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Search for the Miraculous ~ We All Carry The Longing To Reconnect : Deep inside we all carry the longing to reconnect with wonder, with joy. The art of meditation is about that longing, meeting the place within of beauty, of being alive.It is here at this center of our being, hidden within us, where God is known, where we get a glimpse of truth.  It is here we relate with the primordial energy of life. It is here such a fragrance as never before known on earth becomes available.   This center knows no bondage whatsoever and is the door to freedom, absolute freedom. It is this center that lead us to the beyond, infinite expanse, which knows no sorrow, which is nothing but bliss and more bliss - abounding bliss.  But our life force never reaches this center.  This is the purpose of meditation - to reach the life force, to that center where the flower can bloom.  It is this center where a few, very few, have seen the truth of God.   This center exists in everyone.   Infinite possibilities lie hidden within each of us.  But so long as we are not aware of them, no scripture, no godly man or woman, can prove it, can bring it to us. Very few persons have known God.  And those few persons' whole life has been transformed through it.  But we cannot have it just by worshiping them.  A river cannot become an ocean just by talking about it or worshiping the ocean.  It must meet it.  One touch...   It is a very difficult thing to do. (smile!)..   It cannot be known through explanation.  Explanation cannot become your knowing.  And if you do enter into it you will exclaim "My God! What I had known as body is You; what I had known as mind is You!  What I had known as 'me' is You!"   O, the restless mind appears in many forms - sometimes ego, sometimes intellect and sometimes as mind stuff. These are different faces of the same restless mind. The substance of the divine is one - and all these are transformations of the same energy.  And if you come to know the one, all conflicts with the body, with the mind, all strife comes to an end.  Once you reocgnize the one, then it alone remains.   Essence is one, it expressions are infinite.  Truth is one, its forms are many.  Existence is one, its faces and gestures are myriad!     *****   If one is to reach the center, he can do so only by quitting the circumference - Oh, I am in such a powerful mood for training right now.  My whole body is screaming for it - "Retreat!  Gather your energy!"  It screams! (smiling!!!)....   I am going to train a few days with breath work - enjoying sitting - falling - quieting the mind.   If someone posts while I am away!  I wish to say beforehand, how much I appreciate everyone here!  I literally feel the light as one - and us existing together within it.  A beautiful unit Gaia is.    Simply deeply enjoy everyone here!  with, love-cheyenne
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Stepping behind the Veil: Revealing Your Deepest Sexual Secrets : In the world of love, romance and eroticism, exploring sexual fantasies can be a very powerful tool of personal transformation.  It also extends foreplay, builds anticipation, and embellishes sexual pleasure.  For many men and women, variety can play an integral part of exploring and transcending their psychological makeup.  It is a powerful emotional exchange that lovers can experience, exploring, what I call, the dark side of our search for spirit.  An extraordinary trust is needed and developed in relationships where fantasies are explored.  With a loving, caring partner, this experience can be something very special, quite extraordinary.   Now, of course, I am NOT talking about criminal behavior, torture, or being a sexual sadist.  It is about truly an erotic and romantic experience for people who trust and wish to give to one another.  One where you respect each other's limits and appreciate the depth of trust that you are placing in each other, and knows that respecting each other's limits is the basic trust.  Fantasies are not to be done in anger but can be a creative transformation of everyday frustrations and anger into erotic play or domination.   Playing out fantasies, one can transcend chains of daily or social life. It frees one from feelings of guilt over sexuality or sexual desires, and removing guilt removes a major stumbling block on the road to heightened sexuality and spirituality.  Many submissive fantasies are exciting specifically because they break taboos or social rules.  Relieving your lover of the responsibility of his actions or sexuality will allow him to let go of his inhibitions and abandon himself to the luxury of his fantasies. He needn't look after himself, he is free to go wherever you are taking him.  But first he has to want you to take control.    Sometimes the most difficult part of any relationship, particularly this sort of relationship, is to get the partner to open up and talk to the other.  