Don't Close!

How long have you been struggling in there to keep it all together? Any time anything goes wrong in the protective model you built around yourself, you defend and rationalize to get it back together.  Your mind does not stop struggling until you've processed the event or somehow made it go away.
-Michael Singer, the untethered soul, page 136


According to Michael Singer, in the untethered soul, the solution to ending all suffering is, "Don't close!"  As human beings we have a tendency to close up the doors of invisible fortresses that we have built around ourselves to protect us from whatever is going on "out there.".  We fear Life more than we embrace Life...we close up to it because we are afraid of what it offers us.  We become overly comfortable in our home-made comfort zones as a result, and unconsciously resort to pseudo -protection behind images of who and what we are.   

We resist and resist and resist anything coming through or anything seeping out.  Yet keeping these walls up takes remarkable energy and we constantly feel the outside weather beating against them. Heaven forbid something should blow open and the unexpected should flow in or our vulnerable selves should slip out. We suffer.

When we close up ...we not only stop the judged "bad" from coming in ...we do not let the light in either. We do not only stop the "unwanted" from hurting us...we stop the love from going out to heal others and ourselves. Constantly being on guard, defending and attacking from walls that really do not have any foundation in the true sense, is suffering.

We learn this when our walls eventually crumble or the doors, because of wear and tear, no longer seal. What a wonderful thing that is, when that happens.   At first it is frightening as we face all the things we were afraid to face...then we see them for what they really are.  The light shines in and around us and we realize we never ever needed any walls.

Our hearts and our minds are meant to be full of love and light.  When we choose to close them up behind dark walls...we do not experience that love and light and we do not share it with the world.  It is time we put away our defenses and let the light in and the light out...as it was meant to be. 

Don't Close!

There is no need for false solidity when you are at peace with the universal expanse of your true being.
-page 137

All is well in my world.

Reference

Singer, Michael ( 2007) the untethered soul. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications