Ramana Maharshi once said that everything that is meant to happen will, and anything that is not, will not, no matter how much we try. You may roll your eyes and call this insight a tautology—it certainly is—but there is so much wisdom behind this statement, and I would claim that anyone who has been on this spiritual quest for a while knows this to be true.
When you sit down on a chair, your body never makes contact with this material. On a sub-atomic level, near nothingness approaches near nothingness, but the energy fields repel each other giving us the illusion that we sit on something real. Likewise, when people or events come into our lives, we either attract or repel each other. The outcome is subconscious!
I understand that spiritual teachers give concrete advice of what to do to promote our awakening and what to avoid. They have their usefulness just as this chair of “no-thing-ness” has that I am currently sitting on as I write. Yet, what actually will happen today may or may not have anything to do with what we decide we will do or aim to do. It’s all subconscious!
Show up and keep going is my advice. Let the movie that is meant to take place take place and enjoy the show. We have entered a well-structured subconscious journey to leave this self identification behind. A force infinitely smarter than our conscious grasp designed it, and success of merging with this force is guaranteed.
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