Falling into Grace by Adyashanti

Author:Adyashanti
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Tags: Body, Mind & Spirit/General
Publisher: Sounds True
Published: 2009-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

EXPERIENCE THIS MOMENT AS FREE OF SUFFERING

Notice how your body feels when your mind argues with what is. Notice the emotional change happening, and notice what happens when you begin to open your mind just a little bit and invite the possibility—just the possibility—that maybe your conclusions about an event in life, maybe your judgments about it, aren’t really as true as you think. Just holding the possibility of that in your mind, you’ll see that your emotional environment begins to change. You’ll start to come more into the present moment, and this is what freedom from suffering is all about.

When you enter this moment, you begin to experience a moment that is actually free of suffering. If you enter it wordlessly, openheartedly, allowing yourself to feel whatever is there, you find that you’ve got the key to letting go of suffering right in your pocket. When you start to become present here and now, it’s not unusual to feel fear. “Oh! How can I be here and now, that naked, that open? What’s going to happen to me? Will I be hurt if I’m fully here and now?” These kinds of questions will come up. These kinds of fears may reveal themselves, and so it does take courage. It does require some willingness to feel what is here, right now. If fear arises, just allow it to arise, and let it purge itself from your body and mind.

In your willingness to pause during a moment of difficulty, to take a few breaths and tune in to all that is there, you may notice that a comforting presence starts to arise. It’s by allowing yourself to feel and experience this presence that you can open yourself more and more to what is revealing itself in this moment. Even if it feels frightening, there is an underlying sense of well-being that is always with you and fully available, even if you don’t feel well. My teacher used to call it “the you who has no difficulty, even when you’re having difficulty.”

I didn’t understand what she was speaking about the first time I heard about this always present “you,” but it came to have a great impact on me. It stayed with me, and I thought, “What is that? What is the me that has no difficulty, even when I’m having difficulty?” Because up until that time, I thought either I was having difficulty, or I wasn’t. It was one or the other. Yet, when you’re experiencing fear, if you really stop and open, you’ll see that fear happens within a space of fearlessness, that sorrow happens within a comforting presence, that when we have the willingness to really open ourselves and experience our own resistance to that openness, we experience a state of ease and relaxation that underlies all of our trauma, all of our “dis-ease.”

In the end, it’s opening to this other field of being—which is literally the foretaste of another state of consciousness—that allows us to move beyond suffering.

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