Let Life Flow Like Water | H. Breton

Message by H. Breton

Submitted to Voyages of Light

One has been told through scriptures or books by spiritual masters to be in the present moment which is equivalent to saying, “abide as pure awareness/unconditional love”. To travel back in time or to go forward into an imaginary future requires one to dwell in the world of the mind, which only bears the fruits of endless worries. Furthermore, being in the present moment is not being in the egoic mind that loves to marginalize everything by thinking on that which it presently sees, hears, smells, feels, touches, and tastes. Why not let life be life? Let life flow like water. Do not attempt to stop it. If you stop the flow of water (life), you are met with resistance and you suffer as a result. Afterall, to allow life to express itself freely without manipulating, labeling, conceptualizing, judging, interpreting, and categorizing is to be abide as Unconditional Love/Pure Awareness. Irrespective of the way life chooses to express itself, you as pure awareness know that you are the background (essence) upon which life runs on. Thus, you are life and life is you. By stopping the flow of life, you stop the flow of unconditional love or rather, abidance as pure awareness within yourself. Hence, the multitude of thoughts that appear in the mind on a day-to-day basis. Just like prisoners lash out now-and-then when placed behind bars, life lashes out through the force of its resistance when bounded. You suffer as a result.

However, by being Unconditional Love, you are affecting those around you on an energetic level to be more accepting, peaceful, and happy. It may not be a direct change on a physical level, but it is definitely one on an energetic level that is far subtler. That which is present on a subtle level eventually manifests on a physical level. Thus, you are indirectly influencing everyone on a physical level with your unconditional love (subtler than the subtlest). That is precisely why everyone who was around the vicinity of Ramana Maharshi was always happy and at peace. He abided permanently as Unconditional Love/ Pure Awareness resulting in the transmittance of unconditional love to others around him. Depending on how receptive the seeker of Truth was, they would get a direct experience of the Self (Pure Awareness) just by being in his presence. It works just like osmosis.

A person that identifies as the body first has a thought (subtle level), identification with the thought takes place, and finally, an action on a physical level is performed. This is an ideal example of how that which was created on a subtle level manifests in the physical level. It happens every day to almost everyone. However, this example does not apply to that one who has attained to sahaja samadhi (permanent and natural/effortless abidance as Pure Awareness/Unconditional Love). Though they do actions, they know that they are doing nothing since they don’t identify as the body, but rather as pure consciousness which is all there is and will ever be. They are spontaneous just as life is. Life just happens. Similarly, in the sage’s point of view, the body and mind just spontaneously do something. When you have become one with life, life will become one with you. As a result, your life will flow smoothly. Things will naturally manifest at the divine right timing, not ego’s “divine” right timing. It will happen without you even making the intention, for to make an intention is itself indicative of separation between the one who intends and that which is intended. At this point, God, the sustainer, has taken the wheel. Hence, you no longer need to make any effort in driving the car of life. All that remains to be done is to be yourself, that of pure awareness/unconditional love. You have always been the Heart of Awareness, but somehow mistook the desert’s mirage (illusion) to be real. As a result, your personal interaction with it has enveloped you in the delusion of separation. But, now do away with it and remain in the Heart of Awareness. Bathe in its Unconditional Love, Bliss, and Peace. You are THAT…