THE POWER OF CONSCIOUSNESS
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRESENCE AND THE INNER BODY?
PRESENCE IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS - CONSCIOUSNESS THAT HAS BEEN RECLAIMED FROM THE MIND, FROM THE WORLD OF FORM. THE INNER BODY IS YOUR LINK WITH THE UMNANIFESTED, AND IN ITS DEEPEST ASPECT IS THE UNMANIFESTED, THE SOURCE FROM WHICH CONSCIOUSNESS EMANATES AS LIGHT EMANATES FROM THE SUN. AWARENESS OF THE INNER BODY IS CONSCIOUSNESS REMEMBERING ITS ORIGIN AND RETURNING TO THE SOURCE.
IS THE UNMANIFESTED THE SAME AS BEING?
YES, THE WORD UNMANIFESTED ATTEMPTS, BY WAY OF NEGATION, TO EXPRESS THAT WHICH CANNOT BE SPOKEN, THOUGHT OR IMAGINED. IT POINTS TO WHAT IT IS BY SAYING WHAT IT IS NOT. BEING, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS A POSITIVE TERM. PLEASE DON'T GET ATTACHED TO EITHER OF THESE WORDS OR START BELIEVING IN THEM. THEY ARE NO MORE THAN SIGNPOSTS.
YOU SAID THAT PRESENCE IS CONSCIOUSNESS THAT HAS BEEN RECLAIMED FROM THE MIND. WHO DOES THE RECLAIMING?
YOU DO. BUT SINCE IN YOUR ESSENCE YOU ARE CONSCIOUSNESS, WE MIGHT AS WELL SAY THAT IT IS AN AWAKENING OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE DREAM OF FORM. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOUR FORM WILL INSTANTLY VANISH IN AN EXPLOSION OF LIGHT. YOU CAN CONTINUE IN YOUR PRESENT FORM YET BE AWARE OF THE FORMLESS AND DEATHLESS DEEP WITHIN YOU.
I MUST ADMIT THIS IS WAY BEYONG MY COMPREHENSION, AND YET ON SOME DEEPER LEVE I SEEM TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. IT'S MORE LIKE A FEELING THAN ANYTHING ELSE. AM I DECEIVING MYSELF?
NO, YOU ARE NOT. FEELING WILL GET CLOSER TO THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE THAN THINKING. I CANNOT TELL YOU ANYTHING DEEP WITHIN YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW. WHEN YOU HAVE REACHED A CERTAIN STAGE OF INNER CONNECTEDNESS, YOU RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH WHEN YOU HEAR IT. IF YOU HAVEN'T REACHED THAT STAGE YET, THE PRACTICE OF BODY AWARENESS WILL BRING ABOUT THE DEEPENING THAT IS NECESSARY.
ATTENTION TO THE INNER BODY
IF FELT VERY UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN I TRIED TO PUT MY ATTENTION ON THE INNER BODY. THERE WAS A FEELING OF AGITATION AND SOME NAUSEA. SO I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO EXPERIENCE WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
WHAT YOU FELT WAS A LINGERING EMOTION THAT YOU WERE PROBABLY UNAWARE OF, INTIL YOU STARTED PUTTING SOME ATTETION INTO THE BODY. UNLESS YOU FIRST GIVE IT SOME ATTENTION, THE EMOTION WILL PREVEN YOU FROM GAINING ACCESS TO THE INNER BODY, WHICH LIES AT A DEEPER LEVEL UNDERNEATH IT. ATTENTION DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU START THINKING ABOUT IT. IT MEANS TO JUST OBSERVE THE EMOTION, TO FEEL IT FULLY, AND SO TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPT IT AS IT IS. SOME EMOTIONS ARE EASILY IDENTIFIED, ANGER, FEAR, GRIEF, AND SO ON. OTHERS MAY BE MUCH HARDER TO LABEL. THEY MAY JUST BE VAGUE FEELINGS OF UNEASE, HEAVINESS, OR CONSTRICTION, HALFWAY BETWEEN AN EMOTION AND A PHYSICAL SENSATION. IN ANY CASE, WHAT MATTERS IS NOT WHETHER YOU CAN ATTACH A MENTAL LABEL TO IT BUT WHETHER YOU CAN BRING THE FEELING OF IT INTO AWARENESS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. ATTENTION IS THE KEY TO TRANSFORMATION - AND FULL ATTENTION ALSO IMPLIES ACCEPTANCE. ATTENTION IS LIKE A BEAM OF LIGHT - THE FOCUSED POWER OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS THAT TRANSMUTES EVERYTHING INTO ITSELF.
