Seeing – Soul Needs

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The secret of the universe, your life-secret – also called ‘the geddit factor’ – got it? – you’ll kick yourself when the penny drops!

The secret of life and your way to it can’t be contained in words.

Great teachers like Zen masters point. As in this haiku by Basho;

The clouds come and go,

providing a rest for all

the moon viewers

The word ‘moon’ does convey the magic of the experience of moon-ness – so great masters point to the moon, but don’t label.

No name is sufficient – in fact labels stop us seeing, stop us experiencing full reality.

It’s like

Pause the video to give yourself longer on each photo. Don’t worry if the 3d magic eye stuff doesn’t work for you.

It doesn’t mean you haven’t or won’t ‘geddit’ spiritually! But the 3D Magic Eye photos and videos are good as an analogy.

We stare at what we think is the real world.

But its an illusion.

There’s something deeper – something at least 3 dimensional – and it contains ‘a secret’ – the secret of the universe.

MANTRA:

In-breath: Relaxing

Out-breath: I see more deeply

In-breath: Trusting my intuition

Out-breath: I see more deeply

make the mantra that feels right for you!

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Either we see it – or we just don’t geddit!

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Often I feel that I can see too many connections.

Consequently every now and then I get around to re-focusing on what really is most important to me – I try and sort the most important from the important.

Successful people seem to have been focused during the time that they were becoming successful – but I suspect that there were earlier stages.

I suspect that before they have the ability ‘stay focused’ they have to become focused, and there must have been a pre-condition to becoming focused.

The pre-condition is the possession of such qualities as the desire to move forward and the confidence that things will come into focus, and a sense of purpose will announce. We can make our sense of purpose concrete as a visualization. With a visualization we can see with purpose and have purpose in our seeing.

Of course many of us have a nagging voice of self-doubt – from which we have to learn to become detached. With or without the help of others we have to integrate within the whole that is us the source and the messages of that nagging negativity.

As with the ‘magic eye’ pictures it is a matter of relaxing – until things come into focus.

As an inspiration here is a quotation from a spiritual source;

So long as the thoughts of an individual are scattered he will achieve no results, but if his thinking be concentrated on a single point wonderful will be the fruits thereof.

One cannot obtain the full force of the sunlight when it is cast on a flat mirror, but once the sun shineth upon a concave mirror, or on a lens that is convex, all its heat will be concentrated on a single point, and that one point will burn the hottest. Thus is it necessary to focus one’s thinking on a single point so that it will become an effective force.

Abdu’l-Baha – http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAB/sab-74.html

Another nice piece of artwork on the theme of focus;