Burt Goldman and His Most Excellent Adventure
Had a dog die today. Got run over by a truck, towing a trailer. No way to stop or slow down. Should have trained the dog better. But you don’t keep a country dog on a leash.
Sure, there was grief. However, the more interesting part was that I used what Burt said as far as reaching out to the spiritual universe to see what I could find out. (Out of Goldman’s “Mind Box” series.)
And there was my dog, jumping and running around, as playful as ever. Not concerned that it just passed on after being run over. Happy.
When I kept checking, different methods, same result. Well, mostly.
After awhile, she’d come to me like she always would – out of nowhere and jump up to lick my face all over. Just happy, happy. Pure, unconditional Love.
But I learned from this.
It all boiled down to the same points:
Feelings are created – on top of personal, native joy that is already there.
Bad feelings, good feelings, all feelings are created.
Even exhilaration – just another feeling which is all additive to the moment.
Let’s review from Levenson’s release technique:
- All thoughts are based on feelings.
- All feelings are based on desires.
- All desires are created to play the game of the Individual.
But the game of the Individual is a lie – in order to have a game. It is, however, seemingly the most valuable game of all. Once you are over having to play that game, then you can really start to make progress.
The trick to this Universe, to Living itself, is that there is no Other. There is only Being which runs through all of our individual Self’s that we keep created.
A continuing bottom line which I keep running up against is that this One runs through everyone and everything. It’s always on. But exists in no future or past. Only in the Now.
Today’s post only adds to an earlier one. Death is more than a fiction. It’s a complete and utter fiction.
People, pets, plants – all life doesn’t “die”. It’s just another version of life that goes on.
Life is only a dream, and Death is just another extreme on that scale. “Moderation in all things” says that any and all people and life-forms (as well as non-life forms) are somewhere and nowhere at the same moment.
That moment is not the result of your thoughts, though it could be. It’s not the result of your feelings, although some hold it to be so. And desires can never be satiated or fulfilled. Love is what creates the world around us, at the base. Beingness is beyond, before, inside, and outside of Love.
The real point is to Be. And only Be. Everything else, other than the Now, is a fiction – a complete mock-up.
The Now is always there. And you are always in the Now, as are all those around you and connected to you. You are, as always, connected to everyone and everything. But there is no future, no past, no disconnection – only the Now, the moment.
And within that is the answer to “What am I?” and “Who am I?”
Once you figure this out for your Self, then you have it.
Of course, this never needed to be written – because you already knew it.
(No, I’m only reporting what I find. Your own mileage may vary…)
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