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Reload Original PagePrintPageEmail Page 'Let Go And Let Love'.... Why Did No-One Tell Me It's So Simple?.from www.Life2point0.com First up, an ex planation of sorts. There' s been a continu ed 'enlightenment' theme to recent posts. Maybe it's becau se I try not to plan what I write that posts here tend to follow a path of their own, I don't really know. All I can say i s that I have a load of id eas around entrepreneur ship, creativit y and life hacks that I'd love to share with  you too. But whilst we're still on this subj ect, and just so you have a little perspective as to 'where I'm coming from', I'll tell you about my own journey so far: I guess we all come to th e recognition of Truth in our own way and in our own time, and that's good. My wa y seems very strange though. I  was one of the so called lucky ones - I had my very own 'burning bush' experien ce..but what I did with that beggar s belief. I very, ver y subtly (so that I wouldn't even notice I was doing it) turned and walked away from it. . The burning bush Some years ago, after a lifetime of being determin ed to find out 'how things really worked', and having s tudying  A Course in Miracles for a  year or so, I was out walking my Labrador on the hill behind my home. After I had gotten tired of throwing sticks fo r Ben I sat down on a stile to watch the world go by for a while, and the dog curled up under my feet. In the next few minutes I came to see my whole life in a completely new light, totally reframed and everyt hing fitting perfectly together - like adding the last few lines to a 'join the dots' picture  where sudd enly you see what it is all about f or the very fi rst time. I

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'Let Go And Let Love'.... Why Did No-One Tell MeIt's So Simple?.from www.Life2point0.com 

First up, an explanation of sorts. There's been a continued'enlightenment' theme to recent posts. Maybe it's because I try not toplan what I write that posts here tend to follow a path of their own, Idon't really know. All I can say is that I have a load of ideas aroundentrepreneurship, creativity and life hacks that I'd love to share with

 you too. But whilst we're still on this subject, and just so you have alittle perspective as to 'where I'm coming from', I'll tell you about my own journey so far:

I guess we all come to the recognition of Truth in our own way and in

our own time, and that's good. My way seems very strange though. I was one of the so called lucky ones - I had my very own 'burning bush'experience..but what I did with that beggars belief. I very, very subtly (so that I wouldn't even notice I was doing it) turned and walked away from it..The burning bush Some years ago, after a lifetime of being determined to find out 'how things really worked', and having studying  A Course in Miracles for a

 year or so, I was out walking my Labrador on the hill behind my home. After I had gotten tired of throwing sticks for Ben I sat downon a stile to watch the world go by for a while, and the dog curled upunder my feet. In the next few minutes I came to see my whole life in acompletely new light, totally reframed and everything fitting perfectly together - like adding the last few lines to a 'join the dots' picture

 where suddenly you see what it is all about for the very first time. I

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thought I had been building businesses, raising my children, trying to be all the things I wanted to be. I had no idea that totally unbeknownto me, life had had a completely different agenda.

This 'secret' agenda had been working through everything I had ever

thought, spoken and done, through every so called failure and successand through every traumatic or blissful moment in my life. I saw soclearly that everything that had happened since the day I popped ontothis planet had been orchestrated to bring me to this place where I

 was now sat and was able to see the perfection and beauty of it all. Itall was suddenly so clear, every single part of my life fitted togetherfaultlessly, with not one piece missing or to spare. Enlightenment had

 been going on all the time.... perfectly.

Here's what I now knew: After all my efforts to understand, to 'get it'and then to walk the path, the path has been walking through me allalong. We had always been the vehicle for enlightenment, we justdidn't see ourselves as doing that, and certainly didn't see ourselves as

 being in the driving seat. There was one beautiful purpose to life andmy expression of that had been played perfectly by me all along, andthis was true for everyone. Suddenly all concept of right and wrongand guilt and doubt disappeared completely. And there was no placefor regrets anymore, only this one vast, all encompassing Love.....

and it had only been my desire to find happiness in this life that had blinded me to seeing it was already here..Good intentions gone wrong I knew from that moment on that my life was changed because therecould be no forgetting this. By some form of grace I had glimpsedReality and all I wanted or needed to do was find a way of helping therest of the world see the same thing. And that's where I started to losethe plot again.

The more I tried to explain this, to myself or others, the more distantit seemed to become. All I wanted do was to help and yet the more Itried, the more this epiphany turned into a distant memory. What Ididn't see then was that the very act of trying to understand was theact of denial of what I had so clearly seen. By trying to understandI was separating the one who was trying to understand fromthat which he was trying to understand. By attempting to

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reconcile God and Life and Love and Enlightenment and 'Who I am', I was denying that they are all the same thing..... this Oneness that I had been so fortunate to experience.

It's only when I imagine there is more than one thing, like when I put

the little word 'my' in front of the word 'life', that there arises theconcept of an under-stander and an under-stood and then the need tounderstand. Oneness can only ever be experiential because it is allinclusive. Reality can only be known, because there is no-one separateto understand it. It's only the mind that obfuscates this feeling of Loveand connection that we already exists in. And anything I can imagineto do to come to this realisation, can also only be part of my denial of this feeling of Love that is constantly trying to seep into our consciousawareness. As Thomas Aquinas one said:

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."

