I read in the Gita this morning that "to run not after the pleasant or away from the painful" pleases God.
I'm guessing that is because to chase either is to stay attached to results. For it is our own self who determines our pleasant, our painful. One man's trash is another man's treasure as the adage goes.
It proves the truth that acceptance really is the answer...no exceptions. To accept the unacceptable is to simply change your mind about the unacceptable...if it is, it is acceptable purely because it is. Not accepting it is continuing to try to "run away from the painful."
We do not need joy in the unacceptable...just don't resist it. I know from experience...repeated experience...that to resist just holds it more closely in our ego's heart.
I wonder if a mind at peace isn't, in the end, learning to flow with what is...gratefully.
Thank you.
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