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I
AM
THAT
meaning
that I am also
existing physically,
as well as creatively playful,
acting with a free and a clear mind,
loving, emotionally balanced, androgynous
expressive and effective in vocational function,
and inspirationally, aspirationally as well as intellectually guided,
In all, I am a human divine on this beautiful world in this wonderful universe.
I am also none of the above
AS I JUST AM
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And so are you
And so is everyone
when they remember
who they are
that they are
and they will”
And so you are not !
You are not any of the above!
As you just are not.
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Maurice:
“What do you mean Wim, with the following line, “Just a bit of temporal
protraction in becoming aware for most of us?”
Wim:
That one sentence is more important than any of the others. But
I could improve upon it, expand on it.
See, ‘mental awareness’ is like a prism that breaks up light
into spectral colours. The glass and the shape of the prism slows light's speed
down into temporal coordinates and - at the same time - extends light into
spatial coordinates. We interfere with the unknown so that we may know. We
actually DO the right side of the equation E=Mcc continuously, we create time.
We actually ARE the right side of that equation, we create space. We are the
cause AND the result of that equation. We pose the problem and we are the
outcome of it.
The myriad results of the myriad of interference we call reality.
We create reality by interfering with the unknown.... that is a wonderful
miracle. The interferences as patterns interfere with each other. We create
creation by reiterating our interferences *endlessly in something* we then call
time and space.
Who are we?
Who am I?
Who are you?
I am the one who plays with light and creates you.
You are the one who plays with light and creates me.
I am You
You are Me
We are love.
Who are we but god who plays!
Who are we but gods who play themselves!
Who are we but divine humans who love to play with each other!
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Whatever we do to reclaim our original being,
whatever we do to grow into our wholeness,
it all becomes pointless once reclaimed and integrated.
Any method is only important in how much it is a useful tool.
We can bicker about toolkits and toolboxes.
We can argue value, volume, validity and efficacy
which one for whom,
when and for how long,
all that hinders expedient reclamation and integration.
Certain occurrences in the process of reclamation and
integration are marked
off as moments of great humorous relief.
Call them milestones,
call them checkpoints,
call them marks or signs,
call the process the way, path, pascha or pesah,
call it:
"wei wu wei's way" or
"who's way is it anyway?' or
"which way was that again?"
we know that the last check point is reached when:
the importance of the method,
the memories of the method,
the madness to the method,
the way or manner in which we did this,
the way or approach we took to get here,
when all that gets undone into a string of uncharged
recollections,
when we find that the last checkpoint needs no marking,
when 'that we got here' dissolves in the realization that we are here,
that this is real.
I am,
you are,
this is
P.S.
No questions asked!
Lifetime guarantee!
You have no reason to hate yourself,
because that hatred comes from someone else
who unfairly blamed you for their hatred.
You have no reason to love yourself,
because you don't need a reason to love yourself.
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I am originally from Holland, live in Canada since 1971 on a
large island about 300 km long 120 km wide, good mild climate, hardly any snow
here. Only about 450.000 inhabitants.
I live in the woods with my family, close to a nice city, Victoria
BC, Canada.
God's graces and gifts are immense and so unexpected, even
unwarranted. That even a person like myself can participate in the graces of
receiving and giving love...!
I learned a lot in my very varied life and the way I learn(ed),
I hope, can inspire some people to surrender to K. to trust it. Kundalini is
safer than we fear, trust, trust, trust and love... Yes there is still lots to
be done, but then, I think I will be busy with cleaning and clearing till the
end of my life. I do not pretend more than that...
No negative thinking (not willed anyways) in my case just a lot
of honesty, sometimes raw. I am not afraid to falter or accept mistakes or even
make some once in a while. I can well accept that I go wrong. I work hard at myself.
I trust Kundalini so much that I surrender to it in love, light and truth.
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"My thoughts can't help but stray. I keep
wandering..." she mused.
"Yes, you have a tendency to wander," I responded.
"I keep w-o-ndering," she rebutted, "I did not
say w-a-ndering!
I wonder what's next."
"Hmmm!" I hummed.
"Alright OK? You're right, I keep wandering, I guess."
she said.
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"Dutch people can be insolent or impudent" sounds just
right. But... actually... Dutch people tend to be bold, forward and to the
point. They tend to act first and explain talk later. (Has to do with sticking
that finger in the dike.) When their straightforwardness gets misinterpreted
they will quickly become insolent, impudent, brash and give you a piece of
their mind.
They are not necessarily disrespectful, it is just that they
feel it is important to cut through artificial respect which is often based on
fear, mis-trust or manipulation. A respectable or a respectful person is someone
who can take some straightforward honesty and do without beating around the
bush.
Otherwise, Dutch people are friendly, fun to drink with
(anything), smoke with (hand rolled tobacco or other stuff :-), drink strong coffee
with (Douwe Egberts accompanied by a spiced cookie), or have a cool beer with
(which they drink from a glass). All this preferably outside on a quaint city
or village square.
