What is Transformation?
Whilst walking by the sea this morning the waves were high and powerful, and I watched as the rebounding waves from the sea wall met those advancing, and they either crashed into each other, creating a splash of white foam, or the incoming wave rode over the top of the reeding wave, slowing it down as it approached.
To transform oneself from a conditioned human being into one that is free from the conditioning is a continual action. It is not an end result. Transformation is not something that can be achieved as a goal, because this would surmise a movement from a place called 'here', this being non-transformed – to there, which is an end result of transformation, so we need to ask ourself what is meant by the word ‘transformation’?
When you observe something and realise how it divides one human from another, the realisation ends the illusion about the thing observed, so you instantly drop it because the mind sees no reason to continue its belief in the folly of that particular thread of division. This is transformation, where once truth is seen, you cannot go back to the illusion.
Further examples would be when you realise that you do not speak the truth due to your conditioning, which is fear. If you speak it whilst feeling or facing the fear, this is transformation. Or when you see yourself as you are, without running, hiding or covering up that which you see, is also transformation. In this action the lie has ended. To be true to yourself and others is the key that will set you free. Transformation is a continual live action, always doing and never a done, and there needs to be an awareness of every part of your being from your thoughts, words and actions.
Even on an overcast day the early morning sea has a light upon it. If you throw a stone into the sea it will sink, yet the waves this morning were lifting stones onto the sea wall. Enjoying this powerful living movement of water, the gulls dodged the stones, checking to see in case the stones were food...
To transform is to see the folly, once seen there is no undoing of that which is seen...
Mike Robinson.