by A Gardner
Your Life, Not What you Thought!
We all get absorbed, as children, by the totally prevalent understanding that who we are, under the label of our names, is the bundle of ideas that we form about ourselves. The things our parents say or don't say, how our relatives and teachers percieve us, all these things get put together in our minds, we interpret them in our own unique ways, and they bundle together to seem to become a person who wears our name. There is so little to influence us to develop in any other way. We get absorbed into a certain way of thinking about ourselves and from there thinking about how everything works, including how that personal self needs to behave in order to survive and/or to make a success of their life. Then as adults, some of us begin to be able to see that maybe that doesn't really reflect the reality of what is going on! Maybe we hear things from people like Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti or any number of teachers that are out there. Or maybe we just notice that something is fishy about our whole way of looking at life, because it doesn't seem to accurately reflect our growing sense of what is really going on. We notice our own interpretive process maybe, or how we are creating our own experience. At these moments, we are being offered an opportunity to find out who we really are, and this seems to be equivalent to being offered entrance into a whole other life, one that has always existed, but is outside of all of our ideas about it. There seems to be a whole life that is going on if we stop interfering and let it Be, that is kind of opposite in a way from the life we thought we were living. Maybe we thought we were looking for God, or enlightenment, or whatever you want to call it. All the time that we thought that, and struggled with our inability to achieve that, God or enlightenment was right there, like a parallel lifetime, stalking us! Our busy day-to-day lives, if looked at from the vantage point of our personal bundle of ideas about who we are, can look like a rather problematic affair. But looked at another way, life is a big setup, with all the exactly right content, like just the right key to fit our unique personal lock, with no intention except to awaken us to our divine nature/true nature. Looked at in this way, whatever our problems/challenges are, they become perfect, just exactly as they are. We look beneath the surface and respect all of the content of our day-to-day lives as a constant invitation to clear out all that is interfering with our clear view of the real world around us, quite outside of the world we have created with our thinking.
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Building a Network of Awakening
This wideawakeliving.com website has been up since early 2003, but for those of you who have been on the mailing list, you may have noticed that I have not been very communicative. What may or may not be the good news is that I am experiencing a wave of creative and even distinctly technologically inclined energy directed at the website and the monthly newsletter. Who knows where these waves of energy come from! What seems to be happening is that I now have a wonderful new webhost called WebValence who are helping me make this newsletter as you now see it, and helping me learn to build and maintain a subscriber list without the tedious work of doing it all manually. We are now automated! I am not sure exactly what this is all leading to, perhaps nothing, but I am going forward and putting quite a lot of time into this. My best sense re what this is all about, is that the internet is providing a wonderful way for those of us who are either interested in or experiencing the awakening process to connect up with each other. So, take my writing for whatever it's worth, and if you are so moved, send along an invitation to a friend who might also be interested. In each newsletter I would like to offer a few links to people who are also a part of this online network of awakeners. This month I would like to make let you know about a website of quotes from Nasargadatta that I love. Click Here to go to it. As many of you know perfectly well, Nasargadatta was a householder sage in India who has been an inspiration to many, especially through his book, "I Am That". Each time you click "refresh" on your computer on this linked page, you get a new quote from the book. Sometimes the quotes just seem so perfect. Try it and see what you get! Namaste,
Alice
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