We do not ask god to come to us,
we go to god.
We meet god, here in the world,
in our world and lives,
in our breath,
in our experience,
in our awareness
of experience.
We meet God everywhere,
if we listen.
We can see that is love,
feeling god in your pulse,
your heartbeat,
your blood,
bile,
spit and filth,
your sight,
all senses,
gifts to see god,
who is your own infinite nature.
Heartbeat
filled with fire,
love,
pure radiant love,
self,
subject to subject,
one.
– by Moonbird
The following is from the wise Barbara Pijan, regarding non-petitionary prayer:
In adult practice, I find that petitioning is an act of the ego, and it leads to unhappiness.
Since I don’t know the scope and detail of the divine plan; from what knowledge-base do I request those changes? From the anxiety of the ego, and nothing more.
Petitioning the divine to use its power to enforce changes in the people around us is total hubris. There is no more offensive, intrusive, authoritarian, and toxically anxious energy in this universe than the penetrating, manipulative energy which a conscious psychic can feel when someone has “prayed for them.”
Contrarily, there is no more supportive, peaceful, and grounded feeling than being in a community of moral people who trust in the divine plan and their own role in it; who wish for each other only courage, strength and happiness.
Conscious people realize that a clear psychic space is the sine qua non of spiritual development; consequent to this consciousness they would not dream of manipulating another person or planet by”praying” for it.
Rather, they invest all conscious effort in creating the broadest possible scope of neutrality, so that our vision of the plan becomes clearer and it becomes easier for each person to properly align themselves with their spiritual plan.
In the end, petitionary prayer is manipulative and damages spiritual neutrality. The Supreme Being knows what It’s doing.
We don’t need to petition all the time with anxious, insecure”do this, do that” requests for changed circumstances. Trust that things are already just right – right here, right now, absolutely right.
Each person and each experience has been calculated in advance to provide exactly the correct karmic opportunity. Don’t beg to change it. Use it in the provided form. Reality is holy fuel.
https://barbarapijan.com/bpa/Divination/Neutrality_vs_Prayer.htm
As the subject, I am always approaching an object through my perception. This is my mind. As the eternal endless subject, I approach God, as an object, a self-referential reverence. It is the most respectful thing I can think of.
