“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.”
Serge Benhayon Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, p 648
The number of university subjects today is expanding immensely. I remember a time when there was just Medicine, Biology, Law, Economics, Philosophy, Sports, Psychology, Science, Engineering, Arts and Linguistics – and that was mainly it. Today there are over 400 subjects one can study.
And so I asked myself – “What if ‘The Way of The Livingness’ was taught in university – and what would the students be like?”
I remember when I studied Law, it was quite straightforward – Mondays to Thursdays we had our classes from 8.00 am – 4.00 pm. In the semester breaks we had to write seminar papers. And the rest of the time everyone tried to earn money, live their relationships, go out etc. I had friends studying different subjects like Medicine, Biology, Economics and Business, but never did we truly share other interests. Studying and the rest of our lives were separate from each other. We had either a student-relationship or a friendship, but rarely were the two combined. It felt like my life was broken up into compartments –relationships, studies, workplaces, homes and cafés.
Another thing I remember is that one of the professors teaching Criminal Law was quite a phenomenon. He was older in years, and I loved his lectures – even though law lectures were normally anything but fun to listen to.
What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience.
He was not a walking body of law in the sense of knowing and being able to repeat everything someone before him had written or said. He had lived with what he knew from all the court decisions, laws and files he had studied throughout his life and he taught from these experiences.
So today, being a student of ‘The Way of The Livingness’, I look at my fellow students and ask myself at times: what if the ‘The Way of The Livingness’ was taught at university, just like Law?
There would be one major difference: ‘The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life – it is like what the old Romans called in Latin a “studium generale”. It includes everything: Health, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Astrology – or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.
And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.
I love:
• The playfulness and the willingness to explore that the students of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ have.
• The questioning, the understanding and the normalcy of making mistakes here and there.
• The lightness of it.
• That there are only lessons to learn: it transforms “right and wrong arguments” into evolving humanity by living to the best of one’s ability for truth and love.
• That it is a constant way of evolving.
• That its base is the wisdom of the body and not only the intelligence of the brain.
That’s why I love being a student of ‘The Way of The Livingness’. I do observe in myself, and sometimes in the student body as well, that we make it about knowledge. That’s how we are raised and taught. I then ask myself: “Do we really have to repeat all the time, trying to improve and prove we are good students?“
Doing this makes the study of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ a subject like all others at university, based on comparison and the battle that comes with talking knowledge.
I sense that learning to embody the teachings and letting go of the structure I used in the past to study helps me to understand. And talking about things then makes me not just repeat them – I am able to express from an understanding, from a lived livingness.
I remember back at university I couldn’t even follow when fellow students were constantly repeating what they had just learned in Civil Law. It was very brainy and I remember getting very tired and losing focus a lot.
But I truly loved it when we were simply contemplating and sharing about what we had experienced and felt with and from what we had just learned, not in a way to become a ‘good lawyer’ one day – more in a way of understanding the coherence and what was shared, what others had explored before – just like the professor I mentioned earlier.
I am deeply fulfilled being a student of life, thankful for having met Serge Benhayon – who is teaching from his livingness, just as my professor of law did – just teaching the overall subject, seeing himself as a forever student. Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand – simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me. And I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me. We are all students and teachers at the same time.
And by me living my life as a student I might meet others who will ask: “What do you study?”
And I will answer: “The Way of The Livingness!”
And they’d reply: “Tell me about it!” – and from feeling my livingness they too may be inspired to ask: “Wow – where do I register?”
By Christina Hecke, Actress, Berlin, Germany
Further Reading:
The Livingness
The Way of The Livingness – The Light Outside Plato’s Cave
Inspired by Universal Medicine…Just Being Me
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
“What if ‘The Way of The Livingness’ was taught in university – and what would the students be like?” This is a great question, because it would be everything university is not, there would be no burning the candle at both ends, no cramming, no last minute assignment writing, and we would never hold on to the knowledge as if we owned it.
When we share from our experience there is a markedly different quality. I remember as a kid having a radar for people that would say one thing and be living a totally different way of being… this hypocritical way of living usually meant I wanted to do the opposite… whereas when it is lived there is a clear message that this way of living leads to a particular quality.
Students aren’t asked to remember everything and regurgitate, but live it! What a profound difference that is.
Knowing results from us studying something. Yet, the action of studying something may be either a brainy activity or a lived one. We have all experienced a knowledgeable person based on brainy dedication. It can be an overwhelming experience of how much do they know. Yet, the one who has lived and has his/her body also speaking to them, is the one you will never forget.
To inspire another is to evolve another. May we all be a spark of inspiration for others so that we all evolve back to the love we are.
To actually connect with divine wisdom within and live life from that rather than regurgitated information from outside of us, does put a very different perspective on life and the choices we make in it.
“What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience” – this statement hit it home for me, this is the difference between a lecture and a presentation. When it’s from a lived experience, everything universal comes through and that is the difference, it can be felt in every cell of my body. When someone is lecturing then intellect filters through and I must admit I too find it very tiring.
The Way of The Livingness is our university, it is for all and there are no benchmarks and I love being the forever student – it has become my Way of Livingness without perfection.
There is such a difference when we present something based on what we’ve understood from it and how we may perhaps have applied it, rather than just repeating knowledge. The former is alive and relatable, the later just leaves you cold.
