Now is the time to cultivate a natural responsiveness to life. What does that mean? It means developing more comfort with an easy-going attitude that is your most uncontrived way of responding to the unfolding nature of your life. Your life unfolds with many opportunities and possibilities in every moment. No moment is ever the same as the last or the next. There is a unique configuration of possibilities in every moment that unfolds. To become able to perceive each moment as this unique configuration of possibilities, you need an experimental attitude, a sense that each and every step you take, no matter how big or small, will be a step in a direction for which you have enthusiasm.
An experimental attitude does not focus on protecting yourself from any perceived harm or challenge, but is an attitude that is willing to explore with a genuine sense of the most likely outcome to be something of value. You do not approach each moment trying to achieve something or to get somewhere, but instead encounter the moment’s possibilities and opportunities that arise. This is natural responsiveness. A natural responsiveness has the quality of a deeper notion of self-confidence and self-acceptance within it. You are who you are, and without trying to be someone else, and without trying to hide your true nature, relax into your authentic presence.

​Life is filled with ups and downs, things change all the time. This is the divine revelation of impermanence—of nothing remaining the same. It is the coming and the going of things in cycles upon cycles of expressions of life. You and everything are One Life--All That Is—an expression of impermanence as non-static perfection. In that state of perfection, your response is simple. It is to be who you are in that moment’s unfolding possibilities. This may seem like the removing of an old identity that is fixed and habitual in favor of revealing or allowing a deeper identity to shine through more clearly. Don’t allow the old stories, old concerns, old habits to dictate your response, instead allow the pure intrigue and enthusiasm of the moment to inspire you.
 
You tend to make a story seem particularly important when actually any story is only a momentary fixation on a version of reality. Anything that seems utterly important and significant is likely blinding you from seeing some of the possibilities the moment truly holds. These kinds of stories can generate a sense of responsibility,  or a contrived response. We are suggesting a much more spontaneous responsiveness, free of importance and significance not to trivialize the response, but to set it free from all holding patterns and fixations which get in the way.
 
A natural responsiveness to life is dependent on knowing that whatever comes up, you are able and willing to respond with confidence that your response is appropriate. This knowing is your inner security. You can feel secure in yourself and can stop seeking external means of verifying your security.
It is easy to get lost in thinking you need this or that to feel secure, when all you really need is the confidence in yourself that you will respond to any arising possibility as an opportunity to be your naturally responsive, uncontrived self.
 
We are not speaking of a passivity, or a reluctance to engage, but a true response to life as it unfolds rooted in a natural state of loving kindness. Once you realize that One Life is loving kindness, accepting what is unfolding while allowing a natural response to it, is like dancing joyfully while standing still simultaneously. Nothing is one-sided in a sense—everything is everything at once. Let One Life—the All That Is—have the responsibility, while you simply respond in the moment with such complete acceptance and confidence that your response becomes effortless.
 
How does a natural responsiveness allow for plans to be made, and for appointments to be kept? First, realize having a plan while continuing to embrace the mysterious outcome of every moment can arise from a knowing that spontaneity is not diminished just because there was a plan. If you try to take responsibility for everything that arises and effort to make every moment to be what you want it to be, you will get caught in a conundrum that will limit seeing the opportunities inherent in each moment. There is a balance to be discovered in which you can make plans and have appointments and still experience your most natural responsiveness to each and every moment. It requires simply removing the notion that the plan is more important than the moment’s unfolding. Having a plan still leads to an infinity of possible outcomes just as spontaneity always leads to an infinity of possible outcomes. A plan cannot limit you, only your attachments to that plan can limit you.
 
The moment, all that is in that moment, is what generates the outcome. A plan does not give you control of the outcome, it’s just a convention used to coordinate with others and with the world. If you are attached to your plan, you are probably insecure and lack confidence in your natural responsiveness. Most likely you believe that with greater control, you can protect yourself from difficult outcomes and insulate yourself from the possibilities that are unforeseen. This is a common but ineffective strategy. Just be who you are, let go of control and trust ever deeply that your most natural response to anything arising will be exactly what should be and lead to another mysterious moment filled with possibilities and opportunities, all the dynamic play of One Life .

Rely on your inner Light to guide you through the transition from Linear Reality to Non-Linear Reality. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that your experience is shifting from a linear perspective to a non-linear perspective. Reality is simply whatever is unfolding in the moment, and your perspective, your inner story about what reality is, was once constructed primarily from information that tended toward an organized, time sequential notion of one thing leading to another and then another. Now the story seems to have multiple beginnings and multiple endings, some of which don’t seem to exist in even the same lifetime with each other. It is a time of chaos, a time when you may not feel like who you have previously been, nor do you have a real sense of who you are becoming. If this is frightening for you, or de-stabilizing in some way, diving deep into the Light of Awareness, Presence, your Inner Light will assist you in seeing the magnificence of this time.

