THE GREAT FORGETTING (First published in THE SEEKER)
We all suffer from it, and it’s quite a common complaint -
though not ‘common’ in the strictest sense of the word. What am I
talking about? Spiritual Amnesia is what I’m talking about,‘The Great Forgetting’.
“Forgetting what? Forgetting where? Forgetting whom?” I hear you bellow! Why, WHAT we are? WHERE we are going? More especially though: to WHOM we’re going toward?
Let me put it in poetic sense (or nonsense depending
on your point of reference): we are tiny beads of perspiration on the
brow of the Infinite where we evaporate and are never seen again!
But you and I know that’s only part of the story, in fact it’s a falsehood if ever there was one! Yes, we do
evaporate but only to appear again in a sea of tranquillity, or the
primeval soup of so-called reality, about to embark on a journey, a
journey so fantastic and so immense that this laptop, or a million
laptops, could not cope. For life is eternal, forever, in ALL places:
free to be IN form, or OUT of form, yet never bound by form. THIS then is the ultimate in Freedom!
However, there is one rule and one rule only: THAT YOU DO NO HARM TO ANYONE OR ANY THING, ESPECIALLY SENTIENT BEINGS. This is: THE RULE OF LOVE.
Any misdemeanour that you do will not only harm that sentient being, but also yourself
and the Infinite that sent you. Why? Because you ARE the Infinite that
sent you! Of course when I say SENT it seems as if you have no choice in the matter. There is always
choice. The Infinite IS the ‘choice’. There IS nothing else but
Infinity, Freedom, Love, or whatever labels you care to hang on it. And
where there is love there is compassion and forgiveness (ever heard of
forgiving yourself?), these elements are all contained in the word
LOVE.
The universe is alive. Every rock every drop of rain rings and sings with life, there is no beginning and no end to it. AND ALL OF THIS WE TEND TO FORGET?
Whenever fear embraces us we go into ‘forget-mode’, we forget that love,
not fear is forever. Not tomorrow, not yesterday, but NOW, in this
very moment. ‘All There Is’ is contained in this moment, this precious
little - or vast - moment and if you understand just a quarter of what
I’ve written then you’ll KNOW that,
of course you’ll know that!
Fear is an emotion, Love (or the Infinite, or Freedom, or God) just IS!
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