June 9, 2021 Wednesday Afternoon, Dharma Path Intensive, Excerpt
Yeshua on Knowing the Light in the Darkness and the Darkness in the Light; Satyagraha
Yeshua: Barbara was looking at what was going on in Minnesota around the pipeline, people willing to chain themselves to the pipeline to say no. People throughout history willing to take the risk of losing their own life to say no but with compassion for those who opposed them. Not seeing the opposition as evil, only that the opposition does not yet fully understand.
But one must be careful not to say, “I’m right and you’re wrong,” only, “This is how I see it. I invite you to share your truth also.” It is only in this deep hearing, deep listening, that there can be peace; never in one being saying, “I am right—only I am right,” but in listening and opening the heart.
This is the power of the awakened beings that you are all becoming. The groups spoke, some of them, of the strong intention to be able to listen, to be open, to receive, and also, the courage to stand and say, “I hear you, but I see that it will do much harm and I cannot step back and permit you to move ahead.”
What allowed beings in your world of the 20th century to say no to oppression in different countries and different situations? It wasn’t a fully successful effort, but it was a start. I think of Gandhi, and the work in the American South.
There is a term—a Sanskrit word—satyagraha, soul force. Soul force is not a force against others. It is an opening into that deep well of love and awakened mind, drawing up that energy, as one would draw pure water from a well, and offering it out. Never forcing; offering, and offering; offering it out. If someone slaps the hand away, holding it out again and yet again. Satyagraha.
This is an essence of each of you. It is what I drew upon as Yeshua in situations where I had opportunity to speak to people who were full of rage and fear.
Each of you has experienced this, perhaps not knowing the word or with any consciousness of what you did but knowing that you had to move inside to the place where your heart connected into that deepest well of loving awareness, of divinity, and not to keep it for yourself but to draw it out and offer it.
You probably already understand this, but throughout this world there are many groups like yours, many of them with spirit guidance and wise human guidance, in all different traditions, doing almost identical work. Learning how to tap that place of love, not by avoiding that dark crevasse that Aaron spoke of this morning, but by willingness to go into it to find the sweet water of love and of light and the fruits of that sweet water and bring it up to the surface.
You each understand how challenging situations in your life—and a willingness to move into the fear, the pain, the confusion of those situations—has led you into deeper compassion and the ability to bring that out and share it.
What I speak of, what Aaron spoke of, is no different: the willingness to move into those places of darkness and know the non-duality of light and darkness. It is only in this way that you disempower darkness, because darkness lives on the myth that it can overcome light, that it can be stronger. That it has a separate existence.
But when you not just believe in but live the non-duality of light and darkness, this is something darkness itself cannot oppose. Darkness is holding on only to darkness. But as you live that non-duality, you understand in the deepest heart that darkness cannot prevail because darkness at its core is light—light from which it hides, but not eternally. In the end, there is only light.
You ask, “Why is this Earth so important, when there are so many planets?”
It may be hard for you to believe this, but amidst all those planets this is the first in which this exploration into and experiment of the power of non-duality has been brought forth through many, many generations.
There are some deeply loving planets that have been shielded from darkness, the sentient beings of the planet literally holding off darkness. This is no different than the Eden. Beings do not have free will there because they do not have free will to test darkness and learn what it is, to find the light within the darkness, so they still live within a protected garden.
The Eden we envision is not an Eden of duality, where darkness is outside the walls. It is an Eden of all-inclusiveness where darkness truly no longer has power, but where each sentient being must constantly grow through making the choices to service to self versus service to all beings.
Earth, then, will become a teacher, others looking to the earth with verifiable faith: This can be done.
I am not suggesting that darkness in the universe will cease. How could it cease when light and darkness are part of each other?
Darkness will lose its power and light will come forth, increasingly.
Those of you with a Buddhist background envision an end to suffering on this earth. Let’s think bigger: an end to suffering in the universe.
In the Buddha’s words, and Aaron often quotes them, “If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do it.”
Are you with me? I love you all.