Posts Tagged ‘Acceptance’
There seems to no longer be a sense of separateness or oneness. There is no thing that could be separate or one. It is all just That. No labeling, no comparison, no judgment, no nothing. Just pure existence itself.
Oneness and Separateness are not two. They’re not even one. They are both That. Enlightenment is Unenlightenment. Separateness and Oneness coexist simultaneously as really the same thing, yet totally not.
Heaven is Hell. Heaven is not Hell. All is valid for All Is That. That Is All. All That Is is That.
You are That. I am That. This moment is That. You want the Truth? This is it. This moment. This is That. Since God is omnipresent, what people call God is simply another word for All That Is. All That Is is That. It Is All That.
How can you not see the Truth when it is all That? It’s as clear as seeing what’s right in front of you, without labeling it as this as opposed to that.
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
-Adyashanti
The search for God seems silly when everything is God. Every idea, every object, every person, every non-thing. Nothing is God. Everything is God. There’s no duality between the two.
Truth vs. Falsehood
People want to say that this is true and that is false. This is “The Truth” while that is not. Let’s seek out “The Truth!” and with this, the philosophical debates and spiritual journey can begin.
Commenter Ismaelia recently asked an awesome question about the Tony Robbins relationship videos. Basically the question was whether or not we’re supposed to drop all our stories to get to enlightenment.
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Want a more enjoyable, happy, and easy-going life? Begin applying these ten principles to the zen of attraction and watch your life transform! Here is a list ‘o ideas I found online. 
Promise Nothing
Just do what you most enjoy doing.
Hidden benefit: You will always over-deliver.
Offer Nothing
Just share what you have with those who express an interest in it.
Hidden benefit: Takes the pressure off of wanting other people to see you as valuable or important.
Expect Nothing
Just enjoy what you already have. It’s plenty.
Hidden benefit: You will realize how complete your life is already.
Need Nothing
Just build up your reserves and your needs will disappear.
Hidden benefit: You boundaries will be extended and filled with space.
Create Nothing
Just respond well to what comes to you.
Hidden benefit: Openness.
Hype Nothing
Just let quality sell by itself.
Hidden benefit: Trustability.
Plan Nothing
Just take the path of least resistance.
Hidden benefit: Achievement will become effortless.
Learn Nothing
Just let your body absorb it all on your behalf.
Hidden benefit: You will become more receptive to what you need to know in the moment.
Become No One
Just be more of yourself.
Hidden benefit: Authenticity.
Change Nothing
Just tell the truth and things will change by themselves.
Hidden benefit: Acceptance.
(Thank you, Alex, for posting this on your facebook.)
There’s this experience that sometimes happens when a person aims for enlightenment, and I’ve seen it happen within me as well. The person sees enlightenment as the ‘goal’ and the ego as the ‘obstacle’ to overcome. It is identification with the ego that is the ‘problem’ holding them back from enlightenment and thus they may come to the conclusion that because they are identified with the illusion, they aren’t seeing the Truth of reality. They’re doing something wrong. Their perspective is distorted by the veil of the mind and they feel somehow incomplete. This can lead to feelings of guilt, resistance, and not accepting one’s current level with the knowledge that there’s something better available.
Yet the thing is that in order to go beyond the ego, you must first accept it fully as it is.
Stages
The ego is not a mistake. It’s not something to overcome anymore than childhood is an obstacle to be overcome on the way to adulthood.
Like childhood, the ego is simply a stage along the journey.
Rather than seeing the ego as a problem or challenge to overcome, see it as a stage along the journey.
Life, like all of Creation is a Process. Even when you reach enlightenment, you haven’t reached the end, believe it or not. There is ALWAYS more. Always!
You are an infinite being. There is always more to you. Check out the definition of infinity. 
Even the universe itself is constantly expanding and so if you were to suddenly realize that you were the entire universe, in the next nanosecond the infinity that you were just a moment ago is now even MORE!
You’ll never get it done. You’ll never reach the end, for there is no end to infinity, not even enlightenment.
Acceptance of Now
Accept where you are without resiting where you are. Where you are right now is the exact perfect spot for you to be. How do I know this? Because that’s where you are!
There are no mistakes. If you weren’t meant to be in this exact place at this exact moment, you wouldn’t be.
With this understanding comes a lot of release and letting go of the idea that you need to rush rush rush and get somewhere other than where you are now, a relaxing into this moment of allowing things to be as they are.
And ironically enough, it is this allowing of things to be as they are in this moment which is the most powerful platform upon which you can springboard yourself to the next level!
After all, enlightenment is not about becoming something new or attaining something you don’t already have. It’s simply coming to realize who you truly are in this moment. That’s it. There’s nowhere to go.
So Love this moment. Love what is. Love everything about your life and in your experience for it is truly perfect as it is.
