Practice of Presence

Beloved Sangha Family,

The world, our dream of reality, is undergoing a profound and sweeping transformation.  The appearance is presenting with many challenges and grave dangers facing us both personally and collectively.  In this impressive time there exists the ripe opportunity to be emptied of all that we believe ourselves to have and to be.  So that we may shine AS what we all-ways, already are. As the fundamental shift from belief in a separate self identity to the original condition beyond self identification unfolds the end of suffering becomes possible.  We are not trading the small self for a more evolved or spiritual self.   We are returning to the original condition beyond self. 

For most of us this shift is gradual, a journey.  It can feel as if we are existing in two streams of consciousness.  One stream is dominated by conditioned judgment, identification with thought and self referencing, narration, worrying, blaming etc.  And the other stream is characterized by vital, alert, clear, wholehearted Presence and peace regardless of circumstances.  Many of us feel like we are slipping back and forth between these two modes of existence.  

Eventually the clear light of Awareness begins to predominate over belief and the sense of separateness begins to erode.  Embracing this shift is vital at this time.  And this takes courage and heart.  One must dive into the heart of being, the heart of experience, the heart of the world, the heart of the heart, the heart of the mind.  The capacity to live from/through and AS True Nature naturally develops as conditioned beliefs are surrendered and returned to Love.   

The world of wisdom and love is beyond imagination and hope. It exists right here and now beyond the belief in separation.  When we become established AS the  “I” in the midst of me, then the reflective world will begin to reflect AS THAT which we essentially already are.  I and Creation are ONE.  Where the ONE creative power IS, I am. The power of God is within me, the grace of God is surrounding me. Not as an ego deciding it has the power of God. Not as a belief, a hope, an object.  AS an originality beyond the mode of subject/object. As the rays of the sun are reflective of the sun itself

In light of this profound and powerful time on the planet, I am offering opportunities to gather together in Truth.  If you are genuinely drawn to the direct path, the direct way to the end of the suffering self, I would love to be with you in sangha, as we contemplate what it is to live as what we essentially are. 

With love and gratitude,

Jennifer