Get Real
Posted on May 22nd, 2008
by 
Bruce
Bruce
I was speaking to my friend, and I told him one of my biggest shifts in the last six months was getting real. By getting real, I stopped chasing ideals; ideals of my self, of success, of physical health, of achievement, and so on. I stopped all that and started to have a long look at myself. I started to look continually at my inner world, at my feelings, at my thinking, and I started to become tremendously curious about what I was, and who I am. I started to look continuously, without judgment, and with interest, at what was happening inside of me.
A curious thing happened. I started to see myself as I was, and started to see how my thinking and feeling drove actions and created my results. In effect, I started to realize what it means to be conscious, to be free of thinking and feeling, and from that space of freedom, I could jettison non-serving thoughts and feelings, and install ones that would serve me. Once you can see what is real, then you can start to create. If you haven’t got authentically real with yourself, in other words, if you haven’t carefully understood your inner world (your thoughts and feelings and stories and beliefs and so on), then you wont know how you are currently co-creating the current results you have in your life. So, if you try and take actions towards new goals and new results, you may get a mixed bag of results, as you will unconsciously continue to create the old results in your life. You may then wonder why none of this personal growth stuff works, and you may sense futility in making any changes in your life.
So, become conscious. Learn to see your inner world, and know that you are not that inner world. How do you know when you are ready to create, as compared to avoiding a part of yourself that you don’t want to get real with? It’s simple. When you are deeply at peace with a situation, no matter if its filled with pain and suffering and darkness or light and beauty or inadequacy, when you are deeply at peace, and everything is perfect just as it is, then, paradoxically, you are ready to create. If you are not deeply at peace, any attempt at change will carry your unresolved karma with it, and you will get funny and confusing results.
A curious thing happened. I started to see myself as I was, and started to see how my thinking and feeling drove actions and created my results. In effect, I started to realize what it means to be conscious, to be free of thinking and feeling, and from that space of freedom, I could jettison non-serving thoughts and feelings, and install ones that would serve me. Once you can see what is real, then you can start to create. If you haven’t got authentically real with yourself, in other words, if you haven’t carefully understood your inner world (your thoughts and feelings and stories and beliefs and so on), then you wont know how you are currently co-creating the current results you have in your life. So, if you try and take actions towards new goals and new results, you may get a mixed bag of results, as you will unconsciously continue to create the old results in your life. You may then wonder why none of this personal growth stuff works, and you may sense futility in making any changes in your life.
So, become conscious. Learn to see your inner world, and know that you are not that inner world. How do you know when you are ready to create, as compared to avoiding a part of yourself that you don’t want to get real with? It’s simple. When you are deeply at peace with a situation, no matter if its filled with pain and suffering and darkness or light and beauty or inadequacy, when you are deeply at peace, and everything is perfect just as it is, then, paradoxically, you are ready to create. If you are not deeply at peace, any attempt at change will carry your unresolved karma with it, and you will get funny and confusing results.
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August 2008 