Krishna’s birthday

Today is Krishna’s birthday.
Coincidentally its also mine.

I don’t know a lot about Krishna.
Coming from the West, I know a lot
about a middle-eastern master called
Christ, but not as much about some of
the far-eastern ones.

I do know that Krishna was one of the enlightened
masters who walked the face of the earth.
This was many many centuries ago.

He was also a trickster.

Today was full of “tricks” too. Things didn’t
go as planned. My wife had a playcentre training
all day. I backed the car into a wall. And my mother
fractured her wrist.

Yet all was bliss. Perhaps Krishna’s vibrations were
looking after me!

The car was, remarkably, unscratched. I spent the day
weeding the garden in the sun. And I experienced one
“great-things-about-being-a-dad # 138: hand made
birthday cards. This one was from my elder daughter
Sophie. It was amazingly good, and brought one of
many tears of gratitude to my eyes.

My wife Claire got home at about 4.30pm – and so
we immediately drove to Bethells (a 30 minute drive)
to pick up my mum and take her to the emergency
clinic to have her hand assessed.

Afterwards we went to “satsang”. If you are not
familiar with this – think of it like a singing,
dancing celebration designed to bring all the
minds in the room into a single frequency – and
with chants that raise the energy sky-high through
carefully calibrated crecendos, increased tempos and
increased pitch as each song progresses.

Its 2 hours since it finished – and I’m still completely
intoxicated.

So today, I feel very grateful. I feel grateful to be alive.
I feel grateful to have such an amazing group of friends
- men and women – around the world. I feel grateful
to have 2 beautiful daughters, and a gorgeous wife who
spoilt my rotten on a clothes-shopping expedition last night.
Most of all – grateful that despite all the little obstacles and
tricks of lord krishna, the buddha, the Christ, and all the other
masters who have walked upon this earth – as each day goes
by I am learning more to accept every thing that happens and
truly go with the flow.

Most of all, today – right now … feeling very grateful to a lovely
soul called Catherine Gow who innocently suggested I went to an
introductory talk for this thing about I thought sounded wierd at the time
but ended up having one or 2 very minor benefits like
- ending my panic attacks
- eliminated the grief I’d had for the loss of my firstborn child 7and replaced it will joy for the life I’d shared
- grounding me
- giving me the confidence to start a company (which did ok)
- giving me more energy
- making miracles the norm in life
- introducing me to dimensions i did not know existed
- making bliss a daily norm
- getting me over my anger issues
- bringing me within weeks to a place of deep peace with my father’s premature passing away
- helping me drop resentments from the past
- allowing me to transform the environment around me, rather than getting brought down by others energies
- creating a life where every day feels like a birthday
- helping me be useful at serving society in some small way, rather than think about me all the time
- substantially lessen my feverishness and get me to be in the present much more
- stay much less affected when others say things that would have pushed my buttons
- giving me the confidence to discover undiscovered talents including singing and dancing
- manifesting that incredible Instant Kiwi ad
- taking me to India not once but five times
- eliminating the lead-poisoning from my body
- helping me to see the true nature of reality
- helping me to see the bigger picture about the era we are living in right now, rather than simply get depressed about the damage we are doing to earth
- take action to prepare and prepare others for the turbulent, yet transformational, time ahead
- getting me to inhibit a strange and unfamiliar – yet truly rocking – new world where increasingly little of my happiness is dependent on anyone or anything else

Ultimately, as someone a million times wiser than me said, we must drop even gratitude – because if you feel grateful, that implies a separation and a lack of oneness. When you merge with infinity there is no other to feel grateful too. While I don’t think “merging with infinity” is likely tomorrow, I am starting to get what that means.

So without gratitude and in oneness – bless you all, who are me, who are it, who are divine anyway.
Thank you for being a part of my life, joy, and journey. You are special to me …

Daniel @ 41.