Saturday, December 30, 2006

On The Verge Of A Greater Possibility


Ishvara:

I see the obstacles that are established from the past, because past awakenings have created precedents and expectations: "This is the way it is." It is hard for the human to understand that "That's the way it was" does not necessarily mean "That's the way it is now." The now is a new moment.

Those individuals who awoke to the Natural State did their job in bringing humanity to the next level. They knew full well that they would not be able to usher humanity beyond the next level; instead, they were at that place, that time, that moment of existence where humanity was, with what was possible then. In the Natural State, there is an inherent awareness of what is needed, what will work, and it defies convention, it defies system, it defies the past. So one is moved to an arena of aloneness to become a beacon that calls to those who resonate, those who can hear and participate. Ever so slowly, more and more individuals get it, realize it, embrace it, move with it, grow with it, and evolve. And they find themselves at a new level of existence. They still live in the world, interfacing with the system, yet they are beyond the system. They see beyond the controls. They see through the attempts to manipulate and force, to foster beliefs that serve the system.

Each awakening brings humanity to a new level, and in each awakening the work is to dismiss the past. It really is that. One dismisses the expectations, the beliefs, and the prophecies, for the prophecies are fulfilled in the awakening.

Individuals who have come into the Natural State are leaders; they are masters. They go by many names, but the name is not the person. The name is something from the outside that attempts to describe; it is placed by others. It is what the intellect does with the situation. For in actuality, there is no label in the Natural State. There is no title. There is a tradition of sorts: the one who is the highest is the servant of all. When you assist others in waking up, you are their servant. You baby them, you pamper them, you encourage them, you push them. You can be called a "mother."

This is something you need to contemplate, because there are rampant superstitions and delusions in the intellect: expectations, beliefs and superstitious nonsense about awakening, all of which foster more separation. On the other hand, you can realize that of yourself you can do nothing. That is very humbling, because the ego mind says, "Oh, I can do it myself. I know. I can get there on my own power; I don't need any assistance." That is the delusion of humanity. Humanity gets nowhere without a leader, without something that instigates the next step. It has always been that way, because the nature of the brain locks into the system as-it-is, gets caught up and establishes itself in "This is the way it is," and try as you will, the intellect can't quite leap beyond that. The intellect gets inspired; it gets hope, yet it needs the push, the shock, the instigation.

The brain grows and changes by example, by seeing. An infant watches and hears, taking in information. The brain watches too. It doesn't know what to make of the new information brought by an awakening, but it files it away.

I recently read in a scientific journal that one of latest discoveries in neuro-science is that each cell knows. I have been saying this for a long time, but now I have read it in a science article. Scientists call it the "Clinton cell." One cell recognizes Bill Clinton's face, no matter how it appears, in all different scenarios. There is one cell in the brain that recognizes his face. Scientists used to believe that many cells were involved in such recognition, but recent studies indicate that there is one cell that sees, that knows.

Now, if one cell knows that much, imagine what your body knows, what you know. If one cells knows a particular face, and another cell knows another face, then you most likely have cells that know what happened to you in the past, cells that are holding on to what happened in the past, cells that feel lonely and separate, cells that are ignorant, cells that are scared out of their wits, but also cells that are super-intelligent, cells that are trying to break free. You are an enigma of cells in conflict, and so is every human being.

If you love your cells, they can remember their perfection. If you are having pain in a part of your body, you can love those cells, and send energy to them. You don't love them in order to achieve a result. You love the cells as they are, with patience, and without expectation--and that can allow them to remember the perfection which existed before they became injured or diseased.

We are on the verge of a greater possibility. The main ingredient is surrender, because your cells are reluctant to go with a higher truth. It is as if the cell says, "I've been doing this for a long time. Why should I change?" Yet if you surrender what you believe, what you have come to expect, what you have become accustomed to, the cells can experience a new possibility.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is the continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on May 15, 2005. - TG.

Copyright © 2005 - 2006 by Alaya®.
All rights reserved.
Alaya® is a registered trademark and service mark.

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

This message comes to you from Alaya, a nonprofit organization. Alaya depends upon financial contributions for its continued existence. Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution to Alaya.
Thank you for your support.