Where do I register for the way of the Livingness? We have already signed up by coming to earth as only by coming here can we live what we have registered for!
Separating knowledge from lived experience makes knowledge no fun at all! It becomes all about the head with no heart in it at all. The Way of The Livingness is different in that it asks one to live a quality that is true and lived with everyone. Whilst there are studies and things to learn it does not offer anyone any true advancing benefit if taught without any heart.
There is a definite choice – do we hold our learning lightly, or is it administered with a stern Judge’s gavel and then we sentence ourselves for our misdemeanour?
How we live can inspire, and that’s something for all of us to live and be, and that’s what I get so clearly from this piece, the joy in sharing what you live, and in embracing a full lived life being yourself.
The best school and learning there is, The Way of The Livingness – school has never been this cool, but it has, when we learn from our heart, body and life as one.
The ending to this article has offered me a moment of deep contemplation. The ease in which one can share themselves and how we live is so simple, that I began to consider that how much I truly love myself (or not), is what lies behind how easy (or not)it is to share my way of life with another.
Awesome sharing.
As you shared about your professor sharing from his Livingness, I began to feel the people in my life who have done the same, and without a doubt, they are the ones that I gained much from.
The Way of The Livingness “it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.” And the course of evolution is to live the Way.
Love that there is no pressure of the exam hall, or failing.. simply opportunities to learn and then do we take this one or need the wheel to turn one more time so we can take the next one. An endless supply of opportunities, offered with God’s generosity until we choose to evolve.
Super cool Christina. I agree, it should be mandatory in schools that we get taught The Way of the Livingness. A subject that has no end goal, no rules and no exams. A simple reminder to come back to ourselves and to re-learn that we’re enough. This would change education for good.
Being a student of The Way of the Livingness has transformed my life more than any combination of degrees and postgraduate qualifications ever could. There is no pinnacle to reach and no qualification awarded but I celebrate with every lesson learned as I make my way back to soul.
‘I remember back at university I couldn’t even follow when fellow students were constantly repeating what they had just learned in Civil Law…’ This is so ‘on the money’ for me and reflects perfectly my experience at school. Whether I did well in a subject had more to do with whether the teacher lived their subject and spoke from the congruence of their body…or not. When something was just presented mentally and without lived experience, I felt lost. Those who teach from their livingness offer something very real in what they share and to me, this is the key to the ‘art’ of teaching – and hence, the joy of being a ‘forever student’.
There is such an equalness knowing we are all students and teachers at the same time, no person has it all that is why group work and working together is so powerful.
I can only truly inspire another through the way I live, my livingness. I have three kids and my role as a parent is to live what is true to me by clearing all that which is not true in every area of my life.
“The Way of The Livingness – Where can I Register?” – within…. in connection to our Inner Heart – there we find that registration is eternally open for everyone equally and always has been.
It makes sense that the lectures were more interesting when they were given from a lived experience, because living is what we can all relate to, living is fundamental to human life and when we share our experiences it makes us all grow and understand a little bit more each time and this perhaps is what is meant by expansion and evolution – to understand more.
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.” what a gorgeous quote from Serge Benhayon. It is stated right there, honouring the love you are in full, yes that is key and to live that!!
When we share and express from our lived truth, our connection with others is alive and real, as it is the reflection of truth that ignites our inspiration to explore our connection to our truth within. Truth is the language that is spoken from the inner-heart, one that we all know deep down is what represents the quality of our essence. And when we live in connection to this quality we live in connection to who we truly are with whatever we do in life. As such our Soulfulness, The Way of The Livingness is lived.
So true Christina, it is very powerful when someone expresses and moves from their lived experiences rather than reciting knowledge from a book or others. Serge Benhayon is a beautiful example of this; you feel the absoluteness of his Livingness in all his movements, bringing a quality of reflection that many are deeply inspired by.
I’m with you Christina. My favourite times when doing my degree where when we would talk in class about the practical applications and implications of what we were studying (we were all mature students with industry experience). Theory brought to life is a far cry from book-only knowledge, and so it is with life and The Way of The Livingness.
In breaking up our life into compartments we get the illusion of being in control and of being safe because of this control. When we are in the Livingness there is no need for this for we bring ourselves in full to every situation and we allow an expansion of the love that we are.
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.”
Serge Benhayon Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, p 648
The Way off The Livingness is my religion.
What I love about The Way of The Livingness is that you register yourself and you register WITH yourself, it’s not down to attending a sermon, or a building or a class, it’s down to how you choose to live and what you choose to stand by and you sign yourself up for that every day – it’s so super simple.
“What impressed me was that he presented everything he taught us from his experience”, with this you refer to your law lecturer. If we don’t talk/ share/ teach from our lived experience its like a parent saying ‘do as I say’ and not living what they tell you. This is hypocrisy. One man who not only walks his talk but talks his walk is Serge Benhayon. He only presents what he has lived – an inspirational role model.
“And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.” this is the big difference of how The Way of The Livingness is, to the education the world provides, One is from a lived experience which gives it the power to change lives the other is an accumulation of knowledge that is then memorised and repeated.