The person needs to trust that you will keep all their secrets between you.   It is very revealing to tell someone that you would like to be put in bondage and whipped.  Or who knows what they will tell you.  Always keep your mind open.  And do not laugh.  Learn to listen, be supportive, and keep up your end of the deal by being the best partner you can be.   Knowing another's heart and fantasies, and caring for them, helps another develop trust and frees their spirit to soar to new heights of sexuality and spirituality.  Free from guilt, one is free to continue to explore and experience the great joys sexuality can give.  These experiences can bring new levels of fulfillment, expansion, and personal growth.   Relationships where fantasies are explored can be complex because of the level of trust involved and the fact that there might be some elements of danger involved.  So this is, in my opinion, only to be explored with a trusted partner, a monogamous relationship.   Communication is very important.  And these relationships can be conduced on many levels.  It can be a once-a-year spanking to a regular lifestyle.  Each couple can decide.  With deeper and deeper trust, you can explore endless worlds with each other.    It is beautiful as a woman to feel your sensual female.  If you wish to play the dominatrix, you will enjoy a position of power. Power can be very sexy.  Being a dominate partner does not mean that you are free to do anything you want to your lover unless he has told you so himself (smile!).    Real-life respect has a place here.  The ideal femme fatale can control her lover because she obvious is in control of herself.    There are some basic understandings:   You listen to your lover, as his mentor and guide and muse.  You understand the fear and eroticism the submissive lover feels during play.  And you always know fantasy from reality and provides support for your lover.  You are enough of a sadist to inflict pain and loving enough to use it only as an instrument to increase pleasure.  You are imaginative and creative and care for the emotional and physical well-being of your lover.  You know that his submission to you is a gift and that his surrender is voluntary.  You know that this fantasy is only the illusion of power.  You know that part of being dominate means pleasing your lover and in that sense, you are submissive to the will of the other also.    Exploring sexual fantasies, you will start to develop an emotional bond with your partner born in the trust that you have established in opening up about your fantasies.  For the length of the 'play period.', you will enjoy the power and dependency of your partner who has entrusted you with his secrets.  This is a chance for you to enter another reality, ninety-minutes of total power-trip (smile!))), and let your imaginations and his/her desires be your guide.   By tapping into your own inner well of power, you find your strengths, open to untapped potential.   So how does one accomplish this?  Communication and trust.  In speaking to you of submissive or dominate desires or fantasies, one is baring their soul.  They may be telling you things that they have never spoken aloud to another person, and your acceptance of their secret desires is extremely important.  Please treat this like a precious gift it is and be prepared to swallow your tongue before you laugh at what the other says.  Listen carefully and try your best to create the fantasy shared with you.  Fantasies need encouragement and support, care and attention.   You never know what will turn the other on.  Bondage, servitude, foot worship.  There are also things you might want to discuss such as, is there anything they are really afraid of,  being blindfolded, being tied up?  If there was emotional, physical, or sexual abuse as a child, do they have any quirks relating to this? What should you steer clear of if they do, any trigger words.  These things can be discussed ahead of time.   For a man or woman to be submissive and/or dominate is the ultimate nakedness where both clothes and inhibitions are stripped away, leaving each safely exposed.  Since both of you want to do this and each knows beforehand what will be considered fun for the other, pleasure will be mutual.   Where to start?  You can explore 'memory fantasies' which is when you recall an erotic encounter that has already happened and relive it as it occurred or build upon it.   Or compose fantasies you would like to live out.   All fantasies should be given the right time, circumstances, mood, company, and you decide what would be exciting to enact.    I personally enjoy making them up as I go.    Discuss fantasies carefully.  There may be aspects to it that do not appeal to you and some minor adjustments to the overall scenario.    And a fantasy might be as mild as being kissed by a woman while she is wearing a raincoat with nothing under it.  It never has to be complicated, just honest. And enjoy!with love!
