SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What does being nothing mean to you? How is being nothing different from doing nothing? Can you share a personal story that illustrates being nothing?
This is beautiful, so true, and I wish I had not lost that state after having it for 18 years but with this method I intend to try to get it back. Thank you so much. Love
Open mindedness is one of the ways of looking at myself to realize my true nature, by facing my egoic mind mindfully and gradually freeing myself from myself. It is like cleansing the mirror of my consciousness to regain my child like eyes. This process has taken quite a bit of time for me for working on myself and I know I have not yet arrived. To me this type of journey itself is the destination. I am hastening slowly, patiently and compassionately. The proof of this way of working lies in tasting it. Different players have different drums. This drum feels right for me.
Jagdish P Dave
A native, genuine gentleness is a very, very rare thing in a person. Most of us tend to be judgmental and opinionated and it takes a good deal of attention to our prejudices and a good deal of questioning to get to be a kinder person. And even so, it sometimes seems impossible to change our native character for the best. It is easier to change one's perspectives, one's world views, easier to sit alone with oneself in relative silence than it is to change one's own 'damned' irritability in the face of circumstances, people, etc. So the abrupt question of a gentle person sitting in a waiting room can be very pertinent: who is he/she that is so irritable if not the observer that so persistently thinks himself different from that which he/she observes? Who reacts with irritation? Who thinks things should be different?
Just yesterday i went to a meeting of three colleagues, one gentle and two very dominant in the conversation. Usually I struggle with how to combat their forceful natures and find myself becoming strident or controlling (and later, exhausted), but instead yesterday I decided to simply let the sparring and rising clamour wash over me, to sit back and see what I could learn. I am still struggling with how to find my authentic place in these kinds of seemingly overpowering exchanges, but what I did see yesterday is that at least when I am open and ready to learn, I can begin to observe myself to change for the better from an authentic, and surrendered place. This piece helped to affirm that I was on the right track, rather than that I had failed to 'win' as my ego was telling me. Thank you.
Heaven is indeed now the moment of surrendering knowing for nothing....again, and again, and over again....
Finally the 'good' doctor walked briskly into the waiting room and from the air of commiseration and undisguised contempt with which he greeted his patients I fully understood how the lady felt and how disquieting it was to be unassuming and defenseless in the midst of a crowd of somebodies.
The gentlest thing in the world is an open mind . . . Love this! Just to think about it, makes me want to dive into it! The gentlest person I know is Jesus. Just to think about Him, makes me want to be near Him.
Is there anyone more flexible, more porous, without opposition, without defense? Nothing (no one) has power over Him. No thing can resist Him (however, people have free will to resist).
Jesus, in His great love, openness and universality, (for me) is NOTHING short of irresistible!
When I cut my connection to Jesus (and His open heart and mind), I am nothing.
When my "lines are open" to Heaven (and Who dwell there), I am something.
He rose from the dead . . . That we may, too. He ascended to Heaven . . . That we may follow!
Always, Blessings and Love to you!
zero + Jesus = Jesus (proving mathematically, with Him, we are something!)