In school I thought I had learning difficulties because I just couldn’t pay attention when things were just repeated from textbooks and had none of the person’s lived experience in them. I have found that since my studies with Universal Medicine, I seem to learn so effortlessly, my writing reading and commitment has improved tenfold since school. I can only hope that one day it is an option for studying, as it supports you to be able to handle doing other study, it could be a good bridging course actually. As to be able to actually come out the other end of a University in one piece these days can be difficult but The Way of The Livingness is a foundation for all things.
Beautiful- to be a humble student of life is a blessing, it takes the pressure of trying to live the rat race and brings it more to connection, love, understanding and evolving.
“Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand – simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me. And I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me. We are all students and teachers at the same time.” Yes indeed. Serge Benhayon teaches from how he lives, which makes his presentations so amazing. Having spent over twenty years listening to many spiritual presenters, with whom I got disillusioned because they didn’t walk their talk. I have now listened to Serge for ten years – and intend to stay with The Way of The Livingness for the rest of my life. He is the real deal, a world teacher, who will one day be recognised as such.
Whilst reading your blog this morning Christina I was inspired by the following, it brings a joy, normalcy and lightness to the reality of life;
“That there are only lessons to learn: it transforms “right and wrong arguments” into evolving humanity by living to the best of one’s ability for truth and love”.
What you’ve shared here about education is of deep importance to humanity Christina. Have we truly ‘got anywhere’ through the regurgitation of knowledge and the prizing of our ability to accumulate (increasingly more) knowledge – without the foundation of a lived way underpinning it all?
Turning the tide of education, that it actually values and embraces the quality of the being and the quality in which we live, and ‘walk our talk’, is a paradigm shift that has well and truly begun. In my own life, I felt completely dismayed that university did not offer any opportunity for deepening one’s true awareness in life (everything being about ‘regurgitation’). Not until coming to the presentations and teachings of Serge Benhayon, did I actually rejoice that I had found the true education – and indeed forum for all to learn, together – I had always been looking for.
Love every word of this Christina. What you’ve shared here, to me, equates to what it is to truly live: “I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me. We are all students and teachers at the same time.”
If this were to be accepted globally, we would see a very different world indeed…
I never went to school much and when I did I found it so boring, because it was knowledge yet when someone speaks to me and shares their lived experience, I love it, I can relate and it is real.
Sign me up 🙂
The following words so explain why I find being a student of The Way of The Livingness meaningful and a joy to experience: ‘The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life – it is like what the old Romans called in Latin a “studium generale”. It includes everything: Health, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Astrology – or more simply, it is the study of the All. And it never ends. There’s no exam to pass, no marks to get. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.’ Nothing beats that in my book!
“I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me. We are all students and teachers at the same time.” This is true for all the Students of The Livingness – a fabulously, lovely lived responsibility.
There is something so different about a person who speaks about life from their experience, and a person who speaks about life from knowledge. What we learn from what we live has the capacity to be truly inspiring to other people.
Thanks Christina, I enjoyed all you shared about knowledge, education, and The Way of The Livingness. Allowing true learning, which involves lots of mistakes, is still something I’m not quite at ease with as for me in the education process there was quite a lot of stress and anxiousness about getting things “wrong” and doing well. It’s a lot of pressure to put on myself to be “right” all the time. The Way of The Livingness really expands so much because not only is it not about knowledge, it’s about a value in ourselves which comes from our being, from the fact that we are all equal Sons of God, and it’s about the quality of energy we choose to live connected to. This gives temporal knowledge its rightful place as part of what’s required in life but not reflective of who we are or our value. Getting things wrong or right, or how much we know is also not the focus because it’s more what we truly live in our whole body every day by connecting to our being first, and the constant expansion of ourselves as multidimensional beings who are in essence love. For me, if I feel I need to rely on what I know then it’s a sign I’m in a false form of security.
It would be wonderful if The Way of The Livingness was presented at school and University and ran alongside all other subjects and was part of all curriculums to open us up to understanding life, and the vastness of the Universe and where we as human beings fit into this. We are great at compartmentalising and making life individual and separate, but this is not how we are meant to live. Everything is connected and we forget this and as you have shown Christina, by the time we get to University everything is narrowed down to a few subjects, and we pigeon hole ourselves into these, and by doing this we miss out on the magic of life that is all around us.
When we compartmentalize all the different pieces of our lives it keeps them all separate, just like jigsaw pieces. But once we put them together and the pieces all fall into alignment with each other, everything has its place, complements each other and makes sense.
Being a student of The Way of The Livingness has totally reimprinted the meaning of the word student. Previously I had linked it with an irresponsible way of life that was separate from the rest of the society whereas now I feel the word conveys a wider sense of how we all have a responsibility to be open to life and the constant learning that is on offer.
We seek to separate so much in life including teaching and learning when they are actually all part of the experience of human life and we all have so much to offer in both areas. It then becomes so much more equal rather than looking up to someone because they have more knowledge or competing with fellow students to be the best in exams. I am constantly inspired by the humility of Serge Benhayon who imparts a depth of wisdom in such a relatable way as a forever student sharing with us so that all have the opportunity to embody and live The Way of The Livingness.
Beautiful Christina, sharing from our body as a lived experience brings an energetic learning for another. Communication between souls is felt and alchemy is made, to me this is true learning.
