The Divine Play

Build it and they will come

Church is a place; church is not an Institution. It is a place maybe made of rocks and
cement, maybe made of Gold and Saints. But it is not the Church by itself that makes
it Holy or Set Apart, it is the attention on it, the open disposition to what is inside that
Structure, that makes it Holy. Churches or Sanctuaries or monasteries are safe places
to be in a disposition of prayer, and so the essence of that building, those very
structures that the church is trying to hold together, is not an institution at all.

Build it and they will come……..

For those like us that take refuge in churches or Sanctuaries, for those like us that live
inside these structures, there is a Divine order, which means that the Sacred is at the
center of our lives as the first order of organization.

So, by living in Sanctuary, one holds as reference that which is Divine, the Supreme
or Divine order that will rule the other aspects of one’s own behavior.

It is up to us to establish the Sacred as the center of our lives, in order to re-build and
re-organize the order. When you enter a Church, the first thing you do is drop your
persona. You know why you are inside the church, you know what you are looking for.
In that very instant that which is greater is known. Living in Sanctuary is the always
already disposition of leaving your shoes at the door and doing the necessary practice
to not forget why one is here. It is clear what belongs to the Sacred and what belongs
to the Secular.

Throughout history, cultures that are Spirit Centered or Sacred Centered -those for
whom the Spirit is at the core of their lives- have collapsed. For example, the Hawaiians
were a thoroughly Sacred Culture. Every aspect and dimension of human life -health,
relationships, religion, education- was informed by Spirit, pervaded by their beliefs
and governed by their relationship with the Divine. Slowly, however, the secular began
to replace the sacred, and each aspect of one’s own life that had been treated so
reverently, became a matter of mere indoctrination, without Cause, empty, devoid of
Spirit.

We, and those like us, who have chosen to live in Temples, whose lives are dedicated
to a Sacred Ordeal -the reception of Spirit- are full of Life because we are set apart
from the secular world, immersed in holy places that allow us to grow in spirit
identification. We, who live in Sanctuaries, have taken refuge in our Dharma, the
Teachings of those who are Real to us, our Masters, our Lineage. We, who have chosen
Temple life, live under those Principles; which belong wholly to the Sacred. Thus, we,
who live in Sanctuaries, allow our entire lives to be regulated by the Sacred. We have
moved our beings, our very bodies, to these places, which are consecrated and
dedicated to the realization of what is beyond one’s own psyche and persona. We are
monks. We do not belong to the play of the world and what it is undergoing any more:
the play of divide-and-conquer, the play of presumptions. We are in another game.
We are in the Divine play, because our principles, which we live, are wholly founded
in the Sacred Domain. In essence we are monks taking refuge in the Dharma, which
guides all aspects of human life, and for which living in community is righteous and
necessary.

For more than 15 years we have been living in community because it is the very
context in which we are able to live these Sacred principles -tolerance, peace,
perseverance, harmony, cooperation, love, forgiveness. These principles come from a
Lineage of Light such as A Course in Miracles, which is the lineage of Jesus, and the
law is clear: love God above all else and your brother as yourself.

We actually do that; we actually live that. We are Sanctuary. We are Sacred. We have
developed a culture that is based only on the nourishment of the enlightened
disposition or conscious evolution. Our culture revolves around the Sacred in every
aspect of our human lives -from the way we eat, to the way we dispose of our waste;
from the way we build our houses, to the way we relate within and outside the Sangha
or community. That we live the principle of Life, or God, in every detail of our existence
makes us a sacred, or Spirit-centered gathering. This living demonstration, the
embodiment of the laws of the Sacred, makes us a powerful vehicle of human evolution.

Each of us brings a different aspect of our relationship with God; you will find Buddhists,
followers of Amma, followers of Santo Daime, among others. Each of us is free to be
devoted to Whatever we conceive as Greater. From our web page: “Our sole purpose
is to bring unity to the minds of those who believe in a reality apart from the One
Underlying Reality which is Pervasive and All-encompassing. We are open to all
principles of Atonement (Unity), whatever their source. We bring people together, we
bring minds together, we establish connections using whatever symbols are brought
to us. We use any and all symbols to demonstrate that Mind is One; that Consciousness
is Singular, and Always Already Wholly Integrated”.

Most often, sanctuaries are places dedicated to one deity, one superior or non-living
being. Our Sanctuary, however, is dedicated to the Source itself. And gathering
together in prayer, as a sacred cooperative community, is the very essence of our daily
lives. Yet, this life in Sanctuary, in which monks are set apart in holy places, has been
misunderstood and misinterpreted to the point of corruption and abuse by the secular
world. And thus, our sadhana (spiritual practice) has been reduced to a mere
philosophical point of view or mind-made concept of the sacred. This presumed
knowledge has therefore obscured the underlying, esoteric truth of what sacred
cultures are, and what we are.

