ACTION VERSUS REACTION: HOW TO STAY CENTERED IN THESE TIMES OF SO MUCH NEGATIVITY.

 

How does the spiritual student stay neutral in the presence of duality?   That is a question all serious spiritual students are asking in the presence of world events at this time.  “Be in the world, but not of it” is how the Master Jesus presented this goal.

How do I see and experience living in  third dimensional energy  (duality and separation)  without entering  into it?

As students of Truth, we are taught to stay neutral and interpret outer appearances from the higher vantage of truth  rather than  from judgment and criticism which is always based in three dimensional beliefs and concepts.  Whatever negative event, circumstance, or person  I become aware of, I call to mind that it is neither good nor bad because everything  is the  manifestation of some aspect of Source.  What we behold with our human eyes, is a mind interpretation; the material sense of the appearance  as it is being interpreted through the state of consciousness of the collective or individual. The interpretations of an unenlightened consciousness are  based in duality and separation (third dimensional energy). When we see a tree, we are seeing a mind concept of the perfect spiritual idea of  tree and we all see the same thing because there is only one mind.

This does not mean we simply ignore gross injustices  simply bury our heads in the sand , or stand on a soap box shouting that everything is an illusion.  It means we stay centered in the highest  truth we know while doing what needs to be done, if anything. There will be times when we may have to speak firmly, or take forceful stand, but we do it  from a level of unconditional love, one that realizes that the person, place, or thing we are dealing with is in and of Source/God- -in reality a Divine Idea  no matter appearances. There are  times when the highest action is no action at all but to simply rest in truth regardless of the outer appearances.

Moving into a consciousness of non-duality does not eliminate  joy, for joy is the natural and harmonious expression of alignment with what is real.   Our reactions are good measure of our state of consciousness.  When we react negatively to certain persons, places, or things even in small measure,  it tells us that we still carry a judgment of some sort;  concepts regarding the rightness or wrongness of something (duality).  This is where we ask ourselves; “What am I believing that is making me feel this way?  In the light of what I know to be truth, is it correct?”  This is a process, and doesn’t happen overnight or from just reading a book.  Mankind has been conditioned to believe that everything is black or white and the mind must be retrained to see things differently.

Good appearances are just as illusory as bad appearances, and once we learn to interpret all appearances as  material, mind formed concepts of a Divine Idea, it all becomes easier to view the issues of the world without total emersion in them. We no longer experience joy simply because something or some experience fulfills our concept of good or suffer when it doesn’t.  If I believe that my joy is determined by some concept of what is good and what  is not, then my joy will come and go- (duality). If my joy is the expression of my conscious realization of Oneness with Source then it will be permanent and manifest in those forms that represent fullness to me which may not be the same as that which would bring joy to my neighbor.   Source manifesting Itself as me, is complete and whole.  Min will interpret this according to the degree of my consciousness of this.

We are permitted preferences.  It is our Divine right as free will beings to make choices that express our individuality.  Through enlightenment our choices  become increasingly based in truth and we begin to experience non-judgment and  unconditional love for and from the world.

2-21-2009