Being this is Sunday… Gommy is feeling kinda’ preachy….Just kidding! But as I was listening to a podcast of Jeff Fosters this morning , the urge to expound on his explanation of this thing called Oneness took over Goms. So, for those who may have wondered about or studied the ‘philosophy’ or meaning of Oneness….and have never read or listened to Jeff Foster explaining it….Goms will try to shed a little ‘light’ on my own interpretation of Jeff’s interpretation. Sort of in Gommy-istics. ;) Which is funny in a paradoxical sort of way, because Oneness IS just that…ONE-ness….so there is no Jeff or Gommy or you. Just like the word individual – the word itself (in- divide- dual). One of the two… or a distinct indivisible entity.
Jeff's explaining 'IT' in his latest podcast, made ‘Gommy’ want to try to 'splain it as Goms sees it. It may seem too airy-fairy for some of my peeps out there…but for those who have been on this certain path, as Goms has….maybe it will point even further to what is being unfolded and unfolding and unfolding.
To try to make it easier to ‘see’ the ‘THIS of us all’…. think of the analogy of waves in the vast Ocean . Try to think of it as…..The Ocean being aware that it is the Ocean. But the waves (US)….thinking that they are separate from the Ocean. This ‘thinking’ is the ego. The ego wave says, “I am a huge wave.” Or on another day it says, “I am tired, so I am resting and I look like a sheet of glass.”. On another day, it is irritable or mad and so it crashes onto the shore with thunderous fierceness. The waves think they are all separate from the Ocean. Now, the Ocean (God) knows that all the waves are just part of the Ocean….so the Ocean is not bothered by the ego-waves. Because the Ocean knows there is only one Ocean….with many waves within itself. It is like the different aspects of our personality. There are some things we may wish we could change about our self…but we can’t get away from who we are and we can’t reject our self…because we are parts of the whole. Just as the Ocean doesn’t reject all of the waves that think they are separate. Because the Ocean knows all of the waves are part of the whole Ocean. Whew! Goms thinks that about covers the you and me and the Ocean and the waves…..Or does it?
Spiritual seekers often find themselves inside this same paradox. ‘We’ or ‘They’ (same thing really) think, If ‘I’ can lose ‘myself’…(my ego)…then I have accomplished Spirituality. Seeking is kind of sad because it represents a sort of sadness in not having found what you seek (want). But the big secret is…..the moment you think you have lost your ego….your ego finds another loop-hole to make ‘it’ into another ‘you’. So now you are the ‘True Spiritual One’. ZAP…Ego got you again!
The other big secret is that ‘we’ are supposed to experience fear, sadness, joy, hope, etc. Because if we don’t….we won’t know when the opposite experience comes around. We are just all ONE big happy (or not) member of the ‘Ocean Family’, ‘thinking’ we know it all. And as soon as we think that we do know it all…..ZAP….ego is in control again.
Take a flood. It is the same flood that wipes out a town that goes on to bring much needed water to the farmer and his crops, further down the way. So, is the flood a bad flood or a good flood? The goodness or badness of the flood is relative. It is only made good or bad by owning the experience and how it affects you. Your own conditioning of the flood….your judging of the flood. And this is when ‘suffering’ begins. Wishing it weren’t so. But it is so…..and when you can just accept that it is so…..the suffering stops. When it is someone elses’ flood….then it is sad. But when the flood is owned…it is then ‘my sadness.’.
It is a brilliant ‘game’, so to speak, that God is observing of all of His waves. How ‘we’ all act and react to the situations and experiences of this thingy called Life. We have free will…..we experience different situations, people, obstacles, joys….etc. One day we are the calm waves in the Ocean…another day we are the upset wave crashing on shore….another day we are huge and on a different day….we are puny. But we are still all part of the ONE Ocean.
That is why, when we do something to ‘someone else’…we are actually doing it to ourselves. When one rises….we all rise. And that is also why….there is no good or bad, or right or wrong. It only becomes a life experience when we begin to ‘OWN’ the experience. It is when we say, “I am a sad person.” Because before you own it….it is only sadness….not YOUR sadness. You made YOU, the one who is experiencing the sadness…you made YOU the sad person.
1 Cor.1:10 – says that, “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.”
To Goms…this is a parable that the Christ was trying to show that we ARE all one. Why did Jesus speak in Parables? Jesus explained the reason for this when He said in Mark 4:10-12 – “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside, everything is said in parables so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but not perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven!” This explains how some of ‘us’ may seem to 'get it' and others are forever stumbling around in Duh-Land. Oh-Oh Goms…be careful…Ego is starting to creep in here. Wink and Smile. ((*-^))
Now, it may seem mean or harsh to only have a message available to some and not all. But what Jesus was saying is that He wanted those who didn’t truly want ‘understanding’ or want the Truth…to remain baffled until they searched and found the ‘truth’ themselves. Not just because He said something and was being BLINDLY followed. The other reason may have been that Jesus wanted the ‘seeker’ to experience the kingdom of God for themselves. We can try to paint a picture of a beautiful Sunset or what Love ‘feels’ like…but until we experience it ourselves….we can’t know the ‘Truth’ of it.
So….long story LONG…lol…whatever we are doing to another…we are actually doing to our self. So, lighten up peeps. If we are doing mean and hateful things…we are actually shooting our self in the foot! If you truly want a nice, peaceful life experience…..BE nice and peaceful. This life experience is totally, one-hundred percent like looking into a mirror or your reflection in a puddle. It is the manifestation of what you are projecting into IT. Think about it….be the person, thing, event, situation…..that you want it to be. To put it in a ‘Virtual Nutshell’, just enjoy this life experience and know that whatever is happening or not happening is doing so EXACTLY the way it is supposed to. If it weren’t…it wouldn’t be your life experience. So, accept whatever it is that is happening at this time in your life experience. You can do it. Gommy is pulling for you. But….this is just Gommy’s perception…so you may take it or leave it right here on the pages of this Blog. No worries….or to put it another way blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. But Goms loves you all just the same…. UNCONDITIONALLY! Hugs & Mush- Gommy
(PS-the hug of war poem is from Shel Silverstein....a very bright man, poet and author!)
