It does not matter

Mattering itself

creates the matter

to justify the mattering itself. 

And so this is not a mystery 

other than this is all a mystery.

Our One Solution

A new song with the message that no matter what variable we plug into an equation,

the solution is always love.  This may be a greater love than we now realize, and we may

label it as non-love, but that is just the ego labeling through limitation.  

The more we accept, the more the love is now revealed.  

Love is our one solution. ? + ? = Love

It is a groovy song that has that "man, I could drive and listen to this over and over" vibe. Or, at least it does for me.

Our One Solution

Feed the the starving

Heal the sickly

Clothe the naked and house the homeless

Help the struggling

And teach the ignorant

that there is more to life then what we think (then what we think)

Love is the way

Love is the key

Love calms your mind and opens your heart to eternity

Love heals your life

And it opens your eyes

And it reveals that everything that we experience is divinity (perfect divinity)

This is bigger than our wars and pain, then the snow and rain, then our personal gain

This is bigger than our selfish needs, there are lives to feed, and disparate souls to be freed

Love, love away all pollution

Love, love away all confusion

Love, love without one exclusion

Love, love is now our one solution

La la la la

la la la la la la la

Mend the bridges and tear down the fences

Embrace your neighbors and glorify this Earth

Love, away ideas of separation

Love, love away the fear of every nation

Love, love is here it fills us with elation

and Love, love is now our holy celebration

Love, love away all pollution (this is bigger)

Love, love away all confusion (this is bigger)

Love, love without one exclusion (so much bigger)

Love, love is now our one solution

Love, away ideas of separation

Love, love away the fear of every nation (love)

Love, love is here it fills us with elation

and Love, love is now our holy celebration (la la la la)

Love is the way

Love is the key

Love calms your mind and opens your heart to eternity

Love heals your life

And it opens your eyes

And it reveals that everything that we experience is divinity (perfect divinity)

Love is the way

Love is the key

Love calms your mind and opens your heart to eternity

Love heals your life

And it opens your eyes

And it reveals that everything that we experience is divinity

Love is the light

Love is the soul

Love is everything in creation

And love is the goal

La la la la

La la la la la la la

La la la la  

http://www.richardschooping.com/en/lyrics/338-our-one-solution

It is all love

No matter if we clear some broken branches from a sidewalk

or give advice to one with a broken heart;

it is all love.

Presence Need not Prove a Thing.

Presence need not prove a thing. 

Let us stop competing and open up our hearts and fists to assist each other now. 

 

Holiday Forgiveness

May your gift to the world this holiday season be forgiveness. 

This may be forgiving a friend, a family member, an enemy, or some past happening that is weighing down your heart. 

 Just surrender what you judge and be free.

All is love, even when obscured by our beliefs.

So this year don't just buy a gift for someone, 

 forgive, and then you ARE forgiveness being now.

What we do not forgive only fortifies our mental prison. Richard Schooping

Happy Holidays.

 

The Nectar of Now

‎"One can never paint the ocean, only the memory of it. 
Let the dreaming of what may have been go, 
because life is happening now and you don't want to miss another drop of the nectar of now." RNS. ♥

Detox

Simply, if you are suffering with illness realize that we are the result of our choices. Detox the mind and organs and the body then has more energy to heal and clean out the toxins.  

Own this, implement this, and be free.

Fertile soil for the soul

No mud, no Lotus.

Be grateful for what you think is only mud in your life.

Because actually,

it is the fertile soil for the flowering of your soul.

The heart reveals the soul

The mind creates the meaning

and the heart reveals the soul.

Shine

 

 

No need to explain IT, just shine so that others will know the light of themselves.

new song, Silence of my Heart (Gate', gate')

Hello everyone, I wanted to share a new song with you, Silence of my Heart (Gate', gate').  This song is tangentially inspired by the Buddha's Heart Sutra.  Here are the lyrics and a link to listen to the song as well as purchase the mp3 for .99 cents if you are inspired by it.

