Image 9 Bowie Buddha Heart Wisdom

The Mind is both collective and eternal; but the brain is a part of our anatomy - it will eventually die. That part of us that lives in the dreamtime could be all that truly exists, as part of a continuum. Perhaps in time, as we learn more through DNA studies, we shall begin to hit scientific discoveries which have been discussed in Buddhist and Hindu philosophies for thousands of years.

The brain is something that can be taken out of the skull and chopped up... The Mind is bigger than that! (Some say it's the brain that is the first thing to go...!) Our spirit and our brains are not succinct. In order to attain peace and personal strength, it's crucial to learn how to meditate, to "dis-cover" the light of our own divinity, or Buddha Nature, through stilling the racket of the brain. As language mutates and redevelops more sophistication in patterns, human being will learn that there is a difference between the Mind (consciousness) and the brain. The Mind is the eternal watcher; the brain is the "doer". Do you remember these first experiences as a child with thought-form developing from your environment? Many people undergo cognitive therapy to deprogram themselves of the environment, establish better mental and emotional boundaries for themselves, and to learn how to speak and think in more life-affirming ways. Your body does things, but you are not your body. Your brain filters and tunes-out daily information, but your eternal awareness takes it in.

The mind is inclusive of all beings; it is collective consciousness. Only humans differentiate from animals in separating thoughts in our brains. Therefore it is very easy to become conditioned by judgment, presumption and prejudice. Animals live in an natural honesty. Buddha put forth the invitation to humankind, to experience our own natural authenticity. We can discover this Buddha Nature by keeping open hearts and being compassionate about our own limitations. In this way we can open-up the light and love we need. Receiving this light as an actual phenomenon; it is not a feeling, it is not knowledge, it is relief. It is inclusive all things, for meditation is a way to plug-in to God. White Light meditation is the very thing that animates what Buddhists call the bones of right action.

If we can learn to be still with the energy, others will learn from our example. In love, there must be trust. If there there is no trust, then there is no love. What might be viewed as love is something else, without trust. Do you understand? Like the lotus flower rising up from a seed, our hearts also rise up... Our hearts can learn how to rise up time and again. Trust in you. Love you! Allow your energies of enlightenment to ascend upward, through the murk and muck of the world, unite with your Higher Power. It's here we attain inner-peace.

Inner-peace is the true power all beings strive for... (It does not, however, come from striving; it comes from meditation!)

"I think when I was working as a younger man, I had a pretty fatuous idea that I was, that my work was me, you know... But it's an aspect of my person, my myriad and complex personality. I was quite certain that it represented me and in fact, at the worst times in my life I think it probably stood for me... I'm not of that persuasion anymore. I feel much... [Loud commotion outside] I'm sorry. I just can't concentrate when other people are talking... [Laughing] My voice has to be the loudest in the room!" - David Bowie; Raygun, Oct. 1995

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