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.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

So Different From The Past


In a continuation of last week's message, Ishvara speaks of how the true awakening of an individual is not an exclusive event, but a breakthrough which makes it possible for others to participate in that Space. I have transcribed and edited his words from a talk he gave on May 31, 2005. - TG.

Ishvara:

There is always something that starts a shift in Life--usually one point, one thing. This is true of an authentic leap in human awareness; it starts somewhere; it starts with an individual who has a true awakening.

Each time there is such an awakening, it lifts the whole, it brings all of humanity to a higher level of awareness. So when one comes into the Natural State now, it is at a level that is higher than previous awakenings.

This awakening [referring to Ishvara's awakening] is an instigator that opens the door for everyone. Each person in their own arena of awareness can come to a realization, and embody that possibility. The awakening makes it possible for other beings to move into that same state; the way is pointed out.

An ego attachment says, "I want to be the instigator; I want to be the awakening that starts it all," but for this time, that space is already taken. Yet because that space is taken, the door is wide open for others to move right into alignment with it. So there is much that a person can do--in "non-doing"--to move in that direction. You cannot make an effort to do, but when you become aware of that possibility, you can begin to allow for it, and then you take the steps that appear.

It is a cascading kind of effect: once the ball starts rolling, it keeps gaining momentum. The momentum involves others who begin to resonate and harmonize in that process. So it is a synergistic effect. It becomes not about an individual person, but about a Space that is happening to which others can contribute and add. It is a togetherness. But there is always something that starts it.

A person can become inspired about something, but if there is not a continuation of the inspiration, it can fizzle out. I see that my task is to keep nurturing this Space, to keep it alive, keep it growing, because otherwise it can become stagnated. Without the instigator, without that constant inspiration and example of acceleration, one can slip back into an arena of complacency. There must be a tension which constantly pushes--not pushing too much, but enough to keep things moving.

I find that I am continually bringing more energy into this process, accessing more intelligence, opening up more possibilities which cascade to others, and in turn others begin to realize that, as a part of the synergy, they also participate in those possibilities. Each person's uniqueness is inspired, and that uniqueness becomes part of the Space, part of the energy.

This inspiration requires a constant application, because it is so different from consensus reality, so different from the past, that it is hard for people to apply it to their lives, unless there is a constant build-up of energy that really assists them in knowing that it is possible. It is as if I have to prove to people around me that this is possible, and then they see that it is possible.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

Copyright © 2005 - 2006 by Alaya®.
All rights reserved.
Alaya® is a registered trademark and service mark.

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

This message comes to you from Alaya, a nonprofit organization. Alaya depends upon financial contributions for its continued existence. Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution to Alaya.
Thank you for your support.

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.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

The Authentic Self Waits


Ishvara:

Consensus belief would have it that awakening happens all the time, but a true awakening is a rare occurrence. Yet the awakened individuals all have been human; they came into the world the same way everybody else does: kicking, screaming, crying, pooping and peeing, totally dependent upon the benevolence of someone else. Such humble beginnings, such dependency on the world around them.

It seems understandable for humans to remain in such a state of dependency, subject to the "outside", always in search of a parent, someone who will make things better. At the same time, as is exemplified in children, there is resistance to the parent, resistance to any kind of authority, resistance to being told what to do: "I want to do it myself. I can do it; don't help me. I'll figure it out." At other times the child cries, "Help! I can't do it!" And so people spend their lives in a tug of war: torn between seeking authority and resisting authority, longing for the absolute but with an utter, total fear of the absolute. Such conflict is the human condition, and all the time the Authentic Self is waiting. Every once in a while I tune into that Authentic Self which is waiting. What is it waiting for? There is a feeling of energy, but it remains in the realm of feeling; waiting, waiting and waiting.

What happens when, for some reason -- usually when Life says "Now, it's time" -- an individual awakens to higher possibilities, seeing a bigger picture, knowing something that is transcendent of the normal way of seeing and experiencing? It is a burden of information. That individual knows full well that others won't understand. There will be suspicions; there will be doubt, maybe even fear, and resistance. Yet one is so inspired with that clarity that one must speak. One must tell; one must reveal. One must inspire. One can't do anything else.

