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I would like to share some guidance
I received in response to my morning
prayer and meditation session.
I was instructed to read the meditation
guidance below aloud until I fully believed
it and incorporated it into my life. Now, as I
read it aloud I can still hear my ego exclaim -
"how could this be true - what about all
those things we need, what about this,
what about that ....?"
As I attempted to calm my ego I realize this
simple statement strikes truly at the heart
of enlightenment. If my enlightenment, my
heaven on earth requires this or that, it is
not true enlightenment - just the ego's
co-opting of the concept.
As I was struggling with this concept, I
read the following passage from Thich
Nhat Hanh, summing up again this
basic truth.
This spot where you sit is your own spot.
It is on this very spot and in this very
moment that you can become enlightened.
You don't have to sit beneath a special tree
in a distant land.
Enlightenment is truly available at any
moment, here, now, on this spot where God
and grace exists. This I feel is a basic spiritual
truth, which I understand and accept logically,
I just need to get my ego to cooperate.
Read the statement below out loud and see
what this or that your ego may be requiring,
before allowing you to attain enlightenment.
RIGHT AND PERFECT NOW
My life is right and perfect now – no need for
alteration, rearrangement, or reconfiguration.
My life now is a blossom of intention, glorious
in its beauty, magnificent, lush, and fully
capable of offering all the happiness, all the
joy, all the peace, and love, I could ever desire.
Let me put an end to my striving and flourish
instead within the garden I now am blessed
to inhabit. Let me lift the vale of the ego’s
future living, open my eyes and heart and
mind to this very moment, this very now
where God and grace wait for my awakening.
Let me be fully alive in this moment now,
yearning only to touch its heaven on earth.
NOE BY G. 1.11.2013 9:05 AM
WITH LOVE, G.