The True Power Of Your Being

Weekly Message, February 11, 2006
The True Power Of Your Being
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on February 11, 2006. - TG.

Ishvara:

History shows that everything changes over time. Change seems to be the only permanent thing in existence. That is true in your life. You are constantly coping with change, letting go, taking in, letting go and taking in. It is a movement-through, a happening for each moment. It is important to be able to allow for change because change is part of what you are.

Your past pretty much interprets, projects and conditions how you are in the now, the moment. It is human nature to cling to the ideal, to hold on to memory, either favorable or unfavorable. However, when you begin to look at the impermanence of your past, you gain a different perspective. You can come to see your past as truly what was passing; you went through it, you gained experience from it, but in order to be current you keep moving on, you keep becoming.

Every experience can foster greater awareness; every experience can "pay." But to make every experience pay, you must be present with it. If you realize that things are impermanent, you can see how important it is to be present, to be with what-is, to be the observer and the participator simultaneously.

It is far too easy to get caught in the intellect, the conditioning. The conditioning says, "Life is this way, this is how it is, this is your lot in life." Yet awareness brings the realization that it is impermanent, it is changing. When you cling to the past or the present, your are holding yourself back. Life is that process of constantly letting go. Letting go means allowing and embracing--moment by moment--what is taking place. It is all right not to like what is taking place. But the more dislikes you accumulate, the more resistance and attachment can become problems in your life. The tendency arises to cling to, to hold on. Yet that cannot be done. You cannot hold on. You can't be who you were yesterday. You can only be who you are now. If you glamorize your past or if you are terrorized by your past, it makes no difference. It is already gone; it is impermanent.

I watch humans living as if their conditional mind, their consensus reality and beliefs, were permanent: "I have solidified in some way." But that is not true. There is an in-built impermanence. Change is a part of what you are as Life. You are changing all the time. You may have certain interpretations on that change, favorable or unfavorable, but it is change nonetheless; it is happening.

As you become more comfortable with embracing change you make great discoveries, because it is the change that reveals the true power of your being: the ability to access greater possibilities, to find greater connections, to expand in awareness, moment by moment.

So you embrace these things, you allow these things. You may even get around to inviting these things. What a novel idea! Invite impermanence, invite change, look forward to it. You surely won't get bored. There is a human need for predictability: to be able to predict where people are coming from, what they are about, how they might treat you or react to you. There is a certain comfort in that, and human beings throughout their history have pursued comfort and safety, sought to develop some sense of security. It has been genetic. Your cells desire to be secure, so the intellect has accommodated this by creating various concepts, various potentials, various possibilities to ensure your security, to have a sense of safety.

The mystery of Life is ongoing. The mystery of Life could not exist if things were stagnant. If things were permanent, the mystery of Life, indeed Life as you know it, would have ceased to exist.

Life involves learning to work with the changes that are taking place, to create a space within your awareness for connections, a space of allowing, a place where you actually can embrace the newness of things, the transformations. You can render a great service to those around you by seeing them new, by not holding to the past, not hanging on to what was, not taking things personally, but just seeing everything as impermanent. Your relationships, your experiences with others are in passing, a momentary glimpse of what a person is; just a moment, just a piece, a small particle. From this perspective, you can realize that it is ridiculous to try to decide who a person is on the basis of one moment of experience. It is ridiculous to make a judgment on anybody. It is ridiculous to hold anyone in any perspective, because everything is impermanent.


This message is part 1 of 4 parts and will continue with "Bringing Humanity To The Next Level," part 2 of 4; will follow with "What Is Permanent Is Knowing," part 3 of 4; and conclude with "The Blue Print Has Changed," part 4 of 4.


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