Good question. Hmm...
Is God asking me to start a blog? Does God exist? Is my Ego asking me to start a blog? How nice of my Ego to try and keep itself alive. Is Consciousness asking me to start a blog? Am I separate from Consciousness Itself?
Hmm...well, this is how I perceive the creation of this Blog arising into the Realm of Form. This afternoon, I was watching Byron Katie online with my housemate. I was very touched, inspired, and moved by what I saw Katie and her participants engaging in. It was a wonderful process which looked very healing and satisfying. I realized, yet again, that there is more work to do on my self. Even if the False Self or Ego is ultimately unreal and an illusion, still, it takes up so much of our time and of our life. It effects every aspect of our experience on this planet. Therefore, it seems that it would behoove me to return, once again, to my Self, to my painbody, to my ego, to my emotional body, to my mind...and to enquire as to What is True? What am I thinking? What am I feeling? What moves this form? Am I rooted in fear or in love? Who am I? etc. etc. I began doing some writing on a notepad, but then kept hearing inside, "Start a blog, start a blog!" Aha! So that is why I have created this blog, because my Heart told me to do so.
Okay, well, the question has been answered. It turns out that this body/mind tends to listen to it's heart, now and then. I am a slave of my heart, and of my mind. Am I a slave? Who is the I that is a slave? Oh boy, won't this be fun?! All of you can read the thoughts of my heart and mind...and, if we're lucky, the thoughts which arise out of the Pure Intelligence which has created this entire Universe and Beyond.
I hope you All are having a wonderful weekend. Happy Memorial Day. I thank all of the soldiers who died in order to keep our country free. (Did I just open up a can of worms with that last statement?) Is it true? I hear Byron Katie asking. Did all of those soldiers actually have to die in order to keep our country free? Sadly, no, probably not. War is not often rational. Often times people die for no good reason. People die because we believe things which just aren't true. People die because other people are afraid to die. People die because other people desire certain things. We live and we die. That is part of Life.
Okay, I think I ought to end this first blog. I don't want to ask too much of the Reader on my first time out. :-)
may you always feel peace and love in your heart,
prem
