Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
Each day I will read a passage from The Way of Mastery and share my commentary on it. The intention is to provide an opportunity to develop a consistent, simple spiritual study practice and grow together.
Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
Lesson 15: All Pain and Suffering is Forgotten
Lesson 15: Love or Fear - The Choice Is Yours
Section 4: Accepting The Resurrection For Yourself
Paragraphs: 19-29
What if you could transform your life by choosing love over fear every single day? Join me on this enlightening journey where we uncover the immense power of love as illustrated through Jeshua's crucifixion and resurrection.
This episode explores the profound idea of surrendering to a higher reality, choosing eternal love over fleeting fear, and realizing our unity with the world beyond the physical. We'll reflect on how embracing our full range of emotions, even those that bring pain, can serve as vital catalysts for personal growth and transformation.
By relating Jeshua's experiences to modern near-death narratives, we're invited to reconsider our perceptions of life, death, and the essence of our existence.
In a transformative look at Easter, we redefine it as a time for personal rebirth, a moment to cast aside fear, judgment, and limiting beliefs.
This isn't about achieving perfection but rather about making conscious choices to see the world through the compassionate eyes of Christ consciousness. Embrace the playful innocence often overshadowed by life's pressures and discover how the stories we tell ourselves can either bind or liberate us.
Uncover the golden Buddha within as we shoulder the responsibility and freedom of shaping our perspectives, supported by a loving community on this radical journey of love, forgiveness, and self-discovery.
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Hello and welcome back to Living the Way of Mastery. I'm Jason Amoroso, your guide, friend and fellow student, and today we continue with Lesson 15, love or Fear. The Choice is Yours. Where have you been hanging around lately? Are you hanging around more in love and faith and trust and generosity and joy and hope and abundance? Are you hanging out in fear and doubt and lack and worry and anxiety? We're going to continue with section four, accepting the resurrection for yourself.
Speaker 1:This final section, and I'm going to start with the last lines of the previous paragraph because it leads into this paragraph which is about 18 and 19. So Jeshua says and he's describing his crucifixion experience he says and so you must lift your eyes from the world that you think you see and choose to accept reality. Father into thy hands, I commend my spirit. This is nothing more than the choice for sanity in the midst of all conditions, the choice for what is eternal in the field of what is temporal, the choice for what is unlimited in the field of what seems to be limitation, the choice for sanity in the field of what seems to be pervaded by insanity, the choice to remember only thoughts born in love. So he is saying this beautiful intention of surrender, as he's on the cross, father, into thy hands, I commend my spirit, I am yours. And he's just saying this is the same thing to do the choice for what is eternal, for what is real, for what is lasting in this dimension of time which is by definition temporary, to surrender into the hands of God to say use me, I am yours. This is the choice for unlimitedness in a field, in this dimension of what seems to be filled with limitation, a field in this dimension of what seems to be filled with limitation, and the choice for sanity in this field of what seems to be pervaded by insanity, this belief in separation, this belief in lack, this belief in competition, this belief in survival. And this is the choice to surrender, the choice to remember only thoughts born in love. This is the choice to surrender the choice to remember only thoughts born in love, despite what our eyes may see and what our ego thinking brain may tell us. And he says then your eyes look down again and again he's. He's describing his crucifixion experience. Then your eyes look down again and something has changed. You are at peace, you recognize that you are above the world, you are above the crowd, and a gentle sweetness begins to pervade your entire beingness. All pain and suffering is forgotten. The nails can hold you no longer. The world cannot keep you down in its insanity. The eyes of the body close and as they close, the world they had shown you recedes and the real world appears and you rest in the perfect remembrance that you are one with God. Your attention drifts away from insanity.
Speaker 1:This paragraph is when Jeshua dies in the physical body and he is completely at peace. All pain and suffering is forgotten. He's not in pain, he's not suffering, he's not draining out, hoping to try and stay alive in his body. No, he has complete peace in his heart and he recognizes that he is above the world. He is above the crowd and a sweet, gentle sweetness begins to pervade his entire beingness. So beautiful. The nails can no longer hold you. They might be holding the body, but you are not the body. The world cannot keep you down in its insanity. The eyes of the body close and as they close, the world they had shown you recedes and the real world appears. When we quote unquote die. We are very much alive. We are very much aware the eyeballs are the physical tool for seeing, but this doesn't mean, when you quote unquote die, that you don't still see, that you don't still have sight. It is the consciousness that sees. So, he says, the real world appears and as you rest in the perfect remembrance that you are one with God, that life is your attention. He talks about attention being singularly focused in this very small sliver of creation. And as he left the identification with his body, his attention drifted away from insanity to unity, away from insanity to sanity. It's such a beautiful description of the transition. And he says yet you are quite aware that you can still see your friends. You see the soldiers, you see the tears, the tumult, the tumult, tumult, tumult, potato potato. You see some who are merely standing quietly and you bless them and release them to have the perception that they would choose, for you have come to love yourself so much that you will accept only what is real. It is finished, the resurrection now begins. So beautiful. This makes me think again I've shared this many times of the book Dying to Be Me by Anita Morjani, where she explains, when she's in the hospital, rilled with tumors and cancer, that she was pronounced dead.
