CELEBRATING SYNCHRONICITIES

We Are All Buddhas

Awakening to the awareness of who we truly are and have always been

I came across this quote yesterday by Hui-neng and at first, it made no sense to me. I’ve been meditating on it for well over 24 hours and the meaning finally struck me like a bolt of lightning to my third eye. The quote:

Mortals are Buddhas. Delusion is enlightenment.

Wowsers! So we are born Buddhas, already fully enlightened and all-knowing. Somewhere between birth and spiritual awakening, we’ve forgotten who we are. And so we spend a lifetime perhaps, seeking enlightenment. That is the delusion.

His Holiness The Dalai Lama did a Q&A with some business students from Harvard this morning and many times he related that when we are born, we are pure of heart, much like an enlightened Buddha. We do not know division — of race, religion, or status — and he believes it is through our horrible education systems that we learn of these things. Imagine if our education systems taught us how to embrace others and be compassionate toward all. Imagine a world of seven plus billion people fully embracing who they really are. Imagine how loving and kind this world would be.

Here is the Q&A session:

My heart is over-bursting with compassion for those who’ve never realized who they truly are, for those trapped in earthly beliefs that stagnate their Spirit and all it takes is a re-remembering.

Now that I have a full understanding of this quote, I can no longer understand why I was so confused. The knowing for me is omnipresent now.

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Editors’ Note:

All of the hairs on my arms are already raised and I am beginning to tingle all over.

I am convinced that Ravyne Hawke is “tuned in” and thus her epiphany is a ChannSpiration. Certain re-interpretations of spiritual/religious/philosophical tenets are so special that res ipsa loquitor applies — the thing speaks for itself — her revelation had to be inspired from the supraconsciousness. If not, it may have been inspired by my expanding soul and the energy swap between us as her and my soul expansions overlap like a Venn Diagram, for reasons that I will soon reveal.

But you do not even have to buy into that for this piece to qualify for exhibition in our publication because, as I will lay out for you now, Ravyne’s creation celebrates and demonstrates the existence of serendipitous synchronicity.

A few days ago I placed Ravyne on my list of Illumination writers whose contributions to other publications warrant exposure to Illumination’s editors and readers. Yesterday after the positive reception received my installment showcasing one writer, namely Timothy O'Neill, I happened to read a beautiful poem by Ravyne and determined to dedicate my next installment to her. I was too tired to compile

so went to bed early knowing it was likely I would rise early as well and tackle it then.

That occurred with a wrinkle in time — I opened up Ravyne’s profile page to start to cull pieces for the collection less than a minute after she self-published the instant story. My eyes and heart and third eye lit up and I responded thusly to it:

Do you want to publish that in my new publication, ChannSpirations? I recently had the same epiphany as you, stated thusly:

“I was listening to Aloha Ke Akua and the line “in the image of God” caught my ear, and I started to wonder what the uncorrupted meaning would be. It could certainly refer to souls, and to a baby; after that life takes over — only a newborn is created in the image of god and newborns do not display any masculine vs feminine. Newborns are divine innocence.

Ergo, I responded to [a piece by] Ms. van Tilborgh thusly:

This is not the story of the creation of Adam nor Eve; it is not the story of the creation of a man nor a woman. It is the creation of a baby, which is neither man nor woman, nor even male nor female — it is oneness; it is the creation of them, a divinely innocent baby not yet corrupted by societal constructs of male and female — that is the image of God.

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“Man” was not created in the image of God. Humans are born in the image of God. After that, the soul-contract-scripts start to erode that innocence; life then becomes a journey away from and then back to Source (wow I hope some of you reading this get to feel the energy shift I am now experiencing — every hair on my arms are raised as if I am in an energy field of the most kinetic static electricity).”

Ravyne replied to me:

An excellent epiphany, Greg! Yes, much like my Buddha connect, you found it within the God’s image connect — one and the same, in my opinion. [And your view of what happens after birth aligns with the Dalai Lama’s lament about the failure of the human-constructed education system] I am definitely seeing a collective consciousness worldwide at the moment. So many of us are tuned in to one another.

The interconnected dots are all here.

This synchronous chain of events actually began in December 2013 when I wrote my very first ever deep-dive and quoted the archetype for my Journey to the East, and my writing, my unbeknownst-to-me-mentor, Hermann Hesse:

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, … ever deeper into human life. … Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to absorb more and more of the world and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded soul, if you are to ever find peace. This is the road that Buddha and every great man has gone, whether consciously or not, insofar as fortune favored his quest. All births mean separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.

We look forward to any reader-responses.

In Rama I create,

Marcus