Monday, July 17, 2006
What Do You Really Want?
The Kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 6:33 - "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
"Oswald Chambers said, "Immediately we look at these words of Jesus, we find them the most revolutionary statement human ears ever listened to. 'Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven.' We argue in exactly the opposite way, even the most spiritually-minded of us -- 'But I MUST live; I MUST make so much money; I MUST be clothed; I MUST be fed.' Jesus reverses the order: Get rightly related to God first, maintain that as the great care of your life, and never put the concern of your care on the other things."
Of course today's post is of no coincidence (following my previous post: Conflicting Wishes.) One of my students, (who are often my greatest teachers just as much as the "Yoga Masters" and "Gurus" I've studied with) recently gave me a video ipod cast of a gentleman by the name of Adyashanti. (You can listen to some of his teachings online by clicking on his name.) Consumed with the questions, "Which way should I go?", "What should I do?", "What do I want?",swirling around in my head, when I listened to the teachings of Adyashanti, the cloudiness that had settled upon my mind began to see the light of the Self shining through clearly again.
Adyashanti speaks of seeking the Truth, first. Perhaps, somewhere in our Being, we all have an awareness that this is what we are ultimately looking for or seeking. However, the practice, is to live in this awareness, moment to moment, breath to breath. How often do we allow ourselves to become preocuppied with all of our external affairs and to become disconnected from the Truth and from knowing the Truth? As I sat and listened to his talk, I began to see how much I had been focusing on the frivolous affairs of my life.
"All we have to look at is what's really important, what we really want. It helps to clear away all this clutter of this egoic trance. It's literally a trance. But, what am I? What's actually important? And, that's a Grace, when the desire for what is True, for the Truth of our Being, is actually the most important thing, and stays the most important thing. Sustains itself. And, it's amazing when that starts to happen in a human being, only when that desire for Truth sustains itself, and when we realize the Truth of our Being to be the One, when our love of that sustains itself... It wasn't just "Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and then forget about it." But, when it sustains itself, then that's freedom. Then, myseriously, the rest, all else is added unto you. It means when you are really awake in the Truth, you find you just start to fall into this flow. You are actually flowing with the movement of life itself. Mysteriously, things open up that need to open up, things happen that are perfect to happen. Life has a way of taking care of itself. This is an amazing thing to actually realize in yourself. When life is not dominated by this impulse to sustain itself. When it's finally free of the impulse to sustain itself, free from that, then actually life sustains itself even without that impulse. Ego's think I must strive to survive, I must strive to get what I want, I must, I must, I must, I must...that's the trance. That's the asleepness. When it's finally let go of, things work. Life takes care of itself."- AdyashantiRead more
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"I HAVE SUCH A TEACHER " from:RUMI
" Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.
I am a naked man standing inside a mine of rubies, clothed in red silk.
I absorb the shining and now I see the ocean.
Billions of simultaneous motions moving in me.
A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.
Then the wind and thunder of rain on the way .
I have such a teacher."
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" Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.
I am a naked man standing inside a mine of rubies, clothed in red silk.
I absorb the shining and now I see the ocean.
Billions of simultaneous motions moving in me.
A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.
Then the wind and thunder of rain on the way .
I have such a teacher."
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