This morning I'd just like to share with you , and then hopefully you all share, what this coming New Year could contain for each and every one of us. Now when I say new year, I'm actually talking about right here and now of course. And I suggest it's this for I feel and know everything else is useless. Useless! But one thing only: Sovereignty to God. Sovereignty to God. Sovereignty to that unspeakable power, presence, depth, brightness, that one knows to be one's Self beyond any word, any identification, any sign other than: the universe exists.
Sovereignty to God. Now I use God as an arrow, a pointer to That that truly is. But we have to add something else in this sovereignty, because it has probably become clear to all of us in this life that being sovereignty, having sovereignty for that, that is invisible or that that is beyond, whatever best points for you to That that is untouchable.
Is there another way of sovereignty, that not only is that but connects with that in something that you can directly experience? It's called Life! That tangible life force, free of any identification with names, even with forms. For Life is a power and a force of the expression of the ineffable.
To be fully alive , fully ALIVE. Sovereignty only to Knowing and loving what we're going to call 'God' but you could call it Self, but for this talk we're going to stay just with 'God', not making a religion here, just God.
Sovereignty to That and fully quite clearly seeing "I am alive! Everything is life!", with no thought, no conditional nature, no use of space or time; just the great love of Life itself, sovereign to That, bowing down. to That. Serving that. Breathing that. Adoring that. Sovereign only to That.. is a way of ease that opens the door to what we call God or our sovereign nature.
I know it's quite something to give yourself up, as it were, fully giving yourself to the invisible, but you can give yourself to Life. Life. That includes the entire cosmos, that is the activity of the Invisible. An activity that's not something being done, it's just a display of the Invisible.
Maybe it's why the stars can capture our imagination. Maybe it's why when we look at a mountain, we're captured, our attention is captured. Maybe when we sit next to a quiet stream on soft grass and listen to the birds, it captures our heart. We're literally being captured, whilst being sovereign to God.
We believe in one thought and it's gone, one emotion, it's gone. To be sovereign is to leave emotion and thought alone and stay true to that Knowing, that Life that clearly moves, animates, grows, dissolves, regrows everything. Everything. Then we might hear the cricket song is a song of Source. We might see the activity of an ant as the activity of Source. We might see that the rain is beating the rhythm of growth, wonder and magnificence. We may see that the sun's just not a sun coming up to give us warmth, but to remind us who we are, what we're in, what we're for and that we are wholly this great love, seeming to be a part, but we are the whole.
So really, here I'm kind of asking all of us to have a look if we can be sovereign to knowing God direct, Life direct and not let our attention slip in what thought says or emotion says. To stay true, because if you look at this, we might have to go here several times in our lives, let alone in this core. If you look at this, doesn't thought take you away from the present? It invents different spaces, different times, different things. It invents positive and negative.
And then if you step into emotion, doesn't emotion just wire all that up in a positive and negative charge and bring about untrue feelings of identity? Does it keep washing you away or are you now wholly placing your attention in and as your love of God as Awareness? How many times have we been swept away by a thought that suddenly has an emotion, and that wires into the body as something that you should or shouldn't do.
But I'm sure like myself, you've placed your attention in life direct, sovereign to Now, direct. In touch with and in the presence of the silence, the Here - Presence. And how that has cleared mind of content, when the murky waters of emotion have just stilled into tenderness. Then isn't it true that from the love of God, from the love of That, the presence of being here-now in the Love sovereign to That, aren't the emotions then, like a brook, a still stream of gentle wandering?Isn't the mind then absolutely clear, transparent, and shining with one's love of the Absolute?
And doesn't that transform the mind and the emotions and the whole neurological system , the whole nervous system, into rivers of divine grace ? For are we not ourselves rivers of divine grace? Are we not an appearance, a wonderful appearance, in a divine ocean? Then I ask you, is it not true then, to be sovereign to life, not thought or feeling, does that not actually master thought or feeling with tender loving, tender Knowing, meaningful, presence and openness? Otherwise is it not true that we just become a slave of thought and feeling, a slave of what's on our iPhone, a slave of what's on the messenger, but the messenger of love and presence is everywhere.
Maybe we could just look at each other's life and find that messenger is shining through our skin, our bones. And from that don't we begin to discern the transformational process of bodies, minds, neural systems, nervous systems, the planet, the stars, even the earth being rewired ? And each other, are we not all part that one warm blanket of love's presence?
Is it not the mind that mistook it for being us, through identification with things, subjects and objects? And is it true that the mind absolutely ceases in those moments when one is sovereign to the Absolute, to God, to Life itself? Then ask yourself this: "Is it then not true that I've forgotten who I am and I can only remember that that I am in loving Source, sovereign as myself? Is it a thing I love? Is it a creature I love? Is it another I love?
