The Choice

[Guest guest]

" We live within a magical universe that manifests according to our own creation.

And so we have a choice, which is always before us: do we choose to remain

unconscious within our human drama, reacting to Life out of our trance-

illusions of fear and separateness, or do we choose to remember Who we are,

to awaken?

 

Our human trance is familiar and cozy. We have gotten comfortable in it.

Even our sense of suffering and our habitual reactions of blame and other

attitudes have acquired a cozy, familiar feeling that we cling to.

and so the process of awakening, if we truly choose it, will turn our lives

topsy-turvy,

confront us with our deepest fears, force us to be responsible for all of our

experience of Life, and catapult us, in all our vulnerability, directly into the

heart of the unknown

 

Yet there is an inconceivable beauty and joy that surrounds us and is within

us, an ecstasy and freedom that pulses within the very unfolding of Life. And

this experience is the gift of our awakening.

 

The choice-the free choice-is always before us, and we must choose

over and over and over again. For no matter how many ties we have chosen

one way or the other, in the next moment, the choice is always there again:

familiar unconsciousness, or stretching ourself to continue awakening within

this moment, now.

 

 

Awareness Exercise 34:

 

One Heart Laughing

 

Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Receive a few deep breaths...and let

yourself relax.

 

Now, as you relax into the experience of this moment, feel your breath

moving throughout your body and relax into that sensation. Let go of any sense

of " trying to do something " with this exercise, or of needing to concentrate on

anything. Right now, just surrender into breathing in this moment, into

relaxing

very, very deeply.

 

When you feel deeply relaxed,. begin to listen gently to the thoughts that are

going

through your mind. Do not concentrate on your thoughts; stay relaxed in your

listening, simply noticing that your thoughts are there. Notice that some

thoughts

are louder than others, that they are closer to the surface of your conscious

mind,

that although you can sense that they are there, you can't distinguish them

individually; rather, taken together, they create a sort of background " hum "

in your mind.

 

Now, staying deeply relaxed as you notice these layers of thoughts in your mind,

imagine that beyond the hum in the recesses of your mind is an even quieter

sound,

and that is the sound of gentle, unconditionally loving, and totally blissful

laughter.

imagine that there is an ocean of this laughter, of this heavenly laughter, just

beyond the hum in the recesses of your mind.

 

If you relax very deeply and listen for this laughter, you will hear it. And

the moment you hear it, you will also feel it: you will fell this ocean of

infinite and divine laughter

laughing within every particle of your beingness, awakening the remembrance of

Who

you are. You will remember that you are this laughter, and that everything else

is this

laughter, too.

 

Allow your heart to surrender and merge into this ocean of laughter. Be the

Laughter itself. Be the Laughter being born from the Love within the Laughter.

 

 

One Heart Laughing, awakening within our human trance.

 

Ric Weinman 1991

 

 

 

 

 

There's only one thing you need to prove to yourself: Who you are.

Be the scientist involved in your experiment of experiencing Who you are

And Who you are not.

 

Anna