What Is Non-Linear Reality?
A non-linear perspective of reality requires  you to develop a new relationship with time, and realize that you only think you live in linear time, and that thinking influences your sense of reality as being linear. If you were to look at your experience of life right now, you would most likely organize your passage from birth to death on a linear path of time. If you became free of the linear nature of time as an organizing principle, you would look at your life with many different experiences arising in memory or intuition which may seem connected somehow, but also tend to seem randomly generated. Everyone has stories that flood their mind which lack any sort of chronology organizing them, and we suggest that only with effort do the stories line up according to a timeline. So, more of the natural experience of your mind is non-linear than linear. Recognizing this is enough to shift your sense of reality to align with a non-linear perspective.

You usually think and believe that you are moving from the past to the future, and are attached to thinking that this is one straight line--that there is just one direction of movement. However, if you could see both the past and the future simultaneously, you would see an infinite array of lines connecting lots of perceived pasts and possible futures all woven together in various patterns. Where you might call the present in this tapestry, is where you have determined to place your attention. Your attention lies is in the midst of the Perceived and the Possible, not in the center of “What Has Been” and “What Will Be” as somewhat fixed positions in a linear sequence of events. Whatever the present might be, it is completely ineffable. It only exists as the result of your choice to attend to it as something.

You are always evolving, never solid or permanent, and now you are letting go of organizing the nature of your reality according to linear principles. Time has necessarily become very fluid, and in this fluidity, very little seems to just line up in order from past to present to future. Time can flow into and out of linearly constructed experiences, and to some degree this movement is aligned with becoming free of previously assumed ideas of who you are as a being on a timeline.

There might seem to be a force driving your experience—or something might seem to be in charge of continually re-assembling your self identity. We would suggest that force is creativity. Creativity is the action taken guided both by inner vision, and the inner light which illuminates inner vision. Instead of your habituated self doing and redoing what has been done before, your creative self seeks and finds what is new and sews the newness together in ways not understood or realized previously. The result of diving deep into the perception of this stitched-together-non-linear-reality is greater and greater liberation.

Let go of using the analytical mind to describe reality in favor of accepting non-linear potentiality for everything and all that is. Allow any current habit of holding reality to conform to the expectations of linear time to fall away. Non-linear reality is becomes accepted first in the inner planes, illuminated by your Inner Light. If you are prepared for the new paradigm of experiencing life without a linear timeline dominating the experience, you are prepared for living non-linear reality.
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One Life Awareness calls you to simply let go of linear reality, allow and realize non-linear time experiences and non-linear reality as the sense of what is right here right now, and just be. Inner Light is your guide. Have confidence that the transition will be easy and valuable, and just live naturally. 

Still in the middle of the 2012 through 2025 “Cycle of Undoing”, the year 2020 continues much of the dynamic dismantling of culture and self that was prominent in 2019. However, as 2020 is past the midpoint of this cycle, there are likely to be at least a few glimpses of the new human/new world paradigm being generated.

Right now, your culture, dependent on shared values and connections, has a chasm in its middle, making the distance between people of differing belief systems seem greater than ever before. As this chasm continues to grow, there are new possibilities developing in its deepest regions.

Communication and Rapport
These are primarily possibilities for new forms of communication to develop, and greater understanding of the necessity of evolving and growing true rapport among all peoples. This could look like some new technology which allows greater sharing of the subtle and emotional content of communication, it could be a recognition of the value of old forms of communication, and an integration the old and the new. What seems to be missing in social media platform communication is the nuance of the feeling center’s voice. The feeling center, whether you call it the heart or anything else, has been partially missing as a contributor to most communication, with more and more people interacting via electronic devices and fewer and fewer people communicating in face-to-face exchanges.

This has caused a lack of empathetic connection and a loss of emotional information being shared. The chasm between people of differing belief systems is devoid of the neural, hormonal and electrical patterns which are the carriers of emotional information. Usually emotional information has been shared amongst all, now it seems to be shared only amongst those whose belief systems match, and only with a small bandwidth of understanding. You might think that all the violence and protest experienced most recently is an indication that a lot of emotional content is being expressed, yet we would say that this emotional energy is personal downloading of suffering and pain, and not the emotional energy that develops rapport.

​From our perspective, there is an evolutionary imperative at work here, and that is the imperative of new communication forms developing which foster greater rapport all over the planet. This development will be the emerging seed sown during much of the rest of the “Cycle of Undoing” (2012-2025). Once planetary rapport is established in some significant manner, during the “Cycle of Rapport” (2026-2039) it will be time for this rapport to extend into the galaxy. The focus of the following 13 year cycle (2040-2053) will be on the discovery of the worlds beyond the planet. This will be both for the adventure of the exploration, and for the necessity of expanding human colonization, connection, and influence, while also joining other beings to become a part of a larger federation of planets.

