Clear Water Sangha

We are absolutely, perfectly being guided. So how can you find that guidance? How can you tune into, or feel, sense or see, what is clearly being shown to you, right now?

How can you be a channel, rather than a receptacle? In other words, how can you be a vehicle for movement of energy, rather than a contained unit that’s separate? How can you be vulnerable, rather than defended? How can you be open so the light can come in?

How can you become free from the type of thinking that’s constricting, limiting? Thinking doesn’t have to be restricting. It can be liberating. The mind can be liberated, just like the heart and the body.

Once we get out of the way — once we find out how to actually get out of the way — then we begin to receive the profound, beautiful grace of presence and awakened consciousness, the joy and bliss of this mysterious life, and it begins to radiate through every cell in this body, literally…

When you can really tune in and listen, completely surrendering, allowing this presence that you are to literally liberate you, then it’s a total joy to be here. And enjoying this richness is nothing that needs to be held onto at all. Then life is just one discovery after another, one surprise after another, one…

There’s really no spiritual work to be done; there’s only human work. And when we really understand the human work, then naturally the spirit radiates and the heart expands.

In the opening talk of a recent retreat, Jon offers: “We’re really here to be here — to dissolve into being here. Anything else is really extra… So relax and allow yourself to just be here. Allow yourself to be profoundly nurtured, and nourished, by the love and unconditional acceptance that’s in this space.”

Eventually we see that life is really a mystery, and initially that can be frightening, upsetting, overwhelming. But eventually it’s freeing — it’s the openness of spaciousness, not the holding and contraction of knowing.

How can we become sensitive enough to perceive the deep guidance within? How can we become clear enough, and out of the way enough, that the message can come through?

This week Jon returns to discuss his ongoing recovery from surgery, and reminds us that “the more you open to the deeper presence that you are, the more you can just be here with whatever’s happening — with whatever needs your attention, your loving tenderness and care.”