Our innate way
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Our innate way
The word ‘innate’ comes from the Late Latin innatus which means ‘inborn, native, natural’. What then is our innate way? Mentioning, talking or writing about our ‘innate way’ suggests that there is also another but our innate way, and there certainly is. Words like ‘acquired’, ‘learned’, ‘conditioned’, ‘adopted’, ‘incidental’, ‘extraneous’ and ‘extrinsic’ come to mind.
What an assortment of possibilities, all those things we can pull in and seemingly make our own, over-layering our innate way, our innateness, which knows neither ownership nor sophistication.
Our innate way is just that – it is inborn, native and natural; it is seemingly ours while never losing sight of being intrinsically part of the all we belong to, whether for you that be in a relationship, in family, in the community, in the world or the universe. Your choice entirely of how big or small you choose to play.
Our innate way is not personal even though it has a particular flavour.
Our innate way is not any self-absorbed act of navel-gazing but knows it is part of the all.
Our innate way is unencumbered, it is free and spacious.
Our innate way is only ever about service and obedience, as the particles that we are made of are from the all and respond to harmony; the all is what we are made of, what we are held in, a universal sphere encompassing twelve universes, as well as all of us, as the tiny speck the earth and we, in truth, are. And all of us not being the ‘it’ or the ‘bee’s knees’ we like to think we are but part of an orchestra where all the instruments come together and willingly and joyfully follow the lead, fall in line with each other and the all and unequivocally know that they are an equal part of the greater all.
And the greater all cannot be what it is, as long as any part strays, misaligns or succumbs to what is not innate or anything but innate.
Our innate way might no longer be our normal, but it is without doubt our natural. Our innate way is the same for everyone, in that it is innate to each one and there is no identification, no attachment to any individuality or trumping with personality traits.
And yet, in the expression thereof there are many nuances of innateness, all from the same source and as manifold as there are beings, whether in a physical body or not.
How are we then to be and live from who we truly are, from what is innate?
We have all felt it, that moment that bears the alignment to either more of the off-track movement and the deterioration that ensues or to the space that is accorded when we break through the misalignment and harmonise with that greater part, to space, to our divinity and to God.
The former brings complications, justifications, lengthy explanations that go around in circles and lead nowhere. This trajectory seeks recognition through being different, having a problem, a label, an investment in self and of whatever flavour that might be.
Meanwhile and always available, the innate way is sheer simplicity without ever being simple in the derogatory sense; it derives from the one and same essence but expresses in manifold ways. And thus it is not ever the same in expression, but always in essence and by the law of the universe, by our divinity.
Our innate way in its daily lived expression is The Way of The Livingness, a way of religiously and very practically living with God in everyday life. No communes, no enclaves, no special schools but the marketplaces of old in the form of supermarkets, high-rise buildings, government departments, floods, fires, births and deaths.
There is another way to live in the midst of it, in the ubiquitous all-present God and the all, and from our innateness.
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