Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
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Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
Lesson 15: A Meditation to Attune to the Will of God
Lesson 15: Love or Fear - The Choice Is Yours
Section 2: A Meditation to Attune to the Will of God
Discover how the ancient practice of communion in meditation can align your mind, emotions, and nervous system with divine love. Imagine spending just five minutes a day embracing the consciousness of Christ.
In this segment, we dive deep into mindfulness, using slow, deep breaths to foster a state of awe, wonder, and peace. Experience how gentle affirmations can help you release tension, affirm your safety, and trust in the love of God. Learn the art of letting go of control, moving away from the ego's alertness, and finding perfect peace within yourself.
Drawing on the wisdom of mystical thinkers like Meister Eckhart and Thomas Merton, we transform prayer into a practice of listening, transformation, and offering our hearts without expectation.
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Hello and welcome back to Living the Way of Mastery. I'm Jason Amoroso, your guide and friend and fellow student, and I'm hiding out in my basement guest room, away from all the noise of the house and my family, making this podcast so we can dive deeper into this study, this practice, this joy of learning and growing together. Let's have some fun. Today we are continuing with lesson 15, Love or Fear the choice is yours and diving into section 2, titled A Meditation to Attune to the Will and Love of God, where Jeshua begins. In this lesson, we wish to introduce a methodology for what you might call meditation. It is a form of communion or meditation that was initially and essentially taught by me to several of my friends, what you know as disciples, one of which carried this specific form of teaching and preserved it. Now, it did not originate with me, I merely refined it and you guys know that I, as, I guess, a former attorney or lawyer, still licensed but inactive, in the California State Bar where I went to law school, pepperdine University, back in, graduated in 2004, practiced for a couple of years with the LA Dodgers, and anyway, that's a little bit about my background, and as an attorney, as a lawyer, words mean specific things. So I'm very curious about the use of words and language and that's part of what I do in this podcast out of my own curiosity. So the word that I'm going to look at here today's kind of a word, a day of definitions here but this word communion I just wanted to learn more about it and so not necessarily the little piece of wafer that many of us learned to receive in, maybe, the Catholic Church the communion, the sacrament, whatever, but this word communion I looked it up and the origins and definition of it. It means to have dealings with. So when we commune with God, we're having dealings with God. It means to make common or to share and to talk intimately and to feel in close spiritual contact with.
Speaker 1:This meditation that Jeshua is teaching us is a methodology, a form of communication with the divine Beautiful, and it was taught by Jeshua to his disciples, to his friends, and then one of them I don't know who, I'm not a huge scholar of the disciples, continued this teaching and preserved it, and Jeshua was giving a little credit, I guess, because he actually doesn't say where he learned it from. But in this context he does say I didn't invent this, it didn't originate with me. It was taught to me, I passed it on, but I did kind of make it my own and refine it and I would say that's kind of like what we do with revelation breath work. It's a form of dirge or pranayama. I didn't invent it but I kind of made it my own in the other things that I bring to it, including the teachings of the way of mastery and the works of Dr Joe Dispenza, and we bring in music and we bring in primal screams and it's a really awesome, beautiful practice. So, anyways, let us continue.
Speaker 1:And Jeshua continues. For I, like you, was once a student of the ways of seeking God and I dove deep into the nature of consciousness and mind itself and discovered how to attune the mind, the emotions and even the nervous system of the body to resonate with the perfect will and love of God. Beautiful Again. So Jeshua is saying like you, I was once a student of the ways of seeking God, and so it would be like wait, you're not a student anymore, you're always about learning and continual expansion. So here's the key phrase in this sentence he was a student in the ways of seeking God, to seek out God now, and he's encouraging us to be the same, in a way to go from a seeker to one who has already found. If you identify as a seeker, then you're always seeking. You never find. That's why in A Course in Miracles it says seek but do not find, because you're seeking. When you found, you're a founder, you're a finder, and that's what he's been inviting us into in the way of mastery. But this is just what he's sharing here that I was once a student in the ways of seeking God and I dove deep, baby. And he's inviting us to dive deep as well and discovered how to attune the mind, emotions and even the nervous system so attune.
