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.

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