 The most important thing that you can do now is first to identify, and then to let go of your most precious illusion. What is your most precious illusion? From our perspective it is the illusion that you are here in an earth-life reality ultimately to get to another more blissful reality by any and all means--like becoming enlightened, being taken to another dimension, or simply dying. Perceiving you can separate human existence from a spiritual existence is an illusion. It’s not exactly that your perceived reality is illusory in the sense that it is a fantasy or unreal, but more that these perceptions of reality mislead you into believing you are a separate entity from the elements you perceive as creating your reality. The misconceptions that result from holding on to this notion of a self that is separate from the reality it exists within, lead to many different conclusions: one of which we would like to dispel at this time. This is the idea that you can escape your pain associated with being human by doing good deeds and getting rewarded for doing those deeds by an eternity in heaven, or an ascension that allows you to escape the worldly experience forever, or any other kind of rapturous removal from the planet. Not only do you need to let go of thinking you will someday be done with the penance of an earthly life, and finally be set spiritually free, never to return, but you also need to resolve the desire to escape. The desire to escape, even though it may feel like it comes from a place of wanting to go beyond this world, is in fact, always coming from a place of self-rejection. Many of the world’s religions and spiritual teachings have proposed the idea that no one really wants to be human, after all, being human is full of suffering. The life most desired is the life beyond life, so you must simply endure being human to get to the other side. This thinking takes you away from a deeper knowing of who you are as One Life Awareness, and lands you deeper in the illusion of a self that lives in a disconnected world. If you think a human life is a test, or a run through the gauntlet, look a little deeper. If you are describing your experience, your sense of life, in a way demands that life must be endured, you are negating the possibility that heaven and earth are one and the same place. You will always find it easier to see what is wrong with your life, than what is right with your life if you are just getting through it on your way to faraway bliss. Ultimately, you are rejecting yourself if your emphasis is to rush to become something other than what you are right here right now. The conclusion has to be that this moment, this now becoming the next now, is the only reality that exists and it does not exist separate from whatever you perceive is your existence. One Life Awareness is everything and all, right here right now, and has no predictions of a future, and no memories of a past. It has no exclusions and no inclusions. It just simply is. If you allow this sense of intuited wisdom, we call One Life Awareness, then it becomes easy to see that a misunderstanding of the nature of reality will always bring you to conclusions about life that do not serve you. It does not serve you to hold on to your escapism. It does not serve you to try to develop strategies that negate the human experience. It does not serve you to reject yourself and your world, seeking another seemingly “better” reality. Every human is walking a meandering path intersecting with all the other paths on all sorts of levels in all sorts of ways too complex to describe other than with a para-verbal-intuitive sense of it all, We are here to remind you that you can Be Here Now, in fact, it is the simplest thing you can do. Most of you know you can change your mind, change your thoughts, change your consciousness, and change your experience. There is no need for something external to push you forward, there is no separate external, no real “forward.” Awakening One Life Awareness is a cessation of resisting what you are experiencing in an illusory sense of reality so that you can enter the flow, the unfolding of One Life with the pure view that is unconditioned, uncontrived and without any narrative. In a sense, One Life Awareness is also the release from all attachment to objects, opinions, processes, and a defined self. The practices of meditation, compassion, acceptance, interdependence, and spaciousness of mind are tools of One Life Awareness, yet even these tools are unnecessary. Let go of thoughts that reinforce the notion that this life is not valuable or not real or insignificant, not to claim that is valuable, real and significant, but to just be fully present, aware, and here now as it is, and as you are. Have confidence in your deepest knowing, the understanding within you which you may not be able to articulate, but nonetheless know, and just feel as loved as you are. This is all and everything.
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