THE GNOSTIC WAY

My message is not entwined in a philosophy. It does not come from a book. It is not a concept or an idea. It is based on one thing: you are alive. And because you are alive, there is a possibility that you can be content. You can have a joy in your life that is unaffected by anything, a joy that is independent of everything.

For some people, betterment means having a better job, being more successful or more productive. For some, betterment means having a better family, a bigger house or bigger car. But think about it: who are we? We are here on this planet Earth for a limited time. We think we will live forever, but that is just an illusion.

The reality is that one day you weren’t. Then you were born. Today, you exist. And one day, you will have to go. It’s a universal rule. Nobody is exempt. It applies to everyone, whether you are poor or rich, educated or not. It doesn’t matter.

Do you know who you are? Somebody calls your name and you say, “Yes, that’s me.” But have you understood that within you there is magic unfolding, and this magic is the reality of your existence?

Before you were born, everybody wondered, “Boy or girl?” But when you actually came into this world, everybody’s focus was only one: breathing or not? And when you leave this world, everybody will watch for that last thing: breathing or not?

So, what is the big deal about breath? The big deal is: Without it, you are nothing. And with it, you are everything. With it, you can be an uncle, a father or a mother, a son or a daughter; you can be successful or a failure. You can laugh or cry. And without it, you are dust.

As long as there is breath, you’re not dust. With breath, you can say, “Come in! Welcome! Good morning!” Without it? People will say, “Take it away.”

The big deal is: Here is the most incredible blessing, and we don’t pay attention to it. We pay attention to what we consider a blessing: “Give me a child, give me a job, give me this, give me that.” But you are more blessed than you realize. And the day you begin to count your blessings, you will be amazed. That is when you will understand what it really means to be thankful. When the heart is truly full and you begin to understand, confusion vanishes and clarity comes. You begin to see the simplicity of existence. It’s not about success and failure, but being grateful for this life.

Some people say, “My purpose in life. . .” Not your purpose in life. What is the purpose of you having life? What is this?

This body, due to breath, moves and dances and feels. All day long you’re feeling, feeling, feeling. You feel cold, hot, soft, rough. You are a feeling machine. And everyhuman being longs to feel joy. Since we were little, we wanted to feel that, even before we had a name for it.

The human heart is filled with a joy that you can feel whenever you want to, wherever you are—a joy that you can never have enough of. Do you know that you cannot tolerate sadness very well? You’re not made for it. When you are sad, you want to leave it as soon as possible. Joy—no problem. You would think that would give you a little clue as to what you are about. The clue is: there is no limit to joy, and we are extremely allergic to pain and suffering.

Have you found the source of endless joy? It is not far from you—by design. If you have a longing for joy, it would be pointless to have the source of that joy inaccessible to you. So, in the clever design of this life, the source of joy goes with you wherever you go.

Enjoyment in this life is a possibility. There are no restrictions. Find that infinite source of joy within you.

I`m sitting here this Morning, not from waking up but I am about to turn in, as I am a night Hawk and allways was, or should I say has been my Natural flow, I tell folks kinda like the night watchman LOL.
Today was filled with Joy, from talking with old friends that have been enlightened to the Gnostics and the mysteries plus a lot of work packing for the Move to SC.

But sitting here, the more I sought to focus on this the gain a bit a fylness within me from a full day, it seem to slip away furthure as I tried. knowing this times are changing for us all, but espesially now with moving too. I figured I was tired and needed sleep which was only partially right right.

I went on and read some news and figure I would turn in from there. I found a light article talking about the economic cash of the USA in full swing by Sept... ohhh I said this will calm me LOL .. kidding. although it was very interesting, it still didn`t do anything for my fulness in spirit, so I came here why? I realy don`t know but something always happens good here... alot to choose from..

After reading your post here Bob, it help me see ironically that which I tell others to seek but was hung up in the busyness of things. I was seeking something to which I have already, Raising above all that to which you search for a collection of positiveness you can use from the day, but finding out you could leave it all there, and observe it with a pleasing smile.
So thank you Bob, for being that Joy carrying word.

Patience in Love is truly Divine

Br Thomas

I feel this to be true, I remember as a little kid being so happy with joy over the little things and meeting every soul I seen with a greeting smile, literally. Through life I have felt a good amount of sadness and badness, but I remember more good times.
Even when I was a teen with no home, I was not sad, I was actually excited about the uncertain future like an unknown journey, and looking back things always worked out some how, some way.

