One-Pointedness
Weekly Message, August 12, 2006
One-Pointedness
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant.
In the following message, Ishvara continues his discussion of the process of creation. I have transcribed and edited Ishvara's words from a talk he gave on June 25, 2006. - TG.
Ishvara:
The next step in creation is one-pointedness. That is the place where much of creation fails, because it becomes diminished or distorted when you are not one-pointed. You are too easily distracted. You start out to create something, and you look over there and say, "Oh, look at that," and the energy quickly goes away from the creation.
Suppose an artist is doing a painting. The artist is very intense, really focused, one-pointed, when somebody comes into the room and says, "Hey, what are you doing?" The artist responds, "Well I WAS painting!"
Distractions are deterrents to creation. You can imagine what might have happened in the creation of the earth, if the universe had become distracted. The consequence could have been that the earth would not be habitable. Just at the moment when the universe was bringing about the proper balance of oxygen for living things to thrive, the universe became distracted and made it all nitrogen.
One-pointedness is essential for creation, one-pointedness is critical during the movement towards liberation and freedom. That makes a master creation, because to be free, you need to recreate yourself. The first self is selfish, separate, programmed, conditional, conditioned, and pretty helpless. In order to be liberated, to live in freedom, obviously there needs to be a recreation of yourself. If you get distracted in that process, oops, you get more of the conditioning, more of the beliefs.
On the farm, when you are plowing a field, you have to keep looking straight ahead, because the moment you turn your head, the moment you get distracted, off goes the plow. You really have to keep focused. Ishvara learned this the hard way! When I was growing up, I would be on the tractor raking hay with a large mechanical rake behind me. The rake would turn and turn, and the hay would be raked off to the side. Once in a while a rock would catch in the mechanism, or some hay would tie it up, and the rake would stop turning. I would be driving along, with a huge pile of hay behind me, and the tractor would begin to lurch. The result was a very messy winnow of hay, which didn't please my uncle because he had to leave the comfortable cab of the tractor in order to pitch the hay into the baler.
Distractions are so apparent in the world. Everywhere we look, there are distractions, distortions, and illusions. The intellect, with its wishful thinking, quickly latches on to these things. And we wonder why we stay in a rut; we wonder, "Where is that truth that is supposed to set us free?"
When you move into the arena of greater awareness, when you resonate with the truth, you know it within yourself, but still it is easy to forget. You forget that first love. You forget that realization of the connection with IT, and then it can become distorted. You become distracted, and the realization is diluted.
It is important to set yourself on course and be one-pointed. That does not mean that you look at nothing else, or that you do not enjoy Life. It simply means that you know and resonate with that core, and you hold to that, you cling to that, and anything which does not fit that, you ignore, you throw out, because it will distract your awareness, and dilute the realization.
(To be continued next week).
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One-Pointedness
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant.
In the following message, Ishvara continues his discussion of the process of creation. I have transcribed and edited Ishvara's words from a talk he gave on June 25, 2006. - TG.
Ishvara:
The next step in creation is one-pointedness. That is the place where much of creation fails, because it becomes diminished or distorted when you are not one-pointed. You are too easily distracted. You start out to create something, and you look over there and say, "Oh, look at that," and the energy quickly goes away from the creation.
Suppose an artist is doing a painting. The artist is very intense, really focused, one-pointed, when somebody comes into the room and says, "Hey, what are you doing?" The artist responds, "Well I WAS painting!"
Distractions are deterrents to creation. You can imagine what might have happened in the creation of the earth, if the universe had become distracted. The consequence could have been that the earth would not be habitable. Just at the moment when the universe was bringing about the proper balance of oxygen for living things to thrive, the universe became distracted and made it all nitrogen.
One-pointedness is essential for creation, one-pointedness is critical during the movement towards liberation and freedom. That makes a master creation, because to be free, you need to recreate yourself. The first self is selfish, separate, programmed, conditional, conditioned, and pretty helpless. In order to be liberated, to live in freedom, obviously there needs to be a recreation of yourself. If you get distracted in that process, oops, you get more of the conditioning, more of the beliefs.
On the farm, when you are plowing a field, you have to keep looking straight ahead, because the moment you turn your head, the moment you get distracted, off goes the plow. You really have to keep focused. Ishvara learned this the hard way! When I was growing up, I would be on the tractor raking hay with a large mechanical rake behind me. The rake would turn and turn, and the hay would be raked off to the side. Once in a while a rock would catch in the mechanism, or some hay would tie it up, and the rake would stop turning. I would be driving along, with a huge pile of hay behind me, and the tractor would begin to lurch. The result was a very messy winnow of hay, which didn't please my uncle because he had to leave the comfortable cab of the tractor in order to pitch the hay into the baler.
Distractions are so apparent in the world. Everywhere we look, there are distractions, distortions, and illusions. The intellect, with its wishful thinking, quickly latches on to these things. And we wonder why we stay in a rut; we wonder, "Where is that truth that is supposed to set us free?"
When you move into the arena of greater awareness, when you resonate with the truth, you know it within yourself, but still it is easy to forget. You forget that first love. You forget that realization of the connection with IT, and then it can become distorted. You become distracted, and the realization is diluted.
It is important to set yourself on course and be one-pointed. That does not mean that you look at nothing else, or that you do not enjoy Life. It simply means that you know and resonate with that core, and you hold to that, you cling to that, and anything which does not fit that, you ignore, you throw out, because it will distract your awareness, and dilute the realization.
(To be continued next week).
Copyright © 2006 by Alaya®.
All rights reserved.
Alaya® is a registered trademark and service mark.
If you forward this message, please include the copyright notice.
This message comes to you from Alaya, a nonprofit organization. Alaya depends upon financial contributions for its continued existence. Follow this link for information on how to make a tax-deductible contribution to Alaya.
Thank you for your support.
To learn more about Ishvara and the Alaya Community, visit our website at www.alaya.org
To subscribe to this message list, send an email to tgrant@alaya.org with the word "Subscribe" in the subject of your message.
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