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Relaxing into your life
The compulsion to try and force life to do what we want causes tremendous stress and anxiety. This struggle against the natural movement of life stems from the belief that if we don't control life, everything will collapse - our lives will collapse.
But life is always collapsing and re-birthing into different forms - Nature is always disintegrating and reforming. Our minds and our bodies are Nature and they will do what is only natural and good. It can be seen that the 'characteristic' of our core being is ever-stable - moreover it is a softness - a gentle softness that requires nothing and yet gives everything effortlessly. You can know this softness - out of which your experiences flow. Right in this very moment you can see that your life - no matter what's happening - forms beautiful patterns. You can relax into the very essence of your life because life is going where it is going. And as you observe this softness - this effortlessness - the tightness and stress begin to dissolve. You sink ever-deeper into the beautiful patterns of you life without the fear of them. New patterns will emerge that are free of the old restriction.
Well... the first Global meeting was far from perfect.
I went live only to discover that the connection had a huge delay and froze after a few seconds of streaming video. It appeared that certain parts of America were fine, but anywhere else was struggling to keep the connection.
Finally I just said what I wanted to say regardless of it being broadcast. And as it turned out the software did record a good chunk of the meeting - and some people even managed to ask questions.
Anyway here is what I ended up with. The beginning and the end has mysteriously vanished - but no problem. My desire is that what's left will help you touch the wonder of your life
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Your Life is a Lens - excerpt from live meeting
We arrive in these lives - and we have no say about the context in which they arrive and unfold. Each life is a universal phenomena - part of the whole story of phenomena arising and falling away. The radiance of who we are is never touched by what happens in our life - this radiance is the light-source that illuminates what appears to be real in our experience. And the context of our life is like the lens through which the radiance shines. It is the context that creates what we see as real. Over time as we become completely emerged in the content of our lives - believe ourselves to be these lives - the lens becomes increasingly clouded and the radiance is distorted... we see a dangerous world in which we are cast adrift. Although we may not be aware of it, all we ever do in our lives is try to resolve this discomfort of feeling separate from life - but it is possible for the desire to recognise who we truly are to arise. You may hear a message such as the one I offer in The Guiding Principle and begin to remember that at the core of everything you experience sits the original radiance existence - it never went anywhere...
The Guiding Principle meeting 24th February 2010
In the meeting on February 24th 2010, we explored many different things, including what can practically be done to dissolve our fear of life in the face of the vast and seemingly ever-complex unfolding of reality - also...is personal development really able to transform who and what we are - and also what happens after physical death. So as you will hear - a very active and alive meeting.
Full recording of The Guiding Principle meeting in London, UK on Wednesday 17th February 2010.
The beauty of these meetings is to be found in what emerges spontaneously as we investigate together. There is no script and nothing that we cannot explore.
