What Is Abundance?

So what is abundance, this thing we all want?

Is it having a lot of money? Lots of friends? A job or spouse that provides for you? Enough food on the table? Good health? A roof over your head?

Where is the dividing line between lack, having enough, and abundance?

What is abundance anyways?

Here’s the best definition of abundance I’ve ever heard:

Abundance: The ability to do what you need to do when you need to do it.

If you only see abundance only as money, very often you don’t see abundance in its other forms. You’re blind, so to speak, abundance blind, because “green” is the only color you allow abundance to come in. But abundance comes in a total spectrum. The idea is to understand you must relax your insistence that “It must come in this certain way or I won’t accept it. I won’t recognize it if I don’t see this and this on such and such a date, to the penny. Otherwise, I’m not abundant. What’s wrong with me? I can’t attract this amount of money by this date because I need it for this and I need it for that. What’s wrong with me?” Again, these are just definitions.

If you allow yourself to understand that abundance is simply whatever way, shape or form your automatic synchronicity can attract into your life what you need to allow you to do what you need to do, when you need to do it, then you will begin to realize that you are very abundant, and have been for quite some time. When money is the strongest way a particular kind of abundance can be fulfilled, the money will be there. You’ll attract the opportunity to give you the money. But when money is not the simplest way, when it is not the path of least resistance, which may be the last way it will manifest. You may be receiving many other ways that abundance is manifesting in your life or, I’ll say, attempting to manifest in your life. But you may not be allowing it to, again, because of your definitions.

-Bashar

When we limit the universe by saying that abundance MUST come in the form of money, we are limiting the universe’s ability to provide us with abundance in the way that IT sees as most effortless and natural. Even if we are totally abundant, we will still believe and thus feel that we aren’t abundant, therefore suffering needlessly. There is a way out. Read More …

Will Learning About the Law of Attraction Help Me Become Enlightened?

So what’s the difference, first off, between the way people have traditionally operated in the world and the way they can now operate by using the Law of Attraction?

The normal way people got what they want was they went out, earned some money, and bought stuff using cash to ultimately find out that what they bought wouldn’t bring them happiness.

The new “spiritual” way of operating is to work in alignment with the Universe. They learn how the Law of Attraction works and get really good at it in order to manifest what they want, yet they still find out that getting what they want by manifesting it won’t make them happy.

It doesn’t matter whether they manifest it through the universe or they use more traditional methods, they still wind up with the end result of trying to get and experience what they want. Why else would they deliberately want to go and manifest something?

If you’ve noticed, no enlightened guru teaches the Law of Attraction. Why is this? The teachings on enlightenment are designed to help point you to the realization that none of that actually matters since it’s all an illusion anyways. The focus is Oneness and the realization of your true Self. When the realization comes that what “you” truly are is All That Is, it just plain silly to try and “get” more of yourself anyways. Instead it becomes yet another way to experience more of yourself and become aware of more of yourself, as opposed to trying to get something separate from yourself.

Now that’s not to say that the LoA is somehow “bad” and should be rejected. Not at all! It certainly has its practical uses such as manifesting parking spots, but there’s the realization that whether or not you get the ideal parking spot (or anything else for that matter), it’s not going to make you happy. If you have to park in the back of the lot, so what?

The LoA is simply a tool we can use to play around with in this world, just like a car or a popsicle stick.

Now something that’s really cool is when you start aligning with your true Self, your whole life starts to become synchronistic automatically. It’s like you hop right into the flow and go right with the rhythm of life at just the perfect pace. Things manifest exactly when they need to without you actually having to do anything deliberately, yet you become extremely clear about the relationship between thought and experiential reality. You just be yourSelf and everything you need will be provided.

“Seek first the kingdom of God and all else will be added unto you.”

This is the meaning of that statement.

If you want to play with the LoA, feel free. You are welcome to do anything you wish with the free will that “you” have in this lifetime. Just don’t try to make yourself happy through it. Similarly, don’t expect it to make you enlightened.

The LoA may help you see that there’s more to life than just the physical, and in this sense, it may be helpful in assisting you in seeing beyond the physical.

The LoA is about seeing things the way you want them to be and believing them to be truth. Enlightenment is simply seeing things as they truly are without any added mentation in the first place.

Eventually you may find yourself no longer all that interested in manifesting anything in particular because simply being is more than enough. Creation still happens, of course, but you become more of the flow of life itself as opposed to an individual trying to manifest a particular experience. As the saying goes, it’s the drop realizing it is the entire ocean.

Watching Awareness Move Through Life

Your capacity for awareness is an innate aspect of your true Self.

A baby fetus is aware of its surroundings, even if it doesn’t have the capacity to mentally language its experience. Awareness is prior to all thought, yet people tend to believe that thoughts are who they are, as if they couldn’t exist without thought.

The ego is reborn every morning. If you’ve noticed, when you first wake up, the very first experience is simply conscious awareness. As the ego slowly returns and identifications reappear, one next starts to realize ‘where’ they are, but they don’t know what day it is. The sense of space returns, followed by the sense of time. A person’s name and identity then return as well into their conscious experience.

In that very first moment when you just wake up, notice you still exist without an ego, a sense of “me.” It is possible to exist sans ego, but we’re generally not used to functioning in such a way.

Let’s talk a little bit more about this.

A useful exercise is to pretend that you have no memory.

By setting aside memory (it’s not you anyways, it’s simply stored experiences and programming), Self-inquiry is much easier. In this moment, without a memory, who are you?

This leads to the discovery that there is no ‘who’ there, only awareness of this moment.

The Self actually has no memory whatsoever. Every moment is experienced as a magnificent and glorious awe-inspiring wonder of the grandeur of life, like the very first time you stepped up to the edge of a massive canyon or gazed upon a fiery sunset. It leaves one utterly speechless. It’s like a newborn child who looks around the world in amazement. This is the perspective of the Self. Read More …

Who Makes Things Happen In The World?

The only way to function in life is to pretend that you’re doing something.

The reality is that there’s only awareness which is aware, which is experiencing that which we call physical reality. There is solely beingness.

There is no “you” that’s doing anything. There is no chooser. There is no decider. Choosing and deciding are something that just happens. They’re simply an autonomous aspect of the unfoldment of creation.

It is the false ego self, the impostor, who does the deciding and the choosing, as well as all doing, and then claims that it is “I” who is doing any of these things.

There is no separate “I” in life. “You” as an individual being don’t actually exist. The idea that you do is one of the most fundamental illusions of all life.

Even if there is no one who is doing anything, don’t we still need to make goals in life? Don’t we still have to do something useful with our lives?

Certainly! Even with the recognition that there’s no “me” doing anything, life keeps going. It doesn’t stop and neither do we.

You need to act as if that there is a goal-maker, a chooser, who is deciding things. You need to play that role and pretend that this person exists, but there is a constant awareness that this isn’t actually “you.” It’s simply a role that you’re playing.

As long as you know you’re just acting (being in this world, but not of it), there are no problems and there is no suffering.

Problems only arise when you forget you’re just acting and actually believe that this sense of identity IS you. Adopt a limited sense of identity and you suffer. It’s as simple as that.

Let go of all identities as if they were absolute Truth and all suffering ceases. Why? Because there is no one there to suffer!!

Then you’re free to come back in this world and PRETEND that you’re doing something, but there’s the awareness that there’s only awareness. Awareness watching an actor perform on stage.

There’s no need to try and deliberately stop anything that you’re doing in life. The doing will continue on its own. Thinking and decision-making just happen for you without you necessarily having to consciously think about them, right?

Of course. Allow them to do this. This is how the body is designed. Read More …