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Author: Stuart Wilde
Twenty-five thousand people were attracted to my spiritual teacher
over the few years that he taught, and at each level of progress, the
teachings and disciplines got harder and harder.
After a period of
about three years, almost everyone had dropped out; near the end, there
were only 72 people left – one of which was yours truly. Eventually
there were only three of us left. It was that tough.
The
disciplines imposed by our teacher were difficult because they required
you to be extremely spontaneous. So my teacher would phone and say,
“There is a meeting next Wednesday evening in southern Spain at seven
o’clock. Be there!”
There was no question of: could you afford the
travel expenses, get the time off work, were you happy with the idea,
or was it convenient for you? It was a matter of “be there”! If you were
even one minute late for a meeting, you got tossed out forever. There
were no ifs, buts, or maybes; we were cut no slack.
I remember a
session that was held in California, at Big Sur. The meeting was called
for six in the morning. A number of us flew from London, including two
South African friends of mine. We got to the hotel the day before and
checked in. My pals were up early next morning and decided to go for a
little walk before the meeting started. They arrived back at the meeting
room at three minutes past six.
They were not allowed to enter –
in spite of the fact that they had flown all the way from London. That
was the last I saw of them – on that particular path anyway.
What I
learned from those experiences was that spiritual growth and the
getting of a higher awareness is not necessarily convenient. That’s why
most never make it. They want to reach a higher place from within the
considerations of the ego and its limited consciousness – which often
defines life into self-righteous, cozy little boxes, creating a
self-indulgent energy that has the potential of a slug in a puddle.
The ego likes little boxes it is familiar with. But when considering
an infinite consciousness, the first thing you have to do is burn the
boxes. Lao-Tzu talks about it in the first few lines of the Tao Te Ching
– when talking about the Infinite Self, the Christ consciousness, the
God Force, the Tao, the Buddhahood, whatever you care to call it – is
that it runs through all things, its everywhere, so it has no
definitions.
Only the ego needs to define, discriminate, quantify,
and measure things in order to create an edge or framework to life so
it can feel secure and comfortable with what little it knows and
comprehends. But the eternity of the grace of God flows through the life
force of plants, trees, animals, humans, and all things. It doesn’t
have a boundary or definition.
You can define the position of a
tree because there is a definite space around the tree where it is not.
Here’s the tree, and there’s the space around it where it is not. But
the God Force is omnipresent, meaning it’s everywhere, it can’t be
defined. It is the “nameless” from which everything flows. If the God
Force is omnipresent, it must also be God, because God is everywhere.
The God Force and God must be one and the same.
You can work it
out. There is a law in physics that states that no two particles can
occupy the same space.
So, if the God Forces is everywhere, and God (He,
She, or It) is everywhere, then God must be the God Force, and the God
Force must be God – because you can’t have a particle of God existing in
the same place as a particle of God Force.
Either you’d have to
have a particle of God Force and a particle of God side-by-side, and
then both of them are not omnipresent, or they would have to be
superimposed upon each other, which is not possible.
So the God Force
and God are one and the same.
The act of defining life limits your
perception of it. In the Tao, nothing is considered high or low, short
or long. One could say, a journey is long because it takes you four
hours to drive from A to B, but it’s not long when compared to sending a
satellite to Mars. And that isn’t long compared to the distance from
earth to the Andromeda galaxy.
Tossing our definitions of high,
low, good, and bad is the first step towards grasping the indefinable
nature of the Infinite Self. This can be a little unnerving for the ego
because it likes the idea of my body, my people, my house, my car; I am
here, and I’m not everywhere else. Of course, that is true in a strict
physical sense, but in the realm of consciousness, your energy is bigger
that mere concepts of my body, my life, my car.
As you expand
your heart and go past your resistance to letting go, you comprehend
yourself as an omnipresent, eternal being – one that dwells in a
multidimensional state, timeless and immortal. Meaning, you existed
before you came to the earth plane, you exist now in a physical form,
and you will exist after you leave the earth place – after your body
quits in the earth place.
The idea of the Infinite Self is
beautiful, but it’s hard for the ego and the personality to grasp. If I
say to you, “Think about Infinity,” you can try to imagine something
going on forever. But if I ask what does infinity feel like, you will
probably not have a precise feeling you can identify with. You might
say, “Oh, yes, Stu, I think I know what infinity is like.” But thinking
you know is only the first run on the ladder.
First you sell the ego-personality the idea as an intellectual
principle. Then through discipline, meditation, opening yourself up,
moving beyond fear – through coming to a more compassionate
understanding of this planet – you finally comprehend the Infinite Self
as feeling. Then you’ll be able to say, “Yep, I feel eternal, immortal,
and infinite. I feel I am everywhere and nowhere, I dwell in the realm
of spirit.”
Next, it’s important to grasp, early on, that
spiritual growth is not necessarily convenient or comfortable.
This is
not only because you have to discard an awful lot of your beliefs and
definitions – things you hold sacrosanct – but also because your can’t
get to the Infinite Self without traveling back through the
psychological and metaphysical reality of who you are and the memories
of what you have done in this lifetime.
Looking at yourself can be
uncomfortable. It’s difficult to learn to control the ego and
discipline the mind without it reacting. However, it’s a vital part of
the journey, and you have to raise your energy gradually, over a period
of time.
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