Super Heroes and Leaders
It is also from this chasm of separation that patterns for new archetypes emerge, and survival fears become assuaged by leaders who may at first seem unlikely heroes. Many of your movies of 2019 and 2020 and 2021 contain super-heroes and beings with special skills and “mutations.”  This is proof of the collective desire for new leadership archetypes to form. You want magic and integrity and super-human characteristics in your leaders as the old paradigm of leadership falls apart. New leaders will emerge in 2020 who may in some way seem to represent many of the fictional super-human heroes who will dominate the big movies of 2020.

For example, as the old archetype for President of the U.S. gets dismantled, a new archetype will advance, and this new archetype will have characteristics that have not been included in any other previous American president. A old paradigm leader who is autocratic and does not work with others will be no longer tolerated by the end of this cycle, and in 2020 many will awaken to the understanding that what might look like strength and power in leadership from one perspective, can be simultaneously deception and greed from another perspective. During 2020, those believing that strong leadership requires ruthlessness and a narrow focus will have their views challenged, as new leaders inspire rather than dominate.

Escapism
During any cycle in which there is a lot of pulling apart of old reliable paradigms, there is also a lot of escapism. In much of America, this has primarily taken the form of substance abuse, although there are many other forms of escapism being used by countless people. The common theme of this escapism is a desire to avoid the pain and suffering sensed in an entrenched view of separation and lack of rapport felt everywhere. There is a general fear that life is unfulfilling and a fear that it takes too much effort to survive. Many of you will want to give up and may feel exhausted at the thought of what it might take to build a new world.

Feeling exhausted is one of the clearest ways to recognize that something is unresolved within your being. If you are feeling exhausted, it's because energetically you are in a position of inner conflict and doing battle -- one thought against another against another against another. What becomes necessary is the unraveling those thoughts so that the inner conflict becomes basically dissolved. When the inner conflict becomes dissolved, you'll have an expansion in your awareness, and you'll feel a big sense of relief. Escapism will not be a likely choice if inner conflict is resolved.

Conflict: Inner and Outer
Resolving conflict cannot be forced or use contrived effort. Even though you might think effort is required to get something done, we would point out that effort is futile if there is no coherency of personal effort with an environment in support of that effort. In other words, effort that just pushes willfully cannot succeed. In this “Cycle of Undoing” anything contrived to create expected results through willful effort will meet willful undoing and conflict will likely arise. Conflicts that arise in 2020 as protests and aggressions tend to be driven by fear of letting go of what needs to be undone.

All the while, in this “Cycle of Undoing” it becomes clearer and clearer to everyone that what has been cannot continue. On many levels of experience and in many parts of the world, energy will start to move primarily away from what cannot continue. After several years of becoming clear as to what you do not want, you finally get glimpses of what you want in your reality. Once again, this all has to be effortless. So in some ways, this is about falling in love with your world again, even though there is conflict and a chasm between you and others, as you will be able at times to see beyond the fears that have arisen and view the Great Perfection of All That Is with a new clarity.

Fall In Love with Your World
Things get a little easier at the end of 2020 as the sacred collaboration you have with your world opens up a bit. A bridge may metaphorically be built across the chasm of separation by extraordinary people doing ordinary things, and by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Heroes are discovered everywhere. Being Present trumps escapism.
What may open up for you at the end of 2020 is an effortless responsiveness to all that you are, both internally and in the world. A new synchronization is taking place creating coherency between what lies deep within you as your knowing, and what you intuitively understand as the deep machinations of the world. This is a recalibration of self and world focused on the release of struggle and the yearning for rapport.

Your world can no longer be your enemy, and believing that you have to conquer in order to create what you want will no longer be a viable life strategy. You will see more evidence that really everyone wants the same thing: love. 2020 is when you are reminded that there is just One Life, and everything is about feeling loved, feeling fulfillment, feeling comfort, ease, grace, all of those things. This is the path of One Life Awareness. Be willing to listen, be willing to change, and allow this willingness to be love that changes the world.

​Let 2020 be your year of awakening to One Life Awareness. Experience the wonder of living life in a “Cycle of Undoing.” Trust what unfolds for you, and have confidence in whatever glimpses you have of the grander whole, the Great Perfection that Simply Is. Let your light shine and simply feel loved. It is always actually quite easy if you are willing to just let go.
 

An evolutionary development of rapport
Rapport develops as an evolutionary result of more and more beings encountering their natural state of One Life Awareness. Rapport is an experience of understanding and empathy for others, and facilitates communication. From our perspective, rapport occurs only when equanimity prevails.

