Dear Members and Lurkers:
So, what does this Jed guy recommend for the new year. Do nothing
. What else did you expect me to say
. O.K. you want a little more. I understand.
Depending on how long you have had your space suit, you have spent tens of years building up and strengthening the illusion that you exist as a Jill or Johnny, that you have actually had the experiences you now call memories, that what others did to you and you to others is important, and a long list of concepts and thoughts. Literally many thousand are being held in mind and all of it supported by parents, society, education, government, courts, etc.
Outside my home in Cambodia there is a building being built. They use concrete, bricks and mortar. Take your body to be the concrete framework, the bricks to be your thoughts/memories and the mortar to be the gluey importance you have attached to them to keep it all together. All of those things boil down to dust and ashes. Where will that building be in a hundred years, a thousand years ... it will be nothing at all. What you take to be you is no different. It is insubstantial and of no consequence. Watch how you mind rejects that thought.
If the above is reasonably accurate (at least in my experience) then how long do you think it will take to undo, unweave the tangled mess? Yes, quite a while. Will it be uncomfortable? Certainly it will, but only temporarily? Will it involve upsetting you ''normal'' life? Yes, I can assure you it will but there are ways to deal with that. Will it involve you experiencing the Violet blue flame of Jesus's love, the ability to see into the future, the opening of all your chakras, all the NABS you have been sold... well... it might, but none of them are T/R, just passing side-effects which are best ignored (emphasis on ignored). BE PATIENT WITH SELF AND OTHERS.
Do you really want what no one can fully describe (but some keep trying)? Want what cannot be imagined? Do you really want to let go of all your b.s. and realize your True Nature? Why would you want that and how could you not want that? It's inevitable anyways, but why not put down all your weapons and shields now? Why not just let go, forgive and release every little pain and hurt, both those that you 'think' you have imposed on others and those that you 'think' others have foisted upon you.
If you are reading this I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are living a lie. It's causing you pain that you have plastered over, usually with blame and rationalizations. These are a poor substitute for letting go. It starts with a decision that you don't want to live like that any more. That decision, if sincere, then worms it's way to deeper releasing, letting go and forgiving.
No one has every hurt you and you have never hurt anyone... it's all stories, meaningless vacuous stories, with just enough importance attached to them to require maintenance.
The odd time I will get into a conversation with a traveler here. Almost always they will have a wonderfully designed back pack that can weigh upwards of 65 pounds, sometime they have two, a smaller one on front, perhaps to balance things out. Sometime I find myself saying, ''next time you travel take less clothes and more money''. They always give me a resolved ''yeh, you're darn right'' look.
You are traveling through this human existence with too little money (Currency denominated in awareness/forgiveness/peace) and way to much clothing (all the crap/hurts/memories/rationalizations/personal armor, etc.).
Forgive my tortuous/tortured New Years metaphors, seems all I could come up with, other that to wish you the very best in your human journey, in the coming year and those that follow. Thank you for being a part of my human experience.
Love ya, Jed.