Sunday Stream (278) ~ Easter Wester

Poetic insight & philosophy by Cecil Lee.

Moderator: mtmynd

Post Reply
mtmynd
Posts: 7752
Joined: August 15th, 2004, 8:54 pm
Location: El Paso

Sunday Stream (278) ~ Easter Wester

Post by mtmynd » April 8th, 2012, 2:27 pm

Easter/Wester

"Intellectuality is the slavish task of remembering what one has read or heard, observed and set to memory to repeat in the company of like folks for the sake of conversation... be it positive or negative is immaterial - it is the exchange of memories, great or small, that brings joy to the intellectual.

Intelligence is the understanding of the Self that allows the individual to follow their own instinct - fulfilling the basic need for liberation from the monotony of the mind... the awakening of the creative being that has lain dormant until the realization that life is the joy of experiencing the bliss that has risen within.

To know of both is to be complete...wholly your self, at one, in the now. You have gone past the duality of choices." - cecil

'Welcome home, however briefly...the eternal is always here.'
________________


Today is called "Easter" by the Christians. Jesus arose.(Geezus! A rose!) I will call it "Wester." It's only fair - living in west Texas. This worship of the Man, I fear, would unsettle even Himself. He was teaching a message of awakening not as the son of God, but a son of god - for we are all children of existence, the world our playground, playing cowboys and Indians, playing mother and baby, playing in suits 8-to-5 to bring home money to purchase toys which we have been brought up with to bring us joy. We cannot allow this temporal joy to extinguish itself in the paranoia of loss. It's not enough that we have to survive this life. But we don't have the time to ask ourselves what we are doing in this life, and why? Why are we stressing ourselves out if we don't have any answers!?

We are unable to make time. Time is a looming force, a Tsunami ready to overtake us any moment...if we aren't careful, time will reduce us to the bleakness of nothingness, where doubt is the only thing left to do. We allow ourselves to be run by time... we even invented seconds and minutes, the days and the weeks, the months and the years - it is we, the hu’man that has created our Time. "A time to reap, a time to sow..." - time has been our limitation put upon by ourselves. We measure and analyze frequencies, we count the spins around our Sun, we count the days the moon is new and count the days the moon is dark, and we count the days in between. We have made numbers conclusive, unerring, infallible, hu'man perfection, and in so doing our minds are able to solve more and more complexities that make us feel good - yeah! we feel good when our minds overcome obstacles. We are achievers! We are the best things on the earth... just ask us. We'll tell each other until we all believe it - "We are created in God's image." Not anything else on the planet, not the animals great and small, not the creatures of the oceans... no, we are the ones that God chose to resemble Himself... just ask us. Jesus looked just like his Father...it must be... we said so.

What happens to the follower’s inner fire that burns within...the energy they need to drive the creative soul into potentiality? What happens when they believe that the fire is in someone else...but not themselves? They are left to stifle their own being for the sake of submission to some other one, who does not need them to live in their own Peace. They choose to follow a leader because they do not know that their Self is all they need to find themselves.

They worship those that did find their individuality. They also strongly condemn those that have freedom to be. They are confused about those that do not need. Those that appear to have all they need are viewed as 'lucky', 'unusual,' 'saints,' 'devils,' ... they cannot decide what side of the coin to choose, and those that do choose are basing their choice upon others opinions. No wonder the world can seem crazy. No wonder mankind is stressed and confused -
too much mind, not enough soul.

May your own Self rise from the self-imposed tomb that you have created around your Self. Roll away the stone and let your spirit free. Christian or not, it is always the Now that awaits you. Step into the mystic where mysteries are unfolding beyond the intellectual fences of the mind.
__________________
cecil
[originally written: 20 April 2003]

Picture of the Week:
"Easter Wester Wabbits"

Image

photo: cecil (store window, Santa Fe, artist unknown)
_________________________________
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Allow not destiny to intrude upon Now

User avatar
stilltrucking
Posts: 20605
Joined: October 24th, 2004, 12:29 pm
Location: Oz or somepLace like Kansas

Re: Sunday Stream (278) ~ Easter Wester

Post by stilltrucking » April 9th, 2012, 6:36 pm

stunning picture and great title for your stream today.

East is east and west is west
and the middle east is a bitch

User avatar
Artguy
Posts: 2732
Joined: September 11th, 2004, 1:02 pm
Location: Toronto, Canada
Contact:

Re: Sunday Stream (278) ~ Easter Wester

Post by Artguy » June 10th, 2012, 9:14 am

Hallelujah amen and pass the potatoes....

Post Reply

Return to “Sunday Stream”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests