Why Are You Here...?

Along the path to awakening, some of us find that we must actively bring some light (compassion, peace, Love, understanding) to the world so we can progress individually and as a whole. Yet, as we progress we realize that we know nothing, that even our own existance as a separate self is an illusion -- life is but a dream. So, what do we do? How do we row our little boats gently down the stream of life? How do we bring some light to help our brothers and sisters avoid unnecessary suffering? What do we teach? What do we say? What do we do? All good questions, ones I have pondered far too long -- it's time to act.

This blog is for those who feel a calling to teach from Spirit. I am not interested in teaching my beliefs or my good ideas. I want to share only that which is inspired by Spirit, and tested by personal experience. I want to teach teachers, those who feel they are free enough of their past to begin to see a different way, those who see that their next step is on the path of awakening themselves and others.

The trap, of course, is that we begin teaching as a way to strengthen our egos, to "sell" our way of thinking, to quell our own doubts. This is not what we are after. We are after genuine awakening, not the idea of awakening; the transcendance of the ego, not it's glorification; the cessation of our monkey mind, not it's satisfaction. Yet we must begin where we are, realizing that we are not free of the ego. We are not waiting until we are "perfect," to teach perfection (just like we do not need to fully understand quantum physics -- as a rare few do -- in order to teach it.

There is a better way to live, a way to be at peace, in harmony with all of life. This is not my way; I did not invent it. But, this is the way that has been taught throughout recorded history, the way that works when it is applied and lived. Mere talk and written words are not enough to transmit it. The words must be eaten and digested and assimilated into a new body that is filled with light and free of the past. It's not difficult at all; it can be learned -- but it cannot be taught. And thus there is already a paradox we must resolve -- how do we teach what cannot be taught? The answer is simply that everyone already knows what you will teach, but they have forgotten. You will see this as you remember for yourself, and you will remember as you teach -- not before. Thus we have another paradox -- how do we teach what we yet do not know? Again, we know, but we have forgotten too. You will know what you know as you begin to teach, for it is through the giving that you receive; you must give away that which you want to have.

So, we cannot wait to "have it all figgered out" before we begin. That may sound strange, but it's not our own ideas we are to teach. Our job, as teachers, is to connect to Source and allow That to work through us. All we have to do, as teachers, is to let go of our limiting beliefs and everything else that is in the way. What we will teach is not our own, and that is it's beauty and it's power. What we will teach, by word and deed and example, is simply forgiveness. Yet, forgiveness is far from simple to most of us. We often forgive from a sense of superiority -- which is not true forgiveness.

What is true forgiveness, and how can something so easy have such power to heal? If you are here to bring peace to yourself and to the world, read on. More to come...

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