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Old 08-13-2003, 09:05 AM   #1

Mazie Lane
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How You Treat Others - Adyashanti

Spiritual people often want unconditional support and understanding
from their friends, family, and mates, but all too often seem blind
to their own short comings when it comes to the amount of
unconditional support and understanding that they give to others. I
have seen many spiritual people become obsessed with how unspiritual
others are and assume an arrogant and superior attitude while
completely missing the fact that they themselves are not nearly as
spiritually enlightened as they would like to think that they are.

Enlightenment can be measured by how compassionately and wisely you
interact with others; with all others, not just those who support you
in the way that you want. How you interact with those who do not
support you shows how enlightened you really are.

As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back you have not
taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means
that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you
happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop
setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in
order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all
conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who
and what you Are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has
a liberating effect on others.

The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender
their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal
story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in
order to be free. To give up being either ignorant or enlightened is
the mark of liberation and allows you to treat others as your Self.
What I am describing is the birth of true Love.

~Adyashanti


LoveAlways,

Mazie & b

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