J. Krishnamurti This Matter of Culture Chapter 12

Krishnamurti: A girl asks why we want a companion. 

Why does one want a companion? Can you live alone in this world without a husband or a wife, without children, without friends? Most people cannot live alone, therefore they need companions.

It requires enormous intelligence to be alone; and you must be alone to find God, truth. It is nice to have a companion, a husband or a wife, and also to have babies; but you see, we get lost in all that, we get lost in the family, in the job, in the dull, monotonous routine of a decaying existence. We get used to it, and then the thought of living alone becomes dreadful, something to be afraid of.

Most of us have put all our faith in one thing, all our eggs in one basket, and our lives have no richness apart from our companions, apart from our families and our jobs. But if there is a richness in one's life - not the richness of money or knowledge, which anyone can acquire, but that richness which is the movement of reality with no beginning and no ending - then companionship becomes a secondary matter.

If you like to read the entire passage, here it is:

Oops - I've turned into an Alien.

 Laughter is the medicine of the heart that helps make us whole

Love is what you are

You are in my heart and soul like the blood that flows through my body, giving me life and depth, for as we are one, I proclaim my Oneness with all of Life. Shadows have no place here. Never forget how deeply you are loved, how deeply you are love.

ANGELS IN AMERICA

Dearest Students in America and Elsewhere -- this is an angelic-inspired event. Angels are guiding this. This is a possibility for change. My heart is overflowing.  http://www.c-span.org/video/?411624-1/house-democrats-sitin-gun-violence-underway-since-1125-et

Our surroundings influence us...

This is a beautiful post to read: http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/a-nonreligious-man-virtually-eliminates-local-crime-with-nothing-more-than-a-buddha-statue/ 

It is common knowledge that a person’s surroundings play a vital role in sculpting the mind, ideologies, and thought process of an individual. A stunning example of this is found in the case of the Buddha statue of Oakland, California.

Since the statue was erected, the overall crime-rate in the area had dropped by 82%. Official 2012 police statistics explain that “robbery reports went from 14 to three, aggravated assaults from five to zero, burglaries from eight to four, narcotics from three to zero, and prostitution from three to zero.

What is Poison?

Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water

The music and words of this beautiful song are like angels singing you a lullaby of Truth. Listen when you feel that you are alone. You never are alone. Angels are that bridge over troubled water. Their words and presence always ease your mind. Their presence is with you always. We only need open our hearts and let their light flow. http://damnbored.tv/long-time-ago-simon-important-song/

Ansel in her pond

Ha-ha-ha-ha

Love

"I am in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

––The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

More on Forgiveness

L.A. sky the other night

Are you eager to hear more on the subject of forgiveness? I am eager to write more. . . Forgiveness is a very interesting subject. I have thought about it for a long time, the meaning of it, how it happens.

One of the best ways to learn is by asking the right questions, though it is also possible to learn even when you ask the wrong question--when your question is sincere and your heart is open. We can't always ask the right question because we, ourselves, don't always know what that question is.

What goes with forgiveness? Or rather, what goes with unforgiveness? Ponder this for a moment, then continue reading....

Anger and resentment go with unforgiveness. Since we feel angry and resentful when we cannot forgive, then who is hurt? The answer is clear -- the one who harbors the anger, bitterness, and resentment. We hurt ourselves when we hold onto negative thoughts and emotions.

So you can see how vital it is to forgive -- for our own health and well-being, at every level. The more negativity we store within us, the more pain we have, even when this is unconscious pain.

It takes at least two to stay stuck in unforgiveness. There must be a "you" who is angry and hurt, as well as the person who hurt you. That makes at least two, right? We can also be angry at situations and events or whole groups of people. This keeps us always in duality. For so long as we are trapped in duality, how can we realize our Oneness?

Resentment blocks us from knowing God. Unforgiveness is like a huge boulder on our path that we can't go around, under, over, or through. It can only be dissolved by love.

We are not loving ourself when when we fill ourself with the negativity that comes with resentment and anger. We are feeding ourself poison, not love. We must realize this at a very deep and expansive level to become willing to forgive.

Forgiveness and Receptivity

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The Clear and Simple Way School of Conscious Awareness
°☆★°★●*Forgiveness

by Hirth Martinez, "Jesus Talking to God"

Dear Students, Hopefully you are all reading your new lessons, imbibing their messages, and practicing your homework.

In addition to your monthly lessons, you also receive email messages and an opportunity to visit Your Open Classroom. Your Open Classroom is filled to the brim with present day messages as well as archives way back to when the school first began.

You can visit Your Open Classroom anytime you need spiritual upliftment, even in the middle of the night. You can wear your pajamas. Drink coffee. Chew gum. It’s your Classroom. Just as this is your school. What you do here, how involved you are, is all up to you. So what you receive is also up to you.

Isn’t that encouraging? What you receive depends on what you give of yourself, how open you are, and how willing you are to let go of what isn’t you.

What are you willing to give to receive something new? What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to do? What are you willing to stop doing?

All of the above depends upon how receptive you are. Think about this word, receptive. Receptivity is the most important quality on the spiritual path.