Love, Richard

Silence of my Heart (Gate', gate')

I'm gonna listen, listen, in-between my worrying

Listen, listen, to the silence of my heart

I'm gonna listen, la la la listen, in-between all of my thinking

Listen, listen

Spending all these hours in my mental towers

A prisoner to my own mind

I was burdened my yesterdays, and everything was such a haze

And to the present moment I was blind

Gotta take a break before I speak

Gotta take a break before I react

Gotta listen to my heart

I'm gonna listen, listen, in-between my paths of seeking

Listen, listen, to the silence of my heart

I'm gonna listen, la la la listen, to the space in-between the words we're speaking

The words we're speaking

Gotta take a break before I speak, before I react

I'm gonna listen to my heart

Gotta take a break before I leap, before I attack

I'm gonna listen to my heart

Gotta take a break before I break down, yeah before I crack

I'm gonna listen to my heart 

Gaté,

gaté,

paragaté,

parasamgaté.

Bodhi!

Svaha!

I'm gonna listen, listen, to the quiet stillness of the inner-ocean

I'm gonna listen, la la listen

I'm gonna listen, listen, letting love guide my heart in devotion

Listen, listen

Richard Norman Schooping, 2010

In the present IS the present

In the present IS the present. Is that not amazing and just too simple? We are either aware that we are here now, or, we are identifying ourselves in the reflections of our stories. We are either of Heaven or we are in Hell. So yes, stories are fun, just as long as we remember that they are only stories so we don't lose our way.

Have fun with your creativity

Have fun with your creativity 

so that you don't become too structured within it.

Each moment is new and fresh, 

and so should our creative expression now

BE. 

Turn Away

 If we want to experience truth, we turn away from what we think it is. 

We don't realize the present until we stop measuring it.

We cannot even count the grains of sand in a small box because of the sheer multiplicity. So how can we measure all of creation?  Simply, we can't, and only the ego attempts to foolishly do so. This is a clear message from nature to let this be and just enjoy it.  

When we categorize life as parts we don't experience the whole, only the parts. 

We won't realize the present moment until we stop measuring it.

Gratitude is the Architect of Peace

Gratitude is the architect of peace.

Pause before you are about to complain, or while you are complaining

so that the presence of gratitude may be experienced.

A grateful human is an unbound heart.

Mother Earth needs our compassion

Mother Earth needs our compassion. 

We pray for help, waiting and waiting or we can BE the help now. 

Being in the mind there are endless time dimensions.

But God is here now.

We are here now. 

Life is happening now.

Love is here AS us all now. 

What is convincing you that you are not here? 

Examine that. 

It requires no mental story to be compassionate, only a grateful heart. 

Stop giving away your power and BE compassion.

New song, "a beautiful sunrise".

Here is the title track to my new, and developing CD, "a beautiful sunrise".

This music began to flow over Thanksgiving holiday, of which I am grateful.  

Let's enjoy the journey into the new CD. To hear the song please click here to visit my website.

a beautiful sunrise

Here is my heart, here is my voice

Here is my light and here is my choice

Here is my hand and here is my best

Here is my shoulder when you need a rest

Here is the moon and here is the sun

Here is the radiance in everyone

Here spreading our wings and the Earth now sings

We are coming home

Oh, it's a beautiful sunrise

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now out of the darkness

Oh it's a beautiful soul-rise

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now out of the ignorance

Here is the rock and here is the roll

Here is the journey and here is the soul

Here is the healing and here is the grace

Here is the rising of the human race

Here is forgiveness and here is release

Here is the unity and here is the peace

Here without judgment in unconditional love

Witness the splendor steaming from above

Rise up, Rise up, let your spirit soar

Rise Up. Rise Up. Let's get it brighter than it's ever been before

Rise Up. Rise Up. Helping those in need

Rise Up. Rise Up. Being compassion until every soul is freed

Oh, it's a beautiful sunrise

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now into salvation

I can see the fire burning in your eyes

We can see the fire burning in your eyes

Richard Norman Schooping, 2010

Nothing to fix but the concept of "fixing" itself.