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The Mystery Of Woman : Her only companion is her own being.Rising in LoveMeditation - the Soul of Devotion.
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Gratitude : Ungratefulness creates misery, because when you are ungrateful, you become closed to the universe. You are no more open, you are not flowing because you do not respond.  You do not say 'thank you'.  The universe goes on giving so much to us and we don't even say 'thank you,' so the process stops, and then we are miserable.    If you are going to practice ungratefulness, then you will have to practice misery too.  They are the same package.  By being grateful you will get much more, because when you become able to say 'thank you' to the universe, the universe pours itself into you more happily. Then more flowers will flower for you.   If you want to enjoy blissfulness, you will have to learn the ways of being grateful.  And what is the trouble in being grateful?  The trouble is the ego, because to be grateful means to be humble.  So whenever you don't feel grateful, that simply shows that you are very egotistic.  You take things that the universe gives you for granted and you say 'That's already my right.  I deserve this. If you don't give, I will complain.  If you do give, there is no 'thank you' coming.'  But then you will be miserable. Just learn to say 'thank you' . And it is so easy.   Start saying 'thank you' for small things.  Somebody smiles at you, say 'thank you', even silently to yourself, and see how good it feels.  Then if you start enjoying and cherishing it, even when somebody insults you, you say 'thank you' and see what happens, how beautiful it feels.  It opens a different dimension, a different door, something meaningful.  Gratitude opens your eyes to many blessings.  Even when the sun is coming up, something we see everyday, say 'thank you', and feel the sun respond to you.  Have a little talk to the trees and rivers outside, telling them 'thank you.'  I know it seems a little crazy, looks a little crazy, yet you will feel the whole universe respond to you.   Never miss any opportunity to feel grateful.   with love.
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Welcoming Death : If you live, you can look forward death, to this adventure.  If you understand death as part of life - not separate from it - but part of life, it will help you become intense, total.  But instead of understanding death, people become overwhelmed by it.  Out of fear, understanding does not come.Death is a process just as life is a process.  Our minds have an insane desire. We only want life.  We don't look at the existential truth.  We cling to an insane desire to remain only alive.  Any desire that goes against nature is just insane.  Of course it is instinctual to want to live.  Yet if you are even a little bit awake, you see that life and death go together.  Two extremes of one energy.Being aware of death is good, because if you are aware of it, it will help you live this moment as deeply as possible.  Because you know, are aware, that death can cut your roots without informing you.  And the greatest misery is when death comes and you realize you didn't live.  You missed the chance.  You went on postponing.Life is made out of the stuff of dreams.  We do not even doubt it, it seems so real.  But the moment you doubt it, you begin to awaken to the fact that life and death are part of ONE reality.  Life consciousness and death consciousness are not different - they both part of consciousness.The way to meet death is to have lived this life so intensely, so totally, so aflame that when death comes, you do not complain, you smile.  You are ready now.  Let's see now what this holds for us!  You lived all the mysteries of life, now what adventure will death give us?Death comes at the perfect time when you can say to it, "I was waiting on you.  Enough of this plane already!  Let's go!"   But because we are continually missing the train, we fear the death.  Those who are sad, are sad because they have not lived.As long as you are alive, the possibility of death is certain.  Only the timing is not certain.  You may live seven days or seventy years, but one thing is certain, you are going to die.This evening, I have been counseling my children, because our neighbor's son died in a motorcycle accident, a young child.  My children were quite upset, frightened.  I see them becoming increasing aware of death, and it concerning their mind. I counsel them "It is sad to lose those close, very sad. But do not fear death.  It is an infinite mystery to be loved and entered.  Live your life fully, then you can enter this tremendous blessing of coming home to whole, without the limitation of body."  My son asks, "So we become a ghost?" (smile!)Come out of the fear of the tiny ego, and begin to accept fully that death will come and embrace the idea fully.  There can be harmony and joy entering the unknown source, even a deep feeling of love.A kind of misunderstanding has happened about death.  We have pushed down the fear, and the fear is the very foundation of unconscious life. So many actions arise from this fear - desire for money, power, prestige, ambitions - all to cover up the deep hidden fear. If we become a little more clear, we can begin celebrating the event.  Of course, nobody wants to fall apart.  Yet whatever can fall apart is going to fall apart sooner or later.  How long can we hold it together?  It is not your authentic self.  Death is the moment you meet the authentic, the essential.I work with people who are afraid even to fall asleep!  They are afraid they will die in their sleep.  Now this seems insane, but that is our fear too.  People are surprised when I say, "You may very well die in your sleep.  Just go on and fall apart. What is the fear?  Just do it!  Then there will be no fear.  Fall apart and let us see what falls apart. Die and let's see what survives."  Your legs, hands, eyes, lungs - all falling. Your personality, ego, knowledgeability, all falling - so they are not worth holding!  Enjoy them, but don't cling.  Only the false can disappear, only your shadow, not you.Why should we be afraid if our shadow disappears?  It is not you.Just a little trust!....Embrace death!with love!
