Being
"You have taken yourself to be something that you are not". - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Each is loved unconditionally, unequivocally, eternally. Because I love each unconditionally there can never be mistakes. I do not care what you have done or what you are about to do. You are loved regardless of any action, any thought or any emotion, no matter how bad you imagine them to be. You cannot escape from my love try though you might. Allow yourself to bathe in the radiant light that is "I" for that is all existence.
Hear a bird singing and I am there. See a tree and that is where I live. I am in every part, in all atoms, in each superstring, in every cell and fibre of your being. I am the planets and the stars and everything in between in this universe. I am every universe and much more. There is no need to move anywhere, no need to seek, for I am already here right now in all things and in all places at once.
I am the sacred realm, the holy presence. I am beyond all that have come before me and all that will follow. I am that which you have been seeking, the thing you long for, what you have dreamed about since time immemorial. I am the source of all things, the only true thing. Be still, listen without your mind and body, let go of your thinking and know that I am God.
If I am that, then that too is what you are.
Come to know this and reality is yours for the taking. Not my reality, nor your reality, but reality: the reality that people call the kingdom of God. You are already here in the realm of the sacred, but you have so many dogmas, ideas and feelings that you have hidden what is blessed from yourself.
When I walk on earth and I hear a bird singing, the signing is I. I am pure and whole in the experience of singing. It arises within me and around me in perfect harmony with all that there is. The singing of the bird knows no boundaries. It has no rules for how things should be. It does not try to be something that it is not. It is just a singing in perfect harmony with its true nature.
Yet, when I see people, I see people hurrying, worrying, and making a drama from the smallest thing. It seems that everyone wants be anywhere but here, right now. There is no resonance with consciousness; instead there is disharmony, which only serves to deaden the essence of you. You walk as if already dead, but pretend to be alive. You have hidden the natural grace that is your birthright.
You were not like this once. When you were a young infant you cried without shame or regret. When you laughed it was heartfelt and the world laughed with you. You were just as happy to doodle in a colouring book, as you were to play with a friend. There was never a thought of "I would be happier doing something else". You were happy and content and that was enough. When you showed affectionate to others it did not come from a place of need or wanting something in return. You were affection incarnate. You had no notion of a human being instead you were "being" constantly. As this young child, you did not know fear in being.
Now that you are not being, but rather a human being which knows fear all too well, can you honestly say you have moved even an inch closer to eternal peace and joy? Look from your own experience; is anyone that you know abiding constantly in deep harmonic peace? Are they even happy 85% of the time? I in form know of only one being that is happy over 85% of the time. She is my niece aged 21 months. She is the most enlightened person I know.
In a few years time she will be indoctrinated to live in fear and enlightenment will be hidden from her. She will no longer live in the loving embrace that is I; instead she will experience doubt, guilt, shame, anxiety, and apprehension. She will become a human being and miss the divinity that is always before her.
She, like you will not know that every moment is a divine creation. The wind that blows through your hair, the smell of the ocean that is alive and fresh, the sunset that allows you to weep with joy at its ephemeral beauty are sacred creations. As you writhe in the ecstasy of passion, as you feel deeply the splendour of a child and as you rejoice in being, this too is divine creation unfolding before your eyes.
Divinity is in each and every moment. This is where the sacred realm of the God exists. It is not out there or up there, rather it is here before you and within you. It does not await you after death, nor does it occur through the reincarnation of many lifetimes: that is just Maya weaving another layer of illusion. In the world of separateness there are many illusions, layer upon layer of illusion.
In being there is no illusion, there is just the experience of the unfolding of a moment. That is all there is. There is no separate object perceiving another separate object. Separatism is the illusion that is at the heart of suffering. Being is the direct presence of divinity appearing as its true nature of oneness in the here and now. There is never any suffering in being; there is just pure abundant acceptance of what is.
Being is your salvation and it is available to you right now.
Extract from Mindlessness: Spiritual Love in Being.
Edward Traversa
tidy up service Glenview ..What is the opportunity here? What is the benefit of... Read More
Action dakini gets everything done. When wanting and grasping hold... Read More
A Nathan type prophet sees with his eyes. A Samuel... Read More
The following article is an exploration of the Spring holiday... Read More
African-American people are natural caretakers. We do a great job... Read More
Hopefully you're reading this article because you're intrigued by the... Read More
The 'As Above, So Below' law that is the combination... Read More
Almost every spiritual and religious teaching exhorts its followers to... Read More
Continued from "Origin of Certain Thoughts, Part I"If you haven't... Read More
New Age Spirituality is all about getting back your power.... Read More
What does the story of your life say about you?... Read More
How many Christian people do you know who are bearing... Read More
There is no incident in the life of Moses which... Read More
Fanny J. Crosby's famous hymn, "Tell Me the Story of... Read More
"Who being in the very nature God, did not consider... Read More
The time we spend on earth is very short when... Read More
One cannot make a decision in the moment of now.... Read More
Matthew 3:4-6 John Baptizes the People4 Now John wore a... Read More
In the spring of 2003, I spent three weeks in... Read More
Some may ask why in a disaster some people are... Read More
Spiritual stuff is a hard sell Roy and one of... Read More
An interesting question arose within a poetry workshop I attended... Read More
For many years of my life, I thought the spiritual... Read More
Let me say that marketing can be a corrupting experience.... Read More
You decide! We are often asked to make decisions. Decision... Read More
maid service near Winnetka .."Ask and it shall be given" is a phrase we... Read More
Matthew 2:13-15 The Flight to Egypt13 Now when they had... Read More
It is so obvious that God works and thinks on... Read More
Being critical of Buddhism isn't easy.Buddhism is the most likable... Read More
I would like to tell you the story of a... Read More
In the early 90's I had a spontaneous Kundalini Awakening... Read More
It will all be clear in a minute, but first... Read More
Tea-totalling Texans? Them's fightin' words!I live in a small Texas... Read More
The world's idea of justice and freedom fall short of... Read More
The myths of man have been with us throughout time.... Read More
To understand the nature of esoteric and occult secrets it... Read More
Everything was going wrong.The weight of the world had decided... Read More
A few men and women are universally successful but such... Read More
You can think of your Animal Totems as imaginary guides... Read More
Water of Enlightenment, Angel of Peace and Harmony for Nature... Read More
If we don't behave according to a specific church's doctrine,... Read More
Hopefully you're reading this article because you're intrigued by the... Read More
Most of us are familiar with the inner criticism and... Read More
2 Corinthians 6:17-6:17For God so loved the world, that He... Read More
What really binds us to any negative emotional state in... Read More
Five verses specify that we are to live by faith.... Read More
Walls as a blockade seem to be an integral part... Read More
Sounds like a tall order doesn't it? But I think... Read More
It would be nice if the planet - like so... Read More
I have studied many of the great Religions, Quantum Physics,... Read More
Spirituality |