“True adventures start with an
inclination to enter the unknown.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Life is
asking me to redefine “the path,” – again - to deepen into a new adventure – a
new way of seeing, being, and living. I
am embarking on what feels like a “Sacred Adventure” – a new step into the unknown,
opening to new directions, new perspectives, new attitudes, new awareness.
Being open to what is really living this Life called “me” – and – at the same
time, allowing myself to just be who I am.
As Ramana Maharshi said to those who were searching for the Truth – “Be
as you are…” I didn’t realize how
freeing it was to allow myself to just be myself… I don’t have to strive to know the Truth, to be
“spiritual” or “non-dual” – or “enlightened.”
I can just be who I am – as that is who Beingness IS. Imagine that! :) I don’t have to be self-conscious about using
words like “I”, “me”, “my” – in pseudo non-dual awareness
– because it’s all just Awareness, all Consciousness expressing Itself – no
distinction needed. Imagine that :) I don’t need to worry about whether I’m
coming from the ego-self (“little me self”).
I only need to BE and let BEingness reveal ItSelf, express ItSelf, live
ItSelf – through “me.”
I continue to
gradually shed the conceptual frameworks that have defined and informed my life
so far – the boxes of life that have tended to constrain this authentic expression
of Being; extricating my sense of self
from the life dramas as well. This shift in
consciousness may take some time. But some
days it feels like I am waking up to a new adventure of Life in which I am
finding an incredible sense of Aliveness, peace, adventure, laughter, lightness
and boldness – a new passion for Life living Itself through this mechanism
called “me.” Realizing that Life truly
IS a Sacred Adventure of Being… Hope you
come along…
“You’ve got to make a conscious
choice every day to shed the old -
whatever ‘the old’ means for you -
old issues
old guilt
old patterns
old responses
old resentments
old rivalries
[old beliefs]
We no longer have the luxury of
wallowing
in what’s held us back;
the emotional baggage…
[spiritual labels and definitions]
[misconceptions, mis-identifications]
Both authenticity and adventure
require
the willingness to shed what’s safe
and predictable
in order to
embrace
a new
passion,
your authentic life…”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Something More
Excavating the Authentic Self
And so I
have been asking myself: what is it that allows this Beingness that I am to come
Alive within? What is it that allows
this Passion of Being to come alive and really live ItSelf here, *through* this
vehicle called “me” – and what I have called the “me-mechanism.”? What allows me to experience this Aliveness
that is inherently my Inner Being? I
didn’t *try* to experience it. I can’t explain it. It is just there!
And how
about you? What inspires you to walk
*toward* Life?; to walk into the unknown?; to *live* the Passion and Aliveness of your Being?
“…question and quest beyond the
distracting entanglements…towards the pure light of understanding.”
