-SO IT IS-
Thought is a construct
Made up of impressions,
Impressions being experienced
in this moment,
And impressions that have been
stored in memory
The more powerfully
We emotionally identify with a thought
The more powerfully
our thoughts have influence over us
More than physical reality,
We live in landscapes of thought
The old saying,
“I think, therefore I am”
Is misleading
and only partially true,
I would reframe it by saying,
“I think, therefore I have the opportunity
to choose what I believe to be true
about who I am.”
Individual Truth is a personal and temporary
reference point,
It is not a political consensus.
Truth is experienced subjectively,
And always asks the question:
“Who am I?”
The “I AM” part of the equation
is a universal mystery
to the thinking mind,
An infinite adventure of inquiry
Our inquisitiveness provides us with experiences
where we get to taste and compare
the relativity of materialistic illusions
It is a passage, not a deterministic end result
This is the nature and function
of small mind, relative mind…
To compare, analyze, categorize and file,
It never ceases,
We live in a continual atmosphere
of self-talk, a river unremitting.
What we say is “real” is always about choice
and at the heart of what makes us free sovereign beings.
We make our choices based on how we feel,
So, we could say, “I feel, therefore I am”
But, even our feelings change.
All forms of propaganda in this
overly politicized world is designed
to target and manipulate your feelings,
which are then funnelled into particular
beliefs about what you should think,
according to the many ideological schools
of philosophy, science, religion and politics.
But where is the “I AM” in all of this?
Is my “I Am” a thought-belief
or a state of simply being
where no thought exists?
When we seek peace, sublime peace
Does it come from a thought
or an indescribable “Still Point”
where thought gives way to emptiness?
When we want to know the truth
is it what someone else tells us to believe
or what we access from our own deep inner knowing?
A knowing that only comes from listening
to our intuitive heart…our 6th “inner” sense.
We lived historically and now currently,
where so many forces
are vying for the attention of our minds,
(just think of the military use of the word “attention”)
and using our emotions to shape what we think
so we will endorse what others expect us to believe.
Don’t be afraid to think and feel for yourself.
Question everything, and then,
Be still and know that place called
Universal Mind…Unity Consciousness
and the God-Source within, around, and behind
All That Is (however you relate to that reference).
Because, as you think, so it is
As you feel, so you will act
And as you are, in stillness,
So shall you discover the inexplicable wisdom,
and Harbinger of Absolute Reality.
-TruGuy Starhorse
(April 24, 2024)
