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"All my Love, Hon.."
Bo Lozoff on good and evil, humility,
Trancendence, enduring pain,
his vows of silence, and selfless service.
Date: 3/20/2006 5:32:27 AM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 2802 times I was with Bo Lozoff yesterday.
I feel deeply moved.
Here are some of the things
that touched me.
He said he is a Mystic.
A Mystic is a person who has a direct connection
with the Trancendent.
He spoke of humility.
He spoke of Good and Evil.
He said he had been in the presence of pure evil
twice in his life. He said, when you are in the presence of evil,
treat it like a snake up against the door. Observe it.
Watch it. Be still. You don't have to do anything about it.
Being Calm is one of the greatest gifts we can give the world
right now, being calm ourselves through quieting the mind
watching, and working with the flow of oxygen going in and out.
He led us--the group listening to him--in a Blessing for the world.
He asked that we do a spiritual practice, very brief, every day
before we get out of bed.
Ask, how can I be a little less selfish today?
He said that 2/3rds of the world right now
goes to bed each night not knowing if they will make it
to the end of the month.
Can you hear that?
2/3rds--more than 4 billion people not sure
if they will make it to the end of the month.
Then, there are the lucky ones, you and I
reading these words right now.
He said this was his Revival Tour.
He told me personally after the talk,
he does not like speaking.
He is very good at it.
He speaks because he is more about serviing
the other person that self serving.
He says, there is a White Businessman
in charge of the world now. The world is not in good hands.
He said that we have to do what we are called to do for this
Beloved World, regardless if we imagine it will make a difference.
Regardless.
We are here to help because
that is why we are here. We are not here to be invested
in whether it makes a difference.
We do it because we are here to do it.
He said, evil in the world is the size of a pea.
Good is the size of the Solar System, or something enormous.
Good is transcendent. We are meant to be in the world,
in the world, but not of it.
Our house is here. Our home is elsewhere.
He spoke about enduring pain.
He spoke about the happiness of the Dalai Lama
and how that man can hardly go a sentence without
smiling or laughing. I know. I have seen that.
Bo asks, have you any idea
how much pain that man has endured to get to that much
happiness?
He spoke about a man or a woman who was
about to do some experimental surgery to stop smoking.
They had a small child and did not want to expose the child
to smoking. So they were going to have this surgery
to make it easier to stop smoking.
He said our whole culture is on knees now.
We are looking for ways to make it easy,
not make it hard.
He is not into stuff.
Someone offered him a large book as a gift.
He said, he has difficulty writing books because he
seldom reads. He does not have time for reading I imagine.
He has a community in North Carolina where he lives
with his wife Sita of 40 years and his son.
People come there to help out.
He runs a non-profit called the Human Kindness Foundation.
He is not into trivializing Kindness.
Kindness is not about doing something for Self Esteem
or to make ourselves feel better. Kindness is something
deeper.
He spoke of forgiveness. He said to Bless the world,
we had to take a moment and forgive everything, then
we can take it up again if we want.
He works with prisoners who have killed people.
He spoke of not letting others off the hook necessarily
Forgiving does not mean they are not responsible
for what they did. He said, the family of the loved one
who was murdered
does not necessarily forgive the act itself.
There were former prisoners in the audience.
Many were filled with gratitude.
Bo gives his books free to prisoners.
Some spoke of how much they benefited from being
in prison. He teaches prisioners--many life termers--
how to treat their experience as if they are in an Ashram.
Lots of them are touched by deep love
and authentic friendship after crossing paths
with this man who aspires to be Deep and Simple.
He said, Mega bucks are being made
in the consumer idea that
"If it is hard to do, don't try to do it."
People are given anti-depressants
now a days in case they might feel some pain.
We are taught now,
we don't have it in us to "Do what is hard."
He said, "You can do this.
You can become a rich, deep human being
right in hell."
He was not speaking about rich with money.
he said we were building a false religion
about material wealth.
He said, lots of money passes hands around the idea
that we are weak, that we can't meet challenges.
He spoke about facing challenge.
He spoke about the mountain climber
who is exhilarated when he reaches the top.
He said, the exhilaration was not about
reaching the top, it was about the climb.
He said, we have disconnected so many dots.
IT is not about reaching the top.
He spoke about being self reliant.
He spoke about where our treasures are really laid up.
He spoke about how many of us now believe we
have no strength to climb.
He spoke about the transcendent being a moment
with the Beloved, a singular experience.
He said there is a transcendent, absolute reality.
This puts this world in perspective.
He asks us to get in touch with transcendent
goodness.
He said that if we define ourselves by what is in the world,
we become the size of a pea.
He reminded us that everyone in the room
was going to loose every person they loved,
and that they themselves were going to die one day.
He reminded us that before Abraham was,
"I am" existed.
