Amnesia for the era of reification

Dearest Candice

I am so deeply and profoundly grateful to you for always, always seeing clarity and demanding clarity, in every single human you meet.

You are the most humble world leader, the powerful, loving friend in the truest sense, and the greatest inspiration of what it means to be human. When I sit with you, and I feel the power that I am, I am totally awed by what is possible for our world.

You said today that society would have amnesia for the era of reification and I can say with 100% surety that this process is already happening, person by person. I have amnesia for the reification of viewpoints. I am society! I can not remember what it was like to have a point of view and see it as a problem, something to suffer from. Now, the appearances of clarity can be so intense, and yet within each moment, I am 100% assured of my stable nature – I can relax, and in confidence to let all be as it is the love and gratitude of open hearted clarity opens up from every single afflictive state.

I feel a different person to the one I was only a month ago! I am more satisfied, more stable, more mature, more in love, totally in love, more alive in all moments, more complete, more relaxed about everything – everything, and I feel more gratitude for life than I ever felt possible.

I am deeply touched by everyone who chooses clarity instead of emphasising point of view, by your courage and your humility to simply expose yourself to yourself as simple, pure clarity free of all elaboration and embellishment. Getting real. This is so incredible – this is so so incredible! Humanity is changed forever – thanks to you all. Introduction to clarity, plus 100% commitment to the Four Mainstays, plus 100% assurance of the benefit of each moment, equals irreversible and permanent peace and wellbeing for all beings. We role model the Four Mainstays Life: permanent, ever increasing love and benefit – and it cannot be stopped. Boom! Everyone will know. Suffering will be erased forever.

I love you Candice for always seeing me. I love you Kathy and Asaf and am completely inspired by you and so honoured and humbled to sit next to you each day. I love every one of you.
Love
Kat

Love

Over and over again the true nature of love opens up to be more intense, more powerful and more wild and free than I ever could have imagined. It is so clear that by following after impulses and desires I collapsed 'Love' and the feeling of being 'in Love' down into a pinhead of experience to do with me and one other person, and with so many expectations and such clinging attached to that. Completely limiting in so many ways - and draining!

Relying on clarity, all the viewpoints get more vivid and powerful, including the desires and the bliss. We start to find that the entirety of all experiences exist within us; out of control, raw, wild energy - wild love!

Using these unrestricted, unpredictable experiences as a skilful means to be of benefit to all, by allowing them to be as they are without trying to indulge avoid or replace is the most sublime way of life.

Here, relaxing as clarity, it is piercingly clear that there is no separation from overwhemling desire and powerful, universal, beneficial energy that can transform our planet completely.

Piercing love - unshakable, powerful love that depends on no one. This is what we all are.

Taking a stand

We have to take a stand for sanity, and we, each of us, is the only person who can do this for ourselves.

In each short moment, when we rely on clarity rather than continuing to mess around in reifying points of view, we do just this. We take an immediate stand for the potential of humanity to live in benefit for and with each other. We realise this potential in each short moment - making our commitment to our clarify all points of view in our natural stability. We see that we are not a victim, we are not a slave to any impulses, any fear. We are never limited in our capacity to be totally open-hearted, totally clear.

Short moment by short moment, rely on clarity. Boom! Each moment is clear, stable and wide open. It has never not been this way! Individually we demonstrate what is possible, first to ourselves, and then to others.

Life lived this way is easy, and so powerful. Nothing stands in our way of ensuring all humans know permeant happiness, peace and generosity as the standard for living. Its up to us.

I am so grateful for the unending support I get to live a life of limitless love.

Katherine

Death and other Afflictive State

The Four Mainstays are the direct expression of all-pervasive Clarity. They are piercing reality of clarity’s endless benefit, prosperity and generosity. They are the complete and whole experience of true kindness and care.

The Four Mainstays are rugged. They are indestructible. They are single-pointed, unwavering, fully engaged, responsive. They have one purpose. Benefit of all. World peace. The total realisation of the human potential, in life and in death.

We’re born, we live, we love, we die. When we live a life based on the accumulation, definition and identification with points of view, the concept of death is both terribly frightening and terribly appealing. Death from the vantage of point of view means an end to relationships, an end to love, an end to our ability to create, an end to our ability to be touched and to touch, to hear and be heard, to see and be seen, to feel and be felt. When we have looked for relationship, touch, sound, emotion, sight and sensation as evidence of our intimacy and love, then of course death signals a terrifying prospect: we might be alone, unable to love and be loved, completely forsaken by the tenderness of the human heart. On the other hand, death can mean the end of suffering, the freedom from the struggle of ups and downs, release from being someone endlessly efforting to get somewhere and endlessly failing to hold on to it.

In clarity however we discover who we really are. We discover in each short moment our all-pervasive nature. We get to grips with the reality of the situation; we never have been someone going somewhere, we find in every moment that we are simply a super-complete brightness, soothing clarity..like space pouring into space, like sunlight in air. Indivisible intimacy and love is our ever-present nature, the source and spring of every experience regardless it’s label. Clarity never goes anywhere, never dies, never falters, never fails, never forsakes.

In each moment of instinctive recognition and with the fuel of every afflictive state this is our endless discovery. In each moment of allowing everything exactly as it is we release the limiting confines of viewpoints on our experience and our powers of benefit. In each moment of allowing everything to be as it is we experience the freedom of death, and the freedom from death. We experience ourselves as we are, pure clarity and this very alive human powerhouse of beneficial capacity.

