The Way It IS Meant To Be

 There is a sacred space between suppression and expression-pure experience.

Michael A. Singer page 143

I reread this line and reread this line on my third journey through the chapter, Neither Suppression or Expression, and it hit me so hard.  Of course this was where that wisdom below the mind was pulling me  before I even read the words as  synchronicity (what Carl Jung would label such coincidence ) would have it . And all I could say and feel was this resounding - Yes! 

It is in that space, and only in that space,  where we truly experience Life...where we live. Then I read the remainder of the paragraph and I was pretty much in tears. The resonance of an inner knowing often emerges like water  from the bottom of a  well when someone or something  uses the right equipment. Doesn't it?  Michael A. Singer uses the perfect tools for bringing that water from  the depths of this so called "me" to the surface.  It is so thirst quenching!  

In this state you are neither suppressing the energy internally or expressing it externally. You are simply willing to experience the energy coming from your heart and mind. The sorrow of death and the joy of birth are both coming up inside and feeding your soul. They are touching you all the way to the core of your being. You are not touching them-they are touching you. There is nothing to do about it. It is all simply a gift God is giving you. The mind is free to think, the heart is free to feel. All of this leaves you at peace, in a state of gratitude. This is the way it is meant to be.

Imagine feeling peaceful and grateful all the time for whatever emerges in front of you...be it something the ego mind would label as a tragedy or  something it would judge as an absolute blessing.  Imagine being open and willing enough to allow it all in...feel it as if  you have been given the greatest gift even if the doctor is telling you that you only have a few months to live, and then experiencing it...really experiencing it all before letting it go.  Imagine embracing all the ten thousand sorrows that Life offers in the same way you embrace the ten thousand joys, while noticing and revelling in the ten million neutral things we barely acknowledge each day. Imagine looking at it all as it unfolds and knowing in your heart and mind that it has nothing to do with you, you are just here to enjoy it, observe it and experience it. Imagine not having the need to brace yourself, or run and hide every time the mind judges something as unpleasant. Imagine not having to spend all your time and effort  seeking those things that your mind tells you will be pleasant and will fix what is broken inside you. Imagine realizing that there is nothing broken inside you...that there is nothing but pure perfect water in your depths and it is meant to flow...to quench you, the earth and every being in it. Imagine loving it all, being in awe of  the whole entire experience of Life. I want that! Do you? 

Singer and so many other great teachers of Truth tell us that this is the way it is meant to be for us. Yet here we are struggling and stuffing and suffering as we express ourselves in the most unwholesome of ways.  We are so caught up in judging experiences, then suppressing or reacting/expressing...instead of lingering joyously in the experiencing... space that exists between the two.

I think it was B.F. Skinner ( and I am not sure of that) who said there is a sacred pause between the stimulus and the response.  It is there where our wisdom lay.  This pause is the same space Singer is talking about, I believe. We need to realize who we are is in that space. Life is in that space and that is where we want to be.  We would be better off if  we welcomed and embraced all stimuli as it comes our way, accepting instead of resisting, so we can experience Life as it all flows through...the way it is meant to be. That is living!

All is well.

Michael A. Singer (2022) living untethered. New Harbinger/ Sounds True