Speaker 1:But she was very much aware that she could see things. She could see her father in another, far away from where her physical body was. Talking with the doctor, she could see her brother in an airplane thousands of miles away. She was connected to it all. Her experience is very much a description of what Jeshua has been telling us this whole time, this whole time. So Jeshua's saying, yes, you are not in the physical body anymore, but your spirit remains.
Speaker 1:You are very much aware that you can see your friends, you can see the soldiers.
Speaker 1:You can see them having their experience, their mourning, crying tears, the tumult.
Speaker 1:You see some who are just standing quietly nearby and you bless them.
Speaker 1:You're not trying to save them.
Speaker 1:You're not trying to save them.
Speaker 1:You're not trying to take their tears or their sorrow away or their pain away from them. No, you release them to have the perceptions that they would choose. It's important for them to have that. It's important for you to have your human experience. This is why a good healer never tries to take someone's pain away from them. The pain may be the very thing that they need to feel to make a shift inside of themselves, to make a different choice, to see through the illusion of loss, to oh, my God, yes, this person that I love is no longer in a body and I feel that pain of loss, that pain of separation. And the more I'm willing to feel it, the more I sense and see and feel through the illusion of that loss and realize that I am always connected with this person, with this soul. For me it was my brother. My relationship with him is closer now than it was when he was in a body.
Speaker 1:You have come to love yourself so much that you will accept only what is real. Even if others are choosing illusion, you don't judge them, you don't need to convince them. Look, you're really seeing illusion. Wake up, wake up. You don't need to do any of that. You just choose what is real for of that. You just choose what is real for yourself. You just accept what is real for you. Be that lighthouse, be that beacon. That's how you serve the whole. You don't need to save anybody, you don't need to convince anybody, you don't need to convert anybody. And this is where his transformation is complete in the human experience. It is finished. The resurrection, the rebirth now begins.
Speaker 1:And as he comes to the close in this section, he says Easter is your. In italics it's your birthday. Easter is a time to celebrate that the crown of thorns has been removed because you have chosen to think only loving thoughts and that you have remembered the power given unto you, through which you transcend the awful, dreaded and suffering-filled experience born of fear. For in love there is only peace. In love there is only the infinitude of pure spirit. In love is Christ restored to your consciousness. In love you are returned. How beautiful is this? It's a totally different experience, at least for me and, I think, a lot of people who grew up in maybe traditional Christianity or at least Catholicism, of what Easter really is. It's a time to sell, it's your birthday and a time to celebrate.
Speaker 1:The crown of thorns has been removed, not by anyone else. You have removed the crown of thorns from your own head. And again, the crown of thorns, this beautiful symbol, as Jeshua says in the previous page. Those thorns represent your fearful thoughts, your judgmental thoughts, your limited thoughts that press and poke upon your own energy field and give you quite a cosmic headache and draw blood. That is, it releases the life force from you when you reside in fear and judgment and limited thoughts. And Easter is this celebration that you are taking the crown of thorn off your heads Again. In practical experience.
Speaker 1:This does not mean you're supposed to be perfect. No one's ever saying that, oh, I had a judgmental thought, so I must not have been doing it right. No, that's not what this is saying. When you notice that you're focused or paying attention or valuing a judgmental thought, you simply make a different choice. You say I don't want that anymore, I don't need that anymore, I'm done with that.
Speaker 1:It still might pass through my consciousness, I still might have a judgment, I still might have a fearful thought, but I'm not attaching to it, I'm not denying it either. I'm not resisting it. I'm just being like oh, there's a fearful thought, there's a fearful energy, there's a judgmental thought, there's a judgmental energy. Let me get curious about it. Let me see if it's something that I really want to hold on to. Then you are free. You don't need to be afraid of fear, you don't need to be afraid of judgment, you don't have to be afraid of limited thoughts. That's what a lot of people who are doing their spiritual work. They're trying to resist it, deny it, get out of it, instead of just being like oh, there it is, and it is no bearing on me.