Speaker 1:I wanted to look this word up too. We kind of know what it means when we read it, but I just I get curious about the origins of the word and the definitions and just see how they connect with my own experience of them, and we think about tuning, a piano and a tune. So the word a tune means to bring into a state of proper pitch. I think I just Googled these words, so my guess is this is coming up in like Oxford dictionary definitions. I also looked up the origin of the word. Some are in Latin, some are in Greek. So a tune means to bring into a state of proper pitch, to bring into harmony. Think of something when you are tuning a piano, you're bringing that note into its proper pitch.
Speaker 1:So Jeshua was learning how to attune, bring himself into harmony, into alignment, into the proper vibration or frequency, with the mind, the emotions, the nervous system all aligned with the perfect will and love of God. And he says to resonate with I use the word align. He says I learned how to attune these things to resonate with the perfect will and love of God. And so of course we know what resonate means. But I just wanted to look up the definition. And it's produces vibration that continues on, that echoes on. So when we resonate with something, we say I resonate with that. It means I'm in alignment with it, I'm in the same frequency, the same wavelength, and so I think it's.
Speaker 1:You might find this totally boring. I think it's interesting to look at what these words mean and just to understand them more deeply. He's saying I came into full alignment at all levels mentally, emotionally and even physically with the perfect will and love of God. And he continues to begin to prepare a place for that teaching for the next 30 days. Return to the practice of abiding as Christ for at least five minutes. Then, as that five-minute practice period is completed, allow the eyes to close, become aware of the simple movement of your own breathing and simply hold the thought in mind. I allow this breath to move more deeply and slowly. So, as always, this is not just a book to read from cover to cover and move on to the next book. Like a novel, this is an instruction manual for those who want to embody and experience the way of mastery.
Speaker 1:So, 30 days, Are you willing to commit to? 30 days? That can be very difficult because resistance comes up. A part of us doesn't want to do this work. A part of us doesn't want to be free. A part of us is invested in the illusion. A part of us is invested in being a victim to circumstance and feel helpless and hopeless. A part of us is Now. Of course, we don't have to choose to focus on that or pay attention to it. We can become aware of our attachments. We can become aware of our attachments. We can become aware of our resistance and make another choice. So are you willing to commit? Maybe you need an accountability partner for 30 days to do this practice.
Speaker 1:And it starts with five minutes abiding as Christ, from Lesson 9. I want to read one of the sections from Lesson 9. The section not the whole section, but an excerpt. The section is five minutes a day, the foundation of mastery. And he says five minutes of practice sitting in a chair, as an infinite creator of exactly what you are experiencing in your emotional field. That's all that's required. The creator of exactly what you're experiencing in your emotional field, not trying to change it or fix it. It's more of oh, look what I'm creating, look what's up for me in my emotional field. He says just that you might even want to play with what it would feel like to sit in a chair as a Christ. What would that feel like? I'll let you choose whether or not you would like to experience it Five minutes each day. Do it without fail, be with yourself and decide how you will experience yourself.
Speaker 1:Now he says give yourself five minutes to practice choosing how you will experience sitting in a chair. Will you do so with a mind full of worry or a mind full of peace, a mind thinking of all the things it could be doing, or a mind marveling at how the weight of a body feels pressed against the seat of a chair, a mind that creates tension in the way the breath flows through the body, or a mind that creates ease and comfort For you see the you that sits down in the chair with whatever is going on in your consciousness, whatever feelings you are having throughout the body, whatever is going on in your primary relationships, how the food is being digested in the body, all of it, the whole realm of your experience, is the effect of how you have been a million times when you have sat down to be with yourself in a thousand different chairs. But it begins with five minutes in which you acknowledge that you can create whatever experience you want as a feeling that floods through your awareness, as a quality of thought that you allow to keep repeating in the mind. You can sit in a chair as an awakened Christ. Now I and my Father are one. You would say to yourself. It's a beautiful day. I've manifested a physical form sitting in a chair in a corner of one tiny little dimension of creation. How amazing this moment is. I think I'll just sit here and feel the heart beating in the body and the breath flowing through it. Ah, there's the sound of a bird. I'm glad I called that to myself. What beautiful thoughts can I think right now? Who can I send love to without lifting a finger? I am unlimited, forever. I am free, I am free, I am free.
