Intimacy with What Is

This moment is a powerful opportunity to know intimacy with the Divine. But are we aware of it? Are we looking for some nice awakened perspective so that we can control our experience with the Divine? Some nice place to land?

We all experience heartbreak, pain, uncertainty and fear. These are traits of being human. But what is our relationship with these human tendencies? Can we offer these to the Divine so that they become an entry point for something new?

The Infinite Reality is here, available for intimacy at all times. There is never a moment when it is not here. But many people are looking for a stronger experience of Truth by negating their own experience. They want a stronger version of Presence, or Silence. But what if the way to intimacy with the Infinite Reality was by sharing our human experience with this moment? What if we allowed the entire conscious field that surrounds us to enter into and have this human experience? What if this is the way the Divine dissolves all sense of separation that the human form may still experience?

Life is always ready to give us the richest version of Itself. In even the smallest, seemingly most insignificant moments there is an opportunity to allow the entirety of everything into our own Being. Our human design is meant for this. and when it is experienced deeply, our human design knows its function as a window for the Divine. The Source of everything.

By allowing this moment in, truly in, we are allowing the Source of everything to touch itself in this human form. And by doing so, this human form begins to be transformed. This is maturity. We are no longer looking for any identification with the Divine. We are allowing the Divine to use this vessel, awakening every cell to its own conscious nature.

What are these human bodies? Can we allow this moment to come in, so that all personal agendas are dissolved in the intimacy with What Is? Can we be patient enough, for how ever long we need, for this powerful intimacy to completely have its way with this human form? Can we get out of the way enough, so that the Divine may show this body, that anything is possible?

These are not just ideas or concepts. On the contrary, this intimacy dissolves all previous ideas or concepts. It is such an intimate encounter that there are no thoughts, or beliefs that could survive. This is what happens when the human form begins to be transformed. We begin to lose our limited perceptions because our brains and nervous systems are being changed. Altered. Expanded. Consciousness is using to human form to go beyond its previous experience. This is evolution.

The Great Removal

Many people on a spiritual path cause themselves much more difficulty than is necessary. And the primary way they do this is by believing or thinking that spiritual awakening is some sort of attainment, or that all experiences need to be good, conscious kinds of experiences. We don't want the kinds of experiences that expose our trance-like habits; the ones that don't seem to go away.

Spirituality, or enlightenment is not an attainment, or experience. It is a removal. A removal of you. You and all your projections onto the world, self and others. It is a removal of who it is that wants only nice characteristics, the one that wants to appear as a positive, spiritual person. Removal isn't something that is very pleasant when you are trying to get something, or be someone. But in order for the body/mind to know itself as a vessel for the infinite reality, there needs to be a great removal of all that is in the way.

Removal isn't done through understanding great non-dual teachings, or having sublime meditation experiences. Removal happens when we, as awareness, begin to see how a central interpreter creates everything we see.

Are we distorting this moment by any kind of interpretation of this moment? Are we only concerned with what our experience is? These are the kinds of questions that life is attempting to expose, so that we can see what it is that divides the unified field of consciousness. Because in true reality, there is no division.

Being removed will probably cause discord, struggle, resistance and pain. This is natural. The illusion of separation is all that is known, until the interpreter is completely removed. So even the removal will be happening through the interpreter. But there will be moments of reprieve; when new space and silence feel like a healing balm upon the nervous system. When the interpreter is temporarily absent, and this fresh moment fills the body/mind with wonder and awe. Allow these moments to inspire. Pay attention. Do not grasp these moments, because they are only the result of an ongoing removal. A great erasure of everything that is known. An absence of all that has gone before, so that the new can live.

Nothing to Do

It is amazing how quiet it is when you have nothing to do. When you are so helpless, you can't even think about the clothes you are going to wear, or the food you are going to prepare.

I came out of surgery weak and helpless as an infant. At first there was such discomfort that all attention went there. All that was happening was discomfort. Continuously.

And now that the discomfort is much less, attention rests. The vast quietude of nothing to do and nowhere to go has manifested itself into this life. I sit and allow this gorgeous space of the totality to touch this human, losing the locality of self.

And because of helplessness, I rely on the generosity of others. People love to help. And because I have always been so independent and self-reliant, I have never allowed many people to actually help me. Until now. And all this generosity is going right into the heart. So much generosity and Love is all around, showing this body/mind how loved it is. How precious and appreciated it is. This has never been experienced by the mind/body so directly. As a result the body/mind experiences Love in a new way, in a way that persists in it's presence.

I see friends with concern on their faces, and the body/mind weeps. Love comes right in. The weeping has not a trace of "me" in it. There is only Love. Touching this body/mind in a way that it was made to be touched. Pure. Deep. Without any story or condition, past or future. Our body/minds were made to be touched by Love in a way so that we may understand the language of Life, and lose ourselves in our loss for words.