Sunday Roundup #5
Last Week's Notes
Hi all,
Sorry, I’m running a little late this week. Here’s the latest Sunday Roundup.
Love and blessings,
–Martyn
Simply be present to what is,
without judgement, description, evaluation,
and in being fully present,
you become presence,
the nature of awareness-being itself.
There's a part of us that 'merely' witnesses all that comes to pass by way of experience. It also just happens that it's the most essential part of us —the very ground and source of all said experience.
Which is not to diminish, dismiss, or discard experience per se, but rather to put it in its proper place.
For a while there, I went down the Christian universalist rabbit-hole, which was mostly a theological journey. I came out of it convinced that the universalist position is the most credible, sane, and morally coherent, as well as scripturally evidenced.
But most importantly - to me at least - is that it's clear that the experience(s) of the mystics and contemplatives maintain and proclaim it - that God is and must be, now and finally, all in all.
We don't need to have faith in much; just faith that this moment is God's will for us.
I'd venture that some of the most challenging of Jesus' instructions, even for Christians, are "love your enemies" and "resist not evil".
I wrestle with God all the time. But I don’t think I’ve ever got him in a headlock. And I’m usually the one that taps out.
In every moment, recognise and accept – this is God's will for me.
Acceptance, surrender, non-resistance, self-abandonment — this attitude and practice progressively dissolves the resisting, egoic, small self until there's nothing left but the divine will living in, through, and as you.
It’s curious that so many mind-addicted seekers try to get to the “peace that transcends understanding” by trying to understand it.
#gofigure