Another wonderful bit of wisdom I learned from my Grandad:
Although he knew he would die soon, he forbid me from coming to his funeral. He just did not want me to see him laying dead in a coffin. He told me, “I’m not this body, and I don’t want you to remember me that way”. He was 76 when we had that one sided discussion. He was right. I remember his fatherly, gentle and wise, friendly and outgoing embodiment of universal Energy. I surround myself with that Energy when I thank him in my prayers for the lessons he shared with me.
We are not our bodies. How true, now that I understand it. It wasn’t an easy lesson for me to digest because Grandad was all family and love to me. We are only our spirit, our soul in our body. Our body is all we have, right now, but this too will change.
We are far more than our bodies are capable of containing.
We are spirits encased in flesh. We live from life to life and are the accumulation of all that we have experienced in every life we have ever lived. Whether we allow ourselves to open to that soulful knowledge is a choice we each make, or don’t. It doesn’t matter. Really. Accepting the soulful perspective that we are share croppers on the fields of our fleshy nature, plowing and sowing experiences onto our spirit in the field of Energy that we call this Universe, can be quite the eye opening revelation.
Religion and spirituality are not codependent. One does not need the other to exist. Both can exist separate from the other. Both can exist together. There are many religious people void of spirituality, their practice has become hollow gestures and rituals, glass shards in trash heaps. Yet, they are happy with this. There are many religious people that are spiritual.
Likewise, there are many spiritual people void of religious inclinations, yet, have found a way to peace and happiness, Source and Spirit. Maybe religion assisted them to that point?
There are religions void of their spirituality, and there are forms of spirituality that no religion can bind or include.
For the most part, one particular question is brought to each religion by it’s adherents or disciples.
What happens to us when we die.
It is a fundamental question and many religions explain their perspective to us, through books and verses, priests and holy men. Indeed, answering this question becomes a fixated point to religion. This question is answered with variations on Heaven and Hell, Reincarnation, Paradise….
But wait! Just WHY exactly are we asking THAT particualr question?!
We ask religion this question because we tend to be more concerned with what will become of us instead of:
What becomes us?
What will happen to us?, instead of, What is happening to us?
How will we survive?, instead of, How are we surviving now?
Could it be we are approaching religion (and conversely, spirituality- as many find this through religion) with the wrong fundamental question?
What happens while we live?!
Do we want to know how to live so that we can die in a manner that allows us the benefits of a religions idea of where “good” people go?
Or, do we bring the right question to religions table and ask it “How do we live to live good while here, to live in a manner that allows Spirit and Source to manifest from us, to flow from us?” You see, even if you don’t believe in reincarnation…, isn’t the best way to serve a religion by serving it’s God? What better way to serve God by allowing the creators work to manifest through you in this field of Energy that we call Life, Now, Here.
Is religion or our perception of Spirit, Source flawed? Are we flawed?
We are perfect because we are the creations of the universe, God lives through us and in our experiences! Maybe we don’t “get it right”, but then again, maybe we’re learning a lesson to use in our next lives!
Have a Blessed Day!
Big hugs,
J. Henry
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