I had just finish a post to my personal blog…the one for family and friends (or you may consider yourself family or friend if you choose to re-visit this blog and what it may mean to you)…the post was about spiritual “truth” that each individual has…as a collective how they interpret their world, often in the presence and influence of two parents. What we in the West have come to conceptualize through the  “dualism” sciences and religious teaching that separate out , us from God, or Universal Energy…or Life Force ….however you may interpret…there is no separation… there is no duality. We have gathered our information from sources of education, reading or teachers and parents and we have seen ourselves, as separate from these sources…seperating our external from our internal.

What will happen in our awakening, our enlightenment or our realization of universal consciousness, is for us to see that it is not light or dark, left or right, yin or yang…there is light and dark in the world, there is left and right…there is Yin and Yang….and we …since we have two sources of our being and our essence…two parents….we are both our mother and our father. For those that have been “fatherless’ Children…or “motherless” children…we are still an essence of their absence…or the impact of their absence in our lives. If adopted…their is not your birth mother or your adopted mother…there is the reality of there having been a birth mother and one’s adoptive mother.  While being a “mother-less” child…it would  be a ridiculous notion that she  (my mother), does not  continue this  day, influence  how  I am turning out.  It was my mother’s  way of being, her  essence…being a  Sunday  School teacher…every  Sunday,  we children were in church  with her….and we accommadated in differing ways the teaching of the church about Jesus.

There was never any mention of the Buddha, in Sunday School…no mention from my mother that such a person, his teaching and his way of living…even existed. At the time, and in my reality as a child, there was not a Buddha….when in fact there was (and millions around the globe as followers). As I transitioned from a place of personal self-destruction and self-pity when my mother died (age 14)…and into another church and different “brand” of Christianity…it was part of the promotion of doctrine…of this church that Buddha did in fact exist, but it was “evil” or “anti-christian” to believe, follow or read about his teachings.

So, there has had to be some “reconciling” of beliefs, from when I was extremely religious, indoctrinated in the “ONLY” way to salvation, heaven or belief system was exclusive to the teachings of Jesus. Other doctrinal aspects, (including songs we would sing in the Gospel Groups of which I toured and sang in) was that Buddha did not exit…that his story…his “truth” was a myth. I have since “reconciled” that there was a great teacher who they named “The Buddha” (one of many before as the story goes)…the “enlightened one” did share “his truth” with the world. So for me there is not Buddha or Jesus…it is The Buddha and Jesus…and Mahatma Ghandi….and Oprah and Eckart Tolle…and….

So this “awakening”, this enlightenment…this coming to BE, in the moment…in the now…in the present…and discovering and practicing “mindfulness”… it is “all good”

Namaste,

BE wise and BE well,

Dave