The Treasure

 

Centering Prayer Group 8/26/25 - 

Lectio Divina with Gospel of Thomas Login 109

Jeshua says,

The divine realm is like a man who owned

a field with treasure hidden away in it.

Unaware of it he died, leaving it to his son,

who also knew nothing about it.

After taking possession of the land the son

practically gave it away for nothing.

But the one who bought it began plowing

and discovered the treasure,

and immediately started lending 

money at interest to whomever he pleased.

The Treasure 

The father dies without knowing the treasure within.  It is hidden by social training of disempowerment and inherent sinfulness making it impossible to imagine, allow or seek any kind of interior treasure, let alone the Divine...

What is the treasure?  

Embracing, allowing, embodying for our divinity of pure love, joy, peace, inspiration, abundance, compassion, patience and acceptance with limitless possibilities to create & recreate lives of those characteristics.  It is our birthright by EXISTING.  

Practicing embracing the Divine within, knowing and feeling cherished, valued, accepted, connected to; at one with the Divine. 

To evolve into our Authentic Selves, to discover the treasure while living our lives in human form amidst L.I.F.E. allows humanity to expand, to evolve, to thrive!   

     Enlightenment -  To live from the light within

BURRIED TREASURE 

Unawareness creates suffering.  Suffering as a part of life.

The message and practices of society in general and the Gospel specifically, create a legacy of emotional trauma from the confounding & gaslighting combination of Love in words and actions combined with suffering/pain/neglect that is blamed on humanity's "failings".  

Within that programming, a treasure within is simply too difficult to contemplate and would also require "working" the field of sinfulness, our inner darkness.  Hello?  Who is going to go there unless we essentially HAVE to... Welcome to the Dark Night of the Soul.  Finding the spiritual path often occurs when we hit rock bottom with no where else to turn... On our knees on the bathroom floor - as in Eat, Love, Pray - or when the Buddha is overwhelmed by the suffering in the world he had been shielded from.

Two movies, The Disney movie Moana & Dead Man Walking, provide exquisite visuals of the power of "losing" sight of our Treasure within and the belief systems that end up defining us vs. our Truth when someone believes in our inner Light despite our outer pain.  When someone believes in who we really are, even if we don't, it is impossible to evade the ability of that Truth to fill our souls.  

    MOANA:

 Moana Scene-"Show Her To Me"   Know Who You Are with Hawaiian lyrics

I have crossed the horizon to find you.
I know your name.
They have stolen the heart from inside you.
But this does not define you.
This is not who you are.
You know who you are.

     DEAD MAN WALKING     Son of God - 1:12 min. in

"You are a Son of God, Matthew Poncelet."

LIVING WITH OUR TREASURE

I believe that every being is conceived as Source in human form.  We are shaped in utero and in our culture throughout life.  Our "personalities" are a reflection of the lifelong indoctrination we absorbed.  It is not possible to lose the divinity within but it it possible to never know it or choose not to grow into alignment with it.  

It may take our lifetime to let go of the limiting, self-incriminating beliefs, culture, family ethos that keep us feeling separate, alone, incapable, powerless, angry, scared, depressed, fearful etc.  It requires that we practice new ways of thinking and regularly rigorously setting intentions daily to shift our mindset, our focus from "what is or has been" to what we want to see, be, feel, experience.  It is a muscle that requires regular workouts for strengthening and flexibility.  Along the way we will bump into the old mindset, blocks, resistance.  It is all normal and not to be concerned about.  One day at a time, practice, practice, practice!

Reset, practice, gain ground, resistance, blocks, fear...

Reset, practice, gain alignment, fear, resistance...

Reset, practice, JOY!  ABUNDANCE!, FREEDOM!, CRASH & BURN!  Reset, practice, remember, practice, maintain focus, lose focus

Reset, practice, UPSET!  etc. 

When we are in alignment with our internal Truth, Divinity, Oneness with All that Is, life flows: abundance, peace, joy, ease, synchronicities flow...   We manifest our desires and have increasingly shorter periods out of alignment.

Yes, we suffer and there is suffering in the world.  But we are born as divine beings capable of shifting our own experience and that of others by doing the work of resetting our focus, updating our software, cleaning our emotional, mental and spiritual energies.  We are not broken, lost or sinners.  We landed in a show already in progress and everyone has forgotten their roles and lines and "the dog ate our homework" etc.

 

Our lives are not meant to be ruled or grown through suffering.  When we allow ourselves to let go of that mentality, when we "heal" that wound of inherent sinfulness and suffering for ourselves, we create healing for those in our vibrational circles that also expands outward to create healing for humanity.  It is the greatest gift of service and activism we can offer.