From Lack to Abundance: Everything is Coming

 To give 100% to Life doesn't require you to be 100%

it doesn’t require you to be on your A-game. 

In fact, it doesn’t require you to be any percentage at all.

So my amperage is a bit lower today.
  On a bodily level, it could be better.

But the amperage of the Beyond —
the voltage of the Beyond —
is always just... full.

Life is just full all the time.
It’s always full.
It doesn’t know how to do it any other way.

It just gets kind of filtered by "us."
But that giving force
can come through any condition of ‘Steve’.

It can come through
any prevailing surface condition of you.

You don’t have to be in great knick,
for Life to use you exquisitely,
and perfectly,
and beautifully.

In fact — often when you're, seemingly,
perhaps according to our own definition —
broken…

Life can use you even better.

Because there’s just less of us in the way.

Humility has been imposed upon us.
And therefore,
there’s not so much in the way.

Life can use us
to the degree that we’re out of the way.

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The Yamas

Now back to the Yamas,

I’m gripped by what’s happening with them this season.

I’ve never heard The Yamas explained like this before —
so I’m enjoying them.

I’m hearing them,
probably for the ten thousandth time
probably speaking of them for pretty much the thousandth time 

But they fresh,
for us, this season.
Such depth.
Thank you.
May it continue.

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Lets bring-it-all-together
before we move forward…

There’s an underlying mechanism
in the Yamas.

We’ve already kind of taken them on
as an initiation into a new life,
which is a great way to approach them,
because they do offer a completely different way of living,
from a completely different space.

But we’ve also pointed out
that these qualities the Yamas are pointing to —
are already inherent to us.

They’re our nature.
They’re what we are
when we’re not pretending to be something else.

They’re native to us.
They’re soul qualities.

So —
the mechanism involved with tapping into these qualities,
or simply operating in service of these qualities
from our deep —
is the same mechanism for all the Yamas.

All five work on the same principle:

When I am rested in myself.
When I am centred in myself.
When I’m on my own ground of being.

You know what that feels like.
Those words resonate with you —
and they mean something to you
because of yoga.

You’ve found that place through yoga.

I’m so grateful for that.

You found them
through this invitation
of yoga — union —
to go inside
and anchor yourself
in this place
that we now refer to
as your ground,
or your centre,
or your being,
or your stillness,
or your true nature.

And then Satsang —
is to support us in staying there.
And living from that place.

And perhaps questioning the world’s idea
that — “yeah, it’s not realistic
to live a life from there.”

That’s what the world is pretty adamant, I’d say, about.

It runs so much deeper
than just going to a yoga class
to decompress
and then going back to the normal way of doing things
in the world.

You can do it differently.

You can be replaced by a whole other intelligence,
a whole other light,
love
truth.

That is called Life itself,
and it will function just fine.

This is called a life of surrender.
A life surrendered to love and truth.  

This is what the Yamas are about.

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You know where this place is inside of you.

So the first Yama says:
When you’re rested in yourself,
you are not a violent being.

You’re not an aggressive being.
You are a kind,
naturally compassionate,
very, very sensitive being.

You can feel beyond yourself.

Isn’t that amazing?

You can feel beyond.
You have a capacity for empathy —

A capacity to put yourself into another
and feel where they’re at.

And the more anchored you are in yourself,
the greater that capacity is.

You can feel where they’re at,
and you can trust, from this space,
that they have everything they need
within themselves —
to rise,
to expand,
to open,
to heal,
to unfold in the way they need to.

When we are in ourSelves,
the world and other people do not look broken.
And they do not look like they need to be fixed.

From the deepest place inside of us,
we see —
they are in a process
of enlightenment and unfolding.

And it is beautiful.

You look at anybody’s process deeply enough —
before your mind gets a hold of their process and goes,
“Oh dear…”

Before that fixer kicks in —
the controller.
Before we start to feel overwhelmed
with the feelings other people’s processes arouse in us —
and then we try and go out and do something…

Before that —
everything is actually unfolding
in a beautiful, beautiful way
if you just left it to life to do it.
And anything that we need to be doing
will be governed from there.

And then we’re simply
always appropriate to the situation.

We’re somehow
in service of another’s unfolding,
or the unfolding of the whole.

And that’s Ahimsa.
That’s the energy of non-violence.

It’s simply in service
of the glory of the unfolding of things.

