Be Like The Sun

Our separateness is nothing but a hypnotic trance, which is a waking dream. When dreaming, we may be aware that we are dreaming. When our minds awake, they create the dream of a world, and we may forget it is also a dream of sorts. Entranced by appearances, the perceptive illusions of time, space, objectification, identification, mortality, and control take hold. We automatically 'space-time' the self; that is, we locate ourselves in dimensions of space and time. Space is the illusion arising from infinity, and time is the illusion arising from the eternal moment. We create and invest in a story about being a person in a world instead of the reality that the world is in us. When we break through these illusions, the world around us transforms from appearing like a machine to being an intimate poem of love. Superordinaryness become extraordinary, and extraordinary becomes superordinary. We realise and feel we are love, for what other word best describes it. We stop resisting existing and flow with it. This is not to say that such an opening does not need some level of cultivating or allows us to bypass the needs of the mind and body, which we must pay heed to, or that there is still no inner work to do to deal with entrenched patterns of suffering behaviour that have been built on the trance of separateness, or that we need to relearn how to share in this world based on our love, not our fear. However, we start these tasks not as a means to obtain our freedom and openness but as an expression of it. These tasks are no longer in the way but are themselves part of the way. Thus, there are three interweaving elements to living at One. Waking up from the dream of separateness, cleaning up the psychological legacy of separateness, and exploring the expression of oneness. If our lives could be compared to the sun that illuminates itself, then these three phases could be compared to the sunrise, the shining of its energy to melt the ice of separateness as it radiates, and the shining of its light across the experience of living. It all starts by recognising that we are the sun. A cherished teacher once told me, "Be like the sun, not the moon whose beauty depends on the sun".

Love Freyja