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( ( Being Transparent ) )

I've gone through some of the daily exercises and I appreciate the guidance of relaxing our nervous system in order to allow presence to prevail. I'm paraphrasing, but I like how Pavel mentioned that our nervous system is the vehicle for our awareness.

I also want to share that I have a personal practice that allows me to quickly drop into a relaxed state of pure loving awareness. I discovered it by accident as a teenager by the strong urge to sit still and simply be "transparent". I would do this every chance I had between classes, meals, or upon waking. I must have done it 6x-8x a day, even for just 5 minutes. It was such a beautiful relief for me at that time that I wished I could do it all day. So on my 22nd birthday, I sat on top of a mountain above my hometown and water fasted with 1 gallon of water for 4 days. I didn't want to come down. If I didn't have to go back to school, I would have been up there for another week. I didn't share this with anyone because no one around me spoke about these kinds of experiences and it was so sacred to me that I kept it to myself, in a way to protect it.

It was only until recent that I found a mentor who taught me that what I was practicing is a form of meditation and have since learned to cultivate it with daily practice. He calls it the "Practice of Yes". Anything that comes to our awareness, be it in the form of thoughts, emotions or physical sensations... everything is accepted without judgement, without resistance. A simple "Yes" to everything in our field awareness, our circumstances, our relationships. There is no seeking to change anything outside of, or within, "what is" here and now.

I call it "Being Transparent", because the "I" that is my self dissolves into "All" that is. There is no separation between the outer and the inner.

The depth of this field of awareness varies from moment to moment and by relaxing deeper into it, without effort, without expectation or desire other than to simply be, it tends to surprise me with a peak Awareness that is intimately known beyond words. I dissolve into the home of this Ultimate Reality. Truly Awake. So much so, that when I'm back to this so-called "normal" physical localized awareness, I am aware that this life I am living is the Dream, and who I really am is the Dreamer.

This body can rest because I am home in the Awareness of who and what I am, a Beam of Eternal Consciousness, of not just this life, but of everyone and everything, including the great mystery of nothing at all.

This sounds intense, and it can be, but it's also very relaxing. The most natural thing. Love. Peace. Pure and simple. Capable of holding all manifested potential, including all perceivable contrast. Our pain then is a gateway for our loving expansion. Our pleasure is a gateway for our loving expansion. Our life is a gateway for our loving expansion. We can hold it all with Love.

There is so much I can share about this, and this is why I joined this community. I want to find others to connect with in this way of being.

I appreciate you all for being here with intention, integrity and love.

With much love and gratitude,

- Paulo

P.S. - I'm curious and adding this Poll: "Can you relate? Do you have similar experiences to this?"

P.P.S. - The attached painting is Acrylic on Canvas and I painted it trying to capture some of that feeling of dissolving into transparency.

Yes! :)

Um... you lost me there, buddy :\

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