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We are so conditioned to judge our conditioning (all those ways we've been programmed to resist, withdraw from, or grab hold of whatever is now happening) that whenever conditioning comes up we often either feel a kind of ‘Oh, no, not that again’ dread toward ourself or a type of ‘How dare you” anger toward those we perceive have triggered it. We either feel bad about ourself or others. We feel we are the problem or others are the problem. We feel that because conditioning comes up we need to somehow change or others need to change. Yet – there is a third way to view conditioning. When we are open hearted toward all experience that means we are open hearted toward any conditioning that shows up. When we see conditioning clearly we’re not judging it, ourself or others. The conditioned resistance comes and goes and we are free to know and sense our freedom from it all. And then gradually, gradually, the open heartedness of seeing all the way through the judgment of Self and others to the true sense of Self gives way to a genuine ‘Thank you’ whenever we become aware of conditioning. A deep gratitude wells up within as we see it all clearly - the conditioning and the Unconditioned. No longer misperceiving conditioning as what we are but simply as what is now passing through allows the understanding of what we actually are to stabilize. Freedom reveals itself when we allow what is coming and going to come and go without judgment. When we see conditioning clearly we see it with the eyes of Love. The clarity of Love says, "All is welcome here."  Seeking The Truth of Now Right Now is Different Than Seeking The Truth of Now in the Future10/20/2019
I find it to be so helpful to become aware of the many ways we cover up the direct knowing and sensing of peace now. When we don’t know that Wholeness is already the case we try so hard to find it through something we do – all the while unaware that those very ways we try to find peace are the very ways we are covering up what we are trying to find! So … seeing the ways we cover up the realization of what we are can be extremely helpful in letting those ways go. Three general ways we believe we can get to what we seek is through earning, demanding or withdrawing. Those who try to earn their way try to be good, try to learn or do more, try to figure things out. They believe the answer lies in the goodness or knowledge or activity or success that they accumulate – not in what they actually are. Those who try to demand their way to what they seek try to fix others, learn about ways others aren't measuring up and how they can be helped to do better. They believe the answer lies in what others do or don’t do – not in what they actually are. And those who withdraw believe the way to what they seek is in trying to remain safe from all hurt –physical and psychological. They have either temporarily given up trying to find the answer and want to be left alone or want to find the answer within the safety of being left alone. They believe the answer lies in what they keep away from – not in what they actually are. Seeking is an honest energy. When we don’t know the Truth of Being we are built to seek. But the seeking energy of trying to earn, demand or withdraw our way into the discovery of what we seek is not open to life now. That energy is fixed on the future. To discover what we seek we must be open to Now. Openness to Now is a dropping out of seeking into discovery. 
When our eyes and heart are free of debris we can see and sense clearly.  When we consider what feels natural this gives us a clue about what is True – True with a capital T. After all, how can what feels natural – universally – not be innate to us all? This is why everyone everywhere in every time seeks peace, happiness, love. Regardless of when and where we are born – Truth is not beholden to either time or space. Sensing what is natural again and again and again and again opens the way for us to trust it. And trust opens the way for us to more fully live it. Sensing leads to trusting and trusting leads to living |
It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face."
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