From Yogi
Beautifully said Graeme. You are being of enormous help to me. Thank🙏 you!!
Notice that you’re noticing. Resting deeply in the awareness of being aware. Resting knowingly as the presence of awareness (Rupert Spira).
All is exactly as it is meant to be at this moment. This includes anxiety. I don’t care what happens - (Krishnamurti). God/Life is running the show. God, universal intelligence, is having a human experience through me. Yogi is just a character in the movie. Trust that all is well. Be welcoming. Sit back in the seat of awareness & enjoy the show. Be curious as to what will happen next. Enjoy every twist in the plot, & the synchronicities. You are in the world but not of the world. Don’t take it so seriously. No self, no problem.
AA - God, I turn my will & my life over to your care.
AA. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake.
VRE - God is well, & so are you, if you would but know it.
VRE - The awareness of the presence of a higher & friendly Power.
NM - You see yourself as in the world. I see the world as in me.
Remaining relaxed & open to events, emotions - not closing. Not rushing.
Yogi. Do one thing at a time. Take your time. Pause between activities. Do everything for its own sake, not as a means to an end.
From Graeme
Wow, Yogi, that's a superb synopsis. I love it. Really great. It really sums up the philosophy that has brought me a great deal of freedom and peace over the past year or two.
As you said in your follow up text, the "I don't care what happens." has absolutely nothing to do with apathy or indifference - and everything to do with surrender and acceptance. When you know that there is an Infinite Intelligence unfolding all experiences and events, you surrender to that power and let it run your life. You thus allow these unfolding experiences and events to be as they are, trusting that all that arises is for the ultimate Good of the All. All is as it's meant to be even if it doesn't feel like it at the time. In my experience, the good of what the mind labels as bad is often revealed much later in hindsight.
It is very much in this sense that Krishnamurti said "The difference between you and me is that I don't care what happens." As Eckhart says, he is totally aligned with life and with what is unfolding in the present moment. He is fully surrendered to God and to Life's unfolding.
In this state of consciousness, paradoxically, the choices that get made and actions that get taken in order to deal with life's challenges are so much more inspired and intelligent. You have access to universal intelligence. In a sense, God is choosing and acting through you.
In an even deeper sense, there is no you. Only God experiencing being you and everyone else. In this sense, the life of Yogi really is like a movie and Yogi exists as a character in it. And who would want to experience a movie where nothing ever seems to go wrong? It would be dull and there would be no character development or profundity. The "movie of life", I believe, is all about the experience of limitation and the experience of transcending that limitation in order to increasingly discover our true limitless nature.
I so loved our discussion yesterday and the brilliant quotes you shared. It brought a beautiful sense of clarity.
G
