GIST - Winter 2007 Issue
Being A Monk

     PEOPLE COME TO the Absolute Monastery here in Campo California looking to find a secret portal into their spiritual self, a surreptitious pathway revealing whatever it is they feel it means to be spiritual.
Though we have 104 acres in the mountain fastness of Southern California dedicated to meditation and introspection--it is not a secret path--it is a very open time to reveal the divine within, the spiritual self each of us is within now.
     To the end of offering illumination on this devoutly desired pathway here are some ideas which might be helpful. This little-known technique or approach is a piece of information that is the key to success in the particular endeavor of revealing divinity. Everyone who comes to campus to attend a retreat, participate in a seminar of days, weeks or months as done in the occasional School of the Master three-month event, each first comes to terms with expressions and themes consistent with the Absolute Monastery and its parent schools the University of Healing and University of Philosophy.
     As a monk for the past 33 years I have used the concept of being a monk to explain and reveal a method or technique of entering into the awareness of the divine within. As you read these ideas you have joined the program being inaugurated on campus of living the life of a monk, expressing what I believe a monk is and means, and remaining in such a high level of purity, all who entertain the program revel in its purity and goodness beyond anything they have ever experienced in their entire lifetime.
     Now here are some of the things that go into being a monk on a fulltime basis with grand results.
     Some things a monk is:

• A monk 100% follows his spiritual-isness path as he understands it.

• A monk does things that make him happy and fulfills him.

• A monk lives his life to satisfy himself.

• A monk sees everyone in his world a pure reflection of what he is.

• A monk keeps counsel with himself.

• A monk walks his own path.

• A monk sees everyone living well, acting well, being well.

• A monk expresses whatever it is that makes him happy at all times.

• All food a monk eats delights him.

• All water a monk drinks delights him.

• All air a monk breathes delights him.

• A monk lives eternally in his ideal body, mind and spirit.

• A monk is at all times a monk--pure, beautiful, unconditionally loving.

• A monk could be spelled unconditional love.

• A monk sees all a reflection of himself.

• A monk is a little child--he is everything.

• A monk sees everyone living exactly as he is, as the beautiful master he is.

• A monk is everything he sees.

• A monk is aware of all as his creation.

• A monk lives, a monk is.

• A monk acts the monk he is.

• A monk is aware of himself.

• Whatever a monk chooses to be, this is what he is.

• A monk is pure unconditional love

• A monk is a joyful person to meet.

• A monk lives his values that he names as being what a monk is.
   
  The values of being a monk are:
  

  • Unconditional love,
  • Living according to the divine expression within,
  • Being himself and having fun,
  • Being what he believes is his original purity and integrity
    

  Whatever a monk believes is his divine self, is what a monk is.
   

• A monk is all.
• A monk views the human and spiritual level as a series of isness.
• A monk lives on his own absolute level which concept he creates and claims for himself.
• A monk lives in a "universe" or "society" whose modi operandi is harmonious with his modus operandi (his procedure of being).
• A monk creates the operation platform upon which society and life performs. To a monk it reflects his personal divine code of ethics and at all times reveals the isness of the monk. The rules of society fit perfectly into the modus operandi of the monk. The law of cause and effect reveals a technique through which humanity presumes it reveals unseen existence which waits to be revealed. God also known as monk is revealed as the undifferentiated chaos understood and realized only in its absolute frame of being.
• A monk creates all harmonious with himself.
• A monk creates the observable rules of any society consistent with what a monk believes a monk is. All is infinite order, balance, harmony, transcendent--risen beyond the limit of appearances; master awareness over all aspects; positioned prior-to beyond--and above the appearance universe of material existence extending notably beyond ordinary limits.
• As everyone on the face of the Earth is god, divine, illumined, a monk right now--each lives according to these rules. A monk uses values, uses this code of ethics according to his understanding of who he thinks he is--this ethic is based solely on the monk himself and his values he chooses to live by.
• A monk sees everyone living his ethics and code of conduct
• A monk is a he, a she and an it--a monk is a monk--a monk is genderless. A monk is a convenient name. It goes along with the idea of a self-chosen spiritual path being himself and having fun.

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     I can be a monk wherever I may be, doing whatever I may be doing, living with whom I may be living--a monk is a concept, a monk is a symbol of the absolute qualities which I am as a being expressing here on this planet.
     The broadest possibilities I face are being myself and having fun. This would certainly appear to be a very easy experience for me. However, to be myself means I am my unique self. I am not a teacher wherein I feel someone has something to learn or experience. I am not the guru who has spiritual insights to offer to those I create in my world. I am not the father-mother-relative to another being, child or adult--for I am number one and I create only other number one beings in my world.
     This task of being myself and having fun allows for my being cognizant that life is a joy and all is complete.
     This is the truth.
     Do I have the integrity, the humility and the awareness to enjoy it?
     Smile, of course I do!

-Dr Herbert L Beierle