When I write these blogs, I am recording the things I am learning. I want to emphasize that I am not trying to teach or preach. The concepts I am learning are truths that I must put into my life. As I said in an earlier blog, the practice and integration of the Truth is as important as the epiphany.
So I have to admit that I get a little discouraged occasionally when I see myself stumbling around tripping over obstacles and what I wrote about prior to this comes to mind. I find myself needing to follow the advise or model the behavior I will write about and I feel hypocritical. I know that I am needing to practice constantly. I don’t want anyone to think that because I wrote something, I follow that teaching or precept always. I find myself in situations that I know that if I made a different choice like one I have written about, I wouldn’t be needing to dig myself out of a hole. So I am often reminded of the Wisdom I am given when I haven’t followed what I should … abundance is a great example.
I think we put people on pedestals as if they are better than us. We do it for many reasons. I think we are told such, but also we may have a passion and see someone who does that really well and so we think they are better than us. They may be better in that instance, but we are all struggling in life. There may be a few that are running around on Earth as Buddhas, but they are rare. So no matter the person, they are working their way through this life just like us.
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