Enjoy the ride

 Your “path” is only this unfolding

You make effort,

you make none—

still, just life unfolding. 

Only the mind creates its story

born out of conditioning

of how things should be.

When “we” fall away

life keeps unfolding.

We only assumed

our efforts made it happen.

The unfolding continues—

silent, effortless, whole.

(Baerbel Marlena Simon, Life unfolds)

Body, mind and world are One. This is hard to see but possible to witness. We are not in charge, a higher power is. We are like children in a toy cart at the supermarket doing the steering and not realizing that our parents are pushing us around. Dysfunction is part of the “body, mind, world matrix” to demonstrate that our suffering is self-imposed. The moment we acknowledge the presence of this matrix we have a shot at dropping all identification with it. 

The moment we get the self out of the Way, the programming of the self-directed movie changes. We are bound to enjoy the flow of life once we stop throwing wrenches into the works. This is like a little boy who started crying because the cart was going to the left and not the right as he intended. The cart stops altogether as the parents try to console him. Free yourself from the identification with body, mind and world and enjoy the ride!