“It is the space between the problem and the solution where the real juice is, where the real clearing happens. And the only way to release what isn’t working for you is to enter that sometimes-scary zone called feeling. Feeling the overwhelm, the resistance, attachment, guilt, sadness, worry, despair, shame…Feeling it all – without judging it as good or bad or taking it personally.”–Your Spacious Self
The space between clutter and clear, between the issue and the outcome, between what you don’t want and what you most desire, is the happening place, folks. It’s the only place, where we experience life-changing magic.
What does a daily practice of clearing with compassionate awareness look like? And what does it get you?
It gets you this…
“…there is a way to be sane…you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes.
It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.
And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.”
―Osho
You see, it’s not about the stuff, or the stress, that is holding us back and driving us crazy.
It is how we relate to it.
Art Credit: “The Great Leap of Faith” by Jane Evershed [from a notecard series “The Power of Women” published by Ronnie Sellers Productions]