Speaker 1:That's from lesson nine, this five minutes a day, sitting as the Christ, and I shared this in our episode yesterday, where I love doing that. In those five minutes I imagine what it was like for Jeshua, for Jesus, the Christ, to do this. What did he feel? And then I start to feel like that a sense of awe, a sense of wonder, entering other dimensions what that felt like in the body. And so I imagine and I sit there and I enjoy that and I create my experience. But it's that practice for five minutes a day. We start with this. So we're building on this meditation that he's given us in lesson nine and encouraged us to pretty much do every single day, and he's kind of had little comments here and there since lesson nine being OK, remember, you forgot about that. Five minutes a day. Let's get back onto that practice. It makes a huge difference in your consciousness. So again he's saying be aware of the simple movement now of your own breathing, and hold the thought. I allow this breath to move more deeply and slowly. I allow it, I'm not restricting it, I'm not forcing it, I'm not trying to control it. And he continues. Then, as you are beginning to feel that sense of relaxation ever more deeply, hold the thought in mind as Christ in perfect safety, I release all tension. So why does he use those words Perfect safety?
Speaker 1:We talked about this yesterday, that our physical form, our ego mind, is always on the lookout for threats. Physical form, our ego mind, is always on the lookout for threats. So when we start to affirm that, as Christ, I reside in perfect safety, to again quote the opening line of A Course in Miracles nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Therein lies the peace of God and only love is real. So if nothing real can be threatened and you are love, you cannot be threatened. Your ego thinks so. The body is always in the lookout, the part that identifies as the body, but in truth you're not the body. So this is an affirmation you are affirming that, as Christ, I am the Christ, the child of God, the extension of the universe. In this form, as Christ in perfect safety, safety, I'm safe. As Christ, nothing real can be threatened, I cannot be threatened, I release all tension and as you say this, you can feel where in the body maybe you're holding tension.
Speaker 1:Scan the body. Maybe it's just sometimes we don't tension. Scan the body. Maybe it's just sometimes we don't even notice, like maybe it's in our eyebrows, we've got a furrowed brow, we don't even realize it, or or we can. You know what I like to do? I like to kind of move these parts of my body a little bit, because sometimes I don't realize I'm holding tension until I kind of move them. So I'll like move my eyebrows up and down, I'll kind of move my jaw around a little bit, I'll roll my shoulders a little bit. I'll make sure I'm taking a nice slow, deep, conscious breath.
Speaker 1:Sometimes people's stomach and their solar plexus and their diaphragm is all tight because they're in fear or worry. They don't even realize they're not breathing, they're holding their breath. I'll move my arms, I'll move my hips a little bit, because we can store a lot of energy in our hips, my toes, I'll wiggle them, my fingers, and you're like, holy crap, I was actually carrying tension in places I didn't even realize. Maybe roll your neck, maybe move your, you know, just kind of as you kind of move your hips from side to side, you can feel your back moving a little bit. We hold a lot of stuff in our back often. So just I release all tension and, as Christ, again, in perfect safety, we say it again I dissolve my mind in the perfect peace of God, in perfect safety.
