Equanimity: The Peace of the I AM

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!