19- November - 2011
A few more excerpts from Deepak Chopra, on effortless ease and power, not without links with SaLusa's messages. :)
" When you are conceived, all you are is a double strand of DNA - a speck of information and intelligence that differentiates into a a hundred trillion cells, which then becomes a fully formed baby, with eyes, nose, ears, brain, arms, legs, genitals. You didn't do anything to make it happen, and yet you made it happen. It's all there in the speck, and it happens with effortless spontaneity, with effortless ease, with no resistance. (...) the intelligence of the universe is flowing through that speck of DNA, which you can't even see under a microscope. So the best thing you can do is to let it to happen. It isn't wise to interfere with it.
And how do you interfere with this intelligence ? In spiritual terms. we can say you interfere when you identify with your self-image and lose your inner self; when you lose your sense of connection with your soul, your source. In more common terms, we can say that you interfere when you start worrying, when you start thinking, What can go wrong ?. When you try to control everything , when you are afraid, when you feel isolated- all these things interfere with the flow of nature's intelligence.
Your inner self is your innate intelligence; it is Being becoming. It is your ability to create, to grow, to evolve, to express. Your self-image is the indoctrination by society, by education; it's the image you have created of yourself based what other people think of you. As soon as you sacrifice the Self for the self-image, you lose divinity for something that is illusory and doesn't exist. (1)
Anytime you feel resistance, anytime things are going wrong, anytime you feel frustration. anytime there is too much effort, then you are not connecting to the field of pure potentiality. The state of fear is the state of separation: it is resistance to what is. If you don't have resistance, then it's all spontaneous, effortless ease.
The mind, being everywhere, is non-local, and through the process of attention we localize it. So if we want something to become our life experience, then we put our attention on it. If we don't want something to become our life experience, we take our attention away from it. In fact, the whole mechanics of creation is just that : a certain quality of attention of the Self to itself. (2)
Most people get attached to concepts and notions rather than the experience of Being. This is analogous to mistaking the map for the territory. The territory is the experience of Being, and it's the reality that we want to experience. The map is just the labeling of the territory, and yet we mostly identify with the map. What we have to understand once and for all is that we are not the thought, but the one who generates the thought.
Being is the source of the thought, and it's also where fulfillment of desires comes from. What is desire ? Desire is pure potentiality seeking manifestation. But fulfillment of desire requires that first we Be, and then simply having the notion in our awareness spontaneously creates the reality. This is the mechanics of creation; it's how the universe comes into being. The universe is a field of all possibilities that interacts with its own self. Therefore, inherent in every desire is the mechanics for the spontaneous fulfillment of the desire. All that is required is attention and noninterference. (3)
When gardeners plant seeds, they don't try to make them sprout, they don't doubt that the seeds will grow into plants. Other people's opinions do not interfere with their conviction that within each seed is everything necessary to create a plant. And gardeners don't get lost in their attachment to the result; they know the result is there. So to use our power effectively when it comes to our own desires, we have to relinquish our attachment to the outcome. But this doesn't mean that we don't want the outcome. Of course we prefer the outcome to anything else, but we are not rigidly attached to it.
Attachment is a form of fear, doubt, and worry, and this constrict the flow of nature's intelligence. When we have a desire, we know what our intention is, and we just let go, trusting the universe to organize all the details for its manifestation. There's no concern about the outcome: we just release our desire from our heart, and let it through through us with the impulse of the universe. The more we detach and let go, the more spontaneously our desires are fulfilled. (4)
Every day, we normally experience three states of consciousness : waking, dreaming and sleeping. But only by spending time in silence, stillness, or meditation do we experience a fourth state of consciousness where we start to glimpse our soul. When we glimpse our soul, we become a little more intuitive. We start to feel that things are not just what they seem to be; there is something more behind the scenes.
The physical world we normally experience is a shadow of the real world. The real world, the world of spirit, exists behind a veil, and the veil is our own conditioning. In truth, we are not bound by the world of space, time, matter, and causation, but the veil prevents us from living in power, freedom and grace.
In the fourth state of consciousness, we begin to sense the deeper reality that is orchestrating the physical world, and there is a tearing of the veil that separates the physical and the spiritual realms. We have to wake up from waking consciousness to glimpse our spirit, our inner self. This is called glimpsing the soul, and it's the fourth state of consciousness. It's simply to be in touch with our soul.
This leads to the fifth state of consciousness, or cosmic consciousness, when our soulfully wakes up in waking, dreaming, and sleeping. Our body can be fast asleep, but our soul, the silent witness, is watching the body in deep sleep. Our body can be walking, and the silent witness is watching the body walk. Our body can be playing tennis, and the silent witness is watching the body play tennis. Our awareness is localized in space-time, and it's non-local, or transcendent at the same time.
(...) In cosmic consciousness, we are aware that we are not the physical body, nor are we the mind and all the roles we play. WE are the silent witness, and a sense of freedom and liberation comes out of this awareness. We are involved in our roles, and yet we are free at the same time. As we abide in cosmic consciousness and allow it to blossom, the universe plays itself through us, and the whole dance of life becomes effortless. (5) "
1. Deepak Chopra, Power Freedom & Grace, Amber-Allen (2006), 76-77
2. Ibid, 78
3. Ibid, 80
4. Ibid, 82
5. Ibid, 86-88
