[NondualitySalon] I'm sick of it

[Guest guest]

umbada (Jerry M. Katz)

 

You know what? I'm so sick of hearing about being conditioned and

reacting and our false selves and what's wrong with us, that I really

don't give a damn. SO WHAT if I'm conditioned and react and all that? So

what? To worry about it, to acknowledge it, to improve it, isn't any

better than having it. The problem is that people suffer it. People

suffer it and then they suffer getting rid of it. And then they suffer

its absence and then they suffer their coming realizations.

 

The problem is the suffering of it. Not it. I'm sure I've done all kinds

of crazy things in my life, but one understanding has never changed

since the age of 7. I AM. That plainly shines forth.

 

Being there. With I AM. Everything else falls into place. Whether you

call I AM, Jesus or Guru or Your Guru, Sri (put his or her name here),

or whatever. Abide in I AM. Do that first and last and during.

 

Why crunch the gravel on your path, when one stone, quiet and whole,

awaits your full attention?

 

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Hi Jerry,

 

I applaud your post. (Perhaps because

I have come to the same attitude...)

 

After spending countless hours, days,

weeks...focusing on what you describe,

I'm ready to just abide in I AM, abide in

the now with full awareness. And, as

you say, I sense that everything else

falls into place.

 

I will add, however, that if I had not spent

so many hours crunching all that gravel,

I doubt I would be ready to just "Be there",

and, as a friend of mine says, "let it be".

 

Yet I do appreciate your saying this just

now. It's as if God were talking thru you

to me.

 

Love,

Melody