The experience of our inner being changes our awareness
By Moshe Ross
Silence. These words here are generated from an inner pool of Silence and tranquility. The prophet Ezekiel says, “Turn ye and live,” or “Turn me myself, to my inner being.” The experience of this inner being changes our awareness, and we reach our Real spiritual level.
We can turn so quickly. We relax, we settle down comfortably and the distractions are just wiped away clean. We’re feeling the pulsation of Beingness, which is always already here within us. This is our central Divine Identity. This Holy Consciousness here is all there is. When our awareness is at the level of physical belief, we don’t know Who we are, and this is all to a temporary purpose: to create this verdant manyness from the No Thingness of the Godhead, and then return so enriched.
The feeling of the Presence, the emotion of it, the sensations of it, the Reality of it, this is what we have needed. This is the sustenance which generates myself and all this world moment by moment, continuously. In this awareness, the universe is revealed to be ever and only a spiritual creation, all alive and One. This is Really Being With You — being with my inner Self, being with God, being with all my neighbors and this entire world.
We may experience this Consciousness for a matter of seconds, and this illuminates us and our day. When we enter this Reality, it turns everything on its head. “I will overturn and overturn, and overturn, until One comes whose right it is.” And within these seconds, here is eternity. Our life of human sorrows is preparation for this Turning. This is the immeasurable, the precious pearl beyond price.
Letting go
The eternity place is the temple within. We just allow the Turning to happen, like a hair of iron drawn to the magnet. Peace, called Great Peace, called Peace that passeth understanding: This is sweeping up of reasoning in Its paradoxical arms and going way, way beyond.
With our eyes closed, we can see our body is filled with light. If mine eye be single, the whole body is filled with light — a light which is the substance of all form. A light which is matter — the Divine Mother — and is all this world’s energy. Salvation is already and always here, and the future salvation, as it’s called, is the height of really being with you now.
It’s always now and only now. Let us make the effort to attain the effortless, let down our guard; the Koran says: Even this, can it be willed? All our efforts are floating on the stream of God’s energy, intent and direction, and whatever path we take in this dreamworld surrounding us, all roads lead to Home.
We shed our ego identity, shed it like a winter coat in the warmth. In this place of experiencing Reality, feeling the Divine Self as we are at our core, and letting It pour outwardly to permeate everything — in this place, we are at the Axle of the wheel, which spins so rapidly it is still, which generates miracles around us so that all is repaired; the aberrant visions are brought Home like the prodigal son.
We see things changed in their appearance. In a magic mirror, now we see the face of Love in every person and event that we meet. Where we were lonely, together we’re the Only.
This Contact creates miracles in our lives, not just for their own sake, but to teach us, to wake us up. That is the purpose of all events, to go deep into the human forgetting, to devise all the puzzles and mysteries and then watch them solved. Both are one divine journey: The holy darkness of our cavern and the reentry into paradise, which we have never lost.
Turn ye and live. Beneath the most ordinary and, yes, the worst situations, God has made Its abiding place. So here is where we are finding ourselves.
Moshe Ross (541-488-2571) is a longtime teacher of meditation, an author, retired physical therapist, and psychological counselor. This essay is based on his Sept. 2 program of “Really Being With You,” Saturday mornings 9:30-9:55, on KSKQ, 89.5 FM. For archive, Google: KSKQ community radio programming.
