Because Of Our Spirit

Because of our Spirit we sometimes
experience extraordinary happiness in our
life, even when it seems impossible with
our physical energy and mental power.

-Ven Thupten Gyaltsen

This quote came across me recently. I cannot tell you much about its author. Some time back I outsourced my brain's storage capacity for facts and figures to Google. It's not a service they knowingly offer, but I use it that way anyway, and it appears that my global neural Google-net knows virtually nothing about the author of this quote. Article links that came up in searches, led to nowhere. Perhaps some of my esteemed readers know more of Ven Thupten Gyaltsen. Until then, I will just keep this quote as my company when I think of her or him. It is likely a 'he' since the name seems popular with Buddhist monks.

Because of our Spirit we sometimes
experience extraordinary happiness in our
life, even when it seems impossible with
our physical energy and mental power.

-Ven Thupten Gyaltsen

Experiencing moments described by Ven, I've had quite a few, some related to moments where I have found myself in a darker place, challenged in the physical realm, manifesting poor quality visions or manifesting quality visions of being poor, with purpose. In some of those moments, I have experienced this happiness that simply serves to remind me of 2 things, whatever you are experiencing now too shall pass, and happiness at attracting the experiences that awaken me further from the illusion of this reality. You are as spiritually rich as you allow yourSelf to be.

Because of our Spirit we sometimes
experience extraordinary happiness in our
life, even when it seems impossible with
our physical energy and mental power.

-Ven Thupten Gyaltsen

As I climb the steps to summit this un-summitable (forgive me) peak, and sometimes turn to look back at the path I have tread, sometimes lingering, sometimes accelerating, I am re-minded of precious moments, when I flagged, when I quit or sat aside for a time. Times when I pursued distractions, or seemingly so, and spun circles in time, for a while, chasing that which does not serve my-self or my purpose, spending Energy that drained me physically and mentally, only to be lifted up by Spirit, and made to see anew, to see the next step, and to take it.

Because of our Spirit we sometimes
experience extraordinary happiness in our
life, even when it seems impossible with
our physical energy and mental power.

-Ven Thupten Gyaltsen

The further I tread along my way, the more I appreciate my purpose, the more I see and the less I know. I started out thinking that enlightenment was attainment of a thing, the realisation of an objective, a project to be broken into milestones, effort required and charted, this being my human nature. Along the way, it came to me, or came upon me, rather it came from within me that I was already there. The moment passed, but came back again later, and then more often. I continued walking my path, believing the path to be the project, the milestones, the price to pay for attainment of a higher place within me. This was not so, it is not so.

Because of our Spirit we sometimes
experience extraordinary happiness in our
life, even when it seems impossible with
our physical energy and mental power.

-Ven Thupten Gyaltsen

Further along amongst hundreds and thousands of realisations, AHA's and Oh Wow!'s, as the combination to access my soul was unraveled more and more, the path I walked became my purpose, it was still the same path but what started as a search for enlightenment, became my purpose, that same path. Enlightenment is an evolving concept, do not be the fool who, like me, believed it to be a stopping point, an end place. There is no end to it. Just as there are no end to the stars, no end to the number of galaxies seen or unseen, no end to the All That Is, no end to the Love of God as you know it for your-self. There is no end to it, and there is no end to your purpose.

May your Spirit cause you to experience Extra-ordinary Happiness, even when you perceive it as impossible... Im-possible... I'm possible... I am possibility...

Peace and Love to all who read this - change the world,
-Mikel