Be Your Own Teacher By Being Aware

Written April 19, 2013
by Tara


Dear Friends  ~
All that you will ever need for your awakening journey on this Earth is your Awareness. 
Many people, as you will notice, go through their days like mechanical beings just doing what needs to be done.    The most wonderful gift we can give ourselves is to live our days being totally aware of our immediate surroundings which includes our inner life as well.

Thoughts come and go constantly throughout the day, and sometimes are likened to unwelcome guests.   Thought is an energy and can float here and there within our immediate environment, even originating from the neighbour next door or the postman going by.    Sometimes they are from our subconscious which holds all of our experiences that had impacted on our emotions, making a lasting impression.  If a thought from the past keeps interrupting your activity, take notice of it and even write it down.   It is a sign that something unfinished from the past is asking you to look deeper into whatever it is, and to try and resolve the issue once and for all.

Awareness is also mindfulness which is a very liberating tool for bringing every part of our attention into the present.   What this does is keep our energy totally in the moment, expanding our light by being focused on the task at hand.   It is only in the moment that the higher aspect of ourself can make itself known.  We can benefit tremendously from the awareness of the inner-voice coming through ever so gently!    Mindfulness brings us into the present and blocks out those unwelcome thoughts from other sources.

Living in awareness alerts us to the finer details of our life and what is really going on inside of us.  We become aware of every subtle change in our body as well as noticing how much our energy has increased by not being wasted on a mind darting here and there, taking vital energy away from what is needed in this moment.  We learn more as well because awareness and alertness go hand in hand.

How many times has a memory come forward to show us something we had forgotten that will assist us in this present moment.   Keeping our awareness in this moment is freedom for all kinds of stored information to reappear in our minds right when we need it.

Becoming the 'observer' in our life allows a part of us to step back and take an honest look at where we are now and where we have come from.  If you are reading this, you are on a spiritual journey.  That entails being honest with yourself and having the strength to see if there is any movement forward in your awakening process.  It can be difficult to know just what to look for as the path ahead has not been tread yet, but a good sign that progress is being made is that you have given up any self-defeating habits.   Gaining strength through adversity and using each situation that arises in life to strengthen one's character is always a step forward.   One will know a step backwards if a feeling of 'poor me' starts to reappear, and being aware of this will be enough to trigger a positive response toward eliminating that type of self-pity.   There is always someone in the world, or even our own street that is going through harder circumstances than ourself.  

Life on earth is a journey that we have consciously chosen.   It may not always go to plan but it will always offer opportunities for personal growth.  We are our own worst enemy if we don't use every opportunity to allow ourself to shine, as that is our True Self.  The lessons that come our way in life are our tools for self-transformation.  Seeing others as fellow spiritual travelers, even if they aren't aware, puts us in the right mind when we have interaction with others.   Stepping back from our earth personality and into the observer mode will enable us to see more clearly that we are all actors and have our own particular tailor-made part to play.  Living in this awareness will greatly enhance our everyday experiences.  Awareness of all we do, think and say will be a valuable asset on this journey.

Express Shamelessly the Love within your Heart

Express shamelessly the love within your heart.

"My dear friends, you are here by choice. It is your choice that you want to be upon the earth, that you want to love the world, that you want to know truth, that you are willing to take the step (the courageous step) into the unknown and the unexpected in order to come to this awareness, in order to at long last embrace the truth, to at long last, my dear friends embrace the love.

"It is not about where you live, it is not anything to do with how much money you make, it has nothing to do, my dear friends, with your station in life, whether you are a car mechanic or a Trance Medium. It has nothing to do with any of these things. It has to do with the way in which you express yourself in each and every moment of each and every day. Are you choosing to bring love to the surface? Are you choosing, when you give someone a cup of coffee, to give it with love and gratitude and affection, to have had the opportunity to give a gift to them? Are you, when you are driving your car, driving with the awareness that there are lives around you, there are circumstances of which you are not aware within those cars around you? Are you driving with sensitivity and love? Are you taking the time to stop to smell the roses (the roses being the lives that are around you)? Are you taking the time to encourage people to love more by allowing somebody respectfully to come in in front of you in line, rather than racing to get ahead of them?

