“If The Divine wished to hide… It would choose man to hide in.”

“That’s the last place man would look for It”

 

My previous post was on the graphical part of my logo, i.e. the Sufi parable of the King, the Wise, the Scissors and the Needle, and what that means for each of us. 
This post is about the text that goes with it, the title “In Me I Trust”. 
The capitals are important, I’ll explain why.

 I got the idea for this line after contemplating and realising 2 fundamental things:

1) the realisation that over the course of our evolution as a conscious & spiritual species, humanity followed what I like to call “The Swing of The Pendulum”, in search of Balance.

Our early ancestors who started worshipping something Higher than themselves, from the Awareness “I exist”, saw the Divine in everything around them, in living creatures, in all of Life, “Down Here Below”. They worshipped a Mother Goddess.
This Awareness of “I am” goes beyond the self-consciousness which humans as a species share with a number of other highly intelligent mammals on this planet (such as dolphins and elephants), but even with bird species that also have it (as indicated by the painted dot-test)!

There were times, such as those of the Göbekli Tepe temple complexes in what is now Turkey, when the Goddess worship had evolved into a balanced approach involving the 2 Opposite-Complementary Forces contributing to Creation: the Goddess was accompanied now by a God Companion. That is what the two T shaped pillars in many ancient megalithic sites such as Göbekli Tepe indicate. The She & The He, The Feminine & The Masculine, in Balance and Harmony.

Then came the time, in The Swing of The Pendulum, when the Goddess was set - more like pushed in many cases - aside. She was literally “buried”, as the Israelites did with their Asherah poles.

There was only one God, and He was a Sky God, absent from Creation but overlooking it from “Somewhere Above”. There was only one T shape left in the later megalithic structures!

I describe this in more detail in my books “The Journey Of Life, Part I” and “Part II”, available through www.inmeitrust.com.

Now the Game of this Universe is one of continuously searching for Balance. When an established balance gets upset and disequilibrium arises, a movement towards a new balance sets in. “Balance” truly is the name of this Universal Game.

The “One Sky God” was and is not a balanced approach; for a Masculine God needs a Feminine Goddess to provide for the sought after Balance. A Father cannot Create without A Mother... whilst "the Son" is accompanied by "the Daughter" in spiritual lingo.
The (hi)Story of Humanity of the past millennia is a testimony to the effects of such a disequilibrium.

Beyond this however, for me, came the realisation that Goddess & God are different and supreme Aspects of Some Thing That Is Nothing & Everything, That Which Knows No Gender & Is Both, The Neutral Divine, The One(ness), The Circle encircling the Yin (Feminine) & Yang (Masculine) Aspects, The One All-Encompassing Circle in the Flower of Life symbol.
That Divine Nothing&Everything is Omnipresent, in all and everyone, every single one of us. The Divine is inherent in all of Creation, while being Creation Itself, whilst also being Its Destruction. To put it somewhat in the words of a Christian mystic I read: The Divine is Life, The Divine is Death, The Divine is the process of Living & the process of Dying… which is but a new Beginning to It.
To quote Ramana Maharshi's reply to the question how to treat others: “There are no others!”. Indeed, we are all One, particles of The Divine through which It manifests whatever It wants to manifest in this World of Forms that is Life and in this Reality we experience in the dimensions in which the vast majority of humans experience that Reality… but it is not real at all. As Hinduism points out so well in the concept of “Maya”, “Illusion”.

Nonetheless, you experience the Illusion so you might as well enjoy it. That you do best by allowing the Flow of Life to pass through you, manifesting whatever The Divine intends. As Nisargadatta Maharaj put it: “All will happen by itself. You need not do anything, just don’t prevent it”.
Learn to Trust, with a capital “T”!
You only need to ask, and Trust you will receive in the form, manner and timing best for your growth and personal development as a Being... aim for the "Heaven on Earth" experience;


2) Next to that realisation of the Interconnectedness and Oneness of all and everyone, as expressions of the One Divine Fundamental Source, I read the statement on the US Dollar banknote: “In God we trust”.
Given what I stated under point 1 above, you’ll understand why I rephrased that into “In Me I Trust”, for The Divine is active in and through me, just as it is in and through you, and all of Creation.
In the depths of our Being, we are just One Being: The Divine Itself!
There is only One Something&Nothing that can truly state – using human language terms, words – “Me” and “I”, all else is illusionary.

So no, the statement doesn’t concern your “mini-me”, the lower self or ego.
Sometimes I get the remark “In Me I Trust? That’s not a very spiritual statement”.
All I can answer to that is: “You read it from the level you want to read it from. I know what I mean with this, what you are reading in it is none of my business… but it indicates where you are coming from, your focus”.
I usually go - internally - then: “Not my circus, not my monkeys”. Bearing in mind “[a]rguing with a fool only proves there are two” always makes me think twice before entering into such debates. I aim to drop discussions such as these, and approach that person with Love & Compassion, and Understanding.
I would never really call others “fools”, that would be a judgment and you’re only judging yourself given there is only Oneness.
“J’assume” the fact that the “other” is reflecting something back to me; there are no "others" remember.

