Enter, Beloved

This body knows Love. In the highest sense. The body was made to be a vehicle for Love, but sometimes it forgets, and so Life happens in order that the body can keep remembering. When the body remembers, it can open deeper and fuller to the entire cosmos that is the Beloved.

The body knows how to let the Beloved enter. Some people call this process surrender, or allowing. When the body relates to the entire Totality of all of Life as the Beloved, it is possible for the body to feel what it is to be entered by the Totality. The body was made for this. The mind is also included in this whole body communion with the Beloved Totality. And so when the body lets go so completely to the Totality of Life, the mind doesn't need to go into its own process of mental surrender, because it already feels what complete surrender feels like. And this feeling is way beyond what the mind may talk itself into.

We can only let go to the level that we know Love. So nurture the sense of Love for the Divine in your body. Let it feel what that really does for the body/mind. And when the Beloved wants to enter, it will use that Love like an open doorway.

Our Greatest Contribution

The greatest good we can bring to the world isn't going to come from maintaining any "awakened perspective" or believing we know what the world needs. Our greatest contribution will be when we can let go of needing any perspective to believe in. Because it is Pure Love that the world needs, and if we are clinging onto needing anything for our self, in any way, that Love is not pure. So this is what we are all working towards, is it not?

The purest flow of Life comes through those that are quiet in their devotion to Truth. They don't need big followings, with people clinging onto every word they may say. Because to these few people, their Love for Truth, is far more important than what others think of them. Their relationship with the Totality is far more precious and rewarding than having success at being a "teacher" or someone that knows something. And as a result, they are far more open to the pure flow of Grace that is continually making more space for itself within their beings.

There is a great danger in spiritual circles that not many are talking about. After an awakening there can be a strong tendency for folks to create a belief around their own perspective. This creates a "landing place", or a fixed perspective. And that's all it is. And some of these people are very good at persuading others that their perspective is a valid one, or an awakened one, or one that everyone else should "believe in." When a teacher is attempting to convince others in his/her perspective, they are taking away the opportunity for the student to find their own way- to be able to feel into their own intuitive sense that lies in their own body/heart. Of course, if a teacher's and a students beliefs are the same, that fixed perspective can become even more rigid. And it might never find its way out.

But a true enlightened flow of Life, will never "land." It is the absence of a need for any perspective. Any need of a landing spot, is simply a lack of surrender. Complete surrender is made possible through our absolute Love of Truth. It is not possible without this deeply devoted way of Life. To be free of the need of a "landing place", or perspective, is a direct result of our Love for Truth. So as a result, our need to maintain any perspective is absent.

The authentic path is wanting to lead each of us in its own authentic way. And that way leads us right into our own heart. It is within our own hearts where that pure Love of Truth resides. It is resting there, and it is also maturing and becoming purer as our Beings are being flushed of any needs from the world. It is this intense Love that is waiting to be released in service to the world. This Love is absent of any need for a landing place; any need for any kind of awakened and holy perspective. There is no moral high ground in this Love. It is beyond any ideology that the mind could ever come up with.

Eventually, one day, it is our heart that will be our guide, our teacher, and our ultimate source of offerings to the world. So nurture that Love, and allow your entire Being to feel it as deeply as possible. And see if you can stay there, and allow everyone else to do the same.

Your Greatest Desire

It is so important to be absolutely clear about what we want. What we really want. I mean, many folks come to Satsang, or listen to spiritual stuff thinking that they want to know the Truth. They want to have a direct experience with the source of all Life. They want to know who and what they are. But it has been my experience that even though people say that they want the Truth, they really want something else. Something imagined.

To really know the Truth, and have it be integrated into our Life, we need to be ready to give up everything else. And the way we find ourselves capable of this is through our intense love for Truth. Truth will begin to expose all the ideas we have about what Truth is, and what awakening is. And sometimes the ways it does this isn't pretty. And much of the times it can really challenge our devotion to Truth, because it keeps shattering all our hopes around what awakening is going to give us. But through this shattering the fire of our devotion gets stronger and brighter. Truth asks us to be ready to give up our entire Life in order for us to allow it to live through us. And most folks have no idea what this means. Most folks think knowing Truth is going to give them some sort of spiritual holiday- something that will take away all their problems; all the bad parts of themselves that they don't like. But Truth might not take away any of the "bad" stuff. Not for awhile anyways. It just might make us live with it until we finally let go enough of our expectations from Truth. Because Truth doesn't give anything. It takes away everything that we are projecting onto Truth. And in doing so, only Truth remains, brilliant and clear, from our own intense Love for Truth. From this clarity we begin to live a balanced and harmonious life.

A friend made a gorgeous suggestion which I will take the liberty to pass on here. He said make a list of all the things that you desire in your life. Be honest about it. And I would suggest that you number which of the things are the most important down to the lesser important. Its essential that you are ruthlessly honest here. If you say you want the Truth, but then find yourself homeless and without money, where does your devotion to Truth go? So give yourself some time to look at this. If you are more devoted to your money than you are to Truth, then make sure you number that accordingly. Its perfectly alright. Just be honest about it.

Truth is going to test our devotion. Its going to take us to the brink of death. Its going to see if we are ready to let go of everything for it. If we feel the intense desire for the Infinite Reality to touch all aspects of our Life, its going to bring us face to face with death. And then its going to let us choose. And we will find Love leading us right into the fear of death. What remains is what continues on.