Happiness.org The Art of Unmanifesting - Arjun Ardagh One of the turning points of my life happened more than 20 years ago, when I went to sit with an almost unknown spiritual teacher and writer. There were just a few people gathered together meeting with her. This was the late 80’s, when “manifesting” was the latest greatest thing. So somebody asked the question, “Do you think that we create our own reality?” There was a pregnant silence. Finally, this wise woman answered. “Yes,” She said. “But I also think this is a disease which is curable.” Stunned silence. Her answer reminded me at the time of one of my favorite poems by Sosan, the third Zen Patriarch: “Like a fish in the water, crying out “I’m thirsty,” Like the son of a rich man wandering begging door-to-door…” Most of us live in various states of semi-discontent. Not enough love, so we try to figure out how to look more beautiful, smell more beautiful, act more beautiful, to attract the right kind of love into our lives. Most of us feel that we don’t have enough money, enough stuff, so we try to learn the habits of success, hang with the right crowd, discover the magic formula, so we can attract more for Me. And most of us feel, in some way, that we suffer from a feeling of powerlessness: insufficient control over our lives. So we learn how to boost our self-esteem, make the right decisions, win friends and influence people, so we can have more power. Unfortunately, the endless race towards more of everything for Me allows little opportunity to stop, pull over by the side of the road, and ask ourselves, “Well, honestly, how’s it all working out?” There is another possible way of living this life, which is exactly the opposite. Instead of manifesting more, we learn to recognize the ways we were already creating stuff, and how to relax that peskylittle habit. Instead of using the law of attraction to try to magnetize the right stuff to Me, we learn to relax more deeply into the essence of that Me and discover what we’ve already got, and who we already are. We learn the practice of unconditional gratitude. Instead of setting intentions for how to clarify and implement My agenda, we learn instead to recognize that there’s a bigger plan than was concocted in the little mind of Me. We learn how to align ourselves with that bigger plan, how to surrender to it, to be available to it. - An excerpt from arjunaardagh/
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:24:32 +0000
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