Life is a blockage removal process...you don't have to do anything. Just don't resist.
Michael A. Singer
When we first realize that this seeking to make okay by grasping, clinging, and pushing away the reality of life circumstance doesn't work...the magic elixer of hope becomes nothing but swamp water. Without hope which is like articifial lighting in comparison to the brilliance of the sun... everything suddenly seems dark and foreboding, the mess inside seems so much bigger and so much deeper. We have this realization of not okayness inside and we may feel we have no way out. (This is the 'dark night of the soul', often described as a very important part of spiritual growth.)
"Reality sucks!! You mean I got to suffer like this...I have to live in this dark, heaviness hopelessness provides? "
Yeah. but only until we tap into the brilliant sun within.
What the Fork, crazy lady?
Getting to the point where we are willing to go without hope and the external bandaids we have been collecting over the years to fix and hide what is not okay inside is a process. It takes a great deal of waking up and courage to get to the point where we are willing to face what we have been running away from all our lives and to go without light for a while. It takes a great deal of committment to remove external coverings and go within. Knowing that this light we have become so dependent on is an artificial, external light, nothing in comparison to the brilliant light of the sun...might help us to get to this point of removing bandaids.
Removing bandaids?
Singer reminds us that we are "not okay" because of a lack of bandaids. He describes bandaids as being what we seek from the external world to make us feel okay inside: the perfect job, the perfect relationship, perfect financial abundance, perfect health, = the perfect light. It is the hope of getting these things. These bandaids are what we erronously assume are the solutions to our so called brokenness but they do nothing more than cover and constrict. They keep us from experiencing who we truly are.
You are not okay because you are blocked
You don't find God you keep working on removing the blockages that keep you from experiencing that you are God.
Underneath the bandaids we have blockages inside that need to be removed. We really do not need to do anything but allow the brilliant light of God to melt all the exterior stuff away so we remember who we are.
When Singer started talking about bandaids I was instantly reminded of a poem I wrote many years ago entitled " Ego Dressings"
We are told that we are broken,
and are instructed to look away
as “wound coverings” are applied
so expertly
by Ego’s competent hands.
it hides the wounds
that it, itself, has made.
is applied
layer,
by layer,
by layer,
creating a thick
and life absorbing dressing
over who we really are.
It looks secure.
It looks like it will protect,
our vulnerable flesh from
the dangerous world around us.
So we do not dare to peek at
what lay beneath,
at what we are told
by Ego’s hissing reprimands
is ugly and infected.
and restricting,
limiting our movement ,
preventing the life blood
from turning our beings pink
with new growth,
making our bodies throb with pain,
while offering no hope of healing.
Something within tells us to
remove each layer…
though it stings to do so .
Something guides us to expose
the hidden flesh
to the air
that longs to caress it.
We gingerly push
Ego’s prying hands aside
and we remove the dressing
bit by bit,
piece by piece
until what lay beneath can be seen,
until it can breathe,
until we can look down to see
that no wounds were ever there.
“Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Therein lies the peace of God.”
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