Call Off the Struggle - Adyashanti

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Most people are in a constant state of struggle with themselves.

Tremendously burdened by the past and in constant anticipation of the

future, most human beings are rarely able to be fully present for

more than very brief moments. The tremendous openness and intimacy

that is required to be fully present is beyond most people's ability

to sustain for more than a few moments before they habitually

contract back into the familiar condition of separateness and

struggle that so characterizes the human condition.

This constant state of struggle manifests as a compulsive and

addictive relationship to the movement of thought, emotion, and time.

There is great reluctance to stop struggling because in the absence

of struggle you suddenly begin to lose your boundaries and

definitions of who you are. For many people this causes fear to arise

as they experience the loss of their familiar sense of self.

Struggling is how the ego-personality maintains its existence. When

you cease to struggle, identification with the personality begins to

break down and you become aware of your emptiness and lack of

boundaries.

The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop

struggling, striving, seeking and searching. Why? Because in the

absence of struggle you don't know who you are: you lose your

boundaries; you lose your separateness; you lose your specialness;

you lose the dream you have lived all your life.

Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken

to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any

identifications, identities, or boundaries. It is this locationless

freedom of being that spiritual people are seeking, and at the same

time are running away from because its faceless nature gives no fixed

reference point for the personality to hold onto or to seek security

in.

As long as you remain identified with the personality, you will

always be seeking security to the exclusion of the Truth, and will

remain in a constant state of struggle. It is only when your love and

desire for Truth outweighs the personality's compulsive need for

security, that you can begin to stop struggling and be swept up into

the arms of an ever unfolding revelation of the Truth and Freedom of

Being.

 

~Adyashanti

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie & b