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There's an old fable that talks about a man who found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The
eagle hatched with the brood
of chicks and grew up with
them. All his life, the eagle did
what the barnyard chicks
did, thinking he was a barnyard
chicken.
He scratched the earth for worms and ate the chicken scratch the farmer threw to
him. He clucked and cackled.
And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet in the air.
Years passed. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It
glided in graceful majesty
among powerful wind currents,
with scarcely a beat of
its strong golden wings. The eagle who thought he was
a chicken looked up in awe. "Who's
that?" he asked.
"That's the eagle, the king of the
birds," said his
neighbor.
"He belongs to the sky. We belong
to the earth-- we're
chickens."
One day the eagle flew low over
the barn yard and
recognizing his own kind the
eagle landed. At the
sight of this rather scary rari
bird marching around so
cocky like in their very midst the
chickens ran for
cover
screeching "The eagle has landed, the
eagle has landed"
including the eagle who thought he was a chicken.
In secret the chickens whispered among them selves;
"Who is this weird bird? What does he mean flying
in
here; upsetting us like this? Who does he
think he is?"
The eagle calmly surveyed the
situation with a wink of his
eye and with sharp tongue in cheek he began to drop into
the
barnyard every day. The chickens continued to run and hide.
"This bird has a very
sharp beak that could
hurt," they
observed.
But in his sharp beak, a beak like a
two edged sword; the eagle
carried a little piece of fresh manna meat and left it there in the
barnyard for whosoever will to come; and eat thereof.
The chicken/eagle timorously came out from hiding
in the
bushes and tasted of
manna meat which he knew not of.
The chickens said
"Error, error. We are not meant to eat
fresh manna meat. We
are of the earth earthy. We eat
the premixed
predigested
bagged chicken scratch the
farmer doles out down here in the dirt."
But
the chicken/eagle hopped out and ate the manna meat,
left there, fresh; every
day. He found he could digest it easily.
And he grew strong, and
developed an appetite for this manna
meat.
One day the eagle didn't come
back to the barn yard, but
could be seen soaring on his golden wings very high in the
sky.
The eagle/chicken,
having become very
strong and confident;
and also very
hungry; flapped his wings. Much to
his surprise
he rose to the top of
the fence that had kept him in
the
barnyard.
Wow! Whole sight! Fully attentive now, and
no longer
in total denial he knew he
could see. Sitting there on the
fence, making yet another choice ;-) he spread his wings.
At that very moment
a gust of the Only Choice there is Wind
caught his wings. He
found himSelf high in the sky, gliding
in heaven where he belonged;
an eagle soaring with eagles
in the calm reality far beyond any disturbance from
vexing
attempts to keep him in the barnyard.
He thought he could hear
the voice of the eagle with the
sharp
pointy beak, the one who had seemed to plop
right down there
in the barnyard with him.
But he could see without
denial, no
longer being in partial vision. He
was here, now; in the great
unlimited all there is awareness.
It was his own
Voice!!! He laughed!
Strengthened by the manna meat he
had found his own
Voice!!!
And it was his own
Voice all the time; the One Voice that
points to the reality of all the eagles who
dreamt they were
chickens:
You are awake
in heaven right now.
You are not in
a dream world, for no such world exists.
Only the
appearance of such a world ripples through
your mind as a
dispensation of grace in a tiny mad
twist of mind
into denial that really wasn't meant
to be serious,
and yet which evoked fear.
I say grace
because that is what the illusions are,
a forum for
repentance and forgiveness, wherein
you can
rediscover that you are not lost.
Consider it
something like a daydream, where
you
are awake,
but deeply distracted
to the point of
seeing
the dream and feeling it, reacting to its
erratic
dance...but deep within
knowing the certainty
of your
own reality and a gentle
dance that gives you
confidence and
faithful edification.
altarlight
And all the eaglealtarlights called out as they glided in the true report, "It
is true! Nothing has stopped the unwavering
law of constancy."
Certain in their own reality they knew they
had never been
in a barnyard at all.
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The inner light can answer any of this world's queries and resolve any of its problems. Beyond all of these concerns, the inner light will show you who you are and your relationship to all...and bring you an understanding of love and peace that transcends ordinary human thought processes. Discover what it truly means to "love one another" and to "see peace." YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
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- [simplisticmeditation] A parable to an eagle ... RAGNAA
