Silence

I received an email with this question: "What is the single most important practice in Real Magic?" I went into a meditative space and as I observed myself giving myself space to receive an answer, I realized that I always went to Silence. When I truly desire to give Truth, I go to Silence. I would say, then, that the single most important practice in any way of life, not only in the Tao of Real Magic, is Silence.

Don't choose silence; just say the word. Don't choose love, don't choose wisdom - as soon as we choose it an idea of what love or wisdom or peace or freedom is, begins to churn in our interpretive mind. Choose to let go of the interpretive mind and its addiction to ideas. Say, then, "Silence".

In that Silence is the complete letting go of ideas about separation, being victim, being right, fearing to be wrong, the letting go of interpretation, the letting go of thought itself, the letting go of 'being'. Just say, "Silence". If you choose to let go or receive you are in the realm of ideas. Silence is the end of ideas. The blessed end of ideas. Be willing to have no ideas, no thing, no source, no truth, no me, no you... What happens in this space?

Love comes alive. Wisdom comes alive. What was there all the time hidden behind all the ideas of this or that or the one thing or the no thing and the looking for the meaning of this, that, and the other, is only the love, peace, and wisdom that is alive in that vast space of Silence that is truly you--where you truly live.

Have a beautiful Solstice, Christmas, New Year's celebration and a miraculous experience of all your days being bright and filled with the Silence of the Christ in 2010. Yes, that is an idea but it is my favorite idea and my goal as a Real Magic practitioner and teacher! God bless us every one!

You

I was just reading the intention for this blog again and it’s really quite beautiful.  Thank you.  I read it often and feel the connection.

What strikes me today about this introduction, is how much I don’t know about the other students in this community. There is a collective knowledge through experience here that is palpable and rare.

I want to know more about you - after all these years of study, after all of these power points, after all of the mantras, who have you become?  Are you inspired?  Are you at peace?  Are you indescribable?  Are you utterly unsure?  What is your soul’s desire? What is your continued resistance?

I would like to use you if you are willing.  Use your wisdom, use your insight - as a tool that continues to inspire, nudge and move me through my ego and deeper into truth and practice.  I will happily in turn, do the same.

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”  - George Bernard Shaw

I wanted to write something from the new book and I began thinking about magic. That it is a word that has a lot of bad press yet it is such a creative beautiful work we do when we accomplish magical living. It has a bad press because it has been condemned by patriarchial thinking-- both superstitious definitions and intellectual definitions condemn magic as being both occult and female. Churches--Buddhist, Christian, Islamic-- condemn it and the practice of it.

To me it is a beautiful word and it implies something beautiful. It implies a beautiful relationship with Creation; it implies the conscious and wise transmutation of form. It implies miracles. I love living a magical existence, a miraculous existence. I would like to know your thoughts. I know that some of you resisted that word because of status pressure and a need for validation, for spiritual apporval from a larger audience. Did you ever feel that way? Do you still feel that way? What is your relationship with the word magic?