Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Thursday, July 7, 2011

Get Enlightenment Within Nature

By Rachel Gathern


With enlightenment some native traditions call the state of being an additional object 'shape-shifting', but I am not too certain about that. It's more like when my feeling of 'self' dissolves in nature then there's more of my consciousness obtainable to see the planet from other points of view. It is like an expanded state of consciousness in that I normally get to experience the 5 senses of objects external to me, such as the lizard, bird and fish I just became in nature.

Throughout this state of becoming all things at the same time, it feels like a total one-ness. It is as if there's no separation in between myself and things exterior. I'm everything (and absolutely nothing) all at the same time. And there's no separation not only between myself and other, but no separation in between other and other. All things are the exact same. All coming through the same.

And while in this state it's as if there's a unified power that is guiding all things. Maybe this is actually the life-force, but I discover there's a subtle force inside the trees, the clouds, the oceans, the animals that's guiding them (us) through existence. And this power has an innate knowledge in that my inner voice can speak with this particular power within every tree, rock, stream and mountain.

With this particular force that's continuously guiding every thing, it's like this wisdom is all over the place just waiting to be tapped into. I liken this force to 'the creator' in that the power designs everything with it's own guiding power. And I encounter that I am this force, yet it's also me. The reason for this really is there's no separation between the creator or everyone else. It is like all I am is the creator encountering itself through me.

This really is a strange state to encounter life through but the much more I am out on my own in nature, the greater it appears to be true. There really is no separation between myself or anything external of myself.

I do not know if this state of oneness and connectedness is called enlightenment or not but it is completely possible to tap into another realm of consciousness by investing time alone in nature without distractions for 3-4 days. Then when you enter this state numerous times and practice you can then flip the experience of it on and off at will... even whilst in busy shopping mall centers.




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