trust

As one approaches enlightenment, a great trust in the whole process of life comes to one. This trust is needed for the spiritual seeker. For how else can we surrender the feeling of being in control, the need to feel in control? For us to be able to surrender, a deep trust in the process of existence, the flow of life, must arise.

This takes courage as well. Courage and trust are the two key attributes that are most important, if one is to come upon the truth. The courage to stand alone, to find your own way, your own truth. And a trust, a trust that runs so deep that even whilst life seems chaotic and unpredictable, still you feel that everything is perfect.

The mind wants to understand, to make a story out of life. This gives a feeling of security. But in the enlightened state, the stories carry no weight at all. The mental understandings of the thinking mind is not seen as of any relevance. At most it is light entertainment, like a Disney cartoon. Reality, for the lucky ones, is lived in the moment, directly, with no care for the stories of the mind.

To remove our security, our comfort blanket, to drop that – which is provided by the storytelling mind, with its narrow understandings and complex beliefs – to drop all that, where do we find security? Actually, there is no security. Deep in our psychology this comfort blanket is replaced by a trust, a trust in existence. This trust needs to be at such a deep level, that we no longer mind what happens to us, where life takes us. We no longer have specific requirements of life, for we trust in the whole flow of existence, no longer even from the personal perspective. This allows us to reach to the centre, to our essence.

At our essence is the universal. To come upon this though, we need to trust the whole process – the whole process of existence; its unpredictable, chaotic, seemingly fear-inducing ways. We need to go beyond that fear and trust, trust that life is unfolding in a beautiful way. With this approach in mind, we can come home and become life itself.