Would You Care To Take A Glance At Enlightenment?
~ Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. ~ Lao Tzu
In the last section I covered a little on acceptance, as we need to accept that things just are, and not carry around baggage that has already happened. There is a level that is much higher than acceptance though, and that is the level of surrender.
Ask yourself this question,‘ What would happen if you had no regrets about your past?’ Have you ever tried to imagine what would happen if you totally forgave everyone who has been part of your life with complete disregard for whatever they did to you?
Of course not, why would we? We all hold on to our resentments to others as if they are some sort of valuable possession. Have you ever asked, why do we do that? The answer is simple. We have not looked at it before( we have very lazy minds, everyone does it), so we, being herd mentality beasts just follow the crowd.
Ok, this is just the beginning, but maybe you can start to see the level that you simply cannot forgive. Well you do realise that this lack of forgiveness is holding you back like an anchor does to a boat. This is some seriously heavy baggage! Sure you can possibly find a way to accept your mistakes, but to forgive others well that’ s a whole different ball game!
By holding on to your resentment and anger you are literally perpetuating unhappiness, poverty, sickness, limitation and a lack mentality in your own life. So do you think any of that stuff will help you get rich or live a serene life?
Of course not, but we‘ want’ our resentment don’ t we? Well at least we do until we notice how ridiculous it is, or until we realise that it is not us that wants our resentment at all. It is actually our little saboteur who wants to keep hold of it. This is so that it can use it to keep you down, to keep you where you are, to keep you repeating the mistakes.
Well I have zero resentment towards the person who made me bankrupt; instead I am actually grateful to him. I have no animosity whatsoever toward all of the hurtful cutting things that were said about me, in fact I am actually grateful. I have no ill feeling to anybody at all because I surrendered these feelings as they weren’ t helping me attain the life I desired. I simply made a decision that they were of no benefit to me. I made a conscious choice. The funny thing is as soon as I surrendered them they became of benefit to me.
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