Finding Comfortable Balance In Daily Life Expressing The Impersonal Will Of Love, Understanding And Beauty
Understanding The Nature of Experience
At the core of our experience, the only thing we can be totally certain of is the experience of a formless, ever-present, never-changing realness. This realness is inseparable from the awareness of itself, which appears in the transient form of a dream comprising various forms. These forms are filtered, recognised, conceptualised, remembered, and objectified, presenting an imaginary version of this realness.
Waking From The Dream
There is no ultimate goal of the mind's dream other than to reflect our true nature. It reminds us through the psychological pain of not being aware of it, encouraging us to invest instead in the belief in the dream of a limited personal existence as if that were reality. In truth, the mind cannot comprehend this aware realness as personal. As the mind acknowledges its lack of understanding and releases the belief of personal limitation onto our true nature, we become free to experience it as the source of all appearances.
Universal Qualities Of Love, Understanding and Beauty
Instead of feeling we live in a world of separate forms and people, we begin to understand they are all appearances of the formless aware realness. This comprehension translates into an experiential, unattached love for and appreciation for the beauty of all forms. The three great markers of recognising our true nature are the understanding of its realness, the impersonal unattached love it evokes for all forms and the perception of their beauty as appearances it. This is the safe refuge the mind has been seeking all along—this is indestructible wholeness.
Mastering The Mind, Not Letting It Be The Master
From this place of understanding, the mind can surrender its frantic, neurotic search for security in illusory and temporary forms and find its peace in the formless, ever-present, never-changing realness. In this respect, in "The Universal Family," I equate the mind to a lesser form of neurotic intelligence that is very useful but should not be the master of our life. It is similar to an immature adolescent, whereas the formless, ever-present realness is the true parental reality. Once the parent recognises itself, it can enjoy the various appearances of form, knowing they are appearances of itself as if they were its children or one universal child. While the mind may be helpful in conceptualising these forms, these conceptualisations should not dictate daily life as they are but a dream arising from the underlying realness. With this understanding, we can respect the body-mind-world process, which is full of survival wisdom that ensures safety.
Finding A Comfortable Balance In Daily Life Expressing The Impersonal Will Of Love, Understanding and Beauty
However, there is a significant difference between listening to our body-mind-world (our Universal Family) when we embody the oneness of the true parent that loves all things versus believing we are the separate personal awareness our mind thinks we are. In the latter case, we will be at the mercy of our neurotic fears of separation, and the instinctual needs of the body-mind world will be interpreted selfishly or to a limited extent. For example, we may limit our love to a partner, family, or small community but not to all beings alive. In other words, our instincts will be shaped by psychological fear, leading to limitation and imbalance, even if it initially appears natural. Lasting balance can only be achieved when the parental aware reality is consciously present, and the children of the body-mind-world are contextualised within its wholeness. Until then, there will be a tendency towards uncomfortable imbalance and dependency on objects, people, belief systems and the dream in general. This can only result in social division, tribalism, nationalism, cults and political extremism.
Love,
Freyja