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Life is a blessing in every moment. No matter where we are, or what is occurring, the gift of life is still our cradle. Acknowledging and having gratitude for this opens us deeply to the experience of life truly as a miracle. When we lack this acknowledgment, when we are closed to the gratitude and recognition of the opportunity before us, we obstruct our experiencing of the miracle of life.  

Right now, in this eternal life presence, a miracle is occurring, an infinite miracle, an eternal miracle. Yet with a mind that sees life through the ego, structure, form, story and identity dominate. With this perception, it seems miracles are few and far between. And even those miracles that occur are taken for granted or seen as insubstantial.

Mankind’s greatest obstruction to experiencing the miracle of life is in the misperception of the ego that clings to the idea of life in very limited constructs. In this dependence on structure most of humanity is reliant, addicted to order and organising through mind and form. The ego’s habit is to continually recreate experiences equating greater joy, fulfilment, success, security, pleasure and the idea of unity through the mind’s constructed conditions – a false idea of security and happiness which results in cycles of struggle.

Yet when we relinquish this stranglehold of the ego the weight of our struggles are lifted. When we settle into our deeper heart’s presence, free of the stories, our life seems to be filled with miracles. Actually, it’s not really that life is suddenly miraculous. It’s that once we remove the veils we can see life as it truly is. And when we see life as it truly is we live in synchronous wonder.

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First of all I would like to acknowledge all of the people who read the blogs. It is wonderful to hear of your own experiences and the passion with which you are all seeking to understand truth in your self. Please feel free to continue sharing and asking questions by sending an email. Although I may not get to all of them – you might find your own question appearing in a blog.

Daniel from Germany asked:

What exactly is Awakening?

Firstly, Awakening has no exact definition. This is because Awakening is about a process of shifting from the unconscious states of the ego driven identity to a conscious and experiencing state of Self as the eternal awareness and Oneness of all life. It is also because it is a state in which we transcend definition and become pure being.
In the ego driven state a person experiences life dominantly through the constructed identity and perception of being separate from others, life and God (the ALL – source and creator being of life). The individual believes in themselves as an actual personality – a ‘somebody’ defined by their body and events of their life. In this state it is the logical left brain activity that is dominant. Life is experienced in dualistic terms: up down, right wrong, me you etc. Consequently, life is constantly defined and labeled. It is believed that life really is what the mind has defined. The individual lives under the illusion of the mind, totally unaware that they are directed by a great big load of stories! This plays out through subconscious and unconscious feedback loops  Hence a person’s life feels like a constant swing between good and bad moments of pleasure and pain. Life is very conditional on circumstances. A person’s happiness is dependent on the circumstances and events of their life. And the person lives in the fog of the mind’s illusion, disconnected from the centred state of the NOW.
Awakening occurs through an ongoing process that integrates over many stages. During this process a person begins to experience direct states of awareness in which there is a remembering – a reconnection with knowing the true Self as eternal awareness and being. Through various direct activities and experiences (such as meditation) the right brain becomes more active. A gradual state of entrainment between the right and left hemispheres results in deeper and higher conscious activity. The mind becomes very still. There is a deep centredness in the moment of the NOW and the individual enters a state free of the mind’s stories and projections. In this it is directly experienced and realized that this Self is vastly beyond the body-mind of the ‘individual’. This Self is infinite and at One with all things. This Self is both the One which is undifferentiated and the manifestation of every unique expression in the universe. It is like a veil is lifted and life is seen in its full glory. All questions fall away, and along with it, the belief in a constructed identity: a ‘somebody’. In this state a profound sense of liberation occurs – there is a realization of the perfection of all things in all moments as being the One Self. Happiness becomes a constant – a realization that the Self is always freedom, peace and love. The person is free of conditional attachments or aversions.

Awakening occurs in so many varying degrees. It is most common that people experience ‘Satoris’. These are moments that can last a second or a few minutes, hours, days or weeks (sometimes even months)– before the person subsides again into the thinking mind of duality. This ‘rise and fall’ in and out of awareness can repeat itself many times – even over lifetimes before there is a sustained integration in which there is no longer a shift from the state of ever present awareness.
When we reach a saturated state of integration we become the living, radiant, constant state of Oneness, awareness and LOVE. We simply enter the beingness of life itself – the play and process of consciousness in the ever-present NOW.

May your journey of awakening continue with innocent delight and wonder.

Love and Blessings,

Isira.

