Title: Just Love

Gender: Male

Age: 43

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Chinese Sign: Wood Dragon

Location: Bend, OR

“Be Who You Want to Become”

I believe the greatest way to transform the world toward peace, is to simply be what we each wish to see.

What we presence, is what we get more of.

Fighting against what we perceive as bad, creates only more fighting.

Wishing the world were different, creates more wishing.

Loving everyone and everything, just as it is, creates more loving and more allowing.  It opens.  It expands.  It heals.

The only way to transform the world (or just my own personal life) is to “presence” the change I choose to experience.

“Presencing the change” is an emotion.  It means “feeling” the change.  When the emotions you want are not present, “positive thinking” is about as effective as a fleet wish – without power.  Bringing emotions into it, is like plugging into a cosmic power socket.

With visualization pointing the way, emotions as the power source, and mental commitment as the amplitude dial, we have the ability to create anything, go anywhere, and transform our lives – as immediatly as we each choose.

Mother Teresa refused to attend an “anti war rally” but she would always attend a “peace rally.”

What might happen if we ended the “war on drugs” and the “fight against cancer” and instead started a “joyful consciousness” and “choosing health?”

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The greatest thing we can do to help another person transform, is to simply “be” (without any judgment, attachment, or qualification) in that person's presence.

Hugging another person, without receiving or giving, but simply becoming blank, is one of most wonderful feelings in the world to me.  Simply dropping into a place of peace… No judgment, no thoughts, no ego… just (non-romantic, non-directed, un-modified) pure deep love… just basking in the love that is always present the moment we remove everything that isn't love.

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I am gratefully and happily married to the woman of my dreams. I completely enjoy focusing my attention and energy inward, into that relationship, with all my being.  It is there that I find my home; my greatest adventure; my greatest joy.

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When I first joined the zaadz/gaia community, I was looking for stimulating discussion about transformation, manifestation, creating reality, and even topics such as vibrational resonance, and ascension and nonduality. Not on a theoretical level, but on a practical, practicing, and experiential level.

Today, however, although all of those things still interest me in a theoretical sense, I enjoy so much more just talking with someone who is authentic and real.  I value vulnerable personal sharing far more than intellectual rhetoric, even about amazing spiritual subjects.  I would much rather connect deeply with… well… anyone, actually… than go to one more training, learn one more level of spiritual truth, or have a another major psychological aha.  (Although you wouldn't be able to tell that from my earlier blog postings – which were fun enough to think about and write, but don't really mean anything in the most important sense of being.)

“Just being” (like “savasana” in yoga) is my very favorite thing.  No certain way.  No requirements.  No force.  Just being.

Agate hunting on the beach at the Oregon coast is one of my favorite recharge activity.  And on the way, I liked to seek out a hidden hot springs and soak in the buff, or go on a fun hike to a waterfall, or just hang out in nature.  But that was last year.  These days, I spend my precious moments of free time noticing what energy I am presencing, connecting with my friends on Zaadz/Gaia, planning for the next Burning Man, cooking something I've never made before, or wrapping myself in a blanket with a good book with a cup of dark hot chocolate by the fire (and hoping my wife might break free from whatever she's doing an join me.)

In my professional life, I'm a computer guy.  But I'm firstly a people person.  If I could write one computer book, it would be “the fine art of computer programming from the heart” or “intuitive computer programming” or something like that.  I used to think that computer programming was not a spiritual activity, but now I see how I am taking “unorganized” thoughts or ideas, and organizing them into patterns until I get a working manifestation that makes things happen.  Programming is nothing more than patterns of patterns.  Just like music.  Just like molecules.  Just like emotions.

Inventing has always been one of my greatest passions.  Not just “things” but all ideas, innovations, brainstorming, systems, and creativity in general.  Especially those ideas that have the potential to transform the world and truly impact people's lives.

I believe music is the second most powerful tool there is – both for transformation, and for simply being.  Playing, Listening to, and Sharing music is the second most powerful modality in this life.

I resisted yoga for many years, projecting all kinds of beliefs onto it.  Then I tried it.  And it blew me away.  My favorite is Bikram.  Bikram yoga is like a sweat lodge, work out, meditation, emotional release process, and transformational training… all packed into one 90 minute session at 104 degrees fahrenheit.  The euphoria it creates in me, is unlike anything else.  I truly believe it if were the only “discipline” I had, it would be everything I need to keep my being at peak performance; physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.  I totally love it.  Now if I could just get myself to choose it as a daily disipline.

I'm really grateful to be part of a community that is committed to “being the change” and presencing such an amazing energy.  Zaadz/Gaia has become my sacred retreat!

Thank you!

Namaste'

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