Be the first to give over. That was a long-ago blinding flash of the obvious, and I've never forgotten it. Which is not to say that I always remember it...it just means I come back to it, sometimes p.d.q. sometimes a day late when my hair's on fire. But come back I must, and there's the pearl.
I had lunch with a friend yesterday, and in our chatting we came to the conclusion that the answer to most hurts and/or peeves is laughter, which almost always needs must be at our own self. I have become convinced, and this is from my own perspective so you won't find a lot of followers, that the most important spiritual direction ever given is: We have ceased fighting everything and everybody.
The importance probably is in the fact that it does not make reasoning mind sense. Reasoning mind sense lives in the belief that there is ever a reason to fight...to stand against wrong is right, dim-dam it. But, again and again and yet again: We must go beyond reason to love.
Going beyond reason is where be the first to give over lives. Neither be the first nor we have ceased can even be considered without the deflation of our ego...ego-deflation in depth, a.k.a., still more spiritual growth.
All that is necessary for us to live free in our own head (meaning, nonresistant) is for us to realize that we will never agree one hundred percent with everybody, but we must come to agree with the person we are in disagreement with right this very minute...even if the disagreement is only in our own head, which, after all, is the origin of all discontent...in our own head.
Interestingly, our own head is also God's hidey-hole. We can get all esoteric and think of God as living in our left elbow or our right earlobe, but who's kidding whom? He's in everything, and, in general, he makes himself known through our thinking. It is our ego, God's roommate in that hidey-hole, that we must be willing to get over in order to free God to do our thinking for us.
Only then do we know the peace, love and joy of giving over in order to cease fighting.
Thank you.
I had lunch with a friend yesterday, and in our chatting we came to the conclusion that the answer to most hurts and/or peeves is laughter, which almost always needs must be at our own self. I have become convinced, and this is from my own perspective so you won't find a lot of followers, that the most important spiritual direction ever given is: We have ceased fighting everything and everybody.
The importance probably is in the fact that it does not make reasoning mind sense. Reasoning mind sense lives in the belief that there is ever a reason to fight...to stand against wrong is right, dim-dam it. But, again and again and yet again: We must go beyond reason to love.
Going beyond reason is where be the first to give over lives. Neither be the first nor we have ceased can even be considered without the deflation of our ego...ego-deflation in depth, a.k.a., still more spiritual growth.
All that is necessary for us to live free in our own head (meaning, nonresistant) is for us to realize that we will never agree one hundred percent with everybody, but we must come to agree with the person we are in disagreement with right this very minute...even if the disagreement is only in our own head, which, after all, is the origin of all discontent...in our own head.
Interestingly, our own head is also God's hidey-hole. We can get all esoteric and think of God as living in our left elbow or our right earlobe, but who's kidding whom? He's in everything, and, in general, he makes himself known through our thinking. It is our ego, God's roommate in that hidey-hole, that we must be willing to get over in order to free God to do our thinking for us.
Only then do we know the peace, love and joy of giving over in order to cease fighting.
Thank you.
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