Hi my
friends, welcome back!
After reading my first post on reality some of you may
be wondering...
''If I possess a partial reality, how can I make it a complete one?''
Or
''How can I not just own part of a car like dashboard or steering wheel, but the whole car?''
As we discussed already, our partial reality is part of the complete
reality but the complete reality can never fit in to a partial reality.
Just like the steering wheel
can fit in a car, but a car can never fit into a steering wheel!
But unlike in the case of a steering wheel, it is possible
to turn our partial reality into complete reality.
How is that?
We need to expand our partial reality!
How to expand?
My friends, something interesting is, the complete reality
in all its greatness, is never far away.
In case you ever wondered in what kind
of great highness that grand state existed, it is not far away but right at your footstep
waiting to embrace you.
Right where you put down your step, right where you take
your next breath is this complete reality!
And this grand state is able to give you the very best that you can get out of life! That meaning of life everyone is after lies right in here.
That great state where there is space for all the partial realities
that existed in the past, and all the partial realities that are existing today
and all the partial realities that will exist in the future is right there next
to you.
Now my friends , naturally your next question would be, if
its moving so close to me, why do I not see it?
''If you say I am already in the
car, why am I left with only a steering wheel?''
Well my friends, there is a good reason for that.
Although we move with that great reality every second and
every moment, the very momentum of our run prevents us from seeing
it; because the momentum always keeps us a few paces in advance to where the reality
is!
The momentum of what we have been doing so far always
decides what our next step is, so the great reality waiting to embrace us gets
no room to show itself.
Yes, my friends the little things have mighty power.
Just
like a tiny atom can have greater power than bigger guns, the little momentum
that keeps us pushing forward has the power to keep that greatest human achievement away from us.
And add to that, it is extremely rare that the momentum
will ever give way on its own for us to see the great reality without any effort from us.
My friends, good news is, it is not impossible to hit this great
treasure of complete reality. We still are capable of seeing it.
I can count two ways how you can make it.
The first may be hard, if the second is easier.
The first is what I would call, jumping off the cliff!
The second, is something everyone can do and it sounds much less drastic
– climbing it up.
So are you for jumping off the cliff or climbing it up? I
imagine I hear many saying the second.
Now when I say jumping off the cliff- please remember I do
not mean the physical activity of jumping from a cliff, that is suicide or may
be extreme sport, and doing either will take you nowhere near the great reality.
Jumping off the cliff is purely a mental act, and I take
that example, because that’s the last thing any one would think of doing.
And I tell you, this is a puzzle many experienced
practitioners end up after a hard and grueling climb to the top of the path.
And also keep in mind, just jumping off will not ensure
enlightenment unless you did it with some preparation!
After jumping, If you land on firm ground, you will be fine,
if you land on a thorny bush on the slope, that will not take you
anywhere.
Climbing up the mountain on the other hand does not sound so drastic and it is something all can do.
When you climb up a mountain looking to reach the top you
keep moving on to higher ground, with changing surroundings and change of
climate around you.
The limited view you had at the bottom becomes gradually
broader, the hot climate becomes gradually milder and you start seeing newer
landscape the further you go up.
My friends, climbing up the mountain is similar to the spiritual exercise of creating
more space in your partial reality for more partial realities around you.
Your current partial reality may not leave space for things
and people you do not like and do not accept. But with the act of creating
space, you start to know how they feel, see how they see and understand them better.
To say some simple examples - when you say the door is half open, and the other says no it
is half closed, you see from the other person's standpoint how s/he feels it that way.
When you say the weather is good, and somebody else says
weather is bad, instead of arguing with the other, you understand how s/he feels
it that way.
My friends, climbing a mountain, with all its rewards is not
easy.
In the same way spiritual path is
not easy creating space for all the strange people around you, but you can rest assured, if you make
it you get great rewards!
Take a look at what great enlightened people said in the past
and what those enlightened people say in the present!
(There are enlightened people in the present as well,only need a little filtering)
( not their representatives
by the way)
The Buddha told not to be angry with someone even when he is
cutting your limbs apart, Jesus asked to turn your other cheek if somebody hits
you on one cheek.
It is all because
these actions take you up the mountain although those may not be easy.
You may ask, is the spiritual path a nice way to become an
idiot or a loser?
Well my friends, that means you have not got the point.
The spiritual path is, on the other hand, a journey towards
great power, do not think you are becoming weak with creating space, because
real power is not what you think it is.
With the creating of space for other opinions, other
realities, other people, you create power over others as well as wisdom over
them just like the broadening view on the mountain.
Not only you create space for them, but also you start to
live in them. And they start living in you.
It is like you are starting to own more parts of the car,
the seats, motor etc. step by step.
This is a process of enriching your spirit, and believe me
this will have great effects not only on your spirit but also on your good
health.
With the universal expanding of self where there is no more
collision with any objects wide and far, you come to a stage fitting the great
jump!
That is the final giving up or in other
words the greatest gain of everything by far and wide.
Complete reality is ready to plunge into you at this stage
and it will decide when, but you can be always happy that you have arrived
already at the top of the mountain with your own hard work!!!
Thanks my friends, I am sorry if what I say sound too distant for you, hopefully reading further on my posts will get you more insight!!
Good Luck!!!
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