When you are receptive, you are open to forgiveness. Receptivity and forgiveness go together in ways we will explain in the  days to come.

For now, just know that receptivity is soft and open. Like forgiveness.

Love,
your fellow classmate & teacher

°☆★°★●*FORGIVENESS°☆★°★●*

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The Clear and Simple Way School of Conscious Awareness 

 

Sky over Los Angeles Last Night

Gratitude is often talked about in spiritual circles as a powerful force for inner transformation. And it is.  Forgiveness is an even more powerful force. Forgiveness is not bantered about so much as the word gratitude. That’s because forgiveness is much more complicated, and it carries more religious connotations.

As you know, we are not a religious school. We are a spiritual school. Angels are not religious, since all  religions are man-made. Angels are of God and nothing about God is man-made.

It’s not that forgiveness is hard; it is the mind that is hard. The human heart is hard, at least until it
encounters the sweetness of true spirituality and begins to become soft.

We must see and admit how hard our human heart is, how hard it has been, before it can begin to soften. The problem is that none of us want to do that. To do that is the beginning of the end. The end of a hard hard heart and a hard hard way of life and a hard hard ego.

In India the ego is often compared to a coconut shell. We have to break that shell to experience the soft sweetness within. Birds often fly high in the sky with a hard nut and drop it on the ground below in order to break it.

Forgiveness is a very important subject, one we all need to learn more about. This means we have to unlearn our hard ways that keep us living inside a coconut s(hell). Stay tuned to your monthly lessons and Your Open Classroom for more on forgiveness.

Listen and let your heart open: https://myspace.com/hirthmartinez/music/song/feeling-so-fine-25139965-24941150

European Tour 2016: http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/european-tour

June message on my Website (from 2008): http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/junemessage.htm

©2016 Judith Ann Parsons aka Indira 

How are you?

Seriously -- How are you? Have you let anger in today? Fear? Worry? Anxiety? Have you thought about your spiritual path today? Have you found yourself lost in anxiety? Has the world made you tremble? Have you been afraid of what might happen? Have you been believing in the illusion of you? Have you remembered to notice when you become unconscious? Have you remembered your lessons? Your spiritual exercises? The angels?
     Angels always remember. Angels remember you as you are, not as you are not, and so the remembrance of angels is in the present moment. Angelic memory works differently from human memory. Humans remember the past. Angels remember the divine essence of God.
     When you find yourself in pain and fear, anxiety and trepidation, ask the angels to help you remember why you are here. Ask them to help you remember to do your spiritual exercises. Ask them to help you remember your divine essence. You are not of the world -- you are of God. You are of Divine Essence. You are here to remember this, not in the past, but here in this perfect present moment. All love, the angels

Soul Food

SOUL FOOD

Last night my soul woke me
In the middle of a dream
It was hungry

So I took it for a walk
Into the deep dark forest
I filled it with the silence
That cradles the trees
and the tiny violets
with their heart-shaped leaves
And holds the stars in space
And keeps my heart in place
And my soul was happy.

Accept what IS

We can always learn from the teachers around us, as well as all of life. When we stop being students, we stop the flow of wisdom that can come to us. We must never think we know it all. That we have 'arrived.' There is, for one thing, no one to know it all, nor anyone to arrive. Hubris and arrogance are huge blocks on the path of conscious awareness. They prevent the very words, experiences, and wisdom we need for our heart to grow and expand. Stay open to all that life has to give you. Be responsive to life in a right way, with a heart wide open. Lately, I am liking the wisdom of the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who lived from April 26, 121 AD to March 17, 180 AD.

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

Contemplate these words of wisdom...

Stars

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”- Marcus Aurelius

Quote

What people think about you has more to do with their habitual thinking than with who you really are. You, as you are right now, are filtered through decades of their life experiences, traumas, disappointments, heartaches, and suffering. It is a reflection of their patterns of thought and stories about their life. Their judgment has nothing to do with you as a whole because the experience of you cannot be separated from their experience of life. - Emily Maroutian

To understand yourself, first pay attention

You might try journaling as a way to concentrate your attention. One small idea can expand and evolve to  teach and guide you … when you write with the intention to understand yourself, not to criticize and condemn others, which only supports your wrong and negative views.

When you write with anger and revenge in mind, the physical act of concentrating your energy in a dark contracted way will increase these feelings.

When you write with the intention to let your heart open to Understanding, then the Light can shine through your mind, through your writing, to heal and enlighten you.

Why is this so? Because the true Teacher is within you. Throughout time, sages, saints, poets, and musicians have taught this simple truth.

Angel Message, June 6, 2016,

Have you been practicing your last two awareness exercises? Awareness is everything! You come to your school to unlearn everything about yourself that is not true. Is it true that your true self is full of wants? Is it true that your true self is afraid? Please continue to study these aspects of yourself. When a thought arises, “I want…” let yourself look closely at that want. Bring it into the clear light of conscious awareness. Seek to understand it, not just leap to fulfill it.

We are not saying you should never get what you want. We are saying you should understand your desires. Be the master of your desires, instead of letting them be the master of you. Do not be an unconscious slave of wants and desires.