“The Way of The Livingness’ is a subject that is not separate from life …….. It is about understanding and expanding: it is about true evolution.” Beautiful Christina. Having been in my head for most of my life – and definitely not in my body – my body immediately responded to coming to presentations by Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness. Esoteric Yoga sessions have greatly supported me in this – a very practical tool for living – and evolving – as I come to know love and value my true self.
So simple and yet is has been and continues to be so beautifully and supportively profound, “Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.” It may say “new worldly religious way” but I knew this way from very young, it was already in me and with me. It’s what I had as a foundation or a base to know when I was growing up that I was being sold a dummy on what religion truly was. This isn’t meant to be a critique of others growing up but merely to say I knew this and I wasn’t supported to bring out what I knew. Everything was about suppressing what I was feeling and then this didn’t make sense either. The world continually impacted on top of what I knew and so I hid this part of me and pushed it down. The Way of The Livingness has supported this part back out and now it’s in full view I feel free and no longer impacted by what the world may say. I’m not ignorant or removed from the world, I am very much in it but I just don’t put it on my shoulders.
There is such a huge difference when we speak from what we have lived rather than the knowledge we have accumulated. That what we have lived can be felt, it is almost tangible, while that what we only repeat is hard to grasp and we have to hold onto it in order to contain it.
That’s totally it, when we talk about something we know but haven’t lived it leaves the person we’ve talked to unable to truly grasp it, and it’s absent of the inspiration of a body that knows and lives it, hence making it easy for someone else to also know and live it.
Loved this and what a refreshing way to learn and live. When things become about living in this way then every conversation is a lesson, every relationship and every step is an expansion of the last. It takes life out of a ‘get to the end of the day or week’ mode and makes every point about the moment you are in. So often we are taught to learn so we can be better and then from there it feels like we drive life to ‘this point’ that never comes then we retire and it’s the end. This religion The Way of The Livingness breaks life open and gives us all a choice to live life in every moment. There is no point to drive to, because every point is the point. Life isn’t rights and wrongs, do’s and don’ts, it’s an unfolding path of relationships with each one leading or flowing into the next. You know when you have a conversation with someone and then you walk away or hang up the phone and you think it ends. It doesn’t and in fact it’s only the beginning as you walk that conversation to the next relationship. We are here to expand, not what we know, but how we are, the quality we are and in that there is a never-end, just another expansion, as I said, very refreshing.
Being a student of The Way of The Livingness is great fun and available for all age groups to be part of, and as you share Christina, it is an all encompassing, comprehensive study of life and the most interesting study I have ever undertaken.
Reading this blog this morning brought understanding to something that happened yesterday. Strength comes from being able to appreciate myself and what I offer when I present courses. Essentially, I am presenting myself and content in a way that is real and relatable, otherwise what’s the point.
I am one of many who have registered by conscious choice for this study of The Way of The Livingness and I can feel from deep within that in fact I already was and will be a forever student of it as it is that natural state of being that belongs to who we actually are.
Christina I love what you share here ‘And from feeling my livingness they too may be inspired to ask: “Wow – where do I register?’ This playful line of yours is a beautiful reminder of how powerful our reflection is to others when we live the livingness versus speaking the knowledge that doesn’t inspire or ignite another.
I love what you have written here Christina, it is so inviting, freeing and confirming, thank you;
“the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only”
Thank you Christina for a beautiful blog, where “the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only” This is The Way of The Livingness a religion that teaches us to connect to the wisdom of the body and learn from our choices.
Sure Jill and what I can feel is that The Way of The Livingness is simply living in each and everyone of us, but the level of reawakening to it determines how actively we are living with it.
Beautiful Christina. The Way of The Livingness is a universality of life and our Degree of Initiation is a marker as we evolve back to who we already are and where we truly come from.
We are all forever students learning to re-walk the path we have walked before.
Through The Way of The Livingness I have found a foundation that holds me strong, and through the choices I make I am forever learning there is no right or wrong, only truth and love.
Thank you Christina for sharing your experience, we are the forever student, how amazing is that no exams to pass, no hours of study, just being ourselves, learning from our choices and observations, and the reflections we receive from other students.
thank you Christina… When anyone expresses from their connection with themselves, from the deeper presence, it is always inspiring, because it has the resonance of truth, and this is something that everyone craves to hear and feel
I register every moment, and graduate every moment I choose to live in the truth of simply who I am!
I love what you have shared here Christina. It occurs to me that there are different ways to respond to the questions like:’ ‘How are you and what are you doing? It is so easy to go into auto-pilot, launch into stores of the small ‘I’ and talk of what we’re doing`; projects, work, responsibilities, ‘successes’ etc. Another way, could be to simply to express life as a student of The Way of The Livingness, how we feel in that moment, live and express daily. How would it be to say ‘I’m learning to be more tender and loving with myself and all others’. or ‘I’m keeping life simple, learning to be in the moment’ what-ever the truth is at that moment. In other words, feeling before speaking.
Beautiful Christina a powerful sharing on the lived truth of Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness a way I choose also, why would one not! “Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.”
There is nothing more powerful than knowing something from having lived and embodied it first… it far surpasses anything that can ever be taught from a book. It is so easy to make life about knowledge but true wisdom comes from living life rather than studying it.
