the box of consciousness....

would you like to enter the box of consciousness?

it takes on many different forms, in all realms of consciousness...

we are so caught up with ourselves.... what we think, how we feel, what we need and want..... i wonder how we can enter such a box....

what happens when you truly take the attention of life OFF of you? what happens when you stop thinking about you... when you look around.... what happens when you look outside your box... ?

which 'box' are you in right now?... your home? are you sitting in your job, your workplace? are you in your favorite coffeshop? the bookstore? restaurant? gym?...

step outside of it... physically and conceptually.... consciously...

what is happening out there? Who is out there? what is happening with the people? can you for a moment imagine their lives? can you empathize with them... feel what they are feeling?...

step out of your box...

how does it feel out of your favourite boxes? is the weather different, a temperature change perhaps... is it more humid, hotter, cooler?

you can really sensually feel the environment and the beautiful range of elements when you are out of those controlled and monitored boxes... out of those comfortable boxes we were raised to feel comfortable in.... can you feel the change?

can you feel it.... taste it... let the newness, the difference, enter your body....touch your senses.... experience what it really feels like outisde of your box... inside your being.....

now take this sensual state you are in.... enjoy it, pay attention to how deep the experience is when you are consciously present in it... and now enter the outer boxes....

do you see the differences between your box and the boxes next door, behind you, or a block away from you? do you see the differences with those 'boxes' our fellow human beings exist in that exist only a long or short plane ride away from you?

there are a range of little boxes we all live in in this great big wide world...

so how can we possibly think about our OWN boxes all the time??

how do we get so caught up in 'maintaining' our boxes? spend so much time and energy and LIFE making sure that our 'boxes' meet certain 'standards'... i ask you, who forms and shapes and decides and dictates these standards of maintenance of my different 'boxes'?

and our bodies box... and why do we place so much importance on our physical box, what colour skin and hair we have, what we look like... physically? are we truly more happy, satisfied....succesful, when we are focused on our boxes?

we care so much about our own 'boxes', and what others think about them... we say we do it for us... 'for ME'... but it certainly appears that we do it so we can feel comfortable in our own given boxes. When others like our boxes, or respect, envy, even fear our boxes... then we feel good about our box... as long as it is 'my' box, and it is safe, and it is mine.... i'm gonna love up my box... i'm gonna take care of it... make it look nice, so others like it....

well you know what?

if you stay so boxed up in your own constructed and customized little boxes, jumping from one of your boxes to the next, like little leapfrog pathways... if you do not look inside to the other range of boxes in this city, this country, this earth... this life.... then you are not seeing the tangible goodness inherent in all that is natural... and beyond the physical contructs we have created....

many our boxes are full and overflowing... they are in excess, we are living in excess... we have too many boxes to choose from, and they are all full...

we don't know where to store all of them, to dispose of them.... they are polluting mother earth... they are overflowing that we do not see how we fit in.. we feel like there are no boxes for us to call our own sometimes, yet the truth is... they are just full... of stuff, of things... of ideas... of ourselves....

we are overwhelmed now... they are all growing so fast, yet we need them, all of them... we rely on these boxes... they are what shelter us, they are what give our lives structure and shape... but because we are moving so fast, without conscious recognition.... we are colliding and crashing into eachother and we are getting angry.....

wheeew..... deep breath... and again....

i know it feels nice inside our boxes... but if you do not step outside your soft protected and comfortably cushioned boxes....

and FEEL what is happening outside... feel the cool emptiness of the concrete structures of those other boxes.... feel the simple kind warmth being exuded by that very inviting box... hear and feel the pain and hardships of those who do not even have the luxury of any sort of protective box, let alone a warm, nicely manicured 'box'...

if you do not consciously choose to feel the other boxes... then you are living in a restrictive boxed-in box of a life... you are missing flowing in the fluidity of existence that cannot be formed into a box... the realities of existence, are not always pleasing, positive, 'beautiful'.... but they are real, and they are part of the flow.... of reality... outside of the realms of a box... higher concepts of consciousness....

there are beings trapped in their box, maybe they are being held captive, figuratively, and also scarily, physically....

maybe there is no way out of their life... their collection of boxes... they are stuck, and cannot get out, or do not know how to get out... or are scared to get out...

maybe they were born into that box...

breathe again... maybe a moment to be thankful... for all that you have....

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can you see out of your boxes?
would you like to look out?
do you honestly and consciously want to?

the only person you are answering to, honestly.... is you...

will you look out more?

go for a little journey- see, feel, experience completely, with alllll of your senses... what happens outside of your boxes?

we have lost the ability to connect them, to figure how to piece them together... it is a jigsaw puzzle with too many pieces, and we are losing the ability, maybe even the interest to piece it all together... to connect our range of boxes.... we do not even see how we connect... yet all of our boxes, our wide range of boxes came from the same earth, the same universe... and all of us, inside and outside of these existing boxes have the same basic needs that need to be met in order to live...

just enjoy your box.... everything about it.... find the goodness... in all of your boxes... everything to do with them... if you are reading this, you have the ability to at least start there... and then move on to those boxes that exist in our collective existence....

we all have to be thankful first and foremost for the life that our boxes exist within, and without...

even if that box exists inside your head... in their head....

it is this box that directs the needs, the wants, the feelings... of our existence in all those boxes we exist in....

so step outside that box, don't let it be a box that restricts you, but one to grow out of, and connect to so many other ranges of boxes existing.... let your box grow and expand with consciousness..... together our boxes have a synergy far greater than our single little energetic boxes.... grow out of your box and become part of that greater box of possibility.... it is what lays outside those boxes....

so step around words, qualities, ideas, concepts, beliefs, philosophies... these boxes of ego and attachment... that we let define us.... shape us... direct us...

step into the other boxes around you... look into other boxes... look into the essence of what makes their box just as much a part of their life as yours seems real to your boxes... empathize, connect-ualize... realize.

and if you can, help out where you can with others... some of our boxes need a little repair sometimes, a little perky addition... some colour, a smile, some charity, some clairty... simply more patience, compassion... kindness...

because when you OPEN up your box, and look in, and help out, and share your boxes with others... you will see the discrepancy between and amongst them... maybe you will reflect on the quality, the goodness of yours, and also of their boxes... because you are open, they are open... to eachother, and to life... open...

and then YOU, and YOUR 'issues', and YOUR 'boxes'... will turn into US, and OUR 'issues', in OUR collective boxes.....

and we will be able to share in the beauty and reality of all the boxes we can possibly imagine sharing in.... and they will do the same... WE will...

peace and namaste....