Seeing the False as False
Gold Nugget:
Whenever you try to figure something out in the world, and you try to figure out a scenario or situation, you are trying to know what cannot be known. You are blocking the light of yourself, of your reality, of your Creator by trying to know something that can never be known.
That is what this so called ‘journey without distance,’ is really about: to first see the false as false. Then that frees you up to laugh. And then, when you see the false as false, how could you participate or invest in it? Why would you invest in falsity when you can experience truth?
So, I hope and pray that this will be very, very practical for you. That, if you find yourself disturbed or upset, that it will become apparent that there is just something in you that is still is clinging. There is something that is still holding. And you can just gently open and not hold anymore.
Love can seem scary, and you have to see that you need help. And you can call on that. You can say, I don’t even know what this is, it doesn’t even make any sense that I would be afraid of Love. I don’t know what that means, but I want to fully experience and extend Love. I want to open my heart fully to that. That is my prayer. And I don’t have to figure out the how.
A lot of times people come to enlightenment retreats and many ‘how’ questions come up. Maybe this is the one retreat where we lay aside the how.
Now, our prayer is for an experience, and that the experience of Presence is what it is all about. That is my heart’s prayer for all of you. I just want you to truly be happy, to be able to just bask in that happiness and radiate that happiness with full confidence and full trust.”
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