Spiritual people often want
unconditional support and understanding from their friends, family, and mates,
but all too often seem blind to their own shortcomings when it comes to the
amount of unconditional support and understanding that they give to others. I
have seen many spiritual people become obsessed with how unspiritual others are
and assume an arrogant and superior attitude while completely missing the fact
that they themselves are not nearly as spiritually enlightened as they would
like to think they are.
Enlightenment can be measured by
how compassionately and wisely you interact with others—with all others, not
just those who support you in the way that you want. How you interact with
those who do not support you shows how enlightened you really are.
As long as you perceive that
anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own
liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others
and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but
Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be
satisfied in order for you to be happy.
It is in the absolute surrender
of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and
what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating
effect on others. The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to
surrender their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal
story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in order to be
free.
To give up being either ignorant
or enlightened is the mark of liberation and allows you to treat others as your
Self. What I am describing is the birth of true Love.
~ Adyashanti ~
© 1998 by Adyashanti. All rights
reserved.
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