as I was responding to your mail, something happened and all that i had typed was lost. I failed to retrieve it. so i am typing again.This message seems to have a special significance, for you and me.
Long ago I realized that to advance spiritually, I need to clear my mind of the restrictive judgements about work so I undertook to do many tasks that I considered below my station in life and hence a waste of time. Worse still, I considered those people who performed these jobs routinely, as a means of livelihood, as of a lower order, the scums of society, the untouchables. This was a serious obstacle for my spiritual growth.
So I decided to sweep and swab dirty floors, wash dirty dishes and dirty linen. Washing my own dirty dishes came easy, but washing other peoples dirty dihes was tough. with dirty linen it was worse. I could wash my own dirty underwear but washing my wive's dirty linen was nauseating. As I performed these tasks I was liberated from the restrictive judgementalness of my mind. The minds sky cleared and the sun of spirituality began to shine with all its brilliance.
I have to keep doing these things repeatedly and regularly so as not to slip back into the judgemental mess. This helps me to live in the spiritual firmament which recognises no hierarchies. Nothing and no one is special here. All are the same, all are nothing by and of themselves. However, taken together, they are the supreme Lord and Master.
With humble love and in service.
Ganoba
ganuji
right now the body impulses are way out of whack
sleeping, eating and activities are random to say the least
i have been cleaning non stop for about five days
and have heightened appetites that are uncomfortable
now wonder i prefer to live in my mind ..
and ideas, please??
wendy xxx thursday pm
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