Think of it this way:
At your core, is your essence, your IN-ESSENCE, your INNOCENCE. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can destroy it, enhance or go beyond it. As the Buddhist teachings tell us, this is our Buddha nature which is
1. Indestructible
2. Un-enhanceable
3. Un-surpassable
Everything that feels good has its source in this. I like to call this core, this essence, this field of consciousness Love or Infinite Intelligence, though I sometimes also refer to it as God, Divine Intelligence or the Transcendent Self.
Now, around this core, this essence, this innocence, is your conditioned, learned, self. This is where you experience those things that disturb your natural sense of wellbeing – anger, jealousy, fear, guilt, helplessness, craving, attachment, doubt, limitation and so on. This is the superficial level of your being.
You are never separated from your core but you have mostly lost sight of it because you have identified almost exclusively with your conditioned self. But, because you have not completely lost sight of your core, because it is always present, on a mostly unconscious level, you feel it and you feel the wonderfulness of it. Consequently, you are always seeking to return to this level of consciousness, to experience again and fully your essence or INNOCENCE OR Love.
The trouble is, your conditioning has taught you to search for this level of consciousness, or Love, which is really freedom from fear and all those other unpleasant emotions and states outside yourself, through other people and things.
But of course, you cannot find something where it is not.
What you are seeking is within you.
Neither can you find something in the way or form that it is not.
What you are seeking is everywhere yet not perceptible to any of the human senses.
To give that which we are seeking a name is to try and define and capture what is beyond defining and containing. And to go in search of what exists as a concept in our minds is to miss the boat altogether.
But does that mean we give up? Does it mean that it is futile to seek happiness, peace and freedom?
Not at all. But let’s go about it wisely. Let’s not mistakenly believe that we can trade time or money or affection or compromise or hard work for peace, joy and freedom. We can’t because peace, joy and freedom are our natural state. It is impossible to work for them, to ‘deserve’ them or to trade for them.
The only way we can find peace, joy and freedom is by ALLOWING them. And we allow them by dropping our conditioning, our learning, our beliefs and our habits. We allow them by simply being open to them.
Meditation is the practice and process by which we learn to drop our conditioning and allow the peace, power, joy and freedom that we naturally are, our Buddha nature, to take over us.MENTORING
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