You have to give it all up,” my new teacher reiterates many times during a story he tells me about waking up.
Labels. Limitations. Attachments. Expectations. Fears. Doubts. Judgments. Desires.
They are all obstacles to enlightenment. They are all obstacles to freedom.
I do not resist his word because I know that it is true. Not because he says so. But because I Know so.
The path to enlightenment is a trap.
A few years ago, I learned a powerful lesson on a peculiar date with a particular woman.
The woman was into wellness. A little too into wellness.
It felt extreme when she requested that I pick her up at the gym. But that proved mild compared with her interpretation of a dinner date.
When she got into my car, I invited her participation in selecting a restaurant. She responded that she had brought her dinner with her.
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Americans are in pain. I see it on so many faces and hear it in so many voices.
No one has the monopoly on it. No one is marginalized by it. Most Americans are desperate for pain management.
It does not matter what form pain comes in – physical, mental or spiritual. Pain is pain. The suffering of each of us is real.
But does it have to be?
