Hi,
I'm Bassem,
Thank you for joining me.
Spirituality is about cultivating presence and relationship between doing and being,
Manifesting,
Creating,
And stillness,
And it manifests most notably in the difference between the ideas of co-creation and on the other hand you have the stillness movement,
Inner peace.
So we all feel this crisis between doing and being and we really are confused.
Is it about manifestation,
Is it about creation,
Co-creation,
Or is it about being?
This seeming conflict between manifestation,
Creation,
And this inner movement.
In one of his talks,
In fact,
Eckhart Tolle was asked about manifestation and the power of intention,
Whether manifestation and doing were counterproductive to stillness,
Living in alignment with the here and now.
We don't need to go very far to get an answer to our question from ourselves,
From our own experience since we can see clearly everywhere you look,
Nature,
In the ocean,
In the sky,
But the universe loves creating,
It loves variety.
As long as this question remains,
Whether you should participate in the act of creation and manifestation,
We can't move forward or inward.
The universe loves creation,
It loves manifestation,
It loves variety,
It loves the dance of form.
However,
Aside from this outer creative movement,
There is also the experience of being,
Consciousness.
Each one of us embodies these two movements,
So we feel torn between the outward movement into form and the inward movement to source.
The source that's still there is timeless.
This one source,
This life,
This consciousness in us,
And we feel drawn back to it.
And this longing for ourselves is what drives our outer longing,
Trying to find ourselves in the world of imagination.
And so this is the pull to spirituality that we're experiencing more and more today.
So the question here that is before us,
Is it possible to reconcile the inner movement towards stillness and being,
With the outer movement towards action,
Creation,
Manifestation?
Tol suggests that this is the universe's challenge to us.
In the past it was different,
But today it seems that this is what the universe is trying to do.
To reconcile the differences between the outer and the inner,
To allow consciousness to dictate so that activity is the product of being,
Not the other way around.
So the question we have to ask,
And that all masters of the ages have asked,
What is this I that claims individual life?
What is its essential nature?
It's like the light asking itself,
What is my essential nature?
The answer is you,
Conscious,
Silent awareness.
Is there a conflict between doing and being?
And the answer is no.
However,
Doing must come out of being.
That's called conscious manifestation.
So we're going to meditate on this I that we feel within ourselves.
It's not some idea,
It's not an idea.
It's the same I that seven,
Eight billion people on the face of this planet refer to when they answer to themselves.
They say I,
Non-reactive fact of my being,
Awareness,
The singularity of being.
So we're simply going to be inwardly looking.
Close your eyes and just becoming aware of the noises first,
The sounds around you,
My voice.
Now as you're listening to the sounds,
Just become aware of your body,
The sense of it.
Just experience it.
And now as you're experiencing this body,
Become aware of the fact of its breathing.
Inhale,
The body rises.
And with the exhale,
The body deflates.
Just notice your breathing and the feeling of the body.
Breathing and feeling the body.
Now recognize that it's the one life animating this body and that this one life is called I and that this I is aware.
Now become curious about this I.
I feeling body,
I hearing sounds,
Always coming back to the singularity,
To the undivided,
Undifferentiated I.
One I,
But many thoughts.
You are the background I,
Witnessing,
Silent,
Aware.
Meditate on this I.
Become more interested in awareness than in thoughts.
And now from here,
Manifestation can be a natural expression,
Motivated by the singularity of being,
Peace,
Stillness.
So that's it from me,
My friends.
I wish you well.
May we all anchor in the being of ourselves.
