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There is a shimmering, a lightness and an incredible love.
The way the mind has been programmed has given it a way of seeing things.
So that is the way we see them, so that is the way we think they are.
If you start looking at the way things are, just the way they are in this very moment,
you will find that there is something else about them.
The mind gives them an identity. The mind will say “Oak tree” and it will talk about
all the things about an oak tree, but if you keep looking at a tree, and disconnect from
the name “Oak” and “tree”, and you keep looking, you might find that the tree starts
to shimmer a little bit. It is not quite as solid as before. Not only does it shimmer, it
gets a little transparent. And when it does it is not quite so separate from everything
around.
And as you get in touch with this shimmering, with this vibration, you will find you
have something similar inside you. That something is not quite so solid. It is shimmering
inside. And the shimmering actually comes to the surface, to the skin. But it does not stop
there. It shimmers inside and outside. And if you bring your energy back to the tree, you
find, we are shimmering together. Your shimmer is slightly different to mine, and yet we
are shimmering together.
So where am I? The tree has a body. I have a body, but that is not me. There is something
else. There is something in the tree, there is something in me. And they are dancing together.
And there is a mind there that keeps thinking. But the mind is in a totally different space. It
thinks different things, and when it thinks it, it affects the body. It has a thought, that evokes
an emotion, and the emotion changes the body. And it seems to have a reality of its own. I
am watching this reality. That reality is not me.
Like that tree is not *a tree.* It is a shimmering. And the soul of that tree is not attached to
the physical. But then, neither am I. My soul, my shimmer, my consciousness is not actually
attached. Not that I can get away. There is a connection, but that is not me. So who am I?
I don’t know. What I know is, I know that is not me. I can see what is not me. I can see that
those thoughts are not me. Those thoughts have an impetus on their own, and that is not me.
I don’t always agree with my thoughts. Yes, they have an affect on the emotions, on the body;
it has a reality; but it is not my reality.
So what is my reality? I don1t know. All I can say is that there is a shimmering there. There
is lightness and an incredible love for everything and everybody. But there is no attachment
to it. That person, that tree, that weed can be exactly who they want to be. That is not my
business. I love them anyway. And it is connecting with the shimmer.