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The Higher Values Of Life Have To Be Protected : The higher values of life have to be protected.  It is one of the fundamental laws of life that everything that is higher is very vulnerable.Hate is very strong. It has a natural protection, but not love.Love should be made at the highest peak and that needs a certain discipline.  People have used discipline not to make love.I believe in the discipline of love.  If you are disciplined in making love, love has the potential to reach the spiritual world, The highest peak..with love!(this is my son, Marcus.))(eight years old...LOVES martial arts!)
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Looking into the Eyes of a Master : If you look into the eyes of an enlightened one, you will see a totally different quality.  He looks at you and still he is not looking at you.  You do not become apart of his eyes.  His look is vacant. You may get scared because you will feel that he is indifferent to you.  He has only awareness.  He is not really paying attention to you.  You never become apart of his eyes.  Because if you become apart of his eyes, you become apart of his mind.  And he has only awareness.  He simply sees you.  Eyes must become vacant of 'thought'. Only then can they see!  Only then can you see yourself.   Our eyes are doors for going out.  Through the eyes we go out, through the eyes we see illusions which are within, we see desire, we see protection, fear, concern, lust.   To see the innermost being, your eyes must become vacant, objectless, without dreams.   There are many stories that just by a look from a master someone has become enlightened.  This is possible!  Surrendering to a master you began to feel it because the master begins to flow into you immediately.  If you surrender to a master, suddenly you feel his energy flowing into you. Even a look from a master into your eyes will change your total being, but it can change only if your eyes are just vacant, valleylike.  If you can absorb the look of the master, immediately you will be different.   That is the work of a master.  To help you surrender.  And the most important element is to learn is what surrender can give you. To help you learn that through surrender you receive something unknown, unexpected, never dreamed of - simply through surrender!   And once you've had a taste of surrender, it helps you to have the courage to totally surrender!   And immediately, through surrender, through being vacant, you become a vehicle of a great force!   A great force!  The Divine!I have never met an Enlightened Master.  But I have meet people who have who tell me they were frightened...that their eyes looked like death to them, empty.So present.  No movement.(This is my son Karl - I thought the picture was fun!)
