Here and Now...What's Happening?

[another bob]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
In the "big" city for a few days, and truly I would rather be at home in the country. School clothes shopping, and it is the least attractive activity I can think of. My head is already hurting from all this pressure, discombobulated from all these people and I don't know what all.

Hiya Sister!

Occasionally we're all given gifts like that, but we typically try as hard as we can to reject and escape them, rather than recognizing them as divine portals to a deeper, truer peace than the comfy props of hearth & home. It's why we're given so much time, and so many opportunities, which we nevertheless persist in mistaking for suffering and hardship that need to be avoided, rather than understood and breathed through. The vast majority of us are pretty slow on the up-take, but we all catch on, eventually. The group soul will not leave one individual behind in its evolution.

[Mark]

... and the beat goes on, as the Village nods to the flow of life ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jk63Psr3wzY

[Guest]

One of my favorites

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DYw9UrsFJa4

A balmy windless night in the forest, listening to the crickets and Night Hawks chirp a cross the valley.


Love

Nora

[meeradas]

Some donkey orifice neighbors obviously
thought it a good idea to move my motorbike,
to get some space for their own rotten vehicle.

Result: The disk brake lock (which has a 120 db alarm, btw) fed itself into the disk,
so i couldn't take the bike to go to work, had to cycle instead.

The mulecavities' vehicle was cheekily parked approx 1/2 centimeter away,
when i went. Coming back a little later to take a pic (not thought of instantly),
they had already 'fled' the scene - now it was parked a full meter away. I call that "inconsequent".
Now, in the morning, they are gone completely, so i can't "nail" 'em....

At work, the marvellous goings-on continued. Spare you the details.
It was unbelievable. What a grand f***in' nightmare.
Full moon was already over, wasn't it?

As you can tell - i'm downright p!ssed to the marrow.
In that kinda state, i need to sleep before trying to free the front wheel - the damn alarm would kill me, now...

And, as Flash said a bit further up - "that can't be it".

Thanks for listening, villagers.

m/out.

[ViralSpiral]

Posted by ulli (here)
and allowed the sufferer to go into it at one end and then come out of it at the other,
and see if such suffering might have done it's job of purging the dross,

Like a tropical storm? Just think how much dross you could have purged

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)
. But, no one can teach that to another.

This is one side of the coin. The other is that learning happens, unconsciously.


I watched The Bridge documentary. Faaaaaar too late. Kept me awake for hours after. Made me sad but grateful. Can I have one of those beautiful hankies please Sierra??
(love the curtain!)

[astrid]

A Big day in the garden.
Planted out more Garlic, and reorganized my Beetroot crop so i can fit in more babies.
A friend also gave me some of his extra Silverbeet plants and a couple of Celerys so i have more
for my green juice crops - yays. Trying to kick start my spring crops by starting loads of
seeds in my greenhouse, so i was planning that today, and mulching more beds in the ready.

My new neighbor here, passed me over some of her pumpkin soup, so already this new place
has the beginnings of a sense of community. Next week i am extending my chicken coop so i can
get some more hens, that way i have loads more to share around.

[astrid]

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I want one of these for summer here.. how excellent.



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[astrid]

Found this site today, they even have a radio show...

http://www.offthegridnews.com

[ulli]

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
and allowed the sufferer to go into it at one end and then come out of it at the other,
and see if such suffering might have done it's job of purging the dross,

Like a tropical storm? Just think how much dross you could have purged [IMG]http://www.millerfilm.com/spacelinks/wink_emoticon.bmp[/


I watched The Bridge documentary. Faaaaaar too late. Kept me awake for hours after. Made me sad but grateful. Can I have one of those beautiful hankies please Sierra??
(love the curtain!)

People here live pretty light...and I have none of my dross around me...

All that is in Costa Rica...even all my art college stuff...unframed.
By the time I learnt about artists burning their unsold art annually, to just keep the best of the best, it was already too late. My art had joined the same category with my antiques and now can't be touched, not even a hurricane.
A lot of it was genuine 1960s psychedelic doodles....

[Eram]

Jeanette,

The pointers that you offered are working..... big time!
I'm glad that I kept mentioning my doubts about doing it right in the 'H&N'.

