Truth Is Only In The Moment


In the first installment of a message that I have transcribed and edited from a talk he gave on August 29, 2004, Ishvara speaks of the suffering that is created by attachment and resistance, and of the truth that comes from accepting Life as-it-is without expectation or belief. - TG.

Ishvara:

How long are you going to suffer? How long are you going to be separate? How much time do you have left? Less than you think. No, it is not the end of things; it is just a new beginning, if you have courage. This beginning will take courage. It will take courage to leave behind your concepts, your beliefs, your attachments and your resistances. It takes courage to be who you are, not to think or believe, but to know and be who you are.

As I watch this unfolding, I see the stumbling blocks. I see how you are in pain; I see your moments of joy. It is all the same to me. You are either in It, or not. When you are in It, it doesn't matter. Suffering means nothing, pain means nothing, because there is no separation. But when you are not in It, when you are in beliefs, concepts, and conditions, you suffer your beliefs; you suffer your expectations; you suffer your resistances and your attachments.

You are resisting something, when the "something" is true. You are attached to something, when it is false. Strange, isn't it? You spend time resisting things because they are true, and being attached to things because they are missing from your life. What you don't want, clings to you, and what you do want, flees from you.

Truth is evasive, because when you look at truth, you bring opinions and beliefs into your perception. You can't quite be sure whether you are grasping the truth, or clinging to an opinion that is the result of conditioning.

Much of the time, you choose to remain stuck, feeling sorry for yourself, feeling that the world is against you. I must inform you: The world doesn't give a damn about you. You may think it does, but it doesn't. The world hardly knows you exist. It is you that has an investment in your existence.

The consequence of attachments and resistances is suffering. And so you spend a lot of time searching, searching for a way out. The only way out is the way you got in: acceptance. You may think you are accepting things as they are, when in actuality you are accepting your belief about how things are. If you are suffering, that's what you've done: you have accepted beliefs about how things are, because in truth there is no suffering. In truth there is no attachment or resistance, no good or evil. Life Is.

This world is full of conditioning, beliefs, concepts, hypnosis. There is ignorance all around. Yet right in the heart of ignorance is truth; right in the chaos is peace; right in the dilemma is the solution. So close, so present, and so missed. Insanity has its way. That is OK, because insanity is not real, but it is not OK that it creates suffering, since suffering is not necessary.

I know the way that doesn't include suffering. It isn't attachment, it isn't resistance. It is none of those things that you believe or expect, because what you expect is so complicated, and has so many agendas, that it is impossible. Truth by its very nature is simple, obvious and present. Truth evolves and changes. The human conditioning expects some absolute truth. Well, continue to expect, and continue to suffer. There is no absolute truth. Truth is what-is in the moment. You attach to it or resist it; you can be complacent or enthusiastic. You create the experience you have. There is no cause for guilt about this. If you knew how powerful you are, you probably would have created things differently, but has anyone ever told you how powerful you are? You learned that, "They did it to me; it's not my fault; it's the government's fault; it's God's fault; it's karma." You blame your problems on something that is nonexistent. Something that is not there becomes the cause of your dilemma, your separation, your suffering. Something that is nonexistent is your problem. You are so bothered by something that is not there.

The more you try to escape Life, the more it clings to you. Yes, it is normal to want to be happy. It is normal to want things to go your way. Insanity is normal, but it is not truth. Truth is evasive, because truth doesn't live up to your expectations. Truth doesn't care. The moment of truth is here, now, and that's the only place where it is: here, now. If you go looking for the truth, you'll miss it, because your are expecting to find something that is nonexistent. So many spend the biggest part of their life searching, trying to get out of pain, trying to be happy, and the key word is "trying." You cannot try. You either do it or you don't.

In order for your life to be all it can be, you have to take charge. You really have to take Life right by the throat and strangle it until it tells you the truth. That is the only way, because otherwise you continue to suffer. The first step is to just acknowledge that you have screwed up; you have totally messed things up. You've made a mess of other people, you've made a mess of yourself. There is no reason to be guilty, because you are not alone in this. Messes happen, but if you continue to live in a mess, you have to question: Why do you do that? Is that all you believe you are worthy of?

When you are sincere and honest, you begin to tell the truth in the moment, realizing that truth is not absolute; truth is only in the moment. The truth is your direct experience of what is happening now, without your interpretation, your attachment, or your judgments. Judgments are insidious things, because you whip out your judgment and you tie yourself to a false arena, and then you proceed to combat it. It is like you create a monster, and then you wait for someone to rescue you, to slay the monster. You forget that you are your own monster-slayer. You created the monster, you can slay it.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


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