Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The secret to peace






Peace on earth won't begin with a saying. 

It will begin when the heart cannot take the nonsense it experiences any longer and understands that Divine connection to something greater is indeed possible. Peace will then become as tangible and real as anything else that is created on earth through application of universal principles.

Peace is not an etheric concept or some bullshit bumper sticker. Peace is indeed a possibility, but it is created ( or destroyed) by choice. Peace has to have its creative origins in a state of nothingness, it cannot have an agenda, it cannot have a goal or a projected outcome.

It has be a "canvas" state where future outcomes are not decided by past histories personal wants or desires, but driven by the longing to see what was and create what can be...not through repetition of prior energies that have caused turmoil, but by fully understanding the capability of human consciousness and applying that power to change the past "dna" of hate and war.

This historical energy has always had origins with the human mind and "thoughts of" another person or situation. A clenching choke of "reality" then once again plays out, as a person gets caught in a response wave and can only react to the invisible "what was" of past emotional ties that then lead his/her addictive actions to create the all to familiar repetitive outcomes such as hate/war/fear/ etc.

Peace is a layered action that builds in time, not in an instant....it is sort of like hair, it slowly grows ( well, not in my case, but for those with hair).

You cannot however, add a peaceful layer to life and then oppose it shortly afterwards by conflicting actions, as your choice to do so simply removes the foundation that you have placed and then you wind up playing catch up, running on a etheric treadmill that goes nowhere.




Peace is 100% all in, all the time....or not.



The Rabid Monk





Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Cool







When exactly deep  temperature become a way that describes who a person is ? 

A "cool" person with a "hot" body?

That seems to be extremes on both ends. Kind of against the universal yin yang balance don't you think?

I guess if you say to someone you are so "luke warm" you would be really be complementing them, as that is saying they have perfect energetic balance, but they probably wouldn't get it and probably want to slap you.

But that is just my point of view, the luke warm ( and humble).....


 Rabid Monk


Monday, December 23, 2013

read this








Spiritual while alive






Time and things change, that is the fact jack. 

The mind also has to change with time & the spirit has to do so as well. A leisure suit was great in 1975, but walk into a job interview wearing one now and chances are ( unless you are doing a 70's porn movie re-creation) you will not be hired.

The suit was great then, now??? mmmmmm, not so much.

The same thing applies to understanding oneself and ones sense of spirituality. A spiritual pursuit shouldn't just be a "pursuit" for your whole life and then after years of being faithful to it, you just friggin' drop...Yay enlightenment! Oh shit, wait, I am dead.

The process should have a sense of "arrival" at specific stages in your life which then leads to introspection on completion of each wonderful chapter that has unfolded. A person then can appreciate what they have done and then move to a new level of reality ( kind of like when a snake sheds it's skin) one that has always been right in front of them all along, waiting for them to "spiritually mature".

Far too often though, people just keep on plodding away, day after day, year after year without any goal in mind to what this whole "invisible" spiritual stuff is about. This ( in The Rabid Monk's concepts) is a version of energetic stagnation.

The internal spirit/lifeforce/chi/prana/ki/tao/apple pie...(whatever it is you believe in) desires movement and results, not a stagnation of life itself while you wait to "spiritually advance".

Sure, people have certain spiritual beliefs and I am not telling anyone what to believe in, what I am saying is a personal spiritual journey should manifest changes within a persons consciousness and bring them to new heights and levels of appreciation of all, ones that actually bridge the gap between the spiritual and physical worlds. ( Insert standard horseshit sounding positive statement here : ) -You can't see where you are going unless you truly see where you have been. 

This understanding makes a person a part of the changes they seek and actually opens more doors in regards to a persons own personal belief systems.


The Rabid Monk


Saturday, December 21, 2013

Spiritual Grapes FIGHT BACK














The Rabid Monk

The owl pr scam

So an owl says "who", correct?

Well, an owl  that also asks that same question over and over,  cannot be that wise.
Maybe shake it up a bit, throw in a " what", " oh really" or even a " I never would have imagined that".