I see now how I was using the mind to apply 'al that is to be' and I made another discovery too.. I was doing it wrong, because I was doing something else wrong too and that is, 'watching the mind and thoughts'.
When I read the book of Eckhart Tolle, he explained about this technique and I happily learned myself how to do it, unaware of that fact that I already have been doing this for about 20 years... kinda funny eh?
So I learned myself to do it in another way.... I placed the watcher outside myself.... somewhat behind and above me, but now that I do it like I have been doing it all along, the watcher is right here in the midst of where it is happening and this allows me to experience all that is coming to surface just as it comes, without the mind analysing it as it happens.

I have been watching my thoughts, emotions and mind like a hawk for 20 years already, but I judged what I saw and I identified with it like it was the last straw to cling to to stay alive ....Trying to wrestle parts that I labelled 'bad' out of me. pffff
So.... now it all starts to make sense to me.... wauw!!!

I have some big issues with allowing things to happen in another way that I planned them to go (control freak), so there is plenty to practice with.
I see that I'm going in and out of surrendering to to these feelings all day long for the past days. Pretty intense at times... I am finally getting to the point that the emotions and feelings that come to surface are experienced fully, like it is supposed to, but I suppressed this for soooooo long... like turning the volume down from 10 till 2.

There are parts of the ego boiling up now that I have been suppressing too and this puts me in situations that I would happily pay my monthly income for to avoid them and at the same time I enjoy that it is happening.. feels a bit like there are two me's.




Yesterday an old friend from my teen years visited us and brought with him 15 friends to stay a night at our bed and breakfast.
I talked about what I am doing with building awareness etc (these people where total yuppies) and at the end of the day there where 2 people who were warming up to read Eckhart Tolle and 2 other people wanted to read William Buhlman's books hehe
Who says people are not ready for change?

Later, at night we spent some time at a village party at the village adjacent to ours.
I haven't attended to such happenings for years now and when I got there I almost couldn't believe about all the illuminati symbols that were used in the big screens and laser show, un...be...lie...va..ble !!!
The eye of horus, eyes in pyraminds.... etc.
I live in a real country like environment and I was literally stunned to see so many symbols displayed at that party.
I had to pinch myself to believe I was not sleeping/dreaming.
Well.. I enjoy the dark and the light these days and I am grateful for the darkness to offer us the working tools for growth, but it was weird to see all this so out in the open.




@ meeradas time to look at that miracle watch of yours!

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)
@ meeradas time to look at that miracle watch of yours!

Tee, hee...thanks, Wakytweaky, I get to use my miracle watch.

I know I've said this before, but your kids and special lady and you are fortunate to have each other. Willingness to separate the treasure from the dross, makes for everyone's quickened ah-ha(s).

(Opportunities, if one chooses. Grrr to the qualifiers, I'm adding.)

@ Paula - I think I'm cranky. Hard to tell when you live alone. Wolfie doesn't seem to mind.

[RunningDeer]

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I don't know why at 11:30 minutes, it says, "POW- President of the World; A new global Democracy". That implies propaganda vid, but it paints the picture for people that have no idea of what's going on.

"Bankers Arrested In Iceland, Ireland, UK, USA, Switzerland, India, France, Russia, Austria...VIRAL 4"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dmOZ3jtGtCc

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dmOZ3...layer_embedded

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4. Current video
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Content:
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3.CITY OF LONDON SWISS BANKER LOOTED $2 BILLION THIS WEEK-http://youtu.be/DaS4FWjH4W8
4.Last week Geithner was arrested and released!-http://youtu.be/q5j6Yk0qAgQ
5.Swiss banker tells all-http://youtu.be/rIvwrO-M_bE
6.Top bankers arrested in Loan Scam-http://youtu.be/I6sIL83Q3rQ
7.UK bank scandal spreads, gets costlier-http://youtu.be/dv2P0yNW8PE
8.4 guilty bankers arrested-http://youtu.be/8WlE1wcFe5w
9.IMF Head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arrested In New York For Attempted Rape-http://youtu.be/99aVEVcoDlQ
10.Tony Robinson calls out British banking system. Must Watch-http://youtu.be/1ugGJv57F3k
11.Another Banker Arrested On Sexual Assault Charges-http://youtu.be/LvgEfrKJ7iU
12.Western bankers intensify global recession by financial terrorism-http://youtu.be/8DuMvz-2UzQ
13.Barclays CEO, Bob Diamond - My £20m bonus is 'appropriate'-http://youtu.be/eLWGVe8NUIE
14.Bonus row as RBS losses mount-http://youtu.be/shWaBQFg8ug
15.Bob Diamond: I'm sorry-http://youtu.be/5fCubkRh95s
16.David Cameron and George Osborne on tackling Labour's debt crisis-http://youtu.be/e2ekLmIMCuk
17.Question Time 5th July-John Lydon-http://youtu.be/dxjMAL_RuEY
18.President of the World Press Conference-http://youtu.be/jDUiuk-12Zg
19. Keiser Report: Paper Money Collapse (E297) -http://youtu.be/dculP2KAg_4

