[The following is a reworked
reprint of my blog of January 24, 2012 .]
To live without fret or get is to live without remorses over
the past or worries for the future…to live in the now. To live now, one must
live as on the point of a pin, entirely focused on and consciously aware only
of here and now.
Often, in reading a mystical author’s book, I will
puzzle over seeming contradictions the author makes several times in the
course of the book. The actions being suggested as necessary may look as
different as A from Z but, when I follow the thought back each time, I find the
premise is either “detach” or “resist not.”
My freedom is in the discipline of remembering, of bringing
myself back to, just this: “Nothing is personal, resist not,” or, more
specifically, “resist not…now.” (It’s often necessary for my reasoning mind to
attach the word “now,” in order to hold my “yes, but” at bay.)
So the gift begins in that hated word “discipline” which
becomes the pearl beyond price.
Thank you.
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