Monday 6 June 2011

It Is Required You Do Awake Your Faith. Then All Stand Still.

One way of describing reality is that everything is God; every feeling, happening, thought, object...everything. It is all love, it is all this, it is all itself. It can have any and every appearance and quality, including hating humanity or loathing the world or, indeed, loving humanity and accepting the world. Or something that seems in between.

There is no awakening moment, only perhaps a memory of such a labeled, interpreted experience: the memory, as everything, is happening now. There are also plenty of unfolding stories that are about a gentle awakening and seeing...or not seeing, or trying to see. It doesn't matter. "You" can't get it "wrong". Whatever seems to be happening is exactly what must happen, and what should happen. It can be suffering, but it doesn't have to be. It doesn't matter at all whether the story is one of suffering or not. There is no one way, or correct way, only every way, which is one way, since everything that seems to be is one seamless whole. If loving others arises, love them. If not, try to love them anyway, because love is probably akin to recognising that others are not other at all...we are all the same thing.

Being a single mom or dad or part of a family or a hermit in a self-sustainable mountain retreat is simply what seems to be. Whatever the story of life is, that is the best possible story.
The identity that seems to be in some situation is truly not in it; what we are is what that identity arises in, and is free from it; the identity, environment and manifest reality is simply awareness expressed. The more it is relished, the less it is likely to be about suffering. The more it is accepted, the less likely it is to be uncomfortable. Bliss is more likely when the inherent miraculousness of reality itself is recognised. However, the outcome of the story doesn't matter because truly, there is no story; there is only this perfect, timeless, endless moment, consciousness, awareness, whatever you care to label it. It's all here now. The story of bliss and the story of suffering are equally valid, equally important, equally "right".

You ARE your true nature. This is your true nature. It's nothing different from this. The realisation that such is the case is the "ah ha" that people sometimes go on about. There may be disappointment that such a spontaneous realisation hasn't happened yet, or that buckling down and really getting serious and following the prescribed schedule of meditation and self-enquiry is the right thing to do...there's nothing wrong with feeling and thinking those things. The idea that nothing is as it seems, and the small shocks or big shocks around that...perfect. Wanting a romantic relationship...great. Wondering if a relationship would create more attachment...fantastic. Staying on your own, feeling noble...just fine. Trusting life, or doubting life, or focusing on thoughts, or believing that focusing on thoughts are creating certain realities...perfect. Achieving out-of-body awareness after much meditation and practice...wonderful. Questioning it all...fabulous. What you're looking for is what you are doing right now, whatever that is, even if it's a resistant thought.

YOU CAN'T GET IT WRONG. You're doing it. You've been doing it all along. You can't not do it. Your thoughts can't keep you from what you are. This is it, this is it, this is IT!


The beginning and the end of the story: in this case, the Woody Allen film Manhattan. Our family is going to New York for the summer and the film we thought the kids might like to see in preparation is Woody's cinematic love poem. The opening is clever, visually compelling and enticing; the end, a very sweet and deceptively simple exposé of both human vulnerability and the wisdom of unjaded youth. I'm really looking forward to seeing the whole film again with the kids! Enjoy.



12 comments:

Rhea said...

.. and so it is. Amen.

Muman said...

Great post ;-)

Anonymous said...

You crazy girl.
You crazy picture.
Enjoy NYC, capital of earth, best pizza.

Chris

Burma said...

Hi Suzanne--Coming to the States? I would like to buy your book and find it's not sold yet here in the States. Am wondering if you could mail a copy from NY and I could send cash to your NY address?

Also--this post says it all---so sweeping in scope---covering all possibilities--like air.

sean said...

I like the way you write about whatver it is you're writing about! Around here, it's more like something mysterious happened fairly recently in some dark backstreet (and I can't tell when, presumably because it happened, or didn't happen out of time), that, on the one hand sees me or 'me' as we must say now, sort of almost disappearing into some sort of er..grace quite regularly, and on the other hand feeling you know what, this(this job, that friend, my guitar playing ability etc) isn't really that bad. I still smoke though.

No One In Particular said...

Hi Rhea, thanks for the refreshingly brief and pointed commentary!

No One In Particular said...

Hi Muman, thanks.

No One In Particular said...

Hey Anonymous, looking forward to that Pizza!

No One In Particular said...

Hey Burma, it's out on Amazon absolutely everywhere pretty much. Even in the non-English speaking bits. Kindle as well now too.

No One In Particular said...

Hey Sean, strumming, smoking, quitting smoking...it's all there is Dude.

ian said...

Hello I like your photo it looks like your body is going TA DA.
Your art is a bit spooky.
Did the children enjoy the movie?
What you express is starting to sink in.
NEWYORK ART SO GOOD SAY IT TWICE.

No One In Particular said...

Hi Ian...it has already sunk. And thanks for the sweet comments.