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There is madness in the wind
And in love and in life
Blowing us all around and around

Trees dancing ecstasy and the birds blown about
Leaves upon the ground whipping up and up
In tight madly swirls and whirls and twirls

Rushing to work, to play, to meet, to run away
Coming together, coming apart
Looking for Love, looking for you.

Longing for Love and Beauty and Peace
Birth and death, blossom, decay
Round and round in an endless play

Blowing us back, blowing us back
To live, to life, to love.

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Drama, ego and depression
All keep a lid on your True Self.

Stuff it down into the dark.

Spirituality is how to keep the lid off.

How to relate to the Spirit within. How to control your mind. How to keep positive. How to uplift others.

Not a big deal.         Just a big Real.

The Five Demons: lust, anger, greed, pride and attachment.  We know them well.

They sell the show, the drama of Unreality.. On with the show!

Oh!  the glamour, the action, the game, the crime and the law courts, the peek inside the operating room, the CEO’s office the halls of power and the back rooms of corruption.

But we’re just sitting watching it. Our glands are secreting in response to the drama and violence..as if we are participating in it. But we are not. We are just watching a glowing screen.  With a taco and a beer. Boy!  this is a great show! we shout in excitement…what a great night we had together…watching TV.

And when the screen does dark, an equally dark feeling creeps in to the psyche..a cold, old feeling of depression or loneliness… shrug it off quickly…there’s always tomorrow and the next episode or the re-runs.

More, more and more please.  I don’t want to deal with Reality, my pain, my food choices, my chaotic life, my denial, my kids.

Greed, as demon, is here to stay. It is part of our lower chakras, comes with a physical body, to actually help us be better humans. We tend to allow it to run amok, though, accumulating and grabbing all sorts of things, more than we need. It makes us blind to the Reality that we always have all that we need already. That we are provided for by our Creator.

Our salary is never enough, we buy lottery tickets. We may own the latest gadget but constantly fantasize after the next model. We may be the President of the club but are already plotting the ouster of a rival. We lost the 15 pounds, but now just need to lose five  more.

Know your limit, play within it. Now that’s Unreality.

There is always a polarity, and the higher frequency of Greed is the drive for excellence. Excellence is not a destination. It is a state of conscious that is ever refining itself. The more refinement, the closer to the Light we become.

The Mayans were so refined in their group consciousness that they turned into Light….and left this Earth without a trace.

Our Guru, as Sikhs, is in the form of a Book, the Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. There is paper, pages, ink and words. Yet is not a book. It is a Living Guru.

Written on the pages are hymns called shabads which encode the Naad, the original Sound or vibrational frequency, of the Universe.

DOORWAY TO THE DIVINE

A Guru is the Doorway to the Divine. The Guru brings you to God, to your highest Self. The Guru not only gives Teachings to guide and uplift, but awakens your soul to its purpose, as we are usually born asleep to our consciousness and must, at some point, wake up!

Traditionally Gurus are in the form of humans.  A disciple’s relationship is to serve, worship, obey, and be awakened by their Guru.

If your Guru is a human, you can serve them in their human needs or duties – care for their clothes, cook their food, carry their water and fetch their wood. Clean their homes, massage their feet, serve them food and drink.

It is pleasurable to sit at their feet, have their Darshan (be in the Presence of), listen to them speak, ask questions. Record their lectures and discourses, rent the hall and invite people. It is a great honour to prepare a special area for your Guru to sit and wave a fan over their heads.

These activities bring humility, develop reverence and a heart-connection through this relationship with a Living Being.

AQUARIAN GURU, NO MIDDLEMAN, YOU ARE THE GURU

With His Hukam (Command) the Tenth Master, Guru Gobind Singh Ji changed this relationship forever. Our Guru is now in the form of a Book, the relationship is still one of worship and service but there is a dramatic difference.

We care for and bow before the Guru: wrap and cover the Guru in beautiful cloths, create a throne for and wave a fan over the Guru. To awaken the Guru we now open the Angs (pages lit. limbs) and retire the Guru by closing the Angs and placing the Guru in a prepared space for the night.

More importantly, however, we can now read the Words of the Guru ourselves, create the Sound Current (Naad) ourselves and literally become the Sound of the Guru – the Shabd Guru, the original Sound that created and sustains the integrity of form in the manifest Universe. Creating this Sounds shatters old programs of fear residing within and allows the Authentic Self to develop.

This is the Aquarian Form of Guru. The middleman is gone. No longer do we give away our power to an Other, but we now have direct access to the Guru force. We create the Sound with our own tongue, larynx, and voice. This Sound then vibrates the glandular systems in our head, the pituitary and pineal glands, that then communicate with all the body’s systems to activate our highest consciousness by increasing the neuronal pathways in the brain for optimal activity.  Not only are we healed – made whole – by the resonance of the Sound’s high vibration, but all those listening are equally healed.