IN FULLY FUNCTIONAL ORGANISM, AN EMOTION HAS A VERY SHORT LIFE SPAN. IT IS LIKE A MOMENTARY RIPPLE OR WAVE ON THE SURFACE OF YOUR BEING. IT IS LIKE A MOMENTARY RIPPLE OR WAVE ON THE SURFACE OF YOUR BEING. WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN YOUR BODY, HOWEVER, AN EMOTION CAN SURVIVE INSIDE YOU ARE IN YOUR BODY, HOWEVER, AN EMOTION CAN SURVIVE INSIDE YOU FOR DAYS OR WEEKS, OR JOIN WITH OTHER EMOTION CAN SURVIVE INSIDE YOU FOR DAYS OR WEEKS, JOIN WITH OTHER EMOTIONS OF A SIMILAR FREQUENCY THAT HAVE MERGED AND COME THE PAIN BODY, A PARASITE THAT CAN LIVE INSIDE YOU FOR YEARS, FEED ON YOUR ENERGY, LEAD TO PHYSICAL ILLNESS, AND MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE.
SO PLACE YOUR ATTENTION ON FEELING THE EMOTION, AND CHECK WHETHER YOUR MIND IS HOLDING ON TO A GRIEVANCE PATTERN SUCH AS BLAME, SELF-PITY, OR RESENTMENT THAT IS FEEDING THE EMOTION. IF THAT IS THE CASE, IT MEANS THAT YOU HAVEN'T FORGIVEN. NONFORGIVENESS IS OFTEN TOWARD ANOTHER PERSON OR YOURSELF, BUT IT MAY JUST AS WELL BE TOWARD ANY SITUATION OR CONDITION - PAST, PRESENT OF FUTURE- THAT YOUR MIND REFUSES TO ACCEPT. YES, THERE CAN BE NONFORFORGIVENESS EVEN WITH REGARD TO THE FUTURE. THIS IS THE MIND'S REFUSAL TO ACCEPT UNCERTAINLY, TO ACCEPT THAT THE FUTURE IS ULTIMATELY BEYOND ITS CONTROL. FORGIVENESS IS TO RELINQUISH YOUR GRIEVANCE AND SO TO LET GO OF GRIEF. IT HAPPENS EXCEPT TO STRENTHEN A FALSE SENSE OF SELF. FORGIVENESS IS TO OFFER NO RESISTANCE TO LIFE - TO ALLOW LIFE TO LIVE THROUGH YOU. THE ALTERNATIVES ARE PAIN AND SUFFERING A GREATLY RESTRICTED FLOW OF LIFE ENERGY, AND IN MANY CASES PHYSICAL DISEASE.
THE MOMENT YOU TRULY FORGIVE, YOU HAVE RECLAIMED YOUR POWER FROM THE MIND. NONFORGIVENESS IS THE VERY NATURE OF THE MIND. JUST AS THE MIND-MADE FALSE SELF, THE EGO, CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT STRIFE AND CONFLICT. THE MIND CANNOT FORGIVE, ONLY YOU CAN. YOU BECOME PRESENT YOU ENTER YOUR BODY, YOU FEEL THE VIBRANT PEACE AND STILLNESS THAT EMARATE FROM BEING. THAT IS WHY JESUS SAID, BEFORE YOU ENTER THE TEMPLE, FORGIVE."
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