Speaker 1:The first one, releasing tension, is relating to the body, the physical form. The second one in perfect safety, I dissolve my mind. That's the part where we really grip and we attach and we want to control because we think if my mind, if I can predict all the things and I worry and I'm anxious enough, then I do something about it. And all these things in our, in our brain, in our mind, ego, mind, we think we're in control, we think we're safe. So many people think they're safe if they worry enough. This worry, this anxiety gives them this like false sense of safety. But they don't even still feel safe. They still have to worry. It's like nonstop threat. So the second one in perfect safety, we can relax the mind, we can surrender and let go of the gripping over to the perfect peace of God. You don't have to be the maker and the doer of everything, you don't have to quote unquote keep yourself safe. You already are, so rest easy. That's what these words are inviting us into.
Speaker 1:And then Jeshua says then merely continue in this manner. As the breath comes to fill the body, gently, merely say I accept, dot, dot, dot. And as the breath leaves the body, gently say within the mind the love of God. And again, as the breath enters the body, you say in your mind I accept. And as the breath leaves the body, the love of God. And you notice I think it is again looking at the words. They matter.
Speaker 1:When Jeshur says and as the breath leaves the body, gently say within the mind I accept the love of God. It's gentle, not this like, ok, I got to, I got to accept it, I got to get it. You know this, this striving, achieving, controlling part of us that we can have. So when it's like, hey, say it gently, relax a little bit. You don't have to be the maker and the doer. We can't hear that enough. You're not trying to get somewhere and you're not trying to like, be good at this and succeed at it. It's not about the words. Ok, if I say the words, then I'll feel the thing. No, it's about the intention that I'm accepting, I'm opening, I'm receiving this love of God, and the breath is this beautiful symbol, this beautiful vehicle that connects me to this intention.
Speaker 1:And Jeshua says continue in this manner for about five minutes, regardless of what the egoic mind says to you, and it will kick up a bit of a storm. Simply return to the simple practice. And I love it. Jeshua knows he knows because he was a human and a man too that the ego brain, this sense of separation, goes nuts when we try and still, when we try and still ourselves. That's why so many people have trouble with traditional mindfulness meditation. We're stilling the mind, because then the mind goes bonkers. That's why so many people have trouble going to sleep at night. The mind is so active. When we actually start to be still, the mind can.
Speaker 1:It seems like it's getting louder. It's always loud and noisy, it's always busy, but we don't notice it because we're so distracted in our lives and the to-do list and the clock and the time. And I gotta be here, I gotta take the kids here. Now it's time to make dinner, I gotta make sure I do laundry, I got these deadlines work, I got to pay these bills, all the things that are occupying our mind. Oh, this on the news, all the things we watch, it's like nonstop kind of consuming and stimulation that when we finally slow down a little bit, then the mind we can hear it, the ego mind, the thinking mind, so often and it's so loud that, oh my God, I can't handle that. Let me pop a pill to go to sleep, let me turn on a show so I can kind of zone out and I don't have to think and start worrying again All the things that I haven't done yet and go to sleep. So we just keep it really busy.
Speaker 1:So Jeshua is just acknowledging that it might be hard for you at first. That's okay, this is mindfulness. When you notice your mind is busy, wandering, chattering, don't judge yourself. He's saying not. And he's also saying it's not like this might happen. No, he says it will happen, it will, it's going to happen, it's okay, it's not personal, it's the nature of the mind to do that. So just notice it with innocence and non-judgment and then bring your attention back to the breath and back to this practice. I accept the love of God and I love how he uses the word simple twice in the sentence. Simply return to this simple practice.
Speaker 1:Simple, simple, simple. That has been one of his main themes from the very start. That's why I love this teaching. There are so many teachings out there that are way complex. Oh, you got to do this and you got to believe this and you got to understand all of these things. It's like, oh my gosh, it's so over. It's so much information, why can't it be simple? Well, jeshua is saying, saying it is simple, the way is easy and without effort. The mind likes to complicate things. The mind thinks if something's hard and complicated and takes a ton of effort, that then you're earning it, that then then then the payoff is going to be there. But that's kind of the trick. You get lost in the maze of complication and the thing is always just out of your grasp, it's always just right outside of what you can, can get. It's so complicated. Keep it simple, baby kiss. Keep it simple, silly.
