Synopsis of Teaching

Your commitment to Life is "Yes I can do this; no matter what, I can do it; I am doing it, moment by moment." It requires compassion, it requires patience, it requires allowing, with yourself and with everybody around you, because you are all human. You are going to fall down and skin your knees, bruise your nose, but don't lay on the ground; get back up and go at it again. You can't give up. I can't give up. Sometimes I want to give up, because it is hard. It is hard to watch people struggle with this and not be able to say to them, "Well this is what you need to do." There is no "this is what you have to do." You just have to do it; you have to make it so. That is your real power.

My work involves trying to get you to realize the reservoir of absolute power that is at your constant disposal, that is constantly there for you to make use of. Instead of using it, you often go into the intellect, you go into the past, you go into your "poor me, I can't do it"; you go into expectations, you go into this and that, you squander your energy, and you suffer. That is the way the world has always done it, but that is not the way of Life. That is living beneath your Is-ness. The bottom line involves accepting what-Is and going with it, not projecting onto other people or yourself, but using the brain to facilitate the transformation of the body/mind, and as you transform the body/mind, the whole system transforms around you.

You are entering a new, accelerated level, and that causes problems, because sometimes it seems more than you can deal with. I see that the closer I bring you to this core energy of Life, the more you see about yourself, the more you see your problems, your shortcomings, your inabilities. I don't teach denial, but I don't teach complacency or giving in to those shortcomings either. The moment you see a shortcoming, it is as if Life is saying, "Hey, see this? You can leave this behind now; you don't have to stay with this; you don't need it any more." Instead, you often buckle under and say, "Well, I can't do it because of this shortcoming."

The first thing to do in this awareness is to throw out "can't do." Eliminate "can't" from your vocabulary. Eliminate negatives from your vocabulary; eliminate problems from your vocabulary; eliminate interpretations from your vocabulary. Interpretations mean nothing; they are simply judgments about something, and they become an excuse for you not to do what you know you can do.

I know that you get beat up by life, beat up by consensus reality. I am not exempt from consensus reality either, but I don't take it personally, I don't take it seriously; I let it run off of me. Sometimes you will step into the crap of consensus reality, but so what? You can just wipe it off and go on. There is a way of being in the world where you say "So what?" "So I fell down; I will get up and go at it again. I can't fail." The moment you know you can't fail, you are a success, but until you accept that, you are going to keep having problems. The awareness is that it doesn't matter if you have a problem every single minute; it doesn't mean anything. It is just a problem. So what? You can be overwhelmed by it, or you can say "So what?" and do what is next.

I wish there were something I could give you to make you all- powerful, something that would enable you to know this and go on with it, but I can't give you anything, because it is all in the brain. You create your own reality, your own problems, your own shortcomings, and you also can create a new life, a new and powerful way of being in the world.

You live in a field of forgiveness and acceptance. The new species won't hold a grudge, won't have a condemnation or judgment, but will live in a constant discernment that everybody is doing the best they can, moment by moment. Sometimes, some people will fall, but instead of stepping on them or walking all over them, you help them up. If you have to do that ten thousand times a day, you do it ten thousand times a day. There is no time limit, no amount limit, on how often one forgives and moves on. There is no limit on how often one, instead of reacting to something, finds an appropriate response to it. That takes work, because your knee-jerk reaction is a judgment, a projection, making something wrong. The easy way out is making something wrong. That is too easy. It takes more work to find something right, to find an appropriate response, to find an acceptance, an allowing. That takes embracing Is-ness and seeing a bigger picture.

What is required is your being so dedicated to this awareness that there is nothing else in the way. "Nothing else in the way" does not mean that there is nothing else in your life; it just means that this awareness takes first place, and everything else in your life is second. That is the kind of dedication that is necessary to keep this going. That is the kind of dedication I have, and that is why it is working for me. If this awareness weren't first for me, I would be in lots of trouble.

This doesn't mean that you don't have a life. You have a life, you have needs, but your needs do not override your commitment to the Space. The work comes in how to balance those things. Human nature is so addictive that one can get lost in need. So you have to be very strong, very committed to the core, the awareness, and then the
rest of your life can be what it is going to be. It requires that each of you come to the place where you know what is important to you, what is important for your uniqueness, and how to meet that, but it never takes the place of your commitment to the Space. If it does take the place of your commitment, then probably, a conditional program is running, because the Space will never be in conflict with your uniqueness.

Each of you is unique, and sometimes that uniqueness can seem to present a conflict with what is good for the whole. That requires allowing who-you-are to blend and harmonize with the whole, while at the same time allowing you to be all you can be. On your part, you have to be totally committed to being all you can be, regardless of how hard it is, regardless of what you have to give up or what you have to go through. It requires constant surrendering to what-Is.

You have to push through; you have to have a commitment that you can do it. When you have that commitment, you do it, but if you are wishy-washy about it, if you are unsure of yourself, if you are looking for escapes and excuses, the consensus world will fill you with all kinds of excuses. You will be so whipped and beat up and limited that you won't be able to crawl out of a hole. Life simply accommodates what is going on in the brain.

When you are truly committed to being all you can be, there is power, power to go beyond shortcomings, power to facilitate the transformation of the body/mind, moment by moment.

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