You're invited !!!

http://meenakshi.gaia.com/blog/2008/6/happy_birthday_o_m_1vector3

In just over 15 minutes I will be in my birthday day, and in just over 4 hours, the whole world will finally be in June 16 !!!! But only for an instant !!! Time zones are odd things. The International Dateline is an odd thing....

Anyway, thanks to the cyberparty Meenakshi organized, we've got snacks, and balloon animals, and a clown, and flowers, and cake.... And me blushing and tearing up and heart-glowing, and in love with all you wonderful people.

You're invited !!!!

OM Bastet

My nephew emailed me this late Wednesday night, last night, about something he found on the Internet:

I apologize for the length of this
cut and paste
but I read this over 3x's
and it keeps hit me like a ton of bricks
in a good way
esp the part between the lines of **********
and would love your opinion
when you gots the time
:)

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"When your peace is threatened or disturbed in any way say to yourself:
"I do not know what anything, including this, means...

"And so I do not know how to respond to it...

"And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now...

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  Here's what I wrote back to my nephew on Thursday morning:

Well, I read that part, and here's another brick!  

I surfaced to mostly ordinary awareness in the middle of last night, and found myself saying the following, without any context or forethought: Everything I THINK I KNOW, I rescind, recant, dissolve, and release, in favor of being aware, from moment to moment, of the LIVING TRUTH of the Infinite Consciousness I am a portion of.  

What I understand within that, what it unpacks to, is that the living truth changes moment to moment, and is far vaster than what my embodiment might ever know, let alone believe she knows. What I (the embodiment) understand is that only by releasing my hold, my attachment, my being "cup already filled" [a reference to the Zen story of the teacher overflowing the student's cup of tea] with "knowledge" can I truly be in the largest awareness possible to this embobodiment. (And as the quote says, knowledge is always based on past experience.)  

What I understand within that is also that what I think I know about a particular something is just one story, one of many possible stories about it, and from now on I am choosing to be open to more than my one story (i.e. what I think I know) about anything, in the way I deal with and act with respect to that thing/situation !!   

And then this morning, I also "got" on a cellular-emotional level that all my feelings and my beliefs, all the things I believe I know, are not a barrier to awareness of the LIVING TRUTH because they are part of it, they exist, they are "acceptable" to it, they exist within it.  

So rescinding and recanting is not a rejection or judgment, really, but just an opening beyond. What is released is the belief that what I think I know is all there is, and yet EVEN THAT belief is within the LIVING TRUTH, even that belief. There is no escaping the Living Truth, nothing is outside of it. I was just opening to MORE of it. What I think I know is actually transcended and included, to use Ken Wilber terminology, rather than actually tossed (dissolved.) But its old "exclusivity," that aspect dissolves.  

If that ain't all a version of the part you asterisked, I dunno what is. --except I am not limiting this expansion to just matter that disturb my peace, but it's especially useful re that, as per my physical pains, as described below.  

Pretty amazing, huh? I have to conclude I will see others soon reflecting this particular increase in Cosmic Awareness, or whatever we might call the Infinite Self. It will appear as some version (as you and I are presenting two versions) of "In dealing with the world I no longer limit my awareness to what my mind thinks or knows. I am now choosing to expand my awareness beyond that."  

We've all been saying this on the conceptual word level for a long time, but what's happening for us now is it's becoming our living reality; we are embodying the concepts.  

The actual specific I "got" cellular-emotional today was that my anger and hopelessness about my chronic physical pains and dysfunctions are not to be rejected, as my mother used to do with hers. This morning I felt those feelings being lovingly accepted and included in the awareness of the Larger Self. I experienced both sides, being the accepted and the acceptor. It felt SO GOOOOOD !!!!!!!! So natural. So right.   

Will read the rest of it when I can, but gee, thanks for this affirmation/confirmation.    I think the embodiment change will take awhile to integrate, but the process is definitely underway.
 
  Please tell me the particulars of your experience of the "hitting you like a ton of bricks in a good way."    

I invite my Gaia Community readers to comment, share, respond !!!
[If you don't know the Zen story about the cup of tea, I will give it, just ask.]

This is, like, version # 2034 of the "always already" aspect of the awakening process, the inescapability of our Beingness. The same truth can be seen in any particular of life.