Hear, hear Samantha. It is only from one’s livingness and ‘out of the mouths of babes’ does wisdom come.
I used to hate being a student. Never liked the school system, the teachers. I didn’t mind the study, but I totally failed to see a true beauty and brilliance of being a student, and had no humbleness. “Study” was presented as something we had to do to gain knowledge, pass the exam, get a qualification – even though I would be choosing a subject myself for whatever the reason, it never felt like I was doing it for myself. To be a student of the Livingness threw me a bit as it was nothing like what I did before. Having a teacher who presents from his own livingness was something totally new for me – but this really is the only way that can ever be.
Thanks for sharing Fumiyo. My feeling is that many people dislike learning in the school system because the teaching is often kept completely separate from life and true purpose. We cannot live harm and teach love.
‘Teaching from his living truth is giving me the inspiration to contemplate, learn, question, make mistakes and expand – simply to explore me, life and everyone and everything around me. And I too can be a teacher of ‘The Way of The Livingness’ myself, simply by living me.’ Christina you have clearly expressed the beauty of the school of the Livingness that is on offer. If Universities were to teach in this way it would feel like Alexandrian Library all over again. I too first approached the presentations as something to learn, but have gradually come to understand that it is a way to be lived, and from that livingness comes the deepest, truest knowing.
Very beautiful Christina. I am very thankful to have registered for the School of the Livingness. I have approached this from a gaining knowledge standpoint for years, however, slowly but surely I am remembering that the only way to truly know is to live truth.
Even if we just focus on one aspect of what this wonderful article writes about, and that is, that it’s actually okay to make mistakes because it’s from the mistakes that we learn, then this alone is so significant that it warrants deeper study recognition and awareness because for so many people, making mistakes is anathema
Thanks Christina – the lightness in which you speak about how education could otherwise be says a lot about you. To me it shows that you have surpassed the thinking of how things are to be taught and you share a new way that everyone would absolutely love. A way where we learn things but do not have the pressure of having to remember everything to then pass a test, but we learn by having fun and being light about it. A true pleasure reading the wisdom you share with us.
My whole life I wouldn’t ever have described myself as religious, quite the opposite, but since understanding about and living ‘The Way of the Livingness’ – “Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.” Serge Benhayon. I would absolutely describe myself as very religious now.
I’m happily ‘registered’ in the Way of the Livingness since several years ago, and this the best school I’ve ever been in. Because what I learn comes from my own experience, in my own rhythm. The syllabus comes with myself, and in its unfolding there are not failing grades but deep understanding and evolution.
We are all teachers of the livingness… as everyone observes what everyone else is doing all the time. The question is what are we teaching? Is it the normal hum drum, the stress, exhaustion, overwhelm, lack of love and respect that is so common. Or do we live a different way, allowing the vulnerability, the space, the love and divinity shine out to others as a beacon that they can draw inspiration from for themselves?
I consider my position as a parent to be similar to a teacher at a school or university, if I speak to my students/children from a knowledge and or instructive and cold disposition, I am met with problems, the children will usually ignore me or disagree with me. When I speak from a lived experience, when my movements match my actions and I am with love in my voice I am amazed at how they are lining up to listen and how enthusiastic they are about everything I deliver.
When we present from our lived experience it brings a substance to what is being presented. This is what impacts another and not someone speaking from knowledge.
This is evolutionary Christina – The way of the Livingness. It does not separate or compartmentalize or rank. It is one unified truth lived, studied and embodied. The quality of the teachings is whole to all , the quality of the student reflects in the quality of their lived way.
I love the sound of the lectures you had on law, they sound fully engaging as his teachings came from experiences in life. When we talk from knowledge or from a place of reciting what is heard is flat. When we talk from experiences that are lived what is heard is multidimensional and fascinating.
Being a student of life has shown me that everything has a purpose, that it is not about rights and wrongs but about an opportunity for learning. If I have learnt something to enable me to do it differently next time then that’s enough, it is when we get caught in the repetition of the same mistakes that we feel burdened with life.
‘And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only’ – My observations show that there is much healing that comes from living ‘the way of the livingness’ and that it brings the truth at a very deep level confirming who we truly are ‘Love’, yet many including myself struggle to claim this way. What is it about learned knowledge that many work at losing themselves in it and bathe in the recognition of parroting this learned knowledge? One way brings vitality and joy and the latter exhaustion. I know which I choose.
This is such a valid point Greg – that we all have our individual Livingness to share, but when we come together in this activity – wow, the expansion is endless… This is what we call true brotherhood.
There is no doubt that if the Way of the Livingness was an integral part of University the wellbeing and health of all students and faculty would be completely transformed. There would be no need for a separate classes on the topic as it would be the foundation of everything, listening first to our bodies before doing and learning at the expense of ourselves.
Lovely to come back to and truly appreciate why I, along with so many others, have signed up.
Earth is the school of life where we are here to learn the lessons that we require to evolve so that eventually we go back to heaven. The Way of the Livingness offers simple and practical tools that we can apply to help us along our path of evolution – true schooling.
