As I read this saying, “He ain’t heavy—he’s my brother” — a song by the Hollies comes to me from the youthful soundtrack of my life.
That’s the tea wisdom for today: Lift up others with your peaceful presence.
That’s a tall order, isn’t it? Some days we can’t find a peaceful moment, let alone have a sense of peaceful presence that can influence others in such a way that they are lifted up.
It seems like a good social experiment, doesn’t it? I have this social work background, a masters in clinical social work. It’s part of me, and has an interdimensional flavor. You’ll find it often coming through me.
So does it seem like a good social experiment, lifting those around us, all those who are in touch with us, via being peace?
What is it to be the living presence of peace?
It begins as an inside job. We can intend it, lovely intention, but it doesn’t mean squat when at the first sign of trouble, we’re in judgmental separation and/or survival mode! We get pulled in so easily some days, don’t we?
So what is being established by the phrase “Your Peaceful Presence?” Whose?
If we look inside to find “whose” much appears that has nothing whatsoever to do with peace, right? Yikes! There are bundles of contentious stuff vying for our attention. It’s why meditation is recommended as a practice. We practice the presence of peace not only sitting, but so it’s still here when we stand, walk, talk, act. It doesn’t come easy, does it?
If we deem that being able to lift others up to join us in the Peace that “surpasseth all understanding,” we prioritize and set things up in our lives so we can Be Peace.
It becomes a value we hold dear, higher than other pleasures and pursuits. Often in practicing the peaceful presence we come across lots of difficulties, divided priorities, things that take precedence, right? All the good reasons where time for peace gets otherwise used. It’s good to tell the truth about that, isn’t it? Judgement free truth-telling is peaceful. Check it out.
It’s not peaceful to judge ourselves, that’s a kind of shaming conflict that is certainly not peaceful. So cut that out! (Jack Benny used to say that often in his comedy skits) We notice that messages from the super ego do not deliver us to peace. They don’t protect or keep us safe. Shame on the Super Ego!
That’s actually a good start, quieting that voice. Discovering the peace that abides within, that is inherent to us and to the unified field of our true nature assists our cause in bringing Peace forward in our world. It definatly helps the overwrought stressed-out modern person and is essential to well being. It’s Heaven’s help, a drop of grace that can simply ride on the breath.
Peace is a deep soft velvety cushy black that caresses, soothes, pervades us when we get into the quiet realms within us.
A Direct Sense of Endless Stillness, of Pure Peacefulness
In black space we are aware of the absence of the sense of self; however, we experience it not as a deficiency but rather as freedom and release. There is a sense of newness and coolness, of lightness and lightheartedness, of the absence of burden and suffering, and the presence of purity and peace. It is a nothingness, but it is a nothingness that is rich, that is satisfying precisely because of its emptiness. It is a direct sense of endless stillness, of pure peacefulness, of an infinity of blackness that is so black that it is luminous. It is a transparent blackness that is radiant because of its purity. This is not the experience of a self, an observer beholding the endlessness of space; rather, it is the experience of the self experiencing itself as the infinity of peaceful space. It is an infinite field of a conscious medium, aware at all points of it. The medium is totally at rest, with a stillness that is the same thing as the awareness of stillness.
A. H. Almaas, The Point of Existence, pg. 338
A little tea wisdom takes us within, beyond where we are, out and back to the potential of lifting those around us by virtue of Peace being our direct experience of the peaceful space in which we all exist.
We all share essential peace. None of us is heavy. We are this empty lightness of Being. We can carry One another in This space that carries us all as we allow it. It’s a very real potential anyone can manifest.
Through us, as we contact One another Here, Peace is grounded in our world.
It has no difficulty with our warring natures, there’s simply a quiet assertion within us that peace is possible right where we are as we are.
The question that confronts us is whether we will discover the truth of that living in the midst of us when we’re in conflict within or without. It’s a road less travelled, a long, long road, out in a field beyond right and wrong. Wilt Thou meet me Here?
What are some ways is works? Where do we struggle? How do we find our way through?