Liberate Christmas Tis the season to be jolly... Why this season? Why not be jolly seasonally... all year long? Is there something that would inhibit such jolliness that we should restrict it to only one season? And why be jolly during the winter, when stereotypically all things have gone into hibernation... or died leaving behind them the seed of their progeny to spring forth in the warm soils of spring? Is this the season to be jolly if we live south of earths equator, where summer is in full swing, birds alive with song, the fruits of the land giving forth their nourishment, the animals feeding their young...? Do those south of our equator merely follow the path of indoctrination that has convinced us all, earth-full, that December alone is the choice of all mankind to be jolly? Absurd! Jolliness belongs to humanity, our ability to laugh and celebrate all of life as only a human can do. We should not reserve such pleasures for our winters. Our southern brethren has, indeed, more reason to be jolly in the joy of summer where the living is easy and the wine flows freely, the barbecues are grilling and the children are playful. What is it that has conquered our imagination to be giving and touch our spirituality during the time when the leaves have fallen, the birds have migrated to warmer climes and the fires have been stoked with the dead trees that shall no longer bloom and bring forth their own fruits...? Jolly time to quit our jobs if only for a moment of celebration, of joy and merriment. Anything to alleviate our worry and doubt, our dissatisfaction with our lives... anything at all that will make our lives more livable and understandable. Will we have Christmas and will it be Merry.. or perhaps Happy... will that do, will that suffice in our little worlds that we have created? As if we are summoning a greater God we ask for forgiveness for our sins and shortcomings... allow us to enjoy, to celebrate our humanity with abandonment. If our chosen God would allow this.. this gift of jolly to enter into our lives, we promise to be good, as all little boys and girls should for the gift may be ours... if only, if only.... We subjugate our very being and belittle our own ability to master our own lives for some far greater imagined presence that rules all that we do. Christmas has its sadness, its unattainablity that can cause great depression amongst people that have experienced this illusive season of love and giving. But yet the season itself, this season that we call winter has ingrained itself into all the world regardless of what season is there... if we are followers of the Jesus of Nazareth, born symbolically on (or near) the winter solstice when Nature has moved south to continue providing for the Other Half. I feel that Jesus himself would be puzzled how his own Christ-ness, his own enlightenment, has been so historically removed from that which his enlightenment came. So goes Siddhartha who became the Buddha, another word for enlightened... the words are far different but the experience is the same... knowing the Self that envelopes the ego as is the state of Pure Consciousness that relies upon no matter to identify with but only Absolute Freedom - the giver of Love. And that is what this spirit of Christmas is at the core of understanding - not the birth of Jesus but the receiving of enlightenment. It has no connection with any one religion, it belongs not to priests but to all. Freedom, not in politics, not in religion, not in philosophy or science, but freedom from all these things. From the experience of enlightenment we know.. we simply know that all is as it should be. We pass not judgements, but are offered Freedom to be... the realization that all is evolving without question in a State of Perfection that includes us but does not be for only us. That is our ego speaking when the we, the I, feels slighted and cheated. Life is the greatest mystery of all and through its mysteries we continue to learn to know... and through our understanding we continue to give back all that we have learned, leaving our very being empty to accept more of the mystery. The journey is never-ending. It is our gift in life and this gift is eternal and without boundaries. The boundaries are own that we build to protect us and defend us from Absolute Freedom. Far too many fear the joy of Freedom, and I speak not of political freedom, but complete and total freedom... freedom from our own mind that constructs limits and fences that make us into liars and cheats, thieves and bandits, killers and perverts... we define our possibilities within our states of fear and thus reduce the vision that is always ours with states of mind that we learn to live with and accept as being reality. Reality is matter based but yet matter is reliant upon spirit to evolve. We refute anything that we cannot see, hold, measure, define within the mind-category.. we are trained to do so. But yet we know when we are in love, do we not? But how do we measure the amount of love we receive or the quantity of love we give? We measure this spirit called love through the measurement of matter reciprocated - I gave her a diamond, a 2-carat diamond, to show how much I love her... A commendable act if one can afford it, but will the love outlast the diamond? As Ive said many times, the human, our humanity, is whats evolving. We havent all been enlightened. We do the best we can. We listen or read of others that have experienced levels of Freedom and Love and connect with those that most closely resemble our own wants and desires to attain the same. We are followers whether we like it or not, whether we accept it or not. But the less we follow and the more we know ourselves, the more we know our Self the less we need to follow... the better for our own authenticity to bloom amidst the garden of humanity. Liberate Christmas! Do not let Christmas be the private property of Christianity, but see Christmas as the experience of enlightenment giving humanity Absolute Freedom/ Absolute Love. If only known as a fragrance, without seeing the flower, it can offer promises that are within us all, regardless of religious preference. The historically documented Three Gifts of Christmas were Gold (symbolically the Sun - the giver of Life), Frankincense (symbolically the fragrance of Life that permeates our own lives) and Myrrh (used at the time for burials - the symbolic death of our Ego). Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays (Holy Days... Wholly Days: becoming one with your Self and others.) I will be taking next Sunday off from Streaming to experience my own Season of Jolly. Cecil B. Lee
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:21:04 +0000
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