Speaker 1:A fearful thought, a judgmental thought, it doesn't mean anything about me. It's just there and I noticed that. I saw it and maybe I attached to it for a moment. And now I'm going to make a different thought. That's removing the crown, especially about yourself. That's removing the crown of thorns where you choose to value only loving thoughts. Beautiful, you're choosing love over fear. That's the whole title of this lesson, for in love there's only peace. In love there's only the infinitude of pure spirit. In love is Christ restored to your consciousness. Christ isn't a last name, it's an identity. You are the Christ, the identity of the child of the created, and you're being invited to step into and own who you are. Not play small anymore, not deny who you are, just fully accept that you were born to be love in expression through your form.
Speaker 1:He says Easter is for you, it's not for me. Therefore, set aside your images and your practices of me. Make no pilgrimage to me. No pilgrimage to me. Make a pilgrimage to the heart of your capital S self, by looking upon all that you see this day and seeing its beauty, its harmlessness, and by knowing that you are looking out through the eyes of the arisen Christ. You are the one, capital O one. You are the one who, with me, has overcome the world Easter is not for is for you. It's not for Jeshua. He doesn't need your worship or devotion. He wants you to use his experience for yourself. He says it many times Set aside your images and practices of me. Make no pilgrimage to me. This is about you. Make a pilgrimage to the heart of yourself. To me, this is about you Make a pilgrimage to the heart of yourself by looking upon all that you see this day, and it doesn't matter if it's Easter today You're probably listening to it and most likely it's not Easter, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Every day can be Easter. You can be reborn in the spirit every day. Look upon all that you see this day. This day you're listening to this podcast, whether you're in the car, out for a walk, doing the dishes, whatever you're doing, and see the beauty, see the harmlessness of this world, that, again, to quote A Course in Miracles, the opening line nothing real can be threatened. This world cannot threaten you, it cannot harm you, it cannot taint you, it cannot attach itself to you and mean anything about you. You are pristine, you are whole. My kingdom is not of this world of lack and limitation. This world is harmless and look out.
Speaker 1:Make the choice to look out and see through the eyes of the arisen Christ. If that's all you did every day, today, my intention is to see, with the eyes of the arisen Christ, everything. I'm going to see the conflict in the world through the eyes of the arisen Christ. You will transform your experience. I'm going to pay my bills seeing through the eyes of the arisen Christ. I'm going to have bills seeing through the eyes of the Arisen Christ. I'm gonna have this conversation with my partner that's been causing conflict through the eyes of the Arisen Christ. How can I see them? Through the eyes of the Arisen Christ, we would have so much compassion. You are that one who has overcome the world.
Speaker 1:And then he says what can there be left to do but to celebrate with your brothers and sisters? What can there be left to do but to laugh and to sing and to play and to remember in quiet devotion the love your creator has always had for you? Once you make the choice and you realize who you are, above all, god thinks playfully, and then you can extend and create that you are created to create. You're made in the image and likeness of your creator. You're here to extend the good, the holy and the beautiful. It doesn't have to be in some grand act of creation that the world acknowledges you and you're famous. What? No, your expression, your authentic, peaceful, loving, joyful expression, that's creation. So let's spend more time celebrating. That's what this life is really for, that's what being alive is for to laugh, to sing, to play.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, how many of us feel playful in our life. Life feels like such a slog. It feels so heavy, so serious. So life or death, so survival. So many problems to fix, so many fires to put out. Don't forget to bring playfulness to your life, the innocence of children who just want to play and to remember, in quiet devotion, in the stillness within you, the love your creator has always had for you, even when you forgot who you were, even when you judged the shit out of yourself. I hate myself, I'm not worthy, I'm not good at anything, I'm not lovable, something's wrong with me. The love your creator has for you. All the while you're choosing insanity, because God knows it's temporary. For us it feels like it's eternal insanity that we're not good enough. But God holds us through it all. He says Unlubbering unlimitedness or smallness, the choice is always yours.
Speaker 1:So again, we are being invited to slow down in our studies, not just to read through it to get the information. Oh this, I love how this reads. Oh my gosh, what's the next thing? What's the next thing If you do that? Fine, but go back to it? If you read the whole lesson in one day because you're just inspired, go back to it the next day. Read a little bit, contemplate a paragraph or two or an idea in a paragraph or two. Go slow with it. This is why in the Living the Way Mastery Program, we do a lesson a month. You can read a lesson in a day, it's not that big of a deal. But we want to deepen and study in the concepts, apply them in our daily life, do the exercises with consistency and discipline so we experience the benefit of transformation.
