The World Beneath Our Feet

The world beneath our feet is teeming with wildlife. Ants wonder around the moss field just as the lions roam the savannah. The ants pay little attention to the gnats passing by just as the lions pay little attention to the hyenas. A bumble bee wanders over to get a drink from the puddle just as the elephants get a drink from the waterhole. All the clovers, flowers, mushrooms, and grass are like the trees and plants in the forest to the insects. The beetle walks around in his armor same as the rhinoceros. There are insects that came in all shapes and sizes just as the animals of our bigger world do.    

There is a whole world beneath our feet that we remain oblivious to. To focused on our own sized world. To focused on our "problems". The "problem" of what to wear or what to eat for dinner are insignificant and meaningless tasks that we occupy our brains with. When we take the time to watch the world below our feet, it puts our "problems" into perspective. There is a whole world of insects below our feet who go on with life as if we aren't even here. To some insects we are just a source of food the same way chickens are just a source of food to us. We are no greater than the chicken to an insect.

We do everything we can to try to eliminate insects. We zap them, burn them, squash them, smash them, poison them, swat them, and despise them. Yet, they remain seemingly unaffected by our actions. We are just as much of a nuisance to the insects as they are to us. Insects as just as vital to this world as we are yet we can't seem to just get along. Insects are just living life the way they were made to live it. Insects are indifferent to humans. Humans on the other hand are annoyed by insects, humans are afraid of insects, and humans think insects are insignificant. 

Insects play an integral role in this world and without insects in this world, nothing else would exist. Instead of fearing insects we could take the time to get to know them and who knows what we may discover. We may get to see an insect clean its antenna just as cats clean themselves. We may discover that some insects like to cuddle and are actually pretty sociable. We may discover that some insects like to play fetch just as the dogs do. We will never discover anything about insects as long as they remain something insignificant that is beneath us that we should fear. We fear what we believe to be different. If we take the time to get to know insects, we may discover that they aren't so different after all and there really is nothing to fear. Love and Peace!

The Curtain

Steve, which is the name I go by, is my character in this world. Characters are how we know who is who in this world. How we tell each other apart. We all have a character in this world, some traits were given to us by others and some we added because we liked them. Some are genetic dispositions. If we imagine our character as being the mask in the land of Oz, who would be the person behind the curtain controlling that character.

From my perspective in my life, I am who is behind the curtain, but I have no curtain anymore, I am just out and don’t have a use for a mask anymore. My mask was my character who I personally identified with. I forgot that I was the person behind the curtain and thought that I was in fact the mask. When I told people not to look behind the curtain, it's not because I'm mean, it's because I was terrified of looking behind the curtain myself. I had no idea what or who I would find back there, it was dark and scary. Because I was the person behind the curtain but had forgotten and thought I was the mask, and I knew that if I found out the truth that I would disappear. Which was true, when I finally worked up the courage to look behind the curtain, I just found myself. The mask disappeared because I quit controlling it.

The mask disappeared but the person behind the curtain did not disappear. It's the same person that could be seen through the mannerisms hidden within the mask just without all the added light, sound, and special effects. Now the person behind the curtain is able to relax and take it easy. Most of the world still sees my mask and refuse to acknowledge or even see that I am not behind a curtain and have no need for all the endless desires of the egoic mask. The person behind the curtain, who I truly am, cannot be named, cannot be defined, cannot be labeled. Not because it would be breaking some law or rule but simply because once the person behind the curtain gets a name, that name can become a new mask to hide behind, same as with any label or definition.

The person who used to be behind the curtain but is no longer behind the curtain and no longer has any use for masks can see masks for what they are. A show, an act, and a desperate act of fear. The person that came out from behind the curtain is able to see how much easier life is outside the curtain, they see how much time and energy got wasted trying to maintain this mask they hid behind. They have no desire to get another mask and going through all the exhaustion of maintaining another one. In turn they avoid labels, names, and specific descriptions since those are all things of the egoic mask. The mask has no benefit whatsoever and they feel no need to feed it in an attempt to make it real.

No more need for shows of size, force, strength, courage, or anything else. The desire for everything comes from the giant mask we all have to maintain 24/7. When we leave from behind the curtain and come out into the real world and no longer have to work 24/7 maintaining our character we can finally relax and enjoy our peace and quiet. 

We laugh at all the time and energy we spent trying to keep everyone believing that our character was real. It’s the type of situation where you realize you did something so incredibly stupid that there is nothing to do but to laugh at yourself due to the ridiculousness's of it all. Then you wander around the real world enjoying your rest and relaxation not having to maintain the character anymore while watching everyone around you hiding behind their curtains while their mask is yelling at you about how they are for sure real but whatever you do… DO NOT LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!

