By living in tune with the present moment, you bring your will into harmony with the universal will, which you can call “God’s will”. He does not have a separate will. The separate will wants to increase or strengthen a person’s sense of self.
The separate will deals with the ‘I’, the ‘me’, the ego. But there is a divine Consciousness, the only Consciousness, there is an evolutionary impulse. What we do here every moment is to align with that.
Non-resistance is vital because as long as you resist the present moment, you remain trapped in the little egoistic will. It must fall under the egoistic will – it is a surrender to the present moment and what is. Aligning with what’s inside can at first seem like a position of weakness and can be misinterpreted as preventing you from acting effectively. But accepting what is is perfectly compatible with responding to what the present moment demands. Whatever you want to create, manifest, do, in this moment – in order to align with it, you must first accept whatever form this moment takes.
Highlight only this moment. For example, if you are sick, don’t say “I have to accept this illness, that I am sick, that I suffer from this,” because that is a whole conceptual story. You just have to accept this moment as it is. In this moment, there is never really a disease, only a physical condition. There may be pain, there may be weakness, disability, discomfort. These things can be there and it’s the only thing you accept. This moment is what it is now.
If you’re stuck somewhere in the mud, you don’t say, “Okay, I’m in the mud, I have to accept it, and here I am – I’m not doing anything because I have to accept what it is.” This moment is always what it is, and there’s nothing you can do about it. You accept this. Then the action that occurs has a different energy. The will that flows into what you do is no longer egoistic. When you don’t accept this moment, the will goes against the Universe – that’s what the ego does. He’s negative, fighting against something he says shouldn’t be there. If you use negativity, you fall into the trap of the ego. The “small will” has to go down so that the stronger will can flow through and handle the situation. It creates, it is not isolated from totality. One with the whole. When it works, another word for this universal will is intelligence. Only when you look at a situation do you fully accept the existence of that moment, and then naturally action may be necessary.
Once the opening is there, through acceptance, the next step you take will be much more powerful. There is a Buddhist term for “right action” that can only come from the right state of Consciousness. You must first get out of the ego before you can do right. Buddha talked about what comes from the awakened state of consciousness. Surrendering the little will means saying yes to the present moment. It’s not a big deal, just say yes to what’s there – because it’s already there. Why complain about something you have? Crazy, but normal.
To give up the egoistic will, all you have to do is stop complaining about what you have. Adjust to reality – people, situations, whatever – that’s it. This is inevitable. Be friendly with what you have and you will be intelligent first.
With the simple act of surrendering to the inevitability of the present moment, a new energy arrives. We can call it universal will, we can call it intelligence, we can call it a creative solution, whatever the so-called “problem” is. You could call this incoming power greater than the limited power of your mind. Or you can use your mind and suddenly say the right thing when the situation calls for it. Suddenly the words come – where do the words come from? You don’t know what you’re going to say next. They come from a deeper level because this intelligence uses the mind.
You and the Universe become one and as such create this form through you. That’s the beauty of it. When the unmanifest flows into this world, it takes form. Most of the thoughts that people have in the unawakened state are repetitive old thoughts, conditioned thinking conditioned by the past. Then you can only rely on what you have accumulated in the past, you handle things through conditioned thinking. When the simple act of surrender opens your mind, you can use it as a tool. Then an idea can come up that is original, fresh and new. This is the birth of the form. The birth of thought creates the birth of form. The Universe uses you as a vehicle or channel for creation. You are one. You can use your mind and become thoughts, words, physical things. This is how the mind can actually be a useful tool – alignment with the greater Intelligence, the One Consciousness.
Everything starts with the present moment and your relationship with the present moment. Friend or Foe? Do you allow it or do you fight it, resist it? This is the end of the ego – because the ego needs resistance. The ego survives complaining, it survives denial, or wanting something else.
The present moment is the teacher. Work with it – that’s really all you need. This is the end of the “small will”, which is not that strong anyway. Whatever it creates, it creates more problems. It looks so simple and easy. And yet, because of thousands of years of habit patterns, people often say to me, “It’s so hard to be in the present moment and let it be.” Of course, the opposite is true. Life becomes difficult if you don’t. What you accept is the form of this moment. No more. Then see what you need. You’re not really intelligent until that happens.
Sometimes simply holding a place of Presence activates other factors that seem to come in from the outside to change the situation. You have activated the intelligence of wholeness. This is not necessarily done through this form. That’s why people talk about synchronic things, suddenly a helping factor comes in, suddenly the right person appears, the right thing happens. It’s almost a miracle if you don’t know it’s natural, it seems like a miracle at first because most people aren’t used to it.
If you keep your presence down, change may not happen through your actions. There are many situations where action is not possible at this moment. Sometimes there is nothing you can do, but you can still be present. Then a greater intelligence is activated. Very often you find that the situation changes.
This higher intelligence is not the conceptual intelligence you can measure with IQ tests. This is not conceptual intelligence. Conceptual intelligence is the ability to retain, analyze, compare, and so on information. This is a tiny fraction of what intelligence is. There is tremendous non-conceptual intelligence. We are destined to be like this, so that our whole life is a work of art. Don’t just limit yourself to the state of mind when you do creative work. All creative things have spark, liveliness, quality, novelty, freshness. You connect with the non-conceptual intelligence within the mindful Silence. That’s the bottom line for everyone. This is true intelligence. How much you relate to this cannot be measured by any IQ test. Ultimately, creativity cannot be measured.
Very often, the shape of the present moment seems to limit your life, something that infringes on your freedom. The body can get sick and have difficulty moving. If something drastic happens, if you learn to accept it, a little space will come into your life. You say ‘it is what it is’. A little space has opened up and you are no longer just a resistant entity. Then you realize that you are essentially formless space. In other words, you find inner peace. At first, he is very gentle in the background, in the middle of every situation. This peace is strong. It can become so powerful that it wipes out almost everything. Peace is formless in you. Accepting the form opens up the formless in you. This is how something that seems bad becomes – a barrier – an opening to the realization of who you really are.
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