Written by Jafree Ozwald
“Care about each and every thing; Don’t make
a distinction between the great and the small. Cleaning the floor, do it with
deep care, as if it is the body of the beloved. Each indifferent act
becomes a slow suicide, a slow death. Be overflowing, don’t be a miser.”
~ Osho.
Life is so short. Only 70-80 years for
most of us and this life is gone. Have you ever wondered, “what’s the
point of it all?” At some point in this infinite journey around the Sun,
each and every one of us will experience a deep sensation of being completely
lost. Yes, this is inevitable. We must all go through the experience
of not having a cluewhich is the best direction for us to be
going. Whether it be your job, relationship, health, family or spiritual
path, you are guaranteed to experience a time before you die where you will not
have any confidence or certainty in where you’re going or what you’re
doing.
When this occurs for you remember my
invitation, it is quite simple. When the sensations of confusion and
trepidation flood the brain and make you believe everything is not as it should
be, do not resist them. Simply treat each one as a doorway to the
Divine. Give yourself permission to greet the “lost experience”
intimately, as if God was standing on your front porch in the middle of Summer
waiting for you with a tall glass of lemonade. Meet the experience fully
and drink it in deeply. Bend over and kiss the ground it walks on and do
not try to change it in any way.
The experience of feeling lost in your life
is actually the realm of infinite possibilities in a great disguise. The
Universe is presenting a higher path for you to take and because the old path
you were on was worn out and making you lazy. When life becomes too
comfortable we need adventure to take over. We need to step out and try
something new. The new opportunities awaiting you may cause the mind to
“freak out” because it may try to jump on all of them and none of them at
once! You may even fail to see the possibility of just sitting silently
all day long, watching the grass grow and listening to the birds sing their
song.
The mind is always so busy, so determined,
and soooo focused on getting somewhere other than here now.
It actually doesn’t know what it feels like to be truly be here now. The
mind doesn’t understand how feeling lost could actually be your ultimate
vacation and final destination from that perpetual work horse the mind is
constantly riding. If you watch the mind vigilantly you’ll see it
is always focusing on something. Continuously working 24-7
like a mad machine in a deep habitual addiction to its thoughts and thinking
patterns. If for a moment this machine start to question its motives, it
might make you start thinking that you are off track. When this occurs,
try this little experiment. Pay super close attention to the mind for several
minutes, and notice what your goals, desires and priorities are in life.
Write down all these ideas, and yet more importantly write down what will allow
you to be at ease even if these needs are not met.
“Enlightenment is not about imagining figures
of light, But of making the darkness conscious! ” ~ Carl Jung
You can find freedom by asking yourself what
do you most need to let go of attachment to right now, to feel deeply relaxed
and at ease in this very moment? Explore what belief systems you need to
release, and what it feels like to just trust life and be relaxed as you
are. The eternal soul that you are deserves to have this everyday.
When you realize that you are the eternal observer, the pure innocent untainted
witness, you will never feel lost again because you’ll know that every juicy
moment is a ticket home.
The more you watch the mind, the easier life
becomes. When you can see how it tends to cling to certain ideas and
repels others away you stop buy into the drama of it all. Ultimately, the
mind doesn’t have a clue where to find safety and security in the world.
It simply cannot because the outer world is constantly changing. The mind
simply needs to know how to sit back and be still…and allow for every little
thought to pass on through.
There is nothing wrong with the experience of
feeling lost, for this is what fuels the spiritual search in the first
place. As you allow yourself to embody the experience of feeling lost it
will completely dissolve. So be totally confused! Surrender to
every which way and possible direction you could be going and eventually it
will drive you deep within. I invite you to approach all confusion,
indecision or lost feelings with this sense of divine exploration and curiosity
for this will result in real appreciation. It takes a true master to do
this, yet it is not that hard. Simply surrender your ego’s all too
important agenda to the pure joy of exploring every little experience that you
have along the way.
“The Universe has billions of ways to keep us
humble and fascinated all at the same time.” ~ Mike Pearson
It’s good to know that the Universe will
continuously keep providing you with the experience of feeling lost so that one
day you truly give up searching “out there”, and uncover this beloved warm
fuzzy home within yourself. All those moments of indecision and fear are
meant to force the mind to stop moving forward, searching backward, and
suddenly cause everything to come to a complete stop. This full stop is
the vehicle we all need to transcend the mind and find the spiritual path
inside. This is one of life’s wondrous gifts to help us discover what
meditation really is. Without the experience of confusion we would all be
very very lost and confused.
Be cautious of the mind for whenever your
mind doesn’t know what you should be doing with your life, it might start
making you believe that something is wrong with you. It may start to
judge and condemn you, saying there must be a deep personal issue you need to
investigate with a counselor. The ego starts to become afraid that all
its great efforting was for nothing. It doesn’t want you to do nothing,
for you will soon find out that you already have all the
answers within you! The ego-mind doesn’t want to give up being in charge
of life, it would rather sacrifice your self esteem than surrender. Only
in deep surrender is there stillness, and the path to opening the heart to
total freedom. It is by going through the fire that we purify and are
reborn.
The best path is to use your disbelief and
doubt as a doorway to the reveal a deeper truth of who you really are.
Doubt is always our initial guide to finding freedom because it has no
objective, agenda or fixed opinion. It is always wavering, thinking it
could be this or that, which forces you to drop deeper into the heart.
When you surrender to it all and drop deep inside you’ll see that trust was
always here, inside your heart, as your real guru and guide. If you can
quiet your mind for one minute you can hear what its saying to you.
Listening to the heart is easy when you put the world on the back burner.
It just happens on its own when you relinquish all attachment to the end result
and give in to the simplicity of being purely here in the now. Most
of us however are so trained and goal orientated that we cannot hear the
longing of the heart, and often reject any wobbling experience that may make us
feel derailed from our normal path. It is such a good thing that
there are so many distractions in life, otherwise we would be like automatized
robots and never discover what the real spiritual journey is about.
Life is such a deep juicy adventure, so
do not be afraid of it! Know that each moment is the sacred source
revealing itself to you. Just be deeply honest and stop hiding your light
from the world. Whatever it is that you really really really want
in life can be yours. The secret is to know how to change your vibration
and attitude so that you can receive it. You must dive beneath the
surface, into your innermost being and discover the power that you truly have.
Once you bring a halt to the mind chatter you’ll find out what really makes
your heart go pitter-pat, and experience every moment of life is taking on the
most amazing rich flavor you have ever tasted. Enjoy!
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