Sunday, January 27, 2008

Surrender Ideas of Death

No aspect of God’s Creation can ever be lost. Consequently, no aspect of God’s Creation can ever die. There is no ceasing to life. Likewise, there is no ceasing to You. When I have said before that you are as God Created, I did not mean in the sense of a body or a temporal nature. This Self, I speak of, is a Self eternal and has no beginning or end within time. God Created this Self as an extension of His Own Being, containing all the very same limitless qualities of His Own Being. In this manner, You are alike your Creator in all ways. Therefore, if it was possible for you to die, it would be possible for God to die, and this is ceaselessly impossible.

The idea of death represents within the world only because you dream of separation. Is not the idea of death the ultimate separation? Death itself seems to prove the temporary nature of all things. Because death appears to exist, you feel the need to rush through life. You are constantly judging life out of fear for losing it. You incessantly worry about not having enough of every thought, experience, material item, or emotion in the limits of time. Likewise, when it appears that life has prematurely ceased, you react in anger and pain, mourning all that you feel was lost forever. Surely, without the idea of death, no one could ever lose. Why? Because without death, it appears that there would always be time and consequently eternal hope.

The ego, though, believes that it is hopeless. In its own uncertainty, it sees itself as constantly being at a loss and limited. The ego then represents this idea of limitation through the playing out of ultimate loss within the world. It seeks out a myriad of ways to experience loss, only because this is what it believes it is. Moreover, truly, what can be more of an ultimate loss, than complete loss of life itself?

I have said before that everything of the ego is a lie. Everything the ego bases itself on is a lie and therefore everything seen through the ego is a lie. Furthermore, every aspect of life treasured because of the possibility of loss, is professing this lie. God does not want you to treasure life out of fear of loss. This is not genuine peace, but merely fear. Therefore, if you think in terms of this fear, you are only reaffirming the lie within you.
However, today, we will remember that it is wholly possible to stop believing in this lie. Today we will walk into the Light beyond the shadows of a mind seeing itself in loss. Don’t worry, I’m not going to ask you resurrect anyone (smile).. except your Self.

Before we begin to stop believing in the acceptance of death, we must gain a deeper understanding of what life truly is. Life is God. Although words cannot define God wholly or accurately, He is the energy that IS. His Being IS beyond every notion of loss or limitation that a definition can profess. If you were to take a deep breath and feel, truly feel in oneness, the WHOLEness within you, it would appear as if everything that contains, defines or encircles you, would simply disappear and in that ever-present instant you would be left in complete awareness of only being free.

To the one who appears to die, it is this beingness, this ever-present breath of complete freedom in awareness that is felt. This is the described relief of death. However, it is important to note that this relief is available to you always, and is not dependent upon a physical or material loss in order to be experienced. This relief is also known as the Holy Instant, and this Instant of Complete Awareness lives in your True Expression always beyond any imagined ego world.

Therefore, you do not need to escape the world in order to know yourself. As I have said before, the idea of escape is merely another playing out of loss. Escape believes that it is evading harm rather than revealing all. Thus, yes, suicide is never a true answer, just a delayed experience of professing fear.

Let us reveal more about the reality of life. Take a moment now to consider every aspect that you recognize within life. Think of all the ways life has expressed itself to you. This can be through thoughts, circumstances, emotions, sights, and sounds. All ways that you consider life as being life to you are perfect for this exercise. Make a list if you would like. Now, we are going to do something completely radical. I would like you to go to your local newspaper and review some obituaries. Yes, I did say that I would like you to go to your local paper and review some obituaries. If you do not have access to a newspaper now, try the internet. Look up some reviews of people who have died and search within these writings for references to the aspects of life that you have written on your list.

For instance, if you have identified “family” or “parenting” as being an expression of life, see within these memorials where the writer mentions parenting. If the bestowing of happiness, peace or love to another is considered by you to be an expression of life, find within these memorials where it is stated that these people, in their life experience, expressed happiness, peace, or love. Find as many references as you can to your life expression list. We will use these memorials as the symbol for remembrance they are.

