One
of the most amazing phenomena MaDar and Trikaya have realized is that
we become our focus. This is the most
fundamental way of looking at life ... what we are experiencing now has in a large extent
been formed by what our focus has been. This being so, it is easy to
understand how the process of becoming whole ... is to focus on wholeness.
In this powerful and simple truth lies an explanation of why, in today's society, we have difficulty in becoming whole and living from wholeness. When we focus on the world around us, we see what look like physical, tangible objects that conform to physical principles. When we focus on our inner world, what we find is a reflection of our outer focus. What we focused on in the outer world begins to define our world within. For instance, if we have an aptitude for science and math we become very empirical and analytical in our thinking, and view the world as linear and predictable. Even though we may not be directly involved in the sciences, the focus of our western culture tends to be shape us in the western image. Mental aptitude and intellectual knowledge become tools for power, survival, and status. Very left brain stuff, and very much a mental focus.
There are some individuals though, who do not function in the world in a mental, left brain way. Instead, they look at the world in a relational way, rather than what is considered a rational way. They are more intuitive and feeling as personality types, and they number much fewer than the majority. They tend to be more the sensitive, artistic types. Their intelligence lies in their creative, more right brain nature. They are more able to see the relationship between differences, and more able to organize them in an artistic, more holistic way way.
In the past, eastern culture, and indigenous cultures have placed a higher value on holistic, or universal, principles of life. They place a great value of gaining awareness of the importance of holistic principles within their inner environment, and, through this focus, they gain the ability to see their importance in the outer world as well.
Generally, it can be said that eastern culture, as well as indigenous cultures, tend to relate to God more personally, because their view of the world is a reflection of the holistic awareness that they have cultured within. While western, more intellectual cultures tend to separate themselves from God because their view of the world is not holistic, but analytical in nature, and, therefore, empirically based.
MaDar and Trikaya have found, that in their work it is much more acceptable to speak of god from an impersonal perspective. Most people are much more comfortable learning to apply spiritual principles than learning how to developing a personal internal and external relationship with god. Even our religious organizations hold beliefs that we are held separated from god through original sin and can only be saved by an external source. Therefore, the only hope of wholeness - oneness with god - is to enter into heaven through the saving grace of an externalized expression of god.
We find neither view to be right or wrong. The fact that they both exist is simply a matter of focus, or perspective. If we look toward their ultimate goal, we find science moving toward a unifying theory. And, surprisingly, in pursuit of that goal science has discovered that the results of empirical inquiry are influenced by the observer. In fact, science is now investigating the possibility that the material universe we experience may only exist when we are focused on it, and at other times it only exists as possibilities. The unifying field might be described as a unifying field of consciousness which determines its reality through its focus. Some how our external reality is determined by an internal process. (Now would be a good time to refer back to our opening paragraph.)
MaDar and Trikaya have experienced some extraordinary events. Those events have showed them that there is a fundamental, unifying field of consciousness that has both an unmanifest and manifest nature. The most fundamental expression of this field is pure love. It is unifying, harmonizing and magnetic. It is the fundamental level of creation, and the "tool" of manifestation. We found it to be absolutely true that god is love. When our awareness flows from this level of pure love, we see life, not from the view of separation, but from a position of oneness. We find that we are not victims who exist separate from god, but co-creators who create through our focus. The process of creating something new, is simply focusing on something new.
There is another aspect they realized. We are much greater than our physical expression. In fact, they find it appropriate to say that we have a universal body which we all share. We find that if we focus our desires out into our environmental body, that that body responds in the same way our hand does when it reaches for a glass of water to quench our thirst. Now one can relate this realization to quantum physics, or simply realize it as another form of prayer. What we hold is it doesn't matter how you relate to it - it works. We live in an interactive universe that responds to our focus whether that focus is through a focus of our attention, or a focus through prayer - the principle in each is the same.
In our experience, we find that it doesn't matter whether we focus on principles or God. Principles, values, and divine beings all begin to blend together through a loving focus. We find that hope lies, not in what you believe as much as how deep, sincere, and loving you are in your focus.
All of our classes and activities are focus on first accessing our connection with the source of love, or Being, and then entering into what ever active focus we wish to pursue. We use personal or impersonal expressions of god interchangeably. We find that it is easier for most to get beyond their limited beliefs of self by focusing on a benevolent, supreme being. This is an example of the words of the Centurion to Jesus that he have not faith enough in himself to heal his son, but had faith in Jesus. The response of Jesus was to go, your son is healed. We find that true healing begins when principle merges with the experience, at their source.