The game we’re all playing is to experience the extreme limitation of human life as an opportunity to experience our True Nature. We’re having this experience of limitation, and we feel as though we’re bound in time and space, and bound by the physical body. However, none of those things are true.

The way we can go beyond those limitations is by beginning to notice effortlessness more than engaging the mind, making an effort, and feeling as though we have to achieve things in time, because effortlessness is actually a portal into our True Nature: effortlessness. It’s important not to allow the mind to come in and say things like, “Oh, I don’t understand this,” or “I don’t agree with that.”

The mind is essentially a device for discrimination and judgment. It can be used in a very effective way, but it can also undermine one’s ability to experience happiness, because once you recognize that our True Nature is infinite and it’s also effortless, then we can begin to align our consciousness before we engage in any activity. By doing that, we’re actually in the realm that we need to be in to realize that True Nature, because the only space in which we can realize our True Nature is when we’re in a state of effortlessness.

Then we’re neutral—there’s no judgment, no duality, and there’s an openness—because the mind is actually a dualistic device that creates the sense of oneself being here and the world being out there. Life is unity, and we can begin to experience that directly, as it is directly known. Self-realization isn’t just on the conceptual level; it’s actually non-conceptual.

So, taking it really easy, in a way where one is totally effortless and the mind doesn’t need to try to grasp the meaning, it’s more about just allowing and just being really easy with the whole process and enjoying it. The more one can enter into a state of joy, relaxation, and ease, then the more benefit can be derived from this knowledge.

If you’d like to go a little deeper into this, come join us for our next online gathering…

With love,
David Bingham