Collaborator

YOU ARE A SACRED COLLABORATOR with your world, with spirit, with other, with whatever momentarily seems to be separate from you. The relative nature of the world is an expression of the unlimited and infinite arisings of this sacred collaboration. You are not all alone creating everything you experience. You are instead a magnificent collaborator who moves from the position of being the creator to the position of being the created in less than a blink of an eye and without effort. Just as your breath is effortless and reliable, so is this oscillation between creating and being created. In truth, everything experienced is what it is and what it is not, blinking on and off in a sacred collaboration.

The nature of this sacred collaboration is cooperative, effortless, and respectful. You can collaborate with anyone and anything, yet you cannot name in any concrete manner what that “anyone” or “anything” actually is. Your sacred collaborator might be called by you Spirit, or God, or the divine, but the reality of whether that is accurate or not can never be known. It is part of the great mystery of life that you will only have an inkling of this sacred collaboration in moments when you are the least interested in defining or identifying it.

In the relative experience, you perceive things to be distinct from you, and co-create and conversely co-un-create all things, all the while, being co-created and co-un-created yourself. This is not to say that you are not whole as you are, nor to say that the world around you is incomplete. But, to remind you that as a human being functioning in the world, you are never completely independent. There is interdependency inherent in the sacred collaboration that is the relative world of duality.
How best to navigate in the world in this sacred collaboration? Acknowledge the mystery, the unknown in your sacred collaboration on your journey, and begin to experience an expanded relationship with who you are. You can allow much more understanding and acceptance into your experience if you can acknowledge that whatever might seem momentarily separate from you is actually collaborating with you in the creation of that experience. Life in duality becomes much more magnificent, and your practice can become one of acknowledgement, gratitude, and loving kindness. If unknown, mysterious, “Spirit” is a sacred collaborator, experience becomes an expression of that relationship. Your experience of life constantly reveals to you the nature of your participation in that experience, while also revealing precisely and exactly the counterpoint to that.

Take a look at your thoughts. It is easy to see in every thought, every judgment, every label ascribed to every action and idea, that inside of that thought lies its opposite, ready to challenge your initial opinion. This is how duality entices you to believe in it. It presents everything it is and everything it is not almost simultaneously. The collaboration becomes more obscure the more you hold on to your ideas. If you latch on to one side or the other you are stuck, but if you notice one side, then see the other instantaneously, the “belief” that you have it all figured out will give way to an uncertainty that is more appropriately “real”. Relaxing in this uncertainty refines your state of One Life awareness.

Letting go of what you think comprises reality, in favor of allowing this notion of it as always a collaboration with unknown and unknowable forces will liberate you from asking the question “why” which has no answers. It is quite easy to get all hung up wondering why something has happened, rather than accepting that whatever has happened is the result of an unknowable sacred collaboration. Your collaborator in the creation and un-creation is guidance—always giving you information about what is next, but never answering the question, “why?”.

We bring this idea of the sacred collaborator to enhance your capacity to live life vibrantly. Just be willing to experiment with your view of your life. The more flexible you are, the more energy flows and the less likely you are to get fixated on some pattern of thinking reflected outwardly as chaos in your life. Try on new ideas and concepts as a means of staying unfixed, open and free. Life is a moment-to-moment unfolding of all that is. Be willing to change and you become flowing with all that changes. Stay stuck in your concepts and you will find no answers, no peace, and likely feel more restrictions and limitations in your inner and outer experiences.

It is true that it takes a little courage to change, to trust and to give up control. But the courage needed is nothing compared to the resulting sense of freedom obtained from just changing your mind even in the smallest of ways. A shift of 1/8 of an inch in your thinking can change your whole world dramatically. Knowing you are in the flow and in a sacred collaboration in this life is a choice you can make right here and right now. It may mean letting go of what is familiar, what is routine; the thoughts you are so used to thinking may disappear if you make this choice to change. You might feel as if you have lost yourself, but it is an outdated self that is lost. You might feel as if you are out of control, and that is a good thing, even if it is a bit disconcerting. For when you are out of control, your sacred collaborator can guide you. Just allow yourself to acknowledge that there is only a transparent you in each moment that exists, and in every other moment there is another transparent you that arises. Your opportunity is to be all that you are, One Life, full, whole, complete, compassionate and loving in every moment. As a sacred collaborator in the experience of the relative world, remember it is a loving collaboration--so just be who you are and be loved as you are.

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