He said, thank God the transcendent is real
and we can get there.
We asks us to look at what we are made of.
He said we can touch the transcendent.
That's what we are doing here.
"My life is not my problem," he said.
He said he was very ambivalent about being on
tour for a year. He said it was his Revival Tour.
He said, he was called to travel now.
He spoke of walking around a seedy part of San
Diego, and then being reminded that this was not his
home, this world, but all this was a part of him.
Something like that. He was not disconnected
from the seedy places.
He said, we all have what it takes to go deep.
It said this world will not overwhelm us,
when we know what we are part of.
We spoke of a portal and going through it.
to open to what is on the other side.
He spoke about a scene in the film "Starman."
about an alien visitor. In the movie, the Alien
noted, "You are at your best, when things are their worst."
He spoke about the weather bureau saying,
by the way, "You are in for ten more years of severe
hurricanes." Severe.
Hespoke about a natural life--when you start to live
that way, it can taste like poison.
He spoke of TIkkun...repair of the world.
He spoke of Pop Psychology and the trend
to look out for ourself.
He spoke of the Spiritual Traditions and
Living for the Good of others.
He said there is a prevaling illusion
that I am not going to get what I need
if I do not look out for myself.
He spoke about not taking more than we give.
He said that we are convinced
we need to Self Protect..
He said this cuts us off from loving.
He is not into the small self.
He said to strive for the North Star
unselfish service.
He spoke of the Bal Shev Tov,
the Jewish mystical teacher who said,
"The lowest of the low are deerer to me than
my only child."
He said he wasn't there yet, but on the journey.
He spoke of how we are moved by art, things noble,
and beautiful.
He spoke about kids doing crimes.
If they believed in a single thing that was truly beautiful
they could not do those acts of violence,
but they have given up.
He spoke about the year of silence he took in 2001-2002.
He told how he built a very small little room on his property
and did not speak for a year.
He spoke of how painful it was.
He went in there without any books,
nothing to write upon, no music.
He spoke of how miserable he felt.
He spoke about God beating the crap out of him.
He recalled another time in the 90's when he
withdrew from his outwardly successful life to
retreat because this was his inner guidance.
He spoke about being depressed for those three years...
deeply, deeply depressed.
I asked him about the deep lonliness I often felt.
He said that was the search for God.
He spoke about weeping endlessly at times
while he travels between places.
He spoke about being very lonely for God,
even this man who is so deeply in his spiritual practices.
I asked him about relationship,
and how I felt I was loving my best friend more
than she was loving me.
He spoke of his own wife of 40 years.
He said they recognized that they could not be there
for each other a long time ago. Each person has
to find God. They were grateful that they had each other
through the journey.
He spoke of not having large expectations
in relationship.
He said that in the next four years, hang in there
in my own relationship. There are going to
be profound shifts in relationship. Just having
someone to live with is a big deal.
He said the world is on its knees.
The culture has
fallen.
IT is good to decide who you want to be with on the journey.
He spoke of his favorite people all being fanatics.
Not normal.
He spoke of Jesus in the desert.
"Come on Satan, give me your deepest shot"
He said the culture is going down,
before it will rise up.
He said that spiritual practice is about looking
at ugly things.
He spoke about his mantra that he
says at times in his meditation.
"Anything that can happen to any human being
can happen to me."
He takes that all in. It connects him to all people.
He spoke about illness not being about doing something
wrong.
He spoke about humility.
He said we needed to be humbled.
He spoke about making your life work for the good.
He spoke of becoming one with the Divine Mother.
He spoke about living his life every day so
that it was a net gain for Mother Earth, not a net loss.
He said, he was drawn to the word "sustainable"
in recent years through his recent involvements
again in ecology. Some of his work these days
is with a biodesil (sp/) project.
I offered him some fresh foods.
He said, he was going out to dinner
and his needs were taken care of.
Tomorrow, he will be with local prisoners.
in the San Diego Jail.
His main book is called,
"We are All Doing Time."
He asked me to send the photos I took to his wife.
He wrote, in the book I bought,
"Deep and Simple" Spiritual path for modern life.
"Leslie, so good to see you again."
he gave me an email where to send the photos
to his wife.
I gave him #1 of the Seven Love Cures.
The format is a Love Cure Post Card.
I gave him my purple sharpie,
he addressed it to his wife.
and wrote a little note.
I will mail it tomorrow.
he wrote,
"All my love, hon."
-Bo
More on Bo Lozoff
One Night Stand:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1378
Bo Lozoff Helps Prisoners:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1368
Healing Lepers:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1379
Bo Lozoff Experience:
http://curezone.com/blogs/editmessage.asp?f=92&i=1288
Bo Lozoff Story from his Website:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1287
We're All Doing Time
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1286
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