At times I feel fed up with this world and the ignorance I see around me and on the news about humanities state. I know that there are people who think deeply and will to have a unity between humans and I am not alone. Also that this is merely a transitory state of being and need not be filled with anger and sorrow, I will to understand it, and maybe it will be some day.

When I feel bad I know if I meditate or go to sleep I always feel better afterwards, and Joy is my natural state as long as I do not let others impress upon the depths of my emotional and thinking self.

I also deal with unlikable people well due to keeping in mind that they were once a child to and within them they are like me and of the same, and maybe circumstances have led them to this state of being.

I take this life for granted often, but I breath for some reason and see only the phenomenon with my outer senses, and I feel this is a learning experience and the Self may have chose to come here for a reason, and since I scratched the surface and feel I know there is more than meets the eyes, it is a joy to think much lies ahead to be experienced and learned because I am breathing. And it all may be here now, awaiting the receptors to be free of obstacles, or the obstacle.

Thank you for the great message

Some more words from a living Master:

People talk about “Eastern thought” and “Western thought.” Why do we divide up the world? It’s a round Earth, and it goes around and around.

I’m talking about something universal. What is real is that we are all human beings. We have put these layers upon ourselves, but these layers are not real. There is no East, and there is no West. Don’t just look at the face and skin color. Our different faces are like flowers in a garden. If they were all the same color, it would be very monotonous. All the different colors—the pinks, greens, reds, yellows, browns—are what make the garden pretty.

But we look at the faces and say, “You are different.” There are people who love the East and hate the West or people who love the West and hate the East. That chasm is getting bigger and bigger, when it should be getting smaller and smaller.

We can all help each other. We don’t have to be divided by our religions or our beliefs, by what we think. If we want to follow traditions, we should be able to follow traditions. All that everybody needs and wants is elbow room—a little room to move.

Personally, I don’t like divisions. People are people—every single one. We are human beings—not made in China or the USA but by that power that created everything. We should be proud of the fact that we are alive, that we are human.

We should be educated to have more tolerance for each other. After all, we live on one planet. You know, if you live in a house with others, you’ve got to be friends with everyone. Well, we do live in one house. It’s called planet Earth. Here it is. And it’s the only one.

If you don’t like your house, you can move out. But where are you going to move from planet Earth? To Mars? You’ll be cooked and frozen, cooked and frozen—like a TV dinner. This is the house we all live in. Instead, we can make it more tolerable.

When it rains, whether it is on a desert in India or Africa, it’s the same rain, and it makes the flowers bloom the same way. We are not that different. At the end of the day, we really aren’t. And who we are is not a bad thing; it’s a good thing. It’s a very good thing.

Somebody I visited had a sticker on their refrigerator that said, “Smile,” and when I asked them why, they said, “Oh, it’s nice to be reminded.” Nice to be reminded to smile? You’re a human being. This is what you do. When things are right, it is automatic. You don’t need to be reminded to smile. It will come naturally. When all is right inside, a smile will happen.

Some people want a garden year-round, so they buy fake grass, fake flowers, fake trees to make a garden. Then they say, “Look at my garden! It’s great, isn’t it? It looks like this year-round, and I don’t have to mow the grass.” Yes, but where are the butterflies and the bees? Where is the aroma of the flowers? Your garden may look great, but it’s not really your garden. Do you want your garden to look great even if it’s not a real garden?

Be real—for yourself. Don’t live in this fake fantasy. You are here for too short a time to pretend. If you want to fly, then really fly. Because you can. You don’t have to pretend. Pretending doesn’t go very far. And you’re not here for that long.

A lot of young people think life will go on and on for a long time. Ask people who have been alive for quite a while how quickly life goes by. It’s all perception. Remember when you were young? Your Mom or Dad would be driving the car, and 15 minutes was too long. Now you say, “We’re already there?” It’s all about perception.

You finally start to recognize the value of time when it gets less and less. Not a smart thing. Understand the value of time now. The best way to understand it is to be content as much as you can be. Then you have conquered time. Then you have understood what you have been given—the most incredible gift of life.

