There Is No Need To Escape
As we observe the horrors of the world, we are, in truth, observing the horrors of all minds and humbly recognising that, at that moment, we are that which is free of this horror. In being that which is free of the mind, we experience ourselves as the presence that is the source of the mind itself. A presence that the power of the mind has come to wilfully ignore through its focused insistence on investing its sense of security in its limited metaphorical patterns as if these appearances were the only reality. In doing this, it seeks to escape its own horror.
This wilful ignorance of the presence of being by the mind is often finally breached as, despite all its efforts, it finds no peace in its metaphors of reality and finally surrenders the thought of escaping to some other place and time to find peace. It opens to the experience of the parental presence, which is the true nature of our being and which the mind humbly recognises it cannot know if this presence is a capacity of itself and therefore its child. Consequently it finally opens to the possibility that it, the mind, is the child of this presence.
In this moment, as we glimpse our essential presence and take our stand as the parent of the mind, there is a great peace of mind and body. This state, however, is not the presence of our being, and to make it so, will be to reduce our being to an intellectual escape from suffering. This experience may be used as a final attempt by the mind to maintain its mastery, claiming this mental and physical state is the peace that has been sought all along. Though this intellectual awakening at least provides a stage of calm. We must not be confused at this point, for this is the mind’s final attempt to objectify our being by reducing it to a physiological state it can recognise.
What is there observing all states of mind and body is the presence of our being, regardless of the blissful or painful state of the mind and body. The door to this is understanding itself, which is the language of our being. Understanding itself is the instantaneous quality of wisdom that arises from our being, distinct from the process of recognising patterns of information that characterise the mind.
As the mind humbly opens to recognise that it is not what is understanding, then what is understanding instantly experiences itself as this source and is at one with itself. This oneness is the source of aliveness, life force energy, and the substance of all things and all individual minds. This full awakening to the source of understanding and aliveness itself, which, unlike the mind and body, never sleeps, is never an escape but the flame that shines powerfully back through our individual lives. It is the passion, universal love, compassion, and courageous wisdom of the universal parent for its children, the mind and the body and world. From the indestructible safety of this, living becomes an act of engaged love rather than escape.
Love,
Freyja