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 16: A delightful, delightful play!
What if the part of you that feels separate is just a role in a larger play—and you’re also the director, the writer, and the audience who never left the theater? We dive into a bold reframing of ego, separation, and healing: not as problems to fix, but as experiences within one consciousness exploring its own edges.
We start by unpacking the milk-and-drop analogy to show how the one becomes many without ever breaking unity. From there, we talk about the limits of the small self and why expansive states—during nature walks, deep breathwork, intimacy, or NDE accounts—can feel more true than the stories your mind clings to. Nonduality reframes the good-versus-evil struggle as a function of duality, while ultimate reality remains unthreatened. That shift brings relief and responsibility: events are neutral; your thoughts are not. Invest in fear and reap turmoil; invest in peace and return to center.
To make it practical, we explore the player-and-character metaphor (think The Sims). You can live out any storyline—hero, healer, villain, explorer—without changing who you are as awareness itself. The hero’s journey becomes your inner curriculum: the “dragon” is a limiting belief; the ordeal is how you discover your gifts. We then flip the script on “villains,” seeing challenging people and situations as cast members you’ve hired to reveal blind spots. Triggers become mirrors for forgiveness and choice, turning blame into agency. Finally, we let go of sin-and-guilt frameworks around separation and meet creation as playful, curious, and ultimately safe.
If you’re ready to carry more lightness into hard moments, to use every trigger as a doorway, and to remember the peace that doesn’t depend on circumstances, this conversation will meet you where you are and walk with you home. If this resonated, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show.
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Welcome back to Living the Way of Mastery. I'm Jason Imaroso, your guide and friend and fellow student. And today we continue with lesson 16: The Birth of Egoic Consciousness, Section 7, The End of All Seeking, Choosing to Live as though you are not the ego, because you're not the ego. The ego is not your amigo. I have a shirt. It's great. It's a t-shirt. It says the ego is not your amigo. All right, we continue with uh paragraph three, where Jeshua continues. The way of transformation, then, requires that you begin with the acceptance of what is true always. In this lesson, we have brought to you a story, an analogy, a description that can help, if you will, sit with it, to imprint into your consciousness a remembrance of the very process that you have, in fact, felt and experienced as God itself in italics, as God itself, in its desire to create, in her desire to create, in his desire to create, put it any way you wish, the one with a capital O, the one becomes what you perceive as the many, yet remains always the one. And the story, the analogy, just going back to this chapter, is the creation of the soul. And this analogy of the little glass pouring the glass of milk and how it curls up and the little drop for a moment seems to be separate from the rest of the milk. And it's this idea that God, in its joyful, infinite desire to create, unlimited, would not limit itself to experience, to create the experience of what feels like and seems like separation. But we took the tiny mad idea seriously and believed that we are outside of God. But you couldn't even have consciousness if it weren't inside of God, if it wasn't part of God, consciousness. That's what God is, that's what life is: awareness, consciousness, pure, loving, creative awareness. And we they use this word remembrance. That is what healing really is. It's remembering who and what you already are, who and what you've always been, as an individuated, seemingly individuated aspect of the whole in a unique expression. Jeshua continues, that is what you are. You are the song of the bird. You are the radiance and warmth of the sun as it touches the skin. You are the skin. You are the awareness of that warmth. You are the thinker of the thought. You are the thought. You are the deed. You are the space from which all thought emerges. You are the wind in the trees. You are the vastness of space. Now, when the ego reads this, it doesn't make sense. It seems like bogus BS, because no, I'm not that. I'm this body, this personality, this brain, this intellect. Uh, that's what I am. So saying I'm the bird in the trees makes no sense to the ego mind. Hopefully, and if you have it, that's okay. If you haven't yet in this life experience, you but hopefully you have had the experience where you are not identified with your small self. That could happen in lovemaking, that could happen in a plant medicine journey, that could happen in a walk in nature, that could happen in a revelation breathwork session. There's many different avenues or vehicles that it can happen where you get out of your own identification of your small self, of your personality, and you experience an expansiveness and consciousness. I mean, it's happened to so many people in their NDEs, their near-death experiences. They report that they had this expansive awareness that they were everything, right? Like it doesn't make sense to the brain and the intellect and the ego, and yet at the same time, there's a part of us that either knows that's that true or like feels the truth in it, even if we can't really grasp it intellectually. But Jeshua's always meeting us in truth. This is what you are. You're all of it. He says, you are that one who is eternal. Not two, not three, not a billion, not it, you know, it's one awareness, one consciousness. God's not old man Santa Claus in the sky. If you're