Wow. That took me back to the knowledge-fuelled and completely compartmentalised life on my university campus, one of my emptiest experiences ever. Enter The Way of the Livingness and its multi-faceted, all-encompassing nature, about our way of being; a subject that has us being students and teachers at the same time, learning and living, developing and imparting wisdom. A far cry from the cramming, the rote learning, the regurgitating of information and content that I’ve never used and can hardly remember. The Way of the Livingness on the other hand is absolute, ageless and timeless and has yielded me a far more beneficial return.
It is amazing to be a student of The Way of the Livingness as there is no on or off switch, my life is a constant course of understanding myself and what holds me back from who I truly am. It would be amazing to have this in every study, but that is not the reality, but living this way I know studying at University is very different, and an important tool to learn all the skills I can use in my chosen profession. But learning about life and who I am will be the most important, as it is always there.
“The questioning, the understanding and the normalcy of making mistakes here and there”. I used to be so hard on myself and would beat myself up big time when I made a mistake. Being a student of The Way of the Livingness has supported me enormously in coming to an understanding that when I do slip up it is ok and when another makes a mistake it is ok too as they are learning too. Living in this way brings about harmony and supports each other to evolve. Thank you Christina for sharing as I have enjoyed reading your blog and comments.
I agree Caroline The Way of the Livingness supports us to look at life from a whole different perspective, and what I have been observing lately is how the slightest bit of self criticism is so harmful to us – so what you were saying about making mistakes is so apt at the moment.
Yes Victoria, I know I make it about the knowledge sometimes and not from my Livingness and it is interesting to observe the resistance in my body I feel as I write this. I want to think I am living more of the Livingness than I actually am! Being totally honest with myself is key and discerning other students whether they are being honest is something I am becoming more aware of as I develop a stronger presence in my body.
Yes alisonmoir, I too struggled to memorise things and so learning for the exams I found extremely hard work. I didn’t enjoy studying because of the ‘trying’ which I now know was going against my natural way of being. Being reminded once again that every thing I need to know is inside me and that I have a choice in every moment to connect to this wisdom has been such a blessing and one I will treasure for the rest of my life.
An acceptance of self and where I am at is key. I have recognised this recently when I have felt the hardness and protection in my need to get it ‘right’ and feeling the lack of acceptance for myself. As I feel my sense of worth the comparison drops away and I am left feeling at ease and with myself.
This is very true emmadanchin as I too can lose myself in wanting to get things ‘right’, wanting things to be a certain way. It is very controlling. Focusing on the connection with myself and observing myself as to whether I have gone into ‘the seriousness’ is something I am becoming more aware of , simply by noticing it. When I nominate it things change instantly and I am left with no expectation of the outcome.
“Honouring the love you are in full and bringing that into full human life forms the basis of a new worldly religious way known as The Way of The Livingness.”
Serge Benhayon Esoteric Teachings and Revelations, p 648
The Way of The Livingness is my religion now and I’m not afraid to claim and express it although it has taken me some time to let go of the bastardised version that I grew up with. Claiming this feels so freeing in my body that I want to rejoice from the hill tops ‘At last, no more searching, I have found truth to support me on my way home’.
We are never alone when we claim our truth, I feel Caroline, as we are connecting to the innermost feelings of what we innately are – a brotherhood which acts as one as it lets go of the competition and comparison that we find so prevalent in the world today. We can sense that coming together and as we connect to our sixth sense we let go of all preconceived ideas as we surrender to the inevitable return back to who we are – without any doubt or conflict coming from within just a deep sense of connection.
This is so true Susan, that we are never alone and I can never be reminded enough of this truth. I can remember feeling very clearly when I was a young child that there was help all around us which I lost connection with as I got older. To have this connection restored and to feel the support is incredibly amazing.
Yes – I wholeheartedly agree Caroline it is incredibly amazing to restore that connection that is forever waiting patiently until we make the choice to return to that knowing that we are all truly one. In the meantime we have been on a merry go round going nowhere and now at last we can feel a connection to ourselves, to others, to God and the Universe and that this is a forever unfolding and expanding way of life that is both sustainable and vital. I feel truly blessed to be living at this time when there is so much support and love available as we begin to make new choices.
I love this we are all teachers and we each have different skills and livingness to offer.
Absolutely tonisteenson, in a way we are all points of inspiration for the many personal qualities that are strong for us. The problem I see in society is that the focus has become stream lined to looking good or being good at something, and there’s less focus on peoples natural or beautiful qualities, like something as simple as being able to listen to others in a way that holds them, or a wonderful ability to be very still and calm no matter the situation, or having a high level of self regard etc etc. More focus needs to come back to these qualities about people and less about being famous or having knowledge.
The best bit is it is spherical, meaning we live in cycles so there is no pressure to get everything right this time round as it will come around again and again, so many opportunities.
To me it is not that we do not learn appropriate subjects that support our evolving – BUT we do not get taught the HOW. We get taught how to be a doctor in a practical way – but not how to read the human. Or lawyers – we get taught where the laws are to find which can base our defense on – but not why and how these laws are in service for the all – or only to protect some. That’s where the gaps are in my eyes.
In fact: we all are – whether we like it or not. We learn from each other and life is the teacher. BUT: it is a commitment to always be willing to grow and be the best possible reflection for others simply by accepting ourselves, not accepting the “normal” as given and always keep in our hearts that it is not about us but everyone else equally. And that’s a choice.
Beautifully and clearly written… and exactly what the world needs to read now.
