We must seek to cultivate infinite patience through being certain about our outcomes, while simultaneously being unconcerned as to when and how. This involves understanding our relationships with everything around us. In the same way that a drop of water taken from the ocean has the characteristics of its source, so each of us are actually part of an Infinite Universal Spirit.
Throughout the ages numerous cultures have referred to the Spiritual Force that dwells in everything.
In the West we refer to the Infinite Universal Spirit as God. Over the centuries fixed interpretations of God have conditioned us, either wittingly or unwittingly, to believe that this Infinite Loving Spirit is something actually apart from ourselves and indeed jealously sitting in wrathful judgment of us. Enlightenment, or the conscious self-realization of our oneness with God’s Universal Spirit, removes the limitations that are set through the belief that God is outside of us.
The New Testament refers to the Kingdom of Heaven within; the Holy Koran to Those who know themselves, know their God; the Upanishads, To know God is to become God and by understanding the self, all this universe is known; The Tao Teh Ching to Know that what is, is in everything; and many others appear in every spiritual work, all reminders of our connectedness with the Universal Oneness of God.Irrespective of one’s faith, or name, term or definition of God, as such a thing is very much a personal choice,acknowledginginfinite in that you are part of a Universality that isits possibilities allows you to recognize that what you want cannot be kept from you. It follows that our ability to trust in this connectedness is proportionate to our ability to know that we will receive. This acceptance in turn allows us to remove all demands and time constraints as to how and when we will receive, thus cultivating the virtue of infinite patience. In harmony with other paradoxical truths, the very action of releasing the impeding forces that impatience and attachment unwittingly attract allows the more immediate realization of what you want.
Take two individuals studying to become proficient in a particular subject. One is desperate to gain recognition of his proficiency and seeks either tide, badge or award. The other, absolutely certain of the outcome of the dreams that originally motivated him to study, yet unconcerned as to how or when they will be fulfilled, receives recognition ahead of the first. While the first attached his feeling of importance to the award, the other had let go of his expectations and went about his daily business.
Letting go in the knowledge that you will receive is infinitely more powerful than holding on in the hope you may receive, as it places your energy in harmony with the order of the way things work. Admittedly this is a difficult concept to accept, as patiently detaching ourselves from those things which are important to us is in direct conflict with the way we have been taught.
Imagine someone with the following choices. The first choice is feeling happy only when things turn out just the way they want. The second choice is feeling happy whether things turn out the way they wanted or not. Although the obvious choice is the latter, in reality almost everyone adopts the former. The second choice can only be experienced through the practice of patient detachment.
Consider your involvement with a current situation that holds great importance to you. Think about when you want it to reach a fruitful conclusion. Take a moment to observe how you feel. Now, in the knowledge that you will continue to go about your business diligently, patiently detach yourself from the outcome. Observe how you feel now. Say to yourself that because you are absolutely certain that what you want will come to pass, you are completely unconcerned as to how or when it will. Observe how you feel now. Notice how, if what you were thinking of concerned you, your feelings of frustration and anxiety diminish. Notice also how, if what you were thinking of inspired you, a new certainty smothered rising doubts.
Although it is good to lose frustrations, doubts and anxieties, your ego begins to feel uncomfortable as its power over you is threatened. Knowing how to squeeze your Achilles heel, it immediately seeks to quell any rebellion by your true self by convincing you that such passive thinking will never gain you what you want. Your impatience is positive, the ego will suggest, as it fuels you to push for what you want and is therefore crucial for your security.
As these demands increase, your anxiety level in- creases. The ego does not want you to feel your connectedness with everything, for in allowing that, it removes its main source of power in making you feel unique. The less you feel singled out for what life offers, the harder the ego has to work to convince you that your security is under continual threat. If you become internally driven rather than externally influenced for your security needs, then the ego is out of a job.
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