Speaker 1:And jeshua says, at the end of about five minutes, let the prayer that you have been offering change from words to energy. You might perceive it as a golden white light. You might feel it as a gentle flow of relaxation. Whatever works for you is fine. Continue gently to breathe that quality or that color into yourself with each breath, yourself, with each breath and with each letting go of the breath, imagine and feel that energy moving throughout the course of the body, as though it were extending like a gentle breeze beyond the boundaries of the body, beautiful.
Speaker 1:So the first five minutes of this 15-minute practice, the first five minutes, is the meditation we're abiding as a Christ from lesson nine. Now we're building on it. The second five minutes, as you're breathing in and as you're breathing out, you silently say in your mind I accept, in your inhale, the love of God as you exhale. That's for that five minutes. And now for the third set of five minutes, jeshua is inviting you to move from saying words in your mind to more of an energy that, as you inhale, you're receiving. This energy. You could imagine it as a golden white light or something else filling the body, filling your being with this golden white light and then, as you exhale, letting go of the breath and feeling this golden white light, this energy radiating from you beyond the physical form of you, out into existence. Beautiful, and I love the word he says here offering At the end of about five minutes. So the last five minutes, I accept the love of God. He describes that as an offering. He says let the prayer that you have been offering change from words to energy.
Speaker 1:And this is where I kind of got curious and geeked out and did some research. This idea of prayer for the most part, at least, traditionally, people think about prayers like asking daddy santa claus to fulfill your wishes. Hey, god, uh, you're the genie, can I get this, can I get that, and and, and I would say a an immature form of prayer, not in a judgmental way, it's just less mature, uh, less aware is going to god as your personal genie to get what you need. God, give, give me this, make this, make this go away. You know, grant my wishes. And so I did some research about the more ancient forms of prayer or the original meaning of prayer, and I wanted to share it with you. In ancient traditions and I'm reading this from my research prayer is often viewed not as asking for things but as a practice of attuning the soul, opening to divine presence and entering into communion with the sacred.
Speaker 1:Some of the perspectives that reflect this ancient understanding of prayer is union and communion. In mystical traditions, prayer is seen as an act of union with the divine, a way of dissolving the illusion of separation. Rather than presenting a list of requests, prayer becomes a means of experiencing unity and merging with the divine essence. It's less about changing circumstances and more about becoming fully present with what is seeing it, what is as a part of divine wholeness. Prayer is about listening and receptivity. Ancient prayer often emphasized listening rather than speaking, receiving rather than asking. This form of prayer is about opening one's inner space, quieting the mind and cultivating a deep receptivity to divine guidance or inner wisdom. In this sense, prayer is a way of inviting the divine to speak and move within, without a predefined agenda by us.
Speaker 1:A third way of prayer is that it's pure presence and devotion. In many ancient texts, prayer is described as pure devotion. Offering An offering is a gift, offering one's heart. You're giving one's heart and love to God without expectation. It's about being fully present with God in each moment, expressing a love that seeks nothing in return. This approach turns prayer into an expression of adoration, seeing God as the beloved rather than as a means to an end.
Speaker 1:The fourth form of prayer is gratitude and reverence. Prayer in ancient traditions was often rooted in gratitude for life itself and reverence for the mystery of creation. It's a form of appreciation that acknowledges the sacredness of all things and recognizes the divine in every aspect of life. In this view, prayer is less about changing the world and more about affirming the goodness of the world as it is. The quote that I love from the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart is If the only prayer in your life that you say, the only prayer you say, is thank you, that's enough. That's what this is saying. The fifth way of prayer is self-surrender and transformation. That prayer was also seen as an act of surrender and offering of oneself to God. Rather than seeking to impose personal will, ancient prayer invited a process of inner transformation. The focus was on allowing one's life to be shaped by divine will, finding peace in surrendering ego and personal desires and trusting in a higher purpose. Some quotes from this about prayer.
