The Messenger

Let’s take a deep breath-in wherever you are… hold the breath… focus deeply and inwardly… slowly exhale…

And inhale again deeply… hold the breath… focus deeply, inwardly… slowly exhale…

And inhale again deeply… hold the breath, focus inwardly… and slowly exhale…

Just allow yourSelf to experience the natural presence…

As you breathe and allow, don’t resist any sound, and just loosen into presence…

Relax… you’re being guided…

In fact, the next message you need in this living story will always be exactly where YOU are when you need it..

The message may be in the form of a teacher, or a friend, or a rival…

The message may be a stone, or a tree, or a book …

It may be a feeling of great despair, or a physical illness …

It may be in the eyes of a person you pass on the street…

Do you understand Now?…

Please remember; the ego-mind will continuously mistake these messages.

Considering these experiences mundane, unimportant.. irrelevant…

Mistaking the messenger for a stranger…

Yet if you are completely present and aware, you will find that the very most relevant clues are always awaiting your arrival…

But who are you?

For Now, just allow your focus on relationships, events and objects to relax…

Whether you are aware of it or not, the True Self; your very BEing, is always present…

Quietly shining in the background of ALL experience…

The rudeness of one person, or the anger of another — these are exceedingly slight things which should be received with indifference…

For behind these events, here-in lies the message…

Misinterpretations of the “other-Self” cloud one’s conscious presence…

Do not allow these “other-selves” to confuse you... to be mis-interpreted…

so that you may BE present, and receive the message…

The one thing of supreme importance is your lucid, flowing presence Now…

Now has nothing to do with time; Now is just another word for awareness itSelf.

Let nothing touch or disturb this…

And receive the meaningful clues awaiting you between the lines…

You see;

You have nothing in this world to conquer, challenge or to transcend apart from your mind...

Instead of being caught in the scene, allow yourself to just BE witness…

Remember; the witness is never involved in the scene…

The moment you get involved in the scene, you become part of the scene and thus, fall into a character in the scene…

Instead, remain present, yet unattached to the outcome…

And you will come to know with absolute certainty that;

Nothing can trouble you but your own mind…

You see… the message is always awaiting your reception, in pure presence…

You will come to disregard your desires and fears, your concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone..

What was never lost can never be found…

Your very search for safety and joy keeps you away from them…

Stop searching — BE presently found…

It is your mind only that makes you insecure, unhappy and unsure…

Anticipation makes you insecure, memory — unhappy…

Stop misusing your mind and BE in a flowing state of allowing, of awareness…

The only limitation to our access to the very message that’s currently relevant for us is our state of Consciousness…

And Consciousness, of course, is the fundamental baseline of all things…

The one reality that cannot be argued is that you exist…

All that comes and goes are but effects, and the true Self, is the one unaffected by the effects...

Having Now had enough of the endless workings of the mind, the wise one comes to rest…

For ultimately, what is revealed is that One is both the messenger and the message…

In Light,

J