Freeing the self from time and space: #48
The perfected self is more a defining boundary than a goal. Our interactions in the routines of our daily life often pit us against ideals we inherently feel we must be achieving, and we often find ourselves gauging the success of our lives, based on how close we are to achieving those ideals. Make no mistake we need goals, they help us to rightly order our routines and priorities. But what we do not want in our lives is competition between the selves, and this often occurs as a result of trying to achieve the wholeness we mistakenly believe will be achieved if we can just reach the completion of the goal.Harmony of the selves is a very elusive state, many throughout the ages have opined on how to accomplish it, and many have achieved it through the methods they outlined. There is no singular method to achieve this state. It is accomplished not by completion but more by surrender, when we surrender to the natural flow and order of the universe, the process can be seen as more an act of separation than submission. If we feel that we must propel the natures and the many selves towards our goal of wholeness through a perpetual action upon the selves, we are in essence becoming slave to the selves and not author of our destiny, which is the goal. It may appear to be self contradictory to espouse that one can be author of his destiny yet servant of it simultaneously, but in reality the former is a state of awareness, and as we have learned in earlier lessons we are inherently equipped to compensate for this paradox by simply evoking our observer state. When we transcend the linear plane of daily life by standing outside of it as an observer, we see the true motion of our lives as it is being played out. If we see discord then we can pinpoint its origins and make correction where it needs correcting, if we see harmony we can extend accolades upon the sum of our-"selves" thus promoting the sense of wholeness and continued harmony, one such teacher suggested to his followers that they should be "In this world but not of it". We can easily obtain this state by invoking our observer state consciousness and thus analogously freeing ourselves from the strictures of time and space.
The greatest hurdle we will overcome is when we come to realize that control is in many respects like a heavily draped window dressing, when in fact the window is but a façade. Sometimes the best way to control a situation is by just letting it play out. This of course has an equally detrimental possibility to be abused, but, seldom has this been the case when the person is doing this from the position of author or observer, and not unwitting participant in an exchange of disordered selves.
Another such observer once opined that "We do with out doing and everything will get done." When we see ourselves as we truly are, separate yet one, uniquely one, yet inseparable from the whole. When we can grasp this, we are closer to our goal yet with no urgency to achieve it.
