It has been said that lack of acceptance is the cause of all our problems, and I believe that to be true. Acceptance is what makes "resist not evil" the right answer, yet our reasoning mind will fight that every time.
"It doesn't make sense," we cry...or, "That is not reasonable."
There, right there, is the ah-ha that invites the often-misunderstood truth, "Go beyond reason to love."
Most spiritual growth in my life has been totally unreasonable to my reasoning mind. I had an occasion once in my professional career where I had to push back at a superior who was harassing me on a daily basis. I wrote about that a year or so back, but the end result was I did push back, I did give him three conditions he had to meet, and, "kicking, cussing, moaning," he did meet them...and we became lunch-buddy friends.
The point of that is whenever I've shared that story, most people I've shared it with cannot wrap their mind around it being acceptance to push back...that one can resist not evil in push back.
It is in trying to understand it with the reasoning mind that is the snag...staying in the reasoning mind will not get you spiritual answers.
What I did was walk through push back by not fighting...I simply spoke my truth. I have given up fighting, but I haven't given up speaking my truth, inviting another to speak her truth, and then not standing in the way of a spiritual answer.
The reasoning mind is not attuned to such action...or mine certainly didn't start out there. It is a commitment to still more spiritual growth that makes acceptance, non-resistance and going beyond reason to love possible.
Thank You.
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