Awakening - The Complete Road Map - Step 8

Join us for a transformative series of talks exploring the journey of consciousness as it matures and blossoms into its fullest potential. Throughout 10 sessions, we will delve into progressively advanced levels of maturity—beginning with a contracted sense of a separate self and culminating in a state of fully expanded awareness.

In this session, we will discuss the sixth revelation a maturing consciousness reveals- the Meaning of Life.

Transcript

Hello dear people,

Welcome to this unique opportunity we give ourselves every week to stop the rush,

Hold hands and walk the path together,

Not just as individuals but also as a united consciousness that is evolving while dancing between the question and the answer.

So remember as we continue this discussion that it's not a lecture but a conversation and the more you are involved the more relevant it becomes to you and the more powerful it becomes to everyone.

So don't be shy,

Don't hide,

Don't restrict yourself fearing what other people may think,

It doesn't matter.

Put yourself in the spotlight and ask and we will grow together as a result.

So what are we doing today?

We are arriving to the end of this amazing journey following consciousness as it evolves from a limited egoistic perspective of oneself to a fully blossomed state of we can call it enlightenment.

And the reason behind that impossible task is that once we have that world map in front of us it can and will allow us to navigate more effectively through our own personal journey.

And if we find that we fell astray it will be easier for us to come back to the path of consciousness and continue to focus on what is most important to us.

That's the reason and I know as the higher we climb the thinner the air becomes and not always things are easy to understand by the intellect but it's okay because if you're here at this part of the journey you already know that it's not about understanding the point but use it as a as a song for the heart by the heart a heart that receives an invitation to open and wake up.

Okay so let's describe what we did so far quickly because it's been a quite a path and for sure time is limited.

So how does this journey begin?

