"Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite.
It actually takes guts.
Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune
to inspire us,
we enter the warrior's world."
~Pema Chodron, from
"The Places That Scare You"
posted to Daily
Dharma
Whatever is happening right now
Everyone has
only one real mission in life:
to awaken from the delusion that they're
separate from everything else.
In fact, this persistent delusion is the root
cause of most of your emotional and physical
problems.
Your present life's condition at this very
moment is your soul's current answer to its
#1 question:
"What has to happen right now in order for
me to wake up to who I am?"
The answer is always "Whatever is happening
right now.
One can not have much
intelligence (excuse me for saying so:) if not asking this
question. All the methods, words and excellent commentaries are
so very well presented on the web today. Now who can say enough?
If there is one inch of truth found in what has been reported,
can it be trusted so we can move on with peace at heart?
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Dialogue On Non
Duality With Suzanne Foxton
Interview by Paula
Marvelly
Fill the sink, move the tap far left for some
nice hot water, grab the washing-up liquid, nice big squirt, watch the bubbles rise.
Lovely bubbles, each tiny surface a rounded rainbow prism…
‘Wash the knives first. Take up the knife,
the biggest, the most dangerous, the most expensive, the most professional. Move the tap handle
all the way down with the left hand; the sink is full. Look at the knife.
‘It changes. It stays the same.
‘The knife is perfectly itself. It is so
knifish; it is life, knifing. Astounding. There was never a more perfect knife. It is just as it
should be, as everything is. And grasping the knife on the floor crouching; yet nothing
is crouching, there is just couching. Boundlessness, no body, no knife, and there
is a vision of swirling infinite color, in space, the birth of a perfect rainbow
galaxy, spilling into a black hole and recurring, destroyed and created, winking in and out,
over and over again, instantaneously, eternally, and timelessly. All of
creation both here and not here’ [The Ultimate Twist, p.4–5].
PM: The above quote is
from your new book, The Ultimate Twist, but it does
describe an actual event, whereby you ‘realized yourself’.
What would you say is
different now compared to life prior the ‘knife event’?
Well, we have
the disclaimer that the knife moment wasn’t important and it
could
have happened at any time gradually in the unfolding story, but
the main thing that
is different in my apparent life is that I am much more
accepting, tolerant, of
everything. It is a concept that everything happens as it must
but my mind, ego,
character goes with that; so whatever happens, which can even be
judged as a bad
thing, there’s little resistance to it. Very few thoughts
come up along the lines that
this mustn’t happen, this can’t happen, this shouldn’t
happen.
Now if
something really bad happened to my children, get back to me on
that
because I might say something very different. But I really just
think everything
happens exactly the way it should. I feel it, I live it, I know
it. It’s all-pervasive in
my unfolding life.
There’s
nothing to run away from, there’s no reason to run away from
things. I
might not like them but in the not liking, not enjoying, being
grief-stricken, angry,
even fearful, there’s nothing wrong with any of these
things. I’m even accepting of
my own resistance. That’s the biggest difference.
