The Cosmic Joke

By Heather Fraser

There is no trick to living in the present moment. It doesn't have to be a long, drawn out affair. We don't even need to label it a "spiritual journey." Infact, the term spiritual journey is a ridiculous contradiction. There is no "journey" required to reach the present moment, and the present moment is the only true spiritual or real thing that exists.

It can be accessed immediately. You don't have to take a course to learn how to do it. You don't need a guru to lead you there. You don't need to chant, or "om" or become a vegetarian to experience it. You don't have to shave your head, burn incense, wear crystals, or live a life of renunciation to get there.

And while there is nothing wrong with doing any of these things, if you are doing them because you think they are going to make you "more spiritual" — think again. They will not.

The present moment just is. And it is for everyone if we are willing to simply NOTICE it.

Bottom line is, everybody just wants to be happy, feel fulfilled, and feel loved. We put ourselves through incredible, often painful gyrations in an attempt to fulfill this honest longing within our hearts, when all we need to do is simply feel that longing and let it lead us home.

Home to the Soul…

Home to the present moment…

Home to the Beauty of Being…

This is present moment living, and it is the only place we will ever be able to fulfill our desire for genuine happiness, joy, and love, for the only place it exists is on the inside, and when we are living from the inside, we are living in the present moment.

It is true, that it often takes so many of us an entire lifetime of trips and falls to come to this realization, but that doesn't deem our lifetime a "spiritual journey." A more honest description would be "the deaf, blind, and stubborn ego's tantrum!"

Spirit is right there all the time. The door to our heart's desire is always there, AND it is always open. It is our ego's clever, loud, and manipulative voice that we continue to listen to, which also, unfortunately, happens to still be the mainstream voice of our mass consciousness, though it is changing rapidly now. It isn't hard to see how we have been so easily lead astray from our source…our soul.

Becoming real, becoming natural and authentic, takes an experiential understanding of who we truly are, and who we truly are, is Spirit.

In my own life, it has often felt like living this truth in a world still deeply mired in the ego mind, has been like trying to turn the Titanic. It's been like trying to swim upstream. But what I've come to realize is, that the apparent hardship, exhaustion, and incredible endurance it seems to have taken to reach the Beauty of Being has simply been my ego mind's resistance to walking through that open door which Spirit has been holding open for me since forever. I always had immediate access. No long and difficult journey was ever required.

My ego mind had resisted this, because if I walked through that door, then my ego and soul would become united, become One, and the ego mind absolutely hates the fact that it will no longer be special, singular, in charge, and superior. It will kick, scream, fight, even create illness or injury or accidents in order to remain in it's known and familiar, oh so boring drama-centered world.

What it fails to realize is, that once it crosses that threshold into the unknown and mysterious world of Spirit, it finally feels at home. It finally feels united. It can finally let go, trust and relax. It can finally feel humble instead of special. It can finally feel whole, because the world of Spirit is whole, it is infinite, it is creation, it is everything. It is pure Being, and it is beautiful.

When we make a choice to surrender and let go, when we decide to let Spirit's Will Be Done, when we have finally had enough of doing life the hard way and ask Spirit to help us, it becomes apparently and glaringly clear how, like spoilt little bratty children, we have refused to listen to our parents advice and we suddenly realize how much we have suffered because of it. After that, it just becomes a hilarious cosmic joke, that if we have truly let go and surrendered, we are able to laugh, and laugh, and laugh until we cry at the ridiculous and absurd way we have righteously held onto our immature convictions and illusions of My Will Be Done. As if.

Yep. It's the biggest joke ever told. Don't forget to have a good laugh at yourself on the way home! That's the other thing about living in the present moment…nothing is ever that serious.

Copyright 2010 Heather Fraser — goddess@porchlight.ca Ontario, Canada, You may make copies of these articles and distribute in any media as long as you change nothing, credit the author, and include this copyright notice and email address.

About Heather Fraser

Heather Fraser has given up all titles, labels, definitions, and any illusions of specialness of who she thinks she is. She now lives in a state of what she likes to call The Beauty of Being, where she is transforming and empowering lives through the art and practice of simply being one with life.

You can contact Heather for consultations or more information at goddess@porchlight.ca