(Part III) The Beauty of Truth

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Embodying The Solution

“Never mistake outward appearance for reality.”

-Huang Po

When David the 15-year old shepherd boy, came down from the hills to face Goliath on the battlefield he was alive with a living Truth. His God was “The Living God”. You see spirituality evolves from an idea, into a very definite experience, and spiritual practice is all about relationship. Relationship requires feeling; that is the juice. The more sublime the feeling the more beauty in the relationship. The more beauty in your relationship with your inner lover the more you become the embodiment of the living Truth and the more able you are to defeat your own personal Goliath. This meeting with the monster within is not an option; it is a pre-requisite for the evolution of your consciousness. As sure as infancy follows birth and adolescence follows childhood, so too will you go through certain rites of passage that cannot be avoided. They can however be delayed, but your appointment with the destiny of your soul can never be put off forever. There is a great clarion call sounding out across the hills and valleys of life, it is a call to action and if you are reading this it is calling to you. What that call is communicating is that you have a choice. It is the choice to evolve through suffering or through joy. Only you can make that choice and the choice begins anew in every moment of your life.

A great maturation process is underway in the world, and as we become more spiritually and psychologically awake we actually embody different qualities of being. This is an undeniable consequence of spiritual growth, the definite, incontestable demonstration of higher states of being expressed in the material world.

One of the biggest secrets that so many of us are beginning to grasp is that the whole game is going on inside of us. Of course there is the appearance of the world around us and because of the appearance we dance, but in order to master that world around us or at least affect it in a conscious and constructive away, we need to master the world within.

This inner journey is an adventure. It is an adventure in self-discovery of such critical import that it has been alluded to by every indigenous culture that has ever walked upon the face of the earth. It is represented in stories and mythos throughout all time and is now boldly glorified in our own culture — blazing like the universal sun rising from the ocean of imagination.

The journey within is the heroes’ journey and in more modern parlance, the super heroes’ journey. Why? Because it takes a super heroic effort of will, focus, courage, determination, discipline, consistency, patience, forgiveness and love to navigate successfully the inner realms.

Beauty is our compass, tenderness our way.

As we look around the world today, especially through the lens of the popular media, life can appear so very, very ugly. What are we supposed to make of this, those of us who aspire to walking the beauty way? I love these times. They are as exciting as they are sobering. A massive reality check. A rude awakening. Perhaps the most significant factor in the mix right now is the realization that what appears to be around me is a reflection of something within me. Not necessarily a quality but a pattern; an archetypal pattern that exists in the collective consciousness of my own culture and, more significantly, in my own psyche. An even more significant realization is the acceptance that I actually have the power to change the world I see around me by dissolving the patterns within me. And that I must do it because if I don’t then who will?

Let’s take an extreme example here — something that is making big rumblings all over the modern western political world, and that is the shocking amount of pedophile activity occurring within politic and high society echelons. It shows up increasingly in our society and makes it clear that there is a political archetypal realm dreadfully abusing the inner child — the boundless, eternally youthful spirit, which is designed to play in the world of form and express — through boundless creativity — in an innocent and childlike way.

What is this a reflection of and where is the beauty factor in this? This field has agendas, timeframes and vested interests and is manipulative and controlling especially around power, possessions, sexuality and money. This is the political realm within us we all possess to some degree.  The extreme nature of this internal condition and the critical import of its dissolution are being reflected by what we are seeing in the world of form around us. This is a great wonder. So the way to make it go away on the outside is to dissolve the pattern on the inside and great tenderness is required to do this swiftly and effectively. It takes a lot of precision to cut away the cancer of the soul.

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1. (Part I) The Beauty of Truth
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