Racing ahead does not make you necessarily the better person. It does not, my dear friends, put you in a better position. But, being the one who is willing to have the patience and the sensitivity and the focus and the balance to allow someone ahead of you, well, it brings tears to our eyes. "In your life the opportunities to love and be loved, to express shamelessly the love within your heart, these opportunities come constantly. They come marching into your bedroom in the morning with your thoughts, the very first ones of the day. How you awaken in your bed, what sort of stage are you creating for your day ahead? My dear friends, what sort of thoughts are you putting in your gas tank in the morning? These thoughts are energy, and they create movement inside of you.

They are the ones that decide whether or not you are going to stub your toe. They are the ones that decide whether or not you are going to get that card or letter from someone you love so very much. They are the ones that motivate others around you. They are the ones that keep you captive and reclusive. It is up to you, my dear friends, as to how you start your day; what sort of thoughts you are going to think. Perhaps you might try on for size a very simple and very selfless thought : 'Good morning world, what a beautiful day!
Thank you, Sun, for rising! Thank you, my bed, my pillow! And, thank you, my ever beatin' heart! Thank you so much, my dear loved ones! I can't wait to greet you this morning! Thank you so very much for all my family and friends who met me in my dreams! I look forward to today! I look forward to today! I look forward, with love!

And so I sit on the edge of my bed and I look into my life, and all I see everywhere today is just love everywhere! I can't wait to greet it! I can't wait, when the mechanic arrives to fix the stove! I can't wait to pump the gas for my car! I can't wait to be in that traffic so that I can look into those cars and wonder about the little roses there that i'm supposed to be a smellin'! I can't wait, cause I am alive and the day is filled with opportunities to express love! I am so excited! I am alive, and I am ever bloomin' with love!'

"My dear friends, that's a challenge for most of you to awaken with that sort of love within your heart, but if you can do it, if you can really allow yourself to unleash this love into your day ahead, you will be surprised at how some things change. The job you are seeking comes to you, the friendship that you desire is there, the family member that you love so very much is suddenly feeling much better today, and you will find yourself in a position where you will never ever feel bored, you will never feel a lack, you will not feel as if you are going to, shall we say, fall down from exhaustion. But, you will find yourself, my dear friends, feeling elated at every turn.

How would life feel in any given moment should you win the lottery at every turn? Wouldn't it be remarkable? Wouldn't it be spectacular to find that every moment of life is a gift, and that every moment of life is filled with the abundance that you are seeking? And you think it's out there, you think it's over there, or you think it's behind you now, but, my dear friends, it's right here, right here today, in this given moment."

--Dr. Peebles

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Levels of Awareness Like Rungs on a Ladder

I love to be aware of each level of awakening on my earth journey.   Each soul is at a different level of awareness:  some have only the physical third dimensional awareness, and then there are the keen followers, like me, who get thrilled when a new awareness is born.   Walking home from the shops today with my screaming knee and new walker,  I finally reached another stage of awakening.   I knew yesterday that another aspect of my BEing had arrived, as everything began to look super-bright again.   I didn't get any names, but that was not the important bit for me.

I'll explain things this way, in my own words from what I have experienced myself  -  when I came to Earth I was aware of being here before.  From a child I knew.   I could not understand this world, when I was old enough to take in what was happening on a wider scale.  From a child I was shocked to hear how much a Hollywood movie cost to make when there were starving people elsewhere in the world.  Going to a Catholic School and having a father who was heavily involved in the St. Vincent de Paul Society who helps the disadvantaged, everywhere, I was shocked at the attitude of this world, even then!

When I got to my late teens I heard an inner-voice tell me that I had done all of this before, but had to do it all again, one more time.  And I knew what they were speaking about.  I felt that everything I did was like a carbon copy of a dream I had lived through.   All of those 'knowings' felt quite normal to me.   But I wasn't of this world.........

From a child I had a strong urge to protect and take care of people, starting with my Mum.  I knew she had a rough childhood and was beaten regularly with fire-pokers and used like a slave on a farm.  I protected her with my life and would have done anything for her.   I felt we had a special connection............