Or are they all wonderful, vibrating forms of that that I truly love? When we put everything in place, in its clear, tender place, and never ever leave the sovereignty of that, then we're sovereign to ourselves. We cannot betray ourselves or we betray our love of That. But also we know our love of That knows no betrayal. It needs no forgiveness because it only knows: all is love. Isn't that, That we're being drawn into? And bringing mind and emotion to the feet of that, that we truly love.
Isn't that that movement, that truly precious movement in the practice of The Form, where we bow down and bring all down to the earth, and we bow our forehead on the ground, and we give our whole vibrating body to the earth, to the Presence, to Life, as sovereign to That that is God?
In the world as it is, which is not to blame the world or anything.. The world is just a function of an intelligence. that has gotten caught up in an intelligence that takes pictures of the moment of experience, builds an impression of those experiences and calls them 'a me'.
And without self - knowledge energies build up that impression and make it mobile. And that mobile impression can only live in a mind that does not belong to God and an emotion that does not belong to God. And so a pseudo figure in billions walks the planet with the self -forgetfulness of what one really belongs to. But the dream always collapses, most definitely at the point of what some call death, when the body drops away and the dream is just seen to be a dream. But life is not a dream. Life is sovereign to God. Life is Reality shining as the movement and animation of all beings as that One - Love.
See it in the grass, see it in the trees, see it, hear it in the birds, feel it in your veins, feel it in your bones, sovereign to That. I know that when we really get this, we cease blaming or judging ourselves or others. We begin to quite naturally release all the ideas we have about ourselves and other and Life, which has turned into living only. We begin to deepen warmly, beautifully, in the sovereignty of knowing ourselves and loving ourselves through the love of God.
We know this is not a routine, but we do know that we need to be sovereign to it. And if we have a look in our daily lives there are things that we do constantly , that we do automatically. Ordinary things like getting up in the morning ordinary things like making a tea, ordinary things that we have not seen actually are like ritual reminders of Presence of Source as ourselves.
So then our daily life can literally be a ritual, in other words, an energetic ritual present reminder of that that we truly love, that that we truly belong to. We no longer have the energy to keep the false in the house of our living bodies. It's not that we reject it as a negative. No, we simply do not give it presence, power any longer. We become sovereign. We cease doing robotics of living and we bring presence to every breath, every movement of our hands and feet and most definitely our heart and our mind. We begin in other words to be sovereign awakeners to that that we truly are.
We cleanse and purify the use of the mind. We cleanse and purify the use of the heart. We cleanse and purify the body, the belly, the hands, the feet, the life. We're not making anything spiritual about it. We're just being present with it, restoring the power and the love of our sovereignty to the living presence of God as ourselves in the universe.
And if you look in each of our lives, and if you all talk together and you listen, truly listen, you're going to see that you all have some similar circumstance of energy passing through, bringing similar circumstance of thoughts, feelings and actions. Because everything I've spoke of up until this point is even the universe has to live. And everything you do or say, every movement that you make, is energetic, restored by Presence or captured by mind and emotion,
Same for the universe. So when I look 'out' in the universe or 'in', same thing to this one, I see great beings. I also see other beings like ourselves, very much in the remembrance of what they are. But the whole cosmos moves as codes of the love of that One. The whole cosmos moves as codes of transformational process movement ability. But the whole cosmos, no matter how great the system of Awareness will still be shedding its ignorance of how it used to function.
This is creation. All creation sheds its ignorance ongoingly. Vertically, not horizontally. And just like there are many creatures on this planet that eat the carcasses of those bodies, a whole function of creation is very much like this. Although it came in an instant of light, but it also returns in an instant of light. But within all its realms, it is realising itself and shedding its old skins.
Where are we now shedding our old skin? This is my question today. I'm endeavouring to put it in a tangible way, because I have spoken to many people recently because it's quite obvious to me, maybe it is to you, that there's a huge pressure of undoing, where deep,deep unconsciousness is coming up. Macrocosm, microcosm, you can see it. But in order to know yourself that actually it's not you that's undergoing that, but the entire creative worlds, remembering what or who they are. And we are That. The part of that, and the whole of That. That's the in -breath and the out -breath. And yet, paradox, we are so much more.
But have a look, has it become known to you that trying to escape what you don't like to feel, leads to more of what you don't like to feel? But just being present, entirely open as what you are, seeing and knowing as a being, embracing each breath with the same sovereignty that we're speaking of now. Regardless of how the breath feels or how the mind thinks.
Something far more precious, a far more golden alchemy is happening for all beings. Then one has no need to seek a spiritual experience or, as it were, escape from what seems to make me feel not so good. Because somewhere we have the intelligence that to escape the not so good only leads to more opposites. To be in 'what is', is to be sovereign to God, that that you are. And only then comes forth the very essence and wonder of the Love-light we already are and we begin to thrive, come alive. Because we're no longer against what one might call forces. We're actually just simply sovereign to the love of God and know no opposite.