READING, SINGING EFFECT ON THE BRAIN

Then, the act of reading the letters as words, and creating rhythm for its poetic form, programs our brain to balance the hemispheres, right and left, and bring us personally into wholeness. After reading from the Guru we are refreshed, relaxed and in a more positive, expanded state of being.

Too, there is the enormous body of study of the musical raags (types of scales) in which each of the shabads(hymns) are composed. Singing not only balances the brain, it reduces the stress of the limbic system which rules the emotions. Singing shabads channel emotional energy into devotion, a powerful heart-centred experience and merger with the Divine. The Guru and the disciple become One.  And all those participating- the sangat – can also merge into Oneness as a group consciousness.

This Dharma teaches that there is only one God (Oneness). It is through the Guru that this union is accomplished and that the ultimate goal of the student or disciple is to become the Guru, the Field of Intuitive Awareness, for the Reality is that the Guru and the disciple are the same.

This is the Miracle of Guru Ram Das.

News item 2008: Actress Demi Moore uses Leech Therapy to combat the effects of ageing…

 

Disgusting, and ugly

Creepy.  Horror.

Leeches. Blood sucking worms

Crawling on your skin. Piercing. Bleeding and bleeding

Until exhausted and bloated

Dropping off, fat with blood.

Healing the disease, purifying the blood.

 

Star entertainers, darlings of their adoring public

Leeches (in disguise) to pull out our collective buried pain

Through their twisted lives of fame, glamour, drugs and drama

They feed on our adoration and hungry love

And, we, as leeches too, feed on the fantasy lives they give us

Both feasting on each other, bloated after

Never satisfied, always wanting more and ever more

Trying to fill the void, cover the pain, connect with something meaningful

Empty, entertainment based existence. Yet still crawling to the Light.

In the movie Little Buddha, Siddhartha (Keanu Reeves) after years of wandering all over to discover the root of suffering, trying all sorts of difficult yogi postures and fastings, finally comes to sit under the legendary bodhi tree determined not to move until he gains enlightenment.

Three days later, after many trials and tribulations in his mind-space, he finds enlightenment and, at last, understands the truth about suffering, in order to alleviate suffering.

Since then, a plethora of literature, teachings, teachers, rimpoches, bodhisattvas, schools, philosophies, scriptures, meditations, lamas, scholars, monks, monastaries, sutras, traditions have arisen and spread throughout the East and now infiltrated the West.

It is a vast and rich tapestry of a Way of Living, a Dharma.

This is been the way for the last 2500 years since the time of Siddhartha.

It is now time for the Aquarian Dharma, the Dharma of the People.

This Dharma is still being formed. We are co-creating it together.

Its features are clarity, reality, steadiness, service, health, cleanliness and order, organization, courage, individual empowerment, conscious communication, authenticity, integrity, commitment, intimacy, awareness, direct experience of God, discipline, sadhana, group consciousness.

We do not need hierarchies of priests and celibates, complicated rituals, memorization of reams of texts, secret mantras, initiation rites, exclusionary systems.

It’s a new time. The sun flares are purifying our darkness, and frequency of the Earth is very high. Enlightnment is a lot easier.

It’s not hard to figure out suffering anymore: It’s when you shoot yourself in the foot. When you block your own progress, when you cause drama or stay in drama, when you blame others, when you hang on to things and people, when you control others and not yourself, when you escape your duties, when you numb out through your addictive habits, when you refuse to discipline yourself…whatever you do to you to stay away from your peaceful, authentic self.  It’s all you.  Life works, let it work.

The Aquarian Dharma will be a systemized, mutually supportive way of living that is for the Good of All. And we will again see the God in all.

Love is a very high frequency that demands a disciplined life.

As adults, we like to think that ‘we’ run our lives, but it is our habits that run our lives; most of which were formed while we were children, and are now carefully hidden away in our subconscious.

Tying your shoelaces or eating with a spoon may seem effortless now, but at some point, we had to learn how to do these things. Until they were wired in to our brain as habitual actions.  Many of these habits are indispensable but some sure could use a makeover.
To create a new habit takes 40 days, to re-wire the brain. This is uncomfortable at first because it is new. There’s a learning curve. Then once it’s established as a habit, it’s easy.

High frequency means more energy is there. Energy is not leaking out. Not getting wasted through drama and emotional reactions. Energy is there for awareness and responding to life. Discipline keeps the energy in and build it up so we can use it.

Now how to talk about Love. Love has many meanings. Sometimes love is used as a general term for ‘well-wishing’. Sometimes it is a wishy-washy ‘I will repress my anger and try to like you because I want to be good / I want you to think I am a loving person / I shouldn’t judge’.

