Actually One Being

Once we come back to our Self, then whatever is created is happening not so much
from a perspective of What do I want? but from a pure intention. Not an individua
l intention, not a collective intention, but the intention, the primal intention
. Its not an intention with a choice or a chooser. Its a primary creative energy t
hat comes from the source.
When we really have returned to the source, creation is no longer distorting its
elf through our wants or desires. Thats when were seeing, What is? Thats what I want
. What is actually happening? Thats what I desire. And Im no longer interested in c
reating anything, because I realize that everything, as it is, is what I always
wanted it to be. It was always my intention; I just didnt know it. I didnt really
want to manifest my individual intention, I wanted to come into the purity of in
tention itself.
This realization doesnt obliterate duality; it liberates duality. When we come in
to the ultimate Truth, then our thoughts, feelings, and actions come from this s
elf-realization. At that point, theres no sense in choosing or not choosing. Ther
es just the watching. When the Truth is conscious instead of unconscious, it can
come through and manifest purelywithout any desire to do so.
You created me to remind you of this. We all create exactly what we need. When w
e are not conscious enough, when our self-concept is not big enough to allow us
to have the wisdom that we are, to let in the divinity that we are, to let in th
e Buddha nature that we are, then well project it somewhere else. Maybe well creat
e a guy called Adya. Then well go into a relationship, and through that relations
hip well start to realize, Thats who I amAdyas not really Adya and Im not really me.
Then it just gets clearer and clearer, until our realization and our self-concep
t have gotten full enough and complete enough that we dont need to create a relat
ionship of apparent two-ness to remind us of what we already know. But even when
we see that, well keep doing it for the fun of it.
Its a circular process. I love this Truth so muchand by this I mean Self-love in t
he biggest sensethat I create you, and through you asking questions, which is rea
lly me asking questions, I get to tell myself the answers. I get to display who
I am and what I know to myself. But its actually one being: Im not stuck being Ady
a. Youre not stuck being you. We are stuck being It.
And we realize it doesnt matter which side were on. Were either looking for our Sel
f with the help of creating a so-called somebody else, or were just in the joy of
revealing our Self to our Self over and over. The more we realize its all one, t
he more we realize, You know, were really having fun.
~ Adyashanti
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