What happens when we begin allowing our false sense of self just be as it is? This has always been a good idea in theory for me, but not so easy in practice. Yet, this week this is the focus.
Normally in spirituality, we learn wonderful concepts about suffering and then spend a great deal of time attempting to avoid this suffering based upon our recently acquired awareness. For instance, in Buddhism it is taught that desire creates suffering, attachment to stressful thoughts about the future and past creates suffering, and allowing the ego to reign creates suffering. One is often then inclined to stop desiring, stop attaching to stressful thoughts of the past and future, and keep one’s ego in check. And does it work? Sometimes, but it is a great deal of work and underneath all this work towards ending personal suffering, there is a trend in the opposite direction. The trend is again towards suffering and is itself caused by the *desire* to stop suffering. So thus we see a subtle desire underneath, forgetting of course the basic premise that desire itself causes suffering. Overall, these are cycles of continual and constant traps along the path.
So this week: allowing desires to arise. . . .allowing stressful thoughts of future and past to be entertained . . . allowing the ego to rise and fall as it pleases. Overall . . .allowing everything to be as it is. . .really.
