Y'all need to lighten up.
Saturday, September 4, 2010 by the BCth
These are heavy times. Know why? 'Cause we've been accumulating so... much... damn... stuff.
Not just possessions. I mean inside. All this stuff, and most of it just so much dead weight. And who's going to be flying when they're carrying three hundred thousand years' worth of spiritual ballast on their soul?
You wonder why this place feels like such a dump sometimes. Yeah. You don't need that stuff; you should be dumping it. Dump it here while you can!
But it's attached, how do I get it off?
Don't be silly. You're the one that's attached to it. Just let go.
What if I can't?
Then you'll get help.
What kind of help?
Whatever kind you prove yourself in need of. Ignore one kind when it's offered, and you'll get another kind, and another, and another. As many chances as you need. But it gets pretty rough when you keep turning the offers down. That's how you keep yourself down. Say yes to whatever's happening, pay attention to what it's asking you to do. Pain is a good sign. It means you're feeling where the attachment is. Use that indicator. Open up that secret stash of pain and guilt and judgment. See what ugly things are there. Burn them in the fires of love, truth, and forgiveness. Transmute them into their opposites.
The opposite of suffering is bliss. The opposite of cowardice is courage. The opposite of foolishness is wisdom. The opposite of fear is love.
Lose the concrete shoes. How else you gonna swim?
These are deep waters, dangerous and beautiful, deadly and powerful, life-giving and gentle.
Learn to swim, learn to dive.
There's a current and a tide and a huge, huge wave.
Ride it out, surf the wave, don't get dashed against the rocks.
Keep your balance, keep your eyes on the brightening horizon.
Go by feel. Trust what's real.
Lighten up! God, don't take yourself so seriously. You're not who you think you are? You don't know who you are? You actually think you don't know who you are. Who are you? Come on!
I see a smile. I know, you're catching on. The realization is awakening. Shhh. Yesss. Ha! ha! Yes!
You are. The One Perfect Being.
Not just possessions. I mean inside. All this stuff, and most of it just so much dead weight. And who's going to be flying when they're carrying three hundred thousand years' worth of spiritual ballast on their soul?
You wonder why this place feels like such a dump sometimes. Yeah. You don't need that stuff; you should be dumping it. Dump it here while you can!
But it's attached, how do I get it off?
Don't be silly. You're the one that's attached to it. Just let go.
What if I can't?
Then you'll get help.
What kind of help?
Whatever kind you prove yourself in need of. Ignore one kind when it's offered, and you'll get another kind, and another, and another. As many chances as you need. But it gets pretty rough when you keep turning the offers down. That's how you keep yourself down. Say yes to whatever's happening, pay attention to what it's asking you to do. Pain is a good sign. It means you're feeling where the attachment is. Use that indicator. Open up that secret stash of pain and guilt and judgment. See what ugly things are there. Burn them in the fires of love, truth, and forgiveness. Transmute them into their opposites.
The opposite of suffering is bliss. The opposite of cowardice is courage. The opposite of foolishness is wisdom. The opposite of fear is love.
Lose the concrete shoes. How else you gonna swim?
These are deep waters, dangerous and beautiful, deadly and powerful, life-giving and gentle.
Learn to swim, learn to dive.
There's a current and a tide and a huge, huge wave.
Ride it out, surf the wave, don't get dashed against the rocks.
Keep your balance, keep your eyes on the brightening horizon.
Go by feel. Trust what's real.
Lighten up! God, don't take yourself so seriously. You're not who you think you are? You don't know who you are? You actually think you don't know who you are. Who are you? Come on!
I see a smile. I know, you're catching on. The realization is awakening. Shhh. Yesss. Ha! ha! Yes!
You are. The One Perfect Being.