​As challenging events unfold in the world, the development of rapport becomes necessary as a means of acknowledging the connectedness of all life. The realization that it will require all of you to contribute your unique perspective to ultimately overcome the political, economic, and climatic challenges ahead is also essential. Many of you want to turn and run, to hide from the challenges, as a result of feeling alone and powerless. Others of you are seeking change, yet have no sense of how to promote the change you seek. Yet we would say, inspiration, awareness, an awakening to One Life, leading to a realization of global rapport, is underway and you will recognize it as your deep knowing reveals this to you.

Your deep knowing, your instinctive intuitive center, may have had a hard time lately as it has been triggered by the non-specific collective anxiety that permeates your world. In the course of the development of global rapport, the anxiety felt by the displaced, the forgotten and all who have lost their way somehow, can penetrate any barrier you attempt to use as protection. At the same time, you can access all the greatest avatars, realized beings, and Bodhisattvas who exist on this planet right now, whose compassion and wisdom are always available to you. As empathic barriers dissolve, all of One Life, all the colors of the rainbow, can be experienced and understood as One Life unfolding as it must.

Become more aware of who you are and the nature of your influence and inspirational qualities. The world is not dividing into leaders and followers. Hierarchy is dissolving into holarchy and all of you are becoming sacred collaborators, equal aspects of One Life Awareness. Rapport is not developing just among your closest family members, or your community, or even the globe. It is the natural outcome of more and more beings, everywhere and anywhere becoming truly a part of each other, alive in the totality of All That Is.

In this process of developing rapport, you may feel as if you have several emotions, sometimes seeming contradictory, interwoven much of the time. This is actually an indication of non-attachment. Feeling one very singular emotion is usually the sign that you have determined, usually unconsciously, that emotion to be the “correct” one and most likely have an elaborate story convincing you to maintain that stance.

If you can stay open to many emotions simultaneously running their course through you, in your very open field of awareness, your experience and consciousness will remind you of your unlimited capacity to know that each moment is not only eternal, but also unlimited in its scope. After all, each moment is All That Is.

You will see many instructions for how to “build rapport” which include remembering to find common ground and shared experience, as well as to use good communication skills and be empathic. Those are good reminders but are unnecessary. Rapport is a natural human characteristic. It is a bit more like letting go of beliefs that have gotten in the way of this knowing and to simply continue relaxing into One Life Awareness than to attempt to “build” something.

So trust that Rapport effortlessly reveals itself to you. Have confidence that you are One Life, and All That Is unfolds before you in an unhindered and ultimately wonderful way. The evolutionary development of Rapport is naturally everywhere and in every moment. And in that moment, that magnificent moment, you are who you really are.

We would like to dive deep into a very common trope: “Thoughts are things that create your reality.”
You will find this notion stated in much of the self-help and abundance-creating information you come across. Usually in this schema, since thoughts are things that have the power to create reality, all you have to do is manage your thoughts, and you magically get the “reality” or more precisely, the experiences you want. That all sounds quite logical and very simple. The problem is, whenever you try to manage or control your thoughts, they seem to run even more fiercely away from you. We suggest that any thought, controlled, managed, or contrived, therefore not arising naturally, has no power to create reality. The managed thought arises out of fear. The fear that if you think something you deem to be negative, you will have a negative experience. A thought that arises as one thing, and is forced to assume the guise of another thing, actually becomes the beginning of a usually quite elaborate story. It is easy to get lost inside of these kinds of stories.
On the other side of the idea that thoughts create reality is the awareness that “thoughts are nothing—insubstantial, have no place in the creation of reality at all”—it is all One Life unfolding.
Both and neither considerations are entirely true.
But what does that mean for how you go about living your life? Of course, it feels better if you are in a positive thinking habit. A negative one is just self-undoing. But wait! Self-undoing? That is the point ultimately isn’t it? To undo the self so elaborately created over lifetimes of experience? To eliminate the elaborate stories you tell yourself to identify who you are?
From our perspective, you are always the creator and the created simultaneously and seamlessly. The moment you identify with one position, you limit the possibilities afforded by the other position. You can easily get fixed in one viewpoint and then you are engaged in maintaining that viewpoint, unable to see anything else clearly. The only choice is to remain impartial in the face of anything that seems positive or negative, and not identify with either. Thoughts then rise and fall, without needing to be controlled.
Thoughts have no power of their own. Only your investment in them can make them seem powerful. If you think a thought is something or is nothing, or is anything what so ever, you are assigning characteristics to that thought and its “thingness” seems then to take on form.
Once a thought seems to take form, it becomes fixed in time and space. Whatever characteristics have been associated with that thought are elaborated upon until that thought attains the guise of reality. It is however, just a thought, even though the edges that are formed around it with ideas and descriptions create an illusion that can be quite convincing.
Thoughts naturally appear and disappear in vast emptiness. When you try to manage them, they can easily become reified. They seem important and separate from what is simply One Life Awareness unfolding. Let go of trying to manage your thoughts, and attempting to bend them to your will. Stop grasping on to the “good ones” in hopes they will last and bring good fortune—stop pushing away the “bad ones” you fear will bring you difficulty. The thoughts you grasp and the thoughts you push away are not creating your reality, it is the deep perfect still space within that creates and is created in every moment in equanimity, that simply is reality. The grasping and the pushing away have no real influence on your experience, therefore, your reality. With deeper understanding you can see how fruitless it is to believe you can control your thoughts, or force yourself to think a certain way.
Test this for yourself. Notice that thoughts come and go on their own if you let them. Just be with them, and just be without them, with no preference whatsoever, and you will find freedom, liberation, from the burden of trying to manage and control thoughts. Find the freedom that allows thoughts to appear and disappear and your experience, your reality, will mirror the spaciousness and liberation of One Life Awareness.

