you ain't rich enough

[Guest guest]

Enlightenment, Awakening, Realization, etc. cannot be bought - packaged

- and delivered like some commodity or tinsel wrapped confection. Though

many have tried.

 

As if the universe could be bought and sold on the stock exchange!

LOL!

 

The real 'price' we pay is in surrendering our hopes and fears our

beliefs and concepts of religion, god, truth, enlightenment and so on.

 

All these things can and do become a 'personal' comfort zone. They

become in other words a 'personal' fantasy of how things are and how

things should be. They are a comfortable maze of beliefs that we all at

some point run around in 'discovering' our 'spirituality'.

 

There is a mind set, if you will, that tells us our our maze is better

than any other maze. But, how do we know? We don't, not really, though

we like to think so. Fortunately the universe keeps dropping things into

our maze. Things that do not fit into our concept of reality.

 

As long as we are comfortable with our little maze of beliefs and

concepts we feel fine and dandy - no problems. We can ignore the hints

and surprises that the universe keeps dropping on us and go about our

business.

 

Sometimes, when the universe drops one of its little surprises on us, we

simply expand our maze to accommodate whatever it is and keep running

about.

 

Then comes a time when we can't fit those things in. So, maybe, we start

seeking. We begin to question and wonder what is really going on. Oh,

what misery! Nothing fits anymore. We lose the fascination with our

'personal' maze. We feel lost and alone. We no longer know what is truth

and what is illusion. Scary stuff!

 

We may frantically try to build new walls for our maze, or try to jump

into some ready built maze. But nothing seems to quite work out.

 

You see, when we become seekers we have no idea what we are seeking.

Well, sure, we may have an idea or two or ten thousand. But at some

point we start to realize these are only ideas.

 

We do not really know! And, when we can admit that we do not really

know, that is called surrender. Surrender isn't failure. Surrender is

the honest, open admitting that we truly do not know. Surrender allows

the opening for knowing what the universe is showing us - all the time.

 

Surrender is finding that we have been leaning on the doorway to reality

all along. Surrender is turning around and knocking on that door - with

no expectations about what may or may not be on the 'other' side.

 

There is peace that passes all understanding. Don't take my word for it,

even if you sent me a million dollars in unmarked bills, I couldn't

prove it to you. I would just spend or give away the money foolishly.

:-)

 

My maze has been smashed and I wander about in wonder - michael

 

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