Unlocking a New Sphere of Reality

This is in response to n/a...

A quote from the Dalai Lama:  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  This can mean show kindness and empathy to others as well as yourself.  So, first of all, view your activities and your decisions in a way that stays away from judgment.  Do not judge yourself or others.

Second, begin to spend time finding ways to give back.  In other words, try not to focus so much on what you don't have; just begin to give what you do have.  Example:  When you are feeling out of touch and lonely-spend time with people who have been abandoned by society through very little fault of their own.  The elderly, the disadvantaged, the disabled, the disenfranchised.  Give exactly what you believe you lack...develop friendships by being a friend. 

Third, decide today that nurturing your soul is of great importance.  This takes a few moments several times a day.  When you feel that you are not enough, that you are lonely, that your thoughts are filled with rage, or sadness, or frustration, focus on breathing in deeply, and then slowly letting the breath go out.  Whatever was going on in your self talk comes to a halt.  It can immediately come back, but take a moment and celebrate that for a split second, you let go of that type of thinking and you found calm for a moment.  During these moments of stillness, you will gain clarity...clear thinking.  You will learn that the only change you will be able to make is the change within you.  You will begin to see your value, and you will start to connect to your gifts, your passions, your true desires, which may have nothing to do with acquiring more money.

Finally, with this shift in thinking, you will notice that you will have many more moments throughout the day in which you sense being calm.  When we do this, we connect to our essence.  Paul Williams wrote "You are a source of warmth and light.  Children who are cold or lonely or unsure come to you for comfort, and you always have comfort to give.  Even at your moments of greatest doubt, when you feel totally closed down to the world and to yourself, the life still burns in you, and your essence remains pure and powerful and untouched." 

n/a, this is essence of love.  Be kind to yourself and others.  Break out of the thinking that has gotten you to writing your comment here today.  We are all pulling for you.  Connect to what we offer you today.  We love you.  You are enough, just as you are.  Godspeed.

This reading sent me off on my greatest adventure this morning…trusting many other senses beyond the ‘five’ I have as a human being, many beyond today’s accepted educational scope and culturalization in the United States.  The reason I call this an adventure is only recently I have allowed myself to trust, tune into, and connect with the additional sensations around and within me. 

I am intrigued by written and spoken language; translation, interpretation, and definition.  For me, by interpretation, ‘pressure’, as it is referred to in the reading, means a change in vibration…perhaps denser, perhaps airier, perhaps atmospheric, perhaps sedimentary, perhaps auditory, perhaps even enigmatic-Love.  For me it describes how the hair on the back of the neck rises up when I perceive a scary unknown in the dark.  It explains the goosebumps on my arms and the general overpowering sense of warmth when I am listening to a serendipitous story.  This now helps with my understanding of reality.  ‘Pressure’ defined as a change in vibration helps explain how sometimes I perceive a black cloud around someone, and conversely can instantly watch the change in energy to happy abandon just before the smile reaches the face.  It explains attitudinal shifts during the various cycles of the moon, and the seasons.  ‘Pressure’ can guide us on our connections with nature during activities such as hikes, swims, walks, play, and most certainly when taking our shoes and socks off as we ground and center ourselves (earthing) after air travel.  It can also give us with wide open arms the sense of wonder we experience in the melody of bird song, the kaleidoscope of colors in the sky, the giggle of a child, the softness of a loving touch, the emotional response to music...       

‘Pressure’ in complex sensations can also shed light on our gifts…why we are here, what we have to offer, our passions, our desires.  When we are truly attentive to vibrational signals from the heart, the universe, and begin to listen closely to internal wisdom, the more we can ‘see’.  This is the great adventure I have been on.  I awake each morning with a sense of wonder and gratitude for the day’s offering; presence in this body and at this time.  I experience this precious and impermanent existence most fully when I slow down, mindfully moving, breathing, and opening up to endless possibility.  When I note subtle changes within myself and in relationship to interactions of all kinds, and enjoy the vibrational shifts, I am most alert and alive, dwelling in this earth suit.  What an adventure!        

Thank you Somik for the opportunity to respond.

The word "pressure" does not fit when I  attend to present experience. The opposite is often the case. I feel less pressure and more openness with a greater connection to everyone and everything  when being in the present.  My connecting is still mainly mental, as is much of what I say and do.

Attentive presence helps me think and feel more at one with everyone and everything. Each moment is  new , but in another sense, there is no other moment. Being in the present moves me towards experiencing all of reality all at once. I notice the past is a present remembrance and the future. As a present anticipation

When I am attentive to my desires, I notice pressure relieved when I ignore desire. I find that at times, perhaps often, I avoid noticing detail in order to notice a peaceful connection to everyone and everything. As Sir Arthur Eddington said: "the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, is stranger than we can imagine,

Sorry to be so lengthy but I think it is helpful to notice the following:

From "Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction" by Todd May:  “Consider the possibility that there is more to our world then we can perceive, and more than we can conceive.  Suppose the world overflows the categories of representation that the dogmatic image of thought imposes on it.  This is not to say that our particular categories are lacking something that other, better categories would give us.  Our imagination must go further than that.  We need to consider the possibility that the world -- -- or, since the concept of world is too narrow, things or being or what there is -- -- outruns any categories we might seek to use to capture it.” 

  "How has an attentive presence helped me unlock a new sphere of reality in my own life?"