​All of you have a view of your reality based upon your beliefs about the nature of reality, and hence the nature of mind. These beliefs are stories that are organized and interdependent, generally radiating from a core belief that is central to your worldview. How you see the world and how you understand the way the world works for you is your belief system—influencing your thinking, your doing and your perceiving. You might call it your philosophy of life, you might see your belief system as your religion, or you might not be aware of any underlying ideology or mindset that operates beneath the surface, guiding you on your life’s journey.
Yet, everyone has a belief system, comprised of strongly held convictions or beliefs which are interconnected and usually coherent. We say that these beliefs are stories because there is no objectivity inherent in a belief—your beliefs are always very personal. Most of you think your belief system is rational because it makes sense to you, but it may not make any sense to someone else. Your belief system can be very fixed or very flexible, and any changes that occur in any part of the system compel the whole system to rearrange itself.
Your core beliefs emanate from your core—the deep intuitive center of your being. This is where the nature of your reality is assembled and maintained. Generally, these beliefs become backed up by your perception of your experience. If your core belief is that life is difficult, you will likely experience a lot of difficulty in your life, or least life will appear to you to be full of difficulties. You experience your life through your perceptions which are uniquely yours, but also carry much commonality with others.
You are most comfortable when you are acting consistent with your belief system. If you find yourself acting in a way that does not comport with your core beliefs, at the center of your belief system, you will likely struggle and suffer. Until you resolve the incoherency, until you shift the belief or shift your behavior, life can seem quite untenable.
Acting in a way that is inconsistent with your core beliefs occurs when your ego is in charge of your actions. When the part of you we call the political self is desperate for love or attention, you may find yourself doing things that the deep core of you would not really sanction. This is common behavior, as everyone feels unloved from time to time. And everyone sees their reality in shambles from time to time. It is all part of being human. There are times of knowing without a doubt, the Great Perfection of All That Is, and there are times of doubting that. The doubting times are best handled remembering that somewhere, deep inside, you know you are absolutely loved, and that everyone else is loved, too. This is the knowing, or the deep recognition of One Life Awareness.
We would say that right now, many of you are struggling with your view of the world around you and its inconsistency with what you believe, and perhaps are feeling pressure to examine your beliefs and rewrite some of the stories you have been telling yourself about your world.
This could be in regard to relationships, politics, spirituality, creativity, really anything you have a strong belief around. Whatever you might be consciously or even unconsciously feeling, knowing or believing about your world right now, it has most likely been challenged in some way lately.
These challenges can activate lots of questions. Questions like: How can you reconcile a belief in the Great Perfection of All That Is, that everything is as it must be, when you look around and see violence and suffering everywhere? How can you continue to believe that love is everywhere in the midst of feeling outrage at the senseless way the planet is treated? How do you live in a world of duality while deeply knowing that there is just One Life?
The answers may at first seem as if they must be complex and abstruse. However, we would say the answer exists in the center of the question. You continue to act in alignment with your core belief that love is at the center of All That Is. You continue to have confidence in the Great Perfection. You continue to focus on who you are as the light that you are, and you allow One Life Awareness to simply unfold.
Yes, there is separation and duality, you experience duality all the time. Everything and anything you try to communicate necessarily requires an investment in separation. You can't talk about light without implying darkness exists. You can talk about right, without implying wrong exists. Yet we would say if you really dive deep, you'll also be able to sense from your core, your intuitive center, that there is another “not-thing” that is not dual.  It encompasses everything and nothing simultaneously. You cannot even talk about “it”, but you can feel “it” or intuit “it” or understand “it” or know “it” in some way as distinguishable from the world of duality.
You can't describe “it.” You can't give “it” a position. You can't identify “it” with labels and/or seeing “it” in the time and space continuum. You can just assume that there is this completely indescribable, absolutely unsubstantial everything and nothing simultaneously. The temptation is to be fixated on duality or fixated on getting out of duality, although neither strategy will bring you freedom. It’s this mysterious understanding or sense of knowing, this One Life Awareness as we call “it” that points you seemingly somewhere, which is paradoxically everywhere and nowhere, and frees you, even for a nano second, from the experience of duality.
It is about allowing the stories you tell yourself about the nature of reality to be the truth and not the truth simultaneously. It is about the nature of mind, not as something that is fixed and material, but as consciousness. All thoughts, even heavy and seemingly negative ones have the essence of clarity within them. Consciousness is spacious, and its fundamental nature is pure, so even dark clouds pass through the spaciousness of consciousness and never alter the essential nature of consciousness. Meaning that your core knowing, intuitive understanding, of the essential love and diamond like clarity that may at times seem to be shrouded by doubt and difficulty, is always Great Perfection, or One Life Awareness unfolding.
Whenever you find yourself in a dilemma, when it seems like what is occurring in your reality is not what you “want to create,” remind yourself that what exists ultimately is love at your core. Concepts may seem to obscure the pure essential light of your consciousness from time to time, but the light and love never cease, and furthermore are never afflicted by any momentary obscuration.
In challenging times, core beliefs of the pure nature of mind/consciousness are challenged as doubt and inconsistency seem greater than coherency. Let the stories you tell yourself about the nature of reality and the nature of mind simply assist you in being who you truly are: a compassionate, loving, kind, being driven by One Life Awareness. Remembering always that this is who you are, and acting with this knowing in the best way you can is all that is ever asked of you. You might even ask yourself from time to time, “if I knew without a doubt that I was loved, and that I am nothing but love, what would I say and do?” Then choose to do your best, underwriting your actions with One Life Awareness, and your essential intuitive knowing of all of this will set you free.

