The Way of Irish Blessings - The practice of Blessings as a Way of Life

Our Universe functions as a mutual support system in which each and evry thing in existence relates to and affects every other thing.You Can Have it All by Arnold M. Patent.

The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss-U.S. scientist.

Best book on Intuition Feactured in Amazon Best for 2001. I absolutel loved this book when I read it. It is Lynn A. Robinson`s Divine Intuition

This week`s theme covers the question of what it takes to be All One. I have added a feature to this ezine which I hope you will find helpful. Should you wish to explore further any of the above themes you will see dotted throughout the story words highlighted in green. For example Dark Wood. Simply click on this green link to find out more. All the recommendations are by writers, poets and storytellers whose work influences the writing of the ezine.

In this weeks ezine I continue with Part VI of the beautiful Chinese tale entitled We Are All One

It is a late Sunday morning. On the windowsill in this room is a single pink rose bud that drinks cool clear water in a beautiful glass vase. This is the rose named Compassion. I watch as a single plume of incense dances and disappears. Outside my window a single bird is singing. In between the birdsong is silence and a Rumi poem arises.

Birdsong brings relief to my longing
I am just as ecstatic as they are
With nothing to say.
Universal song, sing a song
Any song through me.

From Birdsong
Translated by Coleman Barks.

Each Sunday morning writing this ezine Blessing for YOU brings relief to my longing to be One with It All. There is no other longing that creates a feeling of the ecstatic. This longing is what Goethe called ‘The Holy Longing.’ It is the remembrance of the holy being that you are and are meant to be at one with.

When writing this Blessing for YOU it is best if I have nothing to say. Often I start with an idea and sometimes I simply sit before the blank page without any idea at all. I sit and nothing comes and I wait until the Universal song sings through ‘little me’ when ‘little me’ is willing enough to allow this.

In writing this Blessing for YOU each week I have the primary intention of reminding you and myself that our essence is Love. It is to remind you and myself to play the real game of life and to know the experience of at one ment with Love.

This week a dear friend and I discussed this experience of the All One. He asked me, "How do I get there?” He was meaning, “How do I get to this place of Oneness. Let me tell you a short story that illustrates the attitude one needs to begin to enter this state of being that is called Oneness.

This is a Zen story.

A pupil and a Zen Master stand by a lake. The pupil asks the Master, “Master, what does it take to become All One?” The Zen Master takes the pupil and walks him a little distance into the lake. Then he grasps hold of the pupil’s head and forces it under water. He does not let the head of the pupil go for some time. Then the master lets go. The pupil runs to the shore and gasps. It takes him some time to recover. Then, with some annoyance, the pupil asks the Master, “Why master did you try and drown me?” The Zen Master smiles and asks, “When your head was under water what did you want most of all?” The pupil replied immediately, “I wanted air. I wanted to breathe air.” “Thus,” said the Zen Master, “When you want the All One as much as you wanted air then you might attain.”

As for myself I wanted Love as much as I wanted air.

In fact, I needed it just as much as I needed air in order to live in this world of form. So I went looking for it with all my heart, with all my mind and with all my soul. I looked for it in all the accepted places until one day on a train travelling into London the grace of atonement arrived. In my hand I held a book. It was by an enlightened Master named Jiddu Krishnamurti.

To know at-one ment requires that Love be the primary focus in the life, and beyond the life, of ‘little me.’ This is the first commandment. It is the commandment that says, “Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul and with all thy mind.” Only this is not something you do. This commandment is not just some moral injunction. It is not meant to be something that comes from an authority outside yourself. It is something you become. When you become this Love thy Lord thy God you and Love are not separate. This is what at-one-ment means. You and the Lord thy God are not separate and in truth never have been.

To get to the state of We are All One is something you have to want as much as life itself. Many are only tempted to begin when life is a struggle for you to breathe. It is when you struggle to make sense of what appears to be a senseless world full of fear and full of a sense of separation and loss of meaning.

