LIVING WITH BEGINNERS MIND
Its strange how at the same time a person starts to understand the subject they are studying and immersed in, they get to a point when they think they are getting it and it hits them, they know nothing. What a realisation. All the knowledge they had spent accumulating has not been for nothing, but to bring them to the awareness of nothing. Then to open our eyes as if a child for the first time gazes at a wonderfull new world. Jesus says, `Except you become as little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.` ` If you want to to understand the Tao,` says the Chinese master Lap Tzu, `take a look at little children`.
To reach the maturity of spiritual enlightenment we must recapture the pristine immediacy that we experienced as little children. The mystical experience may sound strange and alien, but it is actually home. It returns us to that primal awareness that we knew even before we learned to talk; before we learned to think; before we learned to see ourselves as a separate and distinct individual. Until this point we still had a oneness with God. This is why Meister Eckhart says, (not to be foolled into thinking its Eckhart Tolle who says this!) `God is nearerto me than I am to myself.` It is only our `grown up` opinions and educated beliefs that stand between us and direct intuitive knowing.
Ironically, to walk the mysic path we must stay an eternal beginner, retaining the humble ignorance, innocence and enthusiasm with which we start the quest. `Zen mind is beginner`s mind,` says master Shunrye Suzuki, The quality of awareness realizxed in the mystic experience has the freshness and energy of the constant novice, and only this openness can sustain us on our adventure into consciousness. St Francois de Sales says; `Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections but always rise up with fresh courage. There is no better means of attaining to the spiritual life than by continually beggining again.
Hey folks, always remember to hit ground praying. Love peace and soham to you all, from your brother Peter.
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