Sunday Reading 13 March 2011 Friday
Life presents us with different facets of reality, and always unpredictable sequence. Take a bus or decide to change our apartment can be a little trivial events meaning, or may become a milestone in our lives because of the consequences that these events bring. Monday, March 14, 2011
Backpacking With Dslr
random and unconscious element of life is beyond our control. If embody this chance - or karma - as God or Devil , because the consequences seem good or bad at the moment, perhaps we can enjoy the short relief instant explanation of what is happening. But we lose the meaning, and therefore, we lose the truth that frees us from illusion.
Jesus was led into the wilderness for forty days and was tempted - tested - for what are clearly powerful ego progress. Self-reliance, pride and power are seductive voices at any time, but especially when we are in the desert. This is a place of exposure and vulnerability where our self-centered family identities are suspended and where the raw face undisguised selfishness and self-survival. The ego naked, even our own selfishness, repels the conscious mind. So disguise it, deny it or refuse to accept the responsibility to our selfishness by demonizing it as if it were an external force to us.
According to the stories of the Gospels, Jesus faced his own ego without flinching, she saw through him and recognized his voice as illusory. Once we have seen through our self-generated illusion, are free. Even if he returns to try again, we will be stronger in identifying and resisting. Each test makes us more real. After the test we can relax for a little while, and through the natural and ordinary circumstances of our lives, we are touched by a power that renews and consoles.
"Then the devil left him, and angels came and took care of him."
Prayer, the third great practice of the Christian life is a desert. Their job is to face our illusions and things become more real.
Laurence Freeman
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