For hundreds of years the crown jewel of the non secular quest has been Enlightenment or Religious Freedom. Any actually liberated soul will inform you that you’re already awake. The massive cosmic joke that’s revealed to us on the finish of years of tireless searching for is that what we discover is one thing that was already ours.
In my final submit I wrote about how non secular freedom can solely be ours as soon as we all know deep in our hearts that it’s attainable. Now I wish to go one step additional and say that not solely do should we all know that liberation is feasible, we additionally have to know that it’s already ours.
We’re already free.
As soon as we understand this then there’s nothing left to do apart from settle for the very fact. Within the context of meditation, liberation is just the state of being precisely right here within the current second the place nothing is lacking, nothing is incorrect, nothing wants to vary, and nothing must be completely different than it’s.
There isn’t a pressure round needing to be wherever apart from right here or needing something to be something apart from what it already is.
Once I say that liberation is already yours, I imply that there’s already a spot in your being, part of your present expertise, that’s fully at peace with the way in which issues are, fully at one with no matter arises within the current second, and already has no want for something to be apart from what it’s.
This perception is essential as a result of it fully adjustments our relationship to meditation. It’s straightforward after we meditate to consciously or unconsciously assume that we have to go someplace apart from right here with the intention to be free.
After we understand that there’s a a part of us that’s all the time already free, and that all the time already exists on this second, as freedom, then we understand that the one place that freedom may be discovered is right here. The one place that good contentment may be discovered is right here.
There is part of you that may by no means really feel completely content material. It doesn’t matter what occurs and it doesn’t matter what your expertise is, a part of you’ll expertise no matter is occurring as someway incorrect, poor, or just “not it.” In case your consideration is on this sense of deficiency in your self, then you’ll not expertise good contentment.
And right here is the entire level:
The truth that you will have your consideration on the a part of your expertise that may by no means be content material doesn’t imply that another place in your being, another a part of your expertise, isn’t already completely content material now.
The apply of meditation just isn’t a apply of adjusting your expertise. It’s not a motion from an expertise that’s “not it” towards another expertise that’s. It isn’t any type of altering the expertise you’re having in order that it could possibly turn into the expertise of freedom.
It’s merely permitting your self to know that good contentment is already yours even when your consideration occurs to be some place else. Even when your consideration is on part of your self that feels discontent, unsettled, unresolved, incomplete, uncomfortable, or no matter else it is perhaps, freedom and excellent contentment are already yours.
There is part of you that has all the time been free, has all the time been content material, and has all the time been at peace with the way in which issues are—even with the truth that your consideration is usually captivated by part of your expertise that’s not at peace.
The motion of meditation just isn’t a motion from one consciousness to a different, or perhaps a motion from one place in consciousness to a different. Meditation is an acceptance of the totality of who you already are no matter what your expertise is perhaps.
Freedom is actually already right here.
That is so laborious to actually get that it is going to be a theme that we return to over and over all through the remainder of this submit. The liberation you search, the liberty you search, the contentment you search is already right here regardless of the way it appears.
There isn’t a motive to attempt to perceive that. There isn’t a motive to attempt to persuade your self of the reality of it. Your thoughts will in all probability by no means settle for it. It’s true anyway.
You merely give up to the fact of it after which see what occurs. You place no calls for in your expertise to shift. No matter you’re experiencing proper now, no matter it’s, doesn’t want to vary one single bit.
Freedom is simply as accessible within the expertise you’re having proper now as it’s in another attainable expertise you could possibly be having. Freedom is all the time fully accessible. All we’ve to do is be accessible to it.
Good contentment is all the time already yours no matter what you might be experiencing and no matter what your consideration could also be centered on at any given second.
The truth that may be so troublesome for us to simply accept is that freedom is already ours. There isn’t a actuality apart from the one we’re already in.
There isn’t a place to go and nothing it’s essential do with the expertise you might be having proper now, even with this sense, even with that thought, even with this expertise, even with that, and even with anything that may probably come up.
None of it makes freedom any much less accessible as a result of part of you is already free, already completely content material. Meditation is simply an enlargement into the totality of who you already are.
We’re so conditioned and so educated to restrict who we’re by the sphere of what we occur to be consciously conscious of. It’s like being in a darkened room, utilizing solely a slim flashlight beam to see by, and pondering that the one issues that exist in that room are what that skinny beam can illuminate. We assume that nothing exists out past the sides of the sunshine.
However the a part of your expertise that occurs to be illuminated by the sunshine of your aware consideration just isn’t the entire of your expertise. Your expertise extends method past the sides of your aware consideration.
If the expertise that’s at the moment illuminated by the sunshine of your aware consideration just isn’t considered one of freedom and contentment, that doesn’t imply that freedom and contentment aren’t already yours. It doesn’t imply that freedom and contentment aren’t already part of your expertise.
Simply because the flashlight beam within the darkened room occurs to be illuminating just one wall doesn’t imply that the others aren’t there.
While you uncover the liberty that exists outdoors of the bounds of your aware consciousness you cease needing to control your aware consciousness. that freedom is already there and so that you don’t really feel any have to find it to make certain.
It’s like understanding that the solar continues to be there on a cloudy day. You by no means worry that the solar is gone. it’s there and it’ll return into view when the clouds half. The invention of true freedom doesn’t imply that you’ll all the time be at liberty, however you’ll always remember that you’re.
Liberation will all the time be yours when you understand that there’s a a part of your expertise that’s, was, and can all the time be free, even when it exists past the bounds of your aware consciousness. On this realization you understand that freedom and contentment is all the time already yours.
At that time, which is now, you might be free from any have to have your expertise be something apart from what it’s since you are already free and content material, completely awake and conscious anyway. You understand that your expertise expands far past the illuminating mild of your aware consciousness.
You loosen up into the totality of your being, needing to do nothing, needing to go nowhere. Then the miraculous actuality of who you might be has the chance to unfold in no matter method it is going to.
