Happiness in Holland; development is the key.

As I was thinking about it again just now, it hit me that enlightenment or consciousness, (which is what the first night was about a week ago), and the context that the experience of enlightenment or consciousness emerges in, are two sides of the same coin. That is why last night was such a powerful experience. Speaking together about the big 14 billion year evolutionary, cosmic context that we have emerged in and are an expression of, is a shared enlightenment experience that uplifts and liberates one from the suffocating limitations of the personal and cultural ego.

The inner and the outer are not two different things, one enlightened and the other unenlightened, they are both expressions of the vast, absolute, limitless nature of life and whether we go in or out with our attention, whether we focus on life, or on eternity beyond life, what we find if we really pay attention is the same liberating perfection that allows us to be first and then to think and act from that place of freedom and expansion.

I needed to write this down to understand why I am so happy. And I realized that it is only when we develop that life reveals it's inherent positive nature. The ecstasy that is the ground of all that is emerges only when we reach to express it.

Recently someone wrote me: "You are doing it all wrong, all anyone can do to develop is hang like an apple on a tree and let the sun shine on you." I disagreed with her, and I still do. I think it takes focused effort to develop, and I don't think anything is more rewarding and brings one more in touch with the bliss of being, especially here in Holland, being happy is so alien to us that unless we reach for it and do what we need to do to stay happy, we are going to keep believing that something is fundamentally wrong...