When we rest in our deep,
we are capable of being with the intensity of feeling —
without acting out of:

“I don’t want to feel this anymore.
Your suffering is making me feel this —
therefore I need to jump out and fix you quick,
so I feel better.” 

We lose the need
to control the outer situation.
And we become part
of the great healing.

We are not the healer.

You are so beautiful in there.

Ahimsa requires a great deal of strength. 

Second one — Satya.

That is —
when you are in yourself,
when you are rested in your own being —
you are with truth.

Not “your truth.”
If you want “your truth,”
you’d have to go up to your psychology.

Feeling the conflict already?
Bye bye, Ahimsa.

Truth.
You are simply resonant
with the truth of things.

You are with the flow
and intelligence of Life.

Now the third one.

Asteya.
Which means non-stealing.

It’s the same principle.
When we are resting in ourSelves,
there is no lack.

You’ve got to go beyond your mind.
Which is full of lack.
Because in the mind —
there is never enough, in fact.

You can go and rob the bank,
get the crown jewels,
get everything.

And you’ll get them home…
and you’ll sit with them.

Do you know this one?
You’ve been here.
It just wasn’t the crown jewels.

And you sit with it —
and you are still feeling… what?

Lack.

It’s there.
Already starting to rise from within,
as you sit and look —
at the endless riches.

What a funny condition.

Big shop.
Temporary relief followed by...

I need more.

There is a gradual shift for us now.
Where the more we are just resting in ourselves,
We see, there is a natural abundance
that has created us,
and naturally provides for us
everything we need
for what needs to be done.

Not one thing more.

For one thing more —
you’ll need to go and get that for yourself.
In yogic terminology,
that’s called stealing.

When we are resting in our own abundance,
and this lack isn’t driving us
to go and get what is not ours to have,

We no longer have such a feeling as:
“Oh, you’ve got that.
That looks good on you.
I want that.”

Therefore, I’m going to leave my abundance —
everything that Life has given me that I need,
in order to get that.

We all know it.
We all know it so well.

When we leave our centre —
and we put our centre in something or somebody else,
in the hope that that will fulfil us.

Stealing.

And a loss of integrity.

So our word for non-stealing, or Asteya,
is integrity.

To stay with what’s integral to you.
Life has given you
an absolute package of perfection,
that contains everything you need
for your brilliant unfolding
in this singular existence.

Get a load of that.
Everything.
Nothing missing.

But when we turn away from that,
or leave that,
even in the slightest —

We start feeling we’re lacking something.
Of course — because we’ve left the abundance.

And then the seeking comes.
And then I’m looking out from a sense of lack.
And then I’m trying to fill the hole.

Endlessly trying to fill the hole,
so that it doesn’t feel so gaping.
Where actually all I was required to do
was fall back and rest.

That’s why it’s such a game-changer.

Now, of course, we’re going to leave ourselves
left, right, centre —
we’re jumping around like Easter bunnies or something.

But we know the feeling.
We know the sense of leaving ourselves.
We know it’s doomed.
We know it’s going nowhere.
We know we’re now creating suffering.
We’re starting to move into the field of lack.

So now —
there’s an increased sense of:
“I’m just going to stay. Integral.
With integrity in myself.

And I’m going to let you have
what you need for your life —
which is perfect for you.

But I’m going to stick with what I have
for my life —
which is perfect for me.

And now I’m going to glorify and celebrate your life.
Because then it’s just wonderful
that you have that family,
that you have the qualities you have,
that you have the beauty that you have,
that you have all the bits inside of yourself to come out.

But God is doing that in me.
Why would I give that away
to try and have what you’ve got?

Because in order to do that
I’ve got to leave what I’ve got.

I choose not to.
I choose to celebrate my own.

I’m going to stand in my own integrity with God.
And I’m going to let this life show itself to me.

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You’ve just given everybody their life back.

Now all the resources of the world will land in their right place. 

Because if you extrapolate this out,
you see what this leaving ourselves
is doing to the world —
to resources.

It’s the same thing.

The more empty and lacking we feel,
the more we leave ourselves.

Oh — the insatiable hunger of human beings,
to try and fill that void.

Yeah — we’re suffering.

Remember always:
the only resolution,
is a return to Self.

Try to fix or sort it out out there —
it’s just a fool’s errand.

What’s causing all the trouble
is the leaving of Self.
Leaving my centre.

But we’re all amazing.

“What are you doing?”
We say that to people all the time, don’t we?
When they’re getting all uptight —
“What are you doing?
Why are you so hard on yourself?

