Whenever someone writes describing
how they want things to be for themselves,
although they may not be aware of it,
it usually takes some form of complaint.
I would like to make it little more clear how I see it:
Whenever you are not delightfully grateful
for this very moment, just as it is,
usually, you are complaining?
It may not sound like a complaint, but listen carefully.
There ain’t much in the middle –
usually, anything that is not a gratitude, is a complaint.
As I read the replies to postings on IML
I keep finding the same reply emerging –
and when I think of other people who have tried to say the same thing
they usually come down to the same simple message:
just be where and how you are.
Deborah wrote:
>I wrote awhile ago to say that I had experienced a very powerful
>awakening about a year ago which was then followed by a honeymoon and then by what
appeared to be an extremely deep depression (which lasted about 4 or 5
months)… I’d been somewhat depressed a couple of times in my life but nothing like
that… I sensed the “big depression” was associated with the Awakening… After
absolute and complete surrender, the depression lifted about a month ago<
Get it? “After absolute and complete surrender” –
just being where, and how you are, in the moment.
(And 4 or 5 months ain’t bad – if you resist, can be much, much longer.)
Then she says:
>If anyone knows of anything else written on the period between
awakening and enlightenment.<
Now I do understand wanting to know more, and, do you see? –
not wanting to be in the moment – just as it is?
It is well documented that there can be a period of *in between time* –
Dark Night Of The Soul. When you are in it you reach out for any
support you can find. Of course. And the same suggestion applies –
have the experience you are having.
It may not be realised by the experiencer –
the awakening is triggered just by being with what is,
totally, completely – just as it is.
So however it is – pleasant or unpleasant,
just being unconditionally with it – Pop!
This Dark Night Of The Soul stuff. You have been *to the other side* –
you know the absolute delight of feeling free – from every anxiety
of every possible sort – of course, you want to stay there – and it is
that very desire – that brings you back into misery. Only now,
the misery is much worse – because you know how it feels to be free!
Just being with what is – however it is.
Happy to hear the depression has lifted Deborah.
Maybe, now you have been through the process,
you could write more about your experience for other people?
Don’t forget to tell them about the surrender bit.
Surrender – another term for being unconditionally in the moment?
Sending love …