Taste of the Beyond

"There is no coming conscious without pain. People will do everything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." -Carl Jung

You are the only one who can open your door. A teacher can show you the door and say what it takes to open, and then enter it. The teacher can do no more, or they would be doing your work for you, and you cannot enter the door without doing the work. How could you recognize the door without the awareness to see it for what it is? You can see it for what it is by seeing the same in you, as you.  The work is you developing your foundation, being and integrating the entirety of your foundation. Then the door opens, and there are many many doors to what is beyond.

Once you know the taste of what is beyond, you cannot turn away from it, nor can you turn your mind away from it. You can only be with the taste, facing it in what is beyond. You are not to run into it, nor run away from it. The taste is just there and yet there is also direction into it. You cannot make this yours. It is not for you. It is simply letting true choice move. It is letting heart consciousness move into being only what it knows.

There is no true real flight unless you are being the very very tip of the arrow. If you have anything of your mind in front of you then there is no flight. You are stuck. You cannot place your own comfort in front of you. When you seek your own comfort everything stops. Any comfort within you isn’t for you; it is for others, for you to give them not to get for yourself. Others are then comforted by you being what you know. You are an example. Such comforting draws them to be what they know. Comfort is only for those that have something in front of them. And the comfort is there to take them to what they know, beyond what they are dealing with.

You can have nothing of your mind in front of you. It is you being completely out in front of your entire mind. It is you being what you know, moving into what you know. The energy of that, the energy of what you are being, moves through the whole arrow transforming it and enabling it to function. It functions in ways that you know are possible, but that you cannot grasp. As soon as you recede past the very tip of the arrow where there seems to be nothing, then you are being something that you know you are not, an actual compromise within consciousness, and consciousness knowing it has been compromised.

There will always be very many reasons for this compromise, but there is never a single excuse and that is because you actually know what is true. You know what knowing is. You can only be knowing without using the support of mind in front of you.

By being solidly in your foundation, you’ll find the key to the door, and the key is not for you to have or use. It is for you to be. You are the key. When you are completely and solidly grounded in your foundation the key opens the door within. It opens you. What was previously in the dark is now a living being within you, but that only takes place by you being it. Your foundation will match what you are being.

It begins by facing the taste. The way is clear; you are not allowed to give up.

Part of the above is loosely paraphrased excerpts of a conversation with John De Ruiter in 2003.

" You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens "~Rumi