So have look this most definitely a lot happening in our lives at the moment. Our tendency is just to look into this me, what's happening to me. But why not look into the pool? Why not look into the ocean? Why not look into the stars? Why not see it all as a singular movement? Its appearance may be a little different. but it's the same alchemy at work, rebuilding the cells of the universe to mirror what really is, because it's infinite light that pours the universe, grows it, kills it,
restores it, relives it. In a breath! So if you look at this, you might find that the star's positions at the moment are really doing some work but are not the stars sovereign to that One? Are not the planets sovereign to that One? I see everything as a limited self -concern about me, but it actually does not really exist only in our imagination.
So if we look, thought, emotion, sovereign... just keep bringing it over. You can go into a thought and you're going to be there absolutely for eternity. You can go into emotion, you're going to get tangled and tangled and wingled and wangled. Or you can just step into the sovereignty of Being knowing, the love of Source. And everything stops, because there nothing belongs to mind, nothing belongs to emotion, nothing belongs to anything. It all belongs to itself, sovereign - God. Not just silence but majesty. Not just silence, but palpable depth. Not just silence but humility. Not just silence, but friendship. Then come back into what appears to be a body and appears to be mind, what appears to be emotion. Does the mind move? Do emotions twist?
Or is something with no measure being known that weaves the universe without doing anything other than being present? And from Presence don't you go "Wow!!" and from Presence don't you go '"Yeah let's do this this!" and from Presence, don't you go and assist another. And from Presence, don't you give somebody a hug. And it never involves emotion and never involves the mind, but it ignites the mind from Source and it ignites the emotion from Source. From that only wonders stream, universes shine and are unafraid to return.
So just have a look at this moment as... there's a palpable, cosmic whirlwind... as if higher dimensions are dropping in that don't separate as the third and fourth dimension does. And each of us in some way or other is feeling this, knowing this. And I want to ask you a crazy, crazy thing to an apparent human mind.. What makes you think that an ant doesn't go through this? What makes you think a blade of grass doesn't go through this? What makes you think a tree doesn't go through this? What makes you think a mountain doesn't go through this? What makes you think even the sky doesn't go through this? You begin to see things with a whole different perspective that might actually bring awe into your attention where you lay hold of a power that you can only call gracious.
In fact, if you look deep: ineffable. And there's nothing that moves in this world that doesn't sing its song or speak its experience. Nothing...as it falls in love with being sovereign to What Is. A real time of profound alchemy. I find it ....looking for a word ...as I scan the universe and scan the universe of humans...I discover only those that are so -called awakening are discovering the vulnerability of the transparency of being sovereign to the mystery direct. And somehow the universe is calling those such beings to allow their protective layers to be dismantled, to dissolve, to come on fire or just joyfully fall off in the Openness itself.
In your experienced does this ring true? Sometimes forces within you, appearing to be you, fight the inevitable transformation of self. The return home to that that one has never really left. The Paradox is: free your heart of the false image you have of self and other.Come back to the great mystery! Mainstream media cannot do this for you on your iPhone or on Netflix. Only you, being love with others who love the revelation of what one already is, is a field beyond your mind's wildest dreams.
But remember, one foot into that field, it will take your legs and your hands and your whole body into it. As if it is a monster devouring you! Or one foot into that field graciously and un-expecting anything will warmly invite you in, to discover the wonder that is really you. So really, today's greeting is truly about having a rest of what on your own your mind will conjure up is all happening to you. But when you commune, it's just simply what is. And becomes more wondrous, sovereign to the love of God, without any religious connotation as true you. And layers of experience that somehow one still holds dear as comfort zones of memory and identification, in this time right now, they no longer serve us. We cannot throw them off. Now we must love them. to the core of their disappearance, by clearly seeing: we do not need that anymore. Thank you friend, and goodbye. Thank you for serving to levels of what you once believed in, are shed. Any mental, emotional, wild activity you're having in you or with others are just simply this.
A universe in movement dissolving what it no longer needs. You are the universe. Read the stars if you must. Be careful who you listen to out there. Listen to your own astronomer, your heart. It is like a dedication of love and presence for this breath. If you look, the dying only struggle because they try to hold on to the known. But when the dying let go, they enter a greater mystery, which their loved ones around them cannot go to unless they too die to the known.
Somewhere here we all woven, a tale, a story to reflect on life as it is now for each and every one of us. I'd like to encourage you to share that together and discover the wonder. But in truth, you're really only sovereign to God and love for it is what you and apparent others are.
Give each other space, presence mostly, and the humility of truly hearing.
transcript December 24, 2023
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