Only an instant does this world endure....And it is this serenity we seek, unclouded, obvious and sure today.
ACIM-W-300
Hmmm! We think we are 'enduring' a life time when the world itself only has to endure an instant...one little moment. A moment is all there is. This moment that we are living in...is all there is.
There is no past...just thought about it. There is no future...just thought about it. This moment...right here...right now...is all there is to endure. The rest is just 'false perception', or 'mental modification'..a passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene.(ACIM-W-300: 1:2) How beautiful is that?
All thought we have in this moment is not life, is not the world, and it is not us. It is just a passing cloud over what is meant to be eternal and serene...the moment. If we truly want to live we need to embrace the now and whatever it gives us. We need to see beyond the cloud that simply covers our eternal serenity.
Patanjali taught this as well. In the Yoga Sutras as translated by Sri Swami Satchidananda, it is taught that we are normally and naturally in a peaceful state. "That is the natural condition of the mind. But these citta vrttis, or the mental modifications of the mind-stuff, disturb that peace."(Satchidananda, 2011, pg 4)
If only we could get it through our thick, overly conditioned heads, that this moment is all we need to endure. Recognizing that our thoughts of time, our thoughts of anything really, are just clouds that keep us from experiencing the peace of the here and now; that they are just clouds that obstruct the eternal light ...is healing. This healing can lead us to eternal peace and serenity.
Hmm! Something to think about.
Look beyond the clouds.
All is well in my world.
References:
ACIM, Work Book, Lesson 300
Sri Swami Satchidananda (2011) The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Yogaville: Integral Yoga Publications
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