Hello there
Spiritual practice is essentially about becoming aware of the non corporal aspect of life
the omnipotent
United consciousness, that is the basis of who and what we really are
When we become aware of this consciousness, we begin to live our lives differently
We begin to live our lives in a way that allow us the qualities of this united consciousness
To shine through our being so that we are living embodiment of that consciousness
This is what the concept of the living buddha the living christ or becoming the embodiment of the higher self is all about
this incorporate united consciousness is imbued with certain qualities such as unconditional love and
awareness and spaciousness and presence and
creation and destruction and stillness and expansion
ETC
Spiritual teachers are here to help people to allow these specific qualities to shine through them
But spiritual teachers tend to focus on our specialize in teaching other people to embody one of these qualities
Whichever one they determine from their individual identity is most important to embody
this would not be a kind of travesty if
Source consciousness, or this united consciousness were straightforward?
But this is a quantum universe and so source consciousness is not straightforward
Instead it's imbued with many
contradictions many paradoxes
For example one of the qualities that is imbued within source consciousness is stillness
Another is expansion. Which is a kind of movement a
teacher of Stillness
Can Teach stillness to a degree that their disciples begin to reject?
expansion and
thus disallow themselves from embodying the expansion aspect of their higher self and
experiencing the beautiful gifts inherent in that experience a teacher of expansion
can teach expansion to the degree that their disciples reject stillness and thus disallow themselves from embodying the stillness aspect of their higher self and
experiencing the beautiful gifts inherent in that experience
It is the merging of these beautiful dichotomies that present the opportunity
for the most progression of our human consciousness on this planet at this time and
perhaps that academy that offers the most expansion at this time is the dichotomy of
still presence
versus
Deliberate creation
You are familiar with the concept of embodying creation
Because it is taught today through so many channeled entities. It's the idea that you can create your own reality
because you as an extension of source consciousness are imbued with that same creator energy and
so using your thoughts
You can decide what is wanted?
Focus on what is wanted and thus create that in your reality?
Using your emotional guidance system of course to lead you in the direction of that which is wanted
creation causes expansion
or Movement within the United consciousness
You are also familiar with the concept of embodying the still presence aspect of united consciousness
This is the concept that is taught by so many yogi's and meditation
Experts it is the being completely present in the now in a way where one dis identifies with thoughts
Which halts the momentum of thought and allows one to exist in the state of pure being?
Experiencing oneself as the stillness or space in which the thoughts and emotions take place
teachers of both disciplines
Tend to Reject the opposing discipline
arguing of course that that posing discipline takes disciples farther away
from becoming the embodiment of this united consciousness
Then closer to it in other words many teachers of still presence argue that creation causes one to become completely
identified with the wanting of the ego and thus ignorant to the eternal self
Many teachers of creation argue that still presence causes one to exempt them
participation in life and more importantly participation in universal expansion
both can be correct about the other because each is sitting in a perspective where they can clearly see the
Unconscious or shall we say shadow aspect of the opposing discipline?
But what each is missing is the gifts inherent in each other's discipline?
Each holds the key for the other because each dichotomy holds the key for avoiding the shadow potential in the other
We are not meant to live our lives in a state of waking meditation any more than we are meant to become
consumed in endless seeking by the ego in
other words it is the practice of still presence that enables the practice of creation to occur without a
Practitioner falling in to completely identifying with the wanting of the ego and thus becoming ignorant to the eternal self
it is the practice of creation that enables the practitioner is still presence to practice still presence without falling into
exempting themselves from participation in life and expansion
Call this a marriage or a union of opposites
We can see what the beautiful union of dichotomies would look like practically
Through the progression of spirituality in the following three steps
One we first become interested in embodying the creation aspect of universal consciousness
We realize that we can create our own reality and we can do so with our own minds
But what we do is we begin to create
entirely from the perspective of the ego
This is what was happening when you were watching the movie the secret. It's what felt off about it. We were deliberately creating
But we were not decided to fight with the ego enough
To understand that we were creating entirely from ego
Too we become aware of the ego both the light side of the ego and the shadow aspect of the ego
This creates a dis identification with the ego
Which is incredibly critical because at that moment. We are able to recognize
That we in our waking life are essentially the junction between two aspects of ourselves
two points of spective
The first is the eternal self the second is the temporal self
Three we now begin to create our lives
intentionally
Except this time we are doing so from the perspective of the eternal self
Our ego is not using us
we have dis identified with it enough to be able to be objective about it and
So our ego is a tool that our eternal self is now using for its conscious creation
therefore
We are quite literally
Consciously creating from the aspect of our higher selves. We are walking breathing embodiments of the universal consciousness
in short we go from
unconscious creators
to conscious beings
to conscious creators I
Urge you to consider that all of the practices that spiritual teachers offer are in fact merely tools
to enable you to allow yourself to become the embodiment of
universal consciousness and the various qualities inherent in that consciousness
Becoming attached to a specific spiritual quality or a specific tool to help you to actualize a specific quality
Could cause you to disallow the others especially the ones on the opposite side of the scale
This is really what the buddha recognized when he discovered the middle path?
Time will see us learning to develop the choice unless the flexibility to fully embody all of the qualities of source consciousness
equally even the seeming dichotomies
We will take thought Beyond what thought has been before and thus participate fully in
Expansion we will also experience the pure being inherent in
Spacious presence
They will take place within us like a beautiful blend of stillness and movement
They will take place within us like a beautiful dance of darkness and light
Have a good week