Blinding flash: Breathe in loving kindness, breathe out peace, love and joy.
The peace, love and joy we breathe out surrounds us, enwraps us, walks with our feet, talks with our voice, thinks our thoughts, and passes on to whomever receives it...to be passed on. This is not ours to do. This is not ours. This is God consciousness over which there is no control. There is only God.
All of that is truth to me...ah, but so is the human condition, feet on the ground, head in the mundane, that is the me I see in my bathroom mirror. The me that shows forth when I am not meditating.
The great gift of meditation is it points us in the right direction...toward still more spiritual growth. Where we learn by detaching...from our own ideas. If ego deflation in depth is the way to God, then we need to expect to show our bum in public...not beat ourself up when we show it. Oh.
I recently had just such a God-gift...ego deflation out there in my public arena...and, apparently, I have accepted it without regrets. I give no props, just hopeful gratitude.
It is the great exchange of our minds, from reason to spirit, that transmutes our egoic face-saving to our peaced self. Looking good has lost its luster which is not human-effort possible...face-saving is survival instinct to our ego.
To "get it wrong" with no regret at all is probably conceit...to get it wrong and wallow in regrets is ego...a rueful admission of our wrong is God doing for us. (Rueful...love and laugh sans a me-hook.)
Breathe in loving kindness, breathe out peace, love and joy.
Thank you.
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