There is nothing but “I Am”

 Who to blame for your struggles?

Maybe all the economic up and down?

One country for mistreating another one?

Maybe a colleague or a boss undermined you,

or was it a childhood encounter or a lover who hurt you?

Maybe it’s the poor fate that robbed you or your loved ones,

or is it the politician or the billionaires who make you worse off?

 

Unless we dig inside and learn how to let go, we don’t have the maturity to face the inner war, fears and longings that most of us project onto the outside world. We can’t dispose of all baggage though. There comes a time when we recognize fear, greed, hate, jealousy, etc. as it presents itself without repressing and projecting anything. We just sit with this pain body or the recycled guilt and fear that presents itself as a longing. We sit with it and watch it dissolve. The ego is so tricky. It even presents itself as a spiritual longing or the need to teach others our spiritual insights.

 

Strip off everything and face the present moment naked. In the “I Am” moment the aversions and desires of this entity are gone with the wind, and if you feel the personal energies returning, sit with them once again. Soon the realization hits, there is nothing outside the “I Am”—certainly nothing worth living and striving for.

Let the Light in

 Poonjaji was quite arrogant when he met Ramana Maharshi for the first time. After all, he had regular exchanges with Lord Krishna who appeared before him on occasions. Ramana Maharshi smiled and asked him, “Is Krishnaji here with us right now?” Poonjaji had to admit that he wasn’t. “What kind of God is only present some of the time?” Ramana asked. This resonated with him, and he went back to the drawing board and had a more lasting breakthrough soon after.

 

The same can be said about the “I Am” moment. We all have been in these serene moments when life simply flows through us. Yet, how come that the interferences and distractions return? Maybe we can never completely step out of conditioned mind, but we can look at the interference in the present moment and see conditioned mind as is. How do you bring light to a building that had been in darkness for decades? You open the door and the windows!

The story of the dancing moon

 When the mind is restless,

it makes Shiva dance.

Like the restless waters of the lake

make the moon dance,

it’s all appearance

due to wrong ideas.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

Some of the “intuitive” are strong-willed and have clear perceptions of what is wrong and right, and they consequently take a stand against what shouldn’t be.

 

Some of the “equanimous” in the spiritual community are repressed deep inside. While serene on the surface, they guard their triggers and excitements well.

 

Shiva dances to show the “intuitive with a mission” the illusion, while Kali visits the “repressed serene” to remind them how they truly feel inside.

 

I am part of neither group yet have elements of both. “Life as is” shows us who we are and helps us drop the image of who we thought we were.

 

Enjoy the full moon and the restful lake, and if the moon starts dancing again, let’s have a closer look at the appearance as well as the notion of ourselves.

 

 

Make the switch from head to heart

 Did you know that we can simply switch from our mind-driven existence to a heart-centered one. It’s a conscious switch and you can literally feel the activation of the heart chakra as it crowds out the workings of our monkey mind.

 

Many of our troubles arise because our conditioned mind hijacks the inner activated pain bodies and runs with it. That’s the activation of psychological self, by either assigning scapegoats for our pain, or by devising plans how the future will be better.

 

Our pain-body burns in the fire of the activated heart chakra, and our mind becomes still as we listen to the humming of our energy centers. I have experienced the power of the heart-centered energy before but have for the first time experienced the power to shift consciously between the different energy centers. Make the switch!

 

Mindfulness

 I am the lust, the hate—

I am the greed and

I am the fear.

 

I am my emotions as they are running through “me;” Sure, these states come and go just like the many virtuous emotions that arise, but when the conditioned energies that have been plaguing humanity for eons capture “me” I also need to own them. Yet, why do the French say so wisely “j’ai peur” (I have fear) rather than I am afraid? It’s because there is an opening—a mindful witness—that allows stepping out of these destructive energies and leaving them behind.

 

Have you noticed that once we are aware that we are angry we are in a different position than when these emotions are running us? When we own the emotion that runs us without fighting them, without disagreeing with them or without wishing them away, they lose strength. It is indeed as if a foreign entity came for a visit. We offered it tea, but we didn’t invite it to stay overnight. Be aware of what is. Mindfulness connects us with life as is. God does the rest.

 

Don’t fall for it

 When you catch yourself putting some people on a pedestal—and vice versa—look down on some others, don’t fall for it! We are all in the same boat.

 

If you figure you will be better off in the future or would have been better off had something been differently in the past, remember, this is the perfect moment.

 

If something is missing right now, or something needs to be changed, take care of it. “Life as is” tells you what needs to get done—don’t fall for the “if only”!

 

When a heaviness arises or a desire haunts you, let the heart energy face it and mind the wheels of psychological thought turning—don’t fall for it!

Energy surfer

 There is an energy beyond the human energy we grew up to experience. It’s a frequency we can literally dial into. We can sense it; feel it; ride it. We also can be aware when conditioned mind has taken over once again. How to connect with it? As the Bible states, “be still and know I Am That I Am.”

 

Why do we insist on truth and purity along a spiritual quest? Why do we need to face all inner and outer conflicts and resolve them? The “I Am That I Am” moment is a mind-blowing energy exchange, and the “body-mind vessel” requires to be in a pure and open state to participate in the exchange.

 

Enjoy surfing the highway of super-consciousness.