See beyond the Intolerable

Notice healthy transcendence is neither a flight nor severing nor disconnection from lower 'uncomfortable' things and qualities. Rather, its a going beyond that does not exclude them. It is a kind of innate, receiving, decoding and streamlining of energy. As situations or feelings grow more noticable and/or intolerable, it dawns the urge to escape does not always serve us. Radical inclusion enables our expansion both horizontally and vertically, to integrate a certain quality while at the same time, not identifying with it. Its about seeing value in what was resisted or initially disregarded. This is the art of separation and simultaneous connection. Both coexist and function in divine resonance. A journey to accepting and activating all facets of True Being involves recognizing and working through all we are conditioned to judge and push away. Denial or suppression of anger is common. Anger that arises invites engaging in that angry part of ourself. Its about being inclusive, allowing energy to flow without allowing it to overcome us. To deny intense or difficult feelings prevents creating an in-depth relationship with them, keeps us fragmented and unable to embody genuine wholeness. Instead, staying close to what is being transcended allows us to know it well, and stay just far enough away to see it clearly, to bring it into lucid focus. Transcending certain energies does not mean we know longer experience them. We simply energetically reposition it within rather than identify with or get triggered by it. This is a powerful insight that triggers shifts into expanding consciousness. Stay focused on this Road to self-mastery. Awarness allows calm abiding.

Shatter myths about peace

Once there was a famous wrestler we'll call “Great Waves.” He was muscular and strong and knew the art of wrestling. In private bouts he defeated even his teacher, yet in public was so bashful that even his students threw him down. He was at a loss for words as well as inner peace. 

Troubled, the wrestler decided to visit a Zen temple for help. There, a wise teacher advised him.

“Great Waves is your name,” said the teacher. “So spend tonight in the temple. Imagine that you are water. You are no longer a wrestler who is afraid. You are those powerful waves sweeping over everything in sight. Do this and you will never again be defeated.”

The teacher left. The wrestler sat still, trying to imagine himself as water. His mind wandered but soon he began to feel more and more like moving waves. As night advanced the waves grew taller and taller. They swept away the flowers and rushed over the statues. Before dawn the temple was nothing but the tide of a vast ocean.

In the morning the teacher found the wrestler in meditation with a slight smile on his face. He patted the man’s shoulder. “Now nothing can disturb you,” he said. “You are the waves. You will sweep everything before you.”

That day, the wrestler entered and won a big tournament, and was never again defeated by his thoughts.

Contrary to popular belief, no peaceful mind exists. Mind itself cannot be peaceful. Its very nature is to be tense and confusing. Mind cannot have clarity. Peace and silence exist without mind. Never attempt to silence the mind. Only as you understand the nature of mind does your life shift. 

Watch and you observe thoughts but never encounter the mind. Thoughts are not one with your nature. Thoughts come and go like visitors. They are like waves in the ocean. You persist as the host. All thoughts are borrowed. As this enters your visceral experience, everything transforms. Awareness is noticing what arises in gaps between thoughts and being that.

Recall martial artist Bruce Lee said, "be like water."  The most challenging adversary is the thinking mind. True confidence and inner peace do not reside in temples or remote places. As we turn inward, go inside our own hearts, here we find all we seek.

Watch what comes by itself

Watch what comes by itself.  Do nothing.  Simply be yourself. When you know your true being, you have no problems for they only exist in the mind.   From the moment you recognize there is no-thing to fear, fearlessness arises by itself.  As you move through life, imagine it is like a passing crowd. Disregard names, faces, and shapes. Do not attach to people and conditions.  See them as they are; passing images in a sequence of a film reel.  Feel with the heart. Love is the only true feeling. It feels right to be oneself, to be loving.  To accept the truth, it is common to have life experiences to come and discard what you are not.  Be understanding and compassionate, come what may.  This is living through the heart and not through the conditioned mind.