You have never made a mistake-this tightly held belief that something could have been anything other than what occurred or somehow there should have been something other than that which happened. If that is your story and your sticking to it then you must be willing to also dismiss all experiences - the mistake when your baby emerged bloodied thru your body and then rested on your chest and oh how you were baffled by the delicious smell of his new scalp, or perhaps it was a mistake the first time a lover gently laid their fingers on your arm and you felt as though those fingers had warmly wrapped their way around every single inch of skin on your body and you finally understood what fingers were for. Perhaps it was a mistake when you felt such overwhelming joy and were surprised by the way tears sprang forth and streamed out of your eyes -reminding you that tears can flow from two directions. Claiming that something was or is a mistake is like grabbing presence by its lapels and shaking it as though it would surrender to your desperate need to co-create a reality that continues to imprison you. And what is it that you are REALLY saying when you claim a mistake has occurred. You are actually asking to be absolved of the Truth of it all. That is why it is perceived as a mistake. You say Truth has evaded you-resisted your humble pleas- your prayers have not been answered. But listen carefully at the end of your begging for grace to pull back the curtain- for you may hear a faint and barely audible but-- often expressed as a: if only or along with perhaps a with the exception/exclusion of .... Voila! Here lay exposed the tethers intricately weaved with caveats. The ones you believe are the inconsequential or altruistic holy demands that are secretly hidden away, as though Grace is not privy to these inner secret demands. I want Truth you say, but are you willing to witness that what you want are your individual ideas of truth, one that fits neatly into a belief system that coddles you within its iron bars. A truth that claims one experience as a mistake and another a blessing - inherent in this system is a basic denial of what is! There are no mistakes. Until you behold every single experience, whether it created festering wounds by your own perpetration or others toward you - or the moments where you believed that if only you had said something .... not said something........taken action..... been passive......embraced.....punched ...loved......hated......listened.....ignored..... walked away .... stayed..... endured.......surrendered......you are miss-taking that there has been anything but Truth. It has all brought you into precisely this moment-exactly without exception this perfect moment. And the ideas you hold of perfection- those too are merely being filtered thru the same mechanism that has generated the ideology of mistakes. The concept of a mistake assumes that there should or could have been something different is like you forgetting who you are---your forgetting who you are does not change who you truly are! What Is-is impermeable to concepts such as mistakes and the Truth of who you are is immune to forgetting. It has all been and is always been about waking up. It has all brought you here. There are no mistakes. No exceptions. Each moment is and has always been an opportunity to wake you up - the door has opened again and again and again......is opening again and again and again ...and to assume that there has been even one mistake is to spit in the face of the Divine.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:27:00 +0000