This morning the first Rainbow Arriving workshop was held, but it was more of a work session as a small group of us were looking to see if we could actually make a rainbow appear. And some did, I think, at least for me. You can’t know if others see a rainbow. You can only know if you see one. A rainbow occurs in a space where the cloud of thinking opens and allows insight to break into the mind like a beam of sunlight. This morning we talked about how one can use their marriage to awaken from the sleep of time and repeating their days like Ground Hog Day. (the movie)
The first Rainbow Arriving Workshop for Marriage Renewal will be held Valentine’s Day at the Grey Swan Inn in Blackstone, and since the Blackstone Yoga Center is across the street the five couples can come here for the sessions. Hopefully, the weekend will be a mini-retreat without the expense of a resort and high-end programs.
The intention for the weekend is not to teach the couples what to do or give them therapy. This is not a weekend to fix anything. Trying to fix our marriages is part of the problem because we begin with the perception and belief that the marriage is a problem. A Rainbow Workshop is not to focus on the problem, but to shift attention to the way we experience the problem.
This is a no-fault workshop and couples are encouraged to leave their problems at home or at the door and practice noticing the old, the borrowed, and the blue in their marriage. Remember, at the beginning the bride wears these three things, plus something new. When we notice without incrimination what is old (repetitive behaviors), something borrowed (beliefs and behaviors we borrowed from parents and culture), and something blue (the emotions that come bagged with the other two), we discover that the actual noticing is the something new.
Something new is not a new thing because oncee something is a thing, or even a thought, it is no longer new. Only the seeing is new. The seeing is the knowing and it is total. Seeing is like suddenly waking up from dreaming. One sees that you are asleep and that seeing is awake. And when you see conditioned behavior, it is the unconditioned that is doing the seeing, and then, only then can something new happen in relationship. The seeing is the Rainbow Arriving.
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This post was written by ed on January 6, 2009
I’ll bet I spend more on Half & Half than any other milk product used here at PeaceHouse, and I like a lot of H&H in my morning coffee since I like it strong, so when I go to the grocery store I always buy two. You never can have enough Half & Half. But there is an M&M of wisdom to be found in this simple additive to our cup of life. 
Perhaps these posts are but M&Ms laid down for you and I to read each morning as we track the Rainbow’s End. I am not leading you or showing you the path, not have I found the Rainbow’s End and come back to point the way, like a wise sign post or Indian guide. I feel that we are walking this path together, noticing clues, picking up pointers, and enjoying the journey. The path to the Rainbow is never in a straight line, a linear conceptual line of means to an end; rather, the path is circular, a spiral going deeper and deeper, expanding joy and expanding awareness, but always coming back to this present moment, the center that is the unmoved mover and the unchanging witness of the journey.
We are all hunting for the Rainbow’s End if you see that as a metaphor for the payoff that all our strategies, conscious and semi-conscious, are designed to achieve, but we don’t always get a pot of gold. Usually we get a pot of suffering, or at best, a temporary pot of gold that soon turns into fools gold or just vanishes before our eyes. But we keep on trekking following that rainbow to its end hoping that this time the gold won’t tarnish. 