So, from a young age I was aware of being in another world called Earth.   Tied to the huge pine trees in the frontyard were spare types for swings.   When I was quite young I would swing on them slowly while looking up at the stars singing, "twinkle twinkle little star....."     I was fascinated by the stars and the sky.    Now I know why, and so do many other souls on Earth now.    There is this knowing inside of us.
I have been watching my life unfold throughout my whole life.    Each marriage, 3 of them, had a spiritual reason which was explained to me about a decade ago.   I have buried 2 husbands and have had connection with them afterwards, both of them were spiritually aware.   It is this awareness that makes our journey throughout our earth life so fascinating to watch, from another aspect of our Self.  I believe for me it is my I AM Presence.   It's like my Godself watching my earth self go through physical experiences in order to 'break through' into another awareness.   This awakening process seems to continue  the whole time we are here, whether we are "Ascended" or not.   Even when people proclaim to be Enlightened, there are also varying degrees of Enlightenment.   Some are more enlightened than others.

So today, after all my physical pain reaching a crescendo, I reached yet another level of awareness of where I am now.   The journey continues ................and I love to share because it's among fellow travelers who just may find this interesting.   I sure love this journey, pain, warts and all!!!   (I don't really have warts).   So now I find another awareness is watching my journey.   Hmmmmm, I hope they love all my old jokes!!  hehe

Namaste  ~  Tara.

Living Without Definitions

At this time in our present history, we have the ability to be conscious of the stories we have been taught and how they define us, as well as the stories we unquestionably have believed about who another is. We can be willing to be unguarded with ourselves, and we can take responsibility for the result. We can marvel when we discover that the stories of previously demonized others (enemies) are as beautiful and multi-layered as our own.

We mature when we realize that some of the stories cherished as the foundation of our culture are flimsy and insubstantial in truth and are sometimes outrightly false. One generation’s true and defining story can be proved to be a lie in the next generation. Stories that celebrate freedom and revolution against tyranny can turn on themselves and become stories of reigns of terror.

We recognize the location of the story in our flesh and emotions. From this recognition choice is born. We have most often either chosen to continue the given story or to rebel against that story. There is yet another choice. We have the capacity to take a moment and release all stories. We can experience what it means to be nobody, uncovered even by our primary identity.

Underneath all the stories, we can experience that deep core of ourselves that is history-less, genderless and parent-less. Naked. That presence is unencumbered by relationships and has no past and no future. In the core of our being-ness we are free of definitions. Unencumbered by our definitions we experience ourselves as conscious intelligence aware of itself as open, endless space. This instant of being story-less is an instant of freedom. For even if our story is filled with light and beauty, to the degree that we define ourselves through that story, we are less free.

After such a moment, stories are never the same. They can be present, as they most likely will be, but they no longer have the inherent power to define our reality. The inner-wealth that is available to us is no longer limited or augmented by particular inner or outer events. While the personality or the “creature-ness” of each individual continues just as stories continue, the underlying awareness, the true “I” has come home to itself.
After such a moment, choice is present where before we were blindly choice-less. When we are not blinded by the stories that have been created for us, or the stories we create, we can appreciate the mysterious vastness that is holographically present in each moment of any story. We can discover what is and has always been here, throughout whatever rendition of story was being lived or believed. Each of us can take any story from our past, and we can discover the treasure that was hidden only through unquestioning belief in narrowly focused assumptions of the time. Stories can then be profoundly appreciated as displays of multidimensional life expressing itself in all forms.

What is the frame or context of your life? You don’t know how your story will end, but at this point you can discover what your story is about. You can ask yourself how your inner sense of self is expressed, or has gone unexpressed, in the structure and message of your life story.

                                                               Written by Gangaji  ~

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Are We Living in a Dream? by Tara

 Everyday we awaken from a sleep not knowing, for most of us, where our consciousness took us while 

our body was resting.   When you look closely at this daily awakening from sleep, one can look much
deeper and ask the question, " which world is real  -  the world of spirit or the world of physical
earth-living? "   For the ones fully immersed in the earth-play, they would reply, " this one, of course! "

     For the spiritual sojourner who has walked this earth in a state of observance or mindfulness, it is
obvious that multitudes of plays exist simultaneously on this earth plane.  Individual plays such as we all
live out each day, group plays such as when one works for a company, and much larger plays such as the
many people involved in running a country..........now that really is a grand play !   We may ask ourselves,
" now which play do I have control over? "  Even our own personal lives are dependent on outside influences
for our survival, especially financially.   Unless one lives in a cave, or out in the forest living among nature
and growing one's own food, there are still outside influences in our lives that cannot be ignored, or indeed,
taken for granted either !   It is all part of the earth-play we encounter in our waking state.   At least when
we are asleep and our earth consciousness can rest, we can feel free as we travel to other dimensions and
spiritual realms and experience what it is like to be totally in control.

