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Truth and Music

5/31/2020

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Truth will call on us to let go of who we believe we are, both the good and the bad. Truth might insist we change our perspective when we just want things to be different, or to change things when we wish we could just change our perspective.   

But we won't listen to truth, no matter how much it yells at us.  We will listen enough to grumble and do the changes necessary to avoid punishment, 

However, if we listen deeply to truth, we can 
 realize we are just a brief note in the infinite symphony playing around us.   Only then can we play our part with joy. 


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“Let me be an instrument of your Peace”St. Francis

5/24/2020

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We are like instruments.  I always read “instrument” in the St. Francis prayer as a musical instruments.  All musical instruments are hollow..  For the sound of an instrument to ring pure, it needs a hollow center, that allows the materials of the instrument to vibrate and resonate with the sound vibrations sent by string, breath, or percussion.

In the same way, we need an empty space at our own center to ring true to our unique sound, for our being to resonate with the breath of existence.  When empty we are free to give ourselves to the sound so that it reaches other’s ears.  We cannot vibrate with peace, or joy, if we are carrying around all sorts of things inside of us.  We will give a muffled sound or distorted at best, if we can produce a sound at all.

The question is how do we empty out?  We are so full thoughts, memories, beliefs, judgements and so on, occupying the space in us that is meant to be hollow.

I know I am not hollow because my body tells me.  It feels solid, constrained, and heavy with emotions.  When I am aware I am not hollow, I reach inside to take out whatever is there.  I reach a hand inside and feel and touch the things in the darkness, so that I hold them and recognize them.  There is not really another way, we need to hold something in order to release it.

The more we have the experience of hollowness the more we begin to recognize and truly appreciate who we are, how we sound, the beautiful instrument we are.


The more hollow we are, the more we can listen to sound of life, expressed through others and the world around us and understand how all of us fit in this greater harmony.



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Joy as Infinite Possibility

5/17/2020

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Sitting in my living room, with the eternal buzz of the computer in the background, I think about the definition of the word “joy”.  No dictionary can give me what I am looking for.  I am searching not for meaning but for description.  Not for description of what causes joy, but for description of feeling itself.


Joy is a smile I say.  But not the external smile, the child’s smile, the mother’s smile, the kind stranger’s smile.  It is not your smile, it is an internal, smile of the heart.  It is a lightness, a song, a bursting, a dance.  Not a song you sing, or a dance you dance, but song you wish to sing, a dance you want to dance.  It is the bubbling bursting sense of the infinite, where there is infinite possibility.


What else could joy possibly be?  Nothing could possibly give us joy outside of us, all that outside of us can do is help us connect to sense of possibility.  Joy becomes sacred when we look deep into that well that holds the eternal waters.  This where joy becomes divine, this when joy cannot be taken away, because it exists in that place, close to the fountain itself.


Every other joy can be taken, the lover might leave, the job might dissolve, the newborn might not live. Unless our joy springs from pure infinite possibility, it cannot be lasting, because nothing really is.


So, have I had this experience.  Nothing is simple, and I think I have, and you have, but it is often not pure.  It is a mixture of our sensing the possibilities we consider wonderful, and a connection to the infinite, where it is always undescribable, eternally wonderful.  But we allow the small doomed joys to close our eyes when they pass, thinking that is all we had.

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    Armando is a Song Healer and Intuitive Guide.  He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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