Investigating our True Nature, Even When Things Are Going Well

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Investigating our True Nature, Even When Things Are Going Well

Hafiz said: “you can either be brought into the house of god dancing or you can be brought into gods ward on a stretcher. The choice is yours.” He nailed it. When things go to shit I investigate my true nature. It brings me back to God. Then things go to shit again.

What if I didn’t wait for things to go down. 

What if even when things are good I turned within.

“Whatever is happening good or bad is all happening to draw us in.” Rupert Spira once said this at one of his meetings

Leonard Cohen put it really well: “and when he knew for certain 
Only drowning men could see him
He said all men shall be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them.”

He was talking about Jesus. He meant God of course. It’s all the same thing. I had another quote but I forgot it. God will call us in

God is calling us in either way. Oh yeah Ajahn Brahm says. Ajahn means teacher in his tradition.

And so everything is our teacher. Ajahn seizure. Ajahn debt. Ajahn layoffs. Ajahn broken heart
“And once you learn the lesson,” Ajahn Brahm says “you never need to go into that classroom again.” 

Once you open your heart to the situation

It never needs to arise again

Thank you
A tapestry of butterflies and caterpillars
A wall hanging from my AirBnB in Devon



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