     I have been told that we are not always allowed to remember everything about our journeys in spirit
at night time, otherwise we may not want to return to our bodies and complete our incarnation.
I accept that completely, as our time on earth is very important to learn and grow and become more
enlightened about who we really are.  So, as we continue participating in the various earth plays each
day, how can we ever find freedom?

     The journey within our true-selves, our spiritual essence, is the only way to find the awareness and
realizations we need to become free.   We may still need to depend on outside influences to survive on
earth, but it is the awareness, the moment of awakening from the illusory world that makes us believe
that we are slaves to physicality and everything it possesses.   This awakening can occur if one can just
shut the outside world off each day and take the time to either meditate or sit in quiet contemplation.
The physical world is full of traps  -  gadgets for this and that for the sake of constantly occupying our
minds, our consciousness, in more and more physical and sensory activities.  

  For those who achieve the state of awareness of Self and realization of the inner-life, it is the beginning
of freedom  -  freedom to become an explorer of the vast depths of spiritual consciousness that resides in
every human being.   What magnificent Beings we all are and have always been !    And at the heart of this
magnificence is a profound Love that is so vast, so enormous, that it could never be completely qualified.
Divinity at the heart of every human being, waiting to be remembered and embraced as our own True Reality.

Namaste  ~  Tara

The Permanent Benefits of Self-Transformation by Tara

14 March 2013

The process of self-transformation is very individual and depends upon how much time each person chooses to spend on self-inquiry. When life and its many challenges become clear that they are sent to test and strengthen us, we are free from their possible negative effect. We have to learn to 'let-go' of the surface-drama and look deeper and see if it was a gift in disguise for us to become stronger within. In time, one will see life totally through the soul's eyes and not the physical eyes of the personality self.

That is self-transformation. Inner-peace also enters one's life when obstacles that arise are seen as tools for self-transformation. A heart that is free from only seeing and living in the physical world can soar to great heights and a new found happiness will reside within. Life takes on a more meaningful energy than just providing us with "good or bad" situations. There is depth in everyday activities and this makes way for serenity to enter one's life.

The strength and resolve that is gained from living a life that has clear meaning is well worth the effort and the pains along the way. What is permanently gained from this earth venture is the recognition of the true self that has come forward to guide and sustain the person throughout the rest of their life. A new awareness of how sacred life is can never be taken away. Once a person has experienced the vastness of self-transformation, the journey forward is paved with new found vigor and reverence for all life and their own particular struggles and achievements.

Namaste  ~  Tara

Enlightenment Is Not The End…

For one who follows Tao, enlightenment is not the end result of their journey… it is not the end result for any journey of understanding that we make take – it is the beginning.

You see, we start a journey from a place of a enlightenment… we start from a place of understanding… we start the journey knowing that there is something inside and outside of what our five senses can tell us… and with that knowledge, (intuitive, experiential or otherwise), we move ahead…

The objective of one who follows what can be called a Taoist Way is to attain (and maintain) a harmonious relationship with Tao – this relationship is based on acceptance of the way things were, are and will be, with no specific attachment or desire to any particular way of being… essentially, living with no beliefs of right or wrong… because things just ‘are’. Life is what it is – only misguided perceptions and beliefs from within colour our experience of it.

Once we drop our perceptions and beliefs, we develop an openness to life… an openness that holds no judgements or expectations… we simply accept things the way they are – and we embrace those things as a sign that we are aware and alive.

    

That’s it – that is what enlightenment is to one who follows a Taoist Way– we embrace what is happening as recognition of our awareness of life.

We act in accord with what the time requires of us… no more and no less than what is necessary… to do less is to have a judgement that less is needed; to do more is to have a judgement that more is needed… neither is correct – we must simply be aware of where we are and do what needs to be done.
Lao Tzu is fabled to have once said ‘the wise man does not sleep because it is time to sleep or because he has to… the wise man sleeps because he is sleepy’.

Though our paths towards realising our own enlightenment will all be different, and stimulated by different forces in our lives, the end result is always the same – heightened awareness and acceptance of what is.
Enlightenment is not the end… it is the beginning of reality.

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