You don't need this. You don't need
transformation.
If you've heard (or think you've heard)
transformation
is something which fills a need or (worse) is something
you need, you'll never get it. It works to
listen
a certain way to get
transformation,
and if you
listentransformation
as something you need, that's exactly what plain doesn'twork.
In point of fact, you needtransformation
like a fish needs a bicycle (as Patricia Irene "Irina" Dunn may have
said). Honest! No fooling.
You're OK the way you are. This isn't therapy. This won't make
you better. This won't make you alright. This is for
people who are already alright. If you think there's
something about you which
needs fixing,
if you're
working on
yourself,
there's
nothing
for you here. I mean that quite literally: there's
nothing
for you here.
Be careful! Given our propensity for
listening what we already
know
rather than for
listening
what's spoken, it's easy to miss the full implication of
"there's
nothing
for you here" even though it sounds perfectly obvious.
The results of
transformation
are living life powerfully, and living a life you
love.
If you're in therapy,
transformation
brings being powerfully in therapy. If you're on the path
to
enlightenment,
transformation
brings being powerfully on the path to
enlightenment.
If you're the follower of a guru,
transformation
brings being the follower of a guru powerfully. If you're
praying
for salvation,
transformation
brings being powerfulpraying
for salvation - or
praying
for anything else, for that matter. That ... and
loving
what you're doing whatever it is you're doing whenever
you're doing it.
I suspect if you could ask
God
what she wants you to do, she'd say something like "What I want you to
do is what you're doing - I don't want you to do anything else.". If
that indeed were the
word
of
God
(and of course it's just my hypothetical - which means it may
not be the
word
of
Godor it may be), we'd have a hard time with it because of our
already always
listening
we ought to be doing something else other than what we're doing.
Here's an entirely new scenario - not being
better: rather, being the way we are; not
fixing
anything: rather, being the way we are; not doing anything
differently: rather, being the way we are. And here, "being
the way we are" implies being the way we naturally really
are, not being the way that needs getting better, nor being the way
that needs being
fixed,
nor even being the way that needs to be different.
In our obsession with getting better,
fixing,
and being different,
the last place we look
is
who we are as we are,
with
nothingfixed,
with
nothing
changed, with
nothing
added, and with
nothing
taken away. Since we already are
who we are,
we don't need to do anything to be
who we are
(getting that, tosses a lot of effort and struggle out the door,
doesn't it?).
Transformation
isn't something you need - you don't need this. It's tough
to get that. Life and everything in it grinds into us from an early age
we need to (aspire to) get better, and we need to get better
differently, and we need to get better differently more.
To reveal
transformation
simply by discarding those tired, worn out old beliefs is a hard
sell. It's tough. Yet obviously if it weren't tough, the world
would be
transformed
by now.
There are no secrets. The emperor has no clothes.
There's nothing to get.
A master is someone who found out THIS IS IT! That's hard
to get. We're obsessed with
"This isn't
it!".
Or at least we're obsessed with
"This isn't it
- yet!".