Readiness Required
Otherwise, Hush
There is nothing you can do to wake someone up.
No matter how much you wish they would snap out of whatever particular programming or belief systems they have, you can’t fix that. It’s not that “you can’t fix stupid,” either. You know they’re not stupid; they’re just not ready for what you’re offering.
What can you do about that — besides nothing, that is? The best thing we can do is be true to the self, the Self. We can be more Heart-centric, less head-centric, which helps. How does it help? When we in the mind, we believe in the importance, the rightness of what we’ve got to share. We may tend to force it on those around us, which isn’t appreciated.
When we’re Heart-centric, we just know when to speak &, more importantly, when to stay silent. It’s more like the speaking does us, we don’t do it. The outcome is always better that way, too; another hint.
Not that we’re “wrong” to share what we’re thinking. When we do, it’s always — yes always — a teaching situation, only we’re also the one being taught.
Life is highly instructive. Not to beat a dead horse, but “Life happens for you, not to you” [1] is some critically important stuff to integrate into our awareness. Everything, but everything happens for our blessing, our benefit; no exceptions. That may be a major brain-pretzel, but it makes for a much better, more pleasant life. [2]
Life isn’t so much in what happens to us, in what we manage to acquire or do, but in how we handle all of that. How do we process or master it? Does it go to our head, increasing our sense of arrogance? If we’re honest, for most it does; but it doesn’t have to.
That stops when we begin to see it — when the readiness is present in us.
The only way to know the difference between the mind-centric vs the Heart-centric life is to explore it for yourself. Someone can tell us all day long about the excitement of riding the rapids in a canoe, but there’s no substitute for the first-hand experience. The rest is just talk.
As we go through our “education” (indoctrination or programming), we take in mountains of talk while gaining precious little experience. As we add to our degrees, we tend to rely a good bit on what we’ve learned. We go down many a deep rabbit hole along the way. Some never fully emerge from their underground explorations.
We’re full of $hit, dear ones.
Who is brave enough, independent-from-the-herd enough to admit it? So many of us have become arrogant in the extreme. Some are even willing to take up bike locks, sticks, bricks, & such to attack those who simply disagree with them. Does arrogance get bigger than that?
Absent someone’s internal readiness for your message, you’re going nowhere trying to convince them. You may even be risking your relationship. Beating them up certainly doesn’t help. Is your arrogance worth it? Is your “rightness” so supreme over their “wrongness” that you’re willing to embrace violence?
Can we not just let one another be?
How hard is it to go our own way, to pay attention to our own life while respecting others enough to let them lead their own life their way? Perhaps a bit of grounding in The Golden Rule would do us all good. After all, what goes around does eventually come around, so treating others with respect is but one step removed from treating ourselves with respect.
Namaste
~♥~
2:09 p.m., Saturday, 2019/08/24 — Mayan day 10 Earth / Caban
[1] Quote by Byron Katie
[2] The challenges will still come, but they won’t affect us the same way. We’ll work more cooperatively with them rather than resisting them as we do, now, greatly improving the flow.
