Letting It All Just Be
Exactly As It Is
When we think about this idea of letting everything just be exactly as it already is, mind thinks that sounds like laziness. To our minds, the idea seems to go along with having given up on trying to change things and make things better. This is kind of a backwards version of the truth of the matter. When we accept things as they are, exactly as they are both internally and externally, we are stopping the constant manipulation of life which mind endlessly carries on. We stop entertaining the idea that we know how life should be, and the related idea that therefore what we are getting isn't right somehow, and needs our alterations to become right. Accepting life as it is, in this moment, is just a matter of seeing through our web of ideas about life enough to realize that we really can't know what is the right thing for each moment. Our minds are really good for a lot of things, but in this, they are too limited, and can't really see the big picture enough to be any good at all at deciding what life should be, let alone then knowing how to proceed to fix it. It's really pretty laughable when you notice how mind has actually seriously tried to play this role of fixer-upper of life. It gets top marks for trying! But it is not possible for it to ever be successful at it. Life is such a web of interconnected happenings! How do we know that what seems like bad thing happening today, isn't actually a blessing in disguise. We don't know, and from that fact comes the freedom to step beyond where mind would hold us firmly entrenched in our history and our stories, into a world of broad possibilities through our openness to what is already here in our unique experience of life. Does everyone know the following story? I don't know who to credit it to. I received it in an email. Once upon a time, there was a farmer in the central region of
China. He didn't have a lot of money and, instead of a tractor,
he used an old horse to plow his field. One afternoon, while working in the field, the horse dropped
dead. Everyone in the village said, "Oh, what a horrible thing
to happen." The farmer said simply, "We'll see." He was so at
peace and so calm, that everyone in the village got together
and, admiring his attitude, gave him a new horse as a gift. Everyone's reaction now was, "What a lucky man." And the farmer
said, "We'll see." A couple days later, the new horse jumped a fence and ran away.
Everyone in the village shook their heads and said, "What a
poor fellow!" The farmer smiled and said, "We'll see." Eventually, the horse found his way home, and everyone again
said, "What a fortunate man." The farmer said, "We'll see." Later in the year, the farmer's young boy went out riding on
the horse and fell and broke his leg. Everyone in the village
said, "What a shame for the poor boy." The farmer said, "We'll see." Two days later, the army came into the village to draft new
recruits. When they saw that the farmer's son had a broken leg,
they decided not to recruit him. Everyone said, "What a fortunate young man." The farmer smiled again - and said "We'll see."
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New and Upcoming:
"Life Beyond Belief" and
"Wide Awake Mentoring"
Over the past months, a exciting book has been emerging and is now to the point where it feels appropriate to announce it's existence. It is mostly written, though still in manuscript form, and is called "Life Beyond Belief: Wide Awake Living in the Midst of Everything". This will be the first actual book for Alice, and there is a lot to learn about what to do with it once it is written, but hopefully we will have it available on the Wide Awake Living website before too many more months have passed, for you to enjoy. Also, a new way of being with people has been emerging at the same time called "Wide Awake Mentoring" and will soon be available from the Wide Awake Living website. Even though "mentoring" sounds like one person giving something to another, it will not be based on such roles but based on the simple act of creating space in the midst of busy lives for awakeness to be present.
Such a "mentor" supports spiritually oriented people to stabilize and deepen the realization of who they really are, through ongoing contact over the telephone. The mentoring will be a setting aside of space in the midst of busy lives within which all are held as the awake beings that they truly already are. Within that space is the opportunity to become comfortable with your own awakeness, to practice inhabiting the awakened viewpoint and to then take it into the fullness of daily life and relationship. Most people know intellectually that they are not just that bundle of ideas about themselves that generally passes as identity. But very often they need human support to actually bring that into their everday experience, and begin to know the bliss and peace of their True Nature in the midst of absolutely everything.
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