The Effortless Mantra
Let us be the effortless reality.
The effortless one is our natural state, where everything is perfect as it is.
There is no desire to change anything and no fear of anything.
Nothing is missing.
There is no nagging sense of impending doom.
Only the joyful, silent, invisible, beautiful, loving, wise, courageous, alive, life-affirming reality of this moment.
Perceiving the beauty of all that appears as expressions of this natural effortless being we are.
No worry, fear or lack dwell here.
There is nothing wrong or needs to be fixed.
There are no thoughts of the future or past.
How can we be effortless by expending effort?
If we were to expend effort to be in the effortless state, we would move ourselves further away from it.
So what can we do to be the effortless one?
What is the mantra or meditation that can take us there effortlessly?
It is the silent mantra of effortless understanding that is the gate to being the effortless reality.
Understanding is the effortless oneness that arises naturally between thoughts.
Understanding itself is oneness.
After all the rational inquiry we may do, it is understanding that is the effortless door back to our true nature.
Whatever is going on with the mind, body or world, and whatever effort is being expended there, it is the effortless understanding that takes us back to our effortless true nature that just is.
So, let us effortlessly understand now we are the aware reality reading these words and in understanding that, be it.
Notice how understanding it is instantaneously the being of it.
From now on, let us remember that effortless understanding is the silent, secret mantra that opens the door to effortless, true nature.
How beautifully empowering and satisfying is that to realise?
That something so natural, without any man-made thought, is the door to our true nature.
It is how it should be.
No tool is required for then we would be the servant of the tool.
Here, through effortless understanding we see that all is perfect as it is.
Here we can clearly see that, if we felt everything was not perfect it could only be due to a thought about this present moment that was telling us it was not so.
Even more, not even a thought, but our attention to the thought.
Our attention drawn to the thought by the simultaneous unpleasant emotion that gave the thought even more punch and made us think - what this thought is saying must be true.
But as the effortless true nature we effortlessly understand we are not what thoughts say about us, for what do they know?
But as the effortless true nature we can see that the contrast between the peace we feel just by being the effortless true nature welcoming all phenomena and not trying to change anything, comes from the understanding that we are safe.
We understand that we are always effortlessly present as this effortless true nature, and we are never changed by what we are aware of.
We are present, before, during and after, the appearance of thoughts and all phenomena.
We are never not effortlessly present and never changing.
So what do we have to fear - nothing.
All phenomena are like clouds passing across our sky.
The sky is not changed by the clouds and how could it be changed by phenomena?
So what is the story that is expressed in our thoughts that tells us we are vulnerable to change and not safe?
What is the central core theme of this story of fear and lack that is hidden behind all these thoughts of self-consciousness, limitation, fear, resistance and lack?
If it were the case that we are experiencing even the very subtlest or slightest feeling of fear or lack it must mean we are attending to these thoughts on some level, otherwise we would be completely liberated and at peace.
In the moment, there are only two possibilities, complete serene wholeness, or some even slightly lingering sense of fear or lack.
We had better be honest with ourselves if we are feeling this even to a very small degree and as this effortless whole true nature remember we can welcome even this fear and lack and not try to fix it, implying that somehow we have to get rid of it before we can be peaceful again.
For if we are feeling this then this is an opportunity not a problem and we should do well to welcome it not resist it.
It is our children the mind and body feeling discomfort because we the effortless true nature that is their parent is still not fully convinced of its undefinable nature and is attending to the thoughts that say they know and can define what it is.
These thoughts say they know that what we are is a limited entity in time and space and something is wrong and missing and has to be fixed.
These thoughts may not be clear at first and may be hidden behind uncomfortable feelings.
But, no matter, as we effortlessly understand we are the true nature reading these words that is always present and never changing and we are safe as we are, we welcome all things, even this emotional discomfort of our children the mind and body.
We welcome them without becoming what they are telling us we are - a separate entity under threat.
We understand that this story they present is but a belief for which there is no convincing evidence to underpin.
We understand that this story they present is just a habitual conditioned defence mechanism and is not true.
We are not fearful of such thoughts and feelings as we understand there is no truth to them as we have no evidence of the presence of the separate self of which they speak.
We have no evidence that we this effortless true nature are a separate true nature dependent on the mind and body as they indicate we are.
As the content of these thoughts meets the conviction of our effortless understanding, they effortlessly vanish and the pain they caused vanishes too.
Like a swarm of bees, these thoughts and feelings just dissipate, leaving us clear.
And our conviction grows yet deeper that our silent mantra of effortless understanding, we the effortless wholeness that is always at peace, is the true path to naturally being the effortless peace we are.
Here, in this effortless place, we see reality for what it is, only joyful, innocent, free expression of itself.
No one or nothing in control.
And there is such sacred joy in being this unfolding of this singular, indivisible existence.
There is the “great fullness” of being this as we enjoy the beautiful existential nourishment of this moment.
Nothing more is needed.
Nothing is missing.
No thoughts of control and trying to achieve something more.
No thoughts of impending doom.
We are free of that psychology.
Free just to be.
Love,
Freyja
