Let the consciousness be the consciousness, and the world be the world.
Michael A. Singer
One of the most impactful talks I listened to was Michael A. Singer's, Just Be Aware linked below. Man it blew me away. I guess, I just might be waking up a bit more and the words (pointers) were able to sink in to those places they needed to hit to move me a little more towards conscious awareness??
A Speck On A Grain Of Salt
It takes me back to understanding the big picture thing I wrote about yesterday. That goes like this:
- We, as a "me"-one separate human form, are one of 8.5 billion of one species, out of a trillion on this planet
- we take up about 8.3 square feet of space on a planet that is 26,000 miles in circumference (which seems pretty big in comparison to our space, right?)....
- yet, 1.3 million earths can fit into the sun...
- and the sun is just one of a billion stars in our galaxy...
- ane there are a trillion galaxies!!!
- That being said, as Singer puts it, We are a grain of salt in an ocean...if that.We are a tiny, tiny speck spinning on a grain of salt in an infinite ocean
A Blink of An Eye
And we think we are the only thing worth focusing on...that we are big and important when we are nothing but a speck on a grain of salt. We think we are here to fix and control the world around us that has been in existence and taking care of itself for billions of years. Let's look at our time focus.
- In one given moment someone tells you off ( well really they were just yelling...venting whatever was happening in their form with their own self absorbed mind... in the direction of the 8.3 square foot of space where you were standing)
- This is one, maybe five, minutes, out of the sixty that makes up the hour, out of the 24 hours that make up the day, out of the 365 days that make up the year, out of the average 80 plus years that make up your life span...one minute
- The dinosaurs walked on this very same planet where your minute of discomfort occured millions of years ago and the planet itself was existing long, long before them...billions of years ago and the universe was here for God knows how long
- yet you are focusing on this one tiny, tiny minute in the span of infinite time and space as if it was eternity. Analyzing it to death, wondering what you could have "done"...what the other person "shouldn't have" done etc. That one itsy bitsy minute becomes the ongoing focus of attention, at the exclusion of all the other billions of years that went on before you and will go after you. Like really? Why do we do that? It was just, as I used to tell my students before the tests they were about to write, "nothing more than a blink of an eye in a lifetime"...and something not even measurable in the span of universal time.
Yet, here we are: tiny specks on a grain of salt in an infinite ocean, lasting no more than a blink of an eye in the planet's life time...and less than that in the universe's and we think...heck we believe ....that it is all about us??? We believe our problems are worthy of universal consideration! And we also believe we are supposed to "do" something to make this world that has been taken care of itself for billions of years better ( i.e. more comfortable and suited to "little-me's preferences) . We judge it as a wonderful world when our preferences are met, and as a bad and unfair world when what this tiny speck on a grain of salt happens to experience is what it decided it didn't want to experience in the tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of that blink of the planet's eye, it has been allotted. Hellloooo!! Does that not sound so bizarre?
We Don't Have To Do Anything!
We actually think we have control??? That we can , no...that we should be doing something? We are delusional. The planet, like I said, has been existing for billions of years before we plopped down for our blink of an eye term . It never needed us! Things are happening naturally without our assistance all around us. Birds are migrating, trees are leafing, flowers are blooming, the earth is getting the water it needs, the animals are doing their thing, weather is happening, atoms are bonding, tides are moving etc etc etc. All this is happening without any help from us. In fact, if anything, we are only in the way. We don't even have any control over our own bodies. The heart beats without any voluntary action from us, cells divide, cells die, oxygen gets into the trillions of cells to make energy and heat, our hair and nails grow etc Our bodies are not ours; they don't belong to some seperate "me". They exist as a part of the whole. And the whole is perfectly okay without our interference! Yet we somehow think it is all happening for us and because of us. That what we "do" is so important. Wow! It isn't.
These amazing things, we have little to no control over, are constantly unfolding in front of us and all we have to "do" is simply be aware of it as it unfolds. Notice what every moment is offering us as we stand or sit or lie in that 8.3 square feet around us. and notice especially how we are are judging those things and "preferring" . Notice when our mind or body says, "I like that" and "I don't like that."..."I want that and I don't want that." Then notice how the mind tries to get us to "do" something about it. Instead of following the urge to "do" whatever we can to fix or escape the moment, we simply relax into it. That is the key thing , Singer tells us, to relax into what is , into the awareness of our preferences, the awareness of habit mind's tendency to want to do and into what is actually unfolding in front of us. Relax and become comfortable with what is.
Hmmm!
Please watch the video below for yourself.
All is well!
Michael A. Singer/Temple of the Universe ( March 6, 2023) Just Be Aware. https://tou.org/talks/
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