Recreating Yourself In The Image Of Life


Ishvara:

People think "Oh, I must purify the mind." The only way to purify the mind is to get the "I must" out of there, and then the mind is pure. "I must" is an agenda. Stopping the intellect is an agenda. Why can't you just be with the way things are? Oh I know, you don't like the way things are. But when you truly are being with the way things are, you recognize how they got there. You watch, and you begin to understand how things work, and as you understand how things work you begin to get over yourself. You don't become aggressive or complacent; you become real. You get to the place where you are not afraid of truth; you actually expect truth every moment. You are not attached to it; you don't resist it. It takes a lot of courage to embrace the truth. It takes a lot of courage to become realized, to wake up, because when you start waking up, you are not going to like what you see. That is a great deterrent for people to really wake up.

People like to "wake up" to an agenda, a system, a structure, a practice, a belief that is mapped out. "Oh, I can handle 'enlightenment.' 'Enlightenment' means I'll be liberated." That is not the way it works. When you wake up, you wake up to truth, and you see the mess you've made of things. You see the mess around you. You also see the flower blooming in the midst of everything. You have to see the flower, otherwise you get too caught up in the mess. Everybody is in a mess; the world is in a mess, but there are lots of flowers blooming from the mess. If you spend all your time feeling sorry for yourself, you don't see what is happening.

Especially in this time of world conflict and chaos, you really have to start looking for the flowers, you really have to start projecting higher possibilities. You may feel alone in that. You don't want to make it into an agenda; you just want to watch. The best way to know what is going on in the world is to watch. That doesn't mean watching television, but watching the people around you. Every person is a barometer of Life. The ups and downs that people are going through are symptomatic of what the world is experiencing. If you watch with non-attachment and non-resistance, you can see. You can begin to see possibilities. You can begin to see, beyond judgment, that there is hope; there are higher possibilities waiting to happen when individuals can awaken, but it involves a lot of courage, because first you have to get over yourself. You have to clean up your own mess first. It is not that hard when you realize that your mess was created in innocence. You can quit feeling guilty about it, and just recognize it. You are not supposed to feel guilty about it. Guilt is a control mechanism that others try to work on you, trying to have it their way and not truth's way.

Guilt is an agenda. You may have your own agenda. Get over it. The world is not going to be the way you want it to be. There is no way to make the world the way you want it to be, because as long as you want something to be a certain way you yourself are deluded.

The first step is allowing things to be the way they are, and then seeing what is possible. Life uses everything to manifest itself. Out of chaos comes harmony. Out of separation comes unity. The universe moves toward an ordered existence.

When you embrace Life, when you forget the past, when you let go of the systems, the structures, the beliefs, the religions, the paths, and embrace Life as-it-is, you become a master of Life, and you know. When you know, you realize that whatever has happened, has happened, and Life will not judge you for what has happened. The "judgment" of Life is instant. You bear the consequence of what is happening now, but Life will not sneak up on you and punish you later. Where you are now is a consequence of what you have believed, what you have accepted, and you can't be guilty for that because you didn't know. So don't spend time feeling guilty about it. Just recognize what is happening and take the next step.

Consensus reality tries to control you, to scare you. You hear the programmed voice saying, "Oh, you've failed. You are being punished. You are suffering karma. It is all your fault. There is no help for you." That voice is a liar. It is a program. You can say no to the program. You can begin from this moment to recreate yourself in the image of Life, not in the image of the past. This moment you are brand new. You can start from this moment, creating a Life that is you, letting go of the consensus, the beliefs, the past, no longer feeling sorry for yourself.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a terrible expenditure of energy that doesn't do anything. It is like sitting down to a gourmet meal that is actually fake food. It is false; it cannot nourish you. That is what consensus reality is. That is what beliefs and concepts bring.

Face what-is. Whatever is in your life now, face it. Don't make it into a system or structure. Don't allow it to say who you are. Just look at it; watch it. There are so many false beliefs that create expectations and resistances. There is no way to be happy in that realm.

You are a creative dynamo. You just need to let it out. Let that creative dynamo go to work for you. Stop restraining it by beliefs and concepts and conditioning and "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts." If you don't activate the creative dynamo that you are, no one will. It involves recognizing that you are power, you are Life, and that nothing is fatal to you. When you face what-is with intention and knowing, you are more than your past, you are more than what you have created. You can re-create, you can create anew, you can transform yourself. You can live without expectations and resistances, and start being who you are, as you find out.

Life is like a fire that melts away the lie. When you willingly submit yourself to Life, to living as-is in the present, you enter the fire, and it melts the lies. You quickly find out what is conditional and consensus. If you stay in the fire, it melts away, as long as you don't try to make it melt. When you try to make it melt, you are interfering with it. So instead, you allow it. The absolute truth of Life, which is "absolute" in this moment, is: Allow. Embrace what is happening, and you begin to become aware of the programming and conditioning that has so controlled the way life has been for you. This is the new consciousness. This is not the way the world is or has been. This is the way it is now. This is new; it cannot be systematized or structured, because it is living, it is living truth happening in the moment, moment by moment, and the only way to be in it is to embrace it, to keep letting go of the past, of expectations, wishes, doubts, fears, all that baggage. The destiny is the moment. Freedom is the moment. Liberation is the moment. It only exists in the moment, and because you are present you become it, moment by moment.

Allow that nothing has any meaning that comes from the outside. All meaning comes from what you give to it in the moment. What you say becomes the absolute truth in the moment. It can move into conflict, or harmony. Moving into non-separation, moving into allowing, into connection, you find strength and support for being all you can be, moment by moment. Allow for the possibility. Allow that it is so in this moment, and immediately you will begin to experience the so-ness of it, as it is now, in this moment, Life's presence inspiring to be all you can be, moment by moment.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is the conclusion of a message that I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on August 29, 2004. - TG.





Copyright © 2004 - 2006 by Alaya®.
All rights reserved.
Alaya® is a registered trademark and service mark.

If you forward this message, please include the copyright notice.

To learn more about Ishvara and the Alaya® Community, visit our website at www.alayanet.org

To subscribe to this message list, send an email to tgrant@alayanet.org with the word "Subscribe" in the subject of your message.