Having No Position


In a message that I have transcribed and edited from a talk he gave on August 31, 2004, Ishvara provides some personal reflections on his experience of living in the Natural State. His insights can provide guidance for all who would aspire to this state. - TG.

Ishvara:

In coming in to the Natural State, in seeing a bigger picture, you realize you can't have an opinion, a position, because any position is a consequence of a belief about how things are supposed to be.

Seeing the bigger picture, you realize there is no time to be patient with beliefs. The world is in great turmoil right now, and that is a consequence of beliefs. It is a consequence of separation, selfishness and greed. Those are all positions that people take. People take the position, "I have a right to have what I want." Coming into the Natural State, you realize that you have no "right." There is only a way to be that is absolute and is revealed to you constantly. There is no choice. There is no way to have a position.

You see the suffering that people go through, and you see the cause of their suffering: their beliefs, their conditioning. Yet you have a reluctance to mess with people's position, with their beliefs, because their life may fall apart as a result. There is a fine line to walk in discerning how much to cut away and how much to leave, so as not totally destroy a person.

When you see the consequences of what people believe, the consequences of what religions, traditions and disciplines are teaching, you see that people are not looking at the bigger picture. They are looking myopically at what is good for them, how it serves them, how it makes them feel good, or be liked. Humans have a need to feel good, so they position themselves in ways that may assure that they will feel good. That has to go. The Natural State is not about feeling good. It is not about being liked. It is not about being right or wrong.

Coming into the Natural State, you realize that all of those things mean nothing. In the Natural State, there is no position to take. There is just being, and being is changing all the time. Being doesn't have a place. Being is an energy that is happening, and evolving and changing and flowing, moving with what-is, but without an agenda, without a position.

Coming into the Natural State, you realize that nothing changes by itself. You have to change it. You have to know something more. You have to develop a place of knowing that is superior to consensus reality, conditions, and then you hold to that, without taking a position, because what you are holding to is changing all the time. So you could say that you are "holding on" to change, staying with change as it happens, holding on to no position. It is not something you want to jump into without preparation, because it could drive you insane.

The Natural State means being OK with things, and being OK with things does not allow you to have any position. To keep being OK with things, you must be OK with everything changing. "Being OK" is not a position; it is transitory, changing all the time. What you were OK with yesterday is gone, and something else is now happening to be OK with.

In the Natural State, you see an organic shift that must happen for humanity to survive. You see it, but you don't readily see a way to get there. You see the big picture, but now what do you do?

There is an absolute authority that comes with the Natural State. There is a direct knowing, seeing beyond the conventional, beyond the consensus, seeing consequence. It imbues you with a lot of knowing about what one can do and what one shouldn't do. Having that kind of authority can be scary.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


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