It's just
possible
that the most hardened
barrier
preventing
transformation
from becoming an ongoing thrilling, living everyday experience for
everyone ie for you and I and we all, with no one and
nothing
left out, is that its access is so
simple
that we miss it entirely. This ensures it's always elusive. We're
raised (ie we've learned) to be smart, to
eschew
simple
things. We equate
simplicity
with naïveté. And there's something really quite
lovely
about
being
naïve. The
trouble
is in order to survive, everyone knows (and haven't we
all heard that expression before?)
being
naïve is a luxury we can ill afford.
Listen: what if
transformation
really were
simple?
What if this great
possibility
we
human beings
have been approaching, reaching out for, backing away from, then
approaching again through the millennia, really were
simple?
But if I said it's
simple,
don't we all know that would be too good to be
true?
Now everyone knows (and there's that
expression again) that if something's too good to be
true,
then it's probably neither. So now
consider
this: it's what we know that
gets
in our
way
of
being
transformed.
To develop this idea ie to follow it through, assume the access to
transformation
were indeed
simple.
The
question
to
ask
then is: what's the
simplest
aspect of our lives? Whatever (or where-ever) that is,
there's a good chance
transformation
would be discovered there. Well ... the
simplest
aspect of our lives I say, is our
being,
yes? We be. We are. Period. And that's where
transformation
shows up: in our
being
-
beyond
knowing,
beyond language.
More
trouble:
for the most part, what's too
simple
for us smart rats to even begin
considering,
is there's something of great value to be discovered in
being.
Anyone
participating
ongoingly in
the work of
transformation
will attest
to having to give their
complete
attention,
and
get
down to
work.
Transformation,
as has been said many
times,
is
simple.
But nobody has ever said it was
easy.
While unlike anything else you've ever experienced which has a
powerfully
innate,
natural
attraction, it's no
walk
in the park. This is not entertainment.
Participating
in
the work of
transformation
requires a certain
commitment,
a bringing yourself to bear. The processes themselves can be
arduous. The
conversations
aren't your run of the mill office
water
cooler
banter.
It's all in the
languaging.
But here's the thing: the
languaging
of
transformation
is only secondary. Primarily as
languaging,
it calls for the
speaker
to
step up
ie it calls for the
language-er
(that's you) to come forth ... and be
present.
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