Speaker 1:The crown of thorns on your head, the fearful, judgmental, limiting thoughts, the nails keeping you stuck in this dimension that you believe. You're a body here to survive, joy or suffering. You get to choose, no matter what's happening. That's the freedom. No matter what is happening in your circumstance, of your life, you get to choose your experience. The ego hates this. The ego will argue this all day long. The victim wants to be the victim. No, it's not my fault, it's what's out there that's happening. That's why I feel this way. That's the big lie. And once you see through it, once you put these things into practice, once you experience for yourself, you know you are free Now. It doesn't mean you relapse into judgment, it doesn't mean you relapse into fear, but you catch yourself and you say, oh, this is what I'm choosing, I'm making a different choice. Then you're free. And Jeshua, this is what I'm choosing, I'm making a different choice. Then you're free.
Speaker 1:And Jeshua these are the last, very three short paragraphs here of this lesson. Jeshua says and like me, upon a cross so long ago, no one can make the decision for you. That phrase is in italics. No one can make the decision for you, no one causes your perceptions. They flow from your choice, from crucifixion or resurrection. What are you choosing?
Speaker 1:And you can't use generational trauma as an excuse anymore. It can be a reason yes, I was born into this, or I chose this at a soul level to come into this family, to come into this wound pattern. But now that I see how it's been operating in my subconscious, I'm making a different choice. I'm not going to choose to tell the same victim story from my childhood over and over and over again. I'm going to tell it as not a wounding, but as a liberation, as a gift. Yes, it hurt. It hurt as I moved through it, it hurt as I experienced it and that was one of the biggest gifts the pain, the hurt because I learned what love is. I learned how to keep my heart open, I learned how to forgive, I learned how to rise above my circumstance, what happened to me, and remember my identity. To remember my identity, to not to reinvent, but to remember who I always am.
Speaker 1:It's like that statue of the buddha that they found, I think, buried somewhere in some cave or in some old temple, and it just looked like a clay buddha and then at some point, something happened and it got chipped and there was gold underneath and it was was like holy crap, this is a golden Buddha statue. This is us. There's all this layers of shit that we've thought was us, the wounds, the traumas, the limitations, the not enoughness, but there's been gold. We are gold the whole time. That's what we're waking up to and no one can make the decision for you Again, jesus can't, god can't.
Speaker 1:It's your gift. It's your gift to make the decisions. And gesture says I'll be with you the whole time. I'll carry you when you need me, but ultimately, at one point you're going to say put me down, jesus, I don't need you to carry me anymore, I don't want you to carry me anymore. I got this. I'm going to do this. It might be hard, but I got this. I'm going to choose love over fear. I'm going to choose forgiveness over judgment. I'm going to choose acceptance over judgment. I'm going to choose generosity over lack. I got this. I'm doing it for myself, amen.
Speaker 1:I think that's why community is so valuable being with other people committed to this way because it's not easy, it's simple, but it's not always easy. But ultimately, the good news is all the power is in your hands. No one can make the decision for you. No one causes how you see the world, even if a billion people agree on one thing. You get to choose how you will see something, how you will experience something that's radical. The world might call you crazy, the world might cast you out, but you get to stand in your truth. You get to experience what is real.
Speaker 1:And he finishes up this lesson saying I know where I would choose to have you join me. Know, then, that I love you always in the ways that you will allow and to the depth that you will accept. Choose, then, with me and you are free. He's inviting us to the party, but we have to one that says yes, we have to RSVP, yes and actually show up. I'd love to have you join me. He says I love you always and you'll receive my love in the ways that you can receive.
Speaker 1:Sometimes we don't feel worthy, so we can't receive it. We put the lid on it. We don't think we're worthy of this much love, and it's a beautiful thing when we start to believe and know that we are worthy of this much love. Oh, my God, it's beautiful, it's everything. Choose with me and you are free. Peace, beloved friends. Peace to the only begotten son of God, the resurrected Christ, born anew in the truth of who you are, or the crucified body and ego mind.
Speaker 1:Which one do you want to choose? Right, he lays it out there. Love it. It's obvious what we want. So let's choose it right now. Let's choose it right now. Let's choose it every day. Let's choose love over fear, even when it's inconvenient, even when our brain doesn't get it, even when other people don't agree or are judging us or will reject us, and we're doing it together. This is awesome.
Speaker 1:Slow down in this lesson, reread it again, study it, apply these things, see how they're showing up in your daily life In the car, getting your oil changed out to dinner, interacting with the librarian, whatever it is. Every moment is a moment to see through the eyes of Christ, to make these choices of love over fear. When you're listening to talk radio or you're seeing the latest politics or whatever's happening Right now, there's drones in the sky Choosing love over fear. It's that simple Love. You guys. Have an amazing day. Thanks for being a part of this community and this journey with me. If you get value from the podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with someone you care about. Thank you, and if you can give us a good review on Apple Podcasts and just write a very short comment on the review, that would be so helpful. And again, check out Living the Way of Mastery. It's going to be freaking amazing. Love you guys. See you next time.