No ideology - be it political or religious or spiritual or scientific or whatever - will save us. Christ - one - is not an ideology, and Christ does not belong to any religion, either. Christ transcends all that, and that transcendence is the hope of our transcendence. Christ is both the potential and actuality of oneness, now. In this sense, we are creators of oneness, by the choices and actions we make. Without one another, there is no hope for us. We must believe in and choose the power of Love, not the forces against Love. Now is the time. Will we follow? Will we open our hearts to be Love together?

*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi

Joseph Campbell, late, eminent mythologist, overheard a social philosopher from New York speak to a Shinto priest. The philosopher observed, "We've been now to a good many ceremonies and have seen quite a few of your shrines. But I don't get your ideology. I don't get your theology." The Japanese paused, as though in deep thought, slowly shook his head, and replied, "I think we don't have ideology. We don't have theology. We dance."

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Dance and the dancer become one. All becomes the dance, dancing. This way of living - living like dancing - means a dissolving of holding onto any ideology - literally, idea-ology - in the abandonment to Life. To experience this transcendence, you live through the ideology until the ideology fulfills itself within you - just as the instructions on a particular form of dancing must live through the dancer dancing, for the ideology to dissolve in the dance. This is the way with all art, and living Life is artful.

Too many persons now think they can be free from ideology without living through it. For example, to transcend religion one lives through it - and transcending does not mean being irreligious, or against religion, or not participating in a religion. Western society is filled with false transcendence. If you truly transcend, you see the absurdness and immaturity of this always unlearned, oft arrogant show of supposed transcendence, and how akin this is to religious and political fundamentalism. Recall, true transcendence is not based on mere rejection, but inclusion, yes transformation of that prior, into a more mature, whole way.

If you exhaust the inspiration of the ideology - and this will be painful, the more painful for those who have been taught that what their particular group teaches is the sole way of seeing and saying -, you will experience a Love and Freedom beyond it - but you must allow it to exhaust itself in you. Does this mean you have no ideas about Grace? Correct. You have nothing. You will experience a transpersonal - not personal or impersonal - relationship with ideas. You will know them as, at best, impartial signs. You will no longer be enamored with your thoughts. You will be in love with Truth, but not as an idea, an ideology, a philosophy, a theology.... Life is not an ideology. Life is Life.

*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi

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* * * CLOSING BLESSING * * *

Grace and Peace to All

The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You

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*Lotus of the Heart is a Work of Arem Nahariim-Samadhi. Bless You Each & All!