good, you get presence. If you're bad, you get punished forever. You know, God, that's not God. That's God creating the image of other beings. God is the whole thing creating itself in unique expressions for the joy of it. That's why evil, there's no battle of good and evil. In duality, yeah. In duality, there's a battle of good and evil. In non-duality, in reality with a capital R, there's no, there's evil is no threat. It's just another creation. All right, you are that one who is eternal. You are the one bold enough to dream the dream of separation without ever losing perfect unity. And you are the one, the little drop of milk experiencing the remembrance of the divine, of the real, of the true, of the one. Again, you couldn't have the thought of separation, you couldn't have the experience of separation unless it was inside the consciousness of God. Your journey is not alone, Jeshua says. Your journey is not alone. Even now you are perfectly awake. For only one who is awake could dare to create the great cleverness and creativity through which you, as a spark of God, become increasingly aware of your capital S self. God diving into God, God discovering God, exclamation point. What a delightful, delightful play, exclamation point. This is it. This, how beautiful, how fun, how joyful is it? And even if you're in the shit of your life, even if it feels like everything is crumbling around you, this is God playing in creation. There is a part of you that is in the shit that feels very threatened, very identified, very unsafe, very limited. That's the ego part. That's the tiny mad idea part. It feels that way. It seems so real, and yet there's a bigger part of you, the true part of you, that is aware of it all. That is beyond and outside of it all. Having the whole experience for the joy of it. Again, if you're play uh, I use this analogy because it's so, it's so easy to relate to. If you're playing a video game, there's a video game called The Sims from the 90s. Now I'm dating myself, but like you can create a character and like live life. You want to be the rock star, you want to be the beggar, you want to be the villain, you want to be the hero, you want to be the every average day Joe or Jane, you want to be the one who cures cancer, you want to be the billionaire, you want to be the one who goes out into space, you want to be the murderer. It's like you get and and and it doesn't, you know, you know you're not a murderer, but you're having the video game experience of being the murderer. Your character is the bad guy. He's in jail for life. But it doesn't change who you are as the player of the game. That's what this experience is like. I think that's a really good analogy. But we take this so seriously, we don't have any distance or awareness or expansiveness to see that that's what's happening. We are so caught up in the story, we don't realize we are creating the story. We're creating the characters, we're creating our experience of what's happening. All events are neutral, but no thought is neutral. So, what are you, what thoughts are you investing in? And you get a return on the investment you make. You invest in fear, you're gonna get return of fear. You invest in peace, you get a return of peace. What a delightful, delightful play. That's another great analogy. It's it's like a play happening. And we're like, ooh, I'm gonna create the drama. I'm gonna create the experience through which my character grows. And it and the character, it's like the hero's journey, Joseph Campbell, you know, hero of a thousand faces. The hero's journey. I'm gonna create a villain to stretch my hero's comfort zones, to stretch the limitations. That's what so inspires me with the hero's journey. It's like there's the hero, heroine, whatever. It doesn't matter, man, woman. That's not the point. But there's the hero. And the hero has some kind of limiting belief that feels real to the hero. And then they go on this adventure and learn more about themselves through the experiences, the trials, the tribulations. They learn more about their natural inherent gifts, their abilities. Then they use those gifts and abilities to like overcome the thing or slay the dragon in the hero's journey. And then, but they have to move through that fear. It's like, oh my God, do I can I, you know, in the beginning, the hero always falls short. And then they go through more trials, they learn more about themselves, and then they're challenged, and they go back to fight the dragon or the villain. But this time, you know, they have more of their skills and abilities. And they're still not sure if they can do it, but they've trained, they're ready, they've gone through things, or maybe they must, circumstances. Like, no, I have to defend my family, I have to defend the kingdom. Even if I'm willing to die. And so that conviction, that faith, that belief, it puts them to the test and they overcome. And then they know who they really are. They step into their true nature. It's like the Lord of the Rings. When the king steps into Vigo Mortensen's character, I forget his name. Uh, I can't remember his name, whatever. Uh, he steps into, he owns and embraces being the king, and that's like a turning point in the battle against whatever Mordor or the Orcs or whoever it is, right? We all have that inside of us, but we just get so wrapped up that we're the character in the play, and we're not the creator, director, producer of the play. And the cool thing is look at the people in your life as characters in a play that you actually have cast. You want them, you need them to fulfill the story of the main character, the protagonist. And you are the main character right now in the story of your life in the play, but you need the villains. It could be your mother-in-law, it could be your father-in-law, it could be your boss, it could