You Make It So Because You Know It Is Possible


I have been with Ishvara for more than nine years, and throughout that time I have found him to be an essentially unconditional human being: never judgmental, never holding onto the past, always present, always accepting people as they are, continually inspiring them through his moment-by-moment example of how Life can be. According to consensus reality, such a human being cannot exist. That belief may be the biggest barrier to human evolution, because if one human being has become truly free of the past, then that is an attainable possibility for the rest of humanity. Ishvara speaks of this possibility in a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk he gave on November 30, 2004. - TG.

Ishvara:

Those who resonate with this awareness often begin to have a particular set of problems, because the "personal" is so acceptable in consensus reality, but we are becoming very impersonal here. There is no place for a separate self here. In this awareness, one constantly identifies with the whole, and there is an empowerment in that. But it is a lot of work, because one is essentially remodeling one's brain. A lot of problems come up because of one's perceptions and expectations about how something is supposed to be. Try as one might, it is pretty much impossible to transcend the human conditioning or complacency.

Ultimately, this awareness requires that you realize there really is no "should," there really is no way. I find that the greatest obstacle to your evolution is your own thought and belief about what is possible. My work, and my joy, is to constantly inspire those around me to excel, to get out of the thought process of "I can't do this." I realized long ago that the conditioned intellect, that body of beliefs and concepts, creates its own obstacles. There is nothing on the outside that can create an obstacle; all obstacles are self-created. It is subtle, because along the way you accept certain things as true. You accept certain realities, you accept certain things about yourself. Essentially, you accept your limitations. When you accept your limitations, you also lock yourself into "That's the way I am; that is what happens to me; that is how my life goes."

Each human being is self-created. You are creating your own problems by what you accept as reality or as true about yourself or other people. This presents a tremendous hurdle to overcome. It requires a constant practice of awareness and connection, not taking things personally, not reacting to things, but always looking for some way to compassionately respond to what is going on around you. If I could give any one of you something, I would want to give you my compassion and my patience, because every one of you knows how much patience I have exercised with each of you. You know how forgiving, how uncritical, and how accepting I have always been. I know it is hard for you to put this into practice, because you still have a lot of "human" qualities about you; you still have a lot of conditioning. You react to things, you have expectations, you are disappointed; there are a lot of "supposed to's" in your life and a lot of "shouldn't's". The only thing you really need in your life is acceptance: accepting Is-ness.

During the past seventeen years, I have seen that the main component of my life is this acceptance: accepting Is-ness. That doesn't mean I have to like what is happening; often I dislike it, but still the bottom line is accepting what-is, exercising compassion and patience with myself as I work through things, as I see a bigger picture, and doing the same, even more so, for those around me. I daresay that the world would start to be a better place if each one of you could implement that kind of practice. I know it is difficult, because you have expectations on other people and on yourself. These expectations are hurdles and obstacles to your brain's evolution, because every expectation, every "should" or "shouldn't", every condemnation, every judgment, everything that is not all right, is a neural pathway that occupies space which could otherwise be used for neural pathways which would lead you to the new species, to being in a flow of Life where you see and live the bigger picture, and you take no thought for how it has to work. In the new species, you take no thought for what should be done; you simply are doing what is there to do. That is the foundation for this awareness.

As you begin to accept this, as you begin to see that this is a new way of being in the world, you realize that the rest of the world lives in ignorance and illusion, but that is not your world. Your world is self-created. The new species' world is self created.

My reality, I create myself. I give no one else the authority to create my reality, and my reality works. I implement it, I live it, I practice it, I project it, and those that can link up with it will step up to a higher level of existence. A lot of it is still experimental, because the question remains: How do we want to be? We certainly don't want to be the way it has been. Humans have lived "the way it has been" for a long time, killing each other, hating each other, dying of diseases and other causes, because that is their body of belief; that is the reality they accept, that is the human lot they accept. I don't agree with that reality.

Coming into the Natural State seventeen years ago, I realized that the brain/body/mind system is a powerful mechanism; it is an organism in itself, connected to the cosmos, to the universe, with access to everything that is possible all the time. But it is curtailed by one's belief, by one's acceptance of what is possible.

In the conditional, consensus-reality world, there are systems, there are structures, there are ways, but in this awareness there is no way. You have to create your own way. There is no "how to." You just have to do it. People get frustrated when they hear me say "You just have to do it", but it really is that: You just do it; you just make it so, and you make it so, because you know it is possible. The more you know it is possible, the more you experience that possibility.

Once you have had one moment of connection and realization, it is real, and it can never go away after that. You may never be able to access that place again, but once you have had that, it is absolute; it is there, because you cannot have an experience that is impossible. Therefore, you know that, if you have had a connection even once, it is possible. When you know that, you help the brain to begin to delete some of the neural pathways that are limitations and obstacles, and you gradually, deliberately evolve the brain.

I see that human beings have submitted to every limitation imaginable. They have submitted to the power of addiction and disease over the individual. What I am calling for, in this awareness, is to un-submit to those things, to deny them, to repent from them, and not let them have anything to do with you. When you do that, the whole body begins to facilitate a higher level of existence, and to systematically move into the arena of the new species which accesses far greater possibilities. I know this can be done, because I am doing it myself. I don't ask anything of you that I haven't done myself, and because I have done it, I know you can do it.

I had to come through these human conditions myself, without help. You have me to help you along, to inspire you and to show you that it can be done. I had nobody; I had to figure this out, and do it myself, bit by bit, piece by piece, trial by error, sorrow by suffering--all of it. Several times, I almost died in the process. Yet now I know it is possible, I know you can do it, and if you say you can't do it, you are lying to yourself, because you would not be able to hear this or be around this Space if you were ignorant. The ignorant can't do it because they cling to their ignorance, they cling to "that is the way it has been."

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


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