You have a job and you are automatically entangled in it. You have your mission and your perceived legacy. You have to deal with your peers, the friends, the foes, the bosses and the folks who report to you. Maybe you could find a new job pretty quickly, maybe you are stuck there. Maybe you have bills to pay and feel completely dependent on forces outside of your control.
Maybe your job has become part of your identity. If you lose it, or move on to some other job, it will leave you just like a snake skin, slowly peeling off and bring replaced by something new. I left my job of 22 years last fall and I still sometimes dream of some of the characters there. It is hard to let go of our past and our perceived identity. The same can be said for friends, family or lovers.
Is it really necessary to live without ‘I’ experience, without memory, without personal life story as some gurus tell us? I don’t know why our past necessarily has to stand in the way of our spiritual experience here and now. We just have to step out of the desire to tell a story. When we merge with the Now our past automatically disappears at that moment and our future gets reshuffled as well.
Relax about your legacy. Relax about the question what all that hard work in the past was good for, and certainly relax about what may happen to you in the future. Your intention is all that matters. You aim for the outcome you like to see, and the series of holy Nows will put the story together for you. Amazingly, your spiritual path will even heal the past if your intention is wholesome.
The Now heals heals the past and launches a meaningful future. Let the Way write your life story!
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