One of the things I really appreciate about the Great Freedom Teachings of Candice O'Denver is the repeated direction to "Just rest for a moment!" . For many of us who have been on a spiritual path of seeking for many years, these words are like the sweetest music we could possibly hear! Human beings are so used to changing, fixing, replacing, and running away from aspects of ourselves or our circumstances. And this response has only brought more unease and more war to our planet. So, to be told to relax and to let everything be as it is, is not what we are used to! There are many free downloads on www.greatfreedom.org and all of them are amazingly simple and phenomenally profound. After finishing the basic four-day training with two excellent trainers from Balanced View, I can say that it is such a relief to be a part of this lovely movement working for peace on the planet. Listen to Netti Raysz, a trainer for Great Freedom as she talks about "Complete Comfort"
"Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but is already
present in open relaxation and letting go. Don't strain yourself ~ there is nothing to do or undo. Whatever arises momentarily in the body-mind has no real importance at all, has little reality whatsoever. Why identify with it and become attached to it, passing judgement upon it and ourselves?
Far better to simply let the entire game happen on its own, springing up and falling back like waves ~ without changing or manipulating anything ~ and notice how everything vanishes and reappears magically again and again, time without end. Only our searching for happiness prevents us from seeing it. It's like a vivid rainbow which you pursue without ever catching, or a dog chasing its own tail.
Althought peace and happiness do not exist as an actual thing or place, it is always available and accompanies you every instant. Don't believe in the reality of good and bad experiences;
they are like today's ephemeral weather, like rainbows in the sky. Wanting to grasp the ungraspable, you exhaust yourself in vain. As soon as you open and relax this tight fist of grasping, infinite space is here ~ open, inviting and comfortable.
Make use of the spaciousness, this freedom and natural ease. Don't search any further. Don't go into the tangled jungle looking for the great awakened elephant who is already resting quietly at home in front of your own hearth.
Nothing to do or undo,
Nothing to force,
Nothing to want, and
Nothing missing.
Emaho! Marvelous!
Everything happens by itself.
the words of Lama Gendun Rinpoche
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(see issue # 20)
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