Indivisible love-awareness

I have been granted the most incredible opportunity to get to know awareness. This last week I had an accident which resulted in a multiple fracture in my leg and a major operation. I am left on crutches for 8 weeks, unable to be independent in my day-to-day living, and with severe pain as I learn to walk again.

It really has been a gift. In the mist of the most intense pain it was obvious that the basis of my experience was totally stable, unchanging, crystal clear and open; my basic well-being unwavering.

In the mist of self-pity, frustration, sadness and exhaustion the relief of crystal clear awareness is immediate. Each changing experience is an opportunity to rest in indestructible clarity and sky-like openness with everything as it is, moment by moment.

It is beautifully confirming to experience the immediacy of relief, and the total transformation of confused self-pity to compassion for all beings in the simple recognition of the indivisible basic state. We see nothing needs to be avoided. Nothing affects the basic state. When nothing is avoided, we can feel everything fully, and feel the immense confusion and suffering of all beings. In an instant, whoosh, self-focus dissolves into love for all.

What a blessing this christmas to be getting to know true compassion rather than reifying a self-focused personal identity that needs to control the world in order to be ok.

I am so very grateful. With love to all,

Kat

Total ease with every moment

I am struck by the ease that continues to saturate every aspect of my life and experience.

Clarity is in the present experience, it isn't anywhere else. Nothing at all needs to be done with my perceptions to find clarity and ease. No effort whatsoever is necessary. Nothing needs correcting.

This is such a relief. This is the lived experience of something totally new for me. I have struggled for many years to avoid failure in my relationships, my work, my personality.. constantly correcting everything and seeking perfection.

Now, with nothing avoided and everything included, peace saturates every single aspect of my experience. I am free to feel. I am free to think. I am free to be every single label in the dictionary, and yet none of them define me. I don't need to appear in any way whatsoever in order to be OK with myself. Here, I find I am clear, at ease, in love and totally capable to be responsive and to do what is needed to be of most benefit. Effortlessly wide open and natural like pure space.

Thank you Great Freedom!

Love

Kat

“If you bog yourself down in conventional ideas, then you’ll just be a “bogged down someone” all of your life. There can be no bigger disappointment than wallowing around in conventional ideas, when all the while the very basis of who you are is this pure intelligence that is entirely cognizant, conscious and aware and which does nothing but emanate benefit.”

Thank goodness for the end of all disappointments! As someone with high expectations I was bogged down by disappointment after disappointment in myself, my relationships, my partners, my work, my mind, my heart.. Now, all there is is one gift after another of total open presence which needs nothing, expects nothing and is totally, absolutely content with everything exactly as it is. I am so very grateful for this!

"Never underestimate the power of this simple practice. It is the most powerful force on earth. You have got to get that in the core of your being. We rely on short moments, and it takes us all the way to personal peace and unity, and it takes us all the way to world peace and unity."

This is another quote from the Short Moments book, which I absolutely love. This one captures the Great Freedom teaching; bold and simple.

Short moments of clarity, repeated many times, become continuous. Short moments of peace, repeated many times, become automatic. These short moments, of complete openness do become continuous. I have seen it in my own life. How amazing is that!

I am someone who spent my life looking for the root of suffering, and wanting to cure it - both my own and that in the world around me. I studied psychology, neurology, social constructionism, homeopathy, I was a peace activist, a youth worker, an ecologist and a developer of community focussed social enterprise. Nothing I studied or did gave me a solution that could bring guaranteed peace to myself or others, or give me hope that peace and unity was possible in the world.

The instruction of 'Short moments of awareness' and the support of the Great Freedom teaching has shown me the root I was looking for, and given me the solution. Short moment by short moment, I have introduced myself to my indestructible peace, my wide-open unflinching clarity.

Short moments is all that is needed. No matter what appears, a short moment is always available. The direct experience of total unity and peace saturating everything. There is no looking anywhere else. The search is off!

Anyone can do this. And seeing it in myself is how I am absolutely convinced now that a peaceful world where we simply want to be of benefit to each other is possible.

Love endlessly,

Kat

Clarity

Clarity is as obvious as the here and now!

Isn't it amazing! All the striving to find perfect peace, perfect intimacy, perfect love and perfect clarity in a specific set of circumstances (which almost inevitably seems to be somewhere else other than where we are), is totally unnecessary.

Short moments of clarity have shown me this. They have shown me that no matter where I am and no matter what is going on for me, clarity is still there - stable, lucid and wide open like the sky. Clarity saturates every experience equally.

The more I have noticed this, the more obvious it has become. Sure enough, relying on clarity has become more compelling than indulging, replacing or avoiding the thoughts, emotions and experiences. My old habits of trying to improve myself and my life have transformed into a totally incredible appreciation of every moment.

