by RON RATTNER
NOV, 28, 2011
"In the end these supplies sum most:How well did you love?How fully did you love?How roughly did you learn to let go?"~ The Buddha
The significance of spiritual "send" is encapsulated in the maxims:
"Let go, and let God"; "Go with the Option"; and "Not my forward motion,
but Thy forward motion be done".
Apiece Eastern and Western pastoral and spiritual experience
stress the stage of allowing the inexplicably large power
of Person, the Tao, or the Promise to guide our lives;
of honestly compromise to Spirit, and allowing it to live us as it may.
To the lead compromise, we may egoically point toward ourselves area from other beings and life-forms, and that we are in greatest trip of our lives.
But, as we more and more catch that we are inextricably part of Person,
not area from it, and that Person Knows best and is in trip, we better-quality and better-quality allow Person, not ego, to guide us.
Consign is an inner process; an intuitional angle rationally than an away from act,
arising more and more as we crowd-puller at an angle look forward to and look forward to in Nature's essence perfection.
And as our look forward to in Person grows, ego goes.
We more and more lose the ego heaven of separateness from Person,
and ever better-quality send to Spirit.
And seeing that we become spring surrendered to the branch of life -
the branch of station - ego disappears:
Decisive that our true nature is Nature;