When you look into a mirror, what do you see?
You see a pile of flesh that we generally call a person. And this person in the mirror is the person you have learned to identify with.
This person is associated with wishes, desires, fears, problems, beliefs, opinions, convictions, traumas, etc.
Now imagine this:
I will take care of this person (you) for a week. Yes, me personally, I will do that for you. (How nice of me.)
I will attend to all your daily worries, dramas, and all the other gamut of seemingly important troubles.
But what will you do in the meantime?
Well, you go ahead and take a vacation.
A real one — one you have never taken before.
Your whole life you’ve been used to taking care of this person in the mirror, even when you were on vacation.
You’ve been laboring nonstop, keeping track of everything the person has deemed important.
You’ve earned yourself a time-out, pal.
Now we’re getting to the real point of this little experiment.
This is of course not about me showing off my altruistic vein. I probably wouldn’t do a good job of taking care of you anyway.
Anyway, so you’re taking a vacation.
But if everything you believe yourself to be is the thing you’re taking a vacation from, then what is left to take the vacation?
And there we have the punchline.
The you you think you are is not the real you. The person with all the perennial stuff that hangs on to it is not and has never been and will never be real. All of it is nothing more than an elaborate conceptual house of cards you’ve been conditioned to identify with.
You don’t have to wait for me to take the load off your shoulders.
Have you ever secretly wished your life would fall apart?
Be honest. This is only between the two of us.
If you have, now you know why.
What you wanted to fall apart was not your life. Your life is something else. It’s apparent when you take that vacation.
You can take a vacation right now, even if it’s only for a second, and watch the conceptual house of cards that you believed yourself to be collapse.
It’s not difficult.
Drop every thought, idea, concept, and belief about anything and everything.
Now what is left?
Actuality — pure non-conceptual experiencing.
Is there a you in there?
What can be said about it, except perhaps that it just kinda is?
In the beginning, it might not seem like much. It might even seem boring.
Why would I get in touch with what is when I can create a whole psychological drama out of nothing and then spend a lifetime trying to resolve it?
Yep. That’s how most of us live. It’s an addiction, a disease, a virus — being firmly identified with a conceptual entity living a conceptual life.
You can start breaking that identification right now, and if you’re reading this I assume you already have started.
When it hits you what we’re talking about, when you start tasting and savoring what it feels like to be you, then you’ll know that the life you’ve been living up until now was only the shadow of your true life.
Then you’ll look into the mirror and see yourself (the person) in a different light. You’ll see the person as a part of the experiencing that you really are.
And you can love it all. You can say yes to the person in the mirror unconditionally, exactly as he or she is.
And if it all seems a little overwhelming at times, well, then you can always take a little vacation.
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P.S. Vacation services — me taking care of you — begin at $3999 a week.
P.P.S. The P.S. is a joke. They actually begin at $5999 a week.
Luka
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