youmaysayima

Acceptance

2009-10-05T16:58:00.001-07:00

Life is for the living
Eat until you are full
Your present experience is the direct result of your condition
There is no path but the path that is no path at all
Peace is only ever an internal condition
Accept what is, the way it is,when it is, how it is, as it is.

The Way of No Path At All

2009-05-31T18:30:00.000-07:00

The way of no path at all

Have you been searching? Is your soul yearning for something you can’t really explain? Can’t find answers that make sense?

Priests, gurus and masters say deep words but your heart doesn’t feel like its been healed. Medicine men, shamans, wizards and seers are wise but don’t have the answers you need.

There is no path
But the path
That is
No path at all

Maybe
No one has the answers
Because
Only you
Can choose peace

Only you
Can choose to
Accept what is

Instead of yearning
Rather than seeking
Let yourself go
Release your dreams
Which are full of emptiness

Desire for things that are only
Thoughts in your mind
Thoughts of why things aren’t right
And you feel so empty

For a moment
See if you can imagine
Perfection
See if you can know what
You really want
And then consider
Not asking questions with no answer

Let go
Accept the perfection
That is

Peace is a choice
Only you can make
Choose Peace

Prayer for today

2009-03-06T17:30:00.000-08:00

peace, blessings, joy
may i be
quiet
humble
accepting
free from fear
with no anger
peaceful
loving
here
now

Prayer

2009-02-15T08:12:00.000-08:00

Peace Blessings Joy
breathe in
breathe out

Peace Blessings Joy
on you
and me

Peace Blessings Joy
Always
Forever

Right here, right now

2009-02-15T07:54:00.000-08:00

Nothing to say
right now
today

No message of
now, peace
or love

Just being me
just as
I am

Hope its enough
it's all
there is

5 step program

2009-02-07T06:15:00.000-08:00

1) Use your imagination:

Imagine there is no past, only memories created by your mind
Imagine the future is only a dream, related to your memories
Imagine everything you see and experience is a movie created by your mind

2) Use your dreams

When you are dreaming everything seems real but nothing can actually affect you
Remember when you are dreaming everything you experience is happening in you, by you and not to you
Apply this knowledge to your waking life

3) Use your breathing

Chant using your breath by pursing your lips and exhaling slowly while thinking along with your exhalation "Peace", next breath "Blessings", next breath "Joy" repeat as long as possible

4) Release all anger and fear

While you may be quite conditioned to experience these emotions they are completely optional and entirely created by you
Consider that over time they lose their importance, why force your self to experience so much time to heal

5) Accept the perfection that is

This is all there is

New song "Imagine2"

2008-12-25T17:11:00.000-08:00

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=897760

Why?

2008-09-20T10:14:00.000-07:00

Life's most precious gifts are often the ones we do not want.

Buddha Dreams

2008-09-20T10:08:00.000-07:00

There is a way
To dream like Buddha
To dream of peace
and all which is

You have inside
a hidden pathway
a peaceful mind
that is your own

Just part the veil
and find it waiting
Free from the thoughts
that are not there

And this true mind
is like an ocean
an endless pool
of deepest peace

Buddha's dreams are
your dreams of Buddha
Awaken the mind
asleep in you

What do you want?

2008-06-07T16:32:00.000-07:00

If you
are not sure
just
what you want
stop and look
at what
you have

Your life
always gives
you
what you want
even if you
do not
know it

Hungry Ghosts

2008-06-07T16:27:00.000-07:00

Hungry Ghosts
eat
nothing but
Stone Soup
and
Whipped Nothing

No wonder
they
always scream
for more
and
never get enough

The Past

2008-06-05T20:22:00.000-07:00

The past
is only
the story
I tell myself
to explain
why I am
here.

Epiphany?

2008-03-22T17:23:00.000-07:00

Fasting
Meditating
Praying
Seeking
Longing

Trying so
Hard to
Get It in
One Dose

Drinking
Smoking
Drugging
Screaming
Raging

Because it
Does not
Happen now
At all

Waiting
Hoping
Wondering
Thinking
Seeing

Epiphany
Is not
the only way
to get it

I am not there...

