All we can do is make ourselves available to the Spirit
within, our Soul if you will, silence our mind, and wait. The hardest part for
me is loosing my own timetable and letting it go…releasing the nattering of now.
All the aids for silencing my mind I’ll ever need are laid
out in the Sermon…a veritable handbook for achieving ego reduction in depth.
It’s a pity this veritable handbook is nearly impossible for my reasoning
mind to even grasp, let alone achieve. My gratitude lies in my personal
realization that it matters not how successful I am, it only matters that I
walk with the directions spelled out there…that I try on a daily basis to “not
be as nasty as I want to be,” for that’s pretty much what it boils down to in our walking-around world.
Every year on May 1, I read in Easwaran’s daily reader, “To
heal our relationships, we have to move closer to people we do not like, learn
to work with them without friction.”
What a shock it was to me when I recalled my best friend in
high school. I had no use at all for her until I found out she lived next door
to the boy I had a crush on…she became my best friend quick and is still a dear
friend. So it matters not why we get over ourselves “to move closer to people
we do not like,” it only matters that we do it!
Again, it’s simply a matter of changing our mind, changing our mind to think of
the other person first and last which the ego-based reasoning mind cannot
unaided do. Just another reason why our most basic need is to learn to trust
without exception that God has our back, that our problem has already been
solved.
Thank You.
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