Here's a little Sunday thought for you to marinate in today.
Because we have moments of doubt, don't we? Whether we're making decisions, or changing career, or just engaged in everyday parenting of our kids – it's almost like there's this little voice in the backs of our heads, whispering,
📦 🗣️ “Am I doing the right thing?”
And it's very easy to see doubt as ‘bad’ – as if it's a sort of deficiency. There's a bit of a subtext to doubt that goes something like,
“If I was more in tune with life energy/God/wisdom/intuition, I wouldn't have so many doubts. I'd just do stuff. Without doubting.”
It's almost as if we feel like wisdom will answer our doubts; like it's the opposite of it, somehow. That it's there in the background, waiting to answer our doubts with encouragement:
Listen for wisdom…
That's what they say, isn't it? And that's what this looks like: Less doubt. More wisdom.
It's like some spiritual game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, where wisdom's there, telling us we're warmer… colder… warmer… warmer! Yes! That's it!
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But all of this is just meeting ‘doubt’ (i.e. an active Thought System 📦) on its own terms; trying to answer the questions and concerns that it raises, ‘using’ wisdom.
Once again, it's the mind innocently trying to settle things, by attempting to think its way out of a thinking problem, when all this really does is ‘turn up the master volume’ on the system, generating yet more noise.
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Which is why you'll find that the more you try and escape from doubt, using wisdom as a tool… the more doubt you'll experience.
So here are the ingredients for your Sunday Spiritual marinade:
- What if… you don't have to ‘trust wisdom’?
- What if… you don't need there to be ‘less doubt’ before deciding, or moving forward?
- What if… ‘doubt’ is like all the other forms of thinking: harmless, and useless mind rubbish; safe to ignore?
Remember:
“An ignored guest quickly leaves.”
~ Sri Yukteswar
Doubtless!
💟
Giles
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