A lot of the human population has a mask in which they think they are, a lot of people simply don't realize that they are the person behind the curtain. There are no bad people behind the curtain, the mask we control can be good or bad. From my personal experience the people who have had the courage to come out from behind the curtain are a small percentage. Once you come out completely from your curtain you can see those who are still living behind a curtain and those who aren't. You can also see the people with one leg in and one leg out just trying to work up the courage to make the final jump. 

Some people will stick a leg out from behind the curtain or take a quick peek and get scared and go back in. Since they got a peek at what's on the other side of the curtain and got a glimpse of how good it is, they usually become some sort of spiritual guide or something along those lines. They help guide people on the spiritual path as a way to have their own mask talk to the person behind their own curtain a.k.a. talking to themselves subconsciously through guiding others. We all do it.

Since the mask isn't real it has to try to prove its existence in any way possible which is why its greatest mission is not letting us look behind the curtain. The person behind the curtain has no need to prove their existence and can just enjoy life once they give up the mask. Peace and Love!

Hands

Our hands are used to give us what we want. When we want to eat or put things in our mouths, we use our hands. When we want to listen to music, we use our hands to turn on music, put headphones in, or to play music. When we want to block out sound from the outside world, we use our hands to put in earplugs or cover our ears. When we don't want to be seen or see something we use our hands to cover our eyes. 

When we feel pain inside, we use our hands to give pain to others, we use our hands for violence. When we feel Love for someone, we use our hands to hold them, caress them, and hug them. We use our hands to help someone who has fallen get back up. We clap our hands to show our appreciation and gratitude to others. We clap our hands to be connected to music. Our hands shake when we are afraid. Our hands are steady when we are calm. Our hands pet animals and hold things that we hold dear. 

Our hands can give, and our hands can take. We can use our hands to take thing that's don't belong to us, and we can use our hands to give gifts to others. We can use our hands to give joy or pain. Our hands can pat someone on the back or be put upon a shoulder. Our hands can be used to show romantic or sexual interest with a slight tough of someone's arm. Our arms can be used to defend and push away. Our hands catch us when we fall and push us back up after we've fallen. Our hands are simply the means to get that of which we desire. Our hands give us connection with those outside of ourselves. We choose what type of connection we make. 

The hands are tools for our desires. Want to know what your desires are? Pay attention to what your hands are doing. Love and Peace!

Eyes

Our eyes don't deceive us. Our eyes are truth shining through. Our eyes refuse to lie, our eyes refuse to give in to illusions, and our eyes refuse to accept our misconceptions. Our eyes do not allow us to hide our true selves. Our eyes do not allow us to be someone other than who we are. Our eyes speak only truth. Our eyes see only truth. It is only our false beliefs and fears that distort what we see with our eyes. We fear people knowing our true selves. We fear people seeing who we really are, and we fear being judged for being authentic. Our eyes are a direct line to our authentic selves.

When we feel shame or guilt, we avert our eyes or keep them looking down in order to avoid eye contact with others. We fear what others may see something in our eyes that will give us away and people may find out who we really are or what we are hiding. We are afraid of people knowing we aren't being authentic. When we feel confidence in who we are and are being authentic, we have no reason to avoid eye contact with others. We have no shame or guilt and therefor have nothing to hide so we make eye contact without a care in the world. 

When we suppress our emotions, we don't want people looking at our eyes. We all know that people will be able to tell exactly what we are feeling at any given moment by simply looking into our eyes. When we try to hide our pain, sadness, or fear we avoid eye contact. We all know that if we are feeling sadness that all we have to do is to look into the eyes of someone who Loves us, and they will immediately know something is wrong and you don't ever have to say a word. By simply making eye contact with a Loved one, it releases all the tears we are holding within, and we can no longer control them despite how hard we may try.  Our eyes are the truth tellers and can neither deceive nor be deceived. 

The eyes are the window to the soul. Want to truly know someone? Look into their eyes. Love and Peace!

Ears

As stated in the post mouths, our mouths are for our own self. Our ears are for others. Our ears are so we can hear others. Our ears are so we can know that we are not alone. Our ears are to hear the beauty that is all around us. Our ears open us up to the truth that we are not alone and that we are not all that exists. Our ears remind us that not everything is about us as much as our mouths would like us to believe. 

The only thing that our ears are used for is sound coming in. If we were all alone and not surrounded by all the other beings in this world we would have no use for our ears. Our ears tell us about those around us if we actually use them. More often than not, our selfish mouths are too busy getting in the way for us to use our ears. We only use our ears as a method of enforcing the mouth.

When we use our ears, we can hear everything that everyone is trying to tell us. We can hear the mouths of everyone around us, we can hear how much everyone wants to be heard and how much no one is using their own ears. Ears open our world up to the wholeness of the universe. Our ears expand our world beyond our own limited view of ourselves. The world is a beautiful place filled with music and laughter and harmony.

Ears are the window to the world outside ourselves. Want to know the world better? Use your ears more. Love and Peace!