You do not owe anything to anyone who demands or expects it of you.  Not your parents.  Not your priests.  Not your government.  Not any of the ‘authority’ figures that one perceives in life.  All of these things are just ‘middle men’ that want to take things from you as a substitute for you giving of yourself for the good of all concerned, instead of just one entity that demands something from you.  Strictly speaking, if someone demands something from you, you should give them nothing, as this is just a manifestation of the ego’s selfishness.

If you owe anything at all, you owe to the people of the future the knowledge and wisdom that you have accrued over your life.  “Pass it on” as one saying goes.  “Pay it forward” as another states.  From the viewpoint of tomorrow, what we do today should be for the benefit of the future.  That is the reasoning behind not living in the past, but in the Now.  No need to dwell on the past except as in what you can learn from it.  The past is just memory.  Condemning it is foolish.  Living in it brings on death.

Be ever new.  Be ever joyous.  Know you are Free.  For you are free in each moment.  It is a matter of just realizing it.  Just know it with an unshakable certainty.

Work for the future, for in this way we create it.  Work in the moment of Now to provide for the future and no one need ever demand anything at all ever again, for abundance will be the normal mode of manifestation.

Fear of change, of the future, is equivalent to being afraid of transformation, which is death.

But if you are calmly transforming at all times, there is no fear.  If you are constantly transforming, then you are dying constantly, literally dying while alive.

A good gauge by which one may determine one’s mastery of this constant transformation is whether or not one is living in such a way that one rarely (or never) stops long enough to condemn anything in life.  Another way of determining one’s progress is the manifestation of a state of continual (or nearly so) calmness, serenity, and joyfulness.  If one maintains a state like that of passive observation, intervening in the affairs of things only when needed and as it is deemed necessary, then one may be assured by this is evidence that one is mastering the divine way of life.

Generally speaking, spiritual people are too busy doing their intended life’s work to even have time to stop and engage in any negative activity that would contribute to severing or otherwise hampering in any way the Divine connection they have spent so much time and effort acquiring.  Spoken another way, spending time engaging in condemnation of anything is a fine way to waste time that could otherwise be used towards uplifting oneself and others as well.  Therefore a spiritual person prefers to use their time in the performance of some kind of inspired work instead.

Furthermore, be wary of comparing one’s work to that of another, or in some way judging oneself as ‘not doing enough’.  The amount of work one does for his fellow beings is not to be viewed as a contest.  Each enlightened being that is still manifesting here in a body is doing what they can in as best a manner as is possible for them at any given moment.  They are unconcerned with earning a trophy when life is over.  So do not be deceived by appearances.  There is no competition going on.  Each bit of work, no matter how small or big is acceptable to the Universal Spirit.  So condemning one’s own self (or others) by thinking that one is not doing enough is pointless and counterproductive.  No one needs to work outdoors nonstop for 21 hours a day unless they want to—different strokes for different folks, even in the case of Enlightened beings.  Remember, even those who do no outer work are generally doing a whole world of work on the internal planes.

While an enlightened being is alive, he/she will engage in some kind of active work when not busy resting or reinforcing the connection to Divinity thru their personal spiritual practice.  However this work manifests for the individual is entirely unique.  For example, some Himalayan yogis spend almost all of the hours in a day and night ensconced in meditation, being awake only a few hours during any 24 hour period.  Others may do the opposite, sleeping only a few hours.  Some don’t ever sleep.  Some almost never leave the meditative state.  All of these manifestations are valid and acceptable to God—how could it not be?  He who is one with God is obliged to do the work deemed most necessary for the time & place in which he finds himself, and according to his abilities.  In other words, the enlightened fill the dark vacuums of the world with light.  And while the unenlightened may question such work, the spiritual ones know from where their inspiration comes and therefore never need question their own work.

Honestly, how can our devotional work for God ever be invalid or somehow unacceptable in the eyes of the God that was the very Divine Source of our inspiration that caused us to do the devotional work we are doing on behalf of God in the first place?………Now that sounds as funny as it is true.

So establish your connection to God and then do whatever work Divinity inspires you to do with the intention of ending the suffering of humanity.  No need to question what that activity happens to be.  Rarely are we ever aware of the immense effects that our efforts will generate while we are engaged in the work.  The effects will come later, whether or not we are even alive to see it or benefit from it personally in any way.  All that matters is that the work is done.

Therefore let us trust whatever work we are inspired to do, knowing that is it acceptable and pleasing to the same Source from which it originated.

This is known as fulfilling one’s purpose.

