Beginner Mind

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  1. 10 minutes ago, snowyowl said:

    "As above so below"?  I can't pass the buck onto God for changing stuff if I'm not supposed to change it either.  But I get your point, even though I'd use a different language to this. 

    By 'God' I don't mean some man with a white beard sitting on the clouds judging everything that's happening on Earth.  I'm just referring to Consciousness or the Source.  The Source does everything; there is no doer in you or anyone else.  If your conditioning is sufficiently updated, acceptance of what is may result.


  2. 22 minutes ago, snowyowl said:

    Seeing life as a whole ... yes but where I get stuck is that my resistance, my wanting to change something, is also part of life!  So, letting life flow means stopping my urge to change it.  But that's changing something! It's a strange loop! 

    You cannot 'do' acceptance.  It can only happen if it is your destiny to have your conditioning altered.  If your current conditioning is such that life is resisted, hearing a teaching like "Everything is God's will" or "Everything is predetermined" may change that conditioning such that acceptance occurs (God willing).


  3. I want to share a nice meditation tip I heard from Adyashanti.

    Imagine that you are in the passenger's seat in a car.  How would you behave?  You wouldn't be steering the vehicle, you wouldn't be doing anything at all.  You would just be sitting back and going along for the ride, right?  Well, you can approach your meditation in exactly the same way.  Let go of control, let go of the meditator.  Be the passenger of your meditation.

    This is the experience of allowing everything to be as it is, and the simple path to peace.


  4. 5 hours ago, snowyowl said:

    @Beginner Mind Thanks! But isn't it an illusion to think that I am doing a spiritual practice when in fact, I'm not in control anyway, everything is 'just happening'. What difference does it make to believe I'm on a path to awakening, perhaps I should let go of that belief too :(

    It's true that there is no control.  There is no doer.  In fact there is no entity inside that organism you call 'you'.  And yet, there is a feeling of free will, perhaps a gift from Source so that we don't all feel like a bunch of slaves.  One of my teachers, Roger Castillo, recommends "doing whatever you feel to do in any moment".  If you feel an impulse to travel down the spiritual path, then go ahead and do so.  Knowing at the same time that it's not really up to 'you'. :)


  5. 1 hour ago, snowyowl said:

    I get this idea, and practice in the form of acceptance /letting be. But, a question arises, that "I" am not the instigator of all the drama. Resistance arises by itself (along with everything else), so shouldn't I be accepting the resistance energy too rather than picking and choosing what to surrender to? If I give space to everything which appears in my mind, I find it a smoother route to tranquillity. 

    Yes, if you find that you can't just surrender outright, and resistance continues to arise, then allow the resistance to be as it is.  Nothing wrong with anything.  Everything is perfect as it is, including resistance.


  6. 27 minutes ago, Javfly33 said:

    Yeah, man, thanks for sharing. :) 

    The magical thing is that surrender is already the case. Thoughts arise, and we believe we are those thoughts, "rejecting or fighting reality". Such a silly ilusion, but very hard to break nonetheless. :( 

     

    Yes, surrender is our natural state!  Thoughts will continue to arise even after liberation, but there will no longer be the capacity to take any of them seriously.


  7. Has anyone else tried this?  It's basically just another way of saying "allow everything to be as it is".  Except that with surrender, it's more of a total collapse, allowing your body to go slack, and having the attitude of "I am helpless; God is all-powerful."  After about 15-20 minutes of surrendering in this way, you will begin to notice a tremendous peace, the peace that 'passeth understanding."  Highly recommended. :)