From Survival To Creation


Ishvara speaks of moving from the commentary of the past to the direct experience of the moment, in a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk he gave on August 26, 2004. -TG.

Ishvara:

It is human nature to rely upon past experience in a situation. The brain tends to compare or seek data from the past in order to position itself, but that removes you from what is actually happening by placing the experience into a different context, with the result that you miss what is really happening. You are acting a program, or a concept or a past event, and it can be out of survival, or out the need to control things, or the belief that the past was better than the present is.

As you understand how the intellect injects into the moment its own commentary, you see that the commentary is based on past experience. When you recognize that Life is about direct experience and learning how energy works, you see that by injecting something from the past into the moment, you are bringing in something you have already experienced, so you are missing the opportunity of the moment to experience it in a different way.

Fundamentally, you get to the place where you become fearless and open to the moment and to the experiences that are taking place, and you have a sense of confidence, of alrightness, of "I'm always all right in the moment, I'm always all right with what's happening; nothing can happen that will overwhelm me; I am always present, I am always there with it, not living from a past script, not reacting to Life from the past." That is a way of being really present with what-is, and getting the most out of the direct experience. Sometimes, though, you just can't do that; sometimes it doesn't come off; sometimes you get stuck in the past. Sometimes the intellect is very quick and starts the commentary before you know it.

Ideally, at some point, you catch yourself running the commentary, and you say, "Oh, that's just the past; what is happening now?" Sometimes the commentary is a way of survival because, for whatever reason, you are anxious about what is present and you are seeking some kind of security. It is easy to slip into the intellect and try to handle the situation with a method from the past, but that cheats you of the opportunity to deal with it as yourself in that moment. When you deal with it using something of the past, you are disallowing the clarity and maturity that you can bring to that moment, so there is a sense of betrayal that happens; you take away from yourself. There is nothing wrong with that, but you will want to realize what is happening, because you are missing an opportunity, you are missing a lesson of how energy works, or you are missing a new way of being.

Most of the problems that you experience are due to beliefs, conditioning, programming from the past. If you are evolving and developing the intention to transcend that conditioning, to not be controlled by it, the quality of your life will change. Instead of living from survival and fear, you start to live simply from "I can." On the outside, it may not look very different, but your way of being in the world is totally different. From the outside, you may look normal, doing the things other people do, but you do them because you CAN, not because there is a "should" or a program behind it. You do it just because you can.

When you recognize that most of the problems that you have are the consequence of conditioning, beliefs and concepts, the programs you have bought, you begin to shift from survival to creation. This doesn't mean that you will be exempt from the consensus world, but you will have a better balance, a better way of seeing things, and you won't take things so personally. There is a natural sense of liberation and freedom that takes place.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


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