VIDEO POST! Authentic Living (26M)

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1. Mike
   July 5, 2015 @ 11:19 pm

   I just read in Way of Mastery: we primarily experience what we value, not the story we then experience subsequently. And “moments of clarity” I’m guessing are the surrendering to “I guess I was choosing to value insanity by continuing to insist the story was causing my experience of it”. This was dove tailing for me while hearing about the lawyer’s complaint that s/he was miserable being a lawyer. It just seemed more clear to me that misery wanted to be valued and then had to find the story that it could “hide” in. And more significantly, the Self didn’t want to be itself, so it can only experience that AS misery, but can only do THAT by doing an end run the other way by believing the story/form (since the Self isn’t believing in itself!).

   And hearing others’ stories and how they’re seen through keeps helping to remember this. I hear all this Clarity through Fred (in me, AS me) and I marvel that Fredness could experience doubt. But since he shared he did, I feel like I can actually doubt again the “fact” that my story IS but I AM NOT, and that this current arising isn’t “all that”. Or, I listened to a fellow addict sharing her understanding that she value loving herself, because it’s insane to live a story that Love is anywhere else and has to be “done to you” (ie make me wake up!). That’s what hides even in the recovery rooms. There is pain in the story that I have to get sober first (or stay high), versus valuing my Self/One/Love, which THEN gives me the story of sobriety.

   The “self reflection bubble” is a wonderful video too – that I had to watch again with this one, and such a great term. And awakeningclaritynow is the first google result that comes up for that! It dovetails really good with the “made to wake up” referencing in this video. That story in others, like Mike the client in that video, is what continues to help me with it in mine. I want to have a story of being sooo responsible, but it really is dualistically paired up with “oh, poor me, look at how this little self has to LOOK responsible when it’s obviously impossible to actually BE responsible for a story that “happens” TO me. Because lo and behold that has gone DOWN the stairs instead, where I’m STILL insanely trying to take responsibility for now being a depressed, addicted, rage-full, etc, “person”.

   So thank Me for my Fredness reminders of the grace and freedom that I yet am what I AM (and so can still “choose” to value that Truth). And that WHAT IS is “choosing” to be such in Fred!

   • Fred Davis
     July 6, 2015 @ 3:58 pm

     Hey, Mike! Thanks for dropping by!