Removing the Obstacles to Transformation

 Things are changing all the time.

You are in a constant state of transformation
because Life is in a constant state of transformation.

When does Life ever stop transforming?
It will not.

Transformation is the great inevitable.

Day turns into night.
One season turns into another.

Let’s not forget
about all the micro transformations
that are completely invisible to us.

There is so much happening,
even inside your own body.

Right now
there are billions of transformations
that Life is making happen inside you
to keep you alive and functioning.

We are completely unaware of these;
the transformation is going on
with or without us.

Yoga simply asks us
if we are willing
to join in with the transformation.

It asks us
Do we want to co-participate
in the incredible event
that is already taking place
inside of us?

Do we want to join our consciousness
up with this transformation
as it takes place
so we can feel
the mystery and the wonder
of the great unraveling
of our own existence?

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It is good to know
that you don’t have to wait
for some transformation to kick in,
but that it is already going on.

Sometimes we dip out
of awareness of it.

Sometimes the transformation
feels too intense
so we switch off from it.

But as our capacity grows
we are able to switch back into it
more and more
until we can absorb the intensity
of what is happening.

Largely the reason
we are zoning out of Life
is because it is full on.

We are growing the capacity
to be with the sensations
in our bodies
without them sending us into a spin.

This enables us
to be with Life
in fullness.

Sometimes however,
we go into a big spin
because of what Life is presenting.

We might get sucked up
into a hurricane
and we don’t even know
where we are going to land.

But look where you’ve always landed.

Probably wiser
and more awake
than before.

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You are a spiritually ignited person
whether you like it or not.

You are not waiting
for the ignition to turn,
it has already turned.

Let’s come out of waiting
for something to happen.

You are already awakened,
deal with that.

You are not waiting
to be awakened,
the path has already woken up
inside of you.

You may choose
to go to sleep sometimes
but your baseline
is wakefulness.

Something in you
stirred a long time ago
and at that moment
you started to call out.

Do you remember?

You started to call out
for more.

You didn’t even know
what it was
but a yearning emerged
to go beyond the parameters
of your own identity.

Do you remember?

You started looking for stuff.

You started looking
in places
that not everybody
was looking in.

Your algorithm
started to change.

You called this.

You actually called
this moment
to yourself.

A long time ago
you called this set of circumstances
where you have a path
and now
it is here.

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You are spiritually ignited.

You have already awakened
to the path
and you will continue
to deepen
into that awakening.

You will own it
and anchor yourself
into it more.

You will also take
more responsibility for it
and gradually start
to recognise the power
and the sacred importance
of it.

The true value of it
will start to be revealed
in our eyes,
and it will go up
the list of priorities
until it sits immovably
at the top.

It is the recognition
that It is what makes
everything else work.

This is good news.

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It is not easy
to wake up
so at least
you have done that part.

We don’t have to be shy
about the fact
that something
has come to life in us.

You have called
your current life
to you
to facilitate the deepening
of that awakening.

I would humbly suggest
that you have called
an amazing opportunity
to yourself.

I can say that
in all humility
because it really
has nothing to do with me.

There is a lot of nourishment
to be had
here together.

Our souls called it
because they were hungry
so now it’s our responsibility
to feed it.

To do that
sometimes we have to
overcome ourselves.

Although there is a spirit inside
that wants to break open
and be free
there is also
a whole load of stuff
on top of that.

Sometimes that stuff
won’t want to serve
this inner awakening
and it will want
to do something else.

It is okay
to recognise that
but more and more
the call of “Jai!”
becomes our response
to life.

Victory! 

You know that
you have this capacity
because you have already
declared victory
in some tough circumstances
in your life
up until this moment.

And look where
you are sitting
as a result.

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Here is some news.

It isn’t new news,
but if it lands on fresh ground
then it is still news.

If we think we already know
then there is no freshness to receive;
our own apparent knowing
acts as a buffer to the news.

So we never get the news,
we just listen
to our old news
all the time.

This is informational arrogance.

We don’t know anything.

We can’t even know
the next second
and what it will bring,
so get humble.

You cannot know Life,
not even one second,
It is already moving.

There isn’t even
a present moment.

Books have been written
on the present moment
but it never existed
and never will.

It is just a pointer
to show you
it doesn’t exist.

But that isn’t the news.

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This is the news:

your life
and spiritual journey
doesn’t have to look
a particular way.

It doesn’t have to look
any way at all.

Can you feel
the freedom in that?

This transformation
that you are joining in with
doesn’t have to look
any particular way.

It doesn't have to look holy.

It doesn't have to leave you
wandering around all day long
being good.

It doesn't exclude your emotions.
In fact,
it doesn’t exclude anything at all.

It is all in.

It is all part
of the great party
of our own unique unfolding.

Spiritual folk
don’t always give themselves
this permission.

They start to try and be things
and look a certain way
just like all other groups do.

