Here and Now...What's Happening?

[dan33]

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by Rahkyt (here)
Good sign, AB. Who is this Louise and why is the wind singing about her?!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Pi9q4zV6Eo

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AspnXwbSSOE

Wonderful Dino.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QT0D0c_CSOk

[Eram]

Good evening Village,

Good to hear that you are doing better now 1inmany.
Yesterday I spent some time to try and give healing and the strangest thing happened. In stead of feeling a flow of energy going from me to (in this case) you, I felt no flow.. and in my minds eye I saw images.. zig zag lines... spiralling from a center outward.. toward me.
Don't know how to interpret it.

It's been several months now that I started of with this seeking of the true self, or whatever people call this.
In essence all I'm doing is trying to 'let everything to be' and look at what is there to see, in the understanding that this is not me.
Some days this works for a good part of the day and some days... ahhh it's like banging my head against a wall. Nothing happens and i can't understand what I am doing wrong.
So today I suddenly realised that at those moments... probably there is self pitty that I'm not seeing, or allowing to be. It is self pitty in a denial state. When I realised this, it shifted and then things flowed.... muscles in the gut relaxing, tension in the chest area gone and grief surfacing.
I really loath self pitty... yugh... and now It seems that there's a lot of it in me.
But.... when I start allowing it to be from now on, without identifying with it... it will be a breakthrough. I can feel that.

@ Astrid.. I followed a seminar some years ago about food and the origins of it and what I can remember about purple carrots was that they indeed came from Afghanistan and that all the other carrots are off spring from the purple ones.

@ another Bob... very touching music that you posted with the picture of your beautiful gransdaughter. Sigur Ros...
I looked it up on you tube and all their song are nice to listen to.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1cZDhGK18zw

[dan33]

This is for Wakytweaky

...a strange soundtrack from the seventies. [a strange film from the seventies, also]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6B-A1Fk5eAE

[ThePythonicCow]

Here & Now from a New York City cab driver, from the weekly email that VeritasRadio.com sends me:

A sweet lesson on patience.

A NYC Taxi driver wrote:

I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked.. 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor.

After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940's movie.

By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets.

There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard

box filled with photos and glassware.

'Would you carry my bag out to the car?' she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman.

She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb.

She kept thanking me for my kindness. 'It's nothing', I told her.. 'I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother to be treated.'

'Oh, you're such a good boy, she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address and then asked, 'Could you drive

through downtown?'

'It's not the shortest way,' I answered quickly..

'Oh, I don't mind,' she said. 'I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice.

I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening. 'I don't have any family left,' she continued in a soft voice..'The doctor says I don't have very long.' I quietly reached over and shut off the meter.

'What route would you like me to take?' I asked.

For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator.

We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.

Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.

As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, 'I'm tired.Let's go now'.

We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico.

Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move.

They must have been expecting her.

I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.

'How much do I owe you?' She asked, reaching into her purse.

'Nothing,' I said

'You have to make a living,' she answered.

'There are other passengers,' I responded.

Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug.She held onto me tightly.

'You gave an old woman a little moment of joy,' she said. 'Thank you.'

I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light.. Behind me, a door shut.It was the sound of the closing of a life..

I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly lost in thought. For the rest of that day,I could hardly talk.What if that woman had gotten an angry driver,or one who was impatient to end his shift? What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?

On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life.

We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.

But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

[benevolentcrow]

Tears.....

[gripreaper]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
Tears.....

[laperle]

Thank you for sharing your discovery. The movement you describe, the energy, the life, the cycle of duality.....all of this is observed. But if we shift our attention to what observes all the movement we may discover that there is no movement here. There is something which is constant and unchanging. What is that?

Jeannette

You're completely right. There is no movement. I intend to forget that fact.

I've had certain rear moments within this 'life' so to speak, in which I felt just 'the now and all'. You put me with your question right back on that track which I stepped 'away' from.
Now I relive these moments because of your question. And it feels f.... great. Thank you for that.

And than the awareness of the intense pure love and creative energy of the universe I got in return. On these rear moments, tears of unconditional love were flowing over my face. I felt 'just' pure pure love, incredible bright light and nothing else than, strangely enough...everything....

And that's what I 'got' in return for 'just' letting loose all (control) and excepting everything with the unconditional feeling that it's ok as how it is.
Not a bad exchange, ain't it

I think I will start to practice it again. I wonder how many time it will take me this time, to find these experiences once more.

I forget to take the time to collect these experiences. Thinking (my ego) that it is more important to pay attention to my ego, my family, my made, other relationships, daily returning routines and other important ( ) issues.
To say it else way, who am I fooling now???

To get back to your question: what is that???

As I relive it in my memory (where time doesn't exists) I just feel pure love and intense happiness, compassion, bright energy and so on.
But am I all of that? Am I all these feelings, these emotions, 'knowing' that I am NOT emotions, just that I can feel them? Am I that, or is it that, what I choose to observe?

It's looking without searching for anything. It's less than observing, less effort.
It's just 'being there', without willing anything. Really accepting everything, everything, everything. Each itch, each pain, sorrow and laughter.

So thinking of my last sentences which I've written, I start to think that it maybe, might be the complete 'emptiness'???? which give space to all potentials and possibilities....

I really do not know it. Do you???

