Cultivating a Dialogue with Life

 It is essential

to make your relationship with Life
personal.

That is the name of the game.

Rather than outsourcing your energy
to other people,
things,
or ideas,

you reclaim
the fundamental relationship
back between you and Life.

You begin to shift your dependence
from the many
to the One.

There is only One
that you are actually dependent on anyway.

When everybody and everything else disappears,
which it will,

all you are left with
is your relationship
to your own existence.

In Yoga,
we call this
the Adi Dharm,
the primary relationship,
the first and eternal duty
of any Yogi.

Once you have established
such a relationship with Life
that you no longer need to get anything
from anything or anyone
outside of yourself,

you have become
independent.

Any good relationship
thrives on good communication,

so to nourish
this relationship with Life
it might be a good idea
to start talking to it.

Talk to it
like it’s your friend,
your mother,
your father,

however you want
to talk to it.

Have an actual dialogue
with it.

It doesn’t have to be with words,
but it most certainly can be.

If you make it personal like this
you will move away
from your spiritual practice
being about you.

You will no longer be practicing
to make “you” better,
healthier,
etc.

It is no longer about
“being the best version of yourself.”

Self-improvement is fine
and will get you so far
when you start the practice,

but it has a massive limitation on it.

There is a time
to go beyond
that self-improvement mentality

and use the practice
to erode the boundaries of yourself
and melt back into Life.

Of course,
the body/mind structure
that you are
will be better as a result,

but it won’t be you.

You will be accessing
something so much bigger
than yourself.

Rather than being
a better version of you,

it is no version of you whatsoever.

If there is no version of you,
then there is just Life
happening through you.

Then there is no limitation,
the possibilities are infinite
and beyond any version of you
that your mind could muster.

Talking to Life
is a great alternative
to thinking about yourself.

How much time and energy
do you spend
thinking about yourself
and the people you know?

Even people you know
count as yourself
as far as your ego is concerned,

because you only relate to them
through your own ideas of them.

So much time and energy
is wasted this way.

Instead,
talk to Life.

Start to cultivate
this relationship with the One
again.

If you do this
you will never feel lonely.

It’s not like having an imaginary friend,
because Life isn’t imagined.

You will have
an eternal friend,
one that cannot leave you,

your closest consort,
the one that,
when your whole life
dismantles itself,

you can fall back into.

That is the One
you are talking to.

Dynamic stillness
is a good place to start this conversation,

because in that space
you are rendered obsolete
and the boundary between you and Life
is thinner.

That is why you feel better
from practicing.

Because you are less there.

If you want to feel
ultimately good,

then you disappear
completely.

So keep remembering
in that space
that the aim is not
to think about yourself,

but to surrender
into that which is infinite.

If you practice in this way
then it can only go
in one direction,

and your growth
is guaranteed.

All that strength,
energy,
and momentum
that we are trying to cultivate
through our own egoic efforts

will be made available to you
as a result of your own disappearance.

It is guaranteed.

Surrender completely.

Say:

“My life is Yours.
Show what you can do
when I’m not the doer.
Take me back into You.
Make Your will my will.
I surrender to You.
I love You.
I’m Yours.”

Say anything you want.

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