Lesson 12:
You think you see a world that can suffer. Sometimes you think you see a world that should suffer. Neither one of these states of judgment is helpful or true. My Beloved, the world you think you see is not the world of Love or Creation and surely is not the world of Eternal Same-Self-Source. The world you think you see is ruled by definitions from a thinking mind that simply does not know its Self and thereby projects an image attempting to understand what the thinking mind does not know.
The world you seem surrounded by can be a blank screen. In fact it is a blank screen when considered in terms of the opines sourcing only from your thinking mind. This world essentially does not require meaning from the thinking mind. Creation has Meaning far beyond your eyes can see or thinking mind judges. This is Truth. Recognize this Truth and Awareness is Yours. However, this Awareness is not one that lives in time. Therefore, as long as time seems present, we work together to at the very least return the world to the blank screen of neutrality which can begin to result in more peaceful being.
Returning the world to its neutrality is the first step in many more to come. Here we learn to simply release the self from the definitions implied, so as to welcome another Way. As long as there are preconceived judgments, any other Way will seem actively impossible at best and over strenuous or even detrimental at worst.
Consider this like being locked in a closet with loud raucous music playing all about you. If I was to come into this closet and begin adding another song, albeit radiantly beautiful and inviting, the cacophony of the current song playing would only distract and confuse. Here, in such a scenario, you may become so overwhelmed that you would exhaust yourself scratching at the walls or dare cause a psychotic break. Neither of these results is My intention.
This is why healing must be a gentle path. A path cradled in Love and seemingly a slow welcoming of Awareness. To shock you or overload the thinking mind would be pointless and seem to cause more suffering. Know Love would not ‘pull the rug from beneath your feet’ only to watch an innocent one fall hard and fast. This experience would not be kind or representative of the Love You Are. Now, as I Am a Witness for the Love Existing in All, cruelty cannot be My intent. Thereby, We gently awaken in Love and with Love.
Instilling Trust is the entry point to our adventures together. You may not think the word adventure is an appropriate one to describe spiritual awareness, but as a representation of returning to joy through simple curiosity perhaps this word suffices. Symbols of symbols nonetheless.
In today’s practice it is important that you do not over analyze or make a sense of exhaustion. The thinking mind is never ready to give up its imaginings and as noted above, to wrangle them from its grasp would not be helpful. It may seem that I’m allowing you to hold onto your imaginings by not insisting that they be released. Let me remind you, Beloved One, this is ‘not your first rodeo’ so to speak. As long as a belief in time perpetuates, the gaining of Awareness will seem slow. However, this is a Journey without distance- even when measured by time. Trust Me, you will not hold on forever.
Do not let an awareness of time to dissuade you. Instead, note for yourself an opportunity to see neutrality in all circumstances, objects, personalities and people. This commitment to neutral seeing will allow the inner door to open, revealing cracks of Light. To begin here is more than enough for now. Kindly be gentle with yourself and acknowledge that no matter how slow or how many times you seem to forget the practice, Love is All Ways Your Source and not but gentleness would be wished for you.
Today as you begin to look about you and name what you think is seen, allow for a slow pause between the declarations. This slow pause will permit the words to be heard more distinctively for what they represent. If the world you see imposes suffering, hear the statement and sit with that. Breathe deeply, release and move on. If the world you see imposes sickness, breathe too with this thought before quickly moving on from there.
These states of being are rather valued by the thinking mind, with not but a myriad of other meanings and formations caught up betwixt them. Like a delicately laid house of cards or Jenga tower, quickly removing one component could crash you down lower than you wish to realize. While also, each layer if gently removed and lifted, can allow for another layer to be welcomed with more willing eyes and peace-filled mind.
As you find yourself ready through your breath and balanced willing mind, ask for the Grace to See another Way. Rest in this request. Do not demand, force or expect any specific result. Any expectation is not but another projection and judgment. True Vision lays in neutral Awareness without expectation or proclamation. This is where some on this path towards lighter awareness have seem to have lingered too long. I do not say this as a judgment against dallying. Consider this as a mere delay and My recognition of its presence only as like a yield sign posted upon the road. Make no assumptions of ‘being awake’ as such definitions serve you not in time.
Trust instead the moment simply open before you without definition and especially without a need to represent for others – again, merely a distraction. Choose the moment of Awareness and only the moment. Not assumed before you or behind. Simply this moment. Let the Light filled landscape unfurl within you as a simple curious and open mind chooses to watch… watch…watch. Here, we look, wait and judge not. Here, we stand in purity without projection. Simply Being. Breathe Here, with an Awareness of Joy (not from you but AS You) and Know thy Self.
This description is resting the mind and allowing for Source to take the next Step. Closer and closer, still, we come to Seeing Truth not as how we wish for truth to be; but, simply accepting as ALL Are.
Hear my words, you do not need to be somewhere specific to Know thy Self. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ circumstances for anyone on this path. Yes, perhaps a quieter atmosphere can help a mind intent on thinking to relax. Whilst, do not allow yourself to endlessly search for ‘right time,’ ‘right place,’ or ‘right person’ to seemingly guide you there. All is for All and as All. Nothing more or less. To expect something else weighed down by circumstance or personality is simply another distraction. Let yourself leave these attachments behind.
Nothing can further delay you if the mind is simply truly open. Surely, the most committed among you have stood upon battlefields and amidst storms, acknowledging only the Peace within. This is not the usual way, although surely is possible. Trust the way for you as it is guided not by expectation but by amelioration. Rest the mind that wants to experience anything as more or less. Once again, return to the breath and simply Be in an open space so welcoming that no expectation can compare.
The Good News once again is that nothing ultimately can delay you for You. Meaninglessness can indeed seem depressing when the world you wish to see is not there. Do not let this realization dissuade you or take you to a point of no return. The key is the simple willingness to forgive and return to neutral space. Forgive and return to neutral space. Forgive and return to neutral space. Let yourself Be and Being shall Become You.
The world you see holds nothing that you want. Alas, a preview of a forthcoming lesson. However, not any differing from the true delving in that which we begin today. The recognizing and later releasing of the meaninglessness perceived will bring you to a place of neutrality that holds the key to observing a Mind that wants for nothing and needs for nothing. Complete and Creative, Aware and Alive in Truth. However, one step at a time (so to speak).
Let yourself today see the opportunity for meaninglessness. Yes, you read that correctly. Acknowledging meaninglessness is indeed an opportunity. Without letting go of the meanings projected, and thereby entering into meaninglessness, the you that you think you are, cannot find the You lasting to Be. Read that again slowly. Ah yes, do you See? We search first for what is not there to then realize All that IS. Let the adventures begin! In Love I Am, as You Are.
Love Is.