freedom from the fire of personality...

I wonder if you can see what I mean when I say there is a demand on every aspect of creation for action. Moreover, that this phenomenon of life is absolutely interrelated, and every aspect can only live by facing this demand completely.

I wonder if you see the truth of that. The truth, that like the cells in the body, every aspect of creation is immaculately connected in this vast creation, and that true participation... true action requires TOTAL intelligence. It really is important for us to take a moment and go into this. And so I wonder if you see that this action of which I speak can only arise in a way that is absolutely in touch with the burning fact of every other aspect of creation. And everything that exists is born into this demand. And everything that is born is equipped to face this demand. However, while humankind was born into this demand, and while we are equipped to face it, we have not been meeting it. Human kind is currently in the thrall of an immense sickness.... it's a sickness far worse than any of the outbreaks that we have come to know as sicknesses... for it is a sickness in which we are compelled to miss completely the entire point of life... it's a sickness which at the deepest levels has taken us out of meeting the true demand of life, and has us spiraling in a disorder which is a complete abomination.

I'm afraid already that these words might seem too severe. After all, one might say, "look at what we've done as humans! Look at the marvellous cultures!" Please, if you look, you will see that our cultures are not an expression of totally interconnected, totally sensitive order. There is perpetual war, perpetual corruption, perpetual delusion, manipulation. Each one feels broken up inside... lonely, and so must participate in one superficial stunt after another, always living in denial and self protection...

So in seeing all this, is it possible to understand, to see the truth of the matter, and in so doing, be free of the root of this sickness? What is the actual phenomenon which could get in the way of the human mind meeting the demand for absolutely inter-related creativity and action?

The root of this sickness, if you look, is the apparently unavoidable tendency of the human mind to be overwhelmed and caught by a fire of personality... the fire that spreads which separates this vast, beautiful, singular creation of life into the billions human minds who are living in the deluded impression that there are two things, there is "me", and there is life... "me" and my life... and so are caught up in the entertainments, the fantasies, the pleasures, the strategies to give this falseness a sense of vitality. It's a sickness by which, in the name of "me", impressions, ideas and technical knowledge, all upstage the actual fact of life in relationship, and the brain - the mind - is trapped in a delusion where instead of life taking place in the actual situation, there is an attempt for life to take place in the impressions, ideas, and knowledge stored up as memory in the brain. This energetic wave of personalization is born of the human brain, and must instantaneously work to maintain the delusion that is taken for fact. This "work" is the struggle for power and control... as it does so, it's like a robot car following an out of date map. There is complete disorder. Life becomes merely a matter of vain attempts to celebrate a sense of control and power, to assert the delusion of personality, be it of the one or of the many. We are caught in a struggle to maintain pretense, while all the while we are inwardly terrified, violent, greedy... our daily life is based in intimidation, denial and war.

So... being very careful, we must ask if it is possible for the heart and mind live at the centre of consciousness itself, necessarily free of the fire of personality... in the astonishing flowering of this most wonderous phenomenon of life, of consciousness... in the totally interconnected dreamscape that is the very fact of isness... please... this is what we have to look into.

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You know...A truthful, creative life is your BIRTHRIGHT! Not that you know or could imitate what that life might be... and that's just it. It's what life demands... don't you see? It's not something that you have to earn or assert...it's the fact of your life! This is it !


It is the demand upon the flower as it grows. It must do everything it does at the right time and in the right way or that's it. And, if it dies, there is no problem. That sort of passing is inherent in its birth... inherent in the demand.