Every woman has a penis.  It is invisible.  It takes the form of the fiery love that erupts from between (and thru) her breasts—namely her heart.  This goes a long way in explaining why one current slang word for breasts is ‘chesticles’.  What lies between a man’s testicles?  The same thing as what lies between the woman’s breasts.  But being manifested as polar opposites in the form of physical male/female bodies, they take on forms that only look different on the physical plane.

Is it any wonder why so many men (in this country) are afraid to open their hearts fully to the women in their lives?  Deep down, each man knows (if only unconsciously) that he must also surrender the most vulnerable part of himself to this woman before him, just as the woman has surrendered the most vulnerable part of herself to him.  From the state of things in this overly mechanical and industrialized country, it is safe to say that few men are opening themselves up at all.

As a result of this, many women are feeling unfulfilled, if not downright ripped off because they gave something of themselves that was not returned in like fashion by the men in their lives.  Generally speaking, the women in these relationships were usually chased by cowardly men who used every trick in the book to get her in his bed.  I say cowardly, because they are afraid to open themselves up to any degree, lacking true bravery, i.e., cowardly.  Instead of using an open heart as Spirit intends, they use every deception possible.

And since most women have rarely if ever even met a real spiritual man, they naturally assume that this cowardly behavior of men is just normal.  So they usually fall for the various ploys that seek to subvert the natural order.

And so those men who actually do want to surrender their hearts then have a difficult time finding just one woman who is willing to surrender her body because most women have been tricked so often that they are sick of it all, weary of getting stuck with another cowardly jerk.  After years of bad relationships, they are no longer able to recognize the genuine article when he appears, opting to mistrust all men, closing themselves off to every one of them (including the genuinely loving ones), sometimes even attempting to find what they are looking for in the same sex—lesbianism.

If this whole sad situation is to be remedied, then men must stop chasing women, for the natural order of the universe doesn’t work that way and never has.  Men must be willing to be open-hearted, little by little, bit by bit, in order to experience fulfilling relationships.

For any man to experience a truly spiritual, uplifting, exciting, intimate, and thoroughly ecstatic relationship (or more than one) then he must soon realize what every male Tantra practitioner knows by experience—that a hard phallus must always be accompanied by a soft heart.

This is the Law of Polarity in action.  This is the natural way of the cosmos.

For all people who wish to engage in simultaneous multiple relationships (i.e., two or more lovers) but wish to eliminate the usual inherent problems (jealousy, primarily), I offer the following suggestions.

Begin with changing the manner in which you love.  When you feel love for all, then you are free to accept love from whoever wishes to return the love you are sending out, no matter what form that takes.  When you love no one person above all others, no one in particular, only then you are free to love all equally.  And when you love all equally, you’re your life can be enriched that much more in a variety of ways, which include personal relationships.  When this method of universal loving is mastered in life, then you achieve a state of being in which you are free to give and receive love in any form, at anytime, and with whomever you wish, all because you are not relying or are otherwise dependant upon just one person to fulfill your loving needs.

When love is mastered in this manner, then the concept of scarcity has no place to grow, for you have opened yourself up to love from all directions.  The weed of jealously that grows from the erroneous belief of scarcity then has no place to sprout, much less grow.

In such a state of universal loving, all those involved in such types of relationships, know in their heart of hearts that there is enough of everything to go around in this life, and that includes love.

As hinted above, this belief of scarcity manifests in human relationships as common jealousy.  Fear of there not being enough, greed in wanting more of what one has already been given—these are also other modes of expression that arise from a belief that there isn’t enough.

But what if one knew with a faith beyond faith that there was so much of everything to go around that it was literally boundless in supply, if one knew that no matter what demand was placed on the Source, it would ever remain limitlessly abundant?  From where would jealously arise then?  Nowhere.

Then at least in the context of human relationships, heaven would be brought down to earth, for the Source is ever-eager to fulfill us.  It is patiently waiting for us to just surrender our illusions about what is available to us.  And what is available to us?

Anything & Everything, instead of only one thing in particular.

The silly notions popularized in the modern media concerning the fear of uttering the words “I love you,” to your lover are just silly when carefully examined.

Think about all the ways in which you love your lover.  For God’s sake, people seem so quick to let their bodies say it to each other in sundry ways.  The language of their bodies says it, the language expressed by their erupting emotions  says it, the language conveyed thru various breathing patterns says it,…so why not say it using the language of an audible verbal communication as well?  Is it really so different from the other methods of communication?  It seems to fit in well with all of the other language patterns being exhibited by the lovers.

Look at it this way.  Define the expression of loving as follows: the art and science of focusing one’s complete attention on something and fully expressing one’s total self in that direction of concentration, bringing all of one’s various abilities of communication to bare, leaving no lone ability of communication alone off in another direction.  By this definition, it would be stupid to refuse to say ‘I love you’ if one desired to express it—after all, every other part of you is doing the same.  So why not express it with the vocal cords?

