Blessed are the meek
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5.5)
It’s fun to explore different saying of Jesus, and see what comes up… How is this true for me, in my own experience?
Meekness for me, in this context, means humility, receptivity, sincerity, a willingness to go outside of the familiar, to question what I take as true and real. A willingness to be wrong.
Specifically, it means to fully allow experience, and then allow it to work on me.
It means to find my beliefs, inquire into them, and find what is more true for me than the initial belief.
It means to embrace more of all of who I am at my human level, the good with the bad, the light with the shadows. Using the wider world as a mirror of what is right here, in my human self.
It means to explore what I really am, trusting what I discover even if it goes against what the whole world, and my past experience, is telling me. To discover that I am built open for the world, as Douglas Harding says. Built wide open for the world, for any experience, anything happening, any content of experience.
Inherit the world. This is what is invited in from this form of meekness.
I inherit the world in fully allowing experience, independent of its content. This allows for an appreciation of the fullness of experience, and the sweet nurturing fullness that is revealed when experience is not resisted.
I inherit the world in embracing more of all of what I am at my human level, allowing and living from more of the amazing richness here, mirroring the wider world. Whatever quality and dynamics I see out there are also right here, in my human self, either as a potential or more fully developed.
I inherit the world in finding what I already am, this no-thing full of the whole world. This field of awakeness of form inherently absent of an I with an Other, already and always allowing the whole world. The sense of an I with an Other falls away, revealing the whole world of form as an I without an Other.
And this is all a blessing. It is a blessing that this can be invited in through practices. It is a blessing that we already have and are this richness of our human self, and of what we are. It is a blessing that we can discover this for ourselves. And the journey itself, however it shows up, is a blessing.
Friday, March 28, 2008
“Where did you get your understanding/attitudes?”
Hi Greg, as everyone else, I am just using the world - in this case a saying from the New Testament - as a way to talk about what is alive for me here now. And what is alive is a story about the world, and other dynamics as well.
“EMBRACE more of ALL of “who I am”, is that because…”"
No, it is just meant in a very practical, everyday sense. Just noticing who I am as a human being, and finding peace with it, own it, as it comes up, as best as I can.
Friday, March 28, 2008
I just found your writing on “Blessed are the meek”. Where did you get your understanding/attitudes? You said you EMBRACE more of ALL of “who I am”, is that because you are imitating “I am who I am” and your relationship is truly PERSONal “in my inmost SELF”, Romans 7:22 and have established a conscience (the tree that Adam ate of)? and will learn to use that knowledge properly (Hebrews 5:14) so the spirit can purify conscience also (Hebrews 9:14)? I guess you don’t agree with the doctrine of “self abasement”/abatement, Colossians 2:18 and 23. Maybe you also “walk by the SPIRIT” (Galatians 5:16 and 25) and read the introductory doctrine of Christ (Hebrews 6:1) which is the “word of TRUTH”, 2 Timothy 2:15, Ephesians 1:13, John 14:6). Do you “HEAR” (John 10:27) the “sword of the spirit” (Ephesians 6:17) because you didn’t let the “hirelings (John 10:13) stop you from entering “by the door”, (John 10:1)? You probably already have the “rivers’ from John 7:38 that are necessary Revelation 7:16. while everybody uses ‘works’ to show partiality to the brethren IN Christ (James 2:9) instead of just truly resting in The Lord (Hebres 6:10).