Selflessness

Your "self" is always busy terrorizing you. You have a terrorist in your own brain, coming out of your own instincts and culture. "Don’t relax too much," it is saying," you'll get stepped on. A bug will bite you. Someone will be nasty to you. You'll get passed by, abused, sick. Don't be honest. Pretend. Because if you're honest, they'll hurt you." And it's ordering you, "Be my slave. Do what I tell you to do. Because I'm in control." Your falsely perceived, fixated, domineering self is precisely what's getting between you and a fulfilling life.

"Selflessness" does not mean that we are nobody. It does not mean that we cease to exist. Not at all. There is no way you can ever "not exist." Even in tragedy. I have a healthy respect for tragedy. We do have terrible tragedies. Personally, I don't bear misfortune well; it knocks me out. But there is no way to become nobody.

Realizing your selflessness means you become the type of somebody who is content never to be quite that sure of who you are — always free to be someone new, somebody more.

Facing that and then becoming all that we can be — astonishing, surprising amazing— always fresh and new, always free to be more, brave enough to become a work in progress, choosing happiness, open- mindedness , and love over certitude, rigidity, and fear — this is realizing selflessness!

Posted by clevelandbeach.com at 3/11/2010 5:27 AM
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