Friday, June 8, 2018

ON DETACHING THROUGH SPIRITUAL GROWTH

My sister in  dissing me is seeking God...my being made to pay (for whatever/from wherever her anger stems) is her God.  She needs me to give her something to get over on...I want to let her for my own good. -- My 6/8/04 note written in reference to Easwaran's statement that there is nobody who is not seeking God.

Reading and rereading my daily spiritual books, in particular the notes I had written to myself, sometimes surprise me by giving me a deeper insight than I originally had.

Today, 14 years after I first wrote that note, I look back in surprise that I grasped then that I did want to let her for my own good, only I realize now that I needed to for my spiritual good. I have come to experience the fact that someone will ever be passing through our life seeking God through something to get over on. We seldom want to, always need to, let them.

I must needs keep it simple...and the longer I live, the more I understand that the "it" that I must keep simple is every single thing in my field of comprehension. Shuck it, clean it, strip it, sit and wait on the Lord, and when I hear what I hear, then shuck that, clean that, strip that...else, count on it, I will put my spin on it.

It is in becoming willing to detach from our own ideas, our own interpretations...loose them and let them go...that we arrive at realization. We get the Word, we know it, and, if we stay out of our own way, we show it.

All that rarely happens in one or two or three sittings. It takes as long as it takes, and all it takes is willingness. That's how we learn to welcome...or not fear...despair. I doubt anyone ever crashed and burned while giggling and grinning. (Although I do love Tom Lehrer's song with the line in it about dancing around the funeral pyre singing rickity-tickity-tin.)

Sometimes still more spiritual growth is simply divorcing our self from our own opinions. According to me.

Thank you.

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