For many years now, I have used the mirror as the tool in helping me interpret my understanding of God's will for me in any given situation. Because of that, I have held on to the following which is from Fr Richard Rohr writing in his "Daily Meditation" -- I regret I have lost the date it ran:
If we are to be a continuation of God’s way of seeing, we must first of all be mirrors. We must be no-thing so that we can receive some-thing. To love demands a complete transformation of consciousness.
The mirror, according to Zen masters, is without ego and without mind. Everything is revealed as it really is. There is no discriminating mind or self-consciousness on the part of the mirror. If something comes, the mirror reflects it; if the object moves on, the mirror lets it move on. The mirror is always empty of itself and therefore able to receive the other. The mirror has no preconditions for entry or acceptance. It receives and reflects back what is there, nothing more and nothing less. The mirror is the perfect lover and the perfect contemplative.
Everytime I read that, I determine to read it daily...a clear case of what I determine and what I do are two separate and unequal things. Let's say, I want to read it daily.
There is usually a sentence that sings to me with each re-reading. This morning's is: The mirror has no preconditions for entry or acceptance. There's my goal for today.
Thank you.
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