​Points of View

Notice the graphic:
Are the windows opening or closing? 
Is it sunrise or sunset?
Is the glass half empty or half full?
It depends on your point of view.

​THE TUTORIAL
 
Whenever we are speaking about One Life Awareness, we are speaking in some ways about that particular point of view, and yet we like to be absolutely clear that a particular point of view is a limitation. What we're really talking about is all points of view simultaneously interacting with each other in the grand display of phenomena which is not One Life Awareness but is life.
 
The Buddhists will often talk about the pure view and from our perspective, it is helpful guidance to find a path, to find a perspective that may be of great value to you. And yet we would suggest that you cultivate many points of view; because with more points of view you have more information about the nature of reality. You have the opportunity to see things from many different perspectives and many different sides. And it loosens your attachment to whatever point of view may become your favorite. If you find that you have a favorite point of view, we would say you found the nature of your natural mechanism for limiting your perception of life. You found the way that you draw boundaries around things, because your point of view necessarily means that another's point of view is outside of your point of view. It might interact and overlap here and there, but it is never going to be your point of view. But, if you have multiple point points of view, you have multiple ways to explore and experiment with the nature of your sense of reality. It is all of these points of view that construct your reality, and you are processing millions of points of view in every moment. So why limit yourself to what you perceive is your own point of view, or what you might think is the pure point of view? That view is just an opinion. Be an artist in your life, as artist has to take many points of view in order to understand the nature of an object or person that they might be painting or sculpting. An artist has to incorporate more than just one position in order to get a full representation that becomes their art. Even non-representational art requires many points of view to produce. We are using this as an example, wishing to suggest to you that you really are the artist that is generating the picture of your life. Inform it from many angles, from many perspectives. Let them all naturally weave together and have the biggest view possible. It is from that enormously open and free view that you will find who and what you really are, which is nothing but One Life, One Life Awareness.

