Remembering (#2016)

Reflections while wandering the way of the path: Two thoughts to share because they journeyed through my mind one early morning: 1) It’s over. This was the clear, spiritual message received suddenly while standing in my office doorway one afternoon in 2003. In a flash of realization, I knew that what had been the trajectory of my professional life for thirty-seven years had reached its end. I felt all ambition slip from my body like mist flowing from the hills to dissipate on the valley floor. Then comforting pleasure from feelings of fulfillment flowed in. I felt the success of those many years. I felt relief, and a surprising sense of completion. Spirit had pressed the reset button. I was stunned to realize that my sense of being had shifted. My life story not only had change chapters, but it had shifted from Volume I to Volume II. I knew this was big. 2) A reminder that what I say about twia is arbitrary. I see no absolutes, only mystery behind veils. The dropping of each veil reveals truth further. What is absolute is beyond knowing. For ages, the mystery has garnered answers from those who seek. My answers are working for me. May yours work for you.

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I am at peace within. What whirls outside is but the dust of the world. It does not cloud my vision. I see the world through that which I am. Its vision is clear. The dust billows at my doorstep, but I keep to the room within. The world is what I make of it through the vision that is twia. I know you. You are me. Our one presence lies within. To know you is oneness. To see you as other is separation. The body sees without vision and hears without knowing. Seeing is limited to sight. Hearing is limited to sounds. I cannot see by looking at you. I cannot hear by listening to your voice. I can know you within as oneness. We are the I AM: whole, complete, perfect, eternal. There is no other – no you, no me. There is only oneness. Do not stray outside the room within. The world has false answers. The truth that is twia is real. Knowing twia you know the true world. It is oneness, not separation. Twia is not out there. Venturing forth only delays your remembering the room within that you never left. Peace and serenity are within. All that you collected on your worldly journey can be left as unneeded baggage at the doorway. It will not get you what you want. You have in this moment what is yours, as it has been always. There is no journey in seeking. The way of the path is remembering. To remember, do nothing. Remembering twia requires no effort. Enter the silence. Be still. Twia will guide you on the way of the path. I am that which I am, alive and well in the room within. The ocean receives the waters of the world and returns them to the sky. This is twia. Twia receives all who seek and returns them to the one. There is no journey, only remembering that I AM. The way of the path is littered with worldly baggage. Drop regrets and desires. Let go of past and future. Get back to zero. Reset. Erase, erase, erase. Cleanse your mind of regrets, let go of memories, and release hope. Release all. None is needed to be at peace. Hold peace of heart. This brings serenity. The way of the path is remembering twia. No journey, no pursuit, no end, just peace of heart in the moment. Be aware, accept what is, dwell in harmony, do nothing. Hold peace of heart always. To remember I AM, or twia, I first become the being that I am. To do nothing is to drop the me of the body and its fear, along with its regrets and desires. Action guided by twia is the way of the path. This is to do nothing. It is a practice, not a pursuit. Join the flow that is remembering twia. There is a flow in separation that is consciousness itself. To be in that flow is to do nothing. This is peace of heart. It brings oneness to bear, letting love replace fear. Then separation is oneness and oneness is separation. Like the melding of yin and yang.