Within the context of living a long and happy life full of people and diversions, being stuck in a jail cell or a wheel chair or a hospital bed or an unresponsive body might seem like the very definition of hell, but thats a factor of the context, not the circumstances. Do I mean to say that terminal illness and physical disability and institutional incarceration are just minor nuisances? I mean *exactly* that. Within the context of growth, progress, development, motion, realization -- liberation -- the tables are turned and the physically constrained might actually enjoy a considerable advantage over the freely mobile. Focus, intent, vision, will, heart, clarity, maturity, seriousness, warrior spirit, thats whats needed, not the ability to run out to the market when we want a snack. We may not be able to change our circumstances, but we can change our context. A prison cell can be a zendo. From a wheelchair we can fight a war. If we are physically restricted there may be many things we *cant* do, but if we still possess the sword of mind and the heart of will, there is still one thing we *can* do, and within the context of this book, of these three books(1), its the only thing *worth* doing. The *only* thing. This isnt physical warfare, its *spiritual* warfare, and to fight it you need spirit, not arms and legs or a rosy future or wide open spaces. I cant pretend to understand the plight of someone who is addicted to crack, or sentenced to life imprisonment, or confined to a hospice or an asylum or a wheelchair, but I can, with certainty and conviction, say this: In my own process, my own struggle and journey of awakening, of dying to the false and being born to the true, no physical encumbrance would have been any match for my will, and may, if anything, have proven quite advantageous. The very idea that my physical circumstances would have prevented my awakening, so long as my mental and emotional resources were reasonably intact, is, to my certain knowledge, absurd. Spiritual Warfare Jed McKenna . . . . . (1) Jed McKennas Enlightenment Trilogy Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Spiritual Warfare
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:49:16 +0000
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