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The Curse and The Blessing, Trying to sort it out

Posted by Don Paine

A Grandfather's wisdom?:

When I withhold the blessing of love and peace from my grandchildren in an attempt to get them to obey and respect I short circuit the circuitry of the internal system.  It is the curse that disses the system and disavows the intuitive nature of the system.  When I lavish love and peace on my grandchildren without an agenda and with full acceptance the internal system of love and nurturance is sustained.  I do not ignore the parts that misbehave.  I address the part that misbehaves while not neglecting the core of love and peace.  I nurture the system that is self-regenerating, self-sustaining, and self healing and self correcting when love and peace offer the same to the triggered parts in the system.  Loving my grandchildren into the experience of perpetual love and peace through welcoming and loving all triggered parts into a life of balance, harmony and integrity is my goal.

So here is some musing to that end.

The curse and the blessing that the church has held out to the world is one that basis its focus on the doing of good or not doing bad.  This creates a curse so that when I do good it is not at all about me and when I do bad it is all about me.  The blessing and the curse are equal curses in different ways.

Another way to look at the curse and the blessing is to move the focus from doing to being.  The curse that is before us is not the force which has us sin but the inclination to reach outside and down for our sense of worth and well being.  The belief that we need to go outside for validation and worth is a curse.  Likewise the focus on doing and not on being creates a perpetual curse cycle.  The curse is not a curse because we disobey but a curse that leads to disobedience. The blessing if we obey is not the obedience to a moral code of conduct but the obedience or obeseness that is intuitive and internally focused that knows we have inside all the blessing we need.  Look outside for blessing is the curse of the system that has lost its focus.  The intuitive system knows that there is a well inside all people that springs up into everlasting living when it is released from the burden and betrayal of the system.  The curse is the burden and betrayal of the system when it believes it has to look outside.  The blessing comes naturally when we believe that everything we need is already in us, begotten not created.  We reach in and up not out and down.

Believing in God outside and inside harmonizes and balances the system and generates meaning, purpose, and worth from inside thus blessing it to perpetual compassion and calmness.
Disbelieving in God and reaching outside the system for meaning, purpose and worth creates imbalance and disharmony in the system thus cursing it to perpetual frustration and fear.


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