A WAKING-UP STORY
~AN EXCERPT FROM MY BOOK,
“Twelve Steps to Inner Peace”
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.
At one time I experienced the enormous pain of living from this mind created world. When my children were very young, they were often sick. I was so worried that I lost myself in fear every time a sickness appeared. On one of the visits with the doctor my little girl was delirious with fever. The queue of patients was so huge and they would not move fast. I was also so tired from my long day at work. The extremity of the situation broke something in me. I dropped all of my mind-created fears and beliefs about the doctor, my daughter’s sickness, the medicines, taking control of the situation, etc., and etc. There was no more desire in me for anything, and I became tired of my fears. Suddenly, I realized that I was only her physical mother. The life-giving Spirit part of my daughter did not come from me, it had come from the Divine. I left without seeing the doctor and went home with my daughter. Surprisingly, her fever left her and she became well!.
This revelation for my sleeping consciousness was mind-blowing and that was the moment I surrendered. I understood that if I, being a human,can give so much for the child I bore physically, then how much would the Divine, whom gave the child its Spirit and Life, give for its child. I realized that I had to remove my fearful, controlling, and clinging self out of the way for my daughter’s Divine Parent to takeover. This act of removing myself from blocking life’s path with my mind-created fear has brought immense healing, excellence, success, peace, and harmony for my family and me.
The joy and excitement I felt in this sweet surrender makes me to choose to be alert and awake in every situation. My stress is my indicator.If at any moment there is stress, anxiousness, or expectation, I am amused to note that my mind had been busy taking control of situations with fear stories.
It is not necessary to go to the place of extreme situations for us to let go or surrender. Nothing ever belonged to us to cling to or attach to in anyway. The concept of belong or possess exists only in the mind-created story of a past or a future. Our wholesome self is already ONE with the eternal goodness, and there is nothing we need at any given time. Reality is so benevolent that what IS in front of us NOW is enough and more than what we would need.
The act of surrender simply means that you trust reality as your friend,you live from the place of allowing and acceptance, you live without stress,there is nothing to do, no one to be, and no place to go. We lose our entire mind-created world yet we gain our freedom, our Oneness, and our truly close connection to the Divine. We accept life as it is and exist in the place of excited anticipation of the gifts each moment brings. As we continue to live from this place of conscious awareness, this world becomes a kinder and wondrously beautiful place.
From my book “Twelve Steps to Inner Peace”
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