Whoever's marketing and branding  the owl as the smart bird should rethink the strategy, I think people are catching on.

Just sayin'


The Rabid Monk

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Whaaaa?

Words of ...waaaaa?


"Looking back at forward, I begin to see the past is ahead of me."
The Rabid Monk
Ps
What the hell does that mean? #constipatedkarma

Frozen solid








Do people know that perception can indeed freeze people their tracks?

I am always amazed that because of my frank, funny way to approach spiritual matters, that people often do not take me seriously. I have to laugh inside, because I am indeed the very man that cured the blind and made infertile women have children ( and much more) for 15 years at my former office in Boston on Newbury Street.

So based on that, I know a "bit" about this "spiritual energy stuff"....wouldn't you say?


The hard thing is perception though as people have locked themselves into a idea of what teacher should look and act like. I feel in many ways, like a spiritual pioneer and as a result of that I often have to exert tremendous amounts of energy to show people that you can indeed have a Divine connection and also say shit at the same time ( gasp!)

It is worth it though, I am not complaining ( well, maybe a bit).



The Rabid Monk

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Know yo' goals






Make sure you know your true goals or you can travel far and still be in the shit.


The Rabid Monk

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

21st century spiritual chit chat





To look at the self is possibly the biggest obstacle on a person journey into spiritual matters. 

Sure, there is much complexity in regards to the idea of thought/prayer/desire/letting go etc.

But it all comes down to the self and how a person either does 1 of 2 things:

1-Continues the journey into the unknown
2-Stops the journey and continues past energies as a result


When a person makes the effort to look at themselves, lots of stuff will indeed pop up. There may be times you feel all "holy and self righteous" because of good deeds you have done, other days, well, as in my cartoon above, you may remember times you were indeed a prick.

To look behind BOTH elements is to pursue the greatest adventure of all, the journey of your consciousness during your lifespan. A lifespan is indeed short and the learning curve is constantly underway in one shape or form as we mature.  Spiritual pursuits however, can be absolutely frustrating at times as it seems that challenge is the only result of said pursuits. 

This occurs most of the time because people ( despite being dedicated to spiritual matters) also get influenced by past sages and lose their own personal pursuit for understanding and follow vs leading....themselves. The get caught up in sacrifice or spend countless hours to discover what cant be discovered and then wind up just being a cliche phrase sayer vs actually progressing spiritually.

Expansion of thought and expansion of the soul is based entirely on the time frame that the human life is evolving in. You cannot have the same reality as someone in 1945, they would look at you as a spaceman or spacewoman if you said at the time " I will just video chat with my friend to find out where the best place to eat is, or let me just check my gps"….. But yet spiritual pursuits still seem to be stuck in time.....

The same exact thing has to happen with human consciousness ( like the advancing of technology), we can appreciate the information that was given before to us by spiritual pioneers, but we have to now embrace ourselves in the 21st spiritual century.  We have to look at spiritual matters as global matters, we have to look at our “inner time” (meditation/prayer, etc) and see how it can directly alter our “outer time” ( reality). 

No longer can we think we are not part of the power that we desire, our souls desire change, we all feel it.



It is time.




The Rabid Monk







Monday, December 9, 2013

Gain balance, flip the tip, get a grip, don't slip.





"In the beginning there was the word"...lots of words.


I believe in some consciousness that is indeed greater than us, a Divine source that we are a constant part of. The swing and a miss that people often subject themselves to, is the strikeout of not connecting to this source through action on a daily basis. People sit on a tack and then complain about the pain, they continue a negative pattern by asking for something good to happen from this source..." I hope something good will happen because...my life is....blah blah blah".

You cannot serve 2 Masters, you cannot dwell on shit and then ask for a miracle.

You are part of that source, you can make things happen for yourself if you are willing to break the cycles that you are always engaging in through repetitive actions on your part ( physical actions, introspection, patterns, etc).  In may seem like you are swimming upstream, it may be very hard sure, but inside you is the same exact "stuff" that was inside Jesus, The Buddha, Moses, etc...all of them.

