SPIRITUALLY ATTUNED BUT NOT CONSUMED

How you treat other human beings is how you treat [the Lord]. That’s nondual thinking. Many would read this statement and firmly say, 'This is the Word of the Lord.' But it isn’t their actual practice. As long as they remain at the dualistic level, they can go to church and worship [the Lord] and be greedy, selfish, and racist an hour later, not seeing any conflict with that at all. -- from Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," January 26, 2022, altered. 

This is our "wake me when it's over" call to our conscience. We know, not always but often, that those of whom Rohr wrote is us. Today, we aim for it to be the place we are coming from and take heart that making our U-turn takes as long as it takes...not to get it but to let go of trying to get it.

The good news...and relief...is that we can own that we see us more in the rearview mirror than looming ahead in dread.  The majority of the time, sometimes the scant 51 percent, we are no longer dualistically stuck. 

There it is...our proof we are on the road of spiritual growth. We no longer think black thoughts for our slow progress...we take joy for the proof that we are heading in the right direction.

We have experienced the pain from another's snide or hurtful remark. Dual thinking demands we pay them back...in full plus a side of snark. Nondual thinking prays thank you for how else do we get to learn how to agree with our adversary quickly, how to resist not evil?

The conundrum is that we think, say, preach and teach resist not evil, but trying to do that all on our own is a self-determined objective keeping us tied to self and dualistic thinking. 

Say, Whaa? Say, Let go and let God, and that nails it. 

We love the saying of let go and let God, but the doing of it? That isn’t our actual practice. That is nondual thinking, not of the reasoning mind, thus not for us to figure out. 

What we can do is every day consciously make a promise to be as spiritually available to the day as we can naturally be, trusting God's will to the timing and the telling. Which means our work has just begun! 

We find we must keep our mind spiritually attuned but not consumed...live as we let go and let God. Live, as in, be not afraid of making mistakes, of returning kind for unkind, of trying to give not just get respect. 

We are beginning to live at a nondual level trusting God to go before us to make the crooked places straight.

Thank you.