Synopsis of Teaching

When you feel that you have been placed into a situation for some reason, it indicates cause-and-effect thinking.  Cause-and-effect thinking is the intellect's way of making you feel secure, making you feel that you are "on purpose."  It is a rationalization.

For human beings, there is always an intellectual cause-and-effect at work.  You believe so much in cause-and-effect that you are never aware of the choice you are making each moment, and who you are each moment.  It is hard for you to just accept Life as it is, because there is so much conditioning, so much consensus reality that is handed to you starting at the time of birth.

But liberation, realization of This, Life-as-it-is, sets you free from cause and effect, and you can begin to embrace Life as it is without an excuse, without a reason. 

So often you need to fabricate a reason for why you are doing something, instead of realizing "I just wanted to do it; it was there, and so I did it." Awakening happens when you realize that Life-as-it-is, is purpose itself.  It doesn't need an outside purpose or a reason for being.  It is purpose itself.

Let's say you are in a relationship, and you keep thinking that you need to make it work, you need to get something out of it, or you are learning something from it.  True, you are always learning something from the experience of energy.  But once you have attained a realization about the relationship, it may be time to let go of it, to quit beating yourself up, to quit forcing or trying, and to just let go.  That contradicts psychological thinking which says you have to work through things, you have to make things all right, but I have seen that the moment a person has the realization that the relationship is not working, then it truly is not working.  At that point, it is like trying to revive a dead horse.  The relationship is dead; get over it.  You can expend effort to keep trying to raise it from the dead, but it will always be dying, unraveling, wherever you look.

Letting go, being with what-is, becomes so important.  If you cling to a past way of doing, you simply keep recreating the past.  This is humanity's opportunity to become new, transformed.  When you live by expectation, or by belief that Life is supposed to be a certain way, you keep throwing yourself into the past.  That is not allowing Life to be as it is; it is trying to make Life into something that you want it to be.  That creates a lot of unnecessary work.  At some point you realize that the effort is a waste of time.  It is so much more rewarding, so much more alive, just to be with what-is, not making excuses for it, but allowing yourself to be all that you can be, moment by moment.

The intellect is conditioned to depend on the past, to pull from the past various perceptions and assumptions you have made about how Life works.  The intellect tries to fabricate an experience of Life from those past perceptions in order to make you feel safe.  The intellect is always attempting to present a situation in a favorable way; its design is to keep you feeling safe and secure.  If that involves a lie, then you accept the lie, because that makes you feel safe and secure.

When you become present, being with what-is, you recognize that you don't have to rely on the past to validate your moment.  Just being is validation enough.  When you have that realization, you see Life as it is, and then the intellect moves into a higher mode where it drops the past, the memory, the conditioning; it starts assessing the situation as-it-is, moment by moment, and then you always make the appropriate move, the appropriate step.  There is no longer the "I should" or "I shouldn't."  There is just seeing what is taking place, and being with it.  And then when somebody asks you "Why did you do that?," you can respond, "Because I could; because I did."

I know that it is difficult for humans to realize how programmed and conditioned you are, and how the intellect works overtime to try to keep you in a favorable light, feeling safe and secure, making you feel all right.  But when feeling "all right" is based on the past, on misunderstood experiences, you cannot be in truth.  You live in an alteration of truth.  You live a lie.  You may feel very good about living a lie, because the intellect tells you that you are safe, that that is the way it should be.  But that lie continually requires of you a lot of work and effort.  Awareness is the realization that it doesn't have to be that way.

When you realize that you are thinking thoughts simply because you have decided to think them, that you are in a relationship or following a certain path simply because you have decided to do so, and for no other reason than that, you begin to have a direct experience of Life.  We have the ability to live in the presence, to be with what-is and have a tremendous clarity of energy as Life is happening, moment by moment.