So it is a dilemma, because what one knows at that point runs contrary to what was. It is like a changing of the guard, with new rules. It is not what it was before. A new possibility has entered into the picture. Mortal existence is fearful of it, but also attracted to it. It is a mystery. The intellect does what it can with the situation, but the intellect becomes quickly surpassed. The intellect is a mere program, programmed with conditional possibilities, a status quo of past experiences not quite understood, but conceptualized enough to create belief about what they meant.

Authentic awakenings serve Life, serve the planet, serve humanity in whatever way humanity is ready to be served. It is not a self-enclosed or isolated event. It is humanity itself that produces the awakening. Humanity calls for it at the very depths of existence, a unanimous synergy of the Authentic cells of all existence saying: "We're ready; we're ready for something more, the next step. Who will lead? Who will take the initiative? Who will stick their head on the chopping block?" The last question is asked, because resistance always follows transformation: "Wait a minute! Who says? How do we know this is authentic? What if?"

That is the way Life works: It is hidden, it is not obvious. What is obvious is the intellect, the consensus reality, the unending beliefs "about." Only the Authentic Self knows, and most of the time it's not talking. It sort of remains quiet and patient, waiting, waiting and waiting.

In a true awakening, humanity births itself as an individual who is able to focus, to attune, to resonate, to access a greater body of intelligence, and that individual's sole purpose becomes that of disseminating the intelligence to anyone who will hear, to anyone who will listen.

Many hear, but don't act. They wait. Many see, but don't move with it. They wait. Human nature says: "Let's wait and see. Let's just see if this is for real. We don't want to do something foolish. We have heard of groups following charlatans, false prophets, and getting into lots of trouble. We certainly don't want to do that. So wait and see." The Authentic Self also waits: It waits for you to see.

So it is. Life Self-regulates this whole process. It is not under the rule of control, or anything outside. It is a "within" job. It takes place within, because the within is the outside; there is no difference, no separation. It is hard for the intellect to grasp, because the intellect's nature is to look at things, to objectify things, to see things, while the Authentic Self doesn't need to see things; it just knows things. It doesn't need validation or affirmation. It doesn't care a bit about belief or doubt or fear or resistance or attachment; none of those things has anything to do with the real Life. They are all diversions, even entertainment. Entertainment takes place while the Authentic Self waits, waits for the possibilities, waits for the moments, waits.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This has been a continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk given by Ishvara on May 15, 2005. - TG.

Copyright © 2005 - 2006 by Alaya®.
All rights reserved.
Alaya® is a registered trademark and service mark.

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

This message comes to you from Alaya, a nonprofit organization. Alaya depends upon financial contributions for its continued existence. Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution to Alaya.
Thank you for your support.

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.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

"Be comfortable in yourself and you will know the One Self."

Ishvara

Sunday, December 10, 2006

"To live in peace is to live the totality of the little child -- in simplicity, wonder, and awe of the experience."


Ishvara

Saturday, December 09, 2006

The Authentic Life


Ishvara:

There is the life that you live on the outside, and there is the Authentic Life that you are on the inside. The two are often a duality, with different agendas, and different experiences. One--the Authentic Life--is who you are. The other is the life you wear, like a garment. You clothe yourself with various concepts and ideals, and that is what you present to the world; that is where you meet the world. It is a divisive creation that protects you, helps you to blend in like a chameleon. The problem arises when you identify with the outer life to the exclusion of the Authentic Self that you are.

The outer life is necessary. It is where you interface with the world, where you deal with the consensus. You realize that you could be quite disabled if you didn't have the ability to deal with the world. Many find it difficult, so they seek to escape from the world by denying its existence, believing it is an illusion. There is much illusion about the outside world, and there are many problems with it, so it seems reasonable that one would seek to isolate oneself from that.

The Authentic Self is not separate; it is not really an individual. It is a synergy of intelligence that uses information. You have recourse to the Authentic Self, the actuality of your existence, which includes the things you know, the things you tell yourself. They are very important, but not to be confused with your garment, the persona with which you interface with the world.

