"Whoever clings to his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for me shall find it." ~Master Jesus
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heart of God is not sentimental. Allowing yourself to be breathed into
the groundless chaos prior to creation is not addition but subtraction. The Absolute is not a
consolation, but a perfection of loss. If you lose nearly all,
yet hold on to a little, you are poor. But if you lose all,
unconditionally, giving everything away in one magnificent gesture of inward
generosity, you are very rich.
Buddhists call it "sunya," emptiness. Christian mystics call it "kinosis," self-emptying. In Philippians 2 we read, "Jesus emptied himself." Vedanta describes self-emptied awareness as "neti neti," not that and not this.
As
soon as a thought arises, kiss it and let it go. The energy you were expending in thought now rushes back to fill the void as pure bliss. Letting go of thoughts is not an effort that requires work, but a continuous replenishing of the heart. If you claim ownership
of nothing, not even your thoughts, you will never be disappointed. Lose the goal. Lose the path. Lose the beloved and break your heart. Loss will teach you everything.
Perhaps you are afraid that you will become a fool if you let go of thoughts and fall into the silence of the heart. Yes, you will. This is the foolishness of God. "But the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men" (1 Corinthians 1:22). You may ask, does loss not entail some grief? Yes, most certainly. Yet in the paradoxical wisdom of loss, bliss and grief are the same energy. Sublime and hollow grief blossoms into pure compassion.
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