Thursday, January 25, 2024
Tests are passable, but you don’t pass through with brute force. You meld, you let go, and accept with docility, wonder, and malleability. Ancient wisdom is full of childlikeness. The Tao states, “He who is in harmony with the Tao is like a newborn child.” In Matthew, Jesus says “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
A child submits to its powerlessness. It “knows” itself as a being, unified in wholeness. It’s enraptured in the moment, with the moment, and as the moment. Babies have no logic, operating on gut level intuition and blind trust. Babies know who they are, fundamentally, not conceptually. They live as themselves, as the pure, innocent consciousness that looks out from behind the eyes of every living creature.
You were never more honestly yourself than when you were a credulous, innocent child. You were one with time and space, and you had no idea what it meant to be a so-called grown up. Had you known what being a grown up was going to be like, you probably would have opted to remain carefree and playful.
When faced with big challenge, accept and submit to what is. Your defense is suppleness not rigidity and defensiveness. All you need is childlikeness because that’s all you really are. Control is illusory. It’s all happening and you’re watching. Ultimately you cannot win. Reality is the ultimate victor. Once it speaks, it waits for you to align.
When faced with an insurmountable obstacle, don’t gird up your loins and try to surmount like a foolish, charging bull. Become like a child, subdue your temperament, morph into vapor, melt into the suppleness of what is, and you’ll find the way to pass. Nothing is impassable to those who are malleable, humble, accepting, and childlike.