Directing

2009 February 28th

In a Shakespeare class I was in, we watched a few different versions of Hamlet. Although all of the words were the same, each version told a different story. For our final exam, the professor had us each write a summary of yet another take on the same story. I found I could still tell it another way.

In the story of Hamlet, like most stories in life, there are numerous versions that can be told. Each story represents a moment, or group of moments converging together. Stories don't step outside of the rules of infinity. From any given point, all is infinite in all directions. Yes, there are facts in stories, but for each fact, there are tons of perceptions about the fact, the meaning, the reason, the why, the....

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Comet in the Horizon

2009 February 26th

I was looking for Comet Lulin last night. I couldn't see it because it was hiding in the misty horizon. It was not the right time for me to be capable of seeing the comet.

Many of us look into our horizons, straining to see what is there. But does it not seem that it is difficult to purposely see anything there? Yet, as we are awakening in the morning, mind suspended between there and here, in that mental horizon, little miracles kiss our neurons as we are not looking, waking us.

And then, "Here is your coffee, honey."

"Oh, thanks, I was just thinking something really good, but I can't remember what it was."

It's okay. You could focus on what just slipped through your fingers, or you can be grateful for the miraculous little kiss which greeted you unasked for.

Matter and Energy

2009 February 24th

Any gardener or spiritual master will tell you to frequently weed your garden. I'm talking about your physical garden and the garden of your life. Weeding the garden of your life includes cleaning the closet, throwing away the crap in your files, donating those clothes (you know which ones). It also includes discarding poor routines, habits of thought, spending habits, etc.. Throw it all out. Cry if you need to, celebrate the divorce with wine or tears (or both). Processing the transformation is helpful in reformatting your hard drive.

What you may not realize, is that all of that stuff goes into the universal compost pile: the physical stuff, the energy expenditure, the routines. In that pile, the matter and energy reorganizes and becomes rich in opportunity and potential, for you. You can call it the earth in which you create from. Once you've done some weeding, you now have room in your "garden" to make use of some of that potential and opportunity.

In The Beginning

2009 February 23rd

Silence. An idea. An explosion of energy and matter. Infinite permutations. All is alive, for at the subatomic level there is no difference between rock and sky and bird. Infinite expressions of an idea. Alive, energetically vibrating in silence.

What Dreams May Come

2009 February 21st

I try to always remain peripherally aware of the story of the wife in 'What Dreams May Come' starring Robin Williams. It portrays an important concept that can be applied to life quite often. The wife in the story arrives to the afterlife sometime after she has lost both her children and her husband to accidental death. She believes she is in hell. Robin Williams goes to her to accomplish the (almost) impossible task of getting her out of there. It almost goes wrong; he almost becomes trapped by his own belief that he is in hell as well.

We all live our belief. Even if we know that, consciously, it is extremely difficult to awaken ourselves from our dreams. We often continue to play the same role and play by the same rules and repeat the same life, day after day. Of course there is dissatisfaction with that. And we look up to the sky, and we look to our lovers, our worlds, and we ask for change to come to us.

Gandhi said that what we would change in the world, we must first change within ourselves. He understood that the world I see and live in, mirrors me. What I love is there, what I am dissatisfied with is there. A quote from me is, "You can see who you are in what you love. You can see who you are also in what you are most bothered by." The mirrors can be powerful tools. They are windows into ourselves.

In the movie, as Robin Williams comes to believe he is in hell as well, the empathy and love within his wife glows brighter, casting off the darkness she'd accepted for herself. He had become a mirror to her darkness. Her love for him wished wonderful for him when she could not bring herself to wish wonderful for herself.

Ah, the old mirror trick.

Beauty

2009 February 18th

There is no possible way to experience beauty without openness to it. Because that is true, the more openness, the more beauty. As you can imagine, beauty beams from Everything, always. So beauty is in the eye of the beholder (in a way). What a shame we differentiate, when All is beautiful, always.

Dark Matter Giving Way to Energy

2009 February 17th

I recognize that my blog currently appears to be dark matter. Until recently, much has been presumed to be dark matter. I will be attempting to reveal the (apparently dark) energy within here. Well, how can energy be dark? How about not yet seen?

This Big Bang

2009 February 16th

Time is not linear, so this moment fits snuggly into a holographic puzzle. Expect not that evolution flow from this point forward, but that everything can be reached from this point because it lies always within this same point. Such is infinity.

Everything I am about to say here will come from this same point, though it appears to be labeled with different points of time, as if all is not here always. Don't get me started on the Universe's point of origin because I've just mentioned enough to tell all.