Speaker 1:Thomas Merton said prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him, opening up our awareness to the one who is always with us and who speaks in the silence of our hearts. And the great Richard Rohr says prayer is not primarily saying words or thinking thoughts. It is rather a stance, it is a way of living in the presence, opening the heart to God's grace, goodness and direction at every moment. And the great Mary Oliver, last one I got to read. Mary Oliver, I mean, come on. Mary Oliver says praying. It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot or a few small stones. Just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate.
Speaker 1:This isn't a contest, but the doorway into thanks and a silence in which another voice may speak. Now, that is beautiful. It's like this isn't about asking for what you want, necessarily, and praying to get your needs met by the genie. It's where you can drop into silence in which another voice may speak. We're so in our own voice, the voice of this seeming personal self and the ego, where prayer is this invitation to hear another voice within you. So I kind of geeked out and went down the rabbit hole with this whole idea of this is an offering, a prayer.
Speaker 1:And Jeshua says again if the egoic consciousness kicks up its heels and you start thinking of all the multitude of things you ought to be doing, simply return to the prayer, for all prayer is nothing more than a choice to abide, to contemplate and to rest in communion beyond egoic thought. So again, he's acknowledging your mind's going to get crazy. I got things to do on my list. What about this? What about that? When you notice it, just simply acknowledge that your mind is wandered, it's thinking about these things egoic consciousness and just come back to the breath, come back to the prayer. Feel the energy. Receive the energy. Feel it expanding within you. And receive the energy. Feel it expanding within you and, as you exhale, feel it radiating out into the universe. You become the son of God, the S-U-N, the S-O-N, the child. You are the light that lighteth the world. And do that for five minutes, jeshua says after about another five minutes.
Speaker 1:To complete, then say within the mind as Christ, I have celebrated in this manner the truth of who I am and I bring peace to the world this day, allow this practice period to occur in the morning of your day and then again in the evening of your day. The only change would be in the final phrasing for the evening, your day. The only change would be in the final phrasing for the evening. Say simply this day, I have brought peace to the world and offered it to my companions. That should be clear enough and simple enough for you to begin. You may wish to refer back to the words of this meditation and use it as a guide for a period of time until it seems more comfortable for you to do it on your own. Those that embark on this simple process will be well prepared for what is to come in the lessons that follow. Love it. This is preparing us. This is laying yet another foundation for us to receive and really understand and know the teachings that are coming.
Speaker 1:Next 30, really, he's asking for 30 minutes twice a day. Like you can do that. You can make the time. There is nothing more important in your daily life, as much as your ego is gonna say. There's lots of things more important than these 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:You can make your own version of this meditation. You can sit down with a voice recorder app, like I am right now, put it on your phone and set a timer for 15 minutes and walk through this and create your own version so that you can listen to it as a guide until you don't need it anymore. So and this is what I did I bought an app on the app store called Meditation Timer, where you can set it to ring up like a book. One of the singing bowls these Tibetan singing bowls where every you get to set how do that three times. So that's, I got a, an app that does that for me. It's great. You can do that. You can. Whatever you need to do, the whole point is, just do it. It's worth it. And you're on the way of mastery. You're listening to a podcast about the way of mastery. Clearly you have a level of commitment to this teaching, in this process. So, 30 days, go for it and see what happens.
Speaker 1:And my meditation this morning. It was so beautiful. One thing that I remember from this morning was just this stark awareness that the only thing that matters in this experience of the human experience is love. Like, at the end of the day, it's the interactions with other people, with other beings, with nature, with the grass, with anything that I see the drapes right now in the room that I'm in Like I have a relationship with them, they exist, I exist. Oh my gosh. The mystery, which is also from Lesson 14. This meditation twice a day. It's really allowing me to experience, not just intellectually understand these concepts in the way of mastery, but really experience them at a deep in the bones, undeniable level, and that's what I hope for you.
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