One of my students from Lithuania sent me this. What a great definition of true freedom. I love the idea of innocence.

“Let your life become a celebration”

“Life has the potential to become a song of bliss, but there is every possibility of missing it too. It is not a certainty, there is no inevitability about it. It depends: you can make it, you can destroy it. Out of one hundred, ninety-nine point nine percent of people destroy their song of bliss. Then their life is nothing but a cry, a scream of pain and agony. But they have chosen it that way; nobody else is ever responsible.

“This is the first truth to be learned in life: that you are always responsible, nobody else. With that comes great freedom, because with that all alternatives are open. If you think that somebody else is responsible then you are a slave; then nothing is open. Then you have to be what you are. If your life is a tragedy then it has to be a tragedy, because others are responsible; unless they change, nothing can be done about it. You don’t have any freedom.

“And that is the reason why millions of people live in misery: they think others are creating their misery. Nobody is creating your misery, nobody can create it; and nobody can create your bliss either. It is a totally individual phenomenon. It is just your work upon yourself. And the most strange thing is: to create misery is difficult and to create bliss is easy, but people always choose the difficult thing, because the difficult thing always gives them an ego-trip.

“The ego is not interested in easy things; the ego is interested only in difficult things. The more impossible a thing looks, the more attractive it feels for the ego, because the ego feels a challenge, and only through challenge can it conquer, can it prove to the world ’I am somebody special.’

Misery gives you challenge: bliss is very simple. Trees are blissful, birds are blissful. It needs no special talent to be blissful. To be miserable needs talents, one has to be really very very clever to be miserable. Bliss is innocent; you can be blissful without any education, but you cannot be miserable without any education, remember! It is very difficult. You need degrees, universities, mm? then only do you become skillful.

So the first truth has to sink deep in the heart: ’I am always responsible for whatsoever I am. Bliss or misery, this is my choice. If I have chosen to be miserable, then there is no need to be sad
about it; this is my choice and I am doing my thing.’ Feel happy that you have succeeded in being miserable! If this is not your choice, drop it immediately, drop all those patterns that create it and start creating new patterns, new doors from where bliss starts flowing.

“For example, the person who wants to be miserable has to think in terms of fighting with life; that is his gestalt. He is always fighting. The person who wants to be blissful has to be a non-fighter, surrendered to life, in a kind of let-go. The person who wants to be miserable has to create great ideals, has to make impossible demands upon himself. Then only can you be miserable; otherwise you will not be miserable. You have to be this, you have to be that, and when you cannot be, frustration settles in.

“The man who wants to be blissful has no ideals at all, he is a non-idealist; he is a realist. The miserable person is always an idealist. The happy person, the blissful person, is a realist: he lives moment to moment with no ideals. You cannot frustrate him because he has no expectations.

“The miserable person always condemns himself because he is not rising high enough to fulfill the demands. He is a constant condemner; he lives in self-condemnation.

“The blissful person is very accepting of himself. He makes no demands. He is relaxed, at ease with himself; he loves himself as he is. So you have to watch: that which creates misery, drop; and that which brings bliss like a flood, create that space in you. And my whole effort here is to make each of my sannyasins a song of bliss: not miserable saints, not long faces, but celebrants! I am interested in celebrants, not in saints at all. So let your life become a celebration; and it is up to you!”

Osho,
“Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot”

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The main focus of the Toltec tradition is to shift your point of creation from your mind to your spirit. We are either creating our reality consciously or habitually. Having a daily routine certain helps us remember to stay conscious.

I used to have a poster that said, “It is hard to remember your initial objective was to drain the swamp when you are up to your ass in alligators.” Changing a habit simply takes practice, the more often we practice the more likely we are to create the results we want. (more…)

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We are constantly talking to ourselves. I call that conversation our inner dialog and beginning to make that dialog conscious is a huge step toward achieving personal freedom. The thoughts we have are often things we would never say out loud to another person.

I have a vivid imagination and can just picture a world in which, just for a day, everyone’s thoughts were broadcast from a tiny speaker affixed to each person head.  I imagine there would be lots of disagreements and surprise revelations. Some people might profess their love while others create huge rifts in most of their relationships. (more…)

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The world is a huge energy system. Energy is never stagnant. It is either expanding or contracting. Our emotions are energy in motion. Just like a radio station when we tune into a certain station we get the music they are playing. When we tune into joy we get more joy and when we turn into fear we get more fear.

We can be afraid of our fear or simply use it as an indication or a guide.  Did you every play that game as a child where someone would hide something and then as you moved around the room they would say you’re getting hotter or you’re getting colder in relationship to the object?

We can use all of our emotions that way too. If we are feeling happier and more joyous we are deepening our spiritual connection and empowering ourselves. If fear is our predominant emotion we are strengthening our filter system and moving away from our spiritual connection.

When we use our emotions that way they all become a gift and an opportunity to create more of what we want.  The universe only has one answer to all of our requests and that is YES.

With love and aloha,
Susan

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For me it is early Monday morning and the whole weeks lies before me like a new journal without a single word on any of its pages. When I think about the week with that realization I know I can write anything I want on the pages of the days to come.

So as I sit here I imagine it is Sunday and I am looking back over the week. What do I want to see there? How do I want to feel about this little block of linear time called last week?

Do I want to look back and smile because I was able to bring joy into someone’s life? Do I want to have a profound sense of gratitude because I spent most of the week profoundly connected to my spirit, fed by the sweet nectar of that love? Do I want to feel a sense of accomplishment because I finished all the tasks I wanted to get finished? Do I want to have savored every moment of the precious gift of life?

Once I know how I want to feel next Sunday I simply need to make choices moment by moment to make that so.  Each day I set my intent and get clear about what I DO want to create. Each night I review my day.  I gently and lovingly notice if I need to adjust some of my choices, release any emotional baggage or make amends to someone for being less than loving.

The more consciously I make my choice the more magnificent my days become.

So what are you planning to create this week?

With love and aloha,
Susan

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