Now, I would like you to identify which of these life expressions are no longer possible.
Currently, since this person’s body is no longer in physical functioning, has anything from your list been permanently lost? Take a moment to consider this. Is any aspect of life expression permanently dependent upon a body’s existence? The point that I am making is that, in other words, has their body created the life expression, or was the life expression extended through the body? As you come to realize the answer, you will see how that even if these personalities have appeared to pass on – nothing is lost.

The body is a channel for God. It is a tool for expressing life, but the body is not life itself. Nor is God dependent upon this channel for His expression. Life expresses through all, but needs nothing. Nothing begins or ends in a body. Nothing that appears in a body, or expresses in a body, begins or dies in a body. This is the same with the world and all physical experience and is essential for you to learn. Once you come to realize how your life is not dependent on any THING, you will also no longer believe that Your True Self relates to the body or expresses solely in its limited terms. Likewise, once you realize how death is not anything but another form of the ego’s belief in limitation, you will realize how the absence of death is not just another concept to learn. The absence of death is reality. Trust me; Jeshua could not have demonstrated this if it were not true.

Your body has nothing within it. The body merely provides a channel for all that is real to flow through it. Therefore, life is always expressing without boundaries. It is the same with the personality. Your personality, likewise, is a channel for God. There is nothing forms solely from the personality or is dependent on the personality in order to be in existence. Consequently, when it appears the personality of someone is no longer in expression, this does not mean that life has left him or her. Instead, life is always expressing beyond a personality, body, or circumstance.

Life always is. Do not assume fear or judgment when life appears not to be expressing in the ways you have assumed it should. Therefore, I will say emphasize again, Life is never dependent and never ceases. Take this thought within you and dwell upon it. Allow yourself to realize, beyond your mind, exactly the awareness for which I am witnessing. Breathe and feel the knowledge (the revelation) for Who You Truly Are calling out to you, beyond all ideas of limitation. In this awareness, you shall come to reveal the Holy Instant as You are.

Tell me, when a light bulb burns out, does electricity cease to exist? When a radio is broken, does the signal stop broadcasting as well? Surely not. Thus, it is the same with you in relation to your body. Your body is a channel. It has no inherent value on its own. As a simple expression within the dream, it can be valued for its resourceful qualities. Indeed, even in your grandest imagination you can continue to express in memory of your Creator. However, no matter how ingenious your body’s workings are, to compare this tool to life itself would be the same as comparing a really finely crafted light bulb to the entirety of electric current. Fascinating idea, the body and the bulb, but surely neither can parallel in expression with the wonder of Love and Light You are.

Do not mourn for the loss of a body. Nothing that you love of it is lost. It is just merely misinterpreted. The current, which is the expression of Life, continues to thrive through all. Again, I do not mean for you to realize this awareness solely for intellectualization. Cease your attempts to think through this and simply be the life you are.

A significant obsession with the ego is that it believes it can be lost. This belief is one of the most false you possess. Creation is eternal. All aspects of creation are eternal. This is so and never undone. Therefore, today, as we come together to surrender the idea of death, we will allow the awareness of life to be unbound.

Take as many moments today to let the fullness of life’s expression to flow through you. Breathe and quiet your mind. I will show you exactly how to let this simple beingness express within the Holy Instant. However, in order to simply be, you first must release all dependencies. Most importantly, you must seek to release your dependency upon fear, for fear solely witnesses to your investment in limitation. Therefore, this is why I am asking you to approach your awareness today like a game. Please do go out into the world and delicately observe the flow of life all around you. See how it does not depend upon anything, but instead flows freely through all channels of body and mind. Be joyous for the sensation of warmth upon your face. Exult as you hear laughter and dedicate a quiet hallowed space for tears. All of these are expressions of life. Realize that God does not limit you to anything, but only celebrates in all forms of expression where life can simply be.

As you stay within this hallowed space today, call to your attention, that death has no place here. Recognize that death cannot mute life, for even silence is an expression of life itself. The flow you are continues through all, beyond all forms, revealing its Self eternally. As you surrender to this awareness, you step closer to resting completely in the Holy Instant You are always and all ways. I love you.

Daily Thought: The Holy Instant I am cannot die.

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