I feel this last week’s lesson in “divine compensation” is very relevant today. When someone takes something away from you, or harms you, the universe repairs itself by restoring to you what you lost in a new form. The person who took from you will also get to experience the loss they facilitated in some form in their own life. But to feel the peace of this knowing requires complete trust. For me learning a lesson helps evoke this trust, which is why I write these posts. I think we are all learning something about ourselves, and what our personal views of justice are, from the Trayvon Martin case.
Eckhart Tolle sends out “present moment reminder” emails and the one he sent out this week, from A New Earth, says, “Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.” So today I look within, with an open mind, at the assumptions and attitudes I hold. Where do I perpetuate injustice? What assumptions and attitudes do I make about people who I don’t truly know? When do I put the blinders on and stop seeing my human kin as brothers and sisters and instead treat them as “other”? Without judging what I find, I am able to learn from myself. From the higher vantage point of the watcher I can view the parts of me that do not operate from my true self, and find they dissolve in the light of awareness.
In the coming weeks I will begin to address the pain body, that energy created by past pain that lives within us and is added to when painful events are not fully accepted and let go of. I feel that the recent events from Florida may add to this nation’s pain body. Our collective pain body has surely been awoken, as can be seen on any social media outlet. But it can be dissolved, by dissolving our own individual pain bodies.
I also find it very healing to remind myself that I am seeing current events from a very limited viewpoint and cannot judge what I see. I have no idea for what purpose any event happens, and labels such as “good” and “bad” are merely thoughts in my head. For now, I think we could all use a bit of good news: