Welcome to the Path to Freedom.
My name is Daniel Rochiyo and as always,
I'm truly and deeply grateful that you're choosing to join me,
That you're choosing to participate in the moment of expanding our consciousness,
In the moment of raising our vibration.
Through becoming more aware,
Through increasing our understanding of that which is,
That which is true,
That which is real.
So thank you,
Thank you so much for joining me in this.
Today's theme is a story about an ant.
A story about an ant.
And this is a story,
It's an analogy or a metaphor for spirit being omniscient and spirit knowing all there is to know and seeing all there is to see.
And that we are wise to give spirit permission to guide and lead and move us as we move along the path of awakening,
Along the path of freedom,
Along the path of manifestation,
Allowing for our intentions and our visions and dreams to emerge here in this dimension.
And so,
I want you to imagine standing on a lawn.
You're standing on a lawn and on one side of the lawn,
To the left,
There's an anthill.
In the middle of the lawn,
There's an ant.
To the right side of you,
There's a mound of sugar,
A sugar mound.
And that ant,
In the middle,
It is going back and forth.
It turns left,
It crawls underneath the blades of grass,
It climbs over twigs,
It runs into dead ends,
It makes a left,
It makes a right turn,
It goes in circles,
And it's trying to find its way to the sugar mound.
To the ant,
The anthill represents the past,
That's where it's coming from.
And where the ant is right now represents the present.
And the sugar mound represents the future.
So that's how it is for the ant,
And that is how it is for us humans,
As we take on this human form.
We get trapped by time.
But for you,
Standing on the lawn,
Having a much higher vantage point than the ant,
You can see the anthill,
You can see the ant,
And you can see the sugar mound.
All in one,
All now.
Here and now.
And from your perspective,
It is very easy for you to see whether the ant is straying off the path,
If it gets lost,
If it makes a wrong turn,
Or if it moves straight toward the sugar mound.
And it is very easy for you from above,
From high above,
High on up above,
To see any obstacle that may be along the ant's path toward the sugar mound.
So,
If you in any way could communicate with the ant,
You'd be able to guide and lead and move that ant in a beautiful and perfect way.
The most efficient way,
The most convenient way,
The easiest way,
The most grace-filled way.
If you could tell the ant to turn left,
Or to turn right,
Or to speed up,
Or to slow down,
Or whatever the case may be.
And now you may be wondering,
What does this ant have to do with me?
And that's a valid question,
Obviously.
But we are like that ant,
As we set out to see an intention or a vision manifested here in this dimension.
As we set out to call something forth,
The good that we desire,
To call it into our experience.
We're like that ant.
Having the perception that we,
At one point in the future,
Were over there.
And now we're here,
And we're seeking to move into some future moment.
We're wishing for that future moment to be our present moment right now.
So for us,
There's a past,
A present,
And a future.
And as we move from past to the future,
We're scurrying like that ant.
We get lost,
And we stray,
And we run into obstacles.
And we run into dead ants,
And we fall,
And we get back up,
And we fall,
And we trip,
And we slow down,
And we speed up.
Without having any clue whatsoever as to where we're actually headed.
And this is for the individual who's cut themselves off from being guided and moved and led by the still small voice of intuition,
By spirit,
Trying to make the manifestation happen on their own.
And so we are so wise,
Just like the ant would be wise,
To lean into your high vantage point,
To seek your counsel,
To seek your guidance as the ant moves toward the sugar mound.
And just like that ant would be wise to surrender to our guidance,
We are so,
So wise to surrender to spirit.
Because spirit has the highest vantage point.
And from that highest vantage point,
God sees all and knows all.
So God knows exactly what our desires are,
What we seek to call into manifestation,
The good that we want.
And God knows exactly the perfect timing for when something is to manifest,
And the perfect path toward that manifestation.
So if we,
As we move along the path of manifestation,
As if we become still,
Turn within,
Tune in to that still small voice,
We will be beautifully guided and moved and led.
Always,
Always,
Always in language and in a way that we can understand.
And that still small voice,
It speaks to us through feelings,
Through visions,
Through sounds,
Through kinesthetic sensations,
Physical sensations,
Through an inner knowing.
And God knows how many other channels and means that God has to communicate with us,
To guide and lead and move us.
But we need to be willing.
If we stuff our ears full of cotton and put blindfolds over our eyes and just think that we know best how our dreams and visions and good that we desire,
How it is to manifest and when it is to manifest,
Then we shut God out.
Relying only on our physical senses and how limited are we?
I mean,
How limited are we?
Like,
I'm sitting in a room right now,
I'm sitting in my office and there,
In front of me there's a window and there's a door leading into the room and I can see outside the window.
But next to the window,
There are walls on either side.
And so even though I have a memory of what used to be outside these walls,
I can't see what's outside these walls.
And I can't see what is on the other side of the door leading into the room.
I have belief.
I have a memory of what used to be there,
But I can't see it.
So we are so,
So limited to our physical senses.
And so many of us choose,
Out of lack of understanding,
Choose to rely solely on what we can see,
What we can feel,
What we can hear,
What we can smell,
What we can taste,
What we can touch.
So we cut ourselves off from the infinite source of wisdom and knowledge and guidance.
Which is why so many of us get lost.
Which is why so many of us get stuck.
Because we keep bumping into the same obstacle.
Not because there's no way out,
But because we close ourselves off from catching the way out.
From being guided to the way out.
So this story about the ant,
To me it's a beautiful analogy,
A beautiful metaphor.
Reminding me that whenever I try to make something happen,
I'm wise to become still,
Turn within,
Tune within,
And seek guidance.
Tune into that still,
Small voice that is eternally and intimately connected to the one mind.
The mind that knows all,
That sees all.
So I'm trusting that this analogy serves you as beautifully as it has served me,
And will continue to serve me along this path.
Thank you so so much for tuning in,
For participating,
For listening.
Until the next time,
I bless,
Bless,
Bless your day,
And I bless,
Bless,
Bless your way.
Namaste.
