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Equanimity: The Peace of the I AM

12/25/2017

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Walking the Middle Way between Discernment and Compassion
Balancing Ease & Effort in the Art of Surrender, Divine Will

The above is a painting called "Tightrope Walker" by Wilhelm Simmler (1840–1914).

In Buddhist teachings and now modern yogic schools of thought there is a phrase and an understanding referred to as "Ease, Effort, and the Middle Way." It is the path of equanimity, a calmness and composure of Spirit within. 

This middle way is also called right effort, which is one of the elements of the Noble Eightfold Path in Buddhism. The Buddha taught that liberation (self-realization, mastery of Self) requires effort, but not just any effort, but right effort - something completely different than the heavy-lifting effort we know from our copious human experiences. 

Equanimity.
Equanimity. Equanimity. 

The word repeated over and over all day yesterday and floating like the clouds above my head in my sleep.

In Buddhism, equanimity is one of the four sublime attitudes and is considered neither a thought or emotion but a steady consciousness, or awareness, of realities' transient nature. Transient comes from the Latin 
transire, "to pass over." This too shall pass, so why would I attach onto it?

I will outgrow another organization. I will outgrow my own creations. To pass over. Deep releasing breath. 


For me this firmly captures what we have been discussing - Discernment AND Compassion. The middle way between and within the two. These concepts also relate so well to Divine Will - the will of the I AM, the will of the sovereign soul who reigns only over itself. 

El Morya once said, many ask what is their life's purpose, but few ask what their purpose is in the context of Divine Will.

To know the answer, one must use this right effort and walk the delicate path, or tightrope, between the ease of the I AM and the effort-ful human. 

I would add that The Sacred Art of Surrender into Divine Will begets the middle way.

Surrender to the will of the soul, the God, also, means to release the effort and perceived control you, as the human, have held onto for so long, to let go of the proverbial reigns of your perceived human free will.

Yet, is there not some effort involved in dropping the reigns and allowing the God self, the I AM to take over in the path of ease? The perceived dichotomy, the balance, I will say, is no cake walk for the human, especially the facet we call the mind.  

How I have applied the concepts to my own experiences on this early Christmas morning, before the golden hour of the sun's rise, is walking the middle way, in a state of equanimity, between discernment of the soul and compassion not just for Self but also for the sovereign souls around me. 

​Discernment of seemingly external situations - yet there are no lines between internal and external when seeing through the eyes of the divine -  can feel labored to the human facets and aspects of Self
 (again, the mind), yet feel completely natural or at ease to the I AM essence of who we are, beyond the cellular level.

​The same compassion I have gifted myself over the years - a compassion I feel deeply for all facets of Self - is something I have recently 'learned' to afford (provide or supply) to others - without it being energetically expensive - for that is where the ease in effort comes into play.  Right effort. The Middle Way. Equinamity. 

It is not that compassion and discernment are two opposing forces; they are not. Instead, I find them a marriage of seeming opposites - one of which cannot exist without the other in what I refer to as the Divine Will experience. 

Not being a huge fan of physical gifts, this is something I have wrapped up with a big bow for myself this Christmas morning: The ability to see, sense, and know in my discernment there is compassion, and in my compassion, there is discernment. That one does not exist without the other, and that they keep me in balance, in equanimity in the embodied enlightenment experience, which is never stagnant and always dynamic. 

Speaking of gifts, I now offer free the entire Book One of the Becoming Sar'h series on this website HERE. Again, I would not say that it is gift to others, for it is a gift to myself.

In setting it free, I have opened the door outward into the great beyond to allow myself the space required to embark on Book Two with more than intention and notes in the ethers. If you know anyone who might enjoy it, feel free to share the link. It is a public page. 

Furthermore, back when we first started discussing no energy creation (we called it creation from Source or creation from No-Thing) this summer, El Morya suggested an experiment of giving our creations the same sovereignty we afford ourselves. 

He said in our creation we poured our Spirit, or Self, so why would we not trust our creation, which is the same as trusting ourselves. Did Spirit or Source not afford us the same sovereignty in our creation? The circle completes and opens itself again into the infinity. A visual. 

Beyond trust, there is knowing, he added. This act of placing the full book on the website too is a gift to my creation - to allow it to flow free without control, without effort, only ease. Any effort from here on out will be the book's effort. It has a life of its own, one I no longer need to try to control. 

​"At this time I was preoccupied with animating symbols. Both alchemists and oriental mystics use magic scripts to learn how to create symbolic beings; THUS THEY UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF CREATION. Unlike the blind process of procreation and conception, this is conscious, immaculate conception, conception of the spirit. It is the conception of an idea that can, with the help of the spiritual principle and the WILL, create karma (the law of cause and effect) and concentrate matter about itself." - The Red Lion (325).  

