When: Wednesday Sep 7, 2022 7:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
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Jeff Carreira on Effort vs. No Effort.
There are many spiritual orientations which talk about no effort. They say that liberation is your nature. Your true self is what you always already are. The only thing that’s in the way is the effort you are making to get there. Because you keep convining yourself that you are not there by making an effort to get there.
The problem is that you can take that and turn it into a justification that just about anything can be the truth of who I am.
But there is an attainment that needs to be achieved before you are able to hold that. There is still effort to be made.
The way I think about effort vs. no effort is that we are both a universal source, always, and we are also already an individual.
A no effort school is speaking directly to the source. They are saying that you don’t need to do anything to be the source because you are the source. As long as the goal is to recognize who you are, that’s all you need.
But if your goals and needs are about how to live as an individual in the world, then the messy bag that is the individual might have work to do in order to be able to hold the higher truth.
So the schools that are talking about effort tend to be speaking to the individual. They are saying, “You need to make effort.” You need to be able to clean this up. You need to be able to focus your attention.
I think the paradox of effort and no-effort is a direct result of the fact that we are one, and only one. We are the one without a second, and no effort is required. And, also, we are an indivudual in this lifetime. If we care about how we manifest in this world then some effort may be required.
I think, in the end, what it means to be free has to do with no longer caring whether you need to make effort or not. So if there is an attachment to either not making effort, or an attachment to making effort there’s not freedom.
Let’s sing and talk about that.
We are only having one more dance/talk in September because schedules are so busy, so I hope you can make it.
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Date: Wednesday Sept 7th, 7:00 PM –
Effort vs. No Effort