Monday, August 19, 2024
You’ll know you’ve arrived when the condition no longer bothers you, when there isn’t anything to see on your phone, the TV, or online. You’ll know you’re arrived when you realize not only that you can’t change it, but that you don’t want to.
You haven’t gotten there if you have to reach out and grab it, know about it, have it, fix it, or change it. You haven’t gotten there if something is wrong, if you’re bothered, or that you need to get to someplace called “there.” If it becomes a means, you haven’t arrived.
It’s not until you realize that you’re already here, you have it, and there is no need. It’s a relief to intimately befriend reality. The outer condition is not the reason for the inner joy and/or suffering. How do you know you’re here? You’ll prefer silence, non-doing, and basking in the center of the storm that sweeps everyone else away.
When you allow things to be as they are, you’ve arrived. When you befriend things as they are, you’ve met the savior, the Reality of God, the one who needs not and wants not. God said “Let there be light.” God’s first word was LET, as if light were already there. Allowing is all there is, and God allowed light, pretending that it wasn’t there to begin with, I suppose.
Let open the blinds. When ignorance decays, there will be no more suffering, and all that you are and need is here, now. You might forget sometimes and it will sting. Sometimes there are cloudy days. Should clouds be a reason to suffer? Only if you think it “should be” sunny on a cloudy day. You’ve arrived when you have a preference for how it is now, just as it is – no change necessary. When it’s all fine and good – without you having to meddle in it – congrats, you’ve arrived.