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The Gift of Light Being
with Each Other
by Darryl Pokea
Giving love is an education in itself. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Where love rules there is no will to power, and where power dominates, love is lacking.
-- Carl Jung
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
-- Mother Theresa
Many people ask me, "Where are the Light Beings that are guiding you? How do
you learn to recognize them?" Anytime that anyone truly loves us, they are a
loving being with light given to us. They guide and teach us through that love. Love
is the gift of understanding each other as we understand ourselves.
It is very important to proceed gently and lovingly in the whole process of understanding
the gift that we each are to one another. Gentleness is intrinsic to the process
of learning to love as we come to understand who we truly are. In the unfolding,
we must keep in mind that force is what did the damage in the matter of understanding
ourselves. We cannot let go of force's damage with any manner that is forceful or
we stop the process of learning to love. Force is antithetical to love and appreciating
all that we are. Carefully and gently we are to reveal the heart of the loving being
towards each other.
Two millennia ago, a great Master Teacher taught us that learning to love your self
and one an "other" is the manner and matter we learn and create with our
spirit's energy. Our spirit moves us forward in all our emotions and motions. Being
careful in our emotions and motions is the manner that unites us again through all
our diverse exchanges with our words and kind inter-actions. All words and interactions
are to rhyme with the resonance of love. To be effective, they manifest in the rhythms
of love. What truly matters in those rhythms is service to one another.
We are all here to learn, as best we can. We can learn about each other's path by
truly being with one another. We are to practice being timeless in interdimensional
being with "One an Other." This lesson of love continues forever. There
are as many pathways to the One (the Creator) as there are people in our world and
as there are forms of being in the universe. When we understand this multi-dimensionality
of being, we begin to realize that each of us creates our own dimension of loving
being within the "Uni-Verse." This essence of love within the great diversity
of being is expressed through the unique loving gift we share in One full loving
being with each other.
The dimensions remain separate and are difficult to understand and traverse until
we actively practice love. When these Universal dimensions combine and interact with
love, we receive our lessons from each other. Perhaps the experience of Mystical
Enlightenment is the full comprehension that life lessons are continually being offered
inter-dimensionally. This occurs through the dimensions that each of us silently
creates for ourselves in learning to love and accept love from each other.
When our truly loving spirit is guiding our mind and body, the learning process occurs
lovingly, both intrinsically and extrinsically, in and through all our interactions
with each other. We need not worry about reaching full enlightenment when we realize
that everything we will become in love is already present in the timeless moment.
This ever-changing moment is fully being with our truly loving spirit. Being with
our spirit is realizing that everyone's truly loving spirit is the life fortitude
throughout all our very human being. This same fortitude permeates all forms of Being.
Students and teachers
The greatest thing in all education is learning to be your own teacher while you
are still the student. Then you can say silently in your heart to everyone you meet,
"Thank you for letting me be my own teacher." This is the essence of loving
generous exchange. Once expressed within you as the student and teacher, it may be
shared with everyone you meet.
We must be careful and full of care whenever we invite anyone to offer presentation
to us as a student and any time we reciprocate as a teacher. Two millennia ago, a
Master refused his teachings to others who called themselves teachers in His time.
He refused because they attempted to impose their order of things upon Him while
asking Him to speak and teach them. There was no reciprocity in healthy exchange.
They had lost their flexibility and could no longer see themselves also as students
who still needed to learn. Under such circumstances, this Master could not even work
any miracles at Nazareth. There too He was merely thought of as being the son of
a carpenter by those so rigid in their minds in his own hometown that they no longer
could learn from him or each other.
No one can speak freely and share liberating thoughts with anyone who imposes upon
them any hidden conditions that are in any way disrespectful or unfriendly to them.
We all have the opportunity and possibility of humbly being both a student and teacher
to one another in the practice of always being careful and full of care in all ways.
In our times any true teacher, who is also infinitely a student, may follow the Master's
guidance and quickly shake the dust from their feet the moment they realize there
is imposition or improper attention paid in their offering insights, shared human
experience or teachings. These are the same lessons in learning to love ourselves
as we reciprocally learn to love each other, sometimes by turning the other cheek.
Turning the other cheek is turning the mind away from anything that lacks loving
manner before it starts to matter. What the mind focuses upon matters. We are here
to learn to keep all of our mind's attention on loving manners and matters and quickly
let go of anything else.
Improper attention in manners requires our spirit's quick response to shake the particulates
of anyone's inattentive matter off as quickly as possible. All true teaching and
learning must be accompanied by everyone's authentic attentive commitment (student
and teacher alike) to change and exchange. Then both student and teacher may fully
participate in the truly loving matters of the heart.
Learning to love
It is bewildering after two millennia of so many purporting to follow the teachings
of this Master Teacher, that most people still do not attend to and realize what
this Master modeled and taught so clearly during His life among us. He taught that
people, themselves, through all their own actions and inactions, attentions and inattentions,
carefulness or carelessness, being full of care or being full of hate, determine
whether or not miracles and lessons in learning to love occur.
This Master taught that all healthy change towards wellness with each other occurs
in an atmosphere of receptivity to one another encompassed by faith, hope, and love.
He made it clear that genuineness in the exchange of love was primary for any teaching,
learning or healing change to take place. Is it any wonder why there is so little
wellness in our world when so many are doing a lot of talk while doing little or
none of the walk?
All true teachers realize that the student-teacher relationship is constantly interchanging.
The perceived teacher is also a student and the perceived student, also a teacher.
In this infinite interchange comes the true liberation of thoughts and authentic
exchange of perceptions and emotions. These processes allow for genuine creativity,
intellectual and visceral understanding and easier implementation of ideas to emerge
in life's classroom as we learn to love. The perceptive adult teacher realizes that
the states of consciousness achieved both in learning and meditation are these processes
of the mind and body where we observe, contemplatively, each moment of experience.
An enlightened teacher fully accepts that they are a student. They never impose,
but rather invite children and adults, who are also teachers and students, to observe
and learn in every situation that develops. They know that the states of consciousness
in learning and meditation are one and the same. These fuller states of consciousness
are possible when love saturates the mind and body as we learn intellectually and
viscerally. Learning and meditation are looking at oneself, each other and the world,
without any distortion, without any friction, observing whatever happens lovingly
without contradictions. Truly living this state of loving consciousness illuminates
the gifts given as everyone's light shines...all the teachers, all the students,
we are the same.
Dr. Darryl Pokea (pronounced "Po-Kay") is a professional speaker, musical
composer and author on Mind, Body and Spirit Interconnectedness and Complementary
Medicine. Dr. Pokea invites you to his website to view synopses of his presentations
and listen to samples of his music and soothing voice in his Healing Meditation and
Relaxation CDs at www.drpokea.com
Copyright © 2005 Darryl Pokea. All rights reserved. |
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