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The articles in this section are changing periodically. Their aim is to emphasize an aspect of the Awareness Intensive process or more generally aspects of what is usually referred to as 'the path'.
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Only Truth Liberates

One of the advantages of taking part in a long intensive is that some of the beliefs or pre-conceived ideas that we carry get shaken in their very foundation and can even be uprooted for good.
As far as truth is concerned, the question/koan one is working on does not really matter, what really matters is that one keeps at it day after day.

Before I took this 2-week intensive, I was under the impression that when I will 'get to the truth', the 'ultimate truth', this very fact will liberate me, will free me of all mental conditionings. But first I had to get to that point of 'being truth'.

Some years ago, in a 3-day intensive, I experienced 'being truth'; yet that experience did not actually liberate me. At the most it gave me this certainty that what I am is truth and gave me the ability to recognize truth whenever it is expressed, either in me or in another. I came to experience and understand that Truth arises in a person when there is an adequacy between what is felt inside and what is being expressed. In other words when you are what you express.

Yet I was still under the impression that I 'had to be truth' in its ultimate sense to be liberated. Well… this proved to be a 'true' pre-conceived idea. As I was trotting along in this 2-week intensive, expressing each truth of the moment as it arose in my awareness out of my intention to have a direct experience of me – I was working on 'Who am I' – I suddenly became aware of this saying: 'Truth liberates' and at the same time I realized that I was liberating myself as truth was being said, moment to moment, simple little truth after simple little truth.
In that moment of understanding, all went upside down, a crack of laughter came out – I realized that the mistake was that I had turned truth into an object, a goal to be attained before liberation could take place.
This was a relief in two ways – there was no 'truth' out there to be attained as a prerequisite to some liberation and I was liberating myself right here and now by the very fact of expressing truth moment to moment. In a burst of laughter I realized that I was the craftsman of my own liberation.
What a joy and a relief this was! This understanding certainly gave me juice to move on through deeper layers of my psyche and a confidence, a trust that all is all right as it is.
It also made me understand more clearly what is meant by 'look at the path rather than the goal or 'the path is the goal'.

Many more little diamonds like this one came out of this Intensive; in fact I experienced this 2-week intensive as an abundance of gifts from existence.

More later...
Namaste to you all
yves-rakendra