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Finding the gift in every situation
EVEN THOSE OF US WHO HAVE BEEN PRACTISING MEDITATION, YOGA, AND OTHER MIND/BODY TECHNIQUES AND WHO ESPOUSE PEACE-GENERATING PHILOSOPHIES OFTEN STRUGGLE TO FIND AN EXPLANATION FOR SUFFERING. HERE’S A PARADIGM THAT NOT ONLY EXPLAINS OUR SUFFERING BUT TEACHES HOW WE MIGHT PARTICIPATE IN A RADICAL NEW VERSION OF REALITY AND IDENTITY.
BY ANDREA MATHEWS M
profound gift? What if the more difficult the challenge, the more profound is the gift? Well, that’s all well and good, we might say, but how can that be? It can be if we align our thinking with
ost of us spend at least half of life’s energy trying to stay on top of life, so that the bad stuff doesn’t happen to us. We want to
pick the ‘right’ partner, to land the ‘right’ job, pick the ‘right’ avenues of effort, and raise kids who are ‘good’ and ‘productive’ citizens of the world. And when, in spite of our best efforts, bad things happen anyway, we either rail at the Universe, God or gods for allowing it; question ourselves as to what we did to ‘attract’ this ‘bad’ thing; or we muddle through slowly gaining some modicum of acceptance or at least tolerance. Most of us do all of the above at some point. And so it is that most of the other half of our energy goes to learning how to cope with what we couldn’t avoid. We say that we need to learn to accept and
let go and surrender, but these are terms with which most of us struggle; though we do try,
don’t we? These valiant efforts do offer some relief and so we keep trying. But it seems that there must be an easier or at least more fulfilling way to go about the business of accepting life on life’s terms. So, what if there is? What if a change in perspective could get us to acceptance and to peace faster and in a more enduring fashion and would actually gracefully offer surrender or letting go? Would you do it? And what if such a change would mean an entire shift in consciousness, a complete revision of the way we see life, and a total transformation of identity—radically altering the entire definition of self? Would you still want to do it? Well let’s give it a go. What if the following were really true? There’s a gift in everything, every event,
every circumstance, every encounter, every limitation, trauma, difficulty, challenge and loss. What if even the worst case scenarios we can imagine bring us a
the real truth of what is going on here. You see, we’ve put all of life into two separate and distinct categories: good and bad (or evil). The reason we have done that is because at the beginning of our journey here we all incorporated into the body/mind a literal trance state, in which we came to see ourselves as separate from the Divine. That separation, we imagine, makes us small, limited and bad, while the Divine— in whatever form we imagine it—is large, unlimited and good. Worse than that, it is all our fault that we are in this predicament. And worse yet than that, we spend our lives trying to prove this very paradigm true. For example, we point out to ourselves all of the things that are bad or even downright evil, and we say that because we can see these things, that makes them so. And because we see it out there in the external world, we are just as certain that it is within us as well.
We utterly believe this paradigm of life— regardless of religion or persuasion—and so it is that we spend half of our energy trying to avoid difficulties and most of the other half trying to cope with what we couldn’t avoid—with very little room between the two for really experiencing the wonder of life. But what if we only agreed to be put
into that duality trance state because we were in a co-creative effort with the Divine to bring form into full awareness of its essential divine nature? You see, in every creative endeavour, whether it’s painting a picture or building a house, there is a constant questioning and answering going on. If I use this colour, what will that mean to this portion and to that whole? If I build the room this way, what will happen to the balance? One of the questions that was raised during the original creative process, in which form was coming into being, was this: Can form be separate from its creator? Of course, the answer is that form and
its creator are One and there can be no separation in Oneness. But just like when
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