It's Not All About "Me"?

Spirituality is about letting go inside and serving outside. 

Michael A. Singer

I woke up with this question, "I know Life is not all about me...but how can I learn to live like that is the truth instead of getting all caught up in my likes and dislikes?" 

Then the thought of the first line from Scott Peck's, The Road Less Travelled: "Life is difficult!" ...popped into my mind.

"Oh", I said to myself, "I am having a hard time living without a "me" focus because Life is so difficult." 

It is more than a little ironic and coincidental, then, when I heard Michael Singer say during my morning listen, "Life is so easy!" 

He was reminding me of what I already knew. I remembered all that I learned over the years from teachers like him and from my own inner exploration. I asked the question again. 

Is Life difficult or is it easy? 

That all depends on our preferences which include our attachments, our likes, our desires...as well as our aversions and our dislikes. 

What makes Life difficult, then, are our preferences. What makes Life easy is when we approach it without our preferences.  "The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences." 

We have sense information collected from everything going on around us and in us,,,and we have  what is meant to be the mind's pure unfiltered interpretation of that information(reality). If there was just an uninterupted flow between what comes in through the senses and the interpretation of it, we would have a pure life experience, an easy Life, but we put something in between sensory perception and reality. We put our personal preferences. We make Life difficult as a result. 

These preferences are distractions pulling consciousness into them.

In between consciousness and reality stands [personal] M.I.N.D.

The very same question I asked myself this morning as I was making my bed, I heard repeated in this podcast in different words. 

What would you be doing if you were not dominated by these preferences?

The answer: 

You would be looking forward to every single thing that takes place...

We would be putting our whole heart and soul into experiencing all that shows up without our likes and dislikes in the way. If we were cleaned out of all those samskaras that lead us to prefer...we would accept, honor, appreciate and find joy in the reality of all that Life offers. 

These samskaras are not just based on what we don't like. We need to remember 

Things you cling to that you like cause just as much problems that things you cling to that you didn't like. [Leading to expectations that cannot be matched or repeated]

Hmm! So, I know it isn't Life that is repsonsible for any judgement I make about its ease or difficulty.  Life is just doing Life.  Reality just is.  Life is so easy! It is me and my preferences that are causing the problems, creating this perception of difficulty.

So, in answer to my own question this morning:

I will continue to work on putting away my preferences.  It may take some time but I will keep trying. For now, I need to keep up with my practice of recognizing when my preferences are in the way and stepping around them to embrace Life for being exactly what it is. I will do my best to let go inside so I can serve better outside.

All is well.

Michael A. Singer/Temple of the Universe/ Sounds True ( April 20, 2026)  Reality is Not a Problem- Your Preferences Are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2q_VN5beLs