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.

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