It begins by kind of a spark that is lit in us a spark to understand the bigger meaning of life longing for the truth longing for realizing what are we doing here why did we come here what is this all about the bigger questions are cannot be ignored anymore existential questions and this can happen for many reasons many times it's because of suffering because of loss illness other causes may ignite that spark it doesn't really matter what is important is once it is lit you recognize it and you don't ignore it you keep on allowing that spark to live in you and you listen to that call and you answer that call so that's the first step or what allows the first step to happen and Carly is joining us my apologies for being late hello everybody Carly is going to sound the voice of the sincere seeker for orcs orcs okay so the first step off out of the cage once that spark is lit is realizing that events phenomena has no power specifically thoughts and opinions they have no power and that is a huge realization because usually we are so automated to believe and identify with our thoughts and beliefs of but what is right and wrong and what should and shouldn't happen so once we are free from the grip of that we truly can begin expanding and then once that happens what is generated is is an alignment alignment that between your physical body and the physical reality it meets because until then there was no intimacy you you were not available to experience the physical reality because you had ideas and opinions about which preoccupied your attention so now there is a new type of alignment you don't carry stress from the past that is completely irrelevant to the present moment that is called to be experienced so a full listening is the next step where you are available to experience free of opinions and thoughts and automatic reactions to whatever is being experienced specifically free from cravings and aversions generated by ideas about right and wrong good and bad the freer you are from your thoughts the available you are to experience and generate intimacy so now you are developing the capacity to truly listen for the first time yes and then that awareness is available to ask who is listening who is experiencing and that identification between me and the object of my observation is dropping realizing i'm not i'm not that object of observation i am not that phenomena i'm not the idea that i currently have i am consciousness that meets these phenomenas i am awareness that is aware of changing events i am the theater hall that is allowing the show to be played on the stage i am eternity in which temporary events are happening starting and finishing i am awareness so then what happens that all that start to translate itself into action into maneuvering through life with life how does an awakened consciousness act how does it choose what to do and what not to do so you see that at this point right action is not a as opposed to wrong action is not a thing there is no wrong action there is only action that is generated by fear versus action that is generated by no fear or by love which is another way to say no fear or as we described it the action that doesn't generate new karma what is karma karma is the consequence of an action that was generated by fear by ignorance lack of self-knowledge so and we specifically pinned two fears that generates all other fears and that is the fear of not having what i believe i don't have and the fear of losing what i think i already achieved which is mine and so once we are free of those two fears we are available to respond to life harmoniously in an action that is pro-life and we don't create we don't generate new karma and last week we started with describing how this action is finds the middle path in a natural way what is the middle path the middle path is a path that is not generated by opinions anymore there is no this or that there is no right way and wrong way like there's a beautiful statement by rumi you know out there beyond ideas about right doing and wrong doing there is a field and i will wait for you there so the middle path allows everything it's not it doesn't cling to any specific point of view any specific agenda and once you are not stuck with an opinion with an agenda you're free to react to whatever the present moment is requiring you become strong as a mountain and flexible as the stream both are there both are available and specifically the balance that we've mentioned last week is between the feminine and the masculine your actions are now an expression of a harmonious balance between these two forces the force that is all allowing all accepting all loving unconditionally and the force that keeps on longing to expand and evolve and both are right both are have their purpose and when balanced you are an expression of of that harmony so this was a quick brief of what we did so far i'm happy to address your questions before we move forward what riri says out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field i'll meet you there when the soul lies down in the grass the world is too full to talk about nice you see that at this point of our discussion you have to become a poet it becomes more and more difficult to talk about it stephen says balance between achieving and accepting yeah yeah to have a successful spiritual path do you need to accept the present moment or strive to achieve enlightenment what is more important the answer is yes definitely so are we ready to move forward to the one before the last step not moving forward without a resounding yes wasaya says ready ready so what's happening now as our consciousness matures on the path if we look back on you know what happened until this point in time in this process of evolution of consciousness you've seen that it was more uh a matter of negating right we were dropping false ideals false identifications about who we are and what we do here we realized we are not our thoughts we are not our body we realized that all of our egoistic hopes about life were foolish and based on ignorance we we dropped our identifications with the changing events we dropped and dropped and dropped and dropped until we became empty completely empty and the more empty we became the more available consciousness was to meet life engage harmoniously with life as an expression of that balance newfound balance that is its own nature not something to be achieved but to be recognized so we dropped more and more and more at this evolutionary stage that shifts that finds a new expression of itself it's not giving up and letting go at this point something new opposite in in energy is revealed and that is what we call the awakening of our soul and for that we need to explain what a soul is and you do realize that i choose the word soul for a lack of a better world there is i mean words don't really have much meaning at this point but for our common terminology let's discuss soul what is soul soul is the universal omnipresent aspect of our existence some people describe it as a drop that belongs to the ocean some people describe it as a leaf that belongs to a great tree some people describe it as a one one side