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There is a way that everyone already knows...
• ... whereby we make an 'as if' become real to us by wishing it so - and ignoring the felt dissonance that arises from such incongruency of being.
• ... that we can find to agree to NOT look at What Is, so that our 'as if' can 'survive'.
• ... that HAS to say "things are this way", rather than "this is a way of seeing things".
• ... that defines the living real in terms or concepts that substitute for living presence and extend a past (that is not here) into an imagined future. Such expectation reinforces the definitions of self and world and obstructs or filters our capacity to respond freely or creatively.
• ... that looks out as if I and you are not love's creation, without the vision in which love holds all as one and shares itself.
• ... whereby we can adventure amidst the 'hit' of conflicted wills and 'go for' the challenge of becoming a successfully independent will.
• ... that fears love as if it were the death or sacrifice of self, and yet must allow for love among the cracks in the dream or none would bear it.
• ... that maintains fear by means that purport to alleviate but actually feed insecurity. Rarely is this too directly or one would not tolerate it and thus question or challenge the whole thing.
• ... whereby we attempt to rid ourself of guilt and self depreciative beliefs by suppressing and inevitably projecting onto others and the world. This actually keeps guilt in our mind as we keep meeting it everywhere and in everyone.
• ... of squelching the love and joy in life that rises in us rather than be exposed to judgement, disaproval or attack from others.
• ... of maintaining incongruous compartments such that what we think and say and do are not in accord with what is actually moving and alive within us.
• ... whereby we see the fault with anyone or anything immediately and easily, so as to justify the witholding of our acknowledgement, attention, appreciation and love.
• ... of defensively densifying energetically such that the physicality of body is used as primary self reference and the mind is held to be privately encased and even programmed by flesh, which is then accorded functions for which it doesnt perform and made sick or dysfunctional.
• ... that if committed to with determination invites insanity where one's own fear based imaginings, replace the experience of shared living with unshared private competitive exclusivity - and allows nothing else in.
• ... that arises from and perpetuates a sense of incompleteness or lack and which endlessly promises to fulfil but never does.
• ... of presenting a mask to pass off as oneself to get appropriate behaviours or outcomes but which never result in any real relationship or intimacy.
• to not face that which one is convinced would be uncovered, if the truth were revealed, because one believes that one's own judgements are true.
Up to this point I have sketched attributes of a way away from truth and self. But the way away becomes the way home when ...
• ... it can be recognised and evaluated by you as something you thought you wanted or needed but now see only brought you futility and despair and which you sense is not the only or best way for life to be experienced.
• ... you see that way costs your peace and wholeness by virtue of the experience of both that you share, whenever you neglect to embody it. Thus becoming increasingly unwilling to pay its price.
• ... you discover that such a way does not really exist outside wishful imagination, for 'as if' is not and cannot be equal to 'Is'.
• ... it at last becomes the trigger for the recognition of an opportunity to release the world and your brother from the demand that it or he or she be what you would have them be and thus be open to the infilling of new life.
Is there a way to truth, life. love or happiness that can be formulated or defined? (OK - I found one HERE). But not in terms of the languages and form by which such a life can be expressed.
But there is a way of embodying truth - by essentially owning and then not choosing, the habits and strategies of living falsely.
Anyone can begin to live from a faith in life, ourselves, each other, that does not reinforce guilt or fear nor employ coercion upon our selves, life or each other.
Brian Steere 1/10/05
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