Flow...
You cannot anticipate what is, it already is, just as it is, right now…
Imagine, you await at a traffic light, some people make this into a huge fiasco, as if it is some highly unexpected and terrible event, they build up a lot of tension and anticipation, when will it change they demand?
And they sit there, and in that moment the traffic light is what stands between them and their happiness, their feeling of being in motion, on course…
It will change, when it changes, and the journey will continue, there is a purpose to that pause, to that light, it is not to interrupt you, it is to direct the flow, to keep the flow in a larger way, beyond personal drama, continuing to move…
That fact always remains, you cannot anticipate the moment as it already is, and as quick as it is, it is not again, not as it was that is, but as it is, continuously this is how it is in the world of changes…
One other aspect of this is time, and the persistence of memory, where the old memories take president, have weight over the new, it gradually blinds us to the present, the freshness of what is here now…
The best way of looking at it is as a field of pure consciousness in which all emerges spontaneously from the same source…
However, within that we have an ability to form memories, and memory either naturally or through how we have trained and conditioned our minds, has older memories take authority and president over newer memories…
In this sense we are usually always looking at the past, reality is upside down and back to front, it is reversed for the most part until we recognize how the mind stores and suggests things are…
This order of memory and how it effects perception may seem logical and useful (especially if you are older, it is a great excuse for assuming authority) however, what if there is a change, say to a path or a road, a change that is important for us to remember first before the old memory, maybe a HUGE change in which most memories and maps are now not particularly useful?
And yet, because of familiarity, of habit of process, of following along with the mind, the old memory takes president and the new information is discarded or put to one side, obscured and ignored, progress and intelligence subverted…
There are many things we learn to do habitually, and yet they are not necessarily fully serving us, we forget we script the program, maybe we are lead to, but we do it, we construct it, it is our creative intent that does it whether that is originated with us or encouraged by some ‘outside’ party…
We cannot change what is, we can receive into the space of what is the change that is possible…
This is an important point to recognize if you want to create anything, to change anything and at the same time remain free of anticipation, of any form of stress or ‘change fever’…
What is, is as it is, and yet we can certainly appreciate that into that isness we can allow new form, new possibility, the effects are not fixed but they do have a kind of certainty to them…
Any snapshot of reality is perfection manifest for THAT moment, and yet we find this hard to accept, this is because we have a secondary ability to break apart, to filter, fragment and compare events, take them out of their natural unfolding context to support our story, and from that extrapolate conclusions based on our story…
As creative and useful as this is, it can also give us a false sense of realty, a one that is based on shaky ground, as it is strewn throughout time, we have a map, a picture, a perspective that is not fully grounded in the present, in presence, but in an illusory sense of time from which we gain an even more illusory sense of self…
From that we construct a sub reality that houses and supports our story, we can make that story read anything we like depending on our intent, and it can be useful, we can gain insight, but the key part is it must be used for that only, to reveal and reflect a tendency that otherwise was unseen, was unconscious, that is, if we wish to be free…
The opposite of this responsible use of deep analysis would be judgment, which hardens and solidifies these weaves of time created within our direct perception of our present moment, obscuring true seeing, knowing, realization…
This process, the anti-true-nature, unconsciously, would be cleverness believing it is overcoming wisdom, the mind trying to outsmart the absolute by one of its processes of functioning, the absolute in which and only by which it exists…
There is a biological tension that results when we use the creative capacity in this way, to judge, to harden, to form structures within, upon, and against the absolute resounding present…
From this extends in our consciousness, and throughout our lives, every other issue, every problem we could imagine, it all comes from this ‘cleverness’, using it for the wrong purpose, that is, concealing what is simply the truth beyond explanation, using it as an excuse to hold ideas contrary to pure truth in play…
The remedy?
Give it a break for a moment, let the mind stop, let it spin out, let it reveal itself in your own consciousness as what it really is, and keep allowing it to do so, no restrictions, binds, nor excuses, just presence, just be there…
Peace waves )))
Sean
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