What takes you into seeking the One and All is suffering. This is not a pretty idea but it is the first noble truth of the Buddha, the Compassionate one. This is the first teaching of the one who remained in form. This was his sacrifice. He remined in the body in order to teach those in form about the formless. He remained to teach about the timeless deathless one that we each are in essence.

When we are content with the illusion of separateness, as many of us are, there is no sense of needing life to be radically different. We go through life until something happens to us, which makes us ask questions of our life situation. We ask a vision question. We might ask, “Who am I?” or “Is this all there is?” In essence, we suffer.

When we feel that the world can no longer give us what we truly long for, which is the knowing that we are Love, then we will begin to seek the heaven that is within us. We will seek to die before we die. We will seek to die to the illusion of the life separate in a body. We will rise again from the dead and know that we are the eternal one. To arise from the dead, metaphorically speaking, is to overcome the sense of separateness created by ego identity with the body.

Do you want to know that you are Love this much? Is Love the most important thing in your life? Is Love the primary focus in your day and in the life beyond ‘little me’ moment to moment? How often do you use this word in your day-to-day language? I don’t mean saying the word Love that is something that has become fashionable?

Do you allow Love to be the primary focus of your imaginative life? Does your imagination delight you? Does it bring you into the light, which is the meaning of the word delight – of the light? Do you honestly want Love to be the primary focus within and beyond your life situation? What would you surrender to know this? Would you give it all away? More importantly would you give your sense of ‘little me’ away.

To follow Love is to follow the way of the Christ. This is to make Christ Consciousness the primary focus of living in the world of form. This does not require that you accept any individual as a personal saviour. This does not require you to go to church, chapel or synagogue. It requires that Love is the primary reason d'etre in your life. It is to follow the advice of Rumi when he says, “Risk all for Love.”

To be All One means you have to give up everything for Love. This does not mean you do not own anything. It means that you do not have your primary sense of self in attachment to anything. To be All One take a look at little children. They do not experience a sense of separateness until they fall into identifying experience as ‘my experience.' Except that you become as little children you will not enter heaven. You will not know what it is to be enlightened.

To be All One you have to discover what it is you Love to do with all your heart, mind and soul. You then have to do it so that the doer disappears into the doing. You do what you do and you release the fruits of the action to the Beloved. You do what you do without concern for results. You learn to sing your own song that is the Universal song singing through you. Then you get a taste of ecstasy. Then you glimpse what it is to live a life beyond the illusion of separateness in form.

What keeps you from ecstasy? In a word it is ‘ego.’ It is the ever-grasping one. Ego, as ‘little me’ grasps experience. It grasps the flow of life, which is the flow of Love. Then it calls it ‘mine.’ Experience is simply the free flow of infinite intelligence. You are not separate from this.

Once you glimpse the All One you will honour the first commandment because this is what will give relief to your longing. When you glimpse you will honour the other commandment, "Love thy neighbour as thy SELF." You cannot love your neighbour if you think that you are separate from Love. In order to love your neighbour as your SELF means that you have to know at-one-ment. This is not an instruction to love your neighbour in the same way that you love or like ‘little me.’ Ego and Love cannot exist together. Without ego Love is. Without ego you and the neighbour are one.

This does not mean you, as ‘little me,’ need like your neighbour. Your focus is inward. Your focus is on the source. Your focus is on Love and on knowing the All One. You are intent on realising the invisible within form. You are in communion with your inner teaching. Out of this communion you allow the Universe to play through you. When you are so allowing then any action that is needed manifests in the world of form.

Before I finish let me return to the story ‘We are All One.’

But the Queen ordered him to stand. “Like the great Emperor Yu of long ago, you tamed the great flood. We are all one now. You have only to ask and I or any of my people will come to your aid.”

The Queen in this story represents within each of us the aspect of the Divine Feminine. This is the wisdom we are required to claim within the experience of non-sperateness. It is not your wisdom. Wisdom is an aspect of our true Self. This Queen is as powerful as you allow her to be. She is represented by many different names within many different world cultures. She is known as Mary, Sophia, Quan Yin, Shakti and Tara to name a few.