This talk is about the Authentic Life, the actual person you are, the person who no one really knows or understands, who is not detectable to the physical senses that are geared to look outside. Just because you can't see the Authentic Self does not limit or negate its existence. The Authentic Self is what exists at birth, but it is also established over years and through many experiences. Yet the moment you are born, you begin to adapt to the world around you. That is where humans pick up many strange ideas, beliefs, and superstitions. So there is a division that you experience, and you spend a lot of time and energy trying to rationalize it, to see it in its place. There is always an element of discomfort, a feeling that something is off, something is not quite as it appears to be. Sometimes that feeling is strong, and at such a moment of possibility, your True Nature could emerge, and you could have a deep realization of connection that brings about an expanded awareness. Those moments are often short-lived, but if you have one short-lived moment of connection or awareness, it is the actual, the truth. The rest is glorified consensus-reality information, experiences that take place in the realm of a separate existence.

For some reason, most humans are afraid of the Authentic Self, don't understand it, are suspicious of it, because it is very powerful, it is absolute; it is knowing. It cannot be deceived or fooled. Something that powerful is often feared. It resides in a realm of mystery. There are so many beliefs, superstitions and concepts in this world; all of them have come from some experience, some interpretation, or some extrapolation of an experience that is totally misunderstood. That is where a philosophy, a belief, a religion, or a system originates. This has been going on for most of humanity's existence. It has become something that is accepted as normal and natural, but actually it is unnatural. It is constantly taking one away from the truth of Life, the truth of existence.

One can wander far away from the truth, from the intelligence that Is. One can get caught in separation, in doubt, in fear and survival, losing sight of the most precious, most real, most absolute aspect of You, that True Nature, that Natural State. There are those who are well-meaning, who seek to help, to serve, but they are often misguided, serving from a place of separation, delusion, belief and concept, doing their best with what they have.

There is a phenomenon in the world that takes place periodically: an awakening, a transformation. The consensus would like to believe that it happens very frequently, that there is an abundance of it, that it is everywhere. But the actuality is that it is very rare, very unique, occurring against all odds, seemingly impossible and unbelievable. "It can't be", the intellect thinks; but it is. As I look at the history of human becoming, I can see that an awakening is a simple process. An individual tunes into something which takes that individual out of the consensus world, out of the beliefs and the conditioning, setting that individual free, severing the connections of the limited, superstitious world from which the individual came. It happens only once in a great while.

These individuals often become deified. The humans around them view them as something divine, something separate, something that has come from somewhere else, sent from above; something that is not of this earth. That is where illusion enters into human existence; that is where the outside gets a foot-hold, because one's experience cannot rationalize that kind of presence. The intellect says, "It must be from somewhere else; it certainly couldn't come from here. How could an individual born of human parents ever achieve such all-knowing, absolute presence? How could human life produce something so exceptional? It is impossible. It must be from the outside. It must be some special gift bestowed upon humanity, a vehicle for salvation." The intellect does not see that it is an expression of the Authentic Life, the intelligence that Is.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

I have transcribed and edited the following message from a talk Ishvara gave on May 15, 2005. - TG.

Copyright © 2005 - 2006 by Alaya®.
All rights reserved.
Alaya® is a registered trademark and service mark.

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

This message comes to you from Alaya, a nonprofit organization. Alaya depends upon financial contributions for its continued existence. Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution to Alaya.
Thank you for your support.

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.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

The Unending Newness Of Existence


Ishvara:

Your intellect can facilitate transformation in this renewal. Often the intellect can be in the way; it can be linked to conditions, beliefs and concepts of the past. It tends to run programs, and cling to structures and systems. But the intellect is also a current mechanism; it can move into the unknown, establishing new connections. It can begin to look for greater awareness and patterns, seeing greater possibilities. This is a matter of training. You can use the intellect to serve expanding awareness, to connect, to see greater possibilities.

