#IAMtheBuddhaIWishtoSeeintheWorld Trust me, it trips me up too, I am hearing you, naysayers, or maybe I am projecting my own naysaying onto you... Either way... Who am I to be the Buddha, right? That couldnt possibly be it. I mean, I can see how somewhere within you, YOU are the Buddha, but me? So, part of this, for me, is about overcoming a posture of lack, a posture that looks like this: At this point in my journey, Im just not the Buddha cause Im just not there yet, cause Ive done so much damage that I still need to make up for or and there is just so much healing still to do. Can you see it? There is a pure layer of being right here with me but I have just put that idea between myself & It. Can you see how it is that layer of mind itself that is actually standing in the way of being the Buddha I want to see in the world? Another part of this, for me, is taking on other peoples baggage. And I am writing this for three reasons: 1- to share my humanness and be transparent about the behavior 2- cause I just got that intuitive feeling about writing this out on here 3- in case YOU might be someone who also falls into this same trap... I sometimes assume that other people are right and I take on all of the assumptions and false limitations that come along with making this agreement: Oh, they must be right. I have taken this wrong-belief into so many places with me... Into successful businesses: Oh, you are successful, you must be right. Into protests: Yeah, there is still injustice so, you must be right. Into dhamma talks: Oh yeah, theres actually a really big picture here, you must be right. Conversations on the street: But then, you know, youve really Lived so, you might be right. Conversations in the bedroom: Mmm. But you see me more intimately than anyone else, YOU MUST be right. :-) Cool thing, though, the contradictory nature of the behavior will leave it unraveling itself, if we let it. I was riding in the train very recently and reflecting on all of these agreements other people had made about who I was and realizing that I had been accepting them. But as I continued to reflect they all started canceling one another out. In one group an agreement will be made about one type of person while in another group the polar opposite agreement will be made. All of us, at some point, agreeing and disagreeing about which is good, which is bad, and reinforcing one anothers limits. Well, as I was reflecting on the train everything eventually just neutralized itself and I realized that even though I had been thinking on some level that I was taking on other peoples agreements as a way to reflect and review my own behaviors, I wasnt putting them back down. I just kept carrying them around in a sack and letting my movement be limited by them. When I put them down, I realized that these ideas I was reflecting and reviewing myself against were just that: Ideas. They werent real. And what was real? Underneath them I was already the Buddha. Nothing to more to do, nothing to say, everything to take it, everything to release. In-Love with All. Soundtrack to this Experience: Listening to this song: https://youtube/watch?v=l1gni8wYwGU Mantras from this Experience: I AM the Buddha I wish to see in the world. I AM purity, itself, I AM Truth & Love & I happen to be in a body right now.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 03:29:33 +0000
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