Questioning the Illusion of Certainty

 

They say this world is an illusion,

a false reality,

a ruse within God’s plan,

separate from the powerful innocence of the Creator.

Perhaps this is true…except, I think, for the separate part.

Many say that only the expert or ancient text can point the way home.

What do I really know?

Not much outside of presence and love.

An aspect of me says “So what if it is an illusion!”

Is a dream unreal?

How would one Know?

And just what does certainty do for us?

I have mostly questions.

Reading the big books handed down from someone’s god

no longer brings a swoon of the absolute.

I wonder if certainty is the real illusion.

Does God require a book?

Do I?

Do we?

Is Mystery so inadequate for being an underpinning for love?

I am:

Being here even if this is maya.

Praying here even if this if the answers are ineffable.

Loving here with the power of the God who dwells in the present,

even if the sacred is undefinable,

even if the great being is unnameable,

even if the laws cannot be transcribed by our little synapses and our fancy words.

Are we really meant to buy into a book, a system, an ism?

We’ve seen these come and go for 10,000 and more years.

What, who is the presence that remains?

Can anyone, anything really separate us from the unity of all being?

The answer for me is mercurial.

It rises from this flashing of electrons on this screen.

It comforts me with simplicity:

Go out,

be in the wind and the sun,

be in the glorious sorrow of the world,

be within the wonder of the ordinary,

be loving within the best ways you can love,

be kind,

be a listener,

Be.

Love,

Rick

(c) Richard Sievers, July 2018

How Do I Love Those That Hate?

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I was feeling distressed this past day with voices rising up from our world which promote hatred and a form of individual rights which trample the rights and needs of others. The thoughts about radio personalities and the wavers of an outdated battle flag have spun around inside of me. How will our world ever evolve if it is always about Us and Them? Yet I was thinking in terms of us and them. 

Then I asked a deeper question while meditating this morning. And then some answers came from the One I only know as Mystery and Beloved. I wrote it all down in my journal. I thought maybe these musings would also provide some insight to someone else, like you. Perhaps this would be helpful in finding your own answers to:

How do I Love Those that Hate?

 

How do I love those that hate?

How do I remain true to the ethics of healing without hating or dismissing those that know they are right?  How do I remain true to the wonders you have revealed to me without demeaning the people so wrapped in maya (illusion and suffering) that they openly carry weapons to kill and words to maim?

How?

· By Grace and Gumption (will).

· Just be kind to them anyway.

· You do not have to fight anyone if you only say what you are For.

· When you revel in what you are against you join with the dark.

· Go into the fiery den of those that hate if you must and then come fully out.

· Stay Not in The Pain by carrying such a message around through your rejection, resistance. Resistance and rejection are the energies of connection with that which is disliked. A shadow.

· No doubt the revilers and cynics can harm the body and destroy the civility in society. But they cannot touch the spirit. Only You can consign your spirit to hell or heaven here and now.

· Either I am all, or I am some, or I am none. (You decide which level of wonder to believe)

· Yes is the word of your dharma (Life work/calling). Yes to what is right and just and loving all at the same time.

· These trials and conflicts (in this world) will remain as mystery while you dream this life.

· Soon you’ll know what is beyond your questions of Why.

· Soon you’ll realize who you always are.
Love,
Rick


(c) Copyright Words and Image, Richard Sievers, All Rights Reserved, August 2015