Book
Excerpt (Boblovian Address at the Jamboree)
"A very wise person once told me; don’t be afraid of being happy. I had
to ask myself; was I afraid of being happy? What was I afraid of? I
looked around me. I thought I was happy. I had many comforts and some
success. I knew living means accepting things as they happen and that
not all of what happens in life is happy stuff.
I was sure that I had acquired enough understanding to realize life is
full of ups-and-downs and that I had found happiness through all that
life dished out.
Life had been very good to me; nonetheless, there has always been an
underlying sense of not being completely happy, a sense that things
should be better.
This
was a feeling I carried with me most of my life. On one hand, I
understand that suffering is derived from wanting and desiring, but on
the other hand, how could I even possibly feel happy when there is so
much suffering and injustice all around me?
Was my compassion and empathy for other’s suffering an obstacle for
experiencing happiness? I concluded that I knew a great deal about
suffering, but very little about happiness.
You
create your own reality. Yes, each individual reality experienced by an
individual is entirely created by that individual, whether through
highly attuned conscious activity, or subconsciously experienced
through the filters of our senses.
Either
way, asleep or completely awakened, we are physically manifesting our
reality. I’ve tried it both ways. Awakened, I’ve not been able to step
out of the shadow of the collective suffering of humanity, awake it is
more as if we crate c-r-a-t-e our reality. The effort of creating
becomes burdensome when we realize that we also share in the creation
of all the suffering that lingers deep inside each of us.
Being asleep, on the other hand, we effortlessly create our reality in
our dreams.
Oh,
if only life was like a dream, effortless creation continuously.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we shared in a collective dream where we could
creatively create instead of a crating around a collective reality that
is supported by our shared ignorance of any alternative?
Of course, there we have it. By recognizing that we share in this
ignorance, we can awaken to the dream. Once the dream is identified, it
can be changed. This dream can end and another one can begin. How
simple is that?
Perhaps it’s not all that hard. We just stop dreaming one dream, and
start dreaming another. But to make that switch from the old dream to
the new dream, we must pass through a moment of complete stillness. We
must stop and see with our souls our old dream and turn away from it,
and then, focus on our new dream. Quick, don’t just do something! Sit
there! Stop, look and then move forward.
Ideas are the seeds of dreams. All of us here share this idea of
collective individual sovereignty.
We
have moved into the perfect moment when a single idea can be shared
simultaneously aided by our new technologies. An idea, a seed, can grow
within each of us and together we create a new dream that flowers from
our hearts.
We
dream a world of working together as enlightened individuals, people
operating from the power of personal freedom that will bring forth
helping, sharing, giving, receiving, loving and laughter, comfort and
sympathy, a dream not c-r-a-t-e-d by us, rather, a dream that is shaped
by our common sharing of the idea of free individual sovereignty, the
idea that we each need to take care of our own selves, and the only way
to do that is by taking care of each other.
We now journey forward with a new opportunity before us. I am so
thankful that I get to be a part of this, I am thankful for being able
to share an idea with all of you. I am thankful for all of you. Thank
you.”
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