ACCEPTANCE - CAN BE THE SIMPLEST PATH TO AWAKENING

Liberation through acceptance?
Dissolution of the ego - me notion through acceptance!?
Yes, how much simpler can it be.


Acceptance = Non resistance
Acceptance = Desirelessness
Non resistance + Desirelessness = Nothing for the mind to do, chew on, hang it many hats on!
Nothing for the mind to do = it is deprived of its reason to exist = it starts to subside bow out… dissolve…
No mind = No ‘me’ = Liberation/Awakening

Acceptance = leads to Non resistance = We move into mome nt-to-moment acceptance of All That Is - of whatever is - isn’t, happens -doesn’t, choices made- actions that ensue -wherever they lead to .We increasingly abide in deep inner acceptance of All That Is - of the Divine play, our role, the roles of ‘others’, where were we are in the Now, its purr-fection. Thus the mind has nothing to do, nothing to chew on, no hooks to hang its many hats on! It is deprived of its reason to exist and thus starts to subside bow out… dissolve…! No mind = No ‘me’ =Liberation/Awakening

Acceptance = leads to Desirelessness = we begin to move from material/personal desires to the desire for 'awakening' - but indeed even if all i desire is awakening ‘i’ am present to desire thus - and awakening cannot be - as awakening is paradoxically the dissolution of /liberation from ‘me and its desires’ - even if the desire is to be desire less or awaken ! But in acceptance of wherever we are in the Now- nothing, not even spiritual desires, remain …not even the ‘spiritual’ hooks of awakening! And thus ‘me/my mind’ having its final bastion removed… has nothing to do/chew on…. and robbed of its sustenance or reason to exist… begins to subside, retreat and finally dissolve! And this dissolution of me-notion/my mind/self = is known as liberation!

Beloveds, what a simple, practical, day to day ‘path’! No exotic practices…no complex texts … no must or must not do’s … nothing to give up… no god guru master teacher to depend on … only here & now , day- to- day, moment –to- moment …. Acceptance!

Liberation through acceptance... once this unraveled within me it sounds so obvious...and yet it was a Big eureka moment!
Acceptance of whatever the universe wills through a ‘me’ …
Acceptance of whatever choices happen through a ‘me’…
Acceptance of whatever actions happen or not towards them…
Acceptance of wherever it leads or not…
Acceptance of the Now… thus no desires for some future…
Acceptance = subtly leads to desirelessness…Desirelessness = nothing for the mind to chew on + and nothing to be reborn for = liberation

This is the Zen “chop wood , boil water” …not to be taken literally but acceptance of and non resistance to whatever the ‘chopping wood and boiling water’ in your life pertains to…whatever your current day to day life is made up of… your roles, occupations, relationships, activities… getting up in the morning in acceptance and going about your day in acceptance!

Indeed acceptance leads to increasingly connecting with and abiding as Self …and that enables further acceptance and surrender… and removes deeper and deeper resistance... and thus we abide even firmer as Self... and what a lovely cycle we spin into motion… through the simple path of acceptance!

Acceptance does not being passive! Acceptance does not mean doing nothing ...nor does it mean simply giving in! Acceptance means we accept the situation, we accept what we need to do, and then we accept its outcome! Acceptance isn’t weakness, it isn’t sacrifice or giving in - Acceptance is strength to do what we need to be done and to embrace whatever outcome arises…

Acceptance = contentment! Contentment in the now ...and openness to whatever the now brings... acceptance embraces both contentment and the more/new/changes ... That’s why contentment is one of the virtues in our sacred texts...

At the deepest we don’t resist resistance ... we accept non acceptance... we don’t judge judging…