Light of The World
Light of The World
The seen and unseen come to manifest themselves within you. They come to be a part of your visible and invisible self. The way you transform these forces within you, and the way you feel about them is achieved through your heart.
While the mind may be the starting point, it is the heart, in its deep resonance and swelling intentions that provides the key to self-illumination.
Inside Out
It's so easy to forget this when the world can seem so distorted and out of balance, but once you realize your part to play in it you can transform it.
I know because I have and I am not alone, this truth is now widespread, the fact that you are reading this is evidence that you are ready to play at a higher level.
One where you embody your highest potential and live your truth. Doing so takes immense self-love.
Do you love yourself? Do you love ALL of yourself?
Love
Through coming to know God and the Infinite through my own direct personal and visceral experience I have come to embody the truth I have met. Amplifying it and expanding it in the world takes constant work, and as we gather more experiences to learn from we grow.
The universal framework to apply every experience through is love. If it is not love, it is fear. Both experiences are found within you, for you to perceive anything externally it must first exist internally.
For you to perceive anything externally it must first exist internally.
So coming back to the awareness that we all come from a Source of Love. A place that does not know duality, separateness or confusion. Just a beingness and union, the state the yogi's and Hindu's call Samadi.
This state is our natural home, as human beings, our goal is to embody this state here on earth. Something, many of us can do in our meditations and sacred places, yet in life, it can become much harder to know this vibration. Especially when people may try to become unstuck, and sometimes even violent in expressing their inner turmoil.
Acts that show just how far one has become separate into the duality of living. Identifying with external experiences and becoming charged emotionally when one feels as tho something of theirs has been compromised or wronged. We've all had these experiences, it's how we learned to grow as human beings.
What we are not taught, that many of the ancient systems teach us, is the process of unlearning. Unlearning takes time. Imagine unhooking the barbs from our consciousness one at a time, slowly freeing us from being pulled when something external to us happens to us.
Throughout life, humans make deep grooves into their own consciousness. The 'I like this' or 'I don't like this' groove. Slowly over time, we dig deeper into our consciousness, chiseling into ourselves identities we have come to hold onto. 'This person did this to me', 'this event happened to me and so I am like this'. Reasonable or unreasonable in order to experience a different reality from the one we are in, we have to rework the inner grooves in our consciousness.
Indian mystic Sadguru calls this 'inner engineering' and psychologists call in the 'inner architecture' consisting of the deeply complex substructures of a person. Changing life requires us to retrain and remake this unseen part of ourselves.
Remodelling the world view and in some cases, if the mind is malleable enough it's possible to completley start over again. An uncomfortable and liberating experience. One I share more about in my blog about a 'shamans death' aka ego death.
The key is to successfully achieve this is to create and cultivate consistently space within where one can start to observe oneself before reacting. This will help stem the fall into the illusion of separateness, which is suffering. A process of coming back to, remembering again and again. Moment by moment, moment by moment.
This process becomes stronger and stronger the more we use it, like a muscle.
Memories
Our life is made up of experiences, that become charged with our attachments and aversions to them. These then become memories, stored not just in our mind but in our body.
Suffering is caused when we live in memory. Life only exists in the present moment, Vipassana meditation ground this realization into me. So when humans pull from the bucket of memories and attach to those experiences a sense of loss can occur.
A loss for what once was and is no longer, or attaching or avoiding what may come again. Creating these expectations from experiences that seem permanent is a fallacy.
Nothing is permanent. Everything will come to pass. So instead of pulling from the memory of the familiar past and the predictable future as Dr. Joe Dispenaza calls it, stop. Just stop, and realize that in this exact moment, only this exact moment exists, nothing else.
In this moment you have all you need. Precious, fertile and patient it is everything you could hope for to assist in the transformation of your consciousness. Use it as fuel and don't berate yourself.
Pat yourself on the back when you remember to come back to this moment, and keep doing it because in time you will be living in the present moment free of suffering. That is free from not living in the moment.
Meditation is a powerful tool to help break open this knowledge if it still feels too intellectual. Going 10 days in silence and meditating for 10 hours a day may be too much for some. For those that are committed find a local Vipassana center and get on the waitlist. It's no joke, it is a surgery of the soul so for your sake don't leave before the balm has been placed over it on the 11th day.
For everyone else, there are so many meditation techniques out there. I'll be writing about some of the ones I've found most useful and also be producing meditation music to help you explore the wonderful world inside of your eyes.
