once upon a time
there were 3 pigs

today

just to see if this thing is working or not

today

just to see if this thing is working or not

musings and other things Inbox x Doris Russell dorrussell@gmail.com 7:09 PM (22 hours ago) to Emily sorry i cut u off the other day i was running john in fact had a heart attack he had a stent put in and is back home sitting on the couch. i got a bad cold and now i lost my voice. i wanted to ask u before i do some investigating on the internet centerdness, grounding and being is that all the same thing. i found out from doing c.p. that during the day when different things come up whether it be gossip or juicy tidbits or any other kind of malfunction that if i go inside to my groundness that it becomes the present moment without any desire on my part to participate in any of the tidbits also i found that if someone asks me a question about something and i go inside to the groundness or being my answer is straight and to the point and it is what i want to answer. and does this all come down to nothingness can god be nothingness?????? im going to send this email before i change my mind if u have any thoughts let me know. Emily Hanlon 9:24 PM (20 hours ago) to me Glad Jon is doing better. That must have been scary. You know, Missy Doris, you are right on target as far as I am concerned. When you go to your center, the ground of your being, you see and respond to life differently from when ego has the first move. It is nothingness. I have heard teachers say, that enlightenment is to enter into nothingness only to find out that that the nothing is everything! All paradox, like a zen koan. When we try to "figure" it  out through the mind, we are doomed to fail because all of this is beyond the mind's ability to understand. We can only experience our center, the ground of our being, the True Self, who is eternal and compassion and filled with the joy of life. Good/bad is not something that the True Self even considers. It is all part of the whole, the oneness, call that God or love ... or whatever. Is that nothingness? I don't know. I will have to get to that place before I know. But then it is said that that nothingness becomes everything and isn't God or the One or Love everything?? much love Emily ps, hope you get over your cold and that you have a happy Thanksgiving. Tell Jon I am thinking of him and wish him all the best. Click here to Reply or Forward Why this ad?Ads – Orlando's Best Moving Co Specalinzing in Home Office or Apt. Offices Homes Apartments KnightMovers.com 10% full Using 1 GB of your 10.1 GB ©2012 Google - Terms & Privacy Last account activity: 8 hours ago Details The ability to stand back and calmly observe our inner dramas, without rushing to judgment, is foundational for spiritual seeing. It is the primary form of “dying to the self” that Jesus lived personally and the Buddha taught experientially. The growing consensus is that, whatever you call it, such calm, egoless seeing is invariably characteristic of people at the highest levels of doing and loving in all cultures and religions. They are the ones we call sages or wise women or holy men. They see like the mystics see. Now do not let the word “mystic” scare you. It simply means one who has moved from mere belief systems or belonging systems to actual inner experience. All spiritual traditions agree that such a movement is possible, desirable, and available to everyone. In fact, Jesus seems to say that this is the whole point! (See, for example, John 10:19-38.) From The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, pp. 30, 32-3

today i am sick

diarrhea, throw up

all the good things of a sick day.

i don't know

i don't know.....
why the sun comes up
why the stars shine
why we are here
for some bigger reason?
 or for the hell of it...
we don't know
and we won't know
 until we know.

JOURNEY AWARENESS

I Amness
I Awareness
I Journeyess

In the backroom meditating
 slipping into invisibleness

Once I was here
Now I am not
 
   But
In the stillness I am there
   still
   but invisible

I was but I'm not

I Am

I put one foot down
 followed by another.

My footsteps make an imprint
 in the snow
 but when I turn around
and look there is no footprint,
 no mark -
 just fresh snow

So too I literally sit in the back room -
I am here now -
 but in the future I will be gone -
 but My Am-ness, My Aware-ness, My Journey-ess
is still -there - here.

   A M E N

MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL WHO IS THE FAIREST OF US ALL