Practice with a fresh
attitude. Meditate upon your chosen object of meditation, not on your son
or
your daughter, your spouse, your money, your position, your ego trips, your
possessions,
your proprietorships or any kind of aggrandizement or
gratification.
HOW TO MEET SOMEONE YOU HAVE HAD DIFFICULTIES WITH as if you are meeting him
or her for the first time? Don’t assume that she is still like this, though
if she gives you a reason, you have every freedom to again pull apart. If
you say, “Any time I touch this person, it is just poison for me,” that may
be true but you do not want to keep the person in that identity for all
time. “Oh, I have tried for ten years.” Yes, I have tried too and it has not
proven otherwise for me either. But what I do is see a person as if for the
first time today. Let him or her have a legitimate chance to prove
otherwise. This is opening your eyes. Your wife, your husband, your child,
your money, your position, your house, your swami, your anything—when you
see them, when you relate to them, do it for their sake, not for your sake.
Love your child for your child’s sake. I assure you that 99.9% love their
child for their sake, not for the child’s sake. It looks as if you are doing
for your child’s sake, but if your child begins to behave not according to
your way—”better he was not born!” |
Do you know you meditate for
your sake, not for God’s sake? If you had, you would have become Realized.
Then life is a perennial joy— anytime, anywhere, anything—without exception.
It is not only joyful but a thing of beauty, peace and love. When everything
in life is refreshed and renewed every moment—that is the sacrament of the
moment. |