Surrender is harder when trying...

Life ceases to be a struggle when we simply stop struggling. The simplicity of turning over my will and my life is often so elusive to me. It is almost as if the moment I recognize serenity, and try and attach to it intellectually, it vanishes.

How do we live in the present, moment to moment, minute to minute? At times I can do this without thinking at all, and that seems to be the key. It has been said that when we live fully in the present, we are without ego, and this is heaven, right here and right now. Its beautiful when it happens, but, like any good addict, I want it to be that way all the time! But there is no "I" in "we". And the universal flow is the only place I find that serenity.

Loving the godhead in all of you, ~K.

Swiped from another blog

My friend Kim posted this on her blog today, and I liked it so much, I copied and posted it here. Thanks Kim.

AWARENESS

For a while it seems that every awareness
brings another piece of bad news.
That's called "going farther and faring worse."
The more subtly aware we become
the more aware of subtlety we are.
As we realize that what we are seeing is our conditioning
and not who we are,
we can relax
and actually learn
to be grateful that we're seeing it.

Imagine.

Because once we know
it's not who we are,
every insight,
every awareness
frees us a bit more from
the bondage of suffering
that is egocentricity.

Keep in mind that we view egocentricity
the way we would view
a two-or-three-year-old child.
Is it bad?
Is it evil?
No, it is simply a single-pointed focus
on getting its needs met all the time.
The problem is that it is interfering with our lives.

We develop the same relationship with egocentricity
that we would with a child:
we love it,
value it,
appreciate it,
and take care of it.
We do not let it
make our decisions,
control our moods,
sign checks,
use credit cards,
drive the car....

From Nothing Happens Next: Responses To Questions About Meditation by Cheri Huber.

Posted by Kimberlie Kranich at 1:37 PM