INVITATION TO PROJECT ABUNDANCE

I invite you all to join me in project Abundance!   Be it material abundance or its quintessence - which something ‘more’ we all seek. For at its deepest, true abundance is a heart overflowing with the sweetness of life as it is; true wealth is contentment with all that you have… and are; true plentitude is in that old country song “Ah everyday should be like this”! And yes seeking ‘more’ is fine, indeed inherent in mankind but ironically this ‘more’ comes to you when it’s starting point stems from an inner fullness rather than from feelings of lack and need. 

You may well question this catch 22 position; it may well appear the chicken or egg situation –how to start from abundance when it is what you seek!  Sign up thus for project abundance as through the next few months it will offer you precious nuggets towards material success, enhanced relationships, peace of mind, joy and whatever makes ‘you’ the unique individual feel ‘rich’ - within and about. Like any good project it will help you better understand your raw material - energy; it will help you appreciate your bosses - your feelings, thoughts and beliefs; it will take you into the very operating centre called the universe and also give you a glimpse into the systems in place - karma, destiny, freewill; and in that will it help you create a better final product - life beautiful life!

Let’s start with the paradox that abundance is what leads to abundance! And be comforted that this starting point refers to an inner wealth easy to come by - simply through awareness!  So today let’s become aware that abundance in all its aspects is our birthright! Yes, allow this to deeply fill you; rest in this sacred grove; feel its very richness permeate and wash away any feelings of scarcity and paucity of spirit that may reside within. 

Today’s golden key of awareness is in this knowing that we are born to enjoy all that fulfills each of us individually. Know that as creators each, we plan our so called ‘destiny’ with complete free will towards this exploration; we encode into it all that is required for us to learn, grow and touch fulfillment in personal ways. Know that if you desire something it can be yours for you encode desires into your life as triggers towards their experience! Allow this awareness to dissolve the core stumbling block, that lurking belief, that life means problems and pain and having it all is an impossible ideal. Move into its deep gnosis that you choose your time of birth as that perfect entry point into what you wish to experience; you fashion a birth environment as that perfect soil, whether seemingly arid or fertile, from which the unique plant ‘you’ can best rise; you become a part of existence and existence looks after itself in myriad ways!

This knowing; this awareness; this recognition is that abundant starting point that begets like wise! It is not a catch 22 but a coup detats! A Fait accomplice! In analogy conjure yourself in a wondrous game shop encouraging you to create your very own product. View yourself   putting together that ‘purr-fect’ jigsaw puzzle – every piece you wish to explore and experience crafted to fit in with one another, building the wonderful larger picture! Tap into your excitement as you leave the shop reveling in the joy that awaits you; not wanting the puzzle already done! Yes there are moments of anxiety and times when the pieces don’t fit, but you rest in the knowing that its fulfillment is inherent within; you can see it clearly on the cover of your box; you start from fullness and in that you enjoy the abundance of putting it all together! 

THE TREASURE OF ALL TREASURES-SACRED AWARENESS

Fulfillment is a mighty magnet drawing to it even more to be fulfilled about! And project abundance, having used its golden keys of awareness to turn that ‘catch 22’ into a win-win starting point, once again throws open its vault of sacred knowledge towards whatever makes you personally feel plentiful - be it material success, family, friends or God if you so choose! So draw from it the precious seed of all abundance, that kernel which imparts that ‘The Unmanifest – Spirit, God or Consciousness - is part of the manifest material world’. Yes dwell on this nugget for a while for only in embracing its truth can you truly welcome living abundantly! Become aware that the ‘physical’ is not separate from the ‘spiritual’; know that matter is consciousness experiencing itself at different frequencies; recognize that God as ‘All That Is’, literally pervades all that is more tangibly around you too.

Indeed this recognition itself helps you move away from another deeply rooted, almost primal stumbling block to enjoying plenitude - for that part of you which still views the physical world as separate and ‘less than’ its Godly counterpart is what   paradoxically separates you from the tangible bounty and munificence of spirit! If you find yourself subliminally justifying your physical needs and desires; if you sense a nagging guilt in its pleasures; if you feel the treasures of comfort and luxury take you away from the divine; if you believe divinity cannot be experienced amidst the physically oriented day-to-day world but only beyond it then use today’s key of awareness to dissolve this hidden hurdle to both- abundant living - and its wholesome divine experience! For indeed the hallmark of true spirituality is when the physical and the spiritual aspects of life are not viewed as two disparate parts in conflict with one another but as one sacred whole.

