| Commitment to Truth \ |
Ultimately there is but one choice in this life, and this choice is available in every moment. The choice is simple. Open or Close. Expand or Contract. One results in freedom, the other in suffering. Commitment to Truth simply means choosing openness (both individually and mutually). Saying Yes to unlimited freedom of Being. It means to relax the tendency to grasp, to own, to become identified with. The natural consequence of this contraction (identification) is a feeling of separation. The key to total freedom is to remain both open and perpetually empty (of attachment to how you think things should be or are). The choice to be open, is one of commitment to living, fully incarnate, right here and now, 100% present with a limited body, surrendered to the beauty of this current human circumstance. The sooner one forges a commitment to being totally here, the sooner suffering diminishes and inherent freedom reveals itself. So often people fear commitment because
it somehow appears to narrow down the myriad possibilities that life offers.
To a degree this is true. Commitment makes life more simple and immediately
available. If this understanding is tempered with wisdom you will utilise every moment as an opportunity to relax deeply into the Truth of what you already Are, and what already Is. Whilst the ever deepening process of awakening to the Supreme Self will endlessly refine the outer details of your life's story, it is not this refinement (nor is it a pre-requisite to refine) which causes awakening itself. Primarily the quest to refine is in itself a subtle strategy contrived by the ego to avoid the Truth of That which Is always present, beyond and prior to all nOT4ons of being with which one can become erroneously identified. The call to become conscious of our actions and the way in which we conduct ourselves through this play of life (particularly with regard to others, and the ramifications that our behaviour has upon them in a relative sense) arises effortlessly through profound and uncompromising acceptance of Who and What we Are Now. This way by the unconditional suspension of the seeking impulse, there is harmony with the way things actually Are, rather than an unconscious fighting in a futile battle with Reality Itself. When you give up resisting the Truth, and struggling to justify your existence, it is found that your true nature is not only heart shatteringly intimate, it is profoundly impersonal, as is the devastating sweetness of its non-existence. One simply rests in Truth. |