, up the slope just a little, is a big, old tree. there's a path extending back from the tree, through the jungle -- and the path goes along a stone wall. the path is covered closely with other branches, keeping it deep in shadow at any time of day.
i like to take that path, and to stand under the big tree, doing pranayama or some other exercise or meditation or prayer. Monday morning i was there doing reiju ... and, when i finished and opened my eyes -- looking under the branches of the big tree, out to the ocean -- straight in my line of sight were not 1, not 2, not 3, but FOUR BIG SEA TURTLES! they were hovering, like mysterious craft from another dimension -- close together, in a square pattern -- just under the surface of the water! just hovering there, as if they had come especially to say hello to me; as if they had been just waiting for me to open my eyes and see them...!
ANYWAY, what i intended to write here is about...
FROM WHAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO GLEAN from the people who supposedly know this stuff, it seems there is only one Self (capital S). lots of little, personal, ego-driven selves (small s) ... but only one Self; and we will all eventually reach the point of knowing that one. in other words, all Self-realization is the same!
until then, everything we experience in life is a projection of Self ... through our personal filters!
this is why 2 people can have vastly different experiences of the same 3rd person; their filters are different! and our filters are what cause the illusion (which we presume is reality) of sickness, lack, conflict, problems of any kind.
the path to Self-realization is the getting-rid of those personal filters, which distort reality -- or, we might say, of cleaning them until they're all transparent. that's what Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len calls it -- cleaning. Dr. Len is the guy who has become famous for creating (and teaching) his personal version of a traditional Hawai'ian practice called Ho'oponopono (which means, "to make right"). here's a beautiful interview of Dr. Len, on the subject of Ho'oponopono....
he's always talking about cleaning, cleaning; about us going inside ourselves and cleaning the filters on our projection equipment, so the real Self can show through, undistorted. his way of cleaning is to say, over and over, to himself (really, to Self), "i love you. i'm sorry. please forgive me. thank you." i know, it seems a little wacky -- but he swears it works. and the story is that Dr. Len, single-handedly, merely by doing this cleaning of himself, healed a whole prison ward full of criminally insane people! they all became normal, socially functional; they were released, and the prison ward closed! and Dr. Len never so much as laid eyes on them; he just sat in his office every day, with the prison documents of these people, doing his cleaning!!
SO ... IF THAT AIN'T PROOF that We Are All One, that there is only one Self ... i don't know what it is!
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
. . . .
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
goo goo g'joob
(yeah, Beatles again -- those guys understood this 40 years ago!)
SO ... this Ho'oponopono stuff has been percolating inside me for months. i've been experimenting with it -- and i came to my own version, something that seems more natural to me. i get as relaxed and comfortable as possible -- usually sitting or lying down (try a fetal position!) -- and close my eyes. i do my best to reach a point of absolute stillness and silence ... and then to realize my oneness with the person who seems to be causing a problem for me.* i do this by superimposing, on my body, my image of that person; bringing the image of the person right into my body, and feeling especially their HEART superimposed on mine; feeling the oneness of our 2 hearts. i keep my attention focused on this by thinking the words, "MY HEART, YOUR HEART" -- and just feeling the heart perfectly clear of any and all conflict, perfectly at peace.
* again, the thing to realize is that the other person is NOT the problem; that, in reality, what we perceive to be another person is actually just our projection of some aspect of our Self! and that we can correct the "problem" by correcting our projection!! most likely, we'll have to do this repeatedly, for some time -- until we have completely scrubbed our memory of the illusionary perception of the other-person-as-problem.
IN EITHER CASE, whether we use Dr. Len's version of Ho'oponopono, or my version ("my heart, your heart"), or some other version ... it's a matter of us "owning" our projection of the other person. it's a matter of taking TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY for that projection (and for every one of our projections, which, altogether, create our total perception of "the world"). once we have sufficiently cleaned our filters, we'll be sending clean projections into "the world", and we will then see "the world" changing, in accord with our new projections!
WHAT A REALIZATION -- that each of us is the director of our own movie; that every one of us is living in a different (and self-created) movie; and yet, that our individual movies "overlap" to some extent, they do affect each other.
just the act of doing "my heart, your heart" -- of consciously taking in my projection of anything (person, event, situation, etc.), and holding it in my heart, with the intent of cleaning it of all distortion -- can bring about great transformation: in me, in the "other" (person, event, situation, etc.), and in everyone who comes in contact with either of us!
MY CURRENT PROCEDURE, whenever i become aware of something that feels like a "problem" to me, is -- as soon as i possibly can -- to clear my mind, go into my inner stillness, and simply hold the person, event, situation, etc., in my heart. just hold it there -- thinking "my heart, your heart" -- feeling the oneness, and the perfect transparency.
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