Hello dear friends,
This mini practice called an experience of being beyond your wildest imagination is a little recap of the previous mini practices I've offered,
All inspired by the meditation teacher Adya Shantay.
Awakening,
Adya says,
Is not for the faint of heart,
Not for the easily discouraged,
But it is unfathomably profound.
It will take every bit of courage and humility that you can muster to have more than a brief glimpse of awakening.
Awakening is about finding and telling the truth.
It's about waking up from every illusion that you have,
Even the ones that you very much want to hold on to.
It's about encountering and stepping through resistance and fear again and again,
More times than you can imagine.
It's about being on guard for becoming a spiritually inflated ego,
While also having the courage to stand up in this life and claim your true being.
It's about truly seeing and experiencing the face of God in every person and every creature,
Every event and encounter that you have.
It's about realizing or coming to grips with the living fact that life or the divine or God does not fool around and is not always,
Or even very often,
Open according to your preferences.
Fortunately,
What matters to the divine is that we wake up.
The divine gives each of us all we need to wake up in this lifetime.
Have you noticed?
God isn't playing softball.
We suffer to the exact degree we resist allowing our eyes and hearts to open.
Don't assume that every insight and every revelation is going to be wonderful,
Because they are not all going to be wonderful.
In fact,
Most of them won't,
But they will hold the possibility of opening you up to an experience of being that is beyond your wildest imagination.
Many people are called to an awakened life,
But few choose it unconditionally.
It's more than they bargained for,
But it's there,
And it's real,
And it's available.
The whole world is waiting for you,
Depending on you,
Depending on each of us to awaken to our own shared reality and to live it as clearly,
Honestly,
And humbly as possible.
We are not called to be perfect,
Just awake and undividedly whole.
We are called to bear witness to the unity of being.
This alone is one of the most powerful forces of existence.
So,
Guard your mind,
Heart,
And self from the anger,
Resentment,
And blame so common these days.
Stand up and embody your life as consciously and courageously as you can.
Don't ever forget that it is your birthright to live an awakened life.
This is not something for the rare,
For the few.
If you believe that it is,
Then you'll probably live that belief out,
But it's not exceptional.
It's a real possibility,
Not only that we can awaken,
But that we can live and embody that awakening to an extraordinary degree.
Something within us,
Some deep,
Primal instinct truly desires this,
And if you're listening to this,
You have probably tasted that instinct.
It longs for more than having a powerful,
Revelatory moment as amazing and necessary as those moments can be.
There's an instinct to humanize our insight,
To make it real,
To bring it back here to earth,
Now in our lives,
To the essence of our human experience today with all of its beautiful messiness.
It's not about perfection.
We are not going to do it perfectly,
But we can embody this wonderful truth of our being in ways that we never imagined.
It's the ultimate journey.
It's inside of us already.
All we must do is open and embrace it.
Thank you for being with me.
I honor Adyashante for all that I've learned from him.
I honor you for being with me here in this beautiful,
Evolving process of our collective humanity.
Be well,
Dear friend.