Dutch people can be helpful to a fault and very generous OR… not
at all…. when they see that it will lead nowhere.
Going Dutch is not typical for Dutch people. They also do not
speak double Dutch if that means speaking with a forked tongue. What a Dutch
treat is? I don't know...
Maybe it came from 'the Dutch threat' that we were at some point
in the past to the English. A threat that, when you get to know them Dutchies
better, can turn into a real treat. Other wise it may just be a candy ... or...
P.S. "Coming from Holland", "Coming from the
Netherlands", " coming from the low countries" or "being
Dutch" all mean the same thing.
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Whoever wants to know about the following:
(There is a Kundalini connection in the end.)
The Netherlands is often divided into two geographic parts, but
I’ll add an extra part to it.
(All this is approximate and somewhat tongue in cheekish.)
1.
The part above the
rivers, the Hollanders and Frisians, artists at drinking and trading.
2.
The part below the
rivers, the Brabanders and Limburgers, artists at drinking and living.
3.
The 'dividing part',
the rivers and the islands between those rivers, artists at drinking, trading
and living (when there is still time left.)
The part above the rivers (1) is mostly below sea level.
The part below the rivers(2) is mostly above sea level.
The islands and some rivers (3)are both above and below sea
level.
Yes, this is complex, that is what makes Dutch so doubly standard
Dutch.
This 'dividing part' is inhabited by Zeelanders and some
Hollanders. These Zeelanders and Hollanders were originally called 'Dutch' to
be exact. (New Zeeland, New Holland, New York and New Mexico (huh?) were
established by them :-)
Now, during the "Golden Age", which is a Dutch as well
as an English as well as a Spanish historic period of extreme pride, there were
many Dutch 'traders' who travelled the world in their 'pirate' ships. They will
not admit to it, but they stole gold from the Spanish, who stole it from the
Americas. They also stole it from Africa. They stole gold from the English who
also stole it from the Spanish as well as from the Americas. (Very simplistic,
you are right.)
Indeed, there is no gold so clean as the hands that handled it.
After their pirate trips, the Dutch would build little temples
and churches to atone for their sins. They sinned so much they had to become
very religious, also very fundamentalist, dogmatic and rigid. These Dutch were
also the thrifty ones, and they had to look sensible and busy to hide the fact
that they got their wealth so easily. They had to become very crafty as well.
They invented a new form of sharing. It is now called 'cost
sharing', it was originally called 'going Dutch'.
Instead of sharing the goods, they invented sharing the cost.
And as you said 'Going Dutch' and 'Dutch Treat' exemplify it. (This is not just
typical for the Dutch anymore.)
You see, what you have earned is not hard to share. What you
have stolen however, you have to hide and use it thriftily lest others think
that you have loads of it so that they can steal it from you.
(1) Sharing the cost is something else than
(2) Sharing the wealth.
In (1) two parties pay,
in (2) only one party pays.
There is a quite difference in benefit distribution as well.
Nice thing is that in (1) your are still sharing… and as sharing
is good, god is fooled.
What does this have to do with Kundalini... well it is the sin,
guilt, punishment, calculative and atonement aspect...
That has become so engrained in us, amongst other things
Kundalini helps us clear that. Replace stolen goods (not your own) with pure
energy (self).
P.S. No cost sharing, no goods sharing, just sharing energy
P.P.S.
I like what you say about the rope jumping, wasn't that nice on
our school yards. Omigosh, our age is showing, shall we just get a little
nostalgic?
P.P.P.S.
Yankee <---Jan-Kees=John-Cornelius.
Can also be "Jan & Kee" =John and Katherine (Kate), a
typical Dutch married couple.
OK <--- O Kee=Oh Kate! What Jan said when Kee told him to
reach for the gold.
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I am originally from Delft (Love the place, love everything
about Holland, Belgium (Mmmmm). Love Europe, have done long holiday trips all
through). Emigrated to Canada in 1971.
Good to find out that the way I write about the Netherlands
apparently gives insight rather than that it upsets people. I obviously had to
work through a lot. ("Moest met mijzelf in het reine komen.")
I consider Rotterdam, Gouda, Delft and even some of historic
Amsterdam as more part of the dividing part. (part 3 see above.) Some parts of
Noord Holland are part of the dividing part as well. But all this was a bit
'tongue in cheek' remember? But it allowed me to make a point.
Actually, let me take this more seriously, all the cities and
villages that eventually had a stake in the East India and West India Company
and other colonial enterprises came from division and had a dividing part to
play... Just like all colonialism eventually caused division throughout the
world.
The mud and muck in Holland at the moment (Fall 2000)? Rain of course
but also... the shortage of labour is really noticeable in the way the streets
and side walks are being kept up. Even many little home gardens are more
unkempt than they were before. Retired people who could have time to spend in
their gardens or even clean the sidewalks, are (still) too stressed to even
consider that. I know this is a generalization... But I visit Holland every
four years and one sees the changes clearly. Was there last July.
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