In each short moment, simply right here and right now, always available, always where we are, we can allow ourselves the kindness of the release viewpoints. This is it, nowhere else. This is where we find it – here, now. What we are now is what we will always be. Nothing added, nothing removed. Going nowhere. Loving in all directions. Benefit is realized for each of us, and together, here in the instinctive recognition of our lucid and very alive, forever unborn and never dying nature.

Afflictive states and benefit

Dearest Candice,

I am not in the mood for bullshit any longer. I am not in the mood for any dillydallying around. I am not in the mood for putting up with the way things are, the way they have been. I am not in the mood for complacency. I am not in the mood for accepting the consensus that a society built on lack and pathology is ok or that it is ok to continue to put up with that and even contribute to it.

If anything is my most afflictive point of view, right now, it is this. It is the wrath and fire that I feel, complete rage actually. And the recognition that I cannot scream and shout to make people come out of a corner they are in in the first place simply because they are afraid. It is wanting to shout, and knowing that that won’t help. This is my most afflictive state, and it is also the fire of my determination and the fury of my love.

I know the solution. I see that in skylike clarity this intense rage in me causes no tension. I see that it instead is expressed in potently direct speech, body, mind, qualities and activities. The ‘afflictive’ state generously pours out mountain-like stability, confidence and energy to do what needs to be done. It points me squarely to my capacity to serve unwaveringly myself without dragging anyone along. It unequivocally directs me to the reality that I can only take responsibility for my points of view, and that I am absolutely capable of making a direct, clear statement of ‘only clarity’ in all of my relationships and leadership roles.

This life is my responsibility. This is my carefree, playful life of relaxed clarity. My life. Choosing what I want. Nothing else.

I look at all the afflictive states I have experienced over the last three years and I see they have each fueled this fire in me. Even when I did not feel like they were giving me anything but pain. Even when I felt I would have given anything – even my life- to rid myself of the grief, the sorrow, the loss, the black, black depression, the failure, the unworthiness, the arrogance, the pride, the fear, the sense of imprisonment by my work, the fear of rejection if I put a foot out of line, the need to do it right, the physical pain, the heartbreak, the overwhelming desire and heartbreaking love for another. So many of these states, unpredicatably appearing, taking over and going wild in me. Each time I have relied on the solid Four Mainstays and, with their total support the unending haven of their unconditional clarity and love, often immediately and sometimes not so immediately the fan of these seemingly ever circling points of view as spun out leaving confidence in their wake.

Now the fan can – and does - spin as much as it likes. I welcome my button pushers. Facing everything, avoiding nothing. I know so deeply that my afflictive states are giving generously to me again and again the opportunity to see things how they really are. They are evidence of my indestructibility. And, when this is hard to see I know where to turn. My trustworthy teachers, my indestructible community, the teaching, and to the instinctive recognition of naturally present clarity. The rugged Four Mainstays uniting us all in great mutuality of only support, only love.

It is incredible how this reality of how things are is being made obvious to us all. We are being given the opportunity to let ourselves go wild, to let the covers be pulled, to give up trying to be someone or to have a life that looks like anything at all. In accepting this invitation we free ourselves from all ideas whatsoever. We stay with exactly what we are – a single, simple, unbounded moment - and we acknowledge ourselves. We set free the clarity potency in every single point of view.

All at once, seamlessly. Wild clarity is wild benefit, wild benefit is wild clarity.

Right now every element of my being is resonating with a lionhearted roar and with the power of wild, wild oceans.

With all my love and life,

Katherine

Easy Sailing

I was asked a question last night about my experience of the disturbing states I used to experience 'Do I still have them?'. It really struck me; I had to really think about whether I did or not!

Over the last three years, everything has continued as normal, in fact, I would say that some negative thoughts and emotions have raged more than ever before, however what has changed is my belief that they have any power over my well-being whatsoever. By taking short moments of clarity, repeated many times, it has become unavoidably obvious to me that my stability is found in the natural presence of awareness rather than in the constantly changing flow of points of view.

As this becomes more and more my experience, the impulse to focus on and describe disturbing states has just loosened up - so firstly they don't hang around as long, they resolve spontaneously, and secondly I barely notice them when they do appear. There simply is just nothing of interest to look at.

Wow!

I am really grateful to have been asked this question and to have had the opportunity to reflect on my disturbing states. It is in seeing how far we have come since being introduced to clarity that we can really see the powerful benefit of short moments.

Life really can be easy sailing!

Sending immense love to all,

Kat

I feel so privileged to be waking up this morning to a world of clean water, affordable healthy food, health care and a warm house. Every single human being deserves these simple qualities of life, yet so few have them.

Its up to each one of us to bring about equality and peace for all beings. I see now that it is possible, we are not helpless.

I have experienced such a shift in myself in the last 3 years. A life that was totally self-focussed on being 'someone' and 'living life to the full' has transformed into one where all my daily decisions are naturally and effortlessly held in the context of what is most benefit for all. I no longer need to impose my way of thinking on anyone else or struggle to change others to keep me stable and content. In the complete, permanent stability and love of awareness there is nothing left to do but to contribute to the world.

This is our natural state - like nature - intelligent benefit flows without thought or contrivance.

Short moments of clarity, repeated many times do become continuous. We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Today I am going to do all I can to bring about world peace and benefit for all beings.

Wow. What a life. Thank you Great Freedom!

Love

Kat

Complete confidence in awareness is the self-release of the here-and-now.

Candice O'Denver