Can you coax mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness?
Can you let your body become supple as a newborn child’s?
Can you cleanse your inner vision until you see nothing but the light?
Can you love people and leave them without imposing your will?
Can you do you with the most vital matters by letting events take their course?
Can you step back from your old mind and thus understand all things?
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OK that was a lot of questions. Let’s dive in and start with the first. Keeping my mind from wandering. Now that’s a challenge. There’s so many things to think about, not only what is going to happen in the future but why do I have to think about what happened in the past, the past is already done why does my mind wander and relive the past. It needs to stop. It is a huge distraction
What I need to realize, and what Rob tells me, I am not my mind, that if I find my mind wondering, it’s OK, Those thoughts don’t have control of me. I am not those thoughts. Let those thoughts pass and then return to the oneness. I think I am getting better at recognizing the thoughts for what they are, and if they don’t have any meaning to me, but they still happen.
Can you let your body become supple as a newborn child?
So I don’t think it means flexible and supple like we can touch our toes, but what it means here is not resistant. we are flexible in allowing things to happen to this body. Again remember we are not the body just like we are not the mind.
Can you cleanse your inner vision until you see nothing but the light?
So we are not the mind, and we are not the body, we are our inner light. But when my mind wanders and my body is not flexible, my inner vision, my inner soul is in a shadow.
Can you love people and lead them without imposing your will?
OK that’s one I think I might be able to have a good handle on. or maybe I’m just fooling myself. Imposing my will. I read somewhere that if you are imposing your own will then you are neither loving someone nor leading them.
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course
We have to let events take their own course. They’re going to do it anyway. Most things, even the most vital matters, are out of my control. So why worry about them. Why try to control them. All I end up doing is being upset that It didn’t go my way and spending a lot of energy on it.
Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?
I am not my mind. I need to get out of my mind. I am not my body. I need to stop worrying about what my body is doing. I just need to step back from it all and learn to trust my inner self.
Added September 2021
Supreme Virtue
* Create without possessing
* Lead without controlling
* Act without expecting