Talk Story ~ Scott

Aloha from Paradise,

Thornton Wilder's beautiful vision of aliveness, “when our hearts are conscious of our treasures,” reminds me how sweet this life can be every time we choose to make it so. It is our choice, forever and always our choice. Our ability to choose is the essence of our spiritual power.  Choice is and experience follows.

I invite you to put a delicious spin on your day by choosing to play with the following short visualization. Pick three treasures, people, personal qualities, or memories that trigger your gratitude. They can be anything that inspires your heart and mind to lose themselves in the experience of gratitude: your spouse, your lover, your children, your career, your home, your vacation, your car, your garden, your pet, your art, your body, your money, anything that inspires pure gratitude within you.

These three treasures are your spiritual stepping stones to the inner threshold into Oneness. One by one contemplate your treasures; the people, the qualities, the experiences that fill you with gratitude. Don't be shy, don't sell your self short.  Give yourself the full measure of this experience. Remember all the details as clearly as you can. Pay attention to the feelings of gratitude as they grow within you. Breathe into them, surrender to them, lose yourself, your sense of separateness, become one in gratitude. As you lose sight of your self you find your bliss, you slip across the threshold into Oneness.

You may not experience soul transforming gratitude on your first attempt, in fact its best to do this visualization exercise again and again until you literally create a new habit of gifting yourself gratitude and crossing into Oneness. If you can imagine it, you can experience it.

I've been meditating for thirty years and I'm convinced these visualizations are literally how we change our mind, how we create new ways of seeing and thinking about our world and our place in it. Its all in the repetition, giving our self the chance to release, to let go the crap and embrace the gold. Some thoughts and beliefs no longer serve our highest good. We can choose to replace them with 'better ideas' that can become 'new beliefs' that will reflect the world we can enjoy living in.

Spend enough time in meditation and you begin to recognize how we grow spiritually. There is a part of our self that is pure awareness. It is beyond words to describe yet easily accessible through our feelings. In meditation we simply become as aware of our spiritual self as we can feel, and no matter what we think or see, we absorb the energy and vibration of our Soul – without distraction. It changes us.

I'm watching my baby granddaughter learn to suck her thumb – something every adult can do without thinking through the steps: locate thumb, control the arm, remember where the mouth is, stick thumb between the lips, clamp down and suck. I know one day soon, she's going to succeed. Her mind and heart are of one purpose and she will continue to practice until she succeeds. Learning how to live as spiritual beings in physical bodies on Earth isn't that much different.

 

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The City of Refuge is the perfect home for Mohala Akua ~ our Sunday morning service.  The ancient Kiawe tree pictured above is our favorite chapel.  The first Sunday Dana brought me to this tree, I stood before it looking for a spot to place the gong altar.  The sun had just risen above the volcano. Morning light spilled through the 'v' of these two spiralling, ancient trunks like wings stretching East to West.  In that instant I saw an angel, a guardian in the tree.  She was light ~ beautiful shades of light, brilliant lines of light, a shifting geometry of living light. In those few precious seconds I saw her wings stretched to fill the canopy.  I can see her still, in the photo above, as if she bends ever so slightly with wings outstretched, with every feather  catching the dawn's first light.

For hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, Hawaiian's have made this land a refuge.  No matter your crime or how powerful your enemies, forgiveness was as close as walking upon these shores.  As soon as you set foot on this sacred ground, your life was spared, your crime forgiven.  When we sit to meditate at the City of Refuge, we sit in this energy of unconditional love and forgiveness.

Our circle is open to include the vast blue of the Pacific.  A chair is placed for the Beloved.  We invoke The Love That Heals in meditation, immerse ourselves in tones of gongs and tingshas and sacred OM's. Colorful songbirds accompany from perches overhead.  I imagine them singing "Thank You God, Thank You God" for the bounty of our offerings - gifts of whole grain home made bread crumbs!  Yum!!  One Sunday, as we closed our meditation, we opened our eyes to witness whales swimming so close offshore I wanted to jump in and join them!  They are magnificent to behold, as are we when we see ourselves truly!

 

Talk Story ~ Dana

Not Just For Hot Dogs

“We can only be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Hats off to the fine wordsmith Thornton Wilder, for identifying That Truth so perfectly. “We can only be alive” … which, let’s face it, is what we’re here to do … “when our hearts are conscious of our treasures”… spot-on way to put it.

While being human here on Planet Earth, here’s a notable consideration: When we are not “conscious of our treasures,” our treasures might as well not be there. Unseen, treasures seem to not exist at all. So there it is, the tricky part … being ‘conscious of’ … aware … making note … seeing the blessings & the blissings … that’s what makes it work. Just because your treasures may seem not to be there, doesn’t mean there isn’t Awareness Gold lurking thru-out.

Greater awareness is within everything.

But if we’re not looking, we don’t see it. What do we see? Is it fertilizer or is it manure? Is it lemons or lemon meringue pie?

The tapestry of your Life Experience is woven by where your attention resides.

Where does your attention spend its time? What does your attention notice and focus on?

A Pivotal Awareness Moment: The subtle, yet profound, shift inside between “I have to do this” and “I get to do this.” Oh yeah!  That’s what I’m talking about.

Fixating on ‘not enough’ keeps Life looking hopeless, lacking. Focusing on ‘what is working’ takes you places mere limitations could never find.

To quote the Great Bard, Flip Wilson, with his deep, insightful truth ~ “What you see is what you get.” Turns out, interpretation is everything.

For years I have said, “When you know you are blessed, you are doubly blessed. When you don’t know you are blessed, you’re not.”  It’s true.

Feeling blessed is an inside job.

It’s a 3-parter …  Part I:  Experiencing the Aha! in your Life, the moment, the sweetness as something special ~ as a gift, a Blessing.   Part II: Actively realizing, I am so Blessed.      Part III:   Feeling Blessed.

It’s that delectable movement from head to heart. Head says, “Well yeah, that was nice ... it could’ve used a little more … it was ok … let me think about what’s not enough, what should be different” … think … think … thinking.

Heart says, “Whoa! I am so blessed … I am Totally Knocked-Out by the Goodness in my Life! I am Hammered by The Power of Joy thru-out all of me. I am letting myself savor this moment.”   Ahhhhh . . .

Savor … relish … not just for hot dogs anymore.

You are Alive as your heart is conscious of your treasures because in that moment you are open and attuned to the Great Cosmic Blast of Goodness that animates All Life.

In the moments you feel Blessed, you are giving God - The Great What Is - the opportunity to Feel Blessed thru you . . .  in you . . .  as you.

Thank you for being here as Spirit having a human experience.   Thank you for being Awake and Aware.

 

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