Communication Is Like A Virus
It can make us ill-at-ease (disturbed)
or at-ease ( a feeling of wellbeing)

We start with inner communication.

There is communication between pure essence and awareness, between awareness and the eight consciousnesses (three of the mind and five of the senses), and between the eight consciousnesses and the outside world – and back again. Communication is happening now, as I write and you read.

The point is: “What are we communicating?” Let’s hope it’s love, as love is the best virus to catch 😀 Once we start to communicate, we enter the relative world. The only way we can communicate from an absolute position (as far as I can tell) is just by a look and a smile. 🙂 That is why silent retreats are so great!

We have to start with our own inner system first, and then see what this communicates to others. If we (empty essence – absolute reality) become attracted to a fantasy of the future or dwell on the memories and regrets of the past, we will feel ill-at-ease. Maybe excited, but ill-at-ease. This creates hopes and fears, worries, anxieties, stress, a lowering of the immune system and inevitable dis-ease. All this because of an idea – and ideas spread to others!*

This does not mean that we ignore what happened in the past or what may happen in the future, but we do not need to dwell on or over react to these, as this merely obscures clear seeing. We just leave them on the table in front of us – the imaginary “table of all possibilities” – until an answer comes up that might improve communication, and not make things worse.

Once we understand the value of our spiritual nature, our life changes. We do not just give up what we are doing, but now it all has a value – no more, no less. We become gentle-men and gentle-ladies, rather than undignified, uncontrolled mouth pieces.

This is not something contrived: we just complete whatever we set out to do, reliably and responsibly. We are no longer careless and self indulgent. This is the way of the householder – or we can chose to become a nun or a monk in a monastery! The word we are looking for is ‘dignity’. It doesn’t matter what we call ourselves; it is how we communicate that matters.

Let’s hope it’s love!
Love is the best virus to catch
😀

*Charlie Rose interviewed President Assad.
(President Assad is painted as the greatest villain in the world at the moment.
Is this an act? Remember that none of us are whiter than white!)

Transcript http://sana.sy/en/?p=34078

John Pilger and Duane Clarridge CIA
(Virus in action)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgCyDsvi84

Krishnamurti and Chogyam Trungpa on “What is Meditation?”
(At 37.10 they revealed the point, in different ways!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SjnCFi8lhA