I had a very short and concise lecture from the universe at the temple today. It said that my need to understand everything was holding me back because the need to understand is driven by the ego, fearful of being our of control. As such, it inhibits one’s growth as it gets in the way of a purer faith that is not only faith and trust but also knows anyway that all is in order. Put simply, it either feels right or it doesn’t.
So the advice was simple: let go of this need to know and understand and from it will follow faster progress on my journey. And the irony is that in doing so, I will be given the knowledge eventually anyway since an awareness or knowing will just come to me without me having to struggle with it (as thoughts that just pop into my mind one day, as indeed I have experienced many times in the past).
In essence, this is another aspect of letting go and going with the flow rather than planning, knowing, controlling everything in our world in the futile attempt to control things we can never control. However, such is the nature of man that it finds it hard to resist the need to know or, as the Christian Bible puts it, to take a bite of the apple from the tree of knowledge. It is thus the verification of that same “sin”*, the need for knowledge, as in that biblical story. Fascinating: I do so love this journey of self discovery!
*I should point out at this point that I don’t believe in original sin or indeed in “sin” but rather in thoughts and acts that have a positive or negative energy and a karmic response for them (cause and effect by another name).
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