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Jealousy : Society teaches us over and over through jealousy.  From the very childhood we are taught comparison. It is bound to sink into you.  Very clever ways have been found to keep you away from yourself.  And if you are away from yourself, so many things are absolutely certain. You will remain miserable - forever. From one misery to another.  And that will have been your whole life.Society has exploited each individual in so many ways it is impossible to conceive.  Devises that destroy our integrity, take us away from everything that we have, and doing it in such a way, that we do not even suspect.   And this happens because of jealousy.  Jealousy means to compare.  Jealousy means to live in comparison.  Somebody is higher than you, somebody is lower than you.  Always finding yourself somewhere on the ladder - this ladder of jealousy.  If somebody is above you, it hurts.  If somebody is below you, you feel better.   This is how it keeps you going.  Because if somebody is higher than you, you must keep fighting, struggling, moving by any means possible.  Because how you succeed does not matter.  Only that you succeed by any means proves you were right.  If you fail, that proves you were wrong.  All that matters is success.  The end proves the means.  The whole question is how to climb the ladder.   Very cunning!  This method to keep you moving away from yourself has been polished, refined for thousands and thousands of years.  And it is difficult to jump out of it.  One reason is because you may not be on the top, but you are above somebody - and that feels good.  That is our satisfaction.   If somebody is above you, that create jealousy, misery, suffering, humiliation, you feel worthless.  You feel you have not been man enough, woman enough to prove you are the best.  But still you can look and see you are better than others.  So there is some satisfaction.  You are not absolutely useless.  And this small satisfaction makes it difficult to jump out of the game.   It is a dilemma.   And people keep encouraging each other, "Keep going!  Don't get depressed! Remain positive, optimistic!  The dark night will not last forever!  Soon you will be on top of the world!  Don't be afraid, don't be a failure."    They give you thousands of reasons to keep going.   But the message is the same:  You can be anybody, just don't be yourself.  And they create jealousy.   There are times I wish the whole of history could be flushed down the toilet!  And we had nothing to compare ourselves to.  From the very beginning we tell the children, "look at Alexander the Great, look at Jesus Christ, look at the saints, look at the CEOs, the President."   Jealousy will always arise, because of comparison.  Somebody will always succeed better than you - and you better than others.   Jealousy is not seeing a simple fact - that you have been taught to see yourself as inferior to someone, as superior to someone.  And we have become so unconscious of it, that we are constantly judging ourselves as superior, inferior, good, bad, wrong.   And comparison is not just with money or power, but it can be with absolutely anything!  "She has a more beautiful earring than me!"   The homeless person has a more beautiful box.  It can be anything.   Drop competition, drop jealousy.   It is absolutely pointless. It is cunning devise to keep you from being yourself.   If you are yourself, you will be content, fulfilled, in ecstasy.  Why would you follow advertisement if you are in ecstasy.  Who would bother?  Who would bother with the priests?  Inside yourself you will find a tranquility, a serenity, a silence, a treasure unfathomable!  You.    Everybody has all the beauty of the world, of the universe in different ways it will express itself.
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Facing the Reality : Dreaming is a substitute for reality.  But dreaming is not reality.  You can dream of food, but it will not nourish you. The mind can befool the body for the time being but the body is going to suffer.  Reality is reality and you need real food. But what is to be known about this is that there is a real hunger behind it, which the mind is trying to fulfill. Listen to the message intently.  It is saying that you are not what nature intends you to be. You are missing something immensely important to you.  It is saying that you are not your authentic self.  Dreaming of becoming Buddha or Christ or Alexander the Great is only symbolic.  It shows that you are groping in the dark.    Who are you?  The dream indicates a certain hunger in you.  That is what is important, what is to be understood.  It is very significant.  People are not just dreaming of Christ or Buddha, they are also dreaming of money, millions of people dreaming of power and prestige.  Women dreaming of men - men dreaming of women, dreaming of being the president. If you are dreaming, there must be some hunger in you which you feel is fulfilled by this dream.  Even if you are dreaming of being another Christ or Buddha, you never will be.  Existence never repeats itself.  History repeats itself because idiotic humanity keeps doing the same stupidity over and over.  It never learns.  