 Awakening was life's role not mine. I had forgotten that our part isonly to allow it to happen.. Wising up So little by little I've come to accept there is nothing I can do toawaken because life itself is the process of awakening. It's a process of accepting what already is and that requires no doing and no effort,

 just a surrender to what is already here in this moment. Life delightsto set us free, to make us happy..and everything we need to fulfill thatpurpose comes to us, perfectly. When we really accept that we don'tknow how to wake up then a miracle happens. Instead of not-knowing

 being the problem, not-knowing becomes the answer - our whole way, because 'not-knowing' is the clean and empty slate on which Love will write a different story through our lives. It is in the invitation and theopening to grace.

I suppose we could paraphrase the whole process of life down to thisone thing: A process of letting go of our resistance (in a multitude of 

 ways) to the Love that Is. This is all that is really going on here. Andso we come home to Truth, to the knowing of our true Self, simply by allowing it to happen - by allowing ourselves to become non-resistantto everything.

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 At the end of the day the choice is this:- we can either be true to Truthof our own experience or true to the latest idea of what is still needed.This is seen so clearly in the way the great religions keep us in chains

 by lowering expectations and by promising freedom some time in the'future'. And so we end up settling for being Christians instead of Christs and Buddhists instead of Buddhas. Didn't Jesus once say,"Greater things than these things shall ye do". Adyanshanti says it

 well in this essay entitled 'You are the Buddha'.

This is what the Buddhadid. He didn¶t say, ³I¶lltry.´ He didn¶t say, ³I

hope I¶ll find the Truth.´He didn¶t say, ³I¶ll do my 

 best.´ He didn¶t say, ³If not in this lifetime, thenmaybe next lifetime.´He came to the point

 where he didn¶t look foranyone else to tell himthe Truth or show him the Truth. He came to the point where he took 

it all on himself. He sat alone under the Bodhi Tree and vowed neverto give up until the Truth be realized.

The power of this very simple, yet unshakable intention and absolutestand to be liberated in this lifetime propelled him to awaken to thesimple fact that he and all beings are liberated²that all beings arefreedom itself. Pure awakeness.

The Buddha was no different from you. No different. .....

 Adyanshanti also says "What we serve we cannot lose". True enough, but even this idea of 'serving Truth', at least for a  bear-of-little-brain like me, is too much. I have seen that we already do this and I haveseen that in spite of appearances, everything we have ever done hasserved Truth. We were just mistaken, and thought there wassomething else going on here. And so when I attempt to serve Truththere is this very human tendency that arises in me to judge how I am

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doing, and then I lose my way again - lose sight of the fact that wealready do this perfectly - that we are already awake and perfectly creative, and just don't see it yet..Homeward bound So for me at least, I need to finally let go of trying to live it, of trying toserve it, and simply  allow It  to live and serve through me - becomenonresistant ('surrender' if you like) to this Love that we call life thatalready flows through us.

There's a huge freedom in this tiny change of intent because now thereis no cause for stress or concern. When we replaces all the reasons'why' we do things (especially all those spiritual or do-goody reasons)for this single 'why' of allowing Truth/Love/Life/Joy/*your own term

here* to express itself through me, then there are no worries any more. Life makes no mistakes..... 'mistakes', 'problems' - that's allmind stuff. Success in this is always certain, but now we cometo know it is so.

So perhaps I finally am 'getting it': Just surrender to life.....let life flow through me un-resisted.... and see what happens. 'Listen and allow'....as my friend Jodee Bock  tells me to do.

 What a release not to have to do or understand anything anymore....just enjoy the ride. No worries, no cares, it's not up to me now... notmy problem. And what problems could there be once their cause, my resistance, has gone. Trusting instead, that when we are just being

 who we Are, in harmony with Universe, everything just works out fine.

Love Is.... what more could we do than simply let it be?

To let go and let Love......Why did no-one tell me it's this simple?

Or perhaps they did and I just wasn't ready to hear. ;-).Life as celebration So what to do, now that I know that anything I try to do to bring aboutenlightenment blinds me to the recognition that it's already here?

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How about just doing whatever it that makes us happy and trust life totake care of all the rest? Hard as it is to shatter the egos belief inunworthiness and sacrifice and struggle, it's only in the path of ourhappiness that we find what we have come here to learn. Life hasonly one agenda: - that we be happy, now .

 And what better way to strengthen this realisation than to see iteverywhere, take joy in everything that comes our way and share itfreely? It's this what we came for.

So to me, our greatest role models and teachers are not the obviousones. Not the ones that lecture or hold retreats, but those who know how to squeeze the juice out of life and then invite you to dine withthem.

Evelyn at Crossroad Dispatches and Tittin at Backtracking Slowly Forward spring immediately to mind. Click over there and you'll finda pot-pourri of art, raw life and insight....... and you'll perhaps alsodiscover what George Bernard Shaw  meant when he said, "The man who writ es about himself and  hi s own time i s t he only man whowrit es about all peopl e and all time."  (we can forgive him the gender

 bias of those times). But like any good feast, the best times to go thereare when you are little hungry and when you have a little more timethan you need... so you can savour and enjoy all the different flavours.

Happy Valentine's Day...