In Step With Life
Weekly Message, June 3, 2006
In Step With Life
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant
This is a continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on March 19, 2006. - TG.
Ishvara:
It is a human prerogative: humans can continue, or they can cease to exist. Humans can learn to cooperate with Life, with existence, or they can remain stubborn and stuck, in which case humanity may cease to exist. Survival depends upon cooperation, transcendence, and transformation, and these things are accessed through appreciation and patience, establishing connections.
Nature knows. The animals know. They all participate in a great web of Life, and humans think they are on the top. If humans were truly on the top, they would have reached that state through a process of cooperation, awareness, and connection. Because those traits are mostly lacking in the consensus world, humans cannot be at the top.
If humanity continues in the pattern it has set into motion, nature will become more and more disrupted and uncooperative. That is simply the universe's way of reflecting the imbalance that exists. It brings attention to what is necessary.
To live in connection is to live with respect. To become aware of the programs of the past is transformation. This means being aware of how you have been conditioned, the burdens you drag around with you like big stones or anchors. You see what you have believed. You see how you are programmed. Yet you are not your program. You are not the condition. You are not even the consensus reality. Those are all outside, "They say," "It has been," "It was written." Those things have nothing to do with who you are in the moment. Those things cannot contain you, limit you, or diminish you, unless you believe in them.
If you believe that your conditioning is impossible to transcend, you remain stuck. If you think you are too weak to go beyond the survival mode, you stay in the survival mode. But when you move into knowing that something is possible, you are no longer stuck. The moment you move into that knowing, it begins to take place; it has to, because there is no other way for energy to work. Once the knowing is there, it begins to take place.
Believing is not the same as knowing. Hoping is not the same as knowing. Thinking can help to move you towards knowing, but even thinking isn't knowing. You can say, "I think I can fly. I think." Yet you will remain on the ground. If you truly KNEW you could fly, there would be no way to contain you.
Taking flights in the imagination will considerably lighten up your experience. Thinking lightly, thinking freely, thinking in awareness of higher connections and greater possibilities lightens you, and perhaps that is the way to flight. When you become lighter, freer, more unlimited, what can hold you down? Gravity? What is gravity, but energy?
It is a matter of knowing how things work, living in relationship with the earth, with existence, and establishing a beingness, your beingness, that is relevant to the moment but not limited to the moment. That means being in step with what is, but not limited by what is, living without fear. If you live in fear, resistance, or attachment, if you are afraid to see what is happening in the world, you are controlled by it. If you are afraid of information, you are limited by it. There is no reason to be afraid of information. There is no reason to be afraid of what is happening in the world. There is every reason to not be afraid, because fear only energizes what seems to be happening.
If you are afraid to see what is happening in the world, you remain enslaved to the consensus reality, the conditions of the world. You cannot break free. But when you can look in balance, in a place of all-knowing, or at least more knowing, you can see how things are, and why they are. You can see that that is only part of what is. It is very important to use the imagination, the thinking-ability of your brain, to grasp a bigger picture, a greater possibility.
When you are in step with Life, with existence, your wants and needs are met, as long as your wants are in alignment with the highest good. Any knowing person, any sensible person, who wants something will add a disclaimer to it: "If this is not the highest good, I do not want it."
(To be concluded next week).
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In Step With Life
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant
This is a continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on March 19, 2006. - TG.
Ishvara:
It is a human prerogative: humans can continue, or they can cease to exist. Humans can learn to cooperate with Life, with existence, or they can remain stubborn and stuck, in which case humanity may cease to exist. Survival depends upon cooperation, transcendence, and transformation, and these things are accessed through appreciation and patience, establishing connections.
Nature knows. The animals know. They all participate in a great web of Life, and humans think they are on the top. If humans were truly on the top, they would have reached that state through a process of cooperation, awareness, and connection. Because those traits are mostly lacking in the consensus world, humans cannot be at the top.
If humanity continues in the pattern it has set into motion, nature will become more and more disrupted and uncooperative. That is simply the universe's way of reflecting the imbalance that exists. It brings attention to what is necessary.
To live in connection is to live with respect. To become aware of the programs of the past is transformation. This means being aware of how you have been conditioned, the burdens you drag around with you like big stones or anchors. You see what you have believed. You see how you are programmed. Yet you are not your program. You are not the condition. You are not even the consensus reality. Those are all outside, "They say," "It has been," "It was written." Those things have nothing to do with who you are in the moment. Those things cannot contain you, limit you, or diminish you, unless you believe in them.
If you believe that your conditioning is impossible to transcend, you remain stuck. If you think you are too weak to go beyond the survival mode, you stay in the survival mode. But when you move into knowing that something is possible, you are no longer stuck. The moment you move into that knowing, it begins to take place; it has to, because there is no other way for energy to work. Once the knowing is there, it begins to take place.
Believing is not the same as knowing. Hoping is not the same as knowing. Thinking can help to move you towards knowing, but even thinking isn't knowing. You can say, "I think I can fly. I think." Yet you will remain on the ground. If you truly KNEW you could fly, there would be no way to contain you.
Taking flights in the imagination will considerably lighten up your experience. Thinking lightly, thinking freely, thinking in awareness of higher connections and greater possibilities lightens you, and perhaps that is the way to flight. When you become lighter, freer, more unlimited, what can hold you down? Gravity? What is gravity, but energy?
It is a matter of knowing how things work, living in relationship with the earth, with existence, and establishing a beingness, your beingness, that is relevant to the moment but not limited to the moment. That means being in step with what is, but not limited by what is, living without fear. If you live in fear, resistance, or attachment, if you are afraid to see what is happening in the world, you are controlled by it. If you are afraid of information, you are limited by it. There is no reason to be afraid of information. There is no reason to be afraid of what is happening in the world. There is every reason to not be afraid, because fear only energizes what seems to be happening.
If you are afraid to see what is happening in the world, you remain enslaved to the consensus reality, the conditions of the world. You cannot break free. But when you can look in balance, in a place of all-knowing, or at least more knowing, you can see how things are, and why they are. You can see that that is only part of what is. It is very important to use the imagination, the thinking-ability of your brain, to grasp a bigger picture, a greater possibility.
When you are in step with Life, with existence, your wants and needs are met, as long as your wants are in alignment with the highest good. Any knowing person, any sensible person, who wants something will add a disclaimer to it: "If this is not the highest good, I do not want it."
(To be concluded next week).
Copyright © 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. For information on how to make a tax-deductible contribution to Alaya, go to http://www.alaya.org/Pages/alayastore-donate.html .
Thank you for your support.
To learn more about Ishvara and the Alaya Community, visit our website at www.alaya.org
To subscribe to this message list, send an email to tgrant@alaya.org with the word "Subscribe" in the subject of your message.
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