“For as long back in this life as I can remember, I have found myself captivated when looking at people. My mother would constantly correct me saying, “Don’t stare”. But even with her admonitions I would simply engage in peripheral vision. When I looked at people with this focused stare, I saw things that opened the multi-dimensional door for me in a myriad of ways. I could do this without thinking and yet I’d become lost in thoughts I could not describe.”
Read MoreI can say the point again, but before I do, let’s remember why and what we are here practicing. We are learning about an art…an art of giving…and way of being in the moment that can unlock the inward understandings of everything.
Now here is the point: when you practice, you have to go through the prime positions to bring anything into being.
Read MoreAs I wrote earlier, it was eating from the tree of knowledge that separated Adam and Eve from the Known. Before they took that turn, they were dwelling in a sense of Oneness with the Known. Adam was primarily looking inward and Eve was primarily looking outward, but they shared a Known connection between themselves. As they lived in this inner connection, it provided them with a Knowing of the Known, and they became Known for it.
Read MoreUsing the understandings is the way to understand them better and it leads to more of the Knowing aspect within when we use them as they are Known instead of how they are known or unknown. Are there gradations of knowing? Yes, there are gradations of Knowing, just as there are gradations of knowing. As you come to know me more, you will have more knowledge of me and of my understandings. As you come to Know me more, you will have more Knowledge of Me and my Understandings.
Read MoreThe points we are discussing are not only in every one of us, they are in our moments as well. If we consider the moment as a cross section of life’s ongoing momentum, we will have a slice of living current to examine. This slice is one part of a continuum. This cross-sectional view and the continuum it belongs to is our subject when we become aware of life as a continuum and when we become aware our relationship to it.
Read MoreIt is important that we can move both inwardly and outwardly through our givings, as this enables us to navigate through life’s many circumstances and to line up with the spiritual values and matters of the moment. But I do want to once again address the outward and inward directions as I am using them. Outward values are values that are negative to a particular state of being and inward values are positive to that same state of being. By state of being, I am including any particular value, any reason, any manner or way, and any point.
Read MoreLet’s consider Adam and Eve. These are the names given to the Prime positions of Male and Female in this current model of humanity. Even the names have meaning. These prime points are in each application of this model, you being one and me being another. These are also the names given to the beings incarnating into those first two Prime positions. It is not the names of the souls. It is the names of those particular lives. This model, along with previous models, such as the Neanderthals, was created as an evolving species and there is an evolvement within each model. But previous models were in need of revision and the beings that created the new more evolved model set about to do just that. These beings, known as the Elohim were the creative team. Genesis says ‘They created Adam in Their own image.’ This refers to the Creators, acting as God, being seven in number, each representing the seven spirits of God, or the seven chakras, also referred to as the seven seals in humanity’s closed forms of awareness.
Read MoreThis essay delves into Adam and Eve, including describing both what they symbolically represent and literally empower within each of us. The basic notion being that Adam represents the part of us that is facing inward toward source and Eve represents that part of us that is facing outward toward matter. The Christ-point describes the hovering or balancing in between these two aspects of our nature. And when we balance the most perfectly, in a 50/50 position, we are unifying the two parts into one.
The Christ is not a person. It is a way of being. Christ is the mend for the riff of separation caused by the fall of Adam. Christ is the mend for the separation in us all if we claim the place in the heart where it is the in-dwelling of. It represents a way of connecting to the ONEness. Adam was the name given to the soul entering into a new model of Humanity. That model was paired into male and female and was called Adam and Eve. They each represented an aspect of being. Christ is the way of connecting those aspects.
Read MoreGiving is a universal principle. Everyone is a giver in their life. Some people focus on the value of their giving more than others. Of those people, some focus on the value of what they give, while others focus on the value of giving itself. We want to put our attention and study on the value of giving and how to improve our connection to our reason for being through our acts of giving.
Read MoreSometimes Principles and Truths become fashionable and we lose the actualizing to temporal expression. Sometimes Truths and even Love can be used as very hurtful weapons, injuring the Hearts and Hopes of others and ourselves.
As we study and practice to be more in line with what we want our Eternal Relationship to be more about, we begin to see Principles in more meaningful ways.
Read MoreIn my experience, the only way to continuously grow our inner values is to see the inner values growing and expressing in the lives of ourselves and of others. When looking at the extremist in anything, you can position yourself where you feel the extremist is not able to see anything inwardly. You can become an extremist when you feel no one can see inwardly except you.
Read MoreCompassion begins to yield understanding of others when we realize we are all practicing being in the human experience and that we have freedoms, restrictions, abilities, limitations, and various forms of reasoning based on our cultures, our dwells, and our interpretations of humanity’s reason for being and our reason for being.
Read MoreI understand how it can be difficult to practice in the moment. I have been teaching ideas like this for many years and over the years I have worked with clients and students who have presented countless variations in their understandings and applications. I have seen what works well and where students can have difficulty.
Read MoreThe best practice is to look for life to be a way of practicing what you want to be more about - in everything you do.
Read MoreGIVING AND ITS PRINCIPLES - Scott Walter, Sensei
Most people who tithe are giving out of duty or kindness. But they are not realizing an improved connection to source each time they give. The same thing happens to most musicians — when they play and have a moment of connection, they don’t know how to build it into a further one, one in which it just keeps getting better and better. It is the master musician who knows how to do that, and it is the master in life who knows how to do that. Mastering life should be certainly about doing that, otherwise we’re not even in tune with our reason for being. How can we master something, including our reason for being, if we are not even in tune with it? It is almost unbelievably embarrassing.
Read MoreMOVING THROUGH THE VALUES OF THE MOMENT - Scott Walter, Sensei
We can begin to practice in any moment we choose to better understand our reasons and reasoning through these principles. When we focus our practice to become balanced between Appreciation and Gratitude, we have an opportunity to Respect the current Value of our reason and reasoning; we can position ourselves in our givings to recognize both the values of the matter and the spiritual values relating to our reason. Now, as I have pointed out before, both Appreciation and Gratitude have values and are necessary; the problem with these values is when we get stuck in them. Then we need a way to move to a more or less valuable version of our reasoning. Which way we choose to go depends on the situation, but typically, people are so off balance in their ability to recognize where they are in the changing values in a reason or reasoning, they tend to lose sight of their reasons and give in to a lower reason or value in matter, or they may be unable to effect their reasons in matter at all, getting frustrated and having no way to bridge the gap.
Read MoreThe Center is an outreach of the Little Creek Monastery. We provide the Center as a modest service to assist fellow seekers in their studies, understandings, applications and realizations along the inner path of Harmony.
Read MoreTHE ART OF GIVING - Scott Walter, Sensei
The idea of The Art of Giving Series and the Principles that I developed and teach in this series is to offer an understanding in how we can better serve the Divine, ourselves and our worlds through the ways in which we give.
It is important to consider that there are many ways to define what is better, so I chose to offer a way that would include the increasing of any form of value. Now consider, if you will, that having a way to grow any particular value, in any moment to some degree, would be a worthy study and practice.
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