What are you waiting for?
Article
by Satta
Ishaya.org
What are you waiting for? Enlightenment to descend upon you
all in the name of Grace? What is Enlightenment? So many are enamored
with the search for Peace, the Path to God. So many seem more
enthusiastic about the next workshop or the latest self-help book. But what if
you were presented with the eternal invitation one day? The invitation
to be free, to fulfill your heart's longing, and live life from a state
of perpetual awareness, endless peace and unbounded joy.
Absolute fulfillment is knocking at the door of every man and woman.
But we miss it. So quickly does the mind think again. Sounds too good
to be true, Maybe next lifetime, Life's pretty ok right now. We
trade our deepest heart's desire for a mediocre life flitted with stress
and then happiness, anguish and then maybe momentary peace.
The eternal question, Who am I? is not mind blowing for no reason.
Just as the stars go on forever and ever, the concept of infinity is so
awe-inspiring that the head cannot wrap itself around the concept. And
that is just what the head is for. Concepts. Ideas. Thoughts, even
noble thoughts such as, We are all one, There is only Love and Light,
are forever going to fall short of direct experience.
There is only one thing to do, only by fulfilling one desire, will we
ever be truly free. We can have the healthiest of bodies, the best
relationship or job, a fat cheque each payday, but where are we inside? Is
there a gnawing, sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant intense emptiness
in there? A little or big space crying to be filled up? And no matter
how much travel, how many material toys, or sex or partying, there is
always only a transitory, unlasting satisfaction?
Is our heart fulfilled, truly overflowing with the Love of God? Or are
we kidding ourselves into being satisfied with the sly lies of the
mind? Only you can know.
Open up your eyes, and look within. Are you satisfied with the life
you're living? Bob Marley sang this simple tune and yet it is
profound. Being 100% honest, are you satisfied? Is every breath you take a
miracle? Is your heart so filled with Bliss that it feels as though you'll burst? Do you see beauty everywhere? You deserve this. It is
everyone's birthright to experience continual, uninterrupted Peace. Not
only when you close your eyes to meditate each day, but every waking,
sleeping and dreaming moment.
Impossible, may say the mind. Yet in the briefest of quiet moments,
inside we know this possibility to be a True Reality. Not as something
saved for a special select few, but for every practitioner, every
doctor and housewife and plumber and businessman. For you right now reading
this.
So live it. Fulfill the eons of your soul's longing and look within.
It will forever be the only way to satisfy the life you're living.
(Satta is an Ishaya monk and has been travelling internationally for the
past 7 years sharing an ancient Teaching to bring about Peace within
and expansion of Consciousness. www.ishaya.org )
What are you waiting for? © COPYRIGHT 2005 Satta.
Reproduction prohibited without permission from the author.
08/18/05
