Читать книгу Triumph Of Love Over Ego - Saeed Habibzadeh - Страница 16

As we have seen previously, there are two possible ways of perceiving what happens in our life. The first and more convenient choice is to build our perception around the way things appear to be. For our ego, this is a very comfortable choice, since there is no need to make any effort or to question anything at all. We need not bother to look for the truth; we just settle for what things look like. And so we keep our perception at a superficial level and will never discover the origin of something or its underlying background.

When we decide to settle for appearance, we decide to settle for packaging. We will never know what the content is. When we want to give a birthday gift, we use nice wrapping paper – there is nothing wrong with nice packaging. The mistake would be to concentrate all our effort on the packaging and treat the actual present, the content, as an afterthought. When something happens to us, it is either a blessing or a mishap for us. We concentrate on whether an experience is lovely or horrid, whether we like it, whether we enjoy it. The birthday gift is not about the pretty packaging; it is about the gift itself. That which matters is inside the packaging. To find it, we need to open the packaging and look through it to what is underneath. It is quite the same with our experiences. However unpleasant they may be, they always carry a beautiful and liberating message for us. Every experience is a lesson to be learnt, a lesson to extend our consciousness.

This means that everything that happens to us happens because we need it so that we can grow spiritually. Every experience wants to lead us to a new self-awareness. We experience on the outside that which we have not yet perceived within ourselves. We meet our lessons on the outside. Everything we experience wants to help us to identify our content, the ugly as well as the beautiful! If you refuse to accept your experiences and refuse to learn from them, they will return to you again and again. It is just like refusing to accept a parcel from the postman, the difference being that the spiritual postman will keep ringing the doorbell louder and longer every day, until finally we open the door and accept the parcel.

Every experience is about self-awareness!