You Already Have All You Need

The title may not seem true to you if you don’t have the money in hand to pay bills now due or a working car or any number of other unmet needs. I understand the frustration. In fact, I’m dealing with it right now. My life is my practice.

I don’t have it all figured out. But I do know that the frustration I feel is not helpful. It’s a result of me thinking I don’t have what I need. I get to turn this around. My way of viewing the situation can be changed.

What I do know is that everything I see and experience is colored by my thoughts and beliefs. And all of it is in the One Mind. We are the rising energy of Spirit moving into expression through all manner of being. If I am that which is everything and the potential of everything, I have all I need.

The practice comes in fully realizing this truth in the midst of my experience. I get into to trouble when I run around in fear and try to make things happen. I interfere/interfear. I interject my fears into the One Mind and so that is what plays out for me.

I realize the truth by becoming silent and connecting to Spirit. I allow the Presence to take over so I can relax. When I relax and trust, I am open to Spirit’s inspirations and grace.

There are studies that show how a relaxed state of mind is conducive to solving problems because we are open to what is already there within the subconscious. Fear is restriction and restriction cuts off flow. Release the fear and the way through is made clear.

Another way to put this is, know the truth and then show the truth. The truth is that you do have all you need. I speak this as a reminder to myself. I treat and I trust. I know and I show. Spiritual Mind Treatment or affirmative prayer is a tool I use to shift my consciousness. But the main thing to do is to trust and let go. The answers are within. Everything we need comes from Spirit rising to the surface.

Let It Be

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Whoever makes all cares into a single care, the care for simply being present, will be relieved of all cares by the Presence, which is the creative power.

~ Kabir Helminski

The Beatles may have come to mind when you saw the title to this blog. Their beautiful song "Let it Be" expresses the core of the wisdom tradition. We can relax and know all is well no matter what is going on around us. When we know this, when we let this be our truth, we take part in creating it as our experience.

Our greatest power comes in letting go. We set our intentions based on the desires in our heart, but then we let it be what it will. We hand it over to a power greater than us. We do this trusting the Presence has a greater perspective than we do.

Let it be is a phrase used in the Bible to express the idea of creative power. God says, let there be light, and there was. We have creative power, too. We speak our word and then let it be. As our desire rises and we speak it, it exists. There may be actions we need to take on the physical plane, but the power of creation is in knowing it is already done and so we just need to let it be.

There is a Buddhist tale where a monk meditating in his cell is confronted by a soldier who is pointing a gun at him. The monk doesn’t react and so the soldier gets angry and says, “You don’t understand. I have the power to take your life.” The monk responds with, “No, you don’t understand. I have the power to let you.”

This story shows us that we always have choice and the power to create our experience. We’ve been taught that we have no power over our experiences. The above scenario seems impossible to believe we would have power in it. But that’s where we must change our thinking.

To let something be is to trust our good which is always with us. I don’t have to do anything because my good is here and now. As I mentioned above, there may be steps to take on the physical plane, but our mindset, our heartset is one of non-interference. We are weavers not because we do something out there but because we weave the light of consciousness at the heart of Being.

You Need to Begin Where You Are and Where You Are is Holy Ground

 

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You can appreciate your life, even if it is an imperfect situation.

~ Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Discontent may motivate us to change, but it cannot help us to change. Discontent breeds more discontent because where you focus shall be your experience.

But it’s important to acknowledge where you are right now. If you work to manifest something that is beyond your belief, it’s not likely to happen. It’s important to have a vision of where you want to go, but then you need only focus on the next step and that step needs to feel possible. Often, if you remain open and listen for what comes next, you’ll be presented with an idea that is believable or action that is doable. If we rush to act before we are inspired, those actions may not have the power of your belief behind them.

What’s even more important is to live in gratitude and appreciate your life right now even if it’s imperfect as mentioned in the quote above. Just as discontent breeds more discontent, gratitude breeds more gratitude or as Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money says, “What you appreciate, appreciates.”

Wherever you happen to be right now in your life, I want you to know that you walk on holy ground. Gratitude is an act that acknowledges this fact. When we acknowledge that our life and everything is holy, miracles occur. Our minds are transformed and we are moved to reverence. And it is in this state we create true change.