At one moment as a society we are going to laugh so hard because we have been conned so well! 
It is so simple to convince people that they need something that they truly don't, and then charge them for it... 

What an amazing game! 

But are we ready for more than this game?

So to be free of this looping stratagem begin to more and more realize what you really don't need, and then what health insurance is needed? What prescriptions are needed? How many things are needed? How many less bills?  

Cable will never be able to replace the splendor of nature. 

You will discover now that you need less and less as you listen to your heart because the heart is whole, yet the mind is not.  The mind is attracted like a moth to light bulbs and it will continually seek its own peace in more and more things until it is overloaded and exhausted. Because ultimately these things do not bring true peace, only more and more things to support and worry about. Yes, these things will bring a transitory emotion of happiness but this is more comparable to a drug addiction than lasting happiness. 

And we are then in a loop of needing to keep the high going or we become depressed.

All is well until we are told it is not. Meditate on that. 

Today we are arguing over a ghost of concerns while the matrix continues.  And nothing then changes in the matrix because we are only concerned with the ghost. This ghost being a form of collective hypnotism. And we each then perpetuate the matrix as the ghost bounces from one soul/cell to the next.

But do we really need to fix eternal awareness? Is this possible? No, awareness is unaffected by the world of things.  Awareness is free as what it is, awareness.  But we can easily insure a reflection of awareness because that relative reflection thinks it is less than perfect, and so it does need fixing. 

Know that what you believe now creates your experience.  And the choices that you make stem from your beliefs. And so understanding your beliefs is critical in transcending the relative matrix of the mind.  

Yes the body now needs many things, and this is because it thinks that this is what we want to now experience. Our beliefs have asked and now we receive. 

We simply require medications because our beliefs of limitation program us to be sick.

We think we are sick and so we need medications for this thinking - simple!

So let us continue to neutrally observe our experience so that we can continue to discover and surrender our limiting beliefs.

Realize that there is nothing here to fix but the concept of fixing itself.

11-24-10 a poem

Hands delve deep into the heart 

Grasping angel's wings 

Now catapulted up into the inner-stars 

As eternity explodes in our eyes 

And worlds ring out like stones dancing across the water

richard schooping

We are Capable

Because This is happening, we are capable of handling it.

Release the rope

 

 

When we release the rope there is no more tug-of-war.

 

 

 

Senseless

This isn't supposed to make sense.

Focus on the heart

The more we focus on our pain the more painful it is. 

 

Let what arises arise and continue focusing on the heart.

Joy begets joy

Joy Begets Joy

Learn from your suffering

Don't condemn your suffering, learn from it. 

   

Let it now be your teacher pointing you within so that you may discover the root of your dis-ease. 

The less judgement, the more effortlessly we see the soul.

Acceptance

Nothing is ever "finished" concerning spiritual growth. 

We simply learn to nakedly experience the experience that is happening now.

 

 

And in this way we are not limited by beliefs.

We are open to any potential that Love blesses upon us.

 

The heart IS.

 

Realize that WAR is happening within our aWAReness,

just as the words above reveal.

War is actually within the word aware.

And so all wars are cradled in love's awareness.

So now ask yourself, "Who is aware of war?

Who is observing war through these eyes?"

This is the greatest discovery to realize one's awareness.

Revealing that ultimately our awareness is not affected by war or any changing form of nature.

We are more.

 

Yes our bodies are subject to the shifting winds of time like the waves of the ocean molested by the wind. 

 

But no matter how intense the storm,

 

it is the one ocean throughout all of its expressions.

Relax my loves, there is nothing to fear. 

Fear is simply the mind labeling what it does not understand and this is OK.

We don't have to understand everything to be here now experiencing this.

Life is happening no matter what we think about it. 

Today let everything be just as it is so that you may now disentangle from your thoughts and know peace.

We are only arguing over what was.

But the heart is not dependent on what was.

The Heart IS.