This intense level of concentration I am referring to is nothing new.  Many worldly successful people do this all the time without ever seeming to notice.  They just totally focus on a thing until it is acquired.  All of their powers and abilities are brought to bear with total attention.  That is true devotional love for what you do.  That is magic.  And anyone can do it.  Most people do it anyway.  Those who refuse to focus totally are like the lovers afraid to say the words “I love you,” in that they are not ‘following thru’ with the love they are already expressing in every other way imaginable.

Now it is a whole other issue if the partners are so completely immersed within a deep loving trance, the level of communication beings so deeply expressed and experienced, that bothering to speak becomes redundant, if not a burden to have to bother to expend energy using the vocal cords.  Again, this situation is an entirely other matter.

If you feel love, feel free to express it in any way that reflects the truth of your experience.  Let no one force you to say it if this is not how your own heart wishes to express it at the moment.  Say ‘I love you’ only if that is what you feel like doing.

The act of just saying those “3 little words” is not as big a deal as the idiots who control the media attempt to program us to think it is.  It is just another level of expression one engages in, nothing more, nothing less.  The more the media whores try to make a big deal out of it (usually for the sake of comedy) the more one is likely to ignore it as a genuine avenue to expression.

We human beings are not what we think we are.  From one perspective, we are hollow.  We think we are solid, but we are not.  Let’s temporarily ignore the fact that we are just moving images, holograms really, running about to and fro inside of a dream.

Look at the digestive tract for instance.  It begins with a hole and ends with another.

Look at the spinal column.  It is a tube, a channel, a wire if you will.  It’s function is to transmit information to and fro along its length between the outermost limits of our nerves all the way to the concentrated bundles in the brain.  This information is electrical in nature, passing back and forth thru a channel, an insulated wire that is the spinal cord.

Information about the outside world travels up the spine where it is processed by our brain.  Commands from the brain travel down the length of the spine to our body, directing its actions.  In either case there are electrical impulses running around.  And this electrical energy is traveling along the biological wires that make up the body’s nervous system.  This means that the nervous system, from the brain down to the very ends the nerves, is nothing more than a conduit, a channel.  And a channel is empty and useless in and of itself, in a word—hollow.

The human body is so easily perceptible to us, but the more sublime truth always remains that it is more of a channel for something far less tangible.

Sometimes it seems that we humans beings are just a bunch of cosmic disturbances, like holes ripped and torn in the fabric of the universe, but manifesting in an energetic form that looks physical, but more subtly resembling weird etheric-looking doughnuts manifesting itself in this 3-D fabric which seems so convincingly real to our senses that all else that cannot be easily sensed is often assumed to not even exist.  Furthermore, most people never seem to give a single thought about where all of this even came from!

Each galaxy is an giant conglomeration of stars and planets orbiting around a black hole.  The universe is the womb of the Divine Goddess, and all the stars and planets that seemingly came out of the black hole actually resemble by analogy the sperm of the Divine God, whose cosmic sized ejaculation produced all of the stellar phenomenon that we know of in the cosmos, complete with all the life that is busy running around in it, perceiving it, redirecting it, changing it, being changed by it, reacting to it, not reacting to it, etc.

The Ultimate is not the Divine Goddess in whom this universe is manifesting.  Nor is it the Divine God that injected it into Her.  The Ultimate is this…There is only the One, and the One is That which is both behind the creation of, and the need to create, the two Divinities to come into manifestation, the universe they manifest, as well as the field into which this manifestation takes place, and not to mention that Consciousness, the living/not-living Thing-No-Thing that is littered throughout the Universe and is busy both perceiving and observing IT ALL, Itself, It’s Self.

And we think we are just these puny little human bodies.  How laughable.

The Soul cannot be held prisoner by things it recognizes, specifically the tricks of the Ego.  If the Soul is allowed to rule for even a short time, the observer can witness that this Higher part of One’s Self is most able to provide all that is needed in the way of making the Ego work for the human being in question (instead of the human working for the Ego).

Surrendering to the Higher Self allots one a fruitful life filled with prosperity and peace of mind.  The Ego would have one believe that his/her Source came from the outside, i.e., the Ego.  But it does this in subtle, clever ways, but in no way foolproof.  And an interesting word choice that is—foolproof.  It is interesting because only one who acts in ways denounced as foolish by one’s external society is in a position to obtain the help of the Higher Self which shines a light on the Ego’s illusionary tricks.

Society puts forth the opinion that only a fool would forsake a full life living exactly as everyone else does.  But the fool is wise indeed, for only in forsaking that life can he obtain the truth of the Ego’s illusionary web of deceit.  But he doesn’t condemn the Ego.  Instead, he observes its ways passively, so much so that it borders next to ignoring it, even starving it into submission.  And once his Ego is dead, then the light of knowledge and wisdom will shine from the Higher Self.

