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: Arise in our individuation, recognizing our oneness
What if the lifelong hunt for meaning is just a game of hide and seek—where you’re both the hider and the one who finds? We dive into a radical yet simple shift: end the chase, sit for five minutes as Christ, and remember the changeless awareness that’s been here all along. From that place, the ego’s urgency softens, and the world stops feeling like a problem to escape.
We walk through a grounded practice for joining your humanity and divinity without bypassing life’s messiness. Fog on your skin, a tense commute, or a hard conversation can become sacraments when you choose presence over panic. We explore how feeling your feelings—fully and without drama—ends the reflex to numb, control, or fix. Blessing the news becomes training for nervous system steadiness and compassion, giving you the freedom to act wisely without being captured by fear. The thread running through it all is audacious: there is only God. If that’s true, what is left to fear?
This conversation opens a door to oneness that’s practical, not precious. Forgiveness becomes workable when the “other” is recognized as your own Self in another form. Your life—work, family, health—becomes an intentional curriculum, not a punishment. Waking up doesn’t erase challenges; it reframes them as material for creativity, courage, and love. Five minutes a day as Christ isn’t about performance; it’s a tether to truth that can reshape your attention, your choices, and your joy.
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Hello, and welcome back to the daily study of the way of mastery. I'm Jason Amaroso, your guide and friend, and fellow student. And today we continue in lesson 16: The Birth of Egoic Consciousness, Section 7, The End of All Seeking, Choosing to Live As Though You Are Not The Ego. And we pick up in paragraph eight where Jeshua says, You have been playing a game of hide and seek. You are the one, Capital O one, with your eyes closed, leaning against the trunk of a tree, counting, while the fragments of your capital S self ran to hide. And you are the one who has reached out to discover those fragments and is in the process of doing that. You are the one who has become the many, and then has waited to be discovered by that one. You are the soul waiting to be touched by grace. You are the separate one hiding in the darkness, trembling and yet wanting light to find you. Why not begin now, in this moment, by sitting quietly as Christ for five minutes? And say to the one who is coming now from the trunk of the tree, and then he goes on to what the one who is coming now is about to say, or you say it to the one. But before we get into that, just want to break down this paragraph that this beautiful analogy of like hide and seek. Hide and seek is what? It's a children's game. It is an innocent, fun game. And that's really what the ego, what we are doing here. We are the one who is hiding, and we're also the one who is seeking. And he says, while the fragments of yourself ran to hide, and you are the one that has reached out to discover those fragments and is in the process now of doing that. And why do children play hide and seek? Because it's fun for the joy of it. So Jeshua is saying there is only God, and you are that, not the ego personal self, the eternal capital S self, that there is one life, one consciousness that in its unlimited nature has said, How let me push the boundaries of what the limits are, because there are no limits, and create an individuated aspect of myself, and then forget who I am and then remember who I am. Why? For the delight, for the joy of it. And so we're being kind of shown what the whole dynamic is. You are the one who has become the many and then has waited to be discovered by that one, right? The one, let's say, splinters into an infinite number of pieces, but it's still all the same one. Each individuated aspect is the whole. You are made in the image and likeness of your creator. And then the one has the joy of remembering who it is, what it is, over and over and over again, an infinite number of times and a creative infinite number of ways. This is really what you are. You're the soul waiting to be touched by grace. You're the separate one hiding in the dark, trembling, pretending to forget who you are and wanting light to find you. But what's finding you, you are finding you. So why not begin now? He says, in this moment, quietly sitting as Christ for five minutes. He's reminding us. Five minutes. How are you doing with that practice? I just did mine right before this podcast. Are you consistent? You can start today. A streak starts today. A habit, a routine starts today. Do it today. It doesn't have to be perfect. Do it for five minutes and then do it again tomorrow. And then if you want, try and find the same time every day to do it. That's it. It's pretty simple. But he's reminding us hey, are you still doing this? Five minutes is Christ. That's all it requires. You don't have to meditate for eight hours, twenty hours a day. Five minutes to remember who you are. And I'm the one who has perceived my capital S self as having changed, as having sinned, as having separated myself. I choose now to join the two parts of my capital S self together. I will be a body-mind upon this planet, dancing, singing, playing, and creating the good, the holy, and the beautiful. I will now open that part of my mind that can think in unlimited ways that will dare to dream the impossible dream. I am that one who lets God live in me now. I