A very good distinction to draw if we are interested in operating with power in our world.
So what is Real? Reality happens all the time, all around us. If I hold up an apple, and ask what it is, the first response is, it's an apple, a sort-of round red object, etc. Answers can go on for some time, but finally, we'll get to it is what it is. All labels and everything else 'about' it is a concept.
So, Reality is. It's very simple. As human beings we confuse reality with our concept of reality.
For example, "I had a bad day", or "the deepest, darkest part of Africa" -- all concept -- that is a 'view' of reality - but not reality. As a concept, it is not real, but my personal view of reality, that is filtered through my story about it.
It's powerful to distinguish Reality from my View or Concept of reality. So the thing we are looking at is real. Our concepts of it are not real. We make it up.
I live in the world as I am, not as it is. I live it where I am, in my own self-view. It's a perspective, a view.
If we can leave the look of things alone -- acknowledging there is nothing to fix, or change or fiddle with, new and unseen opportunities and possibilities will arise that are unpredictable.
Learn to be permissive of the appearance world. Notice when you are pulled to fix, fiddle, change, resist, etc. anything that is happening.
Acknowledge Consciousness is fundamental. It is the source and condition of all existence. Margaret Laird says, "Conscious Identity is the condition of being exactly the same as Consciousness."
To quote Betty Albee, "It takes a quality of alertness in daily living to not be a reaction machine. When I'm being myself, I don't have any attention on myself, like Betty doing something. 'Betty' doesn't exist. I am being the happening."
In a recent seminar, Betty said, "Language is a transient view of reality. There is nothing to fix or change. It's a momentary view. It comes to you for life and you give it all the life it has."
Yep -- we add all the judgment, meaning to the circumstances showing up -- giving it the "life" it has.