Bob ,your posts here are so beautiful full of passion, i so agree with every thing you have said here.
what a world it would be if all peoples ,every where could grasp the brotherhood of humanity ,we are human ,then chinese,germen,or eastern and western and so on. we are all so interconnected in the unseen aspect of our humanity.
when i take my walks in the woods , there are a couple of spots where i sit and meditate times sitting there like yesterday in late afternoon, the sun starting to set,looking at the reds and purples, the contrasts of light and dark, the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time. looking at the trees coming in to bloom,as spring sets in.its like the secret Garden. this simple beauty,taken for granted so much. the feel of the earth in my hands as i remove dead foliage,from around the living that is sprouting up hungry for the light.the wonders of creation, is one of my greatest expressions of joy.this makes me smile as it adds and compliments to the joy that is within me. Joy should be a state of being, not a FEELING that comes and goes based on external stimuli.people as a whole have not found this . they are so focused as you said , ill be happy if i make more money, i will be happy when we move , ill be happy when we go on vacation.none of which is true happiness is a feeling that comes and goes Joy is a state of being that can be achieved and sustained no matter what the circumstances,if one can see that the source of Joy is within

sopherim

sopherim7 wrote:Bob ,your posts here are so beautiful full of passion, i so agree with every thing you have said here.

I must make it absolutely clear that these posts are not my words, but those of my Spiritual Master.

PLU ~ Bob

that does not change the beauty and passion expressed. you are a teacher of the way,and you are inspiering just the same!!!!!!! thankyou for sharing truth and light

:flower:sopherim

Another talk by my Master:



I’m not here to try to point out all the problems of the world, because there are too many. But, despite all the problems, all the things that are wrong, there are some things that are really, really good. Despite all the ugliness, there is something very, very beautiful. Despite all the mistakes, there is one thing that is perfect. And that perfection, that beauty, is in you.

There are people who like to point out all the problems, and in a way, I’m glad they do. But I think there should be some people who point out the good, the beautiful, because this life, despite all the problems, is beautiful. And sometimes, caught up in our troubles, our turmoil, our ideas, our concepts, we forget what we have been given.

Who are we? Are we just the sum of all the things that happen around us? Are we just people who wake up in the morning and realize our responsibilities, “I have to do this, I have to do this”? Or is there something more, something inside each human being that wants to smile, to be thankful, to feel gratitude, to feel joy?

I speak from my own experience. I have responsibilities. There are good days, and there are bad days. In the good days, I want to be happy. I want to feel peace. I want to feel connected to myself. Then there are the bad days. And even then, I just want to be happy.

Nobody can explain happiness. You know what it is. It isn’t just smiling or laughing or a time of day when you become happy. Happiness comes because you feel good. We think it is feeling happy about something—our child graduates from college; we win a lottery ticket; we get a promotion. We think our happiness is associated with all these things.

There is only one person who can make you happy, and it happens to be a person you know very little about. Strange. You know about your friends, other people—your associates, your colleagues—but very little about yourself, who you are. And you are that one person who can make you very happy.

I see people driving on the highways honking their horns, yelling, screaming. Somehow I get the feeling that they don’t really think life is important. They just want to get to where they’re going. I want you to take a moment and understand something—that your life is incredibly important.

You’re not a number. You’re not a name. You are more than the sum of all your goods and bads. So many people live in fear. But there is a place inside of you that cannot have fear, where you can feel freedom. When somebody has to tell me I am free, I’m not free.

We have our formulas. Happiness has nothing to do with formulas. “This plus this, minus this, equals happiness.” Either you feel happiness or you don’t. Either you feel joy in your life or you don’t.

What do you feel in your life? Because this life is the stage where peace will dance, where happiness will sing a song for you. This life holds promise after promise after promise, gift after gift after gift for you.

I have been watching spring coming. Ah, it is so beautiful to watch spring come. Right outside my office at home, there is a tree, and in the winter, it shed every leaf, down to just bare branches. And then slowly but surely, spring began to come, and not a day was wasted for those green shoots to start appearing. This I call dedication. This I call life. This I call “the grand miracle.” If that tree was human, it would say, “Why are we doing this? Winter will come again, and I will have to shed these leaves again. So forget this—just hibernate.”

It is not logic, but something that transcends logic. Love is not logical. These little shoots wait and wait. They can’t forecast the weather. They don’t think: “These two days are warm, but then the next two days it’s going to rain again, so just wait.” No. For them, it is: “Here it is. The warmth has come. The sun is shining. The temperature is right. Let’s go.” And as tender and delicate as those shoots are, even with two days of cold and rain, they keep on going. There is a drive that is more powerful. And this scene plays out for billions of trees every year.

