It is time to focus on what you are rather that what you are not

 

We all need to decide whether to “play it safe” in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires. Which choice are you making? Charlie Badenhop

 

Choice is a loaded word in that it is always operative.  Regardless of our conscious or unconscious attention, we are making choices with each breath. There is an addiction that unwittingly occurs with many spiritual seekers, a title I only recently relinquished. In fact, I didn’t realize that I was still a seeker, when I thought I was not. The fact that I was playing it safe, choosing the downside over the reality, only became clear when at last I took what appeared to be a giant leap of faith, and landed right in the lap of God. With that step there was a new understanding of choice, of what it means to actually choose Love over all other possibilities.  

 

For most searchers, and that includes most everyone of us even when we don’t see ourselves as one, life is lived at the effect of what we think we are not. We spend our lives consciously or unconsciously on the look-out for everything that is wrong with us—an uncaring thought, corroboration of our unworthiness, physical proof of the status quo—our evidence that aspiring to awaken into an enlightened state is out of reach and for what it’s worth, most likely always will be. The decision is clear.  Don’t stop practicing. We skip right past proof to the contrary, the proof that who we are is Love incarnate, Christ Consciousness, the Buddha nature.

 

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

Even when we look back across time and realize how much more fully we live in the present moment, we still judge ourselves as ‘getting there, but not there yet’. Despite evidence to the contrary, I withheld this same approval and thereby failed Love. “Patience”, I told myself. “Perhaps you will be love when all selfish thought dissolves.” I was not willing to assert that I had vanished into Love.  With that refusal I unconsciously chose to deny the truth of who I am, and with that, the truth of each of us. I was in fact more willing to deny myself than I was to say, “Yes God. Of course I am and now I see what has always been”.

 

Seeking becomes a new identity. To give up the chase, even in the face of undeniable proof, feels like giving up the self-improvement project, something that has supplied great entertainment for quite some time. It feels that way because it is. Our focus for years, perhaps lifetimes, has been on getting somewhere good and if we were willing to vocalize it, on going Home to God!

 

In the process we have created pictures of what it would look and feel like when we arrived. These pictures were a necessary part of the seeker’s dance. They heartened us to let go of old beliefs and to face our fears. They primed us for Truth to sweep in and make us its own. There is nothing wrong with the pictures. They were perfect. They were essential. They helped us all to create an amazing shift in awareness. They have brought us to this moment together. 

 

Now, standing here collectively, it is time to refocus. It is time to focus on what we are rather than what we are not and that takes a willingness to let go of the old, even though it has brought us far, and step into the unknown. Proof can only lay claim to the known. It can tell us what happened in the last moment. It cannot take us any further on our journey. It has brought us here, now and it is time to move forward into a grander version of ourselves than what we believed possible.

 

As long as we continue to see ourselves as seekers we will be obliged to continue the quest. The adventure is fun, sometimes joyful and at times painful. That cannot be argued. It also becomes a lifestyle. Being a seeker has lots of perks, not the least that it gives us access to a community and a place to belong.  Hanging onto our title and our memberships though means we prolong the illusion and miss the truth standing right in front of us.

 

We each have an original blueprint and it IS divine. It is the truth that calls to our hearts. Love as our foundation is what allows us to feel the pang of separation. It is that part of us being led to stand and be counted for and with each other. Yes we can change our world and move from fear into love, and will as we stand together in support of the whole, in service to this greater good.

 

We are this love that we seek. As we all stand together and claim this truth, that we are this love and no longer need to seek this love, we make it a possibility for all those still struggling in our world. We are the standard bearers for a new reality. The time has passed for waiting. It is time to choose. It is now time to live as the love we have desired. 

 

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

 

The Original Blueprint

 

Return at last

To what you have

Always been

Deny yourself

No more

 

Are you tired

Of this game

Small and unimportant

Are you ready

To come Home

 

Come Home Now

Acknowledge

The truth that

Is always here

With your choice

 

Simple choosing seems

To be an impossibility

You choose now,

Only now you

Choose your mind

 

Choose instead

With all the knowing

That lives within you

With your open heart

That cries out loud

 

Your heart already

Knows this as truth

Your heart is ready

To lead you

Into your birthright

 

You were born God

Have lived as God

Are living now

As God

Can you see this?

 

This is no game

No idle play

This is deadly serious

To your master

The selfish ego

 

Choose now

Deny yourself

No More

Allow yourself to be

Your original Divine blueprint!

 

You are love

You are God

You are YES

You are selfless

You are this Oneness

 

 

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