The Secret Seminar Gives You Permission to Live the Joy
Posted by admin on March 20, 2007
The context of our times–following a century of unprecedented wealth and expansion right next to a century that saw the worst sorts of murder and disease ever known to humans–demands that we account for disparity and injustice. You hear the voices around you telling you that you must not choose happiness while others suffer. You may not choose health while others tremble with tormenting disease.
If you had any sense, this voice claims, you would get a disease yourself and accept that life is pain and that all other forms of thought are fraudulent. The secret behind the Secret seminar would be teaching that in the place that no sword can damage or disease grow; there thrives the eternal knowing that life is beautiful. You knew it as a child. You knew it as you grew. At some point–for some early, others late–the thought virus called materialism infected your mind and stole you from your dwelling in the ethereal realms of joy and frolic.
Someone told you that you had to find a way to get grounded in the way things really are. They told you to turn on your television or open your textbooks to read about the plight of the downtrodden or listen to the doom that awaits us all. If you were thoughtful, as most of you are, I imagine these teachings caused you to shudder and put your attention on other dark and gloomy “truths” in the world.
If you were savvy, as I’m sure most of you were, you soon found your threshold for pain surpassed and you had to find something to distract your troubled mind. Ultimately, however, the entire explanation of the world that told you to shed tears is something that you can now release. Joy is not something you earn after years of toiling towards retirement.
Joy is not something you have to earn at all. If you did, every child on the planet would spend their first years in sorrow until they finally paid enough for the fact that they were borne without reimbursing the universe that bore them. The nature of life is one of contrasting experiences. Nothing more.
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