It is the responsibility of every human to awaken to the magnificence and splendor of their eternal, wholesome selves. As pointed out earlier, reality or life has been created for us, and reality will constantly push us into intense situations that trigger us to awaken to the TRUTH OF WHO WE ARE.
We see examples of this sometimes where excellence happens in extreme situations – where ordinary people perform extraordinary acts when they find themselves in unusual life threatening situations. Such as a person who saves a child from the clutches of a wild river and finds that it was the first time he ever attempted to swim, the extraordinary acts of people who run fearlessly into a burning building to save a loved one, and so forth. Apparently, reality made these people to suddenly let go of their fear-beliefs. They opened to the wholesomeness of who they truly are and thereby performed these extraordinary feats.
There is an ancient practice in Tibet where a lama who is seeking enlightenment is made to run fast on the jagged edges of the mountain without stopping even if he is tired. At the most extreme point, the mind lets go and the Spirit takes over and the lama experiences his wholesome self. Even athletes who run marathons experience this grand moment of letting go and allowing their spirit to take over at the moment their body and mind can no longer go on. They enjoy the experience of this spiritual expansiveness so much that they want to run again and again, and they are unable to explain what happened.
These examples show that humans are not small, helpless, or limited in anyway. The only problem is that we fall asleep to our magnificence. We create stories and movies of imaginary superheroes and admire them, and we forget to recognize the greatness within ourselves.
~Excerpt from "Twelve steps to Inner Peace"
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We see examples of this sometimes where excellence happens in extreme situations – where ordinary people perform extraordinary acts when they find themselves in unusual life threatening situations. Such as a person who saves a child from the clutches of a wild river and finds that it was the first time he ever attempted to swim, the extraordinary acts of people who run fearlessly into a burning building to save a loved one, and so forth. Apparently, reality made these people to suddenly let go of their fear-beliefs. They opened to the wholesomeness of who they truly are and thereby performed these extraordinary feats.
There is an ancient practice in Tibet where a lama who is seeking enlightenment is made to run fast on the jagged edges of the mountain without stopping even if he is tired. At the most extreme point, the mind lets go and the Spirit takes over and the lama experiences his wholesome self. Even athletes who run marathons experience this grand moment of letting go and allowing their spirit to take over at the moment their body and mind can no longer go on. They enjoy the experience of this spiritual expansiveness so much that they want to run again and again, and they are unable to explain what happened.
These examples show that humans are not small, helpless, or limited in anyway. The only problem is that we fall asleep to our magnificence. We create stories and movies of imaginary superheroes and admire them, and we forget to recognize the greatness within ourselves.
~Excerpt from "Twelve steps to Inner Peace"
http://amzn.to/X0XIzM
2 comments:
Thankue for sharing. I love it. is it one of the twelve steps?
You are welcome my friend. Yes, it is an excerpt from "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace"
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