Conscious Creativity. Consciousness in Latin: conscius (con- "together" and scio "to know").

I'm going to take my newfound understanding of ease, effort, and the middle way; the internal knowing of what was meant by equanimity when I first heard the words so many years ago perched upon my yoga mat; and more so, the value of what Divine Will means in the context of self-realization and allow it the freedom to flow with ease into my body of consciousness.

When the effort comes up, I allow it to be the right effort which simply draws my sense of focus to an experience, which is never right, wrong, good or bad, but a grand opportunity to distill wisdom - once again. and then again. The Grand sum of my vast and cosmic experiences. I am. 

Merry Christ-Consciousness-Mas, friends!
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Xavi
12/25/2017 08:36:40

A few days ago, a thought or fear of an aspect goes through my head. If experiencing human enlightenment requires constant effort and therefore even the experience of enlightenment is subject to change? That is, without that constant effort, the enlightenment would perish.
And, if the Ascended Masters, if they did not have a constant effort, could they fall from their Grace State? Would not the Enlightenment become something false or pre-created? Another experience.

My answer was no, since the Ascension causes irreversible change in the Center of the True Self, and the inner duality is transformed. Even so I was not so clear about human life.
By feeling what it takes to allow the Enlightenment while in a human body and all its implications makes me feel almost helpless. It is a very difficult task. Or so I feel it.

It seems that from what you say the mind and human aspects perceive it in this way, but that the Middle Path is easily experienced in the context of the Divine Will.

There is no Enlightenment without having the experience of the Divine Will, once said el Morya to the man falling down from the benches of the Banyan Tree. Huh?

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Karen
12/25/2017 13:21:34

"Equanimity: The Peace of the I AM". This is EXACTLY where I find myself this Christmas day. In my own words, I would have to say that I am experiencing an expanded "state of grace", described as a deep peace, knowingness, and ease. And to use your concepts written here Lauren, I have not arrived here without "right effort".

Last week I had some very loud aspects shouting in my head. The observing part of me wondered "why I was so bothered" by things, and why the voices were so loud. And then I remembered that they "get loud" just as they are transfiguring. A few days later they did! And now I find myself in this peaceful state of grace. Another threshold crossed in what has seemed like a series of thresholds. Perhaps that is not the right word or concept, but it seems my ascension evolution has been slow and progressive. In hindsight I can observe the phases, and it feels like I cross over thresholds each time I complete a phase and move into the next one.

My mind and my human wants to know "have we arrived?". "Is this it?" And my Soul just says, "stop thinking about it and trying to define it...just experience what is". Well, "what is" today is rather peacefully blissful, and I'll take that thank-you very much.

Lauren, a part of me just put a cheerleading outfit on this rather large physical body of mine, grabbed some pom poms out of the closet, and shouted "You Go Girl" in response to your putting your book on-line. Man oh man, talk about walking into the new and blasting out old concepts. This is nothing short of revolutionary. And I love it! After reading the comments of others in the post of the other day and the impact your book had on them reading it several times (me too by the way), I am now sensing this expanding out to all the ones who are about to read it. Will be so interesting to observe the evolution of this creation as you have given it freedom.

2018 is going to be a most fascinating, expansive year. I don't need Prognost to know that! ;)

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Xanthe
12/25/2017 13:47:06

A beautiful piece to read dear Lauren as I be in the morning after Christmas. I like that equanimity and in reading your expression, I also feel the balance of discernment and compassion in myself.

My Christmas Day yesterday found me feeling such a stillness. Beaut and then suddenly as shared this with a friend I felt a sadness, so what’s left to experience. Feeling fine about diving into this feeling, and in the next moment finding myself in a state of such grace for the rest of the day, having chosen to spend lunch with a friend and the evening relaxing in my own space at home.

I look forward to reading your book. A beautiful gift. ❤️

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Karen
12/25/2017 14:05:18

PS Lauren. I just got off the phone with my good friend Lorraine. We were to spend Christmas day together, but she is deep in the throes of grief from losing her 26 year old son this past summer in a tragic car accident. She can't stop crying. She is new to esoterics, and yet this devastating event has cracked open her heart to the possibility of life beyond the 3D. She has started reading about life after death etc. and has herself received some communications from her son Miles. I told her about you putting your book on-line, and she said she was very interested in reading it, so just sent her the link. Wanted to share this with you as your creation is already moving into the hearts of others.

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Lauren
12/27/2017 13:59:43

Thank you all for your comments and sharing the book. Truly a gift to know you all.

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