2008-03-18T18:55:00.000-07:00

Don't look for me beside the road
Don't imagine I am sitting under a tree
Don't long to meet in a far away place
Don't expect to see me
When you get to where
You think you are going

Don't worry about me
Don't be concerned for my state
Don't care if I am not
What you think
Don't suppose I am what you see
When you think
About these words

I am just like you
Exactly like you
You are just like me
You would do the same
In my shoes

I know how you feel
I understand what you do
I know why you think
The things that you do
Make sense

But even so
It isn't necessary to
Think these thoughts
Dream these dreams
Feel these feelings
Remember these memories

Breathe Peace
Breathe Blessings
Breathe Joy

Now
Is not between
The Past
And the
Future

There
is no Path
But the Path
Which is no
Path at all

This is all there is
Here you are
No future
No past
No where to go
Nor anywhere to
Be from

Breathe Peace
Breathe Blessings
Breathe Joy

Blessed are we by the perfection of creation
Accept the perfection that is
Let us dwell now together
In the perfection that is

Not Buddha

2008-03-17T20:52:00.000-07:00

Not Buddha
Not Jesus
Just You

There is no path
But the path
Which is
No path at all

Glimpses and moments

2008-03-16T19:45:00.000-07:00

Maybe...

you are not ready or able to experience complete enlightenment

you are not done yet with the "stuff of your life"

your clarity comes and goes

and sometimes you are still so tuned into this world

even so, maybe...

you learn something new every day

you experience more peace

you are less troubled, less fearful

you experience less conflict

and maybe...

clarity unfolds like a blossom

peace spreads like ripples in a pond

as perfection emerges

maybe...

you are closer than you think

Training wheels for the soul

2007-09-23T10:27:00.001-07:00

In my dreams

I have no reason to fear, for there is nothing that can actually hurt me
I have no reason for greed, for there is no thing that actually exists
I have no need of food or shelter
There is no past or future

In my dreams I can choose peace
In my dreams I can choose acceptance
In my dreams I can choose love
In my dreams I can choose joy

Small World

2007-09-23T10:22:00.000-07:00

Every day the world seems smaller

Less people in crowds
Less places to go
Less things

As my sense of peace expands
the world becomes emptier

Note to self...

2007-09-17T07:36:00.000-07:00

I don't need to go anywhere
I don't need to do anything

There isn't anywhere to go
There isn't anything to do

Let go
Accept
Be

Creating a practical approach to experiencing Peace

2007-09-14T07:53:00.000-07:00

A sculptor created his masterpiece, a marble life sized elephant accurate to the fine hairs lining the edge of its floppy ears. A student, amazed at the realism, asked “How did you do it?” “It was easy,” said the Sculptor, “I just chiseled away everything that didn’t look like an elephant.”

Experiencing peace is much the same. Just release everything that isn’t peace and there it is.

Perhaps you believe peace is not attainable, or maybe only after a long and arduous process. Perhaps you think it requires deprivation and the relinquishment of worldly interests. Or maybe it requires transcendence to an alternate plane of existence.

Peace exists, but our world is not peace-oriented and therefore most of us find little if any peace. Our civilization has discovered how to overcome many of the limitations of the physical world but today it is easier to fly over the ocean to visit another continent (in the course of a few hours no less) than it is to experience a profound sense of peace. Even our churches and gurus fail in this regard in that they do not endow their members with profound peace.

Therefore let us begin by removing everything that is not peace and see what is left.

Let’s start this process in our minds by considering the following:

Peace knows not fear
Peace knows not anger
Peace knows not desire
Peace knows not greed
Peace knows not loss
Peace knows not conflict
Peace knows not judgment

In Peace is contentment
In Peace is acceptance
In Peace is joy
In Peace is communion
In Peace is wholeness
In Peace is freedom
In Peace is love

Peace lacks for nothing,
for it has no need
Peace has no past or future,
since it is now

Peace lies within
and is ours to choose
when we are ready

Let us now dwell together in Peace
Blessed as we are by the perfection of Creation

Reasonable behavior & enlightenment

2007-09-04T06:53:00.000-07:00

Human behavior tends to be reasonable, meaning people tend to do what makes sense based on their perceived situation. When you observe people doing things that make no sense to you, you can be sure, that based on their perceptions, what they are doing makes sense. This is applicable to all behavior, from ordinary to extreme.