Let’s Rumi’s words take you beyond words! Read not these as expressions off a printed page but listen to them deep in your heart as he mystically murmurs over time and space: “Whenever you come across a beautiful object, it is God saying “Ah you found me”!” Allow this to awaken your soul memory and remember that God is the unmanifest centre of all that is manifest! You cannot reject the physical world without rejecting its very core – spirit; and if you embrace everything around you as the divine choosing to experience Itself - you enter into true worship; into sacred and abundant living; into your life’s’ wholesome reason to be. So come beloveds and discover the unmanifest that imbues all that is manifest; view how ‘this’ world and ‘That’ world are synonymous; choose not one or the other but the whole; recognize that within the flower is pure spirit and realize that within all that you see, taste, touch or hear is pure consciousness; know that nothing in your physical world- none if its myriad forms be it natures’ flora fauna or mankind’s material world are separate from the spirit that chooses to be them.

Project Abundance unfurls thus the many steps towards being a true devotee to the bounteous Self.  So start yes with reverence to God ‘up there’ in heaven; allow ‘Him’ to come closer and dwell within; and even as you rest in this sacred grove allow ‘Her’ to extend into everything. And in this all encompassing devotion- as you hold nothing separate from you; all that ‘you’ choose can be yours. For at the deepest levels, you only choose what spirit wills to experience through you! You are only the chalice towards divine fulfillment. How can you not overflow with this?

Tap into this gnosis that consciousness itself, as project abundance, brings to ‘you’.

THE GNOSIS OF BLISS!

Let’s start today’s project work with a joke- a befitting chapter for Project Abundance! A young monk who has been assigned to study the monasteries original archives comes rushing out in consternation; and when questioned by the head abbot he literally rolls his r’s to exclaim, “The R…all along the ‘R’ has been forgotten… everyone forgot the ‘R’!  The word in the original document is celebRate- not celibate." And yes this sums up our third key of awareness: Life is a celebration! This is the life affirmative approach of project abundance: the approach of the aesthetic instead of an ascetic; the stand of a lover rather than a renunciate; the prayer of rejoicing in the divine all around you in day-to-day ways rather than somber entreaties towards some inexplicable goal! 

Thus today, project abundance speaks to you of the glory and splendor of creation; it describes existence as the joyful exploration of divine abundance; it asks you to revel and revere not renounce your participation; it invites you to enter wholly into whatever aspect of it you have chosen to experience for the whole. Look around you - your current life is the canvas to paint on it what only you can of this infinite richness! In homage to this divine purpose to exist - enter purposefully into the present moment and enjoy all that makes up your day-to-day life! 

Use today’s key of awareness to know that through the totality of a life fully embraced do you rise to its finer expression; not through escape from all it offers! Pleasure, happiness and joy are all steps to bliss, which pervades existence as its very backdrop or reason to be! Pleasure is experienced in the body through its five senses; happiness through what pleases the mind; joy fills the heart and soul… and just like any stairway gradually takes you higher do you easily and naturally enter the bliss of pure beingness- you renounce but do not alienate; you become ascetic but not austere; you transcend yet remain at the very epicenter of your life and its bounty! 

Abundance is your very nature and not something to acquire but simply rest into; and as you remove the blocks within (rather than fret how to address them outside) you open for first time to its constant flow and it pours forth from you. Witness it all around then- the multitude of sparkling stars, the rich velvet sky, the overflowing rivers and profusion of flowers. View it in more personal ways too- the varied relationships and myriad experiences; all that makes up your comfort zones and all that makes up the pure potential of the unknown; your skills and strengths and yes those challenges that lead you ever more to new heights. Feel it indeed in the constant unflagging heartbeat and the breaths full of infinite life force! Participate in the joy and wonder of life’s richness and watch as it waltzes merrily with you! Seek not to know as much as to enjoy the divine all around! Make your feel good factors your inner guidance system! Your inner joy is your measure of true abundance!

Once again, use words to go beyond them… catch their wordless essence as mystics through the ages murmur: Love and goodness and joy — these are the attributes of the Light and the only true reality. The rest is illusionary- Yehuda. “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever fulfilled” - Walt Disney! “Whatsoever feels good is good, whatsoever feels beautiful is beautiful, and whatsoever makes you joyful, delighted is truth. Let that be your only criterion.” -  Osho