Which Human Are You Going To Be?


Ishvara:

You are faced with a sacrifice: Are you going to move deeper into your core existence and face the debris which is thereby set loose, or are you going to continue to hold onto the emotional stuff at the expense of True Nature?

You can see how, all your life, you have tried to figure out where you belong and where things belong; the "why" and "wherefore" of experiences. You have sought to understand the consequences of actions which are often embarrassing, disgusting, separating, painful, and unbearable. It is natural for the brain to fight for its survival, to try to tuck these experiences away into some kind of safe pocket, hoping to keep the lid on them so that they don't flare up.

When you get down to it, there are two kinds of humans: Those who are going to evolve and be all they can be, and those who are going to remain safe, secure in some belief, some concept, some system, some structure, hoping that the structure will take care of them. Which human are you going to be? Are you going to move into the depths of being, finding your True Nature, or are you going to stay safe, keeping your stuff securely tucked away where it won't bother you? Unfortunately, you can either move deeper into the core existence, or you can keep your stuff in place. You can't do both.

It becomes a paradox; much of what has been taught in the past applies to the present: not resisting, not being attached, allowing, exercising compassion and patience. These principles are valid for human existence even now. To be compassionate with yourself is to realize that, "Yes, the deeper I go into realization and awareness, the more muck I have to wade through. It is natural." The stuff has had a long time to accumulate: a little here, a little there; a misunderstood experience forms a solid place of resistance. You protect yourself, and the body in turn mirrors that protective stance: your body braces itself, stiffens itself, stresses itself in order to withstand the onslaughts which the brain perceives are taking place. A baby would not survive this kind of stress, but fortunately for the human race, this is "privileged information." You don't get it when you are born. When you are born, the world is a big playground, full of possibilities, and you have a cushion of magical thinking. You don't know how something works, so you are at liberty to make up an explanation.

But all things change. Humans must mature. The maturity is on purpose, because the baby mind cannot house the True Nature, the direct experience of The Consciousness; it only houses parts, pieces, and bits. The design of Life brings maturity to the form in order to house more of The Consciousness, the possibilities of Life inherent in each cell.

There are certain things that are beneficial to accessing your True Nature, to facilitating the evolution of the brain: laughter; not taking things too seriously, being stress-free as much as possible. When you find yourself holding and resisting, ask yourself: Is this necessary? Do I really have to brace myself against this perceived attack, or can I just bend freely, flow with it, instead of resisting it? Liberation comes with sacrifice, with the realization that your stuff will come up and you will have to face it, but the deeper you are in True Nature, the more connected, the more transcendent of separation you are, the easier it becomes to deal with the stuff. You don't resist it. You say: "Yeah, that's stuff, some of the excess baggage I've been dragging around; no wonder I'm so tired; it takes a lot of energy to hang onto it."

It is easy to think that the world is picking on you, that it hates you, that it is trying to do you in, and that you must have some kind of defense. However, you can see all around you that defenses don't work. Guns don't work; killing doesn't work; withholding doesn't work. There are all these wonderful examples of the things that don't work. Sometimes I question the sanity of human beings, who keep doing the same things over and over again, repeating the things that don't work, while expecting the results to be different.

Aren't you tired? Aren't you tired of carrying around all of that luggage that you don't need? Most of your luggage is somebody else's anyway. Where did you get that guilt? Where did you pick up that judgment? Who gave you that lack of confidence? Who diminished you? You didn't do that yourself; at some point, someone helped you, so it is their luggage you are dragging around. It is like a heavy trunk without wheels. You can hear the scraping in your brain as you drag it around. You are not alone. Everyone is experiencing this, but there is a way out. The way out is the way in; how you got in, is how you get out.

There are certain ways of looking at Life that have a rebirthing quality, a renewing, transformative aspect. The moment you have made up in your intellect that "This is the way it is," you add a structured block, a point of resistance to your existence. The moment you accept a belief or give in to the hypnosis, and you think, "This is how it works," you have established another block, a place of attachment, another piece of luggage.

As I have said before: Become the walking question mark. Knowledge is a wonderful thing, but it is also a terrible thing, because it is human nature to believe so-called "knowledge," to believe the perception, to accept "they say," often at the expense of the direct experience and knowing that you are capable of. When the intellect has it figured out, when it has a neural pathway dedicated to "This is the way it is," it is difficult to get around that. So you have to go back to the point before you believed, before you established neural pathways; you go back to that simple wonder of Life around you, the amazement you experienced at any little moment, the magical movement of the leaves being pushed around by invisible forces. Oh, you know about the wind, you know what that is. You know about a sunset or sunrise; you know that the sun itself is not moving down or up in the sky, but that the earth is simply rotating.

Yet the essence, the magic, the beauty comes from just observing, just watching, just seeing, feeling, not interpreting, not knowing. Beauty is marred by the theory or the hypothesis. This doesn't mean that you are to be ignorant, but it means to hold knowledge, awareness and simplicity altogether, so that you appreciate and enjoy the things around you. When you see the beauty of Life, the gifts bestowed upon humanity, the gifts of nature, the blooming of a flower, the setting of the sun, the colors--these are all perceptions, but when you appreciate these perceptions, when you see them in the context of an unfolding, evolving Life, you begin to reverse the belief, you begin to surrender the excess baggage; you experience magical moments, just from the wonder of Life, the gift of Life.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is the continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on January 16, 2005. - TG.

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