Imagine everyone as a raver

A daily Love sadhana

Love. Worldwide. How will we get there? Haven’t we tried this before? Haven’t many been working on this, as long as we can look back (if we really look?). Didn’t religion attempt this? The hippies? What makes us think it could be different on our watch. On our potential attempts?

As my teacher will repeat, maybe all is as it is. Everything is fine. Everything is better than fine. Perhaps it’s perfect as it is. And yet, yes, part of that perfection is we will notice changes could be made. We may desire to be part of that change, and thus, we can take part in it. And that, too, my teacher claims, is part of the pattern of perfection.

So, everything is okay, including our desire to change something (within the everything, that’s somehow already perfectly fine as it is). 

That’s a hard perspective to mentally agree to; I'll admit, it is sometimes for me. However, the benefit of being called to journey on the spiritual path (in a conscious fashion) is that we understand on some level that spirituality offers us something beyond the mind. We might not yet understand a teaching, but we are open to it, even if skeptically.

i like to remind people that even though the world seems to be in meltdown mode. It’s always had that vibe if you tune into that. However, at the very same time, including this very moment, for most people who are not in a literal war zone, the world is also somehow completely peaceful. If you are under duress, you’re not reading this post. What does your “NOW” feel like? I would bet if you could put to rest your thoughts about what’s happening and only focus on your actual “now”; what you would discover or be reminded of is an underlying peace.

It is possible to pay attention to both things at once, actually. But all the stories and narratives, the mental dribble and drabble, are of the small “i”. The big “I” is the peace underneath it. We mis-identify, says the spiritual teachings. We should I-dentify with big I, vs. small. 

What does this have to do with envisioning everyone as a raver? i’m getting there.

i am not all the way yet. i feel bothered by what’s going on in the world. With a seeming WWIII on the horizon, it's hard not to, right? Yet, where i’ve gotten to is Love. i really do have compassion for the brutalizers. Obviously, not more than their victims. i sense that what is playing out is what is called spiritual ignorance, and I truly sense that it has to do with Love. Love is the pathway. It’s so cliche it’s almost embarrassing. Years ago, I might have been embarrassed. Now it’s ok. Now I get it, and yet it doesn’t necessarily make me think that whatever efforts I take will magically change everything all at once. No, I see that we can desire change and if the answer, like it has come to me, is Love, then we must be Love.

Hokey Pokey. I know (haha). Whatever. I don’t mind the mental judgments, if there are any. However, I do get the other part of “whatever.” Not just the brushing off but the real “what does that actually mean” part of it. What can we actually do to “Be Love”? This is a personal question and one I encourage you all to ponder daily. Chew on it. Let it be chicle (gum). 

But I won’t leave you hanging like that. Let me offer you a personal story so you might be able to understand how this process of asking for insight may work. It is a story that just happened while traveling through the Houston airport. I was doing what I had been doing lately (last couple of months): asking myself the question. Although I may have different words for it at times, that is too philosophical and thus irrelevant for this particular post. The essence of what I ask is this, “How can I be Love?” What came through? Imagine everyone as a raver.

Learn more about what that means by tuning into this audio transmission at the top of this post.

(The below post is mentioned in the audio above)

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