One more thing though with respect to this ego-remark… I do not despise “ego” as many spiritual seekers do.
To me, “ego” is exactly as and what it is meant to be! Because this mini-me could and can never exist outside of The Divine(ness). It is a creation as any other, a collection of temporary experiences, convictions and memories that acts as a veil over the True Nature of our Being, hiding It.
That however could only be so because that was intended all along.
“Why?” is not for our mini-me’s to answer, that part of us will consider it all a big sadomasochistic thing when contemplating the - to it - negative stuff in the World, in Nature, and in the life of these human forms of ours. Ego (mind) simply loves to label: “good versus evil”, “positive versus negative”, “right versus wrong”, “us versus them”… it loves to cut up Reality into pieces, as the aforementioned Sufi parable indicates.
Ego goes: “if I am the Divine [no ego, you are not, you are just an infinitesimally small part of It, a speck smaller than a particle]… why would an Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent Something That Is Nothing & Everything want to experience all the crap It goes through, through this particular form, through me? What’s that all about? Are You, oooo Divine One,  Insane… with a capital “I”?”
That’s the usual reasoning of the ego-mind, which tries to make sense and give meaning to something that is beyond it to comprehend. It separates itself from The Divine Self, Itself.
The only thing in our being that is capable of “comprehending” this fundamental insight and achieve the Unity that we inherently were, are and always will be, is… our Heart centre.

LOVE unites All, Without & Within, Above & Below, Yang & Yin, Masculine & Feminine… at and as the Centre of It All. It is the Grandest Force in This Universe, and the most fantastic feeling a human can experience. 
It is generated not by the mind, our brain, but by focusing in our Heart.

So the Heart is an essential part of my logo, the expression of our True Nature, The Unity, The Oneness, The Uniting Element in our being.

From that knowledge… In Me I Trust!

It is what it is, and it will be what it will be.

Manu The Mirrorologist 

For a short introduction on Mirrorology (seeing the "other" as another "I") download the free book available through www.life-coach-healer.com .
As pilgrims on the road helping each other… after all: “I am another you, you are another me”.

The Parable of the King, the Wise, the Scissors and the Needle... and what it says about YOU!

  

When you analyse my "In Me I Trust" logo, you notice it contains 2 elements :

1) the graphical part based on the Sufi Parable of the king, the wise, the scissors and the needle - which I will clarify for you here; and

2) the statement “In Me I Trust”.


The Sufi Parable and what it says about you (and every other human being)


This blog post deals with the graphical part, in particular the Sufi Parable which formed its basis and what this means for you. 
The parable goes as follows – in a nutshell:

‘The king decides to render the revered wise a visit to offer him a gift: golden scissors inlayed with precious gems! Self-confident the king has the present handed over to the wise, who glances at it and then refuses it, to the astonishment of the king. 
Asked what he, who refuses such an offer, wants then… the wise simply answers: “A needle”. 

What’s this all about?
Would it surprise you if it - like every parable - concerns you just as much as every other single human being? How so? 

The “king” refers to our ego, the “lower self”, the ruler of our life, and its fantastic “scissors instrument” that is our mind.
The ego uses the mind-tool to cut our (experienced) Reality into pieces in order to – in its perception – control our life. A proud ruler, with a sharp tool, to maintain its grip: “divide and conquer”, or “cut up and rule”. Private versus professional, the me versus the not-me, those-i-know and those-i-do-not-know [all put into categories of “this type”, “that type”], that-which-i-know and that-which-i-do-not-know [and not particularly fond of the not-known items]… you get the picture.

The “wise” refers to our so-called “Higher Self”, and its “needle master”: our Heart (centre). 
Contrary to the ego king, the wise wizard sees that all these “me things” and “not-me things” are but illusions. The wise sees beyond the apparent Reality of these dualities, beyond this experience of a (human) form. The wise is aware there is Something Vast underlying all, a Oneness that connects everything, and that can only be experienced… the Oneness is beyond the tool of the king, our mind.

So what our ego and our mind has cut up in pieces, our internal wizard and our heart centre connects it all again in(to) Oneness. There are no “others” “out there”, they are reflections from and in Reality. Life is (y)our mirror, and a mirror never lies: the people in your life, the circumstances of it, they all reveal who and what you really are yourself.

Yes, this is mystical stuff… but if you understand mysticism, you can turn your Life into Sweet Mystery. 
Let’s go for Applied Spirituality.
You do this by seeing how your ego – as the collection of temporary thought patterns, views, conditioning, convictions and emotions that it is – operates, with a strong focus on the mind, the brain. Many humans spend the best hours of their days behind a computer, operating as a computer themselves: all software, hardly any hardware. But you see:

“The body benefits from movement, and the mind from stillness.”

Many humans nowadays do the exact opposite, through ego and mind. 
Go walk in Nature, go work out in between, do something that keeps your physical self in shape.
Train yourself to observe yourself, your convictions at work (especially perceptible when you are having issues with others, difficult relations & interactions), so you make conscious again the unconscious programmes directing you. 

Manu The Mirrorologist

TWO THINGS IN YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER LIE: 

YOUR BODY AND… YOUR LIFE!

LEARN TO LISTEN TO BOTH & UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY TELL YOU... ABOUT YOU!

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