Truth is the other side of the coin to Love. Each of them leads to the realisation of your essential nature. Actually, it’s like yin and yang: they are opposites but each one contains the seed of the other and together they make up the whole.
Whereas Love is the feminine principle of unbounded openness, Truth is the masculine principle of deep presence. Truth means being RIGHT HERE NOW. It means seeing things as they are, no frills, no adjustments, just naked awareness.
Contrary to what most people think, Truth is not some abstract belief system that we have to go on a spiritual search to find. Some people think that they have to find Truth by seeking it outside of themselves. But Truth can only be found by diving deep inside THIS moment.
Truth is the direct experience of WHAT IS.
Truth may be simple but not always easy. Our ability to see what is true may be clouded by conditioning. Mostly what we see is coloured by I like, I don’t like, I want or I don’t want. The canvas of our reality is formed from childhood patterns, lessons learnt about how life is and then galvanized into good and bad.
Sometimes conditioning paints shades of shame and hues of hurt and then we believe this is how the world is. Each time we contract from life because we can’t bear to feel the full depth of our pain, a shadow is cast on reality.
Each time we close down to deny the discomfort, we avoid looking life straight in the eye. With time, our vision gets distorted.
The illusions of pity and blame…
Any deviation from experiencing the full depth of THIS moment means we are living a lie. You live a lie every time you create a story-line - about yourself, about someone else, about the world, about life or about God. One of the most common story-lines is why is this happening to me? I call this the poor me syndrome.
If in the face of life’s challenges your favourite response is why me? or what’s wrong with me? I must be stupid/bad/unlovable or what have I done wrong? I’m being punished by my friends/family/boss/life/God (or any variations on this theme) then you can be sure you identify with 'poor me.'
The other most common response is 'it’s so and so’s fault.' This is the blame syndrome. If you frequently say or think it’s my fault, I must be wrong or life’s difficult, it stinks! or the devil made me do it or God shouldn’t have let this happen (or any variations on this theme) then you are caught in the blame syndrome.
When we get stuck in judging and labelling, we lose sight of the truth.
When we hold tight to our opinions, to our right and wrong, we get caught up in thinking instead of resting in being. Eventually, the lies we create to cushion the bare truth of our suffering build a wall that distances us from life itself. Every time we create a story-line, we limit our experience and life feels like a struggle.
When we resist WHAT IS, not only do we lose the perfection of the unobstructed moment, but we also forget who we are. Instead of allowing our true radiance to shine through everything we say and do, we hide behind the mask of small self. Seeing the world through the myopic lens of self centered thinking keeps us small, separate and very lonely.
Only when you penetrate THIS moment exactly AS IT IS can the truth of your own magnificence be revealed. When there is nowhere you can run to, you burn in the fire of awareness and a light is shone on all the dark recesses where you may hide in shame, guilt, fear and blame.
Opening to life means being truthful to yourself about how you really feel.
Only by admitting the depth of your suffering can you move beyond it, not by side-stepping it but by going through it. The more you open to life, the deeper your experience and the closer you get to the truth of who you are.
The truth is that life is both amazing and agonising, both beautiful and terrifying.
Truth is like a sword that cuts through all your mediocre expectations, unfulfilled dreams and lukewarm attempts to be this or that in order to reveal the full splendour of your essential nature.
In cutting through all that is false, you are left with the absolute emptiness of Being that is your crowning glory. The truth is that who you think you are does not exist.
Only the infinite silence of your consciousness is real.
God is both our essential nature as well as the essence of life itself.
God is the infinite intelligence that is the source of creation, the One that is the totality of existence. Everything that exists is a manifestation of the One. And this includes every human being, every living creature, everything that we create, every event, action, thought and feeling.
God is life itself. And life is simply that WHICH IS. The closer we get to experiencing the pure unadulterated IS-ness of life, the closer we get to God.
So, next time you catch yourself judging the world as right or wrong or labelling your experience as good or bad, stop! Take a breath, slow down and let your awareness drop into your body. Allow yourself to see with the eyes of your heart.
Allow yourself to absorb the explosion of every sensation, to experience the profundity of every feeling, to float in the immensity of silence permeating every moment. The truth of THIS moment will set you free!