I am awed by the simplicity and effectiveness of this practice, and it's potential for the human race. In just two years my life has transformed to one of permanent ease, openness and an uncontainable energy to be of benefit and serve the world in whatever way I can.

Clarity shines brighter and brighter and with it the love, energy and total gratitude for every moment. I wish this for every one on earth! It is our birthright.

What an incredible time to be alive.
Love
Kat

"World Peace - Yes We Can!"

http://www.greatfreedom.org/peace.html

Peace is naturally present. The more familiar we become with this as our natural state, the more peace spreads naturally around the world.

The instinctive recognition of awareness is the single key to effectively bring about world peace, clarity and stability. To gain confidence in awareness as your true nature, this is to pioneer the way for the solution to all problems. With our open-minds, hearts and courage together we can recognise all limitations as limitless, and to give all we have to bring and well-being peace to all beings.

Great Peace - Great Fortune!
Love
Kat

"In a short moment of awareness, we have complete openness. When we begin short moments, getting a taste of that helps us recognize that this openness pervades everything. The openness of awareness is a much more comfortable space, because there isn’t anything going on."

I love this quote. There are no knots to undo or unravel. There is no confusion to work out of or tension to relieve. All is already totally wide open, relaxed and resting in itself. Every moment totally at home in itself as clarity with nothing needing to be done to achieve it.

This is like a great sigh of relief! Each short moments is a touching in with this relief. In an instant of recognition that this is the way it is, the straight-jacket of beleiving we need to find freedom anywhere else is removed. We spread our wings in ease and our energy is released to be of benefit to all. Short moments, many times, become continuous.

What joy!
Love
Kat

"Once we relax enough, we see that there is nothing but a basic state of pure presence without anything going on in it. That pure presence is entirely aware. It is inseparable from all of its own appearances. Whereas we thought all appearances were separated out from each other, now we don’t even think about that. It is just instinctively clear that there is nothing that has ever been separate—that everything is seamless and without division or split anywhere, and we are amazed that this came upon on us without even thinking about it."

Every short moment shows us directly that the here and now is spontaneously self-releasing. We cannot hold on to any perception or make it in to any 'thing' in its own right. When we are all tied up in our descriptions we simply don't notice that this is the case. When we relax we see that every single perception rests in itself, as the pure, clear and relaxed basic state. Nothing need be done to achieve contentedness and completeness. It is our natural state. Every short moment shows us this, and we learn to relax more and more with everything exactly as it is.

It is incredible to see how this plays out in my relationships. Relating to everyone becomes filled with ease, openness and love. Nothing to avoid and nothing hidden. No need to appear in any particular way to anyone, or expect anyone else to be in any way whatsoever. Complete gratitude for everyone's unique contribution to the whole.

I am so grateful to see this increasingly play out in my life in every single relationship.

Kat

"All of the buzz words we have like “self-respect,” “self-esteem” and “self-love” are found in that first short moment of awareness. We find everything we have been looking for: esteem, respect, love—it’s all there. All the nurturing we’ve been looking for everywhere in anything we have explored, we find there, and then we know we don’t have anywhere else to look. This is very important. Don’t confuse yourself and don’t confuse other people with strategies that are going to end up in pain."

There is nowhere else to go. Keeping it simple and relying on awareness in each here-and-now, it is now so obvious to me where my stability and ease lie. Love, ease and contentedness are not in holding in place the multitude of perceptions, emotions, thoughts, relationships and circumstances..or in ridding ourselves of the 'bad stuff' - it cannot be done! Instead of relying on the perceptions, I have chosen to rely on wide-open awareness, moment by moment. Now life shines with brilliant love, ease in all situations and an unstoppable flow of energy to be of benefit to all. Nowhere to go. Here and now is all there is and it is our choice in each moment - to rest or not to rest!

With total love,
Kat

"Whatever your own points of view are, that’s where your instinctive realization of awareness is. That’s where your instinctive realization of the basic state is. It’s in your own points of view—it isn’t anywhere else. All the things that you’re absolutely certain are indications that you are not recognizing awareness—that’s where your instinctive realization of awareness is."
Short Moments, Chapter One

It is so good to be grounded in the self-release of the here-and-now, with nothing to look for anywhere else. The search is over, the efforting is over. All the striving to be the right kind of person has come to an end. All the looking for the right kind of relationship is over. All the wanting to be accepted and liked has fallen away. The need to have the right kind of career and achieve the best - gone. To be respected and admired - not necessary. Totally content in what is right here, everything exactly as it is; pure, clear, spontaneous and carefree awareness. Dependent on nothing. What a releif.

What a wonder!
Love Kat

Clarity

Whatever comes, let it come. What ever is, let it be. Everything, exactly as it is is pure lucid clarity, wide open and uncompounded. With the striving to fix ourselves coming to a complete stop in clarity, all that is left is the unceasing flow of energy to be of benefit.