I AM...AND THAT IS ENOUGH

I'm getting wonderfully new blinding flashes of the obvious through things I've read for years and years, and I am loving it.

Today's new flash from an oldie: Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.  Sri Krishna (Bhagavad Gita)

No wonder I missed my new BFO. The words that awakened me this morning are the last nine: will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. I confess that all the rest of that quote I've ever read pretty much as a lecture from my mother. To which my response was, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mom, I hear you," as I continued eating my pizza, Coke and Snickers bar.

But will come to the end of sorrow through meditation opened a skylight into my spiritual hidey hole. As we have been told often and repeatedly, the Open Sesame to that hidden place are the words I AM.

That which I have thought and taught for oh so long became clearer. I recognized me, you, each of us as our own healer, our own little ATM, our own student interpreter of our preacher/teacher...we are our completion. We can go within at anytime to meet any need, we are sufficient unto our self, we are the enough.

It is not when we need a dollar or a doctor that we get to say, "Hey, I am," and get our need met, of course. It is through our personal daily practice of meditation that brings the end of sorrow. 

The end of sorrow, the end of want, lifts us into the consciousness of enough...into the realization that I AM, and that is enough.

Thank you.