Mailer 12

I wanted to share this story that was sent to me by Johnny Tran, one of our 1st Degree Black Belts. I hope it helps you as it has helped me.

Do you ever feel like the world is closing in on you .
. . that there is an absence of possibilities for you?
How would you like the genuine power, in any moment,
to literally be able to change the boundaries of your
life?

It is indeed true -- even if we don't recognize it yet
-- that limitation and possibility coexist. We can
look at any given moment and realize that what
confines us in this moment isn't the event that took
place. What confines us in this moment is the way that
our present consciousness is responding to it.

The real boundary in any given moment is not the
condition that we see but the condition that we don't
want to see. Why is not wanting what happened a
boundary? Because then you spend your time trying to
work through something that can't be changed. What you
don't want in the moment isn't so much the event that
took place, but that the event stands in the way of
what you do want.

A simple example -- you look out and see something
that bothers you. Do you try to change what you see
that bothers you? When you look out and see something
that bothers you, what you are experiencing is
resistance to something that isn't the way you think
it should be. That is your experience, and that is
what you see. You see what you don't want to be there,
which is your reaction, your negativity. Your
resistance to the moment is the boundary. So now you
hate the moment because it has stolen from you your
happiness. But the moment didn't steal your happiness.
The negativity that was produced by the resistance
did.

If we can see that, then what is it that's asked of
us? What must we do? What is our role? By
understanding something of the nature of these
limitations, we can begin to see, no matter how dimly
it is, that it is possible to stretch these
boundaries. When thought starts to generate the
resistance that it does to its own imagery, and the
negativity comes in, we can say, "Stop. I'm not going
any further in that. I'm not doing that anymore." This
is not an act of resistance. It's an act of seeing the
truth of something, and for the truth of it, no longer
being able to participate in what punishes us,
produced by ourselves.

So we stretch the boundaries. Can you think of a
position that you've been in, or are in, where you
know you need to stretch the boundaries a little bit?
Do you have a resentment for somebody that you've been
carrying over for years? We stretch the boundaries of
our lives when we walk through the discomfort that is
the confinement. What is it that confines you? What is
it that won't let you play or talk or interact? What
is it that says you can't write or you'll never sing?
What is it that says you're not as good as someone
else, so why try?

What are any of these crippling psychological programs
inside of this consciousness of humanity powered by
other than this: the moment that we feel them, the
reason we won't dare them is because they come with a
great pain that says, "If I'm ever going to even think
about this, this is what I have to look forward to --
humiliation, failure." Then the pain appears because
of the resistance to an imagined condition. Your past
is an imagined condition, and I don't care what
happened to you. Did it happen? Yes. Is it happening
now? Only if you re-dream it.

So you choose the higher view by realizing that
whenever you hear or feel yourself thinking something
like, "I'm terrified of this situation... I don't want
to deal with him, I don't want to go through that,
I've been through stuff like that before, I know just
how bad it's going to be ..." you fill in the blanks,
and what you are doing in that moment, without knowing
it, is adding one more bar to a prison that, as it's
being built, is promising you that when you finish it,
you'll either be safe or have new possibilities.

Shatter it! It's simple. How? Wake up now. Understand
that in order to leave the world of limitation, you
have to leave it! If you want to leave the world of
feeling sorry for yourself, the only way to leave it
isn't by thinking about what a sad sack you are, or
who made you that way. You actually have to
deliberately leave that world. What world are you
leaving? The world of thought. The world of dreams.
And what world do you enter into? Don't worry about
that. Leave the one, and the willingness to leave the
one is the entrance into the other. The other will
educate you about every subsequent world that exists
concurrently. Then you'll know what your true higher
possibilities are because they can't be named, they
can only be lived.

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