On Earth Day, I wrote a little ditty about connecting to the Earth. Then did not get it posted, obviously. How fun that would have been to have Earth Day be the first post. Alas, my life as it is, no post on Thursday. But that's okay because I didn't really like it. I have lots of ideas, spiritual ideas (hence the blog idea) but what came out felt quite canned, like I was trying to teach somebody something. Which may be the role of an article, but the blog will be more personal than that. I will write what is in my heart and perhaps that will help someone. But essentially it will be my story. That feels more honest.
For the first post, a discussion of spirituality is called for. What do I mean by "spirituality?" I use it to mean the study, the cultivation, of that part of the human being that is not the mind.
If someone says, "Think of a cat," most of us can picture a cat in our minds.
Who made the cat and who is seeing the cat? I see the cat. The person I call "I" or "me" is seeing the cat. Who made the cat? My mind. My mind is the tool.
I picture myself sitting in a chair. To my left is my mind. To my right is "God" or my God-self. I am sitting in the middle and at any time, I can choose where I will put my attention. "Seek and ye shall find," is a fact because God is right there. Always. I just have to turn my metaphorical head.
Over time for me the mind has shrunk to about the size of grapefruit (a tangerine on a good day) and Spirit/God/God-self is everything else. Everything else, including me. But it depends on where my focus is on any particular day. Because I can lose myself in my mind. And I can believe what it tells me, like it's the only thing going on worth listening to and by the way that includes all those people you thought loved you. Forget it baby. It's you and me against the world. And other such brilliance.
When I turn my attention in the other direction, I can see all the love in my life, I can see that I'm okay, right now, in this moment, and that can be good enough.
Where do I want to go? Where the mind is God too. A little toolbox, but still God. God's little toolbox.
In future posts, I will use Spirit/God/God-self interchangeably. And what I will mean by that may become more clear over time, or may change day to day. I will reference, often inaccurately, every religion, and every anti-religion, on the planet, hopefully, because I think they all are offering the same thing at their core: freedom from the illusion of separation. In other words, connection. I will try to refrain from judgement about any of them, instead focusing on what they offer to my path.
I started this blog because of a dream. Let's see where it goes.
