shaman's thoughts

SO, I hear we need heroes and guides, teachers and masters. So what about the rest of us who don't exactly have access to one O' them there fellars! He murmured in my ears as usual and said: "come daily and seek union with me love, show up and receive from THE SOURCE" ok then I said like usual. OK THEN! KEEP IT REAL!

LONG TIME AGO AND FAR FAR AWAY IN OUR MEMORIES WE CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE STORY WAS TOLD OF THE TWO WOLVES BATTLING INSIDE US. AS A CHILD I ASKED MY ELDERS ABOUT WHICH WOLF WOULD WIN THE FINAL BATTLE. THE WHITE BEARDED WHITE HAIRED GRAND FATHER SAID, HAMID JAAN, THE WOLF YOU FEED THE MOST WILL WIN THE BATTLE. YOU DECIDE WHO WINS!

Look upon the human community as one bowl of liquid, maybe semi liquid matter. Look now further my child upon the whole of the universe as a macrocosm of the same. Look yet deeper my love and see within you the Microcosm of yet the same. If you are a Quantum man like this old shaman, then look deeper yet and see the Nano microcosm within each atom(CELL) and all the submolecular particles within it as the sub-molecular microcosm of the same one bowl of stuff! Where my child does your anguish fit in this bowl? And if you put a drop of colored dye in this bowl will it not show up at the other edge of the bowl? Will you not have inadvertently colored the universe with your drop of dye! BE AWARE OF THE POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS!

For a long while now we all seem to really believe that opposites attract! I mean from the laws of magnetism we just kinda eased into accepting that in people relations too only the opposites attract and even came to believe that its the best kind to have(after all who wants sameness and harmony when there are oppositions to be had!). So my children what do you believe? Is it your own found truth or some hand me down stuff from the culture around you? Do you celebrate Christmas because everybody else has done it for so long? Do you hustle to get a birthday gift and fear the consequences of forgetting someone's "special day"? And, when did valentine become so important a sign of how much we "love" someone? Tell me my child, is there a set of convictions and beliefs that you might call your own? How about the style of your clothing and shows you watch? Indeed there is very little we have that is our own, let alone knowing what is the opposite of me or like me. Me!

If you wait patiently my child I will make sweet wine from sour grapes. I am the Gardner who cares enough to be there every single day, to care for, nurture, water, fertilize, and protect the grape vine through the growing seasons. Whosoever shall steadfastly show up and nurture the spirit within, shall by design reap the sweet wine of serenity and FREEDOM! No one shall pass through the eye of the needle whilst carrying the load of a camel, but he who is humbled before THE ONE can bring oceans of love back through the same needle hole!

For every doubtful moment in our lives the phrase "know that I am God" is like a gentle reminder of how we don't really have to take on the burden of every loaded day in this world as a lone human on the far out corner of the galaxy called "Milky way". The knowing of course comes from having acquired the wisdom and knowledge of a creation sustained by a power source which simply just IS! PHILOSOPHY MY CHILD? NO, INDEED A WAY OF LIFE; THE TAO IS.

this note is scribled on an envelope and it maybe my own and maybe not. But as it is so beautiful and to the point I am going to show it to you. " He who learns must suffer. Even in our sleep, pain that will not forget falls drop by drop uopn the heart of the seeker until in our dispair comes AGAINST OUR OWN WILL, wisdom from the awful grace of God. It teaches the seeker to accept all with grace because GRACE IS WALKING BEFORE HIM" And with him and through him and I tell you kids, learn to accept all things with grace, walk with grace a day or two and see how serenity enters the pained heart.

Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of? If you are ever concerned about why you do things and then wonder why again afterwards, you need to know what thoughts are. It is indeed as prophet Buddha said "thought turn into words, words turn into actions, actions become habits, and habits become our destiny". Watch your thoughts my children like a hawk! Practice the art of meditation so as to have the tool you need to be more in charge of your thoughts rather than having random thoughts generated by some event outside control your actions. A thought has no life of its own until we give it our attention, now this thought(neuro-chemical actions in the brain) has a life which only gets stronger the longer "I" allow my attention to stay focused on it. That thought now can take over my day and even make me do things based on how it has "perceived" the world along with all the stored relations it has with thoughts of the past and fears of the future. W