of a diamond that reflects the light in a specific angle but it only it's only one part of a bigger diamond no there are many ways to try to verbalize something that is indescribable and beyond description so you choose whatever works for you but let's agree that a soul is a private expression of a universal truth one aspect of god if you wish one private aspect of god and at this point consciousness that used to be identified with whatever is separating and makes us feel unique at this point of the journey consciousness is is empty of all these identifications so it's free to recognize the universal aspect of itself so asking who is actually going through this progress of evolution the answer now is the universal the answer now is the newly found realization that what is evolving is not me the the separated individual that is hoping to reach a certain state of whatever enlightenment that's not the case at all what is evolving is god god is evolving god is evolving for lack of a better word universal universal consciousness itself is evolving together with the universe that is evolving physically and energetically expanding so does consciousness that allows matter to manifest if it's easy for you to have a simulated picture of an evolving universe because you saw it on national geographic or whatever now you know that matter and energy are expanding and evolving the whole universe in an in an expanded accelerated accelerated pace now you realize that consciousness as well as the creator of that matter and energy is evolving consciousness itself is evolving god is evolving the theater wall is evolving the context of the evolution of consciousness changes from the private to the universal so now a new aspect of that masculine energy that is longing to eternally evolve that touches you in a new sense not a personal one the context is now universal do you see that now you realize that your private path your private journey your experiences your story you know everything that already happened to you and may happen to you in the future all your experiences your hardships your joy all that was just a way for consciousness to learn and evolve and and that has got nothing to do with you personally so the context of your private existence is shaping to be based on a new realization that all of this is not personal at all even the stream of thoughts and beliefs that you hold so dearly and you are willing to kill and be killed for them to protect them or even that is not personal at all you the fact that you are here on this planet for whatever amount of time is just another opportunity for consciousness itself to learn experience and evolve and that is not personal do you see that look back on your journey and all the challenges you met along your journey private life you know since the day you were born your parents that raised you the culture you were raised in all your story the people you met the people you marry your children on the spiritual path your realizations whatever you know places you saw people you met look at all that throughout the years and allow all that to be there when realizing that this was never personal there was nothing personal about it it was just an opportunity for consciousness to learn and grow and evolve through your personal story how does that affect the relationship you have with your own private journey happy for your thoughts marie says it sure seemed personal yeah stephen says actions impact consciousness consciousness impacts actions not the other way around nothing can impact consciousness consciousness is the whore that allows the show to be played on the stage nothing can affect the whole whatever you do there on the stage the theater hall cannot be impacted you see that so don't confuse between the two actions actions are the result of your consciousness the doing is the result of the being so if you want to look closer to why you do what you do why you choose what you choose go deeper look in the being not in the doing and make sure that your choices are chosen without fear that's why we describe this path no if you want to make sure that you are on the path of the evolutionary of consciousness evolution of consciousness then and you're not contradicting it you're not investing your energy to oppose it to to work against that then you make sure that you're following that description if you choose choose because you don't fear anymore what else so does god evolve listen this is important before you ask does god evolve that's a beautiful question and what i am describing here now is a stage of consciousness realizing that god itself evolves together with the universe it created god itself that's the reason why god created matter and energy that materialized to be the universe that we know and we most of it we don't know we just have an idea about it most of it is still a mystery why did god create the universe so it can evolve and that's what it's been doing and that's got nothing to do with your personal journey i mean the aspect of ownership that you feel of over your journey this is my journey this is my understanding this is my enlightenment that is a fallacy do you see what i'm saying yes so barbara says it removes all the pressure to perform achieve get it etc i can just be it starts with being yes definitely but that being which is feminine is not enough the ability to just be and accept no and just be present lovingly embrace whatever is happening is good important but balance that make sure that both are alive and and vibrant in you know the masculine wants to evolve yes this is good but it's not enough i want to know more i want to discover more i want to reach a higher state i want to touch the edge of the known universe and then grow beyond that both are there both have a valid say allow both of them to be vibrant in you harmoniously find that harmony what else deborah says many years ago a friend was diagnosed with cancer i said so unfair he said it was not unfair it was random and could affect anyone i think it was the first time i began to understand not personal a good lesson for me yeah yeah you know this is a losing game we are playing most of the time we try to run away from that fact somehow you know yeah what do you say distract ourselves with whatever life's drama just so we don't confront the idea that this is a losing game there's no way nobody ever won this game we are going to lose everything including our body it's just a matter of time right and there's nothing personal about that question is not whether we are going to die but how are we going to live are we going to take this life personally life works against me and i have to protect myself against life is this how you want to live your life it doesn't work like that and don't get into the drama of life is punishing me because i'm a bad person or i am unlucky whatever this is karma coming to get me because what i did in the past life don't get into that at all life is not personal nothing personal about it for that matter drop that at this stage of our journey drop that there's nothing personal about it life happens whether you enjoy it or suffer because of it that's