What did God want me to learn from this? What did I bring to the table in this situation? These are questions we should always ask ourselves.
Many people believe….
Many people believe that resonating like a tuning fork is connecting with others, being in tune with others. In reality, resonating is immature caring—not real care or empathy, but a form of self-absorption.
Think of the central square….
Think of the central square from which a whole city radiates. Then imagine that you believe some point on the outskirts of that city is the center. Your mental map will be hopelessly skewed. This is what happens when you stray from your own center without realizing it.
Watching your thoughts….
Watching your thoughts is not going inward. You’re just watching the same old reruns.
Every time we go into a container….
Every time we go into a container, we are fodder for death. When we are no longer attached to any container, there is no death. To live as though already dead—something warriors and monks have in common—is to be free of any containers. When we no longer are attached to any container, we know who we are, because who we …
Resonating in particular….
Resonating in particular is how we fool ourselves about connecting with ourselves and the world. In our wrong understanding, we resonate with others’ vibrations, believing we are connecting with those people. In fact, we are losing ourselves further in more and more objects.
Baba always spoke….
Baba always spoke of not hurting a human heart. This was and is the crucial guide by which to assess our motivations and actions. True sādhana bruises the ego, but it never injures the heart. If you are hurting someone’s heart, you should question your actions and motives.
When we are blind….
When we are blind, we do not see how much or even whom we hurt. We do not realize that the vibration, not the action, is what usually causes the injury. Baba always wanted us to Love, but there is no Love in a no-boundary zone, no matter how innocent the actions we perform are. Whether we like it or …
As adults….
As adults, will we cling to our idealizing and the resulting deep disappointment, or can we see our mothers as our first teachers, who were unique for each of us?
We have to starve….
We have to starve the shrunken self, and redirect our attention away from it, in order for who we really are to be revealed by grace. The shrunken self will feel that this is only self-torture until we no longer identify with it. Until then, the one who is complicit and the criminal are one and the same: the shrunken …