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How Hungry For Thoughts Are You?
I taught a Resurfacing class (first two days of the Avatar course)
this weekend, and I realized something...
But first, I have to set the stage for it:
If you are like me, you may have been to many, many seminars.
What you like about them is that you are getting more information,
more knowledge, new things to think about.
It feeds your need for knowledge. When you learn something
new, you love it. You feel bigger, closer to the truth that you
are looking for.
It is exciting. Along the years I have met many students
like myself who were almost addicted to new information.
There is such a pleasure in learning.
The mind is like a hungry God, asking for more and
more new thoughts to munch on.
And these seminars are great to feed our monster mind.
But slowly, after hundreds of hours of seminars, and
dozens of great teachers, one may begin to realize that
all these teachers have a set of beliefs that they consider
their truth. And that their purpose is to teach us;
to convince us that their truth is the right one, the best one.
Sometimes they would like us to believe that it is the
only one.
And something strange happens when you have
listened to enough teachers. You realize that often
the information and beliefs contradict each other.
And the strangest thing is that they all have results!
Each of them have proof their belief is the best.
It is confusing. So at the end you need to choose
between these different belief systems.
I remember several years ago. I was so confused for awhile.
I had so much information I didn't know what to do with it.
I had to make a choice. Which one would I use in my practice?
Coming back to this weekend's story...
So, I was teaching Resurfacing with several
other Avatar Masters, and I realized how some
students at first were looking for answers and thinking
it through and feeling more and more frustrated.
This morning as I was pondering upon this fact,
I suddenly understood that the frustration came from
the expectation that this workshop would be similar
to the hundreds of other workshops they had gone to
before--which was a pretty logical thought after all.
But it wasn't!!!
The difference was that there was no belief to sell
in this workshop.
Every belief was OK to have, we were not selling
new ideas, exciting new view points to try out.
Nothing, nada, zip....
The only underlying theme for the seminar was that
our beliefs create our reality. And even that belief was not imposed.
We had exercises that may or may not lead the student
to this conclusion. It was their choice to agree with
it or not.
It didn't matter to us what they thought about it. It was OK.
So, here we were meeting for two days and no
belief to sell. What a new concept for all these
students.
So, why stay, if the mind would not be fed?
Good question.
The answer is that then we might discover something
above the mind, some place beyond beliefs and
judgment.
Like the poet Rumi writes in:
- There is a field
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.
So, this weekend was about going beyond
the ideas of "wrongdoing and rightdoing",
to explore that field...
For that, we need to put the hungry God to sleep,
to quiet the mind, and start experiencing; feeling.
The realm that is beyond our mind is a field of sensations
that is felt and is not accessible through the regular thinking
processes.
It is a totally new field for most of the students.
A place they had no clue existed.
So with these very simple exercises --that were starving the mind--
students began to let themselves feel.
From that space they were able to slowly observe what was there,
make their own conclusions and have their own realizations.
It was rising above the thinking mind and into the realm of
pure consciousness of the observer.
Sometimes, the mind didn't want to go for a nap and
resisted hard. It wanted to dominate and ended up creating
a sense of frustration because there was really nothing to
understand there. Nothing.
At first one needs to have some willingness to let the mind go and
listen to what one really feels and senses...not what one
should be sensing or experiencing.
There is no should in this realm. What is, is what is :)
What! There is nothing to believe? Nothing to
understand? There is really no truth out there,
but the one I choose to believe in?
The hungry Gods are getting really agitated.
They are looking for something to munch on.
They are starving...
Observing what is, instead of thinking about what is... We are
beginning to untangle ourself from this limited view point that
we see life through.
The solidity of "I am this" and "I am not that"
begins to soften.
We begin to observe our thoughts, observe our
beliefs.
The excitement is different now. It comes
from the pleasure of having a realization, an a-ha moment!
It comes from discovering what we truly believe,
not what we thought we believe.
It is self-discovery.
So, slowly it becomes clear that some painful
aspects of our lives don't have to be
re-enacted forever...
When we uncover the real beliefs behind the creation,
we can easily change them.
I choose!!! And when I choose a new belief, I get to experience the
result of this new belief.
It is a freeing experience.
We find our mind quieting, finally. Relaxing.
A few of the students reminded me of how disappointed
and frustrated I was too, 17 years ago, when I began to starve
the mind...
But then the pleasures are extraordinary when we realize we
are not our mind. We can rise above it, direct it, truly choose
any thought and beliefs we prefer.
From that space we feel like children in a candy
store...hmm...I wonder which thought feels the best?
Do I really want to munch for the rest of my life on this
same old belief?
This is the question!
Warmly,
Colette
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