Thank you, cjames2012 – it is something the world knows but forgot to live. There were days when one could have commented (if there would have been internet before..) “tell me news!” 🙂
I agree Tricia, ‘The Way of The Livingness is the foundation for living life that forms the basis of everything with the foundation of love, expressing this in everything.’ This is the way forth, and it should be known and taught to all.
True Carmel, ‘When the knowing comes directly from our own lived experience it carries with it an authority that cannot be denied.’
Absolutely rowenakstewart, ‘There is no other course out there that offers us such an all encompassing opportunity to really know ourselves from the inside out and re-connect to the true purpose of life once more.’ I fully recommend studying with Universal Medicine, my list of reasons why to is endless…
“And the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only”.
We are asked to simply live it; the love, joy,harmony,stillness and brotherhood.
Why wouldn’t anybody want to sign up?
Sad but true: cause it comes along with responsibility, it takes a discipline to keep on moving, and it needs to accept that there is no beginning and end – no pause, no rest – no checking out. That frightenes those who love their comfort zones.
I agree – there is amazg wisdom in these books, and the world is deeply suffering from a lack of wisdom and live – it’s definiteky time to start listening.
My sentiment exactly, ottobathurst. It’s a factory line where we come out totally tamed and spayed and having no wits about who we are. Like you, I only knew I had to get out and run, yet there was nothing out there that I could relate as being true, so I kept running until I found the Way of the Livingness.
What you write Fumiyo is so perfect. “I kept running until I found the Way of the Livingness.” I have never heard it expressed like this and had never thought of it that way. But it is EXACTLY how it feels for me. I remember occasionally getting lost when I was younger. It’s a horrible feeling. I remember running (through streets or wherever) with a hideous panic and fear in my body. But then as soon as I knew where I was, I would stop running and the feeling would subside. I may have still been a way from home, there may still be hurdles, roads, obstacles to cross, but once I knew I was on my way home (or wherever I was heading) then my body would relax. Discovering the Way of the Livingness was the same. Hurdles, bridges, obstacles still to deal with – but i know that I am on my way home.
Being a student of the Way of the Livingness is a very beautiful way of being. It is all about living. It’s not about handing in your homework in time and getting marked and graded and looking like a ‘good’ student. It really exposes how our current education system, or what we think the system need deliver, has got it wrong.
I recently had to sit in an exam for the first time probably in more than 20 years. I didn’t prepare myself specifically, because it was a subject I was very familiar and felt very much a part of what I am already. As it progressed, I could feel I had to engage something that felt very unnatural to me which caused hardening and tightening of my body. It didn’t matter how much I knew about the subject, what the exam was asking for was to adopt a certain posture to be able to go through each question – like a robot. I was very conscious, but I could feel a thick, heavy blanket-like layer coming down and on to me. It was just one exam. Just the same as how it used to be all these years ago. Just imagine having to spend years preparing to get into a ‘good’ school where you could further be trained to get into university by continuously repeating this process and getting totally submerged in so called ‘education’ – it has nothing to do with gaining academic credential, the whole process is about losing yourself completely – like, constantly being pushed into how much you are wiling to give yourself away for what is socially perceived as ‘success’. What I experienced did not feel evolutionary at all.
Being a student of The Way of the Livingness, it is very aptly described when you stated – “the students are not asked to echo what they have learned: they are asked to live it, to embody everything, rather than filling their mind with knowledge only.” This is so very true, learning to live it, feel it and not just talk about it, is key to understanding what it all means.
That is so true raegankcairney that is what made it so lively and simple – you have to live and feel it and not to just talk about it. This talking about it is easy but living it means you have embody it and with that the knowing is completely different – Now it is an inner knowing as your whole body is reflecting it with every move and gesture the body is doing.
That’s it, raegankcairney! That’s the only way to truly embody what we learn – to experience everything in and with ourselves and move on from the “livingness” as it says. That’s the revolution in “education”.
The beauty of The Way of The Livingness is that its practical, real, open to all who are interested in evolving and deepening an awareness of themselves and above all else it is true
I love the simplicity shared here Joe, The Way of The Livingness is amazingly practical and offers everyone a guide to a true way to live.
That is true – knowing something from feeling it in your body, and having actually lived it is so different to knowing it in your head, having learnt or memorised it.
Christina, your sharing takes me back to my University days where one of the highlights was the discussion that flowed from the lecture, I was very interested in my topic of exercise science and was always keen for this to open up more. That is where we learn about life from others experiences and our ability to express what we feel develops through talking in groups. University has many aspects to it that is constricting, so to me it makes sense that you would be more engaged by a lived experience that a lecturer shares. The future of our education and our access to the wisdom we all hold is surely through making our education system far more experiential, multi-dimensional and all encompassing than is currently the case.
The Way of the Livingness has supported me to grow-up into a sensible practical adult, who is learning and understanding responsibility to levels never taught in school or at home. I feel that now I am becoming a genuinely contributory person in this life, no longer just a bystander who watches it all happen without being a part of what needs to happen in order to transform this life into something greater.
Yes Christina I only can agree that the study of the way of the livingness is wonderful. What is possible to re-discover is breathtaking and it is never ending. Each day there is the possibility to grow. I too ask why we do not have this way of learning at the kindergarten or at school or at the university. Imagine how would we all be and live together if it would be like that!