your story life happens so varsha is saying yet only a few of us are on this path and most humanity is still going through the process will everyone go through this process or only a few and stephen says then what is the good of the path we exist or we contribute to existence so this is what i was going to say about the analogy of the theater hall and the idea that the theater hall is expanding or evolving and so if you know we take your theories at face value and keep running with them you know is the theory that like varsha says more of us come online more of us come onto the path more of us progress on the path more of us reach that stage of enlightenment how does that affect the the theater hall is there is there a purpose to being on this path and how do we like stephen ask we exist or we contribute to existence we contribute to the expansion of consciousness many questions let's see if we can address all of them yes evolution happens whether we like it or not whether we are aware of it or not evolution happens the universe expands nothing there to stop it consciousness expands as we experience our lives not just us individuals but humanity everything that lives and grows everything that exists is a manifestation of consciousness experiencing itself and as it interacts it expands and consciousness expands with it can we contribute to this eternal process one hundred percent we can and the spiritual path is there to allow us to do that consciously offer our energy our intention our sankalpa it's called our focus of intention on that allowing consciousness to experience itself through matter as matter in our lives in this body in this presentation of your own that definitely helps imagine a stream of water you can try to fight that stream no you can try to generate waves against the stream or turbulences against the stream right definitely it will take longer for the water to reach their destination because you created obstacles that is called karma you created disturbances in the force so it takes more time for the water to find the path eventually they will reach the ocean one hundred percent that is not a question but the question is your life a barrier an obstacle or is your life actually promoting supporting what happens now when you consciously devote your life to helping that stream flow in its own harmonious natural pace a you don't generate karma and b that process is happening smooth smoothly easier faster so you are now a generator of that evolution process promoting life pro-life against resisting life against life so can you contribute definitely is it important the most important thing you can do everything else that feels important will be lost doesn't matter what you strive to to reach or to achieve relationships status grandeur wealth health everything will be lost in 50 years six feet under nobody will even remember that i tell you all this drama is just a joke nobody would care nobody would remember and it will contribute nothing but you're saying it does contribute but you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've you've i'm such a small person who will remember me nobody will remember you you're right but your contribution to that cannot be lost will come a day where all humans will be enlightened it's a good question it's predicted but what's more important this point in time is whether you you hear that calling and are ready and available to dedicate yourself to that that is most important not when will everybody else around you realize no this is not important at all you you decide how you want to live your life don't wait for everybody else to make the right decision you make a decision based on the calling that you hear if you hear what else samia says there's so much letting go involved and some of it is not so easy so that it it's a good thing that things are falling apart even though it feels difficult now don't measure it by good or bad it's inevitable things will fall apart no trying to postpone the inevitable is how people live their life but it's inevitable anyways it's it's gonna happen like buddha said no misery suffering is what happens when we try to generate a sense of stability by holding on to what is ultimately changing how can you create stability if what you're holding on to is changing all the time right don't worry about that don't walk through life holding crutches that gives you a false sense of stability it's bound to collapse 100 you cannot create a structure stable enough to overcome time time will win or i as i say gravity always wins everything you build will collapse gravity always wins it's just a matter of time yeah what else sure says acceptance of what is is both easy and challenging yes yeah so so in this chaos what do we hang on to and how few this is a lot in this chaos embrace the chaos yes chaos is feminine no it's the first law of thermodynamics every system if you don't affect it from the outside it will eventually turn into chaos i like to think of it as if the chaos is feminine the masculine is holding so you don't you're not holding on despite the chaos the chaos is being held yeah to unfold the way it will you know when a big wave comes what the lifeguard is teaching you how to survive it you just allow the wave you don't fight the wave chaos is stronger than you if you try to find logic if you're trying to find stability and security within chaos you're you're gonna lose 100 chaos is bigger than your will to be protected against life it's not gonna happen you're gonna lose but if you surrender to that to the wave and let it take you it will turn you around but you will raise up from the other side that's how you survive in the sea that's how you overcome difficulties in life as well know that you are taken care of don't to be too worried about generating a false sense of stability yes life is chaotic unexpected uncontrolled and beautiful and not personal at all it's not happening to you or against you it's happening it's life that's it stop blaming life for your misery it's not because of life it's because of you rejecting life you are life life is you consciousness there is all allowing generates the present moment for you what kind of consciousness would you like to bring to that creation hmm that's my question so take that ponder about that for a week and the previous sessions of this discussion are available on my inside timer page if you've missed one and you want to catch up go there listen don't be lazy and next week we're going to describe the final realization and next thursday at 7 30 mountain time in north america so in the evening for us we are starting a series called graceful relationships so if you'd like to join us for that please look out on inside timer will be set as an inside timer live so do join us and anyway we're going to meet next saturday to continue following the journey of an evolving consciousness and jack meet says how do you stay in present when all you do is for the future i struggle with this so we'll keep that good question for the next next time love you very much thank you for your time and your attention and your donations and we'll meet again soon bye-bye