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.