Self-Revealization Acceptance®

An ancient Zen adage suggests the manner in which to become one with something. It goes like this. If you try something, but are not sure it is for you, try it again, but this time with more fervor. If it still doesn’t work, try it again, and so on, until you come to understand your relationship to it and its relationship to you. This kind of “do it again” thinking, especially if it is not understood in context with your reality, is that you may be eating mud, but might in time come to enjoy it. Your motives for doing anything, therefore, must be understood. Why anyone would want to do something unpleasant in the first place does not make much sense, unless eating mud is essential to your well being. Prefer to do something that offers you pleasure from the outset. And if you have difficulty with it, but intuitively feel it is good, then proceed to become one with it. If it is not working out, then drop it. Regardless, you must have passion.

Passion! How many situations, now or in the past, have you found unsatisfying? Which ones did you force yourself to get used to, even though you did not like them? Was it something you immediately rejected and then found that you had to satisfy the needs of someone else? What were your reasons for rejection? Did you do anything about it, or did you maintain the status quo? Reflect on these things. Write them down, and you will quickly see if your motives make sense.

If something you are doing does not make sense, there is obviously something wrong with it or with you. Sometimes you get an idea to accomplish something and just don’t seem able to get the juices flowing. Pleasure does not always show itself immediately regardless of effort, unless there is a profoundly intense desire for it. The nature of desire is always revealed on an intuitive basis, which is another reason to develop self-trust. There is a difference between saying you would like something and poof, it happens, compared to ardent desire. The desire may be ill conceived, and even worse, it may be the wrong thing for you to be doing.

What you love or hate will always evoke a reaction. The things you love should be easy to maintain while getting better all the time. If it is not, then perhaps you are not seeing the entire matter from all sides. Incidentally, and relative to your feelings about anything, always be aware of one-sided love. It is draining and a waste of time. However, the things you hate with a passion deny the benefit of living life with pleasure and will continue to interfere with other areas of your life. Eliminate them by clearing your mind and rejecting their authority in all forms. Release them to the nothingness they came from and replace them with an attitude of lavishness, lotsness, and limitlessness.

As an example of personal accomplishment, I know the importance of continuing my work in a specific direction for the Spirit of the Thing Itself to reveal its beauty and truth to me, based on my faith in It and Its faith OF me. I write and teach with acceptance and expectancy, knowing that my skills are continually growing and I become more articulate in communicating my ideas. There must be a passion for my work or it will become labor and will show through. Enthusiasm is essential in order for me to get to the next point of expression. An impelling force other than intellectual desire is required to accomplish anything. Otherwise, the results will be meaningless.

(to be continued)

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