Stand at Zero
All the while a silent laughter sings, like wind through an open window saying: be deeper still, stand at Zero ~Rumi
W
ithin each human being lie reservoirs of limitless peace, profound connection to the
whole of life and a love that can fill our heart. Yet the common human tendency is to expend great energy seeking for fulfill- ment in external things, in trying to control life to manifest our desires and keep away our fears. These twin dynamics of the ego mind – chasing after something we believe will fulfill us, and resisting that which we believe would threaten us—turn our life into a frustrating search, with pilgrimages to false gods that seduce us with strategies of how to get what we believe we lack. It is exhausting and ultimately unsuccessful.
At some point we need to just stop. Then we can see that what we have been chas- ing after has been here all the time, and what we have been resisting does not even exist. Then there is freedom, and usually gentle laughter. We can be our essential self, relaxed and at home in our own skin. So much of western culture from our
advertising to our education systems pro- motes this trance of external seeking and attempts to control the flow of life. Along the way we become lost to our own es- sence, lost to the natural innocence of the heart. We forget what it is to simply be ourselves. We begin to feel more sepa- rated from others, and we grow hardened,
defensive and more self-oriented. Without even being aware of it, we slip into living life as if it were a rehearsal for the real thing – some kind of half-hearted perfor- mance. A mysterious sadness pervades us although we cannot easily name it let alone find our way out. This us our un- necessary suffering. It is both personal and collective. There is no one alive who has not bought the idea that happiness, freedom, fulfillment, peace can be achieved through the right circumstances: whether that for us is centered around the right relation- ship, achievements, power, knowledge, money or possessions. We even subtly
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