Lecture: By Meera Sharma.

Giving in is not the same as letting go.

Be in harmony within yourself – which means allow whatsoever is to be the case. While angry, be angry. Don’t give in. While loving, love. While hating, hate. Just be true, in harmony with yourself. That is what Tao is. And then a miracle happens. When you are in harmony with yourself, you also start being in harmony with other people and they start respecting. You are authentic. You are a solid person. You are not hollow, you are engaged with life. Repressed people never live their life, they only pretend. There is no sustenance to their life.

Live your life in fullest, in all its climates and colours. Don’t try to fix it. Be like a rainbow and play all those colours on the orchestra of your life. Not just one single note. Playing just one single note is monotonous, dull and poor. Become virtuous, and bring richness to your life by embracing polarities in your life.

Never give in, live your life whatsoever it brings. Conflicts and storms are also needed, as much as silence and compassion are needed. Life needs all the polarities. (From experience of polarities a balance is born.)

If conflict is your thing then let it be. That is the message of Tao. It has nothing whatsoever to do with harmony. Allow it, let it be, then that is harmony for you – because you will be in harmony with your nature. The conflict has to be accepted with great respect.

Total acceptance of the act and of the consequences. If you like to have no conflict – this liking is your ego. Trust the ‘reason’ for conflict to be there and that trust will help you to let go of that ego, then you can relax and let the conflict be there. You have to flow with the river, wherever it leads you. Even if it drowns you, trust it is for your good – this is total trust.

A miracle happens when the other person starts feeling that you are true, then a respect and love develops and conflict drops. Between two false people there is always conflict. Conflict is a consequence of two false persons being together.

There is a cost to be paid for a joyous and fulfilled life. Life has to be paid for enormously. It is not free, it has to be earned.

Never compromise: -
To live authentically means to live rebelliously and not to bother to make any compromises. To compromise means to reduce yourself, to poison your being. It is better to die than to compromise. Die uncompromised, and then you die a death of beauty and dignity. Then you will attain some glory and dignity as Jesus had when he was crucified. His crime was that he was trying to live his life authentically and uncompromised and that made people so angry about him.

Because the very presence of a happy and authentic person shows other people how unreal they are and the true person becomes a comparison. So, don’t just read the Bible, Koran, Gita and I Ching, become it, live it. Flow into the truth of their experience. Never compromise with anybody, not even with God. Be yourself – make it your prayer.’ I am that’ – there is no good and bad about me. ‘I’ am my truth. Truth, which is your experience of you. It cannot be learnt or realised any other way, other than living it moment by moment.

The path of Truth, accepting your being, and being authentic is not without pain. There is much pain involved but you will still be happy and empowered. All those sufferings will add to your taste. Sometimes travellers on this path suffer more than other people because they never avoid anything; they go headlong into things. They don’t simply die; they have a vision of higher life. One’s misery is empty and another’s misery becomes full of joy.

Hell is created because you expect heaven – have a big enough heart to accommodate somebody who is different from you.

Psychology says learn to say ‘no’ to be free and empowered, and spirituality teaches you to say ‘yes’ to everything with such joy as a child says ‘no’ without hesitation, with no strings attached, with no conditions.

The difference between Being and Doing is the difference between essential and non-essential; between sacred and mundane and between material and spiritual.

Essential things eg love, joy, cheerfulness, understanding, and inward journey to find yourself (self-inquiry), which you cannot do and you have to learn to allow them to happen. Never interfere with it, as it happens on its own.

Non-essential is that which you do, and your doing cannot be anything sacred. That is why all the temples and churches made by man are mundane. Whatever is made by man is mundane. Things you make happen by doing are mundane, nothing wrong with that, but remember they are not an essential part of your life; be ware of your attachment to them.

Things are happening, but you have to be conscious, otherwise you miss what was your very right, just by being sleepy. What is higher than man always happens; it is beyond your doing. You are always at the receiving end. You have to be just open, receptive and grateful to existence.

By:  Meera Sharma

© 2007 Meera Sharma

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