Habits tend to replicate themselves. You have one habit, and then you develop another habit, and another habit. It is human nature. You can use human nature to your advantage. You can develop habits of awareness, habits of connection, habits of transformation. As easily as you can develop habits of negativity or attachment or resistance, you can turn it around and develop habits of looking at the light side of what is happening, looking to what's possible, looking to the highest good. There are always things you can do in the intellect with the way you look at the world, the way you are with the world, the way you are being, moment by moment. Allowing this, you experience transformation; you keep looking to the newness of things.

When you develop a helpful routine of being, it becomes a way that is automatic; you don't have to think about it, you don't have to keep directing or controlling it. It becomes something that you do, because it is part of your core existence, of what you have recognized to be the highest good moment by moment, but you don't cling to it. You are not attached to it. It becomes a normal way of being that you don't think about.

The fewer things you have to think about, the better off you are, because when you engage the thinking intellect, it brings with it all of its friends, all of the other stuff-- expectations, wants, attachment, resistance. This is not to deny the intellect, but to allow your habitual way of looking at Life to become light, free and unattached, and then you don't have to think about doing it. You don't have to think, "I must be connected, I must flow." You just automatically do it. That is one of the marvels of the human brain: you can set things up, and they run on automatic. You can "program" yourself to be free, to look to connections, to invite awareness, to look to greater possibilities, to always see the bigger picture. When that becomes automatic for you, your life changes; the quality of your existence changes, and you don't run the past habitual patterns of fear thoughts, survival thoughts, separating thoughts. Those past thoughts go away; you don't have time for them. You fill your intellect with the direction in which you wish to go, not being attached to it, but realizing in an expansive way that there is a direction. There is a direction in which you are moving; there is a way you are going, and that comes from the deepest area of your realization and connection.

Allowing, awareness, deepening and connection become a pattern that you set up for yourself, a pattern that sustains, a pattern that invites new experience, a pattern that sees higher existences and possibilities. You embrace that with all of your will; you allow for it, you expect it, you look for it. Life is unfolding.

As you practice this, implementing it into your day-to-day life, the quality of your life is transformed, the whole of your life looks different. Allowing these patterns to shift, you let go of concepts and beliefs as to how things are. You come to realize that things are the way they are, because we have said they are that way. Life has been the way it is, because we have believed that's the way it is. What happens when you have the courage to begin to look at Life from a different place, a place of connection, a place of awareness, a place of allowing, a place of expecting it to be new every moment?

As you recognize within yourself the patterns that try to reassert themselves, you can say "no" to them. You have not been controlled by those patterns; you just went along with them because they were familiar. In this process of looking for what is new, what is different, even those patterns come into perspective: "Well, that's old; that's what I've already done; what's new? Is there another way to look at this situation? Is there another way to see this person's actions? Is there another way to be with what is happening?" The answer is always, "Yes."

In a sense, this is difficult. However, it is actually easy to be present. It is really easy to be present, because that is where you are, that is where your body is, where your life is happening. You are not happening in the past, you are not happening in the future. The programmed intellect clings to old ways of seeing things, old reactions, old responses, yet that is not your life. That is not how you have to be. There is a new way of being. You look from a different place; you don't look out the same old window. If you look out the same old window, you get the same old view. You've got a new window; or maybe, you have to put in a new window; it doesn't matter. You keep seeing Life from different places.

Life is so multi-dimensional, there is so much happening, the intellect can't grasp all of it. It grasps bits and pieces, and you can recognize that your intellect is so tied into patterns of the past that you miss many possibilities; you miss what is happening now. So the practice of being present is important: looking for connection, embracing awareness, seeing a bigger picture, and realizing that there are always greater possibilities. As you allow for this, you are inspired. Life will inspire you to be all you can be, if you allow that it is possible. It is simple, but it is something you have to do; it doesn't happen on its own, because with the old patterns, you tend to keep repeating the past.

You can realize that what you are doing for yourself, you are doing for all of humanity. Maybe that's why it seems so hard: you are pulling the whole load. But it is the way of Life; it is a new way of being. The habitual way of holding on to what was, to judgments and expectations, is a barrier to your expansive awareness and greater connection. You can recognize that it does not serve you to live in the past. What serves you, what serves Life, is to be present with what-is, to respect the process of unfolding, to have patience with existence, to always hold within your awareness that there is more to you than you know, there is more to Life than you know. You allow for that, in every instance, in every moment; you recognize that you are a continuous flow of possibilities. You see, you understand, you recognize. You see yourself moving through possibilities. You can literally see yourself in action. You have the ability to look at yourself as easily as you look at other people.

