Do What You Ought To Do Today

    It is getting late.  Time is moving faster with each day.  It is easy to feel the insecurity of age and the passing of opportunity.  All you have to do is ring the bell;  step right up.  This is the time;  the time of your life.  Keep on moving.  Do what you ought to do today.

    It only takes this day.  If you act with conviction today, tomorrow will take care of itself.  It is about making the commitment to act today with the full faith that is part of the flow.  It is not the future challenge that is keeping you from your greatness;  it is the lack of movement today.  Today you find the Gordian Knot;  strike true.

    Pay attention today.  Feel the flow.  Find the subtle.  In doing so you will discover what you need to do.  You know what it is.  Follow, do not resist your path.  Live to serve your life, not to be served by it.


    It is getting late.  Time is instantaneous, and this is the moment of truth.  Ring the bell.  Be who you were born to be.  Do what you ought to do today.

Do What Thy Will

It is challenging to have a vision, but even more so not to work to bring it into fruition.  You will be consistently told that what moves you is not practical.  It may not be, but if you do not follow the “path that has a heart” you will feel the very life being sucked from your essence.  You will still live, but as pale version of yourself.  You may also find yourself discouraging another in what moves them.  
    
     Skellegense is a warrior practice.  It requires a warrior to brave the disapproving glances of others.  It is said that a warrior has contempt for death.  We live in fear of the dark path, and it represents all that we fear.  However the dark path is also the path of creation.   To be judged by others is to experience a death of a sort.  At least this is how our mind perceives it.  

     We meet death alone.  It comes to us all.  There is no need to fear it, it is our own, more than the closest loved one.  As death represents all that we do not want to happen, by learning to embrace our death we step into courage, we meet our deepest fears, and finally we have the courage to meet ourselves.  We find that our deepest fear is of who we might be.


     This life requires courage.  It is the only choice.  In courage we can find compassion and eventually kindness.  Do you choose courage or fear?  Be bold.  Live your dream.  Do not fear the nightmare.

The Truth of This Very Moment

    There is the moment.  The moment you are in.  It is perfect in itself.  It may not be what you want it to be,  but you are of this moment  so even your dissatisfaction serves the moment perfectly.  However,  even while identified in dissatisfaction there is a deeper self, one beyond the drama of the moment.  It exists at the level of the breath.  The one true breath.
     We exist for the creative, not realizing that whatever happens, creativity is served.  We must recognize our purpose, and live it with courage.  The courage that knows the fear of failure, but acts anyway.  We may act with trembling knees, but when we find the truth of the breath,  the truth of intention, we find our strength.  
    Live out this moment;   draw from the wellspring you have served in the lucid moments of your life.  Have faith.  You are here for a great purpose.

Changing the World

    It is easy to be overwhelmed and disheartened by the world in which we live. How do you not feel that the world is lost, how do you not fear that we are at the point of some sort of Armageddon?  The senseless violence and hatred combined with the personal stresses of family and attempts to meet our financial responsibilities can bring one to the brink of personal destruction if not even suicide.  What can you do?

    First, it is important to frame the situation in terms that you can succeed.  Remember, you have great power, and in many ways that power begins in your framing of the challenge.  You are a mystical being that exists at the nexus.  There is an infinite universe both outside and inside of you.  Apparently external events such as world conflict and disrespect.  Internal ones such as health issues and out of control thoughts and emotions.  This can be altered by learning to control the lens of your focus.  

     A person who has bias of any kind can and will see proof of their view every day everywhere they look.  They will see Islamic or people of color commit evil acts, or Americans or Jews, or women or men.  Whatever the passionately held belief is, there will be the proof before their eyes;  and they will be right in their assessment.  There really will be these elements.  We create our own world.

We must train ourselves to see the positive.  We must train ourselves to see people from these various groups doing what we know to be right and good.  These things are also happening, but we cannot see it.  The brain finds answers for the questions we ask it, and if you ask what is wrong with the world, the brain will seek to please us by defining answers we would choose to see.

Second and more importantly, when we deal with another or group of people who are charged in their sense of ego, we must resist the temptation to take up the word of judgement.  Ego is the sense of being separate from the world.  We frame the limits of our existence by feels different.  When faced with someone charged with their sense of separateness it charges our own sense of ego, or separateness.  We are not separate.  We are truly one.  If you define yourself by a falsehood of any kind you will eventually get yourself in trouble.  False definitions create false conclusions.

    We must bring a level of commitment to see this unity equal or stronger than the person who has a commitment to separateness.  This does not mean we will not defend or take precautions.  However the intent will not be to prove separateness.  If a person strikes out in a fever we may restrain them without seeing them as evil.  This also true when dealing with violence.  We also do not deal with the delusional by simply saying we think they are crazy.  We find compassion by learning to feel another's pain as our own.  We find kindness by seeing that the other as our own, of being of like kind.  We are the same.  

     Finally it is most important to realize that subtlety is more powerful than intensity.  Softness is more powerful that hardness, and water is more powerful than rock.  Do not be fooled my friend.  Learn to be soft, to be subtle and you will find the power to change the world.