Jesus on Catching the Bull: On finding your Self. (The Jesus dialogues Book 1) by Lars Gimstedt

Author:Lars Gimstedt [Gimstedt, Lars]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: PsykosyntesForum
Published: 2015-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

There was also, in this instant, a deep feeling of awe and gratitude. I walked, laughing and crying, to and fro between the different mirrors in my apartment.

I bowed to the holy creature, whose living heart filled with love and tear-filled eyes looked back at me, in my bathroom, in my kitchen and in the mirrors in my living-room.”

This is a wonderful illustration of what we are talking about. And we both know for how long our brother Daniel has been searching, finding, catching and gentling his “Bull”.

I would guess that his experience is like mine: there can be Holy Instants like this one, and there can even be longer periods of time during which we succeed in staying Rightminded and Wholehearted. What I think the second koan describes:

“Now the Bull may saunter through the hill forests, or else walk the much travelled roads, covered in dust. Never will he touch fodder from another man's meadow. Coming and going requires no effort - the Bull quietly carries the man.”

But, there are also times when this is not the case. Awakening is not a straight-forward, chronological, process.

I think you are still mixing up Awakening with the concept of time. Remembering who you are, and then forgetting who you are, these things just happen. Exerting effort is counter-productive. Awakening is similar to meditation - learning to meditate is accepting that your mind does wander off, and when you discover this, you just gently return to whatever meditative discipline you have chosen to use.

By the same token, the “mantra” Choose Again will help you to Remember. Awakening by listening inwards, by listening to your Heart, can be likened to suddenly hearing a song you thought you had completely forgotten:

“Listen, - perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you. The notes are nothing. Yet you have kept them with you, not for themselves, but as a soft reminder of what would make you weep if you remembered how dear it was to you. You could remember, yet you are afraid, believing you would lose the world you learned since then. And yet you know that nothing in the world you learned is half so dear as this. Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since.”

That is a beautiful passage! I just looked it up in ACIM, it comes from Textbook 21.I.6.

And yes, thank you for reminding me again and again that no effort is required.

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