 Eyes turned inward see the butterfly in every caterpillar. It is already so - at the very same time it is becoming so. Sometimes it takes some time for us to shed enough layers of our 'cocoon' in order for the warmth of What Already Is to be revealed. 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 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 Sometimes the question about whether awakening to Stillness is a matter of grace or effort comes up for someone. But in my experience, I don’t see it as an either or kind of thing – but both. As well as both being kind of the same. Yet often, I find that there is some built in confusion about what grace and effort is actually addressing - which I hope is cleared up in the following story … ----------------------------------------------- Imagine there is an eagle who thinks he is a chicken. Now, there is nothing wrong with being a chicken – if you’re a chicken. But if you’re not a chicken and you think you are … well, then … that misperception creates a lot of inner conflict and confusion. The eagle endlessly pecks at the ground while having visions of soaring. He feels deeply claustrophobic within the behaviors of a chicken’s limits while feeling so much more is possible. So – although nothing at all – neither grace nor effort – is needed to become what he already is … both grace and effort are needed for him to come to an understanding of what he is. Grace, however, is not something that comes to him at rare, random moments – it is the very thing he is now experiencing … as he feels the frustration of the unnatural limitations he has taken on, senses the truth of expansiveness, and makes the conscious effort to not only see what is untrue but discover and trust what he senses is true. ------------------------------------ I see effort as grace. And sometimes, grace as effort. Effort is the grace of Love at work - Love clarifying Its understanding of Itself. Even while earthbound, as the eagle senses his expansiveness he begins to lift his head, feel his body a bit differently, spread his wings a little more, get acclimated to the warmth of the sun in places he never felt it and then gradually, ever so gradually, get a sense of flying … and then soaring. Grace and effort are the two hands of Love - and sometimes it's impossible to tell which is which.   If someone looked you straight in the eyes and said, “The Divine is now perceiving through your eyes” would there be a humble acknowledgment of that or a quick rejection of it? “God is omnipresent” really says it all.... I see the human journey as an amazing opportunity to come into the understanding of what we actually are. As we relax, relax, relax out of all of the notions we have accumulated – our eyes are free and clear and our heart is then open to the humble acceptance of our divine true nature. Being Awake In The Dream |
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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."
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Einstein said,
"No problem can be solved
from the same
level of consciousness
that created it."
To see new solutions
we must see differently.
"No problem can be solved
from the same
level of consciousness
that created it."
To see new solutions
we must see differently.
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