Your spring has come. It is time to reach within and allow the hope for peace in your life to resurface, to see the good, to understand that good, to once again know and to once again say yes to what you have ignored for so long—you.

Bob, you do not know how much your post has spoken to me i truley,needed to hear this right now ,this moment!it is complete validation , there are so many points to expound on so i will just say......wow ! i seem to have had an awakining i did not even realise i was asleep. it is like where have i been and where has time gone? i have woken to realise that right now is the only time i have , right now is all that truley matters ,what am i doing right now to experieance the life given to me to its fullest capacity?i have recognised wrong thinking,wrong attitude ,i have allowed the stress of what if and i should have, dictate the now and losing it . what you wrote that you have learned is so in line with the gnosis experiance i just have gone thru this week,it blows my mind and i am so thankfull for the validation ,that ihave come out of this self induced,self centered place and lost my self for almost a year. this took the tramatic mystery of suffering once again ,such power in suffering.this suffering has taught me once again ,and you also speak about above,all the power of joy,of happiness is within the same being i reside in . what am i choosing,and why am i choosing to feel anything but the joy that has residence within me. every thing is a decision,rigt now i have come to realise some radical life changes are upon me ,growth is hard change is hard but it is so necsassary in order to leave the plateu of complacency i have come to find I HAVE trapped myself on by fear,self dillusion,but most of all IGNORANCE OF SELF! and the reality of all that i am and all that is with in me and all that iam to become.....
yes bob indeed spring has come

Here is another talk recently given by my Master:



Here we are in spring. And the tussle is on. On one side, winter does not want to let go of its hold. On the other side, the warmth of summer wants to break in. And this is played out in the skies, the clouds, the lightning, the rainbows, the sun. And on the ground are delicate little plants. They’re fragile. Last fall, they gambled. “To survive the winter, we will need to shed our leaves.” And they did. The gamble was, “Summer will come again and, when it does, we will be able to put out our leaves and once again become whole.”

Now they are prepared, and the slightest hint of summer coming has spurred them to start putting those delicate leaves out again—ready to make that commitment to being complete.

My question is, are you ready for the spring in your life? If you are, I have some very good news for you: Spring indeed has come. Bloom! This is not the time to reason or question or argue whether spring has come for real or not. It is not the time to lament that leaves have to be shed again, so what’s the point.

Do you know that every day you are alive, spring comes? Yes, pain comes, too. What is pain saying to you? “Hello, haven’t we been a little unconscious lately? Awaken.” When pain comes, people think, “Let’s look at this. Let’s analyze it.” That’s not what pain is for. The grinding of the gears inside is because something isn’t right.

As a human being, you have a rhythm. And this rhythm says, “Move. March. Go. Move. March. Go.” Move. Understand your mortality and be inspired to move on, not stop. Understand also that a part of you is immortal.

You’re like a sandwich. One part of you, that you have paid a lot of attention to, is the wrong slice of bread. You should have paid attention to the other slice, because this one will disintegrate. That is its nature. Don’t let that scare you. Let that inspire you to focus on the part that is truly delicious. And the inspiration to do that resides in your heart. Within you is the drum that plays the beat to know, to understand, to dance to the rhythm of the dance of understanding. “I understand what a gift I have been given. I understand my urge to blossom.”

The beauty is, spring will come. And when I look at those tiny bright green leaves emerging, I say to myself, “Go. Do it. Don’t be threatened. Don’t be disheartened because it is cold today. However strong this grip of this cold is, it will be broken.”

For you, however strong the grip of ignorance is, it will be broken, because the seeker within you is stronger than the sum of all the questions and confusion there is in this world. Such is the drive from inside. And this is the most beautiful drive—to search. If a person searches, I say, “Good. If you search genuinely, you will find the person who will fulfill that quest.” It’s called the thirst, the thirsty, and the water. Because there is a thirst, there is the thirsty. And because there is the thirsty, water will be found.

Some people go through a lot to find the water. And it will be found, because the water you are looking for is within. You don’t have to go to a particular place. You don’t have to look for an oasis or a well or birds or anything. Anywhere you are on this desert, every breath is pumping the most incredible water that will quench your thirst, day and night.