This understanding is important if we want to understand why so much spiritual guidance apparently falls on deaf ears; its because it frequently runs contrary to one's self interest as defined in the context of one's perceptions. Its all well and good to be told "Turn the other cheek" but when you think you are being attacked and in danger it is not reasonable that this guidance will be useful. Only if one does not perceive any actual attack or risk of harm is it reasonable to behave in this peaceful manner. Jesus did not "turn the other cheek" because he felt he ought to allow others to harm him, rather he did not perceive any actual harm from his enlightened perspective.

This is why behavioral rules, no matter how noble or well-intentioned have little effect on human spiritual development. In fact they tend to have an opposite effect as individuals find themselves deficient in obeying the rules.

Only as an individual sees their existence differently can their behavior change, since only then is the old behavior no longer reasonable. We can only hope to "improve" our behavior by developing a more accurate perception of the fundamental realities of our existence.

Only by developing an understanding of existence that resonates with profound and inherent validity can we achieve an enlightened state. Enlightenment provides the perspective whereby "good" behavior is reasonable.

Just 4 Ideas

2007-09-02T06:32:00.000-07:00

On the topic of The Meaning of Life and Enlightenment

If God wanted you to have a map of what to do and where to go with your life he would have given you one. Do not accept any maps from anyone claiming to have an official "God Approved" Map. Since it is unlikely/impossible/untrue that life has no meaning and you have no purpose you can infer that you are your own map and should follow your "heart" to wherever it goes.
The past is only a memory ie. its only thoughts in your head with no tangible reality. The future is only dreams based on memories of an imagined past. Both the memories of the past and the dreams of the future serve only to obscure your ability to be aware of the present which is all that exists. As a point of further clarification, the present is not in between the past and the future, rather it is where we create the memories and dreams if that is what we choose to do.
The world is not round or flat, it is inside out. Everything you experience (think, sense, remember, dream, see, touch, hear, smell or taste) is inside/created by/of you. You are not actually contained in the universe of existence, rather it is you creating it.
This is all there is.

With the above in mind we can rationally/knowingly/purposefully choose to culitivate our personal peacefulness starting at the core of our existence, inside ourselves leaving the perceived external existence to reflect the inner peace we create.

Dreaming

2007-08-31T08:55:00.000-07:00

Imagine for a moment that your life is a dream. That your memories are the memories you might have in a dream, that the future is what might happen in a dream, and that what you are doing is what you might do in a dream. Just like a dream it feels real even though it may not make much sense if you really examine it.

Now imagine that the more you try to wake up the more the dream swirls with intensity and excitment. Some of it positive, some maybe not so positive. The more you pay attention the more real it becomes. After a while you might become tired of interacting with the dream and decide to stop struggling with it and just let it go. Surprisingly the dream starts to fade and after a bit you reawaken and can see it was only a dream.

You may say I'm a dreamer - IMAGINE

2007-08-30T06:55:00.000-07:00

I was just thinking about how the world/life would change if more and more people adopted a peaceful acceptance of what is and how the effects of this would magnify and spread. (Lately it has been a focus item for me to adopt personal peacefullness.) Then I remembered Imagine by John Lennon so that is the meaning of this blog's title youmaysayima.

Anyway the message to adopt peacefulness is the same from so many sources but we don't hear or maybe its more we don't see. Maybe we don't see how we can be peaceful in a world that looks so violent.

But is the world an external entity impinging upon our beings or is it the reflection of our own beliefs and thoughts projecting onto the quantum universe? From this perspective peacefulness is a rational approach for only by becoming peaceful can we create a peaceful existence. This blog is dedicated to that possibility.

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you will join us
And the world will live as one

Imagine by John Lennon