Learn to live with what is, in the now. This is Life. And
the only one which you have.
Sometimes, we have to live through periods of
time that we intensely dislike. Things could be taking forever. Business may
not be happening. Or a relationship may be heading nowhere. Or a health
situation will be forcing you to be confined to bed. You may want Life to move
faster in such situations. But Life has a mind and pace of its own. Eckhart
Tolle, the German-Canadian spiritual teacher, in his awakening book, “The Power of Now” says, “Life is now.
There was never a time when your Life was not now, nor will there ever be.”
In a Zen story, a man falls into a river,
with violent rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall. People who were
watching this accident felt the man would die. But miraculously the man came
out alive and unharmed downstream, at the bottom of the falls. People rushed to
him and asked him how he managed to survive. He replied: “I
realized I had no choice. I adapted myself to the water and did not resist the
force, the direction or the flow of the river. I plunged into the ferocious swirls,
giving myself up to the river and came out gratefully whenever I was tossed up.
This is how I survived.”
The river rapids accident is but a metaphor.
It teaches you – and me – the need to go with the flow whenever Life changes
gears, changes the scenery and changes your reality! There is no point in
wishing that your Life is different from what it is. There is no point going
back in time and wishing your Life could be rewound or relived. And yes there is
no point hoping Life could move faster and get you out of your current
situation. It is what it is. You either live now,
with and in the present, or you never will!
Awesome, much needed post for me!
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