Look within your heart, and you will find the truest essence of your existence. Look within you, and you will find the most beautiful waters. Look within you, and you will find your answers to which you don’t even have questions.

I’m talking about the passion and compassion in this universe and beyond, the most incredible energy that created the sun, the moon, the Earth from dust. From nothing to create everything. To create this Earth with ceilings without pillars, incredible textures of carpet, alive, beautiful, ever-changing. To create a magnificent light, made up of every shade. To create night lights that are unimaginable—the moon, the clouds, the stars, all of it. And for you to have the ability to witness this, not only to see but be able to admire. To make every day and never to make two alike—this is craftsmanship. To make the trees and snowflakes and never two alike. And to make human beings and never two alike.

When the rain pours and pours, remember the magnificence that you have been blessed with. Remember what the possibilities are. Remember that you’re part of it all. You’re not some abstract, good-for-nothing thing that just happened to be. When the craftsmanship is so good then every bit needs to be looked at and admired, nothing is frivolous. Not a grain of sand, not a leaf, not a snowflake, not a raindrop is out of place. And if you accept that, then you must also accept you’re not out of place. See and understand the reality, because it is more beautiful than anything you have imagined. And as spring comes every day in your life, without hesitation, sprout.

Thank you for allowing Good Words to come forth, Bob. They are truly inspiring.

theeternaliam wrote:Thank you for allowing Good Words to come forth, Bob. They are truly inspiring.

I am just so happy to see everyone here sharing PEACE with PEACE, and LOVE with LOVE.

I have never come across another forum with so much LOVE.

From my Spiritual Teacher:

It’s so important to understand the subject of this life. I don’t think the importance of truly grasping what this means can be over-emphasized. As human beings, we have an incredible brain, incredible talent. We can accomplish so many things—almost too many. Because we are alive, we can experience peace and joy. We can go to the moon and create space stations. We can peer into the deep, deep reaches of the universe. And because we are alive, we can also create wars, decimate this planet, and make it impossible for everything to exist.

Cell phones have saved many lives. But the same technology that is saving so many lives is also being used in weapons and a weapons delivery system that is wiping out more lives than it is saving. And the saving might happen over a period of a year, but the destruction happens within days.

So, it becomes obvious that we have to choose. And what should our choice be? Well, to put it in context, there is a place you can go that is not really real. It’s virtual. There, you can create an alter-personality of yourself. You can fly. You can do all the things you’ve always wanted to do but could never do, but only virtually, not really. In this virtual place, people buy apartments and sofas for apartments. But when you buy the virtual apartment and the furniture, you pay for it with real money. It’s a million-dollar-a-day business — $365,000,000 a year. And it’s growing. People even meet in this virtual place and get married!

I bring a message about reality, a message that says, “What you are looking for is inside of you.”

Who are you? What are you? What is your core? We need to know that in this day and age more than at any other time. Otherwise, our choices will be virtual or make-believe, but the consequences will be real. Unfortunately, consequences are always real.

What is your real potential? There is a power, a beauty, that resides within. When I turn within, my heart is filled with joy, peace. I have to choose this every single day, because in this world, the line between the virtual and the real can become too faded. And I choose reality, because it is far more beautiful.

An Indian writer named Tulsidas once said, “All that you see is illusion. As far as your eyes can see, it’s all illusion. If you want reality, turn within.” The problem is that we don’t like what we see, but we don’t understand why. So we create an alternative world in which our fantasies can come true. People like Tulsidas said, “Turn within and all your fantasies will come true. The truest wish will come true.” But we have to choose. Every single day, we have to choose.

Reality is beautiful. Don’t try to measure it, because contentment, joy, love, understanding cannot be measured. There is no scale for them. Understand. Open your heart. Look within and see how beautiful it is. Feel your life filled with joy, filled with gratitude, not explanations or ideas. This is reality; no formulas or philosophies are needed to truly receive the gift every single day.

You are the vessel for the sweetest satisfaction, joy—the pure clear water of contentment. When you are filled with this, you come alive, because that’s what life is. You can understand. You don’t have to be confused. It’s that simple. Realize the pulse of life.

What an incredible opportunity it is to choose a gratification that is given every day when you turn inside. It’s not about the struggles you’ve had or the list of failures, but about each success that took place. You will still make mistakes, but the beauty is it’s not about mistakes or failures. It’s not about the length of the night. It’s about the rising of the sun. The light comes, and a new day begins.