A Thousand Meetings With The Buddha

Yesterday, I proposed/announced instigating a collective experiment, based on the ancient Taoist principles of wu wei, for effortlessly manifesting shifts in external reality simply by visualisation, in this instance encouraging as large and increasingly expanding group of us as possible, once a day for a few seconds, to each visualise, using each our own unique imagery, the entire human population of approximately 6.5 billion people, relaxing at least 9% more and in that state of deepened relaxation, being able to more easily eschew the destructive impulse and so tune into the positive life-force (love) running through us all, and thus informed, miraculously, mysteriously, collectively discover the way through whatever global conundrums lie ahead during this deepening transitional phase of declining resources, rising prices and accompanying unrest.
Today I’d like to suggest shining the focus on how we each perceive the human race, for according to the immutable laws of metaphysics, whatever we focus on grows. Hence if you view your fellow planet-riders as 6.5 billion individual nuisances, that’s how they’ll show up to you and the real-time result will be turgid for all concerned. If, alternatively, you were to view each as a Buddha in disguise – if you were able to look beyond the surface guise to the enlightened Buddha within each, for there is always one, no matter how well obscured that Buddha self in each may be (to them as well as you) – that’s precisely how they’d show up to you, that’s how they’d act towards you and the result would be as you’d expect whenever dealing with a Buddha: sublime.
To do so constitutes a discipline – a warrior’s discipline – as it’s too easy to forget and sink back into the self-deluded, superior, judgemental state and thereby elicit a negative response from the world around you.
The key to this discipline is vigilance and breathing: vigilance to note whenever you’re slipping into negative default mode and exhaling/relaxing to release it, both from the mind and the muscles.
In today’s BAREFOOT JOURNAL, I’m focusing on how, in terms of the collective experiment, to employ this tactic in respect of engendering world peace, or more precisely, a preponderance of peace over violence.
Meantime, may you be blessed by a thousand meetings with the Buddha today and tonight as you wend your way.
Love, Doc
PS if you're on the east side of London tonight at 6pm and fancy not only having a swell time meeting lots of beautiful people amidst live music, massage and jollity but also helping the wonderful charity I'm patron of, come down to the fundraiser night I'll be hosting at the Energy Clinic on Commercial Street - check events page for details.
PPS and if you’re in the West Wales region of the UK this Friday night and fancy a totally alternative Halloween party, check the events page as I’ll be doing a Speed Ambient dance night at The Venue in Haverfordwest.

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