Instructions

Instructions: 

I like instructions, explicit and directly to the point, most especially in matters that concern my own well-being. This is why I've been drawn to those paths that provide the most clear way ahead, such as yoga, Buddhism, and A Course in Miracles, they provide a blueprint for lasting peace and happiness. Even enlightenment, if you will. I love too the fact that Jesus was so precise with his instructions - love God with heart, soul, and mind, as well as too love others as we love ourselves. 

clear.

there's no room for negotiations here.

Jesus also pointed in the exact direction for us to find heaven, stating several times that the kingdom was only found within, and yet we still continuously look elsewhere. As a Christian, the path is definitely clear, and if more were needed than the Sermon of the Mount gives even more detailed instructions. Nothing more is needed for a meaningful, loving life than to follow the way of Christ. 

if that is your path, of course. 

with Krishna, the path of yoga is laid clear in the Bhagavad Gita. This is the way of surrender, laying aside attachments to the fruit of our endeavors, and living in the simplicity of an inner-directed life. Buddha too gives an eight-fold path that leads towards awakening. There's really little guess work involved here, it's just a matter of following these instructions. 

for me, the directive is forgiveness.

A Course in Miracles continuously points towards healing a fractured world, placing the responsibility solely upon my own practice. The instructions are quite simple: forgiving others as would wish to be forgiven. That's it. But it's a profound practice, not easy, as it shifts my beliefs away from blame and judgement towards a reality of absolute grace and a love without conditions. 

yet the instructions are clear.

forgive,

and further still...forgive some more.

until I heal a fractured world. 

~

Love, Eric 

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