In the eyes of our today times living we are evolving. But on which purpose? It is mainly on profit, expanding the self by ignoring the rest of the world or to compete with another. That is not in any interest in the way. It is always in relation to the all and the love to the self – therefore for the all as being part of it. A bis 8 billion family thing* Education based on that would change everything!
And: our lives can be so much more uplifting for everyone, not only us. This is a out of self-centered mankind loving preoperative on life, based on self-love first to then be able to express love in truth! Lovely, Rebecca***
Yes! Right back into life, from the living, to everyone we meet. Back to a way of truly living love by willing to change, learn, fail and never regret!
Awesomely said, Carmel! Every single life is a choice: evolve and explore the uncovered inside or rest and stay in the know unwilling to give up comfort. This is the change. The lived life itself by every single one of us.
I agree Matthew. The Way of the Livingness is very freeing as it asks nothing of you but to simply be yourself.
I Love these points Matthew, Deborah and Elizabeth.
Yes, there is always more to explore. It is not limited. We are not limited.
We one day will be limited loving and living in a human body – but that will also turn into a transformation. What will be then? I’m looking forward to this lifetimes ahead future*
I agree I do not feel it is that far off. Making it relatable only through your Livingness will people respond accordingly. Follow and respect what is already there and The Livingness can be brought into anything.
We today call it “The Way of the livingness” which one day will be the universal way of living. In a constant evolving and never stopping expansioning process.
What I also love and unfolding more to with The Way of The Livingness is the simplicity of it. As Christina was saying memorizing and repeating the knowledge using the structure of your brain or the lower mind can only be done in the structure it is designed to be. Wisdom using your whole body is less complex and you are utilizing all of you to allow what you feel to naturally be there instead of a repeated experience.
This simplicity is something that got me too Rik. I was never good at school as I am one of the pupils who was not good in repeating the knowledge and so I thought that I am not so intelligent. Since I live The Way of the Livingness I could feel more and more the wisdom residing in me and I can assure you that is no learned knowledge at all.
So beautiful what you say Ester – I was not too good either at remembering things at school – I just wanted them to make sense – and then I could understand and open up a relationship with them. As you say the Ageless Wisdom offers us a way to re-engage with our true wisdom that is innately within each and everyone of us – and from there we can feel the truth and the simplicity of a way of life that supports us.
And Susan, the Ageless Wisdom and The Way of The livingness makes so much sense.
Lovely Christina – I’m already registered! There is nothing more deep and all-encompassing then studying and living The Way of The Livingness. One of the most rewarding things is surrendering to allow an answer or the answer to come to you. You do not need to go looking in a text book or search on Google for the information, it is inside you. Live what you know it is a part of you or potentially there to live.
And the beauty of the “Way” added to your life is: the reflection to you when you are walking on a spot, blinded by your own habits and configurations. It is a true loving reflection that’s not wanting, demanding, pulling or manipulating.
Hear hear Deborah!
Reading the comments I realise that it is so simple, it is registering with ourselves by honestly accepting the truth of ALL that we are and where we come from. It takes a commitment to ourselves and the whole of humanity to register with what we already feel and know but have chosen to deny or forget — the Divine Love that is our very inner essence.
I am thrilled there are no tests to take! Just a way of truly living, an observing and knowing that I am returning to all I know but have chosen to forget.
The only test is your own life, judykarenyoung!. You are the marker of whether you’ve evolved and expanded yourself or not. The only thing that is testing you is you own honesty: are you truly moving forwards?
What you share is proving that Studies at University need a revolution. It needs to be linked to life, to everyone and the overall perspective. AND: to the intelligence of the body. Never has anything been more intelligent than that.
Deborah I completely agree if we all just stop to feel, we all absolutely know it to our core “the way of the Livingness is arriving home to infinite wisdom and absolute love- the clarity and Godliness we are of”.
Brilliantly said Liane – in-truth we are all equal as we come from the One same light forever burning within.
Well said, Danielle Pirera! Professions are pieces of the all viewed trough a magnifier. That’s all. But the identification and the “wanting to be important – aspect” make us believe that professions are the centres of the all. That needs to be re-imprinted. It is just the other way round.
Yes absolutely ‘the other way around’! I love this. First comes the livingness, that is living connected to ourselves and making choices based on our inner-feelings of what is true – then it doesn’t matter what we do for work. We will enjoy everything we do because of the quality of the connection in it, which is worth a trillion times more than the highest paying job.
The identification with the profession, the competition and the “being better” aspect made us trap into the illusion of perfection. But here is none. It can only be complete if the all is able to flow. And we are far away from that.
Lovely, Victoria! As history has taught us: there is only a chance in changing things by living the change. We are all called to do what we do in full. This includes questioning the things, systems, educations: and walk with IN the awareness and understanding of the all. That will make us lawyers, doctors, teachers – that will be able to teach a new way. Since based on the living – not on repeating things.
And we excuse ourselves by saying: “but everyone does”. And that’s the trap, don’t you agree Victoria Lister? We all have the sense and the inner knowing – it is simply a choice to live and study a human life, but not ignore and live our inner voice and bring it into everything we do/study/work.