​We look out into the world as it appears at this time, and there seems to be a lot of confusion over what is truth and what is not truth. Can all things be both true and not true? How can you understand “what is” if truth is relative and unreliable?
We suggest that to understand the nature of truth, you must first understand the nature of reality. While philosophers and teachers of all sorts have espoused many differing understandings of the nature of reality, all that matters is your perception of reality. It doesn’t matter if you can describe your notion of reality, it doesn’t matter if you cannot describe your notion of reality. Whatever might be real for you contains, or in a way simply is, everything that you perceive. Reality is not a thing, it is more like a condition, something like a state of being, within which all phenomena arises and disperses, perceived by the perceiver in whatever way the perceiver perceives.
Experience might be another name for reality. What exists for you as reality is mostly your experience of reality, with experience having no requirements. Any sort of experience is sufficient. This would necessarily include all thoughts, all feelings, all, that in any way is life. Reality is everything—imagined and illusory as well as tangible and seemingly substantial.
Then what is truth? We suggest that truth for any individual is a particular quality of reality—a particular frequency of reality that is contrary to non-truth, non-truth being what doesn’t feel right, what lacks integrity, what is flawed in some way. Truth is your label for whatever you believe. And you identify truth when you see it because you have a predisposition to believe truth based on your experience and evaluation of reality.
You have always had a deep understanding and knowing of truth, it has always fit into your notion of reality even if you have never contemplated any of this previously. Now, however, as the world seems to be divided as to what is true, it is especially poignant to recognize that your truth may not be anyone else’s truth. Also, to discover that truth is not a constant, or permanent, or absolute even though it might seem that life would be so much simpler if it were.
As someone who has traveled the path of paradox, discovered and uncovered One Life Awareness, you will probably align your sense of truth with deep, perhaps profound, connectedness and presence and innate perfection. Swimming through the ocean of everything that is, you will always be guided by your own particularly wise knowing of your truth. You experience both truth and untruth, generally ascribing the untruth label to whatever you do not believe, whatever you perceive to be disconnected, perhaps imperfect, and see truth in everything you believe is in alignment with you.
It all sounds quite simple—everyone has their own truth as a slice of their reality. Reality is everything, and your truth is the part of reality which is believable, reliable, and stable for you, and however else you which to define it, your truth is yours.
A struggle begins when anyone demands consensus around truth or insists that something is right and therefore something else is wrong. Whenever there is a right or wrong in a situation, the real issue at hand is truth, and which truth is the “real” truth. With the understanding that reality is subjective, a perceiver perceiving, requiring one truth that everyone believes in, agrees to and abides by simply will not work. When spoken in the abstract, one and only one truth seems irrational, yet in daily life the assumption is made that there is one truth and that it is absolute and permanent. An assumption of an objective truth is common yet logically, truth cannot be objective. Truth is unreliable and ineffable. Why? Because it is a part of a reality, a part of your individual perceived experience, determined by your ideas and thoughts which cannot exist independently from you, the perceiver of your reality.
The current collective experience of truth and untruth at all levels of governments and societies, all over the world, may actually be in service to becoming aware of truth and untruth as just concepts without any real essence. Remembering that truth cannot exist without the presence of untruth, and that it is all in the eye of the beholder frees you from the confusion generated by seeking the “one and only truth”.  What happens when this search is abandoned is that the argument over who is telling the truth and who is lying is over. When the argument ceases, and consensus around truth is found to be not just impossible, but unnecessary, the heart opens and One Life Awareness unfolds.
If you cling to the search for the one and only truth, you will be on a mission of evaluating everyone and everything according to whether they align with your changing definition of truth, because even “your” truth is impermanent.  And you will be constantly evaluating yourself.
Peace, from our perspective, is the end of evaluation as the center of the experience of reality. Without a constant evaluation of “what is” you experience life from an open heart of allowance and unconditional love. If you let go of labeling and rating everyone and everything, reality, operating as a condition of life, becomes a joyous condition.
We are One Life. All and everything is simply One Life unfolding. The only thing that separates you from another is any thought which you hold to be true, and seek to confirm as true. If all truths are truths for someone, then all truths are true. Even if they might seem different. Releasing your attachment to your idea of truth as objective and absolute is necessary to allow reality, your experience, to become clearly the perfection of One Life unfolding. Reality can be nothing other than perfection, a non-static experience of One Life—All That Is. If you argue with reality, you experience difficulty. If you hold on to a slice of reality, hold on to your truth, for example, you create ideas about nontruth which immediately invoke separation.
So what is truth and untruth? Whatever you believe it is. All things are both true and not true, depending on who is looking at them and what that individual is perceiving as reality in that moment. The key is to stop seeking the truth and instead to be the truth you seek.  
When you let go of holding on to what you believe is right, or true, when true and untrue become nothing special, your thoughts and ideas no longer intrigue you, therefore no longer distract you from the perfection beyond what the mind can describe or figure out. Reality becomes joy and joy becomes reality.
It doesn’t really matter who is telling the truth, and who is lying. Those are just thoughts. The thoughts perpetuate the idea of a you and your truth, of a right and a wrong. Truth and untruth only exist as ideas, and ideas which are liberated come and go easily. In this freedom, you can enjoy the drama of the stories of truth and untruth, not just the ones you think belong to the world, but also the ones you believe are yours. Stop believing they are important and necessary, but go ahead and enjoy the richness of the magnificent play of duality. It is all One Life unfolding. Truth and untruth are just words without meaning until you make them into something else. Let them be just words, keep it simple, love and be loved, remember who you are without all the labels, and just be.

