They both [Buddha and Jesus] recognized that pain is the
only thing strong enough to grab our attention and defeat the ego’s dominance....(I accept the common definition that our
suffering is the degree of resistance we have toward our pain). Fr. Richard Rohr,
“Daily Meditations,” October 28, 2013 .
I was pondering “bless those who curse you…" and
realized that, in my mind, those who curse me are those I am resisting for cursing
me! Then there are those I am resisting who know me not, but offend me
mightily; i.e., Ted Cruz, Rush Limbaugh, et al.
My pain is identical...those I feel are misusing me,
bad-mouthing me, mistreating me and those with whom I have no physical contact
at all…my pain is the same because it is the same resistance.
Is it all a head trip? It may only be by coming to full
blessing in my head, my heart, my belly and my bones that I am healed and that heals
them...i.e., stops my obsessing over (resisting) them.
Ah, and I see, said the blind man. It is not all a head
trip…it is the decision to bless them that opens the gates to God to pour out
from me and through me to do Its cosmic healing.
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