HELL and HEAVEN.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Martin Law <martin.rainbowmaker@gmail.com> wrote:

  HELL and HEAVEN.

Our life situation is not our LIFE,
our 'life situation' is a story.
Our LIFE, is our present aliveness,
when we are not our story.

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RBM.

HELL, and HEAVEN,  That way round.
It's good to start, ending on a positive note.
This way, you avoid starting from negative conclusions.

If you say it the usual way; Heaven and Hell, then 'Hell' is the last thing you hear,
(and the last thing you want to hear), so it leaves an impression,
like 'famous last words.'

Or like the last bit of music you half registered, as you exited a shop,
it replays itself as the latest memory traces.  Memory thrives on continuity.

The conventional, (unquestioned) notion is,
that Hell is a horrendous place, deep beneath the earth.
While Heaven, (Heven, in Middle English),
is by contrast, a euphoric place beyond the sky.

But, do recall who told you that was so,
well before you learned to answer back pertinently.
Without doubt, some faithful underpaid geographer, who likewise
was without the wit to dare to ask the right questions.

The cultural derivations of the concepts, Hell and Heaven,
can be easily found and studied on Wikipedia.
Too lengthy to be included here.

Except to note, that, Vedic Civilization, perhaps the most
anciently known high wisdom tradition,
had "no accepted concept called hell."

Neither did the Wiccan Tradition, being Earth-based.
Nor did Early Taoism, until the time it became corrupted
by infiltration from 'dualistic religions.'

As to the location of hell or heaven,
you may dig, or fly, as much as you are able.
It won't get you very far,  ( an under-and-over-statement),
and impractically time consuming anyway.

You won't have got very far before you realize,
that neither of them is a place, but, a state of consciousness.
Proving, that you can't always trust signposts.

Speaking as an Earthling for a moment, the afterlife apart:
What could be worse than 'A Mortal Hell', a hell on Earth?
One where you still 'seem to have a life to lose.'

Where else could a hell situation be most tangibly manifested, but here,
where:  'Evil', is simply, human error which goes uncorrected?

Never mind the notion of there being an absolute version,
above or below, trying to get in.
Though of obvious use to those who like to do nothing else,
but wield sticks and carrots.

So, just for one moment, (and for no longer than is necessary
to bring attention to a point), just imagine...
Imagine, as if in a sci-fi movie, that you are living on a planet
where there is perpetual war,  on all levels,
both visible and invisible.

The visible would be undeniable to those caught up in it.
As well as being relayed continuously, and graphically
to everyone else.

The invisible would be the total corruption and depravity
of all institutions, and on all levels.  Masquerading as normalcy,
while actually practicing silent genocide far and wide.

Furthermore, this would be the explicit and implicit agenda
of the planetary system as a whole.
While those not disposed to sharing in the agenda, would be
systematically and inhumanely abused accordingly.

Does that sound like a 'Hell' on Earth?
Well then, there you are:  On Earth.

THE OTHER WORLD.

Yet, dearest reader, there are more than two sides to a cube,
and that applies also to the most squared-off of planets.

If the previous paragraph was felt with disillusionment,
or fearful contraction, know the feeling to be transitory,
as we are clearer and stronger for shedding illusions.

I am sensitive too, and i know you are also.  How do i know that?
We are related, intricately interconnected.

It happens that we are sharing the same words.
The same thought-feelings, feeling the same thoughts, and not for nothing.
We even have difference in common.  In the same way that neighbours
share the same fence.  But we probably have more in common
than our individual differences.

It's wise to be aware of what sort of planet we are on.
Thereby being less vulnerable to the unseen.
Unlike how the proverbial ostrich is said to be, (i don't know if that's even true).
Thinking it's somehow safer to bury your head, with eyes closed,
leaving the rest of you exposed to the unknown.

So take heart, sister, brother.  Pause, breathe softly.
Let it settle and relax.  Attentive with loving gaze.
Fear, and love, are two different directions,
and you can't be in both at the same time.

Fear, is a contraction around an imagined self,
and love is a relaxed expansion, letting go of
even the thought of a 'self.'

As with any good nightmare, it wakes you up pretty quick.
To find, that is all it was.  Even though it seemed totally real.

Something like that, is happening around the world at this moment.
Waking from an ancient illusion that we were taught to call history.

Life, individually and universally, has a self-adjusting faculty.
You can't 'not surrender' without making the dream seem worse.
If you've ever been in a car accident and can recall the experience,
it's as if consciousness does the appropriate thing anyway.
The thought of it can often be more alarming.

It seems that, in extreme situations, the mind,
(which is infinitely more than the personal mind),
lets go of all illusion.  The illusion that was taken to be the real.

NOW THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER WORLD!

There is no way to make it happen. 
Because that's the opposite of letting it be.
It's not something you can get.
It's a 'no-thing', that you can only deny, almost.

But you can just trust, that's the way it really is anyway.
Awareness,  love,  and  trust.
Exactly the kind of world we fully intend.

I recommend the video talks of DAVID SPERO,
who is speaking of this awareness, directly from, and 'as',
the not nameable presence we call, 'my experience.'

Heaven, (by whatever name in any age or language),
may not be a geographical or astronomical location.
But i would gently suggest, that it's exactly where you are,
when there is no conceivable possibility of doubt,
that what is present is all and what is all is present.

Regardless of appearance, regardless of thought,
that which is present, is non-local.
It can reveal itself when least expected, and it does.

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                                   Rainbowmaker.  Feb. 2013.

art : Unknown Planet, martin law, March 2005
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