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“Buddha and God appear in many forms. The buddha is not only in the cloud. He is in our hearts and in the hearts of many others.”
The Heart of Buddha’s Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Something in this quote just sank from the head to the heart. I look into the kitchen, and I see Kahmel in a hooded sweatshirt with the hood up over his head as he prepares breakfast for himself after a long boxing workout. SUDDENLY I SEE HIM. He IS God appearing in form for this exact experience. This home IS God. Everything in it IS God. These hands and this computer ARE God. All that is in Awareness and the Awareness itself IS God.
The question that rises is, “What am I trying to Trust?” The confusion that is happening is a belief that there’s a deity that has a plan for all of this. The clarity is that there’s an underlying intelligence in all of Life as it IS manifest and unmanifest. It is not something outside that is watching over it all. It IS the nature of Life. God IS the nature of Life as it moves from the unmanifest to the manifest and back to the unmanifest.
Buddhists describe it as the suchness of life. This is why my only job is to experience life through THIS expression of God. This is why the awakening of all beings is so helpful. As collective consciousness moves to know the power of the collective consciousness and brings love instead of fear everything changes. I am not alone because that is not possible. I am not separate because that is not possible. I AM the unmanifest that has manifested as this body. An interconnected sentient being. When this form ends it returns to the unmanifest.
When fear rules my life (meaning I have full attention on fear) then fear is what I experience. When love and abundance and harmony and peace rule my life (again, meaning I have full attention on love, abundance, harmony, and peace) then love, abundance, harmony, and peace are what I experience. It’s not my fault and yet I am fully capable of seeing the habit energy. There is no entity that will end this suffering loop, but there is my deep and earnest to desire to wake up from the dream of fear. To be fully awake to and embrace the Truth of Love, abundance, harmony, bliss, and peace.
As this clarity flows through, I can feel the mind trying to figure out how to hold onto it. How to make it real. There’s fear here that this clarity will be lost. This is the exact fear that I wish to see. This is the habit energy of “I am not enough” and “I am not safe.” I can feel the practicality of the Loving All Method. I am truly grateful to see this energy rise. This is where I keep turning…to the Loving All Method.
Rhoda,
Thanks for your sharing and a beautiful article. The perfect way to start 2023. With this clarity, it would seem the only choice I have the next time attention is on fear is:. Do I chose (yes, it's a choice!) To put my attention on fear or, as you so eloquently said "embrace the Truth of Love, abundance, harmony, bliss, and peace. "
Ahh, sweet surrender. Thank you and Happy New Year!
Rhoda, Thank you for this beautiful inspired SEEING! "SUDDENLY I SEE HIM. IS God. Everything in it IS God. These hands and this computer ARE God. All that is in Awareness and the Awareness itself IS God." And this Heart truly resonates with this : "When fear rules my life (meaning I have full attention on fear) then fear is what I experience. When love and abundance and harmony and peace rule my life (again, meaning I have full attention on love, abundance, harmony, and peace) then love, abundance, harmony, and peace are what I experience." YES! this is what is seen more clearly and often! WOOHOO! We really are awakening together!
Jacquelyn, thank you for posting this! Love you all! ♥
I love this article, Rhoda. It speaks to where I am at. My boyfriend just missed his orientation to start his new job. His first day was supposed to be today! And I could feel this mind judging so harshly. And then as I contemplate this article, I can see all of it. I can see all parts that I wanted to judge are just ways God/Life is showing up in this moment. I got to remember this song too: Light of Love
Some of the lyrics are: I am the child. I am the mother, I am your bride and your lover, I am everything great and small. I am the one. I am it All.
The hilarious part is the judgemental thought I caught when I was judging my boyfriend "as a child" for missing his orientation. And, now I see I am the child, too.
Thank you for sharing your profound realization. I am so grateful to see the one mind as I currently live in a similar experience. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing what resonates in your direct experience. It's interesting for me to watch the story that is in this mind at the moment which is "You will never be consistently clear." This habit is so amazing. I've seen it so many times lately. It is such a tool of defense against God. WOW!!! Your sharing helps me to see what is not being seen. So grateful!
Yes, Sharon...thank you for the reminder...SWEET surrender.
A beautiful article Rhoda, thank you, I will take this into my day.