[1inMany]

Posted by another bob

Hiya Sister!

Occasionally we're all given gifts like that, but we typically try as hard as we can to reject and escape them, rather than recognizing them as divine portals to a deeper, truer peace than the comfy props of hearth & home. It's why we're given so much time, and so many opportunities, which we nevertheless persist in mistaking for suffering and hardship that need to be avoided, rather than understood and breathed through. The vast majority of us are pretty slow on the up-take, but we all catch on, eventually. The group soul will not leave one individual behind in its evolution.

Yes! This is precisely my challenge in the Here and Now. How to keep my inner peace through this. I do not consider this a hardship at all, been there done that, no doubt will be there again. But I definitely see this as a challenge. I am trying desperately to remember some tactic or exercise to allow peace internally.


Village friends, suggestions are much appreciated, because I cannot seem to find anything that works. The closest I can come is to turn my attention to my wings. As odd as that sounds to say out loud, it is a very real reminder to me that I am a Divine Spark. This knowledge, for me, does help me to allow the chaos to move freely around me and not effect me to the greatest degree possible, but it is not sufficient for peace.

Oh, and A_Bob, "The group soul will not leave one individual behind in its evolution" is truly comforting to me.

Much Love,

[another bob]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
I am trying desperately to remember some tactic or exercise to allow peace internally.

Sometimes it's as simple as inquiring into the one you believe is not at peace already, the one you are mistaking yourself for. The more you try to find that one, the more you realize there is no such critter. It was all a figment of imagination, based on a wrong view, a bit of conditioning that you bought into at some point, and then invested a reality in. You don't have to allow peace. You are peace! You only need to stop giving reality to the creation. Yes, that's what the disturbed one is -- a creation. You -- we -- are always feeding the sense of dis-ease, of disturbance, based on a wrong idea, a false belief. We just need to stop doing that, and what is already true, prior to the disturbance, will emerge. It is the light we are. It is the happiness we are. It is what we've been covering up, because we have been told that we should be unhappy, and frantic, and disturbed. That is all a big lie. We don't need to desperately search for peace. Peace is our actual nature, love is our true condition, happiness is our birthright. Let's all stop falling for what's not true, and allow what is, to be the case.

Blessings!

[Sierra]

Woke up this morning and the bedroom smelled like smoke. Closed the window and walked out to the deck. The smoky pall in the air is making the light dim, I had to turn on the lights indoors.

Coffee, fan noise, husband sleeping, puttering around straightening the house. The light in the kitchen is golden. Tap tap tapping on laptop at kitchen counter. Tomatoes on the counter are so red. A bowl of avocados from the sweetest next door neighbor. Oranges waiting to be juiced. Big vase of pink roses on the dining room table. Pretty soon I'll get up and do the dishes.

Currently reading about the sex scandals of the Buddhist communities in the United States. How Catholic of them lol.

Love my village. Love my life. Love being here.

Sierra

[ulli]

Been out all day, now that we have lovely weather again.
Meanwhile Ernesto is still there,gone further west and regaining strength and we will be keeping an eye on him
for the sake of others.
Been reading the Keshe Foundation materials and threads...very interesting.
Dinner with family is next.

[another bob]

Just now, a Stellar's Jay with a mouth stuffed with whole pecan:

http://www.pbase.com/1heart/image/145194726

[ViralSpiral]

Bon appetit!

Three things that warmed the cockles today:

To mark Michael Phelps' amazing Olympic career, I think the USA should legalize marijuana. Andy Borowitz

[another bob]

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)
Bon appetit!

[leavesoftrees]

Posted by Carmody (here)
the video I listed was JUST blocked. Out of the blue.

Nothing new there........

One of the links is still available.