I’ve been studying the System of Life for some time now. With any study one thing that has to be done is a lot of data collecting. I suppose there are three main areas we can get this data. The first would be watching the world around us.

Watching The World

The World of People – Watching everything that happens. Listening to everything people say. Reading what people have written. Read some of the Poets, look at the Art, listen to the Music, read what the world shapers say and everything in between. Watch what people do, how they act and react and listen to everything they say.

The Natural World – Watching nature, plants, animals, the weather, the seasons, the heavens. Then read and look at everything that people have said about the natural world.

The Inner World – This is the study of life through introspection. Meditation, paying attention to thoughts and feeling. Finding out what’s in there and what “it” is.

The System of Life

Everyone and anyone is completely qualified to remark on the system of life. Everybody knows or has observed something. What I want to look at today is how the Natural World does things. Then I want to ask if we can do things in the same way. If we can – wouldn’t this be the best way – since we’re a part of this natural world?

One thing you’ll notice if you watch nature is it does a lot of stuff without any noise. The rain forest was made in silence. I was looking at the tree off the balcony the other day. It’s been there all winter apparently idle. Completely silent. Then all of a sudden (overnight) I see a little action on the ends of the branches. The days are getting longer. It knows this and knows that this is the time for a little action on the ends of the branches.

I think this type of work, or accomplishing, or whatever you want to call it is available to us. When I look around at the world of people I don’t see much of this silent vibrant accomplishment. What I see are Ants. The industrious Ant has become the model for humans. I have nothing against Ants – but – I don’t want to be one. What I learned from Ants is, if I keep putting one thing on top of another it will get taller.

There are a lot of people who behave like Tigers. They have adopted the style of a ferocious, gemme that, predator. I really like Tigers too – but – are they good role models? Are they all I need to know? Is this how I want society to work? The Tigers rule and the Ants toil? What I’ve learned from Tigers is – there are some obstacles you can’t meet head on with a club. Sometimes a geographic relocation is the best solution.

How can I best, “Get Things Done”?

I don’t want to be an Ant, and being a Tiger plays as long as you’re the toughest Tiger (also a lot of work). How about learning from the tree? Could I do things like that? In total silence? Without all that noise and movement and effort?

I’ve come to see that this is the best way to get things done. It’s the best “Earth System” I’ve seen. Is it possible for we humans to do things in this way? Let’s take the chore of finding solutions to our problems. Remember, problems are problems because we say they are. All problems are personal problems.

Over the past few years most of my problems have been resolved while I was asleep. Or, they just popped into my head while I was doing something else – like reading. What I’ve attempted to do is: simply concentrate on identifying the problem. My current personal problem is: I keep – habitually – addressing problems as if I were an Ant, or a Tiger. Neither of which I am, or wish to be.

Here is the experiment, the test, to see if this is possible.

What’s the problem?
Identify as well as possible what the problem is. Write it down. Leave it alone – don’t mess with it, just leave it.

We can’t act like Ants or Tigers and do the test.

Being what we are.

What is my state of consciousness?
Or level of consciousness. Ever notice how no one says make, create or build a higher state of consciousness? It’s always something like – attain, gain (as in gain on or catch up to), strive towards. What I’ve come to understand (so far) is that consciousness “Is”. It’s there. It’s always been there. We can go toward it – possibly – in understanding. Can we go into it. Can we tap in to it, flow with it, be in it – or not.

Here’s something to look at – Let’s raise the level of consciousness in ourselves. What does that mean. Some hear this and think raise as, work to increase, lift, raise like a barn, build and so on. Is this what it says?

The way I’ve come to understand this is that raising this level is much like raising the level of a lake. Any analogy will work as long as we see consciousness like water. How do we raise the level of water, say, in a barrel? I picked this because in this case we control the water, or the consciousness. We just pour in the water. The level was what it was – and now it’s this. The similarity in any analogy we choose – Lake, barrel and so on is – there has to be a place for the water.

If we keep putting water in a barrel and it will flow over the top and fill any spaces that are available on the ground. Keep pouring and a lake will form. Keep pouring and the lake will rise until it flows over the hills and starts to fill the places available on the other side.

Like water, consciousness will fill any place available. We only need to make the place. Consciousness is always being poured. It “Is”, and it is abundant. It will fill, automatically and without effort on our part, any place available to it. In fact – effort fills the place that consciousness would naturally fill if we got rid of effort. This is my opinion – after much watching and testing.

Effortless Solutions

Which leads us again to our test – our experiment.

Putting our Problems to Bed
Now that we have clarified our problem as well as possible we will sleep on it. Remember that Rain Forest which was made in silence? That’s what we’re going to test. Can the solutions come out of us, or through us, effortlessly? So effortlessly that we can do it in our sleep? Everyone has woken to an answer at one time or another. What I do is try and make this the rule. Instead of the occasional boon I’ll make it my natural everyday process for accomplishing things.

Every night will be a little Winter. Every morning will be the Spring and the life I created will burst forth on the scene.

Consciousness will do this for me. All throughout the history of mankind we’ve heard the wise directing us to the light. There are countless stories using light, and water, to represent consciousness when delivering messages and spiritual instruction. This is not mistake or happenstance. There are properties in light and water that hold the key to life itself.

Here is a really good video to watch. I’ve put a segment on this page (below) with a link to the full video:

The Primacy Of Consciousness