Lesson 92. Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.
When we have a revelation we have an insight that we previously have not had. The experience was dark and unknown to us prior to the revelatory experience. Similarly, a miracle can be described as a change of mind where a light comes in and illuminates the mind because of a strength that comes to us or through us seemingly not of our own accord, but from awareness. We lose the ability to experience this new found strength when we are body/mind/person conscious. When focused on body/mind/person, the potential for strength and light becomes weakened or darker or less likely. We don’t have the illuminating experience when we are caught up in the story, when we can’t see past appearances, when we worship false idols like money or security or romance or anything of form.
But we are asked in this lesson’s practice to give twenty minutes twice today to experience the strength and the light in which the gift of sight is given us. “Leave, then, the dark a little while today, and we will practice seeing the light, closing the body’s eyes and asking truth to show how to find the meeting place of self and Self, where light and strength are one.
Last night in the Satsang interview Jacquelyn had with Eshwar Segobind, he said the reason we meditate is to allow a space where there are no thoughts. In the video below, Bentinho Massaro shares with us a technique where a space is provided for self to meet Self, a space to notice our true Self. He says that when you relax and don’t define anything that. that is where you will find the isness of life, the aliveness of life itself or a mystery of being that becomes self evident. He says when we are not applying stories to our circumstances we allows ourselves to relax with awareness and aliveness. It is totally inclusive, allowing and pervasive being innocent and causeless like a baby.
This is awareness watching awareness. This is our true Self. Strength comes from our true Self, life awareness. As we become more aware of our self as life-awareness we also become more aware of our strength. Thinking of our self as the body/mind/person is weakness.
I’m willing to relax my interest in the world, to allow for a space where miracles might be seen. How about you?