be Donald Trump, it could be Russia, it could be corruption, it could be aliens, it could be cancer, it could be bankruptcy. Right? You need the character needs something. So instead of blaming and being the victim to these forces, it is a total paradigm shift to be like, huh. What if a part of me, the bigger part of me, has cast these characters to play an important role? That this health situation is waking my character up to pay attention more to the simple beauties of life, to not rush to go get somewhere, but to like to enjoy life as it is right now, that how precious it is, right? That's one of my brother is a character in my play. And when he died four years ago, that was absolutely one of the things that it was how precious and short life is, to enjoy every moment, to enjoy the people. And so he played that role. So when we we talk about people playing a role for us, especially the people who betray you, the people who trigger you, they're playing a role for you. Oh, this person is triggering me. The role they're playing is allowing me to open my heart, to forgive, to make a different choice, to see the projection of what I'm judging them for, where it resides inside of me. And face that and accept that and love that. That's what every trigger you have about anyone, no matter how justified you think it is, if you are triggered, upset, someone else is triggering you, it is only a reflection of the same thing you're judging them for resides inside of you on some level. And Jeshua's talked about this in the way of mastery. And it's having the courage and the honesty to look inside and be like, huh, where am I doing this? How am I like this? Where do I not like this inside of myself? But I'm making them the bad guy because it's so convenient and easy. And I tell the story to everyone in my life and they agree with me look, that person is the bad guy. But all the while, it's just I'm not willing to look inside and see where this is in myself. They're playing a role for you to find that, that limiting belief, that misunderstanding, that self-judgment inside of you to bring healing to it, to bring love to it. So that person, in a way, is an angel that you cast in your own life. So say thank you. Give thanks for them. They're a part of the journey. All right, last paragraph for today. Jeshua says, Here then, we begin to let out the secret out of the bag. Separation was not because you sinned. Separation was not because something terrible went wrong. Separation was just another form of the dance of creation itself, perhaps taken to the extremes. For God seeks the limits of what is unlimited. How beautiful is that! If you are unlimited, for the joy of it, you're gonna can I stretch the limits of what is unlimited? Can I find the end to the unlimited? Of course, the answer is no. By definition, it's unlimited, but God's playing. And we are a part of the play. We are the play, we are God playing. You're not God, not the personal small self, the consciousness, the all that is. But this is huge here because Jesu's talking about religion. Mostly I would say, I guess I'm not well versed in all the religions, but at least, and at least at least Catholicism, with all of its guilt tied in, and so many other forms of Christianity. It's like you are born a sinner, you are born faulty, you are born unworthy, and you have to repent to get into the kingdom of heaven, feel guilty, atone for your sins. He says separation was not because you sinned, and it wasn't because something terrible went wrong. Oh my God, this is probably gonna trigger somebody who's really clutching and attached to their biblical Christianity or whatever. I don't know. But Jeshua's saying, no, it's not any of that stuff. And he says it's just another form, meaning, like, it's not that, like, it's just this. It's not so serious, not so heavy. It's it's just another form of the dance of creation itself, separation. Why not? It's it might be extreme, but hey, we're unlimited. Let's have fun. What is it like to die? What is it like to feel separate? It's impossible. But what would it feel like to forget who I am? And then to remember who I am. Holy smokes, that feels like that might be a lot of fun. Let's go on that roller coaster, let's go in that haunted house. Let's forget, even though in truth you can't forget, you can't be separate, you can't die. But if you're infinite, eternal, and unlimited, let's let's let's have some fun with it. But we just get so wrapped up in who we think we are. We get so wrapped up in the fear, so wrapped up, the tiny mad idea taken seriously. So I know the way that Jeshua is speaking here, it brings a lightness to it. It's not so serious. And a part of you knows this. And and and this uh text of the way of mastery, this teaching is is igniting a little spark inside of you to rem that's remembering, huh? This sounds cool. This this is something I feel like I can get behind. I love what Jeshua's saying here. I'm not separate. I may feel separate, I may feel alone, but I couldn't be literally. I couldn't be separate or alone. I couldn't sin. It's not real. The bigger part of me is just having fun. Above all, God thinks playfully. Thanks for listening today. We'll we'll we'll end here. Hope you're having a beautiful day right where you are. Hope you're able to apply these teachings to your daily life, to look at your life, to bring more joy, more playfulness, less seriousness, to use the things that are triggering you for your liberation. Only you can liberate yourself. No one can do it for you. And that's the good news. That's empowering. If you get value from the podcast, like, subscribe, give us a good review, please. Send me an email. Hello, Revelation Breath Work, and I will email you back and say, hey, thanks for being on the journey with me. Sending you lots of love. Talk soon. See you next time.