Arrival

Last Updated on August 5, 2015

Yoga, meditation, and even so-called enlightenment… it’s all about approach and arrival.

From another perspective it is therefore about letting go. Letting go of what, exactly?
Letting go of our habitual and culturally inherited fixation on seeking yoga through something, and our fixation on becoming.

Feel into that for a moment. Approach. Life is. How in this moment am I approaching That? What is my approach to the isness of Life? Am I even aware that Life Is, or do I approach Life from another perspective?


Arrival. In what ways are my internal energies, thoughts, and attention focused on trying to get somewhere, attain something, become someone?

These pursuits are all about striving rather than arriving.

Yet a basic application of logic makes it clear that without arriving I will always be striving, fumbling my way towards ecstasy, whilst never sinking into the innate and bliss-filled reality of my own Being. There is an adage two of my yoga teachers would often say which I think rings true to this. “You get there by being there”.

If I approach myself as unwhole/unholy and incomplete that is what I give my attention to. The illusion of being unwhole/unholy and incomplete. As the Kahuna of ancient Hawaii recognised, where your attention goes your energy (life force) flows. What I feed with my life-force is what will then grow (emerge more lucidly) in my world (my Dream) and will thus increase within my perception.

There is no-where to go. There is no-thing to achieve. There is nothing to become. I already am. The I Am That I Am has been since the beginning of time. There are no-things, except within that mind that makes it so. Life is. Consciousness unfolding. Awareness evolving. There is a unity, a oneness, not a whole bunch of things.

Does this mean we just stop and lull in a state of stasis and inactivity?

Far from it. Take a walk out in a jungle, or forest, and sit beside the sea. You will, of course, notice just how alive and active Life is. It is a dynamic living flow. If you get even more present with that forest or ocean or whatever it is you are sitting with, you will surely notice that underlying all that apparent activity is a deep stillness, an effortlessness, a perfection and order which is perhaps ineffable to the rational mind. Whilst the rational mind may have trouble getting to grips with that oceanic stillness, the heart will recognise and embrace That instantly. It knows. Through the heart we know.

So why would Man engage in a spiritual practice at all then? If I already am, if life is, if there is nowhere to go and nothing to achieve, what’s the point?

Is there one?

It’s all a matter of conscious participation.

As a Divine Being you can choose just how consciously you participate in the fullness and Isness of Life, as it is manifesting and emerging into your perception in this moment.

Even right now, taking this very moment as an example, gently give your attention to the breath emerging and submerging within your body-mind. The breathing already is. It is happening with or without your being conscious of it. Whether you consciously participate in That or not, it is. Arriving is really as simple and potentially as complicated as that. This is the simplicity of Being, the ecstasy of Life, the bliss of awareness emerging, unfolding, and evolving… not just through you but as you… as all That you are.

Are you ready and willing to conscious participate in the full magnificence of That, now?

If not right now, what’s it going to take? What is required for that readiness in this moment?

It’s all about approach and arrival.

There is nothing to do, nothing to become, and there is nowhere to go toward…

Life IS.