Embracing the World

The transcendent movement is often a movement of I'm in pain or I'm in sorrow and I want to just wake up. I want to get away from this pain and sorrow. I want to wake up and out of what's causing me so much pain. That's often, not always, but that's often what helps motivate the letting go of the world of form. But to come into the world of form, for spirit to pour itself back into the world of form, metaphorically, of course, that's an act of love. That's an act that's an act of love. And love is an act of of of absolute inclusion. You don't it to to embrace the entire world as your own being. It doesn't it's it's it's doesn't come as a result of trying to avoid anything or run away from everything or seek a a sort of rarified place of transcendence. That's not the motivation. The motivation is the motivation of of love of embrace. In other words, it is it is coming upon that ultimate yes to life with with all of it with with with the good and the bad of it. But it's a that yes, it's not just an abstract yes or a philosophical yes. It's actually an embrace of the heart. It's a it's a fullness of of the heart of of love. It's an outflow of love. And in that sense, it is the it is the redemption of the world. The transcendent movement is the escape from the world. The descending movement is a world of redeeming the world. it when we see the world as divine then it's redeemed and in that's in talking in the big sense but also in the in the narrow no more narrow sense but by no with no narrow sense doesn't mean it's of any less importance. It's also the redeeming of a particular of one's humanity because you can wake up and out of the body mind and you can still have the body mind and the personality and the karma and stuff still be quite a mess as many people have had awakenings can attest to. You can still have a lot of, as I say, when the in the east, karmic conditioning going around in the body that's very much at odds with what one realizes. It's not until all of that is sort of re embraced in in the deeper vision as an act of love that there's a different kind of completion. And there's there's not the avoidance of karma or conditioning. There's the redemption of karma or conditioning. It gets redeemed through two ways. It gets redeemed through the vision of wholeness and completeness and nonseparateness between the what we think of as the world of form and formless. Once someone sees what I'm talking about to say the world of form and formlessness stops making sense. But I'm just using these conventional sort of words to convey something. So it's a there's a quality of the vision is what redeems, but also it's the the all-incclusive love that redeems the all-inclusive. Yes. And I think this is one of the missing ingredients for not for everybody but for a lot of people. It's a completely different way to look at life. By the way, it's sort of turning around the way that we are sort of taught to look at life. I mean, nobody sits us down and says, "Here's how you're going to look at life." that through all of the stimulus that we get, all the input, all the different kinds of learning, you know, we get taught a particular way of looking at life and a lot of that is a are various forms of victimhood. Some people, you know, have really embraced a very much of an a victim identity. There are various ways you know when of being victimized. One can be victimized. Um I'm not saying that that doesn't happen in life. I'm talking about the the basic orientation in the world. And victim for some for some may seem like a strong word. But victim is also that sense of I'm in this vast huge world, this thing called life, and I need to just get get what I can be as successful as I can. get as much approval as I can, get as much love as I can, get as much, you know, whatever it is, whatever you're whatever you're trying to get, power, whatever it may be. But all that is a kind of it's a kind of a relationship with life that sees life as this this this big thing that you're negotiating with. And that's what I mean in a more subtle sense. It's still a subtle sort of victim relationship. You know, life is imposing itself upon you. Your response may be to try to impose yourself upon life. But nonetheless, it comes from a very particular viewpoint of which the vast majority of people hold whether they know it or not. There's a different sort of orientation, different kind of perspective where you're no longer here to get simply get to get what you want, to get what you need, to get what you desire to, you know, to to succeed to be, you know, all the ways that we're oriented to get in order to fulfill ourselves. There's a different orientation. Imagine that that the you were really here. Even your incarnation was really here that it occurred as an act of love that you you uh you you are here in order to redeem this life. That's a motivation of love.