What a Blessed Life

What a blessed life

what a lucky find.

The ending of the search

the stopping of my mind.

How can I express

the changes taking place?

The only words, I guess,

is the Amazing Grace...

I cannot say how

this blessing came to be.

I only know that now an arrow's piercing me.

So, you have my Heart and nothing is the same.

I have fallen into Love, like a moth into the flame.

- Kirtana

In the last post, Ramana Maharshi directed us to, "finding peace where we are." He has been one of many who resonated this peace. Those who were able to come to see him and be in his Presence were blessed indeed.

Just recently it came to me, while going through this shift in my life, that when we are able to see the "blessing" in a situation, we are then completely freed of the effects of the situation. This was presented in our recent Living Meditation program at AHAM. The truth of this expanded as we were each willing to see, an entire situation and experience, come up in our Awareness and just let it all be held in a nurturing Presence, as a blessing. This release just happens, naturally, due to the fact that we are no longer separating from the experience as it is arising, but fully accepting it as a blessing. The Oneness of Being is present and blesses the situation. It is filled with a Blessedness as the Wholeness or Holiness of Grace. All those who have gone before us that have lived this Blessed Life are blessing us in this Nurturing Presence.

Therefore, whenever there is anything arising in our space, if we are consciously being this Blessedness in the face of whatever it is that is present, we are embracing the situation with the Presence of the Heart that radiates in us, as us. With this, we are simply being this blessedness itself.

May we all be this blessedness that we are as situations arise in life. Every where we go, we can be an instrument of blessing with whatever may arise in us or "outside" of us. This was all that Ramana and I did 32 years ago as we started AHAM...we aligned ourselves in service to this One Presence that we are, in and as the Heart and we watched over the years, the blessings abundantly pouring into AHAM.

This higher frequency of vibration that comes from our being this Blessedness, could possibly be what is required to assist in shifting the overall situation that is occurring, This may be how we can all contribute to the uplifting of Consciousness and the eliminating of suffering in us and in the world around us. This Blessedness lives on in those who are ordinarily but extraordinarily ... Living from the Heart.

Let's hear the wisdom of a Hopi Elder ...

You have been telling people that this is the eleventh hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that it IS the hour.
And there are things to be considered:
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

Then he clasped his hands together, smiled and said,
“This could be a good time! The river is flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold onto the shore. They will know they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination. The elders say that we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open and heads above water. And I say, see who is there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all, ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ‘struggle’ from your attitude and vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in a celebration.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for."