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The human experience
For most of us it appears as we are a separate individual that has to deal with an external world that seems to be a restless movement of experience. As the focus of our attention is habitually directed from within to a seemingly external reality a sense of ‚I’ that is in the world is generated. So we believe that we are a personal entity who lives life and tries to master the challenges of existence. This energetic movement from the inside out, this habitual direction of attention from the inside to the outside - from here to there - causes the subtle yet so familiar sense of fear, stress and effort accompanied with the idea of wanting to overcome the endless circle of limited HUMAN EXPERIENCE. This sense of ‚me’ who leads ‚my’ life which occurs to be the summary of all ‚my’ experiences is most rarely questioned.
The recognition of truth
The recognition of who we truly are - TRUTH - is the fruit that is gained by a gentle shift of attention away from the ever-changing content of experience to that which is aware of all experience in every moment. This shift of attention is accompanied with the realisation that there never has been a separate I that acted in or lead a personal life. It has always been life that has lived itself through us. This gentle and natural returning of attention to its own source that is awareness itself invites everything outside and inside to come to complete resting, stillness and to a most gentle softening yet without the sense of an experiencer. It is resting that comes to rest. It is stillness that is still. It is softening that returns to softness. There is nobody who recognises truth but it is truth that recognises itself as being that which is ever present, ever fresh and ever alive. It is love that loves.
Living as love
LIVING AS LOVE is being an invitation for life to fully come into us instead of moving towards life. It is softly being the space that allows life to completely have us instead of being someone having life. Being love is the unconditional availability to let the experience of every moment gently kiss and touch every place in us that it wants to touch. In gently resting as complete wakeful passivity life can finally entirely enter the system. It is allowed to gently take over and with its incomprehensible intelligence and compassion can fully have us. Than everything that wants to be met and that has troubled mankind for thousands of years can come home. With loving gentleness we are replaced by the full force and love of life itself. From the deepest core love can freely play its sweet melody through us like a musician would joyfully play a song on a flute. Then life no longer belongs to us but we belong to life. Then love no longer is for us but we are for love. Then life is a sole embrace of existence being completely conscious of its own aliveness and all is given but nothing is for us.
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