and my Father are one. I am the drop of milk again, settling into the fullness of the glass in which my Creator dwells as milk. So these three first three paragraphs, it's just an acknowledgement of what we've doing. We've been hiding from ourself, and we have the joy of finding ourselves. And again, it's why for the fun of it. What it would be a great delight to be found. And then this prayer touch me with your grace, and because I am you, I'll decide to receive it. It's like this acknowledgement. Again, to our brain, this doesn't make sense. Like, well, you're talking subject and object, but it really transcends all of that. It's really beyond that to the one. I'm the one who's remained perfectly unchanged forever. It's like, think about your life. Things are always changing, right? In this world of time, all things in time are temporary. Situations change, the body ages, everything, the only change, you know, the only constant is change, right? But there is something that hasn't changed this entire time, which is your consciousness, your awareness. You're always, you've always had awareness. You've always had awareness, and it's always now. That is the changeless, your consciousness. And I am the one who has perceived myself as having changed. It's a perception, it doesn't mean it happened, but it perceives to change, or to perceive to have sinned, or to perceive to have separated myself. The tiny man idea never happened, but it looks like that, and we can create the experience of it. Why? Because God doesn't limit itself. And it's like I'm gonna be join the two parts of myself together, the spiritual and the human. I'll be a body-mind while I'm on the planet. It's both the paradox. I'm aware of my humanity and I'm also aware of my divinity. It's so beautiful. And again, it goes back to this analogy of the drop of milk. I'm the drop of milk. Again, settling into the fullness of the glass in which my creator dwells as milk. It's all one thing. Think about it. Again, I can't say this enough. We like don't stop to think of what a mystery life is, how magical life is. Like we see a bird and we have a word bird for it, but if we take away the labels, like what is that? And then we say, Well, it's a creature. But if you take away the name creature, what is it? Well, it's alive. Well, if you take away like all the language, you're just experiencing an expression of life in a form of all expressions of life. It just is. And there's a beauty in it. There is a holiness in it. Just existence itself is holy. When we start to strip away all the labels and the names and how we define and describe things and all the things, all the stories that we tell, and we can just be present and experience something as it is. No matter what it is in existence, it exists and how fucking amazing, how miraculous is it that things exist, that life is. But we're so busy on the phone or with the to-do's or driving the kids around. I was in the I was in the car, I made five trips the other day. It was so awful. And I wasn't very present. I was listening to a podcast or, you know, grumbling that I had to do all the driving and, you know, all the things, right? And I'm missing the magic of life. It's so easy to fall asleep to just go on autopilot. But when we stop to slow down, it's it's it's mind-boggling how amazing, miraculous, uh, undefinable life is. And that's such a cool thing. And that's what Jeshua is reminding us of. He he continues, when I walk with this body upon the earth, and I feel the mist of the fog upon my skin, I will say within myself, Ah, yes, it is very good, for I am that one with the power to create this body, to create the mist of the fog itself. And the mist of the fog around me is my Father's presence in which my soul reclines. It's all God. The mist, the fog, the sensation, the skin, the awareness. Nothing real can be threatened. It's all God, it's all good. He continues, this world is no longer a burden, then. This world of space and time is no longer something from which I must escape. Not even sickness or dis-ease is a limitation for me. For wherever I am, I'm the presence of love. And this moment, I bring forth love and bless the world I see. This is important. This is the good news. So many of us feel like the world is a burden, that we're in survival mode, that it's a slog. It's something to get through. And it's like at the same time, it's like, oh, I just got to get through the holidays. I just got to get through, you know, my divorce. I just have to get through my kids' teenage years that are hard. So I just got to get through the baby years when they don't sleep at all. Or I just got to get through these next couple of years to retirement. And we can have this mindset of I just got to get through it. And then life's over. And at the same time, they're like, oh, I just got to get through that. We're afraid of dying. So it's like one foot on the gas, one foot on the brake. Well, I just have to get through my life, but then I'm afraid of dying. Like, what the fuck, man? No wonder we're all depressed and miserable. It's insane. That's insane. That's insane. So this is the good news. The world becomes no longer a burden from this consciousness, from this awareness. This is Christ consciousness. The world of space and time is no longer something from which I must escape. It's not something I'm afraid of. It's not something I'm trying to get out of. It's the paradox. It's both. I'm aware of my humanity, of my mortality, of the body-mind, and I'm and I'm aware of my ego, and I'm also aware of my divinity. And so from this