I have the fortune of knowing this for a fact, because in the past, I was a very successful healer in Boston ( on swanky Newbury Street) for 15 years. I never took "credit" for the countless amazing instances of healing or allowed my ego to say that " I was doing all the miracles".

No.

I told every single person that thanked me endlessly... to not thank me, thank the Boss " I am just the plumber, unclogging stuff".

Now have people simply sent me stuff to help them without asking if it is okay to? Yes, that has been my experience from time to time since doing this Rabid Monk cartoon. Strangers just send me issues for me to "fix" without asking me if it is okay to do so or understanding that there are always complex energetic issues behind what they ask, very complex issues.

Do I always help those who do this? No, not really.

Why Rabid Monk do you do this? are you not a "healer" ?

Well, yes, I actually am. It is hard to show people the totality of energy though, it is tough showing them the truth. The issue of people just dumping stuff on me and helping them all the time does not help the person who has done the dumping.  I can do much and have done much, but I cannot help people that do not understand the energy of the good ol yin yang, as crap will always come back again for them somehow ( call that Karma is you want).

The Gospel of Thomas ( just using this as a reference, I embrace all info) speaks of this "yin-yang" balance this way: "When they receive you, eat whatever they to serve you ( yin). Heal those among them who are sick ( yang).

People have to see that a scale cannot be tipped to one side, it does nothing to transmute energy this way, it doesn't erase issues, it just moves them for a bit. ie: If someone does something for you, do something for them.


"In the beginning there was the word"...lots of words.

The word in in this instance?


Balance.


(Hmmmm, pretty good healing lesson for a rainy monday morning don't you think?)


The Rabid Monk




Saturday, December 7, 2013

The balance of a horses ass






Hmmmm..............??????

 When exactly did a horses ass become the reference point for humans making improper decision?

I mean, a horses ass is noble, it supports a rider, it carries the weight of a load...So when did some people think that this was indeed a way to degrade other people by referring them to be one? It seems quite contrary to the actual nobility of the body part.

Will it continue to other objects or animals?

"Quit being a blender"..." You are such a 56k modem"..." Yup, typical response from the back portion of the lower leg joint of a yak".....


Hmmmm..............??????

I say we return the horses ass to the status of nobility.......and if there is still a desire to refer to our fellow woman and man in a negative sense....


Use this: " You are acting like a politician" that type of energy everyone can relate to.



The Rabid Monk

Friday, December 6, 2013

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Whoah...a cosmic picture frame....intense man, intense.



What is more important do you think...the smaller picture frame or the bigger picture?

Life can ( and will) confine you at times if you allow it to.

Many volunteer their lives to what is called a"normal life" and trudge along for years till " The end" eventually arrives and then they question if they made the correct choices throughout their lifespan.
Some seek pursuits that are "of a spiritual nature" and as a result, also spend their lives in the same existence as someone who chose the "normal" way and thus wind up questioning things as well "in the end".

How so?

Well extremes on both ends just lead to the same outcome.

A spiritual person who always looks at the etheric qualities of life may miss the rhythm and order of existence by being so "searchy" (You know, the super deep type that over spiritually analyze?) and the " Norm" seeker will miss out on the chance to explore life " Out of the box".

Life is a combo platter...the "spiritual" is a portion, the "norm" is a portion, both work together and should never oppose each other.  When one dominates then the balance is upset.  Think about a yin yang, being to "yinny" or "yangggy" if one color dominates then the 50/50 is tilted.

Hug a tree sure, but you also need to make money to purchase a seed to plant to make the tree. The major difference is a balanced mind, looks at all aspects, not just the hug or the purchase.


The Rabid Monk






Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The mystery of a Divine menu

•Big counter above, big chair, big spoon, big sky

•Yummy Cookie

•Which way do I go?

•Which religious concept?

 •Who am I?