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Well with Christmas coming around again it’s that time of year when everyone starts wondering what gifts to buy – or what gifts they want.

Perhaps it is worth asking then – what is not a gift?

It is as if most people live their life with blinkers on. And, those blinkers seem to be very conditional.

The first condition of those blinkers is the belief that we are all separate, that the self is separate from God; from life.

The second condition is that (given everything is separate) life is seen as a struggle between good and bad; the desirable and the detested.

But if we take off those blinkers we come to see the truth. There IS ONE existence – of which we are all individuated aspects. And instead of a dualistic reaction we see that (as everything is a part of our ONE Self) everything we experience IS our creation. EVERY THING.

We also see how profoundly perfect and intelligent every single thing is: that the universe is an entire intelligent collaboration and that every single thing, every event, every moment is integral to this collaboration.

This means that everything is of purpose. AND that EVERYTHING is actually a GIFT. Every moment is placed before us, by us in order to fulfill our self through life as a process, expression and experience. In this way, everything we encounter is part of this field of context. And, it is up to us as to how we respond (or more commonly react!) to this.

If we continue meeting it with blinkers on we approach it with a prejudiced mind. We judge some things as good (a gift) and some things as bad (a punishment). We spend a lot of time rejecting a lot of things. This creates a life full of resentments. And, it makes it impossible for us to gain anything from whatever was placed before us.
When we push something away we are pushing away a part of our self. Consequently, we continue to feel as if we are somehow less than whole.

When the blinkers are removed we begin to embrace everything as it is. We begin to embrace EVERY aspect of our self. We yield with our self through each moment. As we do we are able to receive the true purpose of each moment. And, through this, we are able to know and discover our true self. Then we are able to express and give our true self to life – we fulfill our very purpose of existing!

So how do we begin to take off the blinkers?

Say THANK YOU. Yes. Thank you!

Start saying thank you to every moment, to everything. Try saying thank you to the person you see as your enemy, or as your grit in life. Of course, start saying this quietly inside your heart first and you will definitely transform your self and the energy through which you are able to meet this person. You will begin to see the gift they really are!
Try saying thank you for the circumstances and events of your life that you resent. As you say thank you, you may begin to see why YOU created the situation. You will come to see that it is a gift to your self – to experience, to discover, to grow and to express… LOVE.
Try saying thank you to every single moment. Not only will it connect you with everything, it will open your eyes to the perfection of everything… and keep you engaged in the moment. You will feel truly, deeply present, connected with life. You will feel whole. You will feel LOVE. And that is the gift of life, in everything.

That means you don’t need to wait for one day out of the year to feel like all of your Christmas’s have come at once!

Blessings,

And enjoy the ever present delivery of life’s gifts,

LOVE,
Isira.

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One of my Aunties, an Elder and friend whom I love and respect dearly, said to me last night – “I opened a talk once by saying; I believe as a human I am far less important to earth than a tree. And they all looked at me as if I was mad!”

Well, to many people that may be the case. Yet in a certain way there is a profound truth and message within this.

A tree may live to be over 500 years old. In its one lifetime it will filter the air and provide nourishing pure oxygen for millions of creatures. It lives and flourishes, drawing from the environment only that which is essential. It does not covet its shade or its fruits. It does not like to stand alone but excels most in a community of trees, animals, insects, rocks, soil other plants and elements. It does not fight with its neighbour or complain about the weather or try to take more than nature provides. And it doesn’t sing out – I am a better tree than you!

A human may live to just over one hundred years. In its one lifetime it will use thousands of trees to write things that mostly end up in the bin and wipe bums that send shit loads of stinking matter down tunnels that use thousands of litres of life sustaining water. It lives rapaciously taking what it wants – far more than what it needs – exploiting thousands of species of life, including its own to gratify these desires – that mostly end up in dumps – and spewing out toxic waste into the air that threatens the very existence of the whole planet. It likes to isolate itself from the rest of nature and stand alone at the top of its own concrete castle. It fights with its neighbours and continually complains about the weather and all the things that it wants that are not essential to its life, resulting in it being far less than a bright and flourishing creature. And it loves to sing out – I am better than you!

So what do you think? Was Auntie Claire so mad after all?

Hopefully we will all hurry up and learn something from our sacred trees before we don’t have enough left to enjoy this most precious gift and home we live on – our beloved Earth.

With deep Love and Gratitude to the trees.

With Love to you all, that we may meet again in the forests,

Blessings and Peace,

Isira.

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