Thursday, July 10, 2008

Project "Just Be"...

I have decided to start what I call project "Just Be"...

This project has no definable time limit to it...

For as long as it remains interesting I am going to experience this moment of NOW, notice how I am labeling people or things, remove the label of whatever it is that I am labeling and just experience being with this ______ without labeling it.


You are welcome to join me in this project if you would like to.


What will your experiences be?


I noticed that when I was driving I labeled it "driving "so I removed the label of "driving"...

I noticed an expansiveness occurring "as if" the car was much bigger...

I removed the label of car...the expansiveness grew much larger...

I noticed the road, and removed the label of "road" as it felt as if I was floating or gliding along the pavement...

I removed the label of "pavement" and a feeling of freedom occurred...

I removed the label of "I" and feeling of connectedness occurred...

A smile occurred at the beauty of the connectedness...

Removed the label of "connectedness" and all felt as one...

Removed the label of "one" and a vast feeling peace and love, void and fullness all at the same time was the experience...


How do our labels limit our experience of life?

How do they confine us?

How do our labeling thoughts about life limit our experience?

What would happen if we released the labels of races? If one by one we stripped labels we place on people, could any predigest survive?

What if we noticed every time we went to blame our spouse, the government, churches, other countries what if we stripped the label of whatever it was that we were trying to project blame onto, what happens? What do you experience as you do this?

What if children were taught to release labels as soon as they occur, how might the future be different?



Project "Just Be"...


It could be a meaningless thought, or something that helps to make the world a better experience...

If you enjoy what you experience as you are releasing labels and experiencing "Just Being" then pass it on to others...


Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Just be...


I have to get this done,

I have to get that done,

I need this thing,

Daddy I have to take these three Barbie's with us,

I need the PS3 because it has the best Blue Ray for viewing new movies on the new flat screen,

I need this person to say this to me so I feel good enough,

I need peoples approval so I don't doubt,

I need my husband to quit arguing with me,

I have to get my wife not to pick on me,

I will go crazy if I don't have a vacation soon,

Really?

Are these really true?

Do these things really need to happen for you to have happiness?

If you do this, or that happens how long before you say the next statement that says "I need..."

Does needing anything lead to anything but temporary contentment?

No, it does not.

So where is this elusive happiness?

First accepting the fact that it does not come from wanting or needing anything...

It is not found in another person...

It is not found in any one thing...

It comes from first releasing your need to label things...

To label or name anything is to limit it to your senses, and to limit you...

Loose the labels...

Experiencing being in the woods without calling it the woods or trees or ground or sky, but rather experience the beingness of just being without labels...

If I call a sky - a sky the next thing I will do is to judge it - its a gray sky, not as nice as that beautiful sunset the other day...and yet that sky has amazing beingness that you just missed from labeling it and judging it...

Just be with it...

Doing what you ask?

Nothing...

Just being...

What are you talking about? I have to do something...

And all the beauty of the immortal moment of NOW is lost when you think you need to _________

I am?

No, just am...

Just be...

An eternal happiness flows as you "just be"...

It only stops the moment you forget to just be...

There is no sadness of loss...

There is no lack...

There is no absence of peace...

There is the fullness of this eternal moment of now...

A smile a crossed the face of all...

All that will ever be...

As one learns to just be...

Our illusions of separateness are no more...

As love extends in the union of just being...

All is completed in learning to just be...