Tuesday, May 26, 2020

OR LOVE AND LAUGH

Our literature tells us that we must cease fighting anything and anybody. We may believe the words, but it's the doing that's brings us up short. In fact, our first reflexive response to that sentence is a refusal to believe it means what it says...we figure it must be a misprint.

Even when we finally come to accept that it means exactly what it says, we unconsciously, sometimes consciously, hold a part of ourself "above" it. We know from personal experience that stuffed anger is a resentment aborning, a certain-sure soul slayer; ergo, we're for leaving it to the wannabe saints amongst us.

That is living in the reasoning mind, letting our ego determine our life. We have done that before. Face it, we lived there once, rarely with a positive outcome...meaning when everybody came out a winner.

Staying ourself in the spiritual search, we turn away from justifying resistance and double-down on seeking to understand nonresistance. There...we are opened to the mother lode. It is when we seek to understand unto acceptance that the spiritual axiom comes alive in our heart, our soul, our body and our brain. It is a spiritual axiom that whenever we are upset, no matter the cause, there is something wrong with us. 

Now we can receive with an open mind how to cease fighting anything and anybody...we surrender our egoic need to always be right...or, more to the point, to never be wrong. Surrender is acceptance in disguise, the hairshirt of acceptance probably. When we get by our belief that surrender means loser, we begin to move on up, to a deeper life within.

That deeper life, I truly believe, is the place Chief Joseph spoke from when he declared, I will fight no more forever. Yes.

Thank you.

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