What is true is always true.
What is temporary is not true.
Truth can be denied, and you have that choice, but that does not make it any less true.
You are an Eternal Being. That is true.
You are one with God. That is true.
Humanity’s biggest challenge is the denial of those Universal truths. The denial that creates separation. Therefore humanity’s biggest leap is addressing this denial.
It’s working at the root. It is planting a seed and tending to it, and watching it grow.
You don’t force a plant to grow. You create the conditions for it to grow and develop and witness it happening.
That is what we are doing through our work here: Creating the conditions and providing the nurture for you to grow.
You do all the growing. We are merely the facilitators, the catalysts, the servants of transformation.
This is fractal and recursive. You go through this process and then you help others through this process.
Whether it is formal or informal does not matter. By “formal,” we mean direct teaching, writing about this, facilitating workshops, etc.
By “informal”, we mean your state of Being. Your awakened state of Being radiates light, love, consciousness the way the sun radiates light. That is its nature and that is your nature. It just happens.
The formal is important, but it is not primary. Your state of being is primary. Cultivate that, and your formal roles and actions in this world will emanate effortlessly the same way light emanates from the sun.
Another truth is: This never stops.
As an Eternal Being, your evolution, your development, your growth, your consciousness never stops. There is contrast, there are ups and downs, there is expansion and contraction, there are seasons. There are resting places and vacations. But there is no end to this. So stop seeking it.
You will not find fulfillment there, only suffering.
We are not telling you to stop seeking in general. Seeking, desire, wanting is what animates this entire machine.
The question: Is there anything other than oneness? is what created this entire experience for you.
The most fundamental questions have infinite answers. They have answers but they cannot be answered.
Your fulfillment is not a math problem, and if you see it as a math problem that has a definitive answer, you will suffer.
The answer is not 42.
Your peace, your fulfillment, which is what you really seek, is not found in the answer to a question. It is found in the surrender and acceptance to what is.
It is found in the understanding of how consciousness works. Which is why we are calling this body of work Mechanics of Consciousness.
And we understand that this is a paradox, a contradiction, a recursive loop, a mind-fuck. That is the point.
What you need to understand is that you will never fully understand.
You will grow and evolve, but you will never reach completion.
Fulfillment and peace come from shifting your focus from attaining completion or perfection to pursuing experience.
Fulfillment and peace come from being here and now.
This is not a new teaching globally, but it is a new teaching for each soul at some point in their evolution.
It is a teaching that comes in many forms at many times.
Accept that it can take time to master and integrate, just like playing an instrument or learning tango takes time to master.
And of course, we are not telling you to renounce anything. Quite the opposite.
Renunciation is a form of denial, and denial of the Divine is what creates dysfunction and suffering.
Seeking perfection is the denial that you are already perfect.
Wholeness is not the absence of defect, it is the loving awareness and acceptance of yourself as you are.
Peace and freedom and liberation are not attainments or accomplishments at some future moment in time. They are available to you ~now~, and ~now~, and ~now~, and only ~now~.
Projecting them into the future as something you are going to accomplish through another workshop or retreat or meditation or gimmick is what separates you from it. It creates a chasm that might as well be infinite.
The effort on the spiritual path is merely the exhaustion of all strategies, tactics, approaches that do not work. It is the dissolution of all veils and obstructions that keep you from realizing what is and always has been true: That you are God. And so is everything else.
That is all.
“This is therefore to say that the transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated so long as we think of it as something that I by myself can bring about, by some sort of wangle, by some sort of gimmick.” —Alan Watts