Remaining grounded in saadhna

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NON-RESISTANCE<br><br>Emotional tension, like

physical, is due to our fear of letting go, of ceasing to

act, of sinking into silence. By observing this fear

attentively, as a prelude to examining and analysing it, we

detach ourselves from it and imperceptibly the tension

slackens. By repeating this act of non-resistance again and

again we begin to experience, if only partially, the

inner calm in which all our fears are dissolved.

<br><br>And as we cease to feel the need to assert our will

over others, so, inwardly, we are less and less under

the necessity of denying any of our faculties. We are

free to let life, in all the subtle magic of its

serenely changeful being, come to us through them. For we

have learnt to experience beyond selfish preferences.

We have broken out of what Gautama called 'the

cocoon of false discriminations' and no longer 'move

along with the stream of appearances'. We value life

for its own sake, not as something to be held under a

constant threat of loss, but to be received and given

mindfully, as the circumstance of each moment allows. We

have discovered what it is to be spiritually open and

hospitable and as pliant as a sapling that sways in sympathy

with the lightest breeze, but is, also, steadfastly

rooted in earth, as we are in the constancy of

understanding and of purified instinct. <br><br> HUGH I'ANSON

FAUSSET<br>----<br><br>Food for

thought!<br><br>Tat Twam Asi<br>UMA