consciousness, I'm aware of both. And I also get to choose which I will identify or focus on. And so Jeshua is just like pulling back the veil. Oh, I don't need to escape this planet, this human experience. So many people try to escape the human experience by being spiritual and to bypass it, to bypass the pain because they don't want to feel the pain or they don't want to feel the hurt or they don't want to feel the fear. And as Jeshua says, feeling is the gateway to the kingdom. Once you're not afraid to feel a feeling, no matter how big it seems, it might feel uncomfortable. It's a sensation in the body. But once you're not afraid of it and you can just experience it, you are free. You don't need to escape anymore. You don't need to escape into drugs or into porn or into shopping or into the news or into whatever thing that people escape into. He says, not even sickness or disease, because he knows that our one of our biggest fears is a fear of death of the body. He's like, not even sickness or disease, or I would add, or crucifixion, is a limitation for me because I know I'm not the body. Like when you dream, you're not really identifying with the body. You're right. When you dream, so you are not the body. You are the consciousness. He says, For wherever I am, I'm the presence of love. In a body, not in a body, on the planet Earth, on some other dimension. Wherever I am, because I am consciousness. Consciousness is eternal. My awareness is infinite, vast, expansive, eternal, unlimited. And we know this from people who've had near-death experiences. And then they come back into the body. They're like, oh my gosh, I was everything. I don't know how to explain it, but I was everything. I was the awareness of everything. If research near-death experiences, if that kind of speaks you and you're like, ooh, I want to hear more about that. Again, Anita Morjani is a great one. There's so many, and there's so many documentaries now that are out there. For wherever and wherever I find myself to be, I am, I choose to be the presence of love. Whatever that, however, that wants to express. In this moment, I bring forth love and bless the world I see. If I'm in a prison, I bless the world I see. If I'm out in the country, I bless the world I see. If I'm in that my office building at the job that I complain about and say I hate, I bless the world I see. I bless myself. If I watch the news and see murder and mayhem and chaos, I bless the world I see. That's how the news can, again, be instantly become a practice for gratitude and love. Instead, we look at the news and say, oh, it's all negative. Oh, the news is mind control. Oh, the news is bullshit. Look at the world that's falling apart. Look at how they're manipulating, look how biased it is. And all the while, all the while, you're getting all, we're getting all upset and wrapped up in and that's what they want you to do. They want you to pay attention to what they're telling you and get triggered and reactive and stay in fear. And then you're much easier to control and because you're in this narrative. No matter what the narrative is, you're in a narrative. And Jeshua's saying, well, you could look at the news and just bless the world you see, no matter what's happening. If it's amazing, if it seems amazing, or it seems awful, bless the world I see. The villain and the hero, bless the world I see. Sick children, abused children, injustices, uh war crimes, bless the world I see. Right? The ego fucking hates this message. Because the ego needs to be right and wants a wrong. It needs to have a side, it needs to take a stand. I bless the world I see, right? This is the ultimate rebellious act in the world is being in the world and participating, but not being of the world, not being wrapped in it, not trying to save the world. That's another thing. So, oh, you're spiritually bypassing. You don't care about the realities. I got to save the world. Good luck with that. Has that ever worked? Ever? How about blessing the world? No matter where you are, what you see, what's happening to you, what's happening to others, you bless. Well, thoughts and prayers don't do anything. Really? Interesting. Well, I think the quantum physicists are starting to prove otherwise, that maybe thoughts and prayers are actually the best thing that you can do, holding the space of knowing that God is everywhere, even with the one who is having the experience of suffering. Notice my languaging. Even with the one, I'm not saying who is suffering, who's being victimized, I'm saying even with the one who is having an experience of suffering. Because if we're going to believe what Jeshua is teaching us in the way of mastery, it is God creating the experience of suffering. Why? I mean, if you want to go, honestly, you want to go down to it for the joy of it, for the joy of experiencing suffering, and then maybe experiencing healing and the joy of remembering. Oh my gosh, I'm eternal, I'm infinite. I can't really suffer. I'm not the body. I can't really die. Oh my gosh. The other one who I say is my oppressed, my oppressor, the one who is my abuser. Oh my God, the joy of forgiveness, the joy of opening the heart. Right? This is a totally radical way of experiencing the world. And the ego hates it. The ego, the part of us, the part of us, and we all have it in us because it's part of the human experience, that is so committed to being the victim, so committed to right and wrong, us and them, survival threats, hates this message. You're letting people off the hook. Do you want to be right or do you want to be at peace? This teaching is not convenient to the human experience, to the ego. It's not convenient, it's the end of the ego. All right, let's finish up. This is awesome. And so Jeshua says, and in this, God remembers God. That is in all italics. And in this, God remembers God. For beloved friends, the way of transformation must bring you in the end to the quiet recognition in italics now, there is only God. Why fear if love is here? There is only love or fear. So if there really is only God, what do you have to be afraid of? It's like if God is for you, whoa, what are you afraid of? But we've convinced ourselves that there's something else. And we've been told stories since we were little in many traditions that there's the good guy and the bad guy, and we gotta fight and resist the bad guy. What if there's only God? What if the bad guy is just a dream, a story, a part of the story, and there's nothing to fear, nothing real can be threatened. So why do I need to fear anything? Demons, Satan, dark entities. Why do I need to fear that? Now, from one consciousness, if you're in that consciousness, of course, like why be afraid, yeah. If you're in the consciousness of I can be of this is a harmful world versus what the way of mastery is teaching, this is a harmless world. Because the way of mastery is coming from this consciousness and awareness of knowing what and who you are, which is an aspect of the infinite. Not identified as the body or the personality, not afraid. So this is a whole game. God remembering God, God creating individuated infinite aspects of itself, and then getting to remember itself again, the ultimate game of hide and seek. The quiet recognition. Oh my gosh, there is only God. So there's nothing to fear. Whew. Peace then be unto you, Jeshua says, beloved and holy friends, quote unquote friends, because you are a part of me, and I a part of you, particles of light dancing in the wave of the one God, the one mind with a capital M, the one capital T truth, the real world. The joke has been on us, and we played it upon ourselves well. Now the time of rejoicing is at hand as we arise in our individuation, recognizing our oneness, to dance the dance of creation ceaselessly, extending only the good, the holy, and the beautiful. Peace be unto the only begotten of God, God's own, God is. Amen. Fuck yeah, baby. This is so awesome. Peace. We're friends. I are you. I are you. I am you. You are me. Particles of light dancing in the wave of the one God. How beautiful. The one mind, the one truth. The joke's been on us. We're not separate. We're not separate. The person you're judging is you. When you judge someone else, there really is no one else. There is one. There's a great scene in, oh my gosh, I can't remember the movie's name, but it's with Jason, not Silver Silverman, and Dustin Hoffman. And Dustin Hoffman is explaining the theory of oneness to Jason. It's not Silverman. It's a he's in Schwartzman, Schwartzmann and Dustin Hoffman. Just YouTube, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman blanket, and he or sheet, because he's holding up a sheet and he says, this over here, and he puts his finger up underneath the sheet. This is me. And then he points over to a different side of the sheet. And this is you. And then he points over to the different side of the sheet. And this is the Milky Way. And he points over to he's like, but it's all the sheet. But we're just l experiencing it and looking at it from different perspectives, but it's still all the same thing. It's all one part of the same thing. It's the ocean and the wave. Take away the label of ocean and wave, and it's just one or even water. It's just one thing expressing itself. And the wave comes up and then it goes back into the hole. But it really doesn't come up, it's just the same thing. It's just a different expression of the thing. That's what we are. That's what this whole thing is. Now the time of rejoicing is at hand. How many of us live in a spirit of rejoicing? How many of us? I like rejoicing? Oh my gosh. Maybe like Christmas when you're in the church and the choir's singing and there's just this feeling of overwhelming love, maybe. When else do we rejoice? Not because we got something. Oh, I'm rejoicing because I just got a big bonus check. Oh, I'm rejoicing because the you know the war ended. Oh, I'm rejoicing because of something that happened. I got married. Let's rejoice. Great. Those are all great, but those are all temporary moments. Can we rejoice for existence itself, for the love of God, which is the love of self, not ego self, the one. We arise in our individuation, recognizing our one. That is everything. We arise in our individuation. The flower, the rose smells the rose, the fragrance, the beauty of the rose, and the beauty of the lilac, and the beauty of the dandelion, and the beauty of the tulip. They're all flowers. They're all unique expressions of what we call a flower. And they do each other perfectly. The rose is no more than the tulip, is no more than the dandelion, is no more than the lilac. Rocky Road ice cream is no more than vanilla, then is no more than chocolate chip, then is no more than uh cookies and cream, then is no more than pistachio. Now, one may have their preference, but they're all the same. They're all amazing. They're all ice cream. You get what I'm saying? But we but we live in this world where it's like, oh, well, racists and and whites are better than blacks, and Latinos are this, and Asians, and we're fighting for resources, and who's better and equal? And it's just like, uh really? And so, like, has it