5 Ways to respond to the inner mystic

When you have an experience you do not readily understand, you still have the power to decide how to respond.  Human beings forget that they hold profound, inner power.  This also means one can evolve to sense, acknowledge or expand energy vibration.  It extends from how you accept or reject yourself.

In essence, you are in charge of what is happening, how you choose to view a given occurrence. You unconsciously determine what serves your spiritual side and what does not.  You choose your principal focus and which emotions unfold.  To discern things does not mean you feel worthy or committed to the process.  How do you respond to the inner mystic?

1) Detect unfamiliar sensations.  This might lead you to hesitate, hold back from embracing and accepting for fear of being judged.  Such a reaction implies you have not yet detached fully from what does not matter.  All in good time.

2) Jump to conclusions.  To assume you know the depth and significance of all thoughts or visions that appear in mind, may be premature.  A process transpires to encourage you to shed beliefs and move into the realm of pure knowing.  A wise being recognizes the difference between higher truths and untruths.

3) Opt to be constrained by external forces.  You may simply deny anything is out of the ordinary.  You can decide you transcend perceived outer circumstances or, evolve further to recognize conditions are imagined to distract you from what lies beyond them. To shift mindset and energy vibration enables you to understand choices differently.

4) Assume no coincidences.  Such a mindset is a stage in learning to let go of conditioning absorbed in the physical realm.  As one evolves to sense every incident arises from the non-physical, higher realms, one begins to remove the veil.

5) Recognize channelled energy. To discern you channel energy confronts you with choices. You direct it to negative thoughts and behaviours or discipline the mind in other ways. This ability enables you to take responsibility for the nature of transformation in your life and perspective. Holding love as the deepest truth allows a person to let go of fear and see beyond time, space and human-imposed limits. Open dimensions.

"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience." –Teilhard de Chardin

Where to meet after death

Dogo paid a visit to his sick fellow monk, Ungan.

"Where can I see you again if you die and leave only your corpse?" Dogo asked. "I will meet you where nothing dies," Ungan replied. Dogo criticized his response saying,

"What you should have said is that there is no place where nothing is born and nothing dies and that we need not see each other at all."

This Zen koan is taken from the book Zen Koans by Venerable Gyomay Kubose copyright © 1973; published by Henry Regnery Company. In that text also lie possible answers to the various koans.

7 Tips to reverse unconsciousness

As you sense part of you is in the dark, another part of you is already in the light. That is to say only part of you is in a state of unconsciousness. Whenever you choose, you can take steps re-align.  Consider these 7 tips to reverse unconsciousness;

1) Value suffering. Perceived pain is teacher. You is not meant to wish discomfort is over so you can be happy only. Learning presence enables you to feel and gain valuable lessons in perceived grief, loss, sadness and confusion.

2) Open the mind. This does not require you believe in reincarnation. You do not need to die, have a near death experience (NDE) or be abducted by aliens. Regardless of your beliefs, you can recognize something exists other than what you consciously know. As you reach beyond yourself, details present.  You reach deeper awareness in spite of yourself.

3) Shift from intellectual to experiential. As you move from analyzing and seeking to explain to choosing to simply feel, you begin to absorb wisdom in forms other than thoughts and words. You begin to sense the truth does not require legitimacy or respect.  It is not personified.  It has no affiliation.  You move though incomprehensible wisdom, indescribable qualities and yet, reconnect with inner knowing.

4) Notice synchrony. Awareness changes. You sense meaning in events that affirms your progress. Symbols arise where you are to confirm you are on track. Books on particular subjects, billboard images, comments by passing strangers, and diverse physical examples of a subject on your mind.  People you have known for ages makes comments on subjects that attest to your own experience, yet they never mentioned their own related experiences before. You had to be ready.

5) Sense messages of immortality. A higher truth is filling your soul. You may experience glimpses of past lives, encounter higher beings, lose all vision of insecurity. You slowly realize you have nothing to fear.  You are passing through new phases of consciousness.

6) Realize behaviour belies apparent beliefs. To believe in a hereafter is often contradicted by behaviour in the physical world. That is, if only love is real, then why do you buy into other emotions and illusions?

7) Rediscover freedom.  This implies grasping the concept of karma and learning what is required to overcome it. Grace helps you align with your destiny.  Everything is aligning and you are more aware.

Ease into a life of pure joy

Many people will ask themselves what it requires to live differently than they currently do.  Human beings often detect restlessness.  Part of you is poised to do something about your own.  After all, what makes it so hard to change? What prevents you from accepting guidance? Choose to ease into a life of joy;

1) Allow harmony to reign.  Effortless energy is at work beneath the surface.  Tap into that and it gushes out to remind you of the power of your free-flowing, creative spirit.

2) Open your heart wider.  The art of giving and receiving love is an expanding process.  It strengthens your immune system, brings renewed mental and physical strength, awakens deeper compassion and peace.  Love offers so much that does not yet enter your mind.  What you do not register is very real.

3) Choose to trust first.  This means you do not opt to trust out of fear.  Human beings lie out of fear.  You can decide not to be influenced by fear, not to give away your inner power. Learn not to judge or desire to do harm, even when others do not necessarily follow your lead.

Sound the voice of Happiness

After Bankei had passed away, a blind man who lived near the master's temple told a friend:

"Since I am blind, I cannot watch a person's face, so I must judge his character by the sound of his voice. Ordinarily when I hear someone congratulate another upon his happiness or success, I also hear a secret tone of envy. When condolence is expressed for the misfortune of another, I hear pleasure and satisfaction, as if the one condoling was really glad there was something left to gain in his own world.

"In all my experience, however, Bankei's voice was always sincere. Whenever he expressed happiness, I heard nothing but happiness, and whenever he expressed sorrow, sorrow was all I heard."

For further Zen koans, consult for example; http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/

"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.  And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.  And how else can it be?  The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." -Kahlil Gibran