The One-ness Project

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The One-ness Project

The Jewel in the Lotus displays the brightness of the light shining with omnipresent love in every single object we see throughout our life.

What two methods do I need to use to fall in love unshakeable, ineffable, with everything all of the time, like some crazed teen, but with no body and no thing as the object of this love?

The first is to make the choice to stop, look, see and hear. Yes, and to smell, touch and taste, too.

Wherever you are at whatever point in your 24 hour day, examine it all with the clear sight of a young child. Allow your senses to react without pre-conditions, without labels, with no expectation coloured by ideas received.

Just confine yourself to receive what your body senses, with humility and gratitude. The more you choose this close connection between your senses and the material world, the more it appears in its ordinary extraordinary splendour.

If you need to speak, address what you are in the presence of as if you are chatting to your close friend. Be gentle, smile inwardly, slow yourself down to almost stationary. You are learning to engage in silent communion wherever you are and however you are feeling, with anything animal, vegetable or mineral. This is a an uncompleted meditative practice you can repeat daily as often as you wish.

By repetion, a time of fluent communication will come, and it will seem natural to chat to any and all the objects in your path. More than that, the Gentleness of the Being of the life you engage with (and even of the stones you pause to talk with!) infuses your heart with a peace and fulfilment only available through humble two-way intercourse.

What is the second method that secures the love of everything all of the time, like the fixed lights in the open sky above the desert at night?

It is bringing your attention to the publicly available knowledge which comes with the current understanding of the origins of life on Earth, as for example broadcast on TV, “Life on Earth”. Included here are the magnificent images and their science based analyses from the Vera C. Rubin telescope in Chile.

We now know what the drivers and mechanisms are which enable the billions of generations of creatures and organisms to replicate themselves with almost perfect repeatability over thousands of millions of Planet Earth’s evolutionary history.

Therefore, as you go about your business conversing tenderly, respectfully, with life forms all around you, you need to inhabit a far greater slice of geological time than the ordinarily available present!

Train yourself to be intensely aware of this extraordinary fact. You, and all life alive are individual copies of life’s templates passed through uncountable iterations via RNA and DNA.

As a representation of a model of life whose ancestry is too ancient to fully comprehend, think of yourself as a Pixel of Humanity.

You are unique as one of these fractal fragments of conscious self-awareness. At the same time, you and I display such close similarities with our kith and kin that we easily believe ourselves to be an exact replica of the original humans. We can cheerfully identify as Pixels of Humanity.

This being so, we can walk on our paths today in the present moment and simultaneously embody our ancestral identity.

Our forebears created us out of their love for life. We go filled with that love which our millions of mothers and fathers summoned into being millions of times over.

These habits of focus of our body and mind take us by the hand, and lead us as if through a portal to a new intensely beautiful place. With a passionate opening, we recognise it has always been our natural home.

The same goes for every single organic life form, sentient or not sentient, who share the present moments of our alive aware selves. We can allow ourselves to feel and see the light of our being, and be ever so glad it lights us brightly on our way.

~ Love is present
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I see in this flower

I see in this flower and in the faces of all flowers, condensations of nature’s beauty. I see clearly their powerful concentrated visible identities with no secondary or tertiary meaning or intention.

In the open flower is the face of existence, thisness, the Tao. With no axe to grind and no message to convey, the flower is composed in its entirety of the Gentleness of Being

I believe in the truth of what I see and say with all the fibre and iron will of my entire being.

And as I say it, I feel the absence of the intensity of my feelings as I am describing them, because my utterance, like the rose, is “I AM”, purely and simply, no more no less.

Without being asked, the pink flower contains all answers to more questions than exist in the known and unknown skies.

I can see in its impermanent magnificence the rose is a Library of Alexandria before that devastating fire

At Clare Roslington’s local park

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“The Gentleness of Being”

🌀Dissolution catalyses reality🌪️

“The Gentleness of Being”

The fun of it is there is always a first person story in the third person identity.

Over time, I’ve retrained my point of view, so everywhere I am seeing the “I” in the she, the he, the you and the it.

In this way, I access with great pleasure the tremendous shock of the new where there was only the same old same old.

That old joke of the greeting between psychiatrists, “You’re okay, and how am I?” amuses because of the odd transposition of views. When I enter my doctor’s surgery, my greeting is, “How are you today, Doctor?”

Walking outside anywhere, seeing and sensing sentient life, insects, birds, pets, cattle or the vegetable world, there is no harm in asking, “What is going through your mind? What am I to your view? The sun and the moon, the wind and rain, what are they to you now?”

These questions work well when addressed to a stone in the street, a river in the country, clouds in the sky, even an active volcano over the horizon. 

The thought-thinking “I-node” becomes curiously calm and joyful, when I try to join with the conversations of the being of those who are “not-I”. 

Out and about, I try in one way or another to shed a portion of the importance of my identity. Attention directed outside of myself and towards the otherness in others lets me see, in all things living and not alive, the bas-relief of the urge to survive and the factual evidence of survival.

As I approach each and every alive person in this peculiarly unaccustomed un-selfreferential way, I sense the white heat of the Will to Live in them.

My own heart, also concerned with not being not-alive, relaxes and fills with a compassionate gentleness all over again. 

Though they outnumber me, yet the myriad diverse multiplicity of others does not dwarf me, it completes me!

When I become attentive to and am aware of  “The Gentleness of Being”, I feel that the huge and welcoming universe of Heart’s Love is brought forward into my view by the interaction of these two everyday accessible attributes – Gentleness and Being. 

Electricity crackles

Sparks fly

one is all and all is one

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