•Turn that loud music you damn kids!

•What the hell is going on?

•Ooh look at the pretty tree

•Big counter above, big chair, big spoon, big sky



The above represents a few stages of life as we age.

Ohhh the vibrance of youth, when a kitchen counter was so very high above us,  a chair was like a mountain, a spoon; a shovel and the glory of a cookie! As we age and life adds it bullshit and experiences, we begin to lose this wonder and begin try to "figure" things out.

This starts a long period of trial and error, of discovery and of loss. We get tossed and turned in a sea of stimulation for years and then all of a sudden, one day, the loud music that we loved to blast and annoy people with, well, is just a bit too loud. We begin to see mortality unfold before us as the movie stars that we enjoyed begin to pass away, the rock stars we rock and rolled all night with, age and retire and we (gasp) no longer get looks from the opposite sex.

The stages that follow as life ticks almost repeats the vibrance of youth, as the mind questions the lifespan itself (What the hell is going on)...Instead of seeing wonder, it wonders. When this stage passes, life begins to return to the state of simplicity and then finally the body readies itself for transition once again.

This isn't a "heavy" or depressing post, rather a way to address many of the questions that people have asked me in regards to faith and spiritual practices.

You see, a spiritual practice has to enlighten you, with emphasis on "lighten". Our lifespans are far too short to not feel a connective bliss on earth from a Divine source ( Whatever source you want to believe in). We are just here to advance and learn. Some methods remove "sin", some say clean up "karma", some study "past lives"....etc. All are basically are looking for the same thing, a connection to something greater on this plane of existence, to return back to a state of peace within ones consciousness.

But you need not have burden while doing so, for that burden becomes a burden and burden then becomes the emphasis, not peace.

Spiritual matters are complex, sure.

But when people along the journey say " My life is hard or someone I know is acting like a jerk..etc" that is the exact time to look behind the curtain, to see the self, to discover the strength, the clarity, the untold possibility that you have within.

Things come up to be released, not to be replayed....energy is movement.

So whatever stage of life you are in, the " Who am I" or the "Yummy cookie" realize that it is a stage that you are in and to completely embrace where you are and by doing so, you can indeed achieve amazing things.


The Rabid Monk






Sunday, December 1, 2013

Spiritual feet, don't fail me now...daddy o'




So.... there is a great book of beatnik influenced self discovery called " On the Road" written by the late Jack Kerouac ( I have spoke of this book in prior posts). If you have not read it, it tells the story of criss cross travels around America and the related experiences and characters along the way.

I being The Rabid Monk, always have to put a spiritual spin on all things and want to use Mr. Kerouac's novel as a tool to do so.

You see, once we are born, throughout all of our life, we are indeed   "On the road" in some way, shape or form. Each chapter that unfolds, we find odd characters, new situations, drama, love, conflict..etc..." On the Road ( during our lifetime)".

It may seem at times that life sucks, but you are just in the suck chapter (s). There is one exception however, you are not just an observer reading it ( your life novel)....you are writing it through your actions and behaviors. 

So, if you desire a new chapter, you cannot rehash what was written prior ( by you)...it would be boring and well, just allow future chapters full of crappola to unfold.

You are the principal character in your " life novel" , so where do you want your character to go?

Stuck on that? Well, you seem to be interested in spiritual matters....

Okay here are a couple of topics that you can ponder....

 On your journey, how did you find The Rabid Monk? 

• What lessons are you learning from him? 

•Do you see his dedication?

 •His desire for peace? 

•His knowledge base? 

•How does he influence you?

•Was it by chance that you found him or were you ready for a spiritual teacher like him ( me) in your life and he ( me) just showed up somehow ?


Ponder those questions in your oncoming chapters.

Remember, if you want to be "all" spiritual, you must then lead a life that is indeed so. But, you must also know what real spirituality is in order to properly comprehend the flow and proper character development of yourself in your ever unfolding " life novel". 

Deep?  Oh yes, very Deep Daddy O.



The Rabid Monk