[Knowrainknowrainbows!]

Awesome story about the cabbie and elderly woman entering a hospice ... Definitely could be true ...
Thanks for posting this as I can always use a reminder of how simple, small acts of kindness can lead to immeasurable benefits ... for ourselves and others!

KRKR

[laperle]

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by laperle (here)
Thank you Jeanette.

Before we can see that we are ' We Are ', we also have to experience the phase of 'I am' an individual/ego etc. Because without duality, we can not combine the two to become one. Because that would indicate that there is no motion, and no experiences and also NO LIVE. The energy of light and love won't be able to circulate. There will be nothing to experience! This is in 'my' point of view (on this moment )
Without the movement between I am --> we are --> I am --> we are, we have a silence. The energy won't be able to circulate. It's like the four seasons of live and of our planet/universe. We are the summer, understanding we are not alone, we are complete. Then autumn arrives, and decade into pieces starts. Finally 'we' dies alone ( is that so ? ) No, than we start ALL OVER AGAIN!!, Only than we have learned that we have to go to the 'we are' phase....and so on, and so on.. Light - dark - light - dark - light......any resemblance with the period we are right in at this moment concerning nature, pollution and all the changes we are in ?

Maybe I'm correct, maybe I'm incorrect. I love to read more inner sights from you all.

Greetings, laperle, and welcome to the Village!

I think i'm gonna like it here.
Not that many experience .....yet....
Thank you for your greetings.

la perle

[another bob]

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)
Sigur Ros...
I looked it up on you tube and all their song are nice to listen to.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1cZDhGK18zw

Ah, that's one of my favorites!

Here's another great one:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lwQmDvuORY0

[dan33]

Que bueno! Such a wonderful singer.
"Seguro que EagleSpirit, me hubiera dicho. " TE CAMBIO EL ÁGUILA POR DAVID BOWIE" ...and i said to Eaglespirit, NO. ha,ha.

Hugs to the Village.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BLW95vDgJbs

[Eram]

Posted by another bob (here)
Ah, that's one of my favorites!

Here's another great one:

That was really nice too.

especially this fragment from the clip gave me chills ...

[benevolentcrow]

Cadillac Coop de Ville

Da Chicks are in da Coop

Poultry in Motion!

[another bob]

Two new blooms today:

[heyokah]

Come on guys, make your baby happy tonight....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wSqFqhUzutg

[WhiteFeather]

Good Evening Villagers. Feeling a little drained today from that Solar Flare. Anyone Else?
Sometimes its nice to kick back and recharge our batteries.
The cabbie story brought some overwhelming awareness of how random acts of kindness can change the world.

Found this video on National Geographic. Of A small highly spirited mongoose not backing down to a Lion attack.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SQYFBgw_ewc

[RunningDeer]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
Cadillac Coop de Ville

Da Chicks are in da Coop

Poultry in Motion!

Amazing, benevolentcrow! I love it... Some magazine ought to do a piece on your little guys, and their village, and you.

Hello you darling little chicky-babes: Adele, Brigitte, Charlotte, Dorothee, Edith, Fleur, Giselle, Helen, Irene, Juliet, Karina, Lisette, Madeline, Nadine.

[WhiteFeather]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
Cadillac Coop de Ville

Da Chicks are in da Coop

Poultry in Motion!

Awesome Job!

[Belle]

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)
It's been several months now that I started of with this seeking of the true self, or whatever people call this.
In essence all I'm doing is trying to 'let everything to be' and look at what is there to see, in the understanding that this is not me.
Some days this works for a good part of the day and some days... ahhh it's like banging my head against a wall. Nothing happens and i can't understand what I am doing wrong.
So today I suddenly realised that at those moments... probably there is self pitty that I'm not seeing, or allowing to be. It is self pitty in a denial state. When I realised this, it shifted and then things flowed.... muscles in the gut relaxing, tension in the chest area gone and grief surfacing.
I really loath self pitty... yugh... and now It seems that there's a lot of it in me.
But.... when I start allowing it to be from now on, without identifying with it... it will be a breakthrough. I can feel that.

It has been my experience that letting go of attachments, especially to outcome and expectations, help the process evolve...you will learn what you need to learn when you need to learn it.

You are not self pity...it's just come to visit for a while. Examine it without owning it and let it go. If there is something you need to learn from it, it will come without effort.

We all progress at our own rates in our own time as we are ready and open...

[RunningDeer]

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
Good Evening Villagers. Feeling a little drained today from that Solar Flare. Anyone Else? Sometimes its nice to kick back and recharge our batteries.

Got up early and went for a walk while it was breezy and cool this morning, gave Wolfe a bath, and got some chores done. I'm on hyper drive emotionally. Paul's vid put me over the edge with the lady and taxi driver. It touched a chord that went deep. So, I downloaded a couple of movies and ran out for Ben & Jerry's. Now, hiding from myself watching: "Love Happens," with Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart & "Mr. Jones," with Richard Gere, Lena Olin.

I'm aware that I'm not making eye contact with anyone because I don't know if I'll bust out in a crying jag. It's not depression. It's heart expansion. It's been like this for a couple of weeks. Pulled in two directions, wanting to be with others and not wanting to be with others.

So, my short answer, White Feather, is..."Yup". Drained from all the emotions.

And now back to the movie already in progress...