Saturday, February 19, 2011

Spirit

Spirit is the "watcher". Spirit is the awareness that I am not my body, and I am not my mind. Of course, the body and mind are attached to me, but until I began to understand this third part, the "watcher", my body and mind were caught up in terrible cycles of all kinds, and without me!
Were you to sit and watch your thoughts, but not get involved with any of them, you could then understand that there is someone who is watching. That someone is YOU. So how could you be your thoughts? We are not our thoughts, but many people are not aware of this, and are so caught up in their minds, that they do not even live in reality. Their minds can be anywhere at anytime, and a person who lives in his mind is rarely, if ever, in the present moment. A person who lives in his mind has little awareness of his surroundings, including other people. A person who lives in his mind, causes his body to feel all sorts of emotions, constantly feeling anger, or elation, and this, many people believe, is the cause of much illness. We can feel all of these strong emotions, our bodies can get tight, our breath quickens, and the only thing going on is the movie in our head.

Just try it! Imagine that your thoughts are like clouds drifting by. Instead of getting on one and taking a ride, just watch it go by. Another one will soon follow, and another, but you just watch and don't let them entice you to get involved. At first, there may be many thoughts, but if you don't stir them up, there will begin to be gaps between them, and with practice, they will stop! Stillness! What is left? YOU. SPIRIT. This is YOUR body, and YOUR mind, not the other way around.

It takes practice and determination, but can be done by anyone! Get to know your SPIRIT!(YOU)

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Body/What kind of seeds do YOU plant?

I am not sure how to begin this talk. This is the subject that has had the most profound affect on me, and wanting to share it, I just don't know how to begin. Perhaps the best way is to just go back to the beginning of my experience, so that is what I will do!

A few years ago I went for a massage, and while sitting in the waiting area, I picked up a book on Christianity and thumbed through it. The author and I shared very different idea's about things in general, but this one particular chapter caught my eye. It was, in fact, a chapter devoted to the human eye. The author went into some detail about the human eye, how it reacts to changes in light and distance, how it operates so fast that we don't even notice it. We don't even notice it. The author gave much more detail about the human eye, but by that time, I had gone into sort of a trance. The human eye is more powerful, and a far greater machine than any human or team of humans could make. I immediately began to think "Man can't make an eye ball." It sounds kind of silly to me now, but the thought crept out into everything. Bodily organs, skin, the sense of smell, the ears, animals, pine straw... My close friends can back me up on the fact that one of my favorite sayings became "Man can't even make a piece of pine straw!"
It may be that a great creation of the Universe, the human body, is something that we don't even notice. That's because we have never been without it! We get so used to having eyes and ears, and of being able to walk and move around, that we don't even think about it, it's a given. Building a spaceship to fly to the moon isn't nearly as complex as the simple act of us opening our eyes and getting out of bed.

What we can do is plant seeds. I have begun to ask myself the questions "What kind of seed am I?" and "What kind of seeds do I want to plant today?"

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Georgia Kyle Live From The Tybee Church

If you missed hearing me speak at Tybee Church, or if you were there and want to see it again, here are some links for you, and mark your calendars for March 6th, when I return :)

Tybee Church November 21st 2010

Tybee Church January 2nd 2011