When people talk about growing up, taking on life’s challenges, and becoming a “bigger person,” this metaphor of being a “bigger person” has a lot of truth to it.
The phrase stems from the recognition that you have expanded. You can handle bigger problems, more energy, more love, more people, more money, more abundance, more lightness, more darkness, more LIFE.
The size of the problems you can handle in life is directly related to the size of YOU.
Spiritual and personal growth is all about validating and accepting every portion of yourself. Expansion is ultimately the process of inclusion, not exclusion.
Being Aware of Darkness, But Choosing Light
The farther you go into the light, the more aware of the darkness you’re able to become. This doesn’t mean you have to then choose darkness, but you become more aware of the choices you have on both sides and you look at them simply as choices because that’s all they are. You have the power of awareness.
Remember, this physical reality is all about choices. Just because you may become more aware of evil, “negative choices,” or “dark choices” doesn’t mean you have to actually go and experience them. In fact, the more willing you are to become more aware of them without resistance or judgment, the less you need to experience them because you are allowing them to become equally valid to any choice you could make. When they become equally valid to any choice you could make, you are then effortlessly capable of choosing what you prefer without invalidating what you don’t prefer. The inner struggle drops away. Such is the power of acceptance and self-acceptance. This is the true freedom of non-judgment. This is the essence of allowing.
It becomes a recognition that that’s simply not where you live anymore. You live in this new house now, not that old house. It doesn’t mean that your old house is a bad house. It served you well. It brought you to the place where you can now choose this house. So bless it, love it, keep it, own it, but leave it in its place. It’s a place you no longer live, but someone else may still be using that neighborhood and bless them for experiencing those things you have experienced, knowing that they are also going up the ladder in their own way, in their own time. Make it all equal and you will have equal ability to choose anything you wish. Anything at all.
Lately I’ve been using this blog for just some personal space to get things out and I’m going to do so a little more now.
I’ve been describing some internal shifts that have been occurring, mainly from a spiritual awakening context, yet there are some other interpersonal things shifting as well.
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Terrific!
I am very grateful that you are you and that you are being your own guru. You, by being yourself, are offering All That Is another perspective of itself, the experience of diversity, and the gift of variety. Oneness is enhanced, interestingly enough, through the acceptance of and celebration of diversity.
You have your own unique qualities and natural talents. I fully encourage you to develop them and be totally you, not a clone of me.
You see, I have no interest in converting anyone or convincing anyone to agree with my understandings. It is simply my intention to be myself to the fullest extent possible and share with you what I have to give, but it is ALWAYS up to you what you choose what to do with it. I honor the free will that you have and recognize that your life is yours to live and yours alone. There’s a lot of power in honoring people and allowing them to be, without resistance.
My way is not a better way. It is simply another way.
All beliefs are equally valid, since each belief generates its own self-validating reality.
-Bashar
This is not to say that some beliefs are not more in alignment with ultimate reality, love, and light. Not at all. Read More …
Today we have a guest post by Jean-Claude Gerard Koven.
Back in 1992, Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise co-starred in a movie entitled A Few Good Men. The high point of the film, in my view, was a classic, heated exchange between their characters, during which Kaffee (the military attorney played by Cruise) says: “I want the truth,” and Col. Jessup (Nicholson) responds: “You can’t handle the truth.”
The movie makes Jessup the villain. That’s not surprising in a courtroom drama that’s based on finding the truth in order to separate right from wrong. But the screenwriters could just have easily turned it all around. If Jessup were editing the script, he would have become the hero defending the American way of life. Unlike Kaffee, who could only perceive truth through the narrow perspective of precedent case law, he saw the bigger picture. In his view, the rigidity of black-and-white morality needed to be bent into shades of gray to serve the greater good.
The truth that Jessup perceived was well beyond Kaffee’s ability to handle. Kaffee’s view of truth was far too limited to contain the reality of Jessup’s world. However what neither of them could see was that “the truth” simply does not exist. There is no universal, definitive Truth (with a capital “T”). The best each of us can muster is our own version of truth, determined by the point from which we choose to view reality. And our only sin is in believing that others must join us in seeing things as we do.
There have always been those among us who, claiming to speak with the authority of God or on behalf of a totalitarian regime, have advocated their version of Truth. These people — not too different in other ways from the rest of us — became ensnared by the assumed validity of their doctrines. Despite their impressive robes or uniforms and their persuasive pronouncements, they turned out to be little more than bigoted bullies who historically have been astonishingly effective in bending our minds and wills.
Perhaps, the time has come for us to think for ourselves. But how can we when our minds are already made up? Someone has already done all the thinking for us. And we, seeking the blessings of our leaders and the safety of consensus, continually nod in agreement. Besides, we enjoy being part of our larger families and we seem to enjoy the comfort of singing from a common hymnal. Read More …
