rejecting what is

Today I feel to say a few words about non-acceptance.

The ego which is constituted of these cards – this house of cards is the ego – the ego can only survive if we feel we can accept some things and reject others. This is another aspect of having the feeling of choice. So as we go through our lives, ordinarily, we are accepting and grateful of some things, but rejecting other things, not accepting. And this non-acceptance is a key card in the ego, and so one approach to destroying the ego is to totally accept whatever is happening in the moment.

This unconditional acceptance totally undermines the ego. And in a way it is such an obvious thing to do, for whatever is happening in the moment is truth. It is a simple thing; this is what is. And if we can accept it, then there is no problem. If we can accept it, there is no struggle. If we can accept it, there is peace.

But ordinarily, we do not always do this. We reject some things as being unacceptable, and in doing so, we step out of the flow of life and start to struggle against it. It is a madness, a folly, for it does not actually change what is. It just sets ourself against it, against what is. It creates a separation. It takes us out of the flow. And with that, a great anguish arises within us. This striving, struggling, without any real hope of achieving anything, all that it does keep the ego alive; the sense of self.

The sense of oneself as a separate being is a struggle. It is not a pleasant feeling. And all of that struggling, striving, getting nowhere is founded on this rejection of what is: non-acceptance. This is also the root of our anger. What is anger? It is just this non-acceptance. Anger that makes our lives so miserable. Not only one’s own life, the life of those around us is made insufferable by anger. And anger is non-acceptance: non-acceptance of what is. It is perhaps the greatest folly of a human being, to not accept what is.