How are we doing in the Four Corners region (yes, you had it right)? Overall, we are doing magnificently! In terms of the day-to-day details, it's a very heterogeneous mix. There is little demand for teaching thus far, but we have connected
with a group of Ascenders in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and with scattered individuals elsewhere.
We have been conducting some weekend-oriented advanced programs with them. We are gradually making our presence known in the area of these four States, focusing initially on New Mexico and Colorado but willing to and interested in reaching out to Arizona and Utah as well.
We're also here for the further evolution of our own lives, Sraddha and I. On the one hand, we have encountered
the necessity to examine the ways in which we have been limiting ourselves by investing ourselves in an identity as "Ishaya" or "teacher of Ascension."
This has involved, for example, an appreciation of the subtle "twist" exercised on our consciousness by the expectation that teaching Ascension will provide an income. Such an expectation creates a sometimes subtle, sometimes not so subtle grasping for teaching opportunities in order to generate income.
It can also create such illusional loops as thinking that there is something wrong with us if we do not have adequate classes to provide an income: why is the Universe not supporting us??? There is a level of integrity which is compromised by these dynamics, and that has become too obvious and too uncomfortable to countenance any further.
Additionally, we have come to see the compromise created by the drive to draw people to Ascension, people who oftentimes are reluctant or
half-hearted. Whether motivated by the basic need for an income, or motivated by old-fashioned zeal and spiritual ambition, the end result is tainted.
As the old saw suggests, we may bring a horse to water, but we cannot make her drink. Well, I suggest that we have no business bringing the horse to water in the first place!
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We have no wish to cajole or pamper or convince. How exhausting it has become to persuade people that they can be - indeed, are - so much more than they have known
thus far! What hard work it is to convince people to awaken from their illusions when they are not ready to do so!
As the parable suggests, we wish to simply scatter seed and let people choose: some seed will sprout up hopefully but die back quickly; some seed will not sprout at all, having fallen on barren ground; some seed will be devoured by birds and other critters; some seed will fall on fertile ground and spring up as strong shoots, destined to ripen into bountiful fruit. These
are the ones we desire to know and with whom we wish to share our travels in the realms of consciousness.
In fact, there is only one task facing any of us, teacher or otherwise. That task is suggested by another admonition from Scripture: remove the beam from your own eye before you attempt to remove the splinter from someone else's! Spiritual arrogance is a great impediment to the fullest degree of enlightenment, and we have seen a full measure of that in the last few years and have
played into it ourselves.
The only task I face is the task of rising above my own illusions and limitations to embrace my Divinity. When I do that, I empower others to do the same, and I accomplish that by my example, not by my teaching. There is nothing to teach! No one needs to be fixed!
I have a method to share with people, a method whereby they can awaken to their own Divinity. Other than that, I can only be myself. Other than that, I can only choose to love all people
everywhere, to love this exquisite planet on which I live, to love my life and the Source from which it arises.
There is nothing else to do than to simply be. When my Being is the source of my doing, all is well.
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