They start to put
‘should’ and ‘shouldn’t’
upon themselves
and start guilt tripping
and shaming themselves
in their transformation.

Can you feel the error in that?

What is that going to do
to a transformational process?

How can we shame
our own unfolding?

It is not on.

I think we should stop doing it.

That is my personal opinion
and a collective invitation.

Would you shame someone
going through
their own transformation?

Yet we do it
to ourselves
all the time.

We feel like we’re not good enough,
not hitting the mark,
shouldn’t be doing that,
should be doing that.

Why not just
have a fucking life?

Why not just have it
and join in
with the transformation
as you go?

That is a cool way to live.

Already I’m excited
for a life lived like that.

So be careful
that you are not telling yourself stories
that are inhibiting
the natural unfolding
of your own brilliance.

It may not feel brilliant,
and it may not look brilliant,
but brilliance
is emerging
all the time.

If you look back
over your process so far,
you will see it.

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Of course,
the brilliance
has to break through some stuff.

That stuff is there
for a reason,
it is there
to be broken through.

That is how
the light gets to shine.

It is how
your inner being
gains the strength
to overcome.

I hope
that is good news
to hear.

Free yourself up
and catch yourself
shaming
and shoulding yourself
because that is simply
your thinking
trying to divorce you
from your own unfolding.

Your mind
is trying to isolate you
from it.

Can you feel that?

It doesn’t want you
to belong to the One.

It makes you feel
like you don’t belong.

Have you ever felt like that?

That is how thinking
tends to go
and you have to catch it
before it takes a hold.

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Recognise
that you are the one
choosing to think.

It may seem like thinking
is happening to you
but you are the one
energising it.

It may feel effortless
but you are the one
doing it.

So stop it!

If it is not working for you
and it is bringing you down
then just stop it.

We all know
we have the power.

Just stop believing in it
and fall back
into the feeling
that is other than it.

Co-exist with it.
Create space from it.

The practices
have trained us
to do this.

The whole of what is happening
in the body,
emotions
and mind
is a story.

It is not a good
or bad story.

It is not even
an irrelevant story.

Sometimes
there is something
to be learned from the story,
but it is still
just a story.

Have you noticed
that the story
is changing
all the time?

By the time
I’ve bought into
the particular mood
I’m feeling,
it is already history.

Have you seen
how quickly kids
get over their moods?

Just distract them
with anything
and they will forget
they are in a mood.

Sometimes they will forget
why they were even
in a mood
in the first place.

That is us also.

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However,
there is always
some part of us
that hasn’t bought in.

That part of us
is a smile,
regardless.

It is good
if we have people around us
that don’t buy into our moods.

If we can have people around us
that look straight
into the core
of our inner smile
then it gives permission
for that smile
to emerge.

We can also be that
for other people.

Once the mood
is seen through
then it loses its grip.

We all end up smiling
eventually.

That is the inevitable outcome.

Over time
we will start smiling
on the job.

We see so many stories
come and go
that we start to notice them
before we even buy into them.

That is how
we see through the veil
of our own story.

We are not denying the story
and we are certainly not
shaming ourselves
for having it.

Often stories arise
for a reason;
to teach us something.

So we start to see them
as lessons to be learned
rather than realities
to be believed in.

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Your transformation
is happening regardless.

Don’t get any spiritual ideas
about how that should look.

Often when it looks
really shitty,
some really great stuff
is happening.

You’re breaking through karmas
at a rapid rate.

Concept structures
are falling down around you.

You are doubting,
questioning,
and your energy
is on the floor.

Everybody has been there.

It absolutely will happen
on the path.

Be with that reality
but recognise
there is a lot else
happening.

You will also have phases
of pure bliss
and flow.

Sometimes
you will have periods
where it will alternate rapidly
between one and the other.

Sometimes
you will have to go through
some rough karma
for some time.

Do you have the tenacity
to go through it?

Because you have to go through it
anyway,
it's written for you.

How you go through it
is up to you.

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The moment
you chant the gayatri mantra,
Guruji is with you.

He chanted it
his entire life,
from the moment he was born
to the moment
he left his body.

In this lineage,
taking up the gayatri mantra
means you receive
all the blessing power
of that.

More than this,
you are saying something
that is outrageous,
spectacular
and awesome.

You are saying:

“I want to be an instrument for Life.
I want nothing but goodness,
Love
and Truth
to emanate out of my body.
I want to be a vehicle for that.”

Remember —
that is not dependent
on how you are feeling.

You can have
a big black cloud
over your head
and that can still
work through you.

It is not dependent
on your state.

You open to it
and it will come
regardless of you.

We are always putting stuff
in the way of that opening.

But if you do
what you can do
and open
to the capacity you can,
grace steps in.

Then we start
getting over ourselves.

We are getting over
our conditions
and our states;
our stories.

We don’t wait
for perfection
before we start
being a giver of the light.

Otherwise we close down,
then we close down
about closing down.

Just open instead.

That is the game of Life
and it is
the spiritual path.