ever solved? Has anything ever really changed over time? Not really, because this is the game, this is the planet, this is the world of the ego, but it's a but it's also Earth school. It's also our curriculum, our unique life curriculum. So the mistake we make is comparing our lot, comparing our life to anyone else's. That's the biggest mistake. It's the human experience, though. Yeah, life's not fair. But life's not supposed to be fair or unfair, it just is, and each soul is having the exact curriculum they need to have. But we get caught up, and there's so many podcasts and st and personalities and egos that are wanting you to make sure that you see it a certain way. Look at this, look at these disadvantaged people. Yes, in the world, there's disadvantage. In spirit, there's no disadvantage. There's choice. I want to have this experience. I need this lesson. What environment for do I do I want to create for this lesson in this short lifetime? I'm gonna have an infinite lifetime. So if I come to if I come to Earth and Incarnate, this time I want to be uh whatever, X, Y, Z, you name it. No, this time I'm gonna be this person. I'm gonna be the wealthy, white, privileged man, or this time I'm gonna be the handicapped person in the wheelchair, or this time I'm gonna be the uh, you know, the career criminal, or this time I'm gonna be the immigrant, or this time I'm gonna be the president, or this time I'm gonna be the no-one, the homeless person that no one even sees or acknowledges. And I'm gonna learn my lessons in that lifetime. And I'm gonna use it at a soul level. But we get so wrapped up in the human experience. It's great. This might trigger the fuck out of you, and that's okay. That's okay. If you're still listening, a part of you is open to this. Just think about it for a minute. It would destroy so many of the narratives in the world if you knew that every person on the planet that's had the human experience has been both genders or non-genders, whatever, has been everything, has been every race, has had every socioeconomic experience over thousands of lifetimes. Let's just say, if that was true, it would destroy so many narratives that you don't just actually come from a lineage of your ancestors. Oh, I've been white the whole time, and my and I come from Italian and German immigrants, and then they come from those, and then they come from those, and oh, you're Asian, so your ancestors are Asian, you come from the dynasties and all the things. It's like, what, but what if that's not true? What if we were all of it? What if we chose in each lifetime what we would be? It just takes away the whole narrative. Then we're all one. The human family, or really the soul having a human experience. And then we'd have a lot more compassion for everyone because we know everyone's us. Let's rejoice. Let's arise in our individuation and also recognize our oneness. Love it, love you. This is the end of lesson 16. We made it, and I'm sending love to you right where you are in your human experience, your spiritual curriculum. You are right on time. You can never be off track. Even if you feel like you're off track, you're right on track for what your soul needs. Your soul is in control in the most beautiful ways of being in control. Your soul is guiding the experience. Your human self can kick and scream and feel despair, feel depressed, and not see away or not feel enough. That's the human, that's what the ego does. And we're being given a new way of seeing ourselves, a new truth that a part, if you follow the way, if you're on lesson 16 listening to this podcast, there's a party that knows. You're like, okay, I'm waking up. It doesn't, it's not supposed to look perfect. And let's just be really clear when you wake up, quote unquote, doesn't mean all your problems in your human life go away. That's another ego trick. Well, you're not doing it right. You're not spiritual enough because you still have all these problems in your relationship or with money or with health or, you know, with conflict. Like that's the that's the curriculum. It's why you're in school to learn, to have fun, to the joy of creating, the joy of moving through these things, the joy of forgiveness. Like, you it doesn't mean you're immune to the human experience. It means you're having the human experience. So get rid of this notion that there's a right way to do spirituality. Jeshua's laying it all out. And he's rem he's reminding us of what deep down we already know when we slow down and we get in touch with our heart, that it's all fucking beautiful. It's all God, it's all good, right? When we're about to die, uh if we're conscious and we're aware, we're like, oh my God, love was the whole point. Love's the whole point. Every poet, every you know, singer, it's a the the most songs written are about love. Because only love is real. And our heart knows that, even if we get caught up in the in the business, in the in the daily, and the to-dos, and the phones, and the technology. Like it's all good. It's all good. Thanks for being a part of this journey with me. I'm so excited for lesson 17. That's one of my favorite lessons. If you get value from the podcast, I actually just I actually um just saw that on Spotify. You can rate the podcast. So if you listen on Spotify, please rate us. I look that we don't have a single rating. Um, and if you can go on Apple and give us a rating and write a very short one-line review, because any ratings with reviews are always better. And this will help more people find the podcast. 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