Let Nothing Escape the Field of ‘Yes’

I was just watching some Adyashanti and Eckhart Tolle videos on youtube. Several times they talked about complete acceptance of the moment, and how even when emotions such as anger arise, accepting them puts you at peace and allows them to flow through you and out.

So I’ve been sitting here with my eyes closed, just accepting everything, saying ‘yes’ to everything. A thought comes up that’s discouraging or negative, I say ‘yes’ to it. A fear arises, I say ‘yes’ to it and accept it. I feel physically uncomfortable, I say ‘yes’ to that sensation and miraculously the unpleasantness disappears. Even when I forget to say ‘yes’ to something and say ‘no’ instead, I immediately say ‘yes’ to saying no. If you make a ‘mistake’, you can even say yes to saying no! You can say yes to messing up, being imperfect, letting yourself be tricked by the ego, anything.

So I was allowing the mind to wander and think of how it would describe this magical method to my mom, and the sentence came… “Let nothing escape the field of Yes.”

Identify with awareness, center yourself in that empty space that is nothing in particular, yet is the perceiver of everything. Allow the light that shines through that space to be the light of Yes, so that Yes falls upon everything your attention does. I’m noticing a lightness beginning to permeate my being and the space around me, and sometimes even extend a little out into the world, like a limb of empty consciousness reaching out and saying yes to something.

It is time to learn the art of not-striving. It is time to learn how to allow. I wasn’t sure how to do this at first, because when you want something really badly (for me, it’s the unconditional love state and enlightenment, whichever the ego thinks is reachable at the moment) the way that seems right unto a man is to pursue it. That’s the way it works in the world. You’re hungry, you see a rabbit, you need to catch it and eat it, so you chase after it. It runs away, you get closer and closer, run faster and faster, and then you catch it and you have what you want.

But when what you’re seeking lies inside, wanting, chasing, pushes it away.

I’ve never felt like I’ve been able to release on things totally (referring here to the Sedona Method), because there’s always been the feeling that I’m using it as a tool to get something. I’ve never been completely non-attached to the outcome of releasing. I’ll release the fear of death, hoping and expecting that as I do I’ll let myself die a little and “gain” some Light. I’ll release wanting something, hoping that I’ll get it. I’ve been treating releasing as a mechanical process. Do this, and I’ll get that. Like, flip that switch, and the light will come on. It doesn’t work that way. Releasing IS a mechanical process, but you can’t treat it like one or you’ll have expectations, and expectations block the light as you try to fit it into a certain shape.

By creating a ‘yes’ context around everything within awareness, it allows me to non-attach from the outcome. It allows releasing to happen on its own, to the extent that it feels like it at the time. When it’s done, whether it’s complete or incomplete, you say yes.

I’ve gotta go practice this more now.