Heloisa to Piet, Rod and Maria
Piet, Rod and Maria,
Welcome Maria. So glad
you
joined us. You brought some relevant points that we are all trying to
work on. In
going over our experiments and our responses to them, I would tend to
agree
that we are, as Rod well said, seeking to break away from our
conventional way
of being in the world. By that I mean, our way of viewing our lives
through the
lenses of polarities, of attachments to fixed ways of perceiving others
as well
as ourselves, of our fears of change and efforts to keep things just as
they
are. In seeking meaning to our lives through those lenses, we create a
great
deal of confusion and suffering.
We all seem
to agree that every
time we seek an anticipated and pre-determined state of consciousness
(pre-determined by our dual state of consciousness), there will always
be an
“I” seeking something “Out There” different from who we already are.
When we
seek that way, we no longer rest in what we really are, and we are
destined to
fail. As Piet well said, “we fall into the trap of using the old stage
to enact
a new drama.”
I don’t
think we are trying to
reach a different state of consciousness, that excludes our
conventional and limited
range of consciousness, nor trying to seek a formula that can help us
to shift
from one state of consciousness to another. I guess we are trying to
reach a present awareness
an awareness that contains all states of
consciousness, with no attempt to differentiate them. Differentiation
belongs
to the realm of polarities, and of our tendencies to establish that one
is
better than the other.
I guess a
goal that can be
reached as a result of our practices and dialogues, is the realization
that
there is no Wisdom or State of Being
hidden from us. There is no attainment, for everything is already
there. We
should not try to develop our potential, but to realize it. I guess we
should
not want to try to become wise
and compassionate but to become aware of what stops us from
being wise,
compassionate and in a state of present
awareness. Becoming aware of those impediments enables us to
start
melting away the “plastic wrap” that stops us from knowing that
everything is
already complete.
Heloisa