Unconditional Love, however, starts with ourself.
Because few of us experienced this Love unconditionally from our birth families, we have to train our minds to first Love ourselves. Really caring for the Self. Caring so much, that we come through for ourselves. We do what we say we’re going to do.
Otherwise, we will reject ourselves through negative self-talk, and then compensate through some destructive addictive behaviour to feel better. And often we go after other people to get them to like us because we don’t like ourselves.

So, to really practice Love, it is a constant state of a disciplined mind to write our own schedule and then follow it. This is Integrity. Your actions reflect your Word. This love of Self then is automatically offered to all whom we touch.

MITAR PYARE NU

(Link to shabd by Dya Singh)  http://www.sikhnet.com/audio/mittar-pyare-nu-5

“Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He introduced the concept of Saint-Soldier to Sikhism. A concept that a saint can and should be able to resort to arms if the need arose. As a warrior to be God fearing. When all other means of persuasion against oppression have been exhausted, it is then justifiable to draw the sword.

He practiced what he preached.

In his confrontation with the tyrannical Moghul ruler, Aurangzeb, he had to sacrifice his four sons and his parents. Yet undaunted he fought on, believing in the principles of Sikhism, placing all faith in Almighty God. This song was written by Him, at that point in His life when all seemed lost. His parents and His sons had all become martyrs in the fight against oppression. He was, Himself, a hunted fugitive.

Alone, in tattered clothes, barefoot, cold, hungry and hiding in thick jungle, His faith in his God unshaken, he asks the souls of his sons to convey this message to the Almighty.”

mithr piaarae noo(n) haal mureedhaa dhaa kehinaa ॥ thudhh bin rog rajaaeeaa dhaa oudtan naag nivaasaa dhae hehinaa ॥ sool suraahee kha(n)jar piaalaa bi(n)g kasaaeeaaa(n) dhaa sehinaa ॥ yaararrae dhaa saanoo(n) saathhar cha(n)gaa bhat(h) khaerriaa dhaa rehinaa ॥

Please tell the dear friend – the Lord – the plight of his disciples॥ Without You, rich blankets are a disease and the comfort of the house is like living with snakes॥ Our water pitchers are like stakes of torture and our cups have edges like daggers॥ Your neglect is like the suffering of animals at the hands of butchers॥ Our Beloved Lord’s straw bed is more pleasing to us than living in costly furnace-like mansions॥

It always seems like a big deal when the demons show up.   They’re supposed to be scary, they have such bad press.  Lust, anger, greed, pride and attachment.  So unwanted.

Yet, they are with us for life. And, really, they are just what we need to excel as human beings.

They are the energies of the lower triangle of chakras; the first three chakras situated at the base of the spine, near the sexual organs and at the navel respectively. Chakras are vortexes of energy, each having its own unique design and domain of consciousness. Overall they give us the strength and motivation to succeed at being who we are. After all, as Spirit, we have to re-learn this human-thing every single time we re-incarnate.

All energy exists as a polarity in our 3-D universe: dark-light, left-right, up-down, hard-easy etc. We can only know one side of the polarity when we know the other.  For example only really knowing happiness after you’ve known deep sadness.

Each of the demons has a positive vibration and a negative one.  We mostly only know about the negative side.  No wonder we don’t want to associate with them! 

If you FEEL the quality of the energy of each of them then you can more easily investigate their polarity.

Let’s begin with Lust. More then sexual lust, this demon is a tremendous body craving and appetite, a ’need to have that’. It could be food, water, sex, warmth etc. This can be overwhelming and destructive OR it can be seen as the power and intelligence within the body to keep it alive and well.

Anger: A firey feeling of wanting to lash out. OR a sacred flame guarding the Truth. Warning you when you need to pay attention to keeping integrity intact.

Greed: Dissastisfaction with what you have been given. Wanting more than is due to you. OR it can be seen as the desire to excel. To rise above all apparent obstacles and be victorious.

Pride: The action of separating and feeling ‘better than’ to cover an insecurity or perceived deficiency. OR it can be seen as the healthy ego, developing itself to individuate as a sovereign being. And the energy of joy when this happens.

Attachment: The grasping energy that chains us to the possessions and the people in our lives. OR it can be seen as the energy of joining.  Creating bonds with others to form communities and a caring humanity.

NEXT:  Getting along with your demons

There is a river flowing, we call it life.

A moment here, and there, a conversation, a glance, a touch.

She shook my hand, smiled and welcomed us in

He offered us room, shrugged and turned away

The sun rose and set, birds flew into the night

A breath of crisp morning, a taste of sweetness and joy

All so fleeting, so brief,  pictures of light

That was my life, that is my life, and yours and theirs

Delight in the rainbows after the rain, all the colours

So pretty, such a show

But then fade and are gone as we turn back to catch

A last look at all that was yours and mine and then.