Look — you’re an incredible package of the Divine,
waiting to just continuously unfold.
But you’re leaving yourSelf.
Come on!”

You will have to give everybody their life back if you want your own.
It is just part of the deal.

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100% - 100%
Only then can we do something together in relationship,
Because then I’m not stealing from you on the sly.
I’m not trying to use you to replace what I feel like I haven’t got.

Now we have a convergence.
Now we can co-participate.

Which is a relationship.
100% - 100% and up we go. 

Imagine a marriage.
It’s all a marriage — together.

But not like,
“Oh you got that bit, I got that bit,
I need that bit, here’s a bit of mine.”

No — “I’m already grounded in God.
We go with God, together.”

Every marriage is three, no?
Me, you, and the One.

What a wedding.
It’s a unification.

It’s such a beautiful thing.

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And all we have to do now
is watch the same mechanism.
Just watch carefully.

It’s the same mechanism as Ahimsa.
It’s the same mechanism as Satya.

If I just rest inside…
and I have the patience to wait…
what is needed is already on its way in.

By the time you recognise
that you need something —
it’s already on its way, guys.

It might not come in the Amazon package you thought.
It might look a little bit different.
But essentially the quality,
or the energy for you,
is already arriving.

And it arrives,
and it fulfils,
and then it leaves.

Amazing.

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Can you look back in your life,
and you will see —

that at certain points,
when you were really in need of something,
when you needed to manifest something,
when something needed to happen,
(Mother’s know this very well)
Life suddenly provided you
with an energy beyond your own capacities,
in order to do it.

You know it’s beyond your capacity
because if you try to do that now,
you can’t.

You look back at early motherhood, for example,
or any time in your life
where you had to give so much energy to something
for it to happen.

And now you look back
and go,
“Far out, how did that happen?”

And you try and imagine yourself
being able to do it again,
and your whole system is going,
“Yeah, good luck.”

It’s just impossible.

Like we are sat in one, actually.
This cabin went up in a weekend.

You know, Steve does not have the energy
to do that currently.
Because it doesn’t need doing.
It’s already here.

He had it for a weekend.
He didn’t do it solo
six other people
shared it with him of course —
but they were all 100%.
So it got done.

You get given what you need,
but you have to be patient enough to wait.

We panic all over the place,
“But it’s not coming.”

I’ll tell you what —
it is coming.

Everything.

Everything.

Just like it always has.

You’ve never been let down yet.

You’ve got to go in and have a good look for yourself.
Because otherwise, you know,
you won’t be convinced.

You’ve been provided for, always —
since the moment you were given your first breath.
And even before that.

What — is Life going to just suddenly
let itself down halfway along your journey?

Out you came.
You grew.
You had everything you needed to grow,
even when it was difficult.

And then you get part way,
and you hit 30,
and then it goes —
“Right, you’re left to your own devices.”

But that’s how we try and live.
That’s what we start to think.

“I’ve got to do it myself now.
All this is on me.”

Big weight.
Big pressure.
Sense of inadequacy.
Endless procrastination.

We come back to these truths then.

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The crucial thing with the Yamas is
don’t give them too much to your mind.
Because essentially it’s about connecting
to the feeling, resonance, and truth of it all.

That's the important thing. 

There’s nothing you can’t do in your life.

In the way that we approach them,
the yamas are not constraints or commands telling you:
“You do this, you do this, you do this, you do this —
and if you don’t, you’ve broken the rules,
you’re a bad yogi.”

That’s not going on here.

It's an incredible freedom that we are bringing into ourselves.
But that freedom is earned by sensing
where it’s coming from inside of ourselves,
what we’re doing.

And then asking:
“Wow, what is that?
Where is that arising from?”

So asteya is not a command
not to go shopping anymore.
It’s not that.

It’s just noticing
where that need or want is coming from inside.

And if it feels like it’s coming
from a sense of lack —
that feeling of lack,
is a doorway into abundance.

Inwardly.

So it’s just —
alright, rather than going out with that sense of lack,
what if I go into the lack inside myself?

Because it’s a sensation,
it’s a feeling,

So what if I go into that?
Oh — it’s only going to take me back home
to the abundance.

It's a doorway.
It’s not a bad guy.

There are no bad guys.

They’re all just doorways.
This is important.

It should liberate us
and set us free.
Nothing more.

Thank you so much.

Namaste.