And what about God?

How the hell am I supposed to save my life when I spend 30% of it at some annoying job? And this job, which is annoying, is somehow supposed to bring me closer to the life that I want: a life of playing music, teaching yoga, creating and writing. This backwards equation exists because I’ve gotta have some money to exist in the meantime. Right now, the mean time seems a really long time.

Why do I need money anyway? Why do I need shelter? Why do I need to eat and sleep? Why do I need a hug? Why do I have to pee and poop? Why do I need love? Why do I feel? Why do I have these emotions? Why do I have to wear clothes? Why do I have ambition? All of this is so annoying, don’t you think? If I didn’t need all of these things I could just exist and all would be bliss. I would play music, sing, teach yoga, and write all day long. In fact I would even BE the music that I want to play. This would be enough to make me happy.

And the Spirit said to the Body: “Why do I need you? You need and want all the time. You feel happy, then later you feel sad. You are a burden and I want to be free.”

And the Body said to the Spirit: “Have you have forgotten that you manifested me? You manifested me so that you could see. So that you could touch. So that you could hear and know, feel and love. Laugh, hurt, fight and pray. You manifested me so that you could learn what you need to learn so that you won’t ever need me again. When I ache, you learn. When I want, you learn. When I love, fight, and feel sad, you learn. When you sing. You hear…because of me.

In fact, you are bound by me and this could be our heaven if we remember that you created all of this in order to learn.”

Spirit: “Body, this is hell. You ache, you bleed. You feel happy, then you feel sad. You envy and want. You are excellent and mediocre. I don’t understand anymore why we agreed to do this. I soar at the speed of light. I am unlimited intelligence and power. I am never boring or mediocre. I am omnipresent and I see every thing that is coming and I know everything that has passed. Body, you rarely even remember your own history. You cycle through the same joys, pains and misguided deeds again and again, and when you catch a glimpse of light and insight it is only for a moment. And what for?

Body, you try to attain things that you don’t understand. Love, abundance, happiness, health, security. I am Spirit and I am all of these things. You have bound me and I want to be free.”

Body: “Spirit, be patient. The only way for you to be free is for me to die. I am not yet dead because we made an agreement to learn and we are not done learning. We are only in hell when this is forgotten.”

Spirit: “And what about the mind? What is its purpose?”

Body: “The mind resides in the body. It is the portal through which you can see, learn, and observe all that I’m trying to tell you. Through the mind you can know, see and remember that we are in fact Spirit, we are not this body and we are not this mind. We are consciousness observing life and we are actually already free.”

Readers: “Whoa dude.”

Spirit: “Why do I forget?”

Body: "You forget because we are human, and there is much confusion in the human world. This confusion is your hell. Heaven exists in the remembrance and practice that Spirit is all there is. And above all remember that heaven is not better than hell. They are equal. Two ends of the same stick. Sit. Close your eyes and do nothing, or pray and you will remember. The longer you sit, the longer you will remember, and when you remember always, you will no longer need the burden of this body. You will have heaven and you will see that it is equal to hell. Then you will stop trying, and simply exist."

Spirit: “Can’t I exist without you?”

Body: “You can, and you always have, but who would know?”

Spirit: “And what about God?

Body: “Amen.”