Lack of Acceptance Causes Suffering - 4th May 2015

As long as you are identifying with the content, it will seem like this: you on this roller coaster of life, up and down and up and down. See, see that you are just this awareness, untouched by any up or down. Then you will find that the entire phenomenal play is just dancing for you. And sometimes it makes no sense. It makes no sense sometimes because Anandi, for example, was sharing in the morning that the body has been in such pain. It makes no sense; the mind will never understand. So how is... how can this pain be for my enjoyment? It's all part of this story of this 'me'. And one day, if you write your memoirs, you will see that, you know, all of this happened so that it could become part of your story.

Because although it can seem like it's an uncompassionate thing to say, the fact is that even this pain is not happening to you—not you as a person, anyway. You can see very strong, very... because this is when acceptance comes. Acceptance causes... or lack of acceptance causes the suffering. See, by the way, acceptance does not mean being passive about things. Acceptance is just to accept the present moment exactly as it is. And in the present moment, if you find yourself walking to a doctor, that is also okay. It's not about the external appearances; it is about what we are believing about ourselves there.

There's the pain, or any other emotional pain, psychological pain, other events—does it make us a person? It never makes us a person, but it can bring up strong, strong temptation for belief. That's all it can do; it brings up strong temptation for belief. 'Yeah, why is it happening to me?' all this. Instead, just see if you can experiment with the pain a little bit. Just listen to the pain and say, 'What are you saying?' Don't try to fight it away. Give it your attention; that's what it's screaming for. Please accept it.

And pain in this human play is inevitable. It might be experienced as body pain; it might be experienced as emotional or psychological pain. Some say, 'Isn't it that after I broke up with my relationship, I could feel the physical pain of it?' This pain is like an energy which plays in these different ways. So first, don't believe the thought that this should not be there. Just know that if something is coming, it is all a play of Grace. The universe makes no mistakes. It has perfect timing also. And it can seem like 'Ow!' It's okay. You are witnessing even this 'Ow!' See, you are witnessing it. Although the body might be getting completely beaten up in this being, but you—that is the witness—is still untouched by it. And there we are one. As the witness, we are one. As the witnessing, we are one. As the awareness, we are one.