Teachings

I am compelled to write today about teachings. Teachings are a wonderful part of our conscious existance. We need teachings to guide us along our journey. Teachings can help us grow, develop, transform.
But when the teachings become too stringent, to binding, they can stifle us. They can create an enviroment that suffocates us and brings us to despair. There needs to be flexibility contained within the teachings to allow for individual growth. We are in need of guidance not cells that lock our development.
Please be careful with your self. Sometimes we need to look deeper within the message and sometimes we need to look beyond the messenger.

Thank You

Harmony

I awake thinking about body health. For long life a certain level of harmony is required. At least a cooperation. This needs to extend to the emotions and thoughts as well. 
All the healing modalities are trying to achieve this. A rebalancing. But I feel that without a conscious effort to support this then the disharmony will return. Drugs, operations, adjustments,  herbs, meditations and so on, only have short term rebalancing. Without conscious effort to support these other efforts imbalance reoccurs. 
What does this mean? Taking the necessary steps to support the body, mind, emotions and spirit. All needs to be addressed. Letting go of that which holds us in imbalanced condition. This includes action, thoughts and words.
Choosing thoughts actions and words that support the balanced condition. When you find yourself enter into an imbalanced condition then as soon as possible return to the balanced condition, or more importantly leave the imbalances condition and let the balance return.

As I am understanding or experiencing this, I can feel the heat in my lower back and it rise up my back.

I can see this as a huge topic and it's applications widely encompassing. I can write here for a long, but for now I will stop here.

Thank you 

Smoke Breaks

I am away on vacation and I am waiting in my van, we are just about to leave for home, I notice across from us a man sitting outside having something to drink and smoking. A teacher of mine once told of when a smoker is tence they have a smoke and release and relax. He was trying to convey the released state, and how to work with people to get them into that relaxed state.
What I noticed today is how there is healthy component to the smoke break experience. When someone goes for a smoke break, they stop what they were doing altogether and usually physically move to a different location and do something else. They smoke and relax. They take deep inhales of their smoke, just like a deep breath, and they relax, perhaps even clear their minds. For perhaps 10 min they smoke relax and leave things behind. This is a wonderful practice, we should all do this except without the smoking. Take time-outs, smoke breaks without the smoke and relax and breath. Move away from what you are doing, take some deep breaths and relax and clear our minds. For 5-10 min just take a breath break a chance to free ourselves to just be.
What a wonderful practice.

Thank you

Historical Significance PS

Upon further reflection, I recognize that the last post could be interpreted many ways. I want to clarify my view. I want to express a sense of responsibility in the view of my expression. I wrote;
"What does this leave me with?? I cannot see all the stuff we want and carry as really that important any more. But what I can see, is the one thing we all share, the fruit fly, me, the sun, the solar system, the universe and countless others, we all share this present moment. That is where there is significance. Here and now. What will I want and what will I carry, what will I think, what will I express, when I view all things from this perspective?"
To answer some of these questions, perhaps it would be easier to say what I won't want, what I will leave, what I won't say or think or do.
In experiencing this view, it seems that there is not any real value of carrying resentments, past issues that are not here and now. I experience something that I may associate with some form of suffering, but if that experience is past and no longer present than there is little value in still carrying it.
In the experience of this view, there seems to be little value in creating suffering for someone else, especially to my own benefit.
In the experience of this view, there seems to be little value in mentally going over and over past events, and mentally taking myself from the experience of this moment.
In the experience of this view, there seems to be little value in berating myself on any topic.
In the experience of this view, what is the value of causing any suffering either for myself or for others.
I think that is what I will say for now. This is an expression of the value of living here and now as opposed to living in the past. Even though I have experienced this and do continue to experience this, there are times that I still get drawn back. So I have received the lesson and experienced the lesson, now I will practice the lesson.

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