Magical Buddha Nature

Magical Buddha Nature

The Tao is not obliged to follow any expectations of the one attempting to align with it. There may be disparate lessons to learn and once the seeker has made an inner pledge to put enlightenment before the ways of the world, the Universe will begin to provide the scenarios for you to fulfill your mission. This may mean that you will have to move again and again. New cities, new relationships, and plenty of uncertainty await the adventurous spirit. The master of the moment will meet you exactly where you need and the ecstasy is in direct correlation to the ability to risk.

There is a Zen saying that stands in contrast to what many in the West consider wise counsel: “Don’t look before you leap!” If everything is premeditated we can transfer the safety of our personal parameters to the future so that we never have the naked brilliance of a truly new experience. This way we might be able to temper fear, but we also live at the minimum and have no room for the divine to enter our hearts. Love is above all things the freedom of expansion. If this is not what you feel, all the rationalizations in the world will not change the situation. Only a leap will.

Can you tell what it is your heart is saying to you? There will be many voices crowding your inner world with very serious and authoritarian structures that seem to make much sense. “You got to do this…you got to do that….its a rough world out there…” Shab once said something quite simple to me that has many implications. “Either the Universe is a magical place or it isn’t.” Huh? Well, if it isn’t, then it is a cold, dark and lonely place and we are pretty much helpless. If it is, Love is possible, dreams can be realized, and we can work with the magic to create our own joy.

In this accelerated way of life, letting go is the key ingredient. It is possession which makes us scream with pain. When it is time for change and we resist, it hurts. The more we drag our heels, the more excruciating it will be. As much as we may Love something or someone, there will come a time when we go it alone. If we can find comfort in this place then all that we do have can be enjoyed to a greater extant than if we were attempting to live in a manner worshipping accumulation. This is why money can never make us happy; it does nothing to fill the inner void.

The heart has its own methods. If you give you will get more. If you hold back, the little you do have will dry up like a tiny sprout in the desert sun. Consider experience and enjoyment your guides to success. You didn’t go through the whole incarnation trauma to sit in front of your TV sets all day every day. Nor did you take that initial plunge to just punch the old time clock in your work-a-day world. You did it to find the truth of who you are. There may be layers of dust upon your soul, but a fresh wind can clear the mirror and with just a peak you will see your Buddha nature.

~Christopher Moors

1/22/2007