She tells you that you only have to ask.

It is more important to know how to ask than what to ask for. Do you ask from the sense of being separate from Love? The closer you are to knowing that you are Love the more instant what is asked for will manifest in form. This is the meaning of the statement of Jesus the Christ when he said, “If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard seed you would move mountains.”

‘Like the great Emperor Yu you have tamed the great flood.’

The great Emperor Yu must have been a realised one. He tamed the ego. He tamed the flood of social consciousness that says throughout our life situation that ‘We are NOT all one. `

‘You only have to ask, invites the Queen.

When you know at-one-ment your asking is creative. Your asking is not wanting which is always from a sense of lack. From the sense of all one nothing is wanted because all is already given. You do not want a bigger car, a better house or something that is judged better or worse within form. You want for no thing because within the experience of All One you are already everything. You are love eternal that is the infinite intelligence at the heart of all creation.

When you are All One there is only one thing to ask for. This is beautifully stated in the Buddhist prayer

May all beings be happy,
May all beings be free
from suffering.

Why ask for this? You ask because asking for this is asking for truth without form to be made manifest in the world. You are asking that your neighbour realise the truth that they are Love. You are asking that they realise they are the timeless/deathless one. This realisation is the end of suffering. When they realise this then Love will manifest as action in the world. Heaven will truly be on earth.

‘The old Peddler cleared his throat. “I am looking for a certain herb. It will cure any disease of the eyes.”

The throat represents the centre of communication.

This centre needs to be clear. It needs to be clear of ego. The Candy Peddle is seeking for the herb that will cure any disease of the eyes. This is not any eye. This is the eye of knowing. This is the eye that when single fills the body full of light. This is the light of wisdom but it is not your wisdom. This is the light of enlightenment. This is the disillusion of the primary illusion of separateness. This is the seeing that We Are All One.

So on this Sunday morning silence falls.

My bird friend has finished singing but the Universal song is never finished singing. This is because it is a song that was never born and never dies. You are that song only this song is unique to you if you will allow it expression. It will bring you relief beyond belief. It will take you into the ecstasy of the All One when you die to ego. When you die to the illusion that you are separate from Love the Blessing is already here and you have taken the herb that cures all diseases of the eye. You become. Let it be so.

Until next week know that the Blessing is here and you are it.

Go to 'We Are All One - Part One Click Here
Go to 'We Are All One - Part Two Click Here
Go to 'We Are All One - Part Three Click Here
Go to 'We Are All One - Part Four Click Here
Go to 'We Are All One - Part Five Click Here

From The Way of Blessings by Tony Cuckson

This is the beautiful story this weeks and next weeks Blessing for YOU will center around. It is an everyman/woman story about the search for healing in this world of time.

I have been blessed to go and tell stories at the Inishowen Summer Gathering in Donegal. This area of the NorthWest of Ireland is a place of outstanding beauty. I will be giving a performance which combines storytelling, poetry and music. This will be a performance of three short stories centered around the theme 'Return to Beauty.'

These stories combine the poetry of ancient and modern day poets and mystics from many cultures. The stories are written by Tony about the ancient people known in Ireland as the Tuatha de Danaan - the fairy people. The stories center around the time in Ireland called the Mythological Cycle. The cycle of myth.

In the first story Tony tells about the Arrival of Beauty on the shores of Erin in the form of the Tuatha de Danaan. Then another story called 'The Coming of Iron' tells of the time of the invasion of Erin by the Sons of Mil and of Amergin the first poet of Ireland. This story then tells of the battle between the Sons of Mil with the beautiful people - the Tuatha de Danaan. This battle represents the battle between the heart and logic.

Finally the story session ends with a story called 'The Return to Love.' Here the fate of the Sons of Mil is weighted in the balance of the Scales of Justice. In the Hall of Beyond a blind seer woman tells the story of how far the Sons of Mil have gone into the world of time and lost their connection to beauty. The session ends with a well known fairy song from Ireland.

Between the stories Tony will sing some other popular songs of Ireland about the fairy people.

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