The Beauty of the Journey

Destiny…Eternity & Time…Human Purpose and Awakening

Destiny, well, that is an interesting word.  It is not one we consider to have a lot of reality, because destiny implies that events in time, beyond this moment, are already there in a concrete way and not to be changed, whereas each moment is actually the edge of a wave, and the wave is always moving forward.  Yet it is not where it’s going to be until it gets there.

Eternity is within the wave, so it is in the moment.  It is in every moment.  Eternity resides within the moment even though moments exist within time.  The wave is part of the ocean; the ocean is eternity; the wave is time.  The wave cannot exist without the ocean; time cannot exist without eternity.  Time seems to be separate, yet is contained within eternity and contains eternity within it.  You cannot know how high the wave is going to go, how much spray it is going to throw, or how far it is going to travel before it falls back into the sea or onto the beach.  You cannot tell in advance.  And so, in that sense, we would say, there is no destiny.

We think when people speak of destiny, it is partly with a sense of dread (because they are afraid theirs is a bad one,) and partly with a sense of wanting assurance or wanting control, wanting to feel that things can be known, understood, explained way out in front of them, so that choosing their next step feels not quite so much a step into the void.  In reality, in one sense it is never into a void; in another sense it always is.  It is mystery, which is very beautiful.

The ocean is also what you might call G-d.  We would call it more closely “the ground of all Being,” and it creates every wave.  The wave can be a person or an animal, planets or universes, all you know of and all you have not the ability to know of within this creation.  It is all within this One Being.  Each wave contains within it that One Being and yet is also something unique, having its own expression for a time, before it falls back into the ocean that it has never really left.  There is Creative Impulse: just as the ocean has to keep making waves, the Being of what you call G-d, that force, is ever-moving, and that movement is endlessly creative and extending, that creativity is limitless and ever-expansive.  So each wave is unique and new, never been before and never will be again, and yet is also coming from that which always was, is, and will always be.  It seems to be a paradox, but really it’s not.  It is an on-going exploration, expression, creativity; it is a process filled with joy and filled with love that is infinitely, infinitely creative.

As human beings, you know it as like when an artist has to create something.  First she has to choose a medium.  She can’t do glass and clay and metal and oils and pastels and fiber, all of that and all the techniques that go with them.  She has to choose, “Alright, I’m going to work in clay.”  By choosing that medium, she chooses a set of what you think of as limitations: the clay, the instruments of the clay, what you can and cannot do with clay.  These seeming limitations create a container within which she can create something totally new.  This is what your physical world is; it is an art form, a certain medium for Creativity, the creativity of Creation, to pour through.  In order to create something new, you have to also create a container.

So it is when you are developing a relationship with your beloved.  The two of you together create some agreements.  You have to create a container that you both hold, honor and care for in order to give birth to, nurture and nourish this new thing, this new Being, you are building together, which is your relationship.  You have things you keep out of it and things you keep in.  You grow that container by your choices.

This whole world, these physical bodies, and these lives that you live, they have what you think of as limitations.  Very often in culture, thinking and religion there is the desire to struggle against these limitations and try to transcend them or overcome them, but that’s not really what you are here to do.  You are here to become them not overcome them.  You are here to fully experience what it is like to have a physical body and live in a physical plane; in essence to live in Eden and create Eden of it, which is a big challenge for humanity.  It is very possible that human beings could accept the task, saying “We have been given this beautiful, beautiful planet that is, of and by itself, an Eden.  And we, by our contributions and our care, by our stewardship, can nourish it into an even greater Eden on which all human beings and all creatures can live in harmony.  We can truly have the Garden of Eden…not as it was originally given to us, but as something even more, because we have entered into it.  We have joined with it, and we have grown something even more beautiful.”

In that, you become fully embodied, fully en-souled body.  In that you become that which the Creation Process desires. All your spiritual teachers are seeking, are trying to teach, this full entering into.  A lot of your teachings get confused, and they often mislead, but the ultimate desire is to be here, to be in the body, to be in this place and to fully embrace it, to grow it and build it, to be part of the Creation yourselves and fully come into that.  When that happens asb humanity, there will be an awakening.

You talk very often about a global awakening, and it will happen.  But it will not happen until all of humanity has turned their energies to this knowledge as One humanity.  Just as all of the ants in the anthill work for the benefit of the hill, and all of the bees in the hive work for the benefit of the hive, just so all of humanity will work for the benefit of the whole planet.  And you will see yourselves as the worker bees tending to the health of the Earth and then thriving off the honey She produces.  When that happens, there will truly be a new awakening, but it will be an awakening that no human conversation has ever been able to articulate.  You will all, in a sense, become one with the earth, and the earth become one again with the ocean; you will be new consciousnesses, and then one new consciousness, and then an even greater reemerging within the consciousness of what you call G-d.  You will have created something new, and it will go on and on; it will transform and transform and transform, create more and create new, constantly be the edge of the wave, beyond G-d’s imagining,  because G-d isn’t imagining it (that would be Destiny;) G-d is Being it, creating it, and you are part of that Being it and creating it.

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