Allowing to Be
Allowing to me means dropping all judgments and all emotional attachments to what others are, have, or do. This is quite different from being tolerant. Being tolerant is not liking what someone else is or does and holding emotion-laden, negative thoughts about them, but letting them be or do it any way.
Practicing - Allowing - requires granting to others the same rights you ask for yourself -- the right to be, have, and do whatever you choose.
An example: a quote from ‘The Yoni Dance’
Herbert points toward the window and says, “Do you see that lamp post over there across the yard?”
“Yes,” I respond.
“Do you have emotional attachment to that post? — To where it is? — To what it does?”
“No.”
“When you can hold that same attitude for all of your fellow human beings, you’ll have mastered the Allowing. Our job is simply to allow all others the free will choice to be who they are and do whatever they do. By giving to others the same thing that we ask for ourselves, we walk our own talk. We also become the role models and set the example for others to follow.”
“That lamp post stands there 24 hours every day, seven days every week, and at night, shines light on the surrounding area. That is its nature. That is what it is. That is what it does. If you’re mad, sad angry, jealous, hateful or hold any other negative emotion regarding that post, is it going to change what the post is or what the post does?”
“No.”
“If you bitch, moan and complain to the lamp post, is it going to change what it is or what it does?”
Again I say, “No.”
“If you bitch, moan and complain to someone else about the lamp post, is that going to change what it is or what it does?”
“No.”
“The same is true for our fellow humans. We each are whatever we are, and we do whatever we do. We cannot change another’s nature, and, short of violence or threats of violence, we cannot force them to do other than what they do. And even if we force them to do other than they do, they still remain who they are.”
I ask, “What about using lies and deception?”
"You can con them, cheat them, lie to them, or otherwise trick them into being or doing as you would have them be or do, but if you do, you steal their soul, you steal their freedom, you steal their God-granted right of self determination." Two things you should know about that: first, "What you do onto the least of mine, you do onto me." And second, whatever you put out you'd best be prepared to receive it back ten times over.”
Our Thoughts
In every waking moment, we are creating or altering our future. Our lives are a product of our thoughts, our visualizations, our intentions, our emotions, our feelings, our beliefs, our attitudes, our expectations, and what we will (or will not) allow ourselves to experience.
Our lives are also a product of our spoken words, and our physical actions. Our feelings (our emotions) are also a major factor. Thoughts accompanied with strong emotion have much more power and manifest much faster than thoughts that have little emotion attached to them. Whether the emotions are positive or negative is irrelevant.
Whether our thoughts are intentional or simply come as a response to our environment is irrelevant. Remember that you, by your thoughts, beliefs, words, actions and emotions, direct the universal energy. You are not asking. You are directing. And not from an ego space of "Look how powerful I am,” because everybody has the same power. You are simply applying the universal laws in the same manner that you would invoke the law of gravity to assist you in rolling you car down a hill.
You can direct the universal energy in whatever manner you choose and it simply follows. Our experiences are a blend of all the factors mentioned above. Are your thoughts, your visualizations, your intentions, your emotions, your feelings, your beliefs, your attitudes, your expectations, your words, and your actions aligned with whatever you intend to create? If all of the aspects listed above are not aligned with our stated intentions, the power of your stated intentions is about as effective as whistling into the wind and expecting to direct a hurricane.
One more thing what is Intent - intent is the true power that upholds the universe. It is the force that gives focus to everything. It makes the world happen. In reality there is no way to explain it except metaphorically – intend is not our thoughts, intend is within our intent, which is the layer beneath our thoughts, away from them. Intent is so far away from thoughts that nobody can really talk about it; we can’t even feel it. But we can certainly use it.
Love and light to all.
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I think we are in a patriarchal society, where we have to 'do do do'. It is exhausting. Now we haven't time left. People work 10 hours a day, hardly have time for a family.
In matriarchal, I'm certain time was managed better. In indigeonous cultures, they only worked 4 hours a day. There was plenty of time to just BE.
I hate this feeling of struggling and doing, competitiveness, alienation. It's bs.
Hey Butterfly, Yeah. Today in society in reality, we are in living in a world we have to do do do. There is hardly anytime to just enjoy life, the way we should. I understand where you are coming from. If we had ignored all of the Do Do Do in life, we wouldn't be getting anything done at all. That is why it is so hard to find ourselves from within.
Struggling in life these days, seems to be the real normal. It's kind of scary when think that the common man aren't the only ones in trouble in this 3D world anymore.
Bless the Nite,
April
And they wonder why there is
road rage
rage at the counter
all sorts of rage
This is one of the causes of it. Because we can't just fricken BE! Everyone tries to control us. Even if we're peaceful nice citizens who are reclusive, keep to ourselves, believe in karma, do the right thing. etc.
Hey James, That might be a bit backwards there. At least for me it is. See I think that when we find ourselves, and know where we stand on things, then we are able to see within a bit stronger at times. We are able to know what the rest of the world is going through, on so many levels. Sometimes what happens, when we are able to see the rest of world, and when some of us in this lifetime are lucky enough. We sometimes find another frequency of energy, that merge within us, some call this the Twin Flame energy. Something that we have been waiting for. Sometimes on our journey if we are lucky enough, this energy merges within us, and we can see the rest of world from within ourselves, and see how lucky we are to be ourselves in life time.
Nothing is ever cut and dry when it comes working within ourselves. It all depends on what we want to see, and sometimes in this life, we do have to put the work out there within ourselves in order to accomplish our journey. It's all up to us though. What we want to do with this energy we have within us. You are right though, that we are all our own masters of learning, and we get to chose what we want to do.
Bless the Nite,
April
Ahh.... the Tao, I think Lao Tze was ahead of his time, perhaps even this time as well. The moment someone try to formulate an explanation of what it is, one looses the whole concept of it. Tao - which can't be explained, which doesn't need to be - it just is.
It is kind of similar to what we are facing now.
Some saying that the way of the Tao, is full of contradictions, 'I am saying so is our life':) but do we need to explain everything ....
Thank you 1HappyKelly
Love and light to you
Greek philosophers meet in the gym to discuss philosophical gymnastics :) .. lol ..
lolol Where on Earth did you find that Luke!
LoL, I swear he has a magical hat full of them somewhere and he finds his rabbit when he needs on of them lol
Bless the Nite,
April
Philosophical gymnastics such as this blog can be useful intellectual exercise. But as a practical matter, pacifism doesn't work very well in the face of malice, verbal abuse, bullying, coercion and criminality. Which is why law enforcement and the military are an ingrained part of our civilization.
SC,
This is not 'philosophical gymnastics' you made me laugh; it is based on my personal experience. And if you read the post again, it's not what i meant. Allowing doesn't mean what you describe, allowing is more goes to who you are ... it's not an action or inaction, it's a state of Being.
Love and light
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