Be The Truth

The most priceless sparkling jewel is a mind free from judgments.

I once thought freedom from judgment was a negative state of dispassion, a way to remain unstuck. But now I experience, by grace, that when the mind is free from all judgments it becomes a clear crystal prism, through which divine light can reflect and radiate into creation. God doesn't need believers. God needs empty channels and hollow lightning rods, free of every belief, to conduct divine energy down to earth.
 
Grasping no object or belief, awareness itself is the Philosopher's Stone, Chitta Mani - the Wish Granting Jewel, the Diamond at the center of the Lotus, the Pearl of Great Price. Every spiritual tradition has a term for the holographic jewel that condenses all the information of the cosmos in its radiant emptiness. This jewel is who we ARE when the mind is transparent. The crystal subject becomes its own object in a Self-reflection that generates ineffable Beauty. Here is a graceful secret: the radiance reflected into the world by un-grasping is more useful than any knowledge or belief the mind could grasp. 

When we give up arguing about what is true, we can Be the truth. In John 8:32, Master Jesus says, "the Truth shall set you free." Throughout Western history, seekers assumed this Truth to be something grasped, known, attained as an object of awareness. But the truth that sets us free is our own awareness grasping nothing. Our work is simply to surrender to the Inner Light, which gushes from the heart and radiates into the world through our senses by virtue of the power of Wonder.