Do Not Take Thought
A tricky lesson
What a tricky lesson and high beam balance this seems to be. One of the greatest teachers in our conscious, Jesus, is said to have stated: “Do not take thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.” Now hold up a minute. Huh? Then how exactly are we to live. How are we to care for ourselves, our life, our body, and our home. You see, Jesus (and many other teachers), knew that there was only One Life. And they knew that anything pretending to be something other than that life was false.
The trickster: ego
Taken further, they knew the voice in the mind that pretends to have a life of its own to take care of, a life separate from the world around it was ego. They knew that this voice was the source of all despair and stress and all lack of peace. They understood that the One Life takes care of itself. They knew that this life also has a voice that speaks to us and will guide us and do the work (like writing this message). They knew its supreme intelligence is really the truth of life and what we are. They knew that if we drop back from the ego our life can finally live itself without the unnecessary negative and often debilitating interruption.
The Way out
This practice of allowing our life to gradually become only the life of that inner guide (the one that is identified as the One) is indeed a process for most of us. But it is well worth it as it is the process that steeps us in our real identity—the identity of One, or I, that need not take thought for its life. It is life itself and simply doesn’t require our small thoughts. We then get to be the beautiful witness and seer of its unfolding in our experience. We get to be in a state of peace and know joy of all degrees. It truly does passeth understanding (to the world at least, and certainly to the ego). We get to live as one with a mind at home in that oneness.
The ego’s thoughts still flicker across our most beautiful, alive, and lit screens. But they either pass with no stickiness that would catch them in our mind. Or, we actively realize they have no true power or intelligence behind them and they simply go back to the nothingness from which they came. Either way, we are always safe, as we are always safe at home in our undivided mind. But in our experience, in what we know as the world of matter, which is really a world of consciousness or spirit (check it: even the scientists know this now), we may either experience our life as undivided through a developed spiritual sense or we may experience it as divided in bits that we have to fear, take thought for, and manage—the ego sense.
The choice is ours journeyers. And in truth it is a choice we already made. We chose us. We chose Oneness. We chose our Self. The only journey is a journey to remembering that very beautiful fact.
