What about mediation?

Mediation is not taking the middle path by looking left and right and calculating an average.

Mediation is not a one-dimensional line but a two-dimensional strip in a surface. It takes something from both its left and its right, so that it can truly walk between the two.

Being in the middle does not mean standing one's ground away from extremes but rather mingling evenly, merging into the in-between. Then something new can happen.

On partnership

Marriage and partnership share the mysterious qualities of 2 and 1. The union of opposites, the greatest riddle, is what many humans aspire to manifest... by finding another human with whom to overcome duality. In marriage, two become one.

If you look hard enough at your partner, you may eventually see him or her. You may also end up seeing yourself. Finally, you may see nothing at all: zero, beyond everything, within everything.

Any association, any partnership with equality at its very base, will lead to unity and then nothingness-infinity, given enough time.

We are probably lucky to be given many lives in which to practice this.

Stick or carrot?

The only question to ask to my desires is: "what is my motivation to do this?"

There is one right answer and many wrong ones.

The right answer: "to be more aware". Any other answer is wrong.

If I answer the right anwer, I am chasing the (right) carrot; if I answer wrongly, I am bound to be hit by the stick, now or eventually... and, thus, become more aware!

To be more aware means:
-expressing the attributes of God while existing in a physical, incarnate form;
-not denying myself or others the opportunity of that expression, knowing we are entitled to it;
-switching appropriately between expressions of wisdom, understanding, compassion, justice; skilfully using my aspirations, intellect, emotions, body...

Small wonder the unveiling of awareness is a lifelong enterprise!

What about reflection?

The world is the result of a lattice I have woven with my own hands.

Life agrees to whatever I weave, and Matter fills it up.

If I wove it in my sleep, if I wove it while I was having a nightmare, then who is to blame if the world looks tilted?

Dream good dreams.

Is ignorance bliss?

Ignorance is looking at signs and seeing them upside-down. Seeing them partially. Distorting them.
Thus ignorance is not bliss. It is just ignorance.
Ignorance can only feel like bliss for a short period, until the wheels turn and what went around comes around, until the time comes to reap what we sowed and so learn from our mistakes.

What can I do?

My only freedom is deciding where to fix my gaze. What to listen to. What I focus on, and what I don´t focus on. What will I do? What is my will to do?

Then, quietly, somewhere hidden, those bytes of information get stored. That is no longer my will. It will happen, regardless. Every cell remembers.

The hidden and the holy have something in common. They laugh in unison.

So what can I do? My only freedom is where to fix my gaze. Maybe if I can hear the laughter...

Mother and Father

Mother matter and Father pattern, substance and form, the path that unites you is wide and deep and full.

So wide, deep and full, that it mixes you, to the point that I may not be able to tell between you. What was first, egg or hen... creating things or things created?

The shapes and patterns and proportions of things are there: behind things, within things, under and over everything. Transparent and omnipresent lattices. But they would not be, they could not be, unless matter was also there, saying: "ok, so it is up till here, down till here, along till this point, and no further".

Who gives, and who receives? Does the shape bestow its gift, or does the substance? The joy of their union is such, their mutual commitment is so clear, that boundaries blur. The bliss of creation is all I can perceive.

As humans, let us partake in that bliss!