Everything is best. Yes, every thing. Now, that’s a strange spiritual truth if ever there was one. Yet, I have found it to be so.
There’s a Zen kōan that goes like this. When Banzan was walking through a market he overheard a conversation between a butcher and his customer. ‘Give me the best piece of meat you have,’ said the customer. ‘Everything in my shop is the best,’ replied the butcher. ‘You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best.’ At these words Banzan became enlightened.
The great spiritual philosopher J. Krishnamurti, pictured, had this to say about acceptance. ‘In the acknowledgement of what is, there is the cessation of all conflict.’ It took me years to understand what he was saying. I mean, years. Actually, decades. Yes, decades—and decades of unnecessary suffering, both to myself and others. Yes, whatever is, is best. Why is that so? It’s simple (but not easy). Because whatever is, is what is. And what is is reality, is now. When we resist what is, we suffer—every time. Yes, every goddam time. Resistance is non-acceptance. Resistance is suffering. And resistance is living in the past … or in the future. It is anything and everything other than living fully in the present.
Of course, acceptance is never easy but we make it so much harder than we need to. Acceptance is letting go—that is, letting go of all resistance, especially all opinions that stand in the way of a full acceptance of what is. However, before we can let go we must first let be. That’s right, we must let be whatever is our present reality. That’s not fatalism. Not at all. Before we can change what can be changed we must first … let be.
Acceptance is surrender—to what is. And acceptance is faith. Now, by faith I do not mean creedal belief but living with hope, courage and confidence despite appearances to the contrary. Faith is embracing what is, even though we might have hoped for something altogether different.
‘God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.’
Source:
http://ianellis-jones.blogspot.com/2014/07/if-you-can-accept-what-is-theres-no.html
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