Detachment

As you know, attachment to all things brings you guaranteed unhappiness, stress, and agitation. Practise the art of non-attachment so that none of these earthly trappings has any hold on you. In effect you give away your power to these imagined earthly needs, these invented earthly necessities.

Learn to say "I can take it or leave it". If I take it I will embrace it with love and joy, in gratitude. And if I don't take it, that's OK. That's just fine, just as it should be. In this way you will truly have the best of both worlds. You take and experience all of the positive aspects of a thing, the object, the desire, but you experience no sense of loss, of lack, when you don't have it. It's OK. This is perhaps not simple for you to do but with practise it can become part of your way of being. 

Here is an example of non-attachment. Probably the hardest thing to not attach to, are the ones you love. Your family, your children. Can you let your children go? Not think of them as my childen? They are glorious beings who came into this world, and who for a short time, will be under the guidance and protection of you, their parents. Who, although they love them dearly, are not strong enough to let them be free to be themselves.  

Non-attachment to your children is a great, great lesson.

Non-attachment to the outcome of what your children will become, to how your children decide for themselves to live their lives, within which perhaps, you may have only a very small part to play, or none.

To allow your children to be who they truly are, to do what they truly want to do. To allow your children to make their own mistakes and not interfere. To not attach to the result. If they make mistakes that's fine. If they get it right that's fine. Can you see, can you feel the freedom in this, the lightness of touch?

Guide your children, yes. Give them advice when they need it, yes. Help them when they ask for it, yes. When you sense that they need it. But helping again, is an art. Helping when they need help and helping them in the way that they need helping. Helping them in a way that enables them to grow in independance, to grow away from you. To have less need of you as a parent, and to be more self-reliant. This is an art. This is love in action. This is the way of God.

This is the way the great Masters teach. They nurture, guide, support. For we are their children and they see us as such. Never would any Divine Being interfere with your sacred right of free will, never. Never will a Divine Being tell you what to do, never. Never will they stop you from doing something that you have chosen to do, never.

Can we do this with our children? Can we love and nurture and guide and support, in such a way that they remain intact? Their sometimes fragile, as yet not fully developed personality nature remains intact?  Like a fragile bud that is opening little by little, without us crushing it under foot, or trying to change it. To make it a different colour, make it bigger or smaller, make it grow faster or slower.

Yes, think of Mother Nature as well. Mother Nature, in God's world, allows all things to be themselves. To develop their own pace, in their own way, in their own UNIQUE way. Oh yes. Every Divine Being (for that is what you are), in God's world (for that is where we live), is unique. Every thing is unique. Every blade of grass is unique, every insect, every snowflake. Every thing is unique and no two things are ever identical.

So your task is to, once again, as with everybody else you meet, recognise the Divine within your children. The Divine spark. See them as Gods. Enter into, and obey the Law of Harmlessness. Do them no harm.

Think about this. DO THEM NO HARM.

Will what you are about to SAY, HARM your children? 

Will what you are about to DO, HARM your children?

If so, don't do it.

And thirdly of course, Divine potential.

Recognise and nurture and develop the Divine, UNLIMITED potential in your children.

Every child has unlimited potential. To be. To be what? To be anything and everything they choose. While we as well-meaning adults, in such positions of authority over our children, we, with the best of intentions gradually crush and destroy this potential. Day-in, day-out, we grind, grind, and grind our children down until they cannot remember anymore what it was that they wanted to do, what they loved to do, what they delighted in doing. We have seen to it that that's been crushed, and that they become well-conditioned member of society, just like everybody else. Doing what they're supposed to do, thinking what they're supposed to think, wanting what they're supposed to want.

This will change, as we become soul-based beings, for the soul would do none of these things. The soul acts from a position of respect, harmlessness, love, and is there to guide but never interfere. This too, we are learning to do. For our world is changing now. Beneath our very feet Mother Earth is changing.

The things of which I speak will come about.

We will live on this Earth as God intended.

As his Divine Plan unfolds, so will the part that each of us has to play in it become clearer and clearer, and our will to play our part, stronger and stronger until it motivates our very existence. 

Then will we know true fulfilment.

Then will we know joy and bliss.

Then will we know God.

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