#74
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you aren't afraid of dying,
there is nothing you can't achieve.
Trying to control the future
is like trying to take the master carpetner's place.
When you handle the master carpenter's tools,
chance are that you'll cut your hand.
Ancient wisdom: the thing about the Tao Te Ching is that it still makes sense, its essence rings true. We are thousands of years away from that Chinese 'time and place' but still Lao Tzu makes perfect sense.
Just read Bella's blog about The Secret, and how painful it is when bad things happen to 'good' people. How disease, hardship, a difficult birth, all bring us face to face with a larger reality: I am not in control. Even if I use my 'affirmations' every day, or prayer, or positive thinking, I cannot always draw to me what "I" want or desire.
There is comfort in knowing that a higher power or creative force, whatever you want to call that 'master' carpenter, is shaping something for me. There is peace in letting go of 'wishing' the future into being.
My most powerful experiences are not of being the conductor of my own life, designing, creating and drawing towards myself what I can imagine, but of having gifts unfold that I had never imagined, whether jobs, houses, children, projects, friends or challenges....that come my way through no apparent design of my own, and yet, at a deep level are exactly what I need (and not always what I want). Growth feels painful at times.
Yet aren't we in the 'earth school', as I told my husband this morning, as he left the house for another day of battle on the financial frontier. You just duck some days, (keep the ego low to the ground), keep centered in the midst of the fire.
Peace is not the absence of war, peace is found deep within you, says Maharaji, a living sage.
If I wait for the external world to bring me peace, I will wait a long time.
Sigh....deep sigh. I want to begin each day with a new breath, a new moment, and let the serendipity and synchronicity of life surprise me. And bring me strength within to focus on the light, yet accept the dark.
If I can lift my chin, look up from my inner kaleidoscope of desires and wishes and wants, and appreciate this day...
learning to let go,
musemother
2 comments:
Hmm. There's a difference between what the ego desires, and what the self wants and needs. Learning to pay attention to the inner voice is important. The outer desires of the world that we consciously assume we want are not necessarily those of the heart....
Thanks for commenting donna.
Bella's post is at http://beyondthemap.blogspot.com/
The tricky thing about The Secret, as advertised in the movie, is that the examples given are material things, a new bike, a new house, a better job, a $100,000 cheque, and these are not the things of the heart.
The Self is already in tranquility, if we can slow down and feel it.
musemother
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