You may not think that you can see yourself, but you can really see yourself in all instances, and as you embrace that, you see how you act, you see how you are with things. That is the way you begin to change how you are with things, because how you are with things is often a learned response from the past. You allow for the possibility that you can look out a different window, see Life from a different place. You allow for the flow of Is-ness, the unending newness of existence.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This message is the completion of a two-part message given by Ishvara. Perhaps as well as any message he has ever given, this one describes how he lives: continually open to evolving-Isness, the more-ness of Life. Ishvara speaks of "programming" oneself to have such openness, but it is not a "program" in the sense of a system or discipline that is adopted from the outside. Instead, it is a matter of allowing oneself to become the unceasing newness of Life itself. I have transcribed and edited Ishvara's words from a talk he gave on March 20, 2005. - TG.

Copyright © 2005 - 2006 by Alaya®.
All rights reserved.
Alaya® is a registered trademark and service mark.

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

This message comes to you from Alaya, a nonprofit organization. Alaya depends upon financial contributions for its continued existence. Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution to Alaya.
Thank you for your support.

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.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

"You will never measure up to your mental concept of enlightenment."

Ishvara

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Opening To What Can Be


Ishvara:

Now is a time to look at things from a fresh perspective, to look at possibilities, to look for a newness of direction, a greater connection, and a greater expansion. Life is always that. Life is constantly in a state of renewal and transformation. When you cling to a structure or system, you hold yourself back. Seeing things in a fresh perspective requires that you be flexible and flowing with the Is-ness of Life.

When you see Life as-it-is, you find it is not punishing or picking on you; it is not predestination; it is simply an unfolding. Life unfolds in accordance with the circumstances and the conditions of the moment. So you see why it is important to be present, and to live in the moment. Things are always changing, and if you can live without being attached or structured, you flow, you move gracefully in each moment, step by step, and you do not suffer. You do not go through any turmoil of trying to figure out what is happening; it just is happening, and you allow it to happen. You embrace what is happening. It is a flow, a constant flow, a constant becoming.

You can see around you all kinds of systems and structures and conditions--the consensus reality. Those things have become established because of people's beliefs and expectations. When you change your mind, when you change the way you see things, when change your preference, when you choose to look at Life differently, you start to undermine consensus reality; you start to displace some of that conditioning. When there are more individuals who are displacing that conditioning, the transformation for humanity is faster.

So recognize that what you are doing is important. What you are doing is really the work, the work of Life, the work of becoming. As you embrace that, you see it is really all right to be you, it is all right to have the experiences you are having, it is all right to be all you can be, moment by moment. Being all you can be, moment by moment, is Life's work. It is always changing; there is always more. You are not going to become stagnant, because there is always the next step.

To see this requires that you look at Life as always working; whatever is happening, it is working. You may not recognize how it is working, but you can know it is working. When you are having a seemingly difficult experience, you can realize, "It's working." You can have that knowing all the time, where the bottom line is that you know Life is always working, that your life is working; it is gradually unfolding, awarenesses are taking place, connections are being realized, possibilities are being accessed all the time.

You can live in that kind of freshness and newness, of not looking at the past, but of always habitually looking to the present, and then you don't have to think about it or compare it to what happened yesterday, last week, last month, or last year. When you treat your whole life that way, when you treat your body, mind and intellect that way, it invites a newness to things; it invites a progressive, expansive possibility to which you are open. You are open to it all the time, open to what can be.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

Below is a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk given by Ishvara on March 20, 2005. - TG.

Copyright © 2005 - 2006 by Alaya®.
All rights reserved.
Alaya® is a registered trademark and service mark.

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

This message comes to you from Alaya, a nonprofit organization. Alaya depends upon financial contributions for its continued existence. Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution to Alaya.
Thank you for your support.

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.