Deepening And Transcending At The Same Time



Ishvara speaks of how transcendence occurs through deepening in the experience of what-Is. I have transcribed and edited his words from a talk he gave on January 9, 2005. - TG.

Ishvara:

The experience of Life is a teaching of awareness, understanding how energy works. It is your personal experience that counts, that is, what you experience, not what others experience. It is easy to get caught into systems, structures, beliefs, conditioning, where you avoid or deny the direct experience, while accepting some interpretation from a belief or concept.

You have within you that most excellent, comprehensive aspect that knows, and you learn about it through experiences. When you resonate with something, it is because within you something is alive, something is recognized. I have often seen individuals who resonate with something, who feel very empowered, very sure, and then they listen to a concept, a belief, an "other," and they doubt their own experience; they settle for something conditional, an interpretation. It is such a shame. It is as if for a moment that individual has awakened to a great truth, a deep, inclusive awareness, and then a shallow thought, an expectation, a word comes along and knocks it out of place. It makes it seem like this core existence, this deep awareness that you are, is fragile. It is not that it is fragile; it is just that the intellect is the dwelling place of concepts, beliefs, and conditioning. It seems that the body usually follows along with those neural pathways.

One is so programmed to believe and seek validation from the outside, to accept "They say," to look to the perception of authority, because, the thinking goes, if it is old and ancient it must be right. I ask you, if it is so right, why are humans still caught in separation and suffering? If handed-down practices and traditions held the true way to awakening, what happened to it? If the authorities of the past knew the truth, why isn't humanity now free? Mostly, what masquerades as truth has been subtle manipulation, sometimes outright lies.

It is a sad state of affairs when you look at the world and see that the superstitions and conditions that enslave the human mind are establishing stronger holds, greater conditioning. How does anyone ever break free?

Over the years, I have recognized that Life has awakened me to this awareness in order to be of service to you, to assist you in getting back to who you are at the core of your existence. Who-you-are transcends who you think you are, leaving far behind who you have been told you are. It is easier to believe the outside, the stories, because when you come to who you are, you come into responsibility, a direct awareness that you must deal with. The deeper you go into this awareness, the more you recognize how far you have wandered from your True Nature, that place of absolute being. You may have got yourself caught into all kinds of dilemmas and problems, each one bringing about more separation and in turn more problems, far away from your True Nature. But if this state were irreparable, there could be no Life in existence on this planet. The core existence is far stronger than you imagine.

You are more powerful than you think you are. Your power is not recognized in the thinking; your power is in the experience, the experience of being present with what-Is, understanding and seeing the connections, having the realizations. You may not always be able to live up to the realizations. You may see that you can't always act as great as you are; sometimes you just can't quite get there, and that is all right. It doesn't diminish the True Nature of your being; it doesn't subtract from you. It is just blocked temporarily.

I am here for you. I am not here for myself. Myself is totally awake and aware and present. There is nothing else in this experience that can make me more aware of what this is. My work is for you; my presence is for you. I am here to assist you in getting back to who you are. "Who you are" may be a surprise, because it is not held in the conditions; it is not within the systems, the structures, the various spiritual paths, the religions or the psychologies. You are not in those things. Those are all "about"; they are fragments, fragments of possibilities, some of which have outlived their time, some of which never had a time.

The importance of this work is assisting you who resonate, you who can hear this truth, assisting you in getting back to who you truly are: that True Nature, that essence of being, that unique expression of The Consciousness, of Life that you are, and that is very, very deep. This is not a shallow, haphazard adventure. This is an adventure of your lifetime. You were born to know. You were born to experience the very core existence, to access the various possibilities that are waiting within your domain of experience.

You cannot be shallow, you cannot be indifferent, you cannot be distracted. The emotions of the past are simply energies that are misunderstood, misdirected, and compounded over time, because you haven't understood, you haven't truly realized your core existence. You know a lot "about" yourself. There are lots of self-help books, courses, seminars, classes, and groups. Self-help is "about". None of that brings you to the core of who you are.

You can discern much about yourself through the beliefs you have about yourself, through what you say, who you say you are, your story. However, when you really listen to what you are saying, you find that there are many false concepts, many accepted beliefs that you have adopted. What you say about yourself seems reasonable, but when you are asleep and dreaming, your dreams also seem reasonable. You accept the beliefs and concepts, which takes you further and further away from who you actually are.

Sometimes, as you begin to get in touch with your True Nature, you may see no glamour; there may be a sense of the ordinary, the simple, which doesn't fit the programmed expectations of what you are supposed to be. But trust this: If you continue to move deeper into your True Nature, you will find that vein of gold, that essence which permeates every cell of your being, and when you come from that place, you develop a body of knowing, a connected awareness that is transcendent of knowledge, beliefs and concepts. You begin to live from the core of your being, alive, conscious, connected, and then all of the more connective attributes of human existence just start falling into place.

You need no moral direction from the outside. When you live in your True Nature, you know the correct way to be with what-Is; you know it. The whole of the cosmos is founded on relationship, being in order, in the right place. It is very natural; it is harmonious. You have been forced into an unnatural life. It is no wonder you try to accept beliefs, no wonder you live in fear and separation. You have wandered far from your True Nature, the actuality of your existence. You have been misled; you have become lost. It is not that every system and structure is intentionally misleading, but the consequence is misleading: an agenda of control and manipulation. So you recognize that you have to get back to who you are, and when you are back to who you are, your True Nature, you will live abundantly, happily, you will experience the bounty of Life. You will have an abundance of experiences that keep pointing to the deepening.

It is funny to be deepening and transcending at the same time, but the two go hand in hand. The deeper you go, the more transcendent you become. You see beyond the logic, the reason; it is a mystical experience. You see connections where others see separation. You have an understanding of processes; you see how existence unfolds. One of the consequences is that you become fearless; you no longer are afraid of Life. You see that Life is always moving and evolving and becoming greater, and you along with it. At the core of your existence, you become greater; your cells become greater; you neural pathways become greater, more connected.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


(To be concluded next week).


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