Letting Everything Have Its Nature

 

Everything has its nature...

Buddhist teaching

Rattle snakes have their nature and we pick up that vibrating energy when they pass in front of us. Both we and the rattle snake feel fear.  That is natural. The rattle snake isn't the problem. The fear we feel, even though it is uncomfortable, isn't the problem.  The vibrating energy in the rattle snake and the vibrating energy in us is not the problem...if...we let this energy do its own thing... pass through... without resisting.

Huh? 

If we use all the vibrating energy of of our conscious awareness to resist that vibrating energy of the snake as it passes through our five senses...we will have a problem.  If we use the vibrating energy of our awareness to focus so intently on the energy of the snake that the fear intensifies into resistance of what is, so that we supress it and repress it...store it away from conscious awareness...that energy of the snake becomes stored and locked inside us leaving a samskara. We will then have a samskara labelled, "I am afraid of snakes" to add to all the other bricks that make up a human psyche. If we do , as most humans do, do what we can for the rest of our life so that this stored vibrational energy we resisted in this stored samskaras never makes it up into conscious awareness again...man...do we ever have a problem. We will do whatever we can to escape the discomfort this psyche experiences when it comes to "snakes". We allowed resistance to put another brick on this psyche that we will spend the rest of our lives building up, maintaining, and keeping safe and comfortable.  We will then live by the belief that "I will only be okay if I never have to see, hear about, or experience this snake fear again!" 

Of course, Life in its natural rhythm will allow snakes to slither past us in one form or another  again and again.  We cannot ...no matter how hard we try...make Life the way we think it should be. Life just is.  The nature of things just is.  The energy in us...even fear...just is. The problem isn't this energy doing what it does; The problem is the resistance.  

We need to allow Life to be Life...we need to allow its energy to enter and merge with our energy and then let it all go...because everything is just One energy....coming and going, arising, dissolving, slipping in through our senses and slipping out. That energy is not something foreign and harmful to anything but our mind made personalities.  It can not harm who we really are.  We are that energy...not an enemy of it. 

Practice "this is bothering me"...and don't resist.

Michael A. Singer

All is well.

Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe/ Sounds True ( January, 2026) Following the Spiritual Path of Non-Resistance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44-ae4uLMA&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=1