To GeorgeSon re: Big Swami Seattle Retreat Quote

[Guest guest]

Dear George (and greetings to everyone),

 

Today is the first time I've had a break and felt well enough to read the

digest. Doug and I are preparing for the move to our new house, and I am doing

all the packing up of the trailer. To top it all off, my doctor gave me a new

medication to take in place of my Nexium. I began to wake frequently all

through the night, to get bad headaches, including, several times, migraines, and

to have flu-like feelings in my body ... not to mention other things I won't

bring up here. I got out the "patient information" paper (these are

notoriously difficult to read: small print, lengthy, etc.). All my "new" symptoms

were side effects of the new medication. So yesterday I stopped taking it and

went back to the Nexium. I suspect it will take awhile for the other med to

completely clear from my body.

 

Anyhow, what you quoted from Big Swami is incredible. I believe this is true

across different spirituality belief systems, including "new age" and

"positive thinking." It is only when you experience yourself as the hollow reed,

the empty vessel, that the passageway is clear for the true Energy of Existence

to become available. I knew and experienced this when I was younger, and,

periodically, throughout my life. Somehow, my experience with my parents

through me off Center, in ways I am only beginning to comprehend. And I am only

now, gradually, beginning to recover what I already knew. Of course, there are

degrees of knowing, and I wouldn't even pretend that mine was or is or will be

complete. But it was sufficient, especially with my music, to know that it

was when I was completely open, the Energy flowed through me. Even one

experience of this is enough to turn a person's life around, to turn a person

God/dessward, and to humble a person ... in my case, me. And this is not a false

humility, it is more a childlike wonder at the immense capacity and creativity

of the Divine. Jai Ma ~ Linda

 

 

P.S. Thank you very much to all those who have periodically kept in touch

with me off-digest.

 

GeorgeSon wrote:

 

“Effort is essential and ultimately our capacity is

unlimited.

However, only when we realize that what we think as

our capacity is not ours at all but God’s does our

capacity grow. This is exactly what Amma mentioned in

Her question and answer session yesterday

Become like a brush in the hands of painter, a pen in

the hands of a writer. Become an instrument in the

hands of God. Amma also says that we should

constantly remember that we are not the doer, just an

instrument; a vehicle for Gods power.

When we realize that the power to do comes from

beyond, our power to do, increases radically.â€