1 comment (Add your own)

1. Kim wrote:

Trust.
Do you trust the direction of your life? Do you trust your partner? Do you trust yourself?
Do you trust in Nature? Or does your trust lie in your God(s)?
Do you believe you are guided? Or do you believe you can do it all alone?
What do you trust?
Who do you trust?

Here's a great question: Who or What do you give yourself over to? Can you name anyone? Can you name anything? Or is it blank when you try to answer this question?

Do you consider yourself a giver? If you do, how do you give? What do you give-your time, your money, your talent, your kindness?

Do you consider yourself a taker? No, not me. We hate to think of ourselves as takers.
So let me re-phrase it in a way that your ego may be able to tolerate it and remain neutral:
Are you able to receive? Do you let others help you? Do you allow others to give you insight? Or are you always right? Are you willing
to let yourself be guided? Or do you think that others can't possibly know what you need? Do you accept compliments? Or do you perpetually make excuses and deflect them? Do you accept compliments that then become your mask that you must uphold?

Inquiry leads to questions. Questions lead to more questions. Keep asking. Keep receiving. Keep walking.

Here's a lesson: when I went in to teach this workshop, I had just come off a day that was less than peaceful. I had a fight with my daughter. A fight with my lover. I was angry. I was feeling miserable, tired, irritated, and sad. This whirlwind of emotions that to say the least, doesn't fit in with my "teaching" role. The ego comes in now to stop the "madness" that isn't a part of this picture. So the battle ensues. There is more resistance. Fighting begets fighting. Struggle begets struggle. Arguing begets arguing. So here I am in this place.... I've been teaching for a long time so this is nothing new. It happens constantly. All we can do is pause, get present, let go, and let God in. My God is Nature. So I step outside. I listen to the trees. I watch the birds. I hear the wind. I touch the earth. I pick up the dirt. I connect and through this connection, I let go. I let God.

Trust. Faith.

Ultimately, it helps me to tap the empty space-the space beyond my self-contempt and my acting out. The space where there is abundant love, forgiveness and compassion. The space where peace resides. The path into this space comes from a deep surrender to who we are and waht we are in every single moment. The resistant ego dissovles. You can not stop clinging to ego by clinging. You must let go. You must give it up. Think of a hand holding sand. If you make a fist, the sand trickles out between your fingers. But if you keep your palm soft and open, fingers relaxed, the sand stays. The ego settles. The ego, like the sand, becomes still.

As Patanjali tells us in the yoga sutras: Yoga chitta vritti nirodha.
The translation is : " Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. "

When we are here, we can let trust. We can open. We can be present. We can fly.

Sat, September 26, 2009 @ 2:23 PM

Add a New Comment

Your Name:

Your Email/URL (Optional):

Your Comment:

Enter the code you see below:

 

Comment Guidelines: No HTML is allowed. Off-topic or inappropriate comments will be edited or deleted. Thanks.