But existence never repeats itself.  It always produces only unique pieces, one of a kind. There is no repeat.    If you are looking too much at Krisna, Buddha, Jesus, Krisnamurti, it is a kind of disease. A Christain is accustomed to a certain way.  A Hindu is accustomed to a certain way.  No one can dream about something he is not familiar with.  A dream is not creative.  It has to be something you are familiar with.  Maybe you decided to piece it all together.  A little from the Koran, a little bit from the Gita, a little from the Buddha, from society, trying to make something of yourself that works.  It is just all hodge-podge.  You can continue to create ideas of what you should be, how you should be, but it will still be dead.  By composing, you cannot create consciousness.  What dream is to man, mythology is to society.    You have a hunger. The dream indicates it, but the dream is not going to fulfill it.  Take the indication, then start getting rid of the dream.  Its work has been fulfilled.  Don't follow the dream, don't try to become Christ or Buddha.  That is not the meaning of the dream.  If you succeed at becoming Christ it will be most unfortunate. Thousands of years and nobody has become a Christ but a few.  They are now in the insane asylum.    Sanity means that you are closest to your center.  You go on getting closer and closer to your center, until one day you are perfectly at the center of yourself.  You are just yourself, and nobody else, just pure, authentic, with no shadow of anybody else falling on you.    A mad person, an insane person, has totally allowed the dream to possess him. If you continue to dream, the dream can possess you so much, that it becomes a reality to you.  You go insane.  Mad people are perfectly happy. An insane person is not unhappy.  He believe his dream.  So if you are miserable, be happy!!!  At least you are not insane. At least you have some sanity left.  That is why you are miserable.  The misery is the feeling that you are not yourself.  It is the gap between you as you are, and you as you feel you should be.  The bigger the gap, the more miserable you are.  Idiots are not miserable, for the simple reason they do not have the intelligence to see the gap. The more intelligent you are, the more miserable because you can see the gap so clearly that it is impossible to forget it.  It is always there.  Whatever you are doing, the gap is in front of you.  It hurts.   If you are trying to be something other than you are, it means you are not being sane.  It means you cannot distinguish between the dream and the real. And to forget the distinction between the dream and the real is a great loss.  And there are millions of people walking, talking, working, and they are not able to make the distinction between the real and the unreal.  So many superstitions. God is a superstition!  You have not seen him.  Maybe Jesus made him up.  And we go on worrying about it, torturing ourselves.   You cannot argue with a Christain, a Hare Krisna. You cannot argue with madmen.  It is impossible.  They do not listen to what you are saying.  They go on reading from the Bible, dreaming of scriptures and demigods.  The dream is your innermost self telling you that you are not yet what you were meant to be.   Just be yourself, utterly yourself. And don't be bothered too much with what you are. All that matters is that you flower.  The ecstasy come from the miracle of flowering, not what flower you are.  The moment you become yourself an ecstasy will surround you.   Our culture, our education, our religions have taught us to be hypocrites in such subtle ways that unless you go deep in search, you will never find out what you have been doing.  It has been driven into the unconscious.  That is why Sigmund Freud paid more attention to the unconscious, because it is more innocent, childlike, primitive.  It cannot lie.  It cannot be deceptive.  It will simply say whatever is the truth.  But the cunning mind, it is educated, cultured.    One has to understand all the layers and detach oneself from all of them.  Why do you go on smiling at strangers, friends, when we do not want to.  It is because we have been taught we might need them one day. It is policy that you pay other people attention, no matter what they do to you, no matter how you feel.  Become more alert so that you do not become identified with the dream.  Yes, it might even mean you have to tell someone to 'go to hell' (smile!)...it will be better for your soul.   This is the whole of the work - to be yourself.   When you are being yourself, you fell a feast!  When joy is available, why be a phony?  When authentic ecstasy is just close by your hand, why be satisfied with misery?  Your treasure is within you.   Perhaps it will be hard in the beginning because you have been unauthentic for so long.  It can be difficult.  I do not enjoy all this talk about about 'just be'...Enlightenment is easy.  No.  It can be arduous.  It sounds so simple, I know.  But inside it is so difficult.  But it has to be done.  Without doing it you lived without knowing what life is.  You are existing in a way which cannot be called living.   Simply being yourself is waking up.
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