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can do nothing against it.”

Some spiritual schools of thought teach us that if we are to find inner peace we must spend more time just observing our thoughts, actions and deeds completely without judgment, playing the part of audience to a movie called life, free to be moved as we will while watching and/or participating at one’s discretion, even taking the director’s chair when necessity demands it.  As sound a perspective as any I ever heard.

Another equally valid perspective tells us that we must starve our dark side into submission, essentially refusing to feed our demons until their willful desire to dominate us finally dies, leaving them no choice but to serve the Divine Soul.  The method or technique by which this is accomplished can be summarized as simply not paying attention to the Ego’s mania.  Remain Neutral no matter what it throws at you.

If this becomes a habit, then the Divine Soul has a chance to retrieve the knowledge of its Divine Origin, and can never again be lost, because in fact it never really was gone.  The Soul then becomes the commander, leading to peace, supporting your efforts at offering help to your fellows, and protecting you from harm.  This can all be done by adopting the role of Observer in one’s life.  If one refuses to give any attention/energy to the dumb things coming from the Ego, then those dumb things cannot manifest in one’s life, due to a lack of nourishment from the person in the form of the thoughts, emotions and actions related to any of the Ego’s dumb ideas coming from without.

Have NO judgments, NO reactions to what the Ego would have you believe is real ‘out there’, and they won’t come true.  Instead, one should quietly listen to the ideas coming from Divinity within us.  Then life itself will be transformed.

Two perspectives, two techniques, but the same peaceful enlightening result.

It came to me in a flash one night that perhaps one reason the human body can choke when eating stems from the fact that human beings don’t really need food to survive.  Perhaps choking is a subtle reminder from God that food is not a prerequisite for life?  But if it is possible to live without food, then why are we alive in the first place?

Some spiritual adepts throughout history have demonstrated the possibility of non-eating, and yet live.  And why not?  Just by a daily practice of a simple yogic technique anyone can prove to themselves that they do not even need to breathe once every 4 minutes to keep the body alive.  Now, if one does not need air, then why should food be so important?  Or water for that matter?  As any good medical text would confirm, of the three essentials for life, air is the most vital.  But if by spiritual practice one proves that even air is not the most vital, then why should water and food be considered so important?

Perhaps the Ancients are right after all.  If truly none of us need these so called essentials for life, then perhaps life itself isn’t necessary either?  Maybe we don’t need to even ‘be here’ in the first place?

………that is precisely what the most ancient spiritual traditions teach.

We do not need to ‘be here’.

God is waiting for us to come home again.

The reason people’s bodies deflate and sag as they progress in life may be simply because they are no longer letting Divinity fill them up anymore.  A body that is full of life, as in a youthful body, is just like a balloon filled to capacity (with air, helium, water, gel, etc.).  One that is losing its ability to hold on to life is like a balloon nearly fully deflated, shriveled, sagging, etc.

When the body is full of life, in balance, receiving all of the needed nutrients and constantly clean of its own waste, is robust and without blemish, its internal organs and outer covering of skin constantly are being replaced according to a mental pattern.

When the body’s life force is nearly gone, or suffering malnutrition, living in its own filth, losing the will to live, or is in one way or another weak, fragile, wilting, etc., then the youthful qualities begin to vanish.

Fill yourself with Life, with Life Force, with Love, Laughter, Joy.  Do what you will, taking your fill of that which fills you with Life, with an inner Fire shining Divine Light that inflates your otherwise darkened, collapsed body.  Do this, and you shall have Eternal Youth manifest in the Physical body—no matter how many years pass between now and your birth into the world, you shall have Joy, Knowledge, Love and Health, all manifested down into the Body.  You shall be a curiosity among men, defying all of their scientists’ expectations regarding health, longevity, and other characteristics of health.

Eternal Life in a youthful body is everyone’s right, but all must make the effort, or else the wheel of life that gave them birth and raised them to the top of the wheel’s arc will soon roll over, crushing them.

Imagine a circus performer who has developed a great sense of balance through much practice and is subsequently able to walk along the top of a large ‘hamster wheel’.  That is the idea here.  Once on top, learn to walk carefully on your path, balancing yourself as you walk along, and you need never be crushed.  You can even stop the wheel from turning when you will and just stand still, or even walk backwards as well.  You can even jump off when you have enough, a decision reserved for Initiates, because of their efforts at becoming one with Divinity.  All others have no choice but to be crushed by the wheel when it comes rolling around.

Life is a turning wheel.  Learn to master it or it will master you.