The Great Distraction

Spiritual Practice, the Great Love Attraction towards Living One’s Spirit Being Identity while in the world, is by Its very Nature the Way of surpassing the egoic sense of self, that is to say the self with a sense of a separate inner Life.

The entire Way is the Process of ego-renunciation by means of the Great Distractiontowards the Practice of our Spirit Being Identity: Our Truth Condition.

To begin the Great Understanding of our own individual search for Happiness, for Love, for Real Freedom, we must clearly see how we are routinely distracted by our own sense of a self with a separate inner Life, which seems to be compelled at all costs to fight for itself, stand up for itself, defend itself, and on and on.

Spiritual Practice, the Practice of beginning to Re-cognise One’s Self from the point of view that You are in Truth, in Nature, a bodily manifestation and expression of the Life-Force or Spiritual Power in which all Nature has Its roots, breaks us open beyond our-self into a Great Self-Being. Consequently, one of the shocking revelations we experience when Truly involved in the Practice of our Inherent Life Being is just how much we have neglected our Self.

Well, little wonder we fall into neglect of our Wondrous Nature-Created Self when, from the time we are born, we are trained, conditioned and educated to literally subdue the Great Living Force of Nature’s Spirit - the Noble, Mysterious, Creative Love Power and Wonder that formed our body, the world and Universe. We do that to fit into, squeeze into a system where we are measured, compared, graded, classified, set apart and encased in idolatrous ideologies of beguiling mythical proportions.

With everything we are told and taught to conform to that is not of our Life Being and that comes crashing in on us, we retreat, without being aware, into the mind and become accustomed to an objectified self, a mind-created sense of an inner disempowered and doubtful alone-self. A self always trying to do its best in a system that is designed to defeat it… in other words, a way of life designed to intimidate and suppress the True and Inherent Living Power of Nature’s Great Intelligence and Destiny in us.

Forced into reservations about Your Self and there confined beyond Your Heart Lands.

Before very long we become accustomed to a sense of self, a sense of Life based on a great distance from our True Self and others. Yet it is this sense of self that somehow knows, without fully knowing, there is much more to its existence than what it is Living. However, we “use” this lesser self to find the Great Self. And where do we wind up whenever we use the contracted or inner separate self to discover or Realiseour Great Self Being? Round and round in circles, in a tight self-embrace with the egoic-self, that tight mind-created inner, separate, lesser feeling self. “Hello, I’m still here and I am in charge?”

We do not wake up from or break out of our present identity by finding answers to all our problems, dilemmas and relationships within that present identity. That one is the one which has been forced into reservations about One’s own Inherent Power of Love and while hanging out there, one is confined beyond One’s Heart Lands.

Spiritual Practice is not the Practice done by this egoic-self, the disempowered self, the comparing itself to all others self, the self that wants approval, the inner threatened self. To “use” this one is the actual root of self-deception, the lesser self habitually deceiving You that it will find Your Greater Self. This is the first and major persistent misconception, a hurdle to get over.

It will not matter how much we try to understand the Unconditional Life Being we are in Truth, while we keep referring to the egoic-self, consulting the sense of aninner alone self, making the already threatened self (the comparing self, the struggling self, the self that is already down on itself, the egoic-self – have I covered it?) the starting point or the basis for allowing our Great Heart Being to Emerge.
When we do this, we will, in fact, feel even more conflicted, confused and experience a sense of failure that only adds to the already guilt and shame the crushed in private-self deals with. That version of self, the one we are addicted to, is already down on itself.

Using the presently known self, we are always measuring ourselves back to a point, back to a socially or worldly conditioned point, back to an already cramped point, and what is the effect of this? That point of reference suffocates our Spontaneity, that is to say the Life-Force being released from the self-knot so as to Transmit whole bodily the Love Being we Are.

Spiritual Practice is Founded in and makes Its Way in the Great Love Attraction towards One’s Life-Given Identity Self, while still in the conditional world. It has nothing to do with all the self-survival strategies (be they secular or spiritual) of the mind-created, dis-empowered, lesser-feeling self.

Beloved, what will it take to distract me away from that one? What force of Attraction will it take to distract me from that one?

The Great Love Attraction towards Living One’s Spirit Being Identity while in the conditional world, IS Spiritual Practice. The Attraction itself IS the governing force and motive of the body-mind. In other words, Spiritual Practice is, by Its Very Nature, the Way we rise above and outshine the egoic-self one.
Spiritual Practice could very well more accurately be called, and it is, the Process of ego out-growing or ego renunciation by means of one’s Great Love Attraction to our All-Abiding Life Being in this form of Human.

The Practice Is the Great Attraction It-Self or conversely, the Great Distraction from the sense of an inner, separate-from-Life self.

Unless there exists in one a Great Love Attraction to the Free Spirit Being as the means of Living everyday existence, why would one want to “get over oneself” when every aspect of our society is based on every kind of attractively advertised pursuit, belief and consolation designed to sedate and entertain us, and normalise the trauma of our loss of Spiritual Self?

The Process of out-growing the egoic sense of self by means of Love Devotion to ourSpiritual or Life Motive Self, breaks us open to Be Love, to Be the Life Being.

And breaking open (from the cramp of the egoic-self) is often painful, disorientating, and one is often, without notice, bombarded by internal conflicts, extreme opposites arising, - huge mood swings between yes, yes, yes, and no, no, no. What the hell!!!

It is the familiar sense of a separate-from-Life self that is breaking apart, the self we have invested a great deal in, a self that holds all our stories, all our history and the legacy of all our failures, hurts and resentments. It can feel wrong to dismantle it.

In fact, if the Great Love Surrender of the egoic-self is active, one becomes amazed and shocked, broken apart and whole in Realising one’s Being of Love, and then justhow much one is holding on against being flung into the sky by a tidal wave of all-consuming Love.

Breaking open to Be Love, to join with Love is often uncomfortable, with feelings of being set adrift, somehow existing misplaced because only then does one see how careless, how trivial, how insulting our usual motives of Love have been. One sees how nothing could come of them because we had not begun to Devote our Life, our Self to the Real Work of becoming the Personification of Love, of actually establishing our Self in the Being we are.

It is both shocking and liberating to see, to recognise clearly, without defence or excuse, that our love which we have been so vain about – by this I mean a love in which we self-deceptively encouraged each other away from the Truth, a love in which we beguiled each other, seduced one another - had nothing to do with Love.

Now, we are released to be overwhelmed by a new Awareness and a growing earnestness, an unwavering passionate intensity of a Love that is capable of Loving with a Penetrating, Compassionate and Radiant Love.

You begin to Realise that only from the roots of Your Very Life Being does the RealFruit, the Real Substance of Love become You.

The Principle that is Truth, that is the Life motive, that is the True Self must become Your commitment absolutely - not merely a cure, not merely something you want just for you.

Be Well with Your Self and Recognize Your Self as the Radiant Personality of Love in the midst of all conditions.