In the West, weve done a great job of exploring the external world, but have done absolutely nothing about exploring the internal world. And if the internal self is disordered, even if you have the right facts and ideas and are doing the right things, youll still just create more disorder around you. If you arent in the right place and dont have the right awareness, then your actions will simply create more disorder. Im sure weve all met people like that, where they are saying all the right things, but you just sort of feel like something is off. So its really about changing the way we perceive the world, and the way simple ideas are missed because they are so obvious, not because they are complex. Its about going back to base one, looking internally and seeing the world as it is, which -- as simple as that statement sounds -- is an amazing challenge. I think the first step in being able to come in contact with reality is owning the ugliness within human beings. This can sound negative, but I think you have to go through the darkness to get to the light. Think of the atrocities throughout history, the things that human beings are capable of and what we have done over time. And, its our avoidance, our desire to be good, to be nice, to reject that dark part of ourselves is what keeps us from being able to see reality directly. Its taking ownership of what we are and we are capable of, and owning that darkness, that allows us to come in direct contact with reality. And, when you, there is an overwhelming feeling of intense love: its a state of being where you realize where the foundation of the world is. But, as long as we are trying to apologize and reject that dark part of ourselves, we are holding ourselves back from experiencing life as it is. So the first step coming in contact with the dark side, which allows you to see it for what it is. Then the separation from the self and the observed disappears, and contact begins, and love just flows organically as a part of that experiential process. So, in fact, the thing we avoid, the thing we say No, not that, is the very thing that we need the most. If we can have the courage just to own all of it, the darkness of being a human being and all that entails, once we own that, then all kinds of possibilities come into play. - Andrew Graves
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 02:46:06 +0000
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