Understanding the nature of doubt begins with seeing how doubt is associated with an attachment to a desired outcome or an attachment to a sense of forward movement in life.
Most of you seem to need to feel as if you are moving forward, evolving, growing, becoming more than you believe you currently are. It doesn’t really matter what part of your experience this sense of “forward” refers to; as long as there is at least one area of life seeming to improve and not fall behind, it seems to validate that life as moving forward.
If you are a contemplative person, you might be seeking a sense of gaining awareness and having deeper meditations. If you are more outwardly driven, you are likely to have career aims and monetary goals and seek forward movement with external measures. Most of you entertain both internal and external gauges, unknowingly always calculating where you are according to where you last evaluated yourself.
The moment you find yourself in evaluation mode, it is the moment you are entertaining doubt. We suggest that doubt, a kind of skepticism, or an inability to trust the moment, emerges out of evaluation which takes place because of an attachment to “moving forward” or achieving a desired outcome.
This attachment to moving forward is discomfort with the now, or at the very least, relies on a belief that staying in one place would cause you to feel as if you were stuck. Attaching to an outcome is just defining the forward movement more specifically.
This kind of thinking is common in the current culture. Most everyone wants everything to improve, to renew, to be great. However, what is covertly expressed in that sentiment is discontentment with whatever is occurring right now. There is a misunderstanding that contentment with right here and now could mean nothing should change, or that discontentment might imply that nothing can remain the same. Recognize that whatever is next is generally an unfolding and elaboration upon what is right now. Expecting what is next to be radically different from what is occurring right now, while of course possible, is generally an indication of the degree of displeasure with the present moment.
So where do doubts come in? Whatever you might contemplate, you will most likely evaluate. Whatever you evaluate, you will most likely want to improve. Whatever you want to improve, you most likely believe to be lacking in some way, and whatever you believe to be inferior somehow, you are most likely to doubt. You might doubt whether a peaceful experience of life can continue, or whether it's real or just some kind of figment of your imagination, or some kind of illusion. If your current experience is painful, you might doubt that it will ever end or change or lighten up in some fashion. Your doubts are always ready to arise in any moment that you think you are in charge of change. At any moment you think you can make things happen or not happen in your life, you will entertain doubt.
Experientially for most people, doubts seem to arise out of the blue. You are sitting in a in a beautiful place, feeling peaceful, happy and loved, and then suddenly a doubt, thoughts and misgivings show up. You think the ax is going to fall, the world will end, whatever doom and gloom you come up with, it is mistrust of the most likely natural unfolding of the now into what is next. The doubt stems from real knowing that all things are impermanent, but gets distorted into suspicion or doubt because of your attachment to “improvement” and only “good” outcomes. It takes courage to simply allow what is next to unfold. Culturally speaking, it is seemingly impossible to allow what is next—you have been taught to “seize” the moment, to “create your reality” and to move forward at all costs.
If you are feeling pain, doubts arise about whether the pain will subside, so the very notion that the next moment naturally unfolds from the now might seem to indicate that you will always be in pain. The doubt is an uncertainty and mistrust of life. We might even say that doubt is uncertainty posing as certainty if it is believed to be true.
The radical eradication of doubt succeeds only when all thoughts lose their power to enchant you. So while you were busy trying to distinguish doubt from other thoughts, you were actually making doubt really important amongst all your thoughts. All thoughts are the same. There are no good thoughts and no bad thoughts, they are all insubstantial, there’s nothing to them.
Now this is antithetical to many teachings that attempt to help you to hold on to the good thoughts and create your reality from them, and eliminate the doubts so you don’t create any reality from them. However, from our perspective, that keeps you in evaluation mode all the time. You are only adding to the cacophony of the thoughts in the mind if you are evaluating all of them and ranking them according to which ones will work and which ones will not work. We simply suggest that if they seem to arise from nowhere they will also seem to depart to nowhere, and its nowhere that is the true Now Here.
All doubt is thought, all thought is seemingly profound and real, but not to be believed or evaluated. Be fluid, you have the capacity to not believe anything you think, and to not make any thoughts important. It’s just allowing thoughts to rise and fall and to let those thoughts just become nothing. This is a profound time for diving deep into practices that will free you from thoughts which have no bearing ultimately on who you are. Life just gets easier and easier and easier, and becomes simple, peaceful, and happy.
Start to notice if you think you should be improving or if you think things should get better, or if you are telling yourself any story that encourages an attachment to forward movement or outcome. The deeper truth is that there is no forward movement that is absolute, the starting point and the ending point of life are one and the same, and there really only is right here, right now.