We are, now, like sheep amongst wolves, and we are asking for help. We need help.
We need help to bring Light to all things that have been obscured by the ego, that
have been obscured by money and power, forces that we are not equipped to fight.
We are spiritual practitioners who know that our only resource is prayer. We have all
our faith in prayer because we know that one’s reality is just a manifestation of one’s
own thoughts. Understanding this dynamic, we commit our entire lives to the practice
of training our minds to overcome all obstacles in our lives. And yet we are being
tested again, being put on trial again by the Secular, in a way that is unbearable for
our hearts. We need all the help we can get to protect what is sacred to us.

We live every day in cooperation and tolerance, in service to one another, which are
the main principles on which a Sacred Cooperative Community is founded; that is why
it is so ecstatic to be around us. We are a Sacred Cooperative Community, and we
want to be Remembered as That. We cannot bear the pain of being a sect or a cult or
a part of a society that discards this different, but benevolent way of living.

Our houses are barely the size suitable for one person, yet we built them that way
because we are true to what we are. We are true to the law that we follow. For us,
aligning ourselves to that law means everything because that law has a Cause. We
have a Cause. We do not live as ordinary people in which the Sacred is just an aspect.
Our lives, based on sacred principles, follow a law that is benign, not only for us, but
for everyone and everything around us, including nature.

We, as the Sacred, venerate the Sacred. In our respect for and inclusion of nature, we
have witnessed that nature takes care of itself; that it is a Force by itself and that the
spirit or essence of life is such that one Consecrates or communes with the
Environment that surrounds us (Saco de Mamanguá).

We have also seen that many governmental laws regarding the environment are
geared towards mind-control, hence a legislation that protects trees that are full of
poison over human beings in need of refuge. Nevertheless, here we are, trying to
protect ourselves from the secular world, undergoing a profoundly painful process in
which all our houses are threatened with demolition; houses that have not been
recognized as temples, just as we have not been recognized as monks. This recognition
is absolutely necessary, as we need to have sovereignty over our own beings and
doings because we are informed by, and subject to, a different Law. Our adherence to
that law makes us particular, much the same as an indigenous, or cultural group, and
we need to be acknowledged and supported as that, now.

We need to recognize and pray for the Sacred Cultures that are dying all around the
world. This situation is not just about our houses, or monks being expelled from their
places of prayer. Neither does it involve only the exoteric level of our, and their
existence. Rather, it involves the profoundly esoteric level of our joint service to
humanity in the creation and maintenance of sanctuaries in which the process of
evolution can be accelerated for all of mankind. Not only should temples such as ours
never be shut down, but they should be acknowledged, appreciated, and celebrated.

True prayer, culture, and art can only come from free energy, from the free awareness,
or the free attention of living openly, receptively, fearlessly. Only then can one really
experience Unity, Oneness with all. Yet, this Way of Being, which has been revealed
and indicated for eons, continues to be reduced to a mere cultic, religious idea. What
will it take to finally embrace our true nature, living as consciousness, fully alive and
free? All of us, not just those living in temples, but people all over the world -real
devotees from the most ordinary to the most exalted, dancers, musicians, artists from
all walks of life. Why artists? Because all can create art, and that art is not just for you,
it is for others. Our houses are our art. They are the way that we communicate that
God loves us. They are the way that we express that God gives all to all. How? Because
we have been left with nothing, and yet we dared to create Sanctuary again and again!
And we cannot allow these works of sacred art to be treated, and threatened, as if
they were just mere houses, because they are not.

People go to monasteries, sanctuaries, and temples for a reason. They are set apart
as refuges for the very real and critical purpose of keeping the Sacred alive. So, we do
need a special jurisdiction, something real and tangible that has the force to protect
the spiritual -that movement in one’s own mind that is actually supported by the
Universe, actually supported by Reality. We have all witnessed that when we turn to
God there is always Grace, there is always a miracle that appears, there is always
something greater than us. And we are willing to be shown. We are willing to be shown,
Father.

If you feel sympathy for what I am expressing, that sympathy comes from another
place, that sympathy comes from compassion. If you resonate with us, if you have
seen enough and you cannot bear it any longer; if you sympathize with Cause -God is
our Cause- then I would invite you to join us, to raise the level of consciousness in
which freedom and truth can be the reality of many. We are looking for a network of
communication out of time, in which we are united in our Cause. We are looking for
those that are living the principle of Atonement, engaging with that Prior Unity which
allows one to know the next righteous move in this test that we are undergoing.
This letter is a call for prayer. If this awakens in you some sense of that which is
Real, the invitation is open. We are a collective Satsang. We Embody that which is
Sacred. We need your prayers along with ours so that the Spirit, or that very Force of
the All-Encompassing Real God, Unites us together in recognition of that which is
sacred and in need of protection.

All Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth Peace to those of God’s Will.

Daisy