He stayed through the night gazing deeply into the bankruptcy of the human life based upon its own strategies. -- the Buddha coming into his enlightenment
I am convinced that until we accept that "human life based upon its own strategies" can only lead to bankruptcy, mental, moral, spiritual, we will be wandering in the wilderness.
What makes the spiritual journey so exciting is the road toward that acceptance. It is, for instance, at the point of unexplainable where the miracle of God appears. And the unexplainable is where the reasoning mind digs in, obsessively trying to explain the unexplainable...thus blocking the miracle of God from appearing.
As one example, it is hard to welcome being misunderstood, yet it is only through welcoming it that we are released of its pain. To welcome being misunderstood is to welcome the pain of our ego losing. Those of us chasing God want, or declare that we want, ego deflation in depth. Yet that is really all the pain of being misunderstood amounts to.
The problem is in our fighting being misunderstood...that's what invites the pile-on. Whoever misunderstood us to begin with has a vested interest in proving his point of view. We resist her point of view by presenting ours, thus in effect calling her a liar. And right back a' cha, we all cry.
I have found myself incapable of rising above anything, so I find it necessary to say something when I'm feeling at sixes and sevens with another. "That's an interesting point of view" works well, or just "Interesting." Or just make listening notices. The real work is in maintaining a nonjudgmental attitude...ah, that's where God has my work cut out for him.
And we're back to the exciting journey toward acceptance. The acceptance being of self, specifically, the limitations of self. I cannot change my own mind, upgrade my own attitude, love the unlovable...on my own. God and only God can and will if sought.
It all comes down to: Keep God first, all else will fall in line behind.
Thank you.
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