{"id":1316,"date":"2015-10-26T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesonline.org\/triciablog\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:00:31","slug":"oct-25-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciabatessmith.com:443\/index.php\/2015\/10\/26\/oct-25-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 10-25-15 Salt of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday!
\n\u201cAs life unfolds itself to man the first lesson it teaches is humility; the first thing that comes to man’s vision is his own limitedness. The vaster God appears to him, the smaller he finds himself. This goes on and on until the moment comes when he loses himself in the vision of God. In terms of the Sufis this is called fana, and it is this process that was taught by Christ under the name of self-denial \u2026 True self-denial is losing one’s self in God.\u201d ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan\u00a0<\/em>
\n\"601<\/a>
\nHumility
\nI wrote last week that I felt humble following my experience of seeing my light body.\u00a0 I became aware of a new realm of which I know nothing.\u00a0 It is a new expanse of me with God.
\nHumility has been my lesson for this week.\u00a0 The thought \u2018I feel humble\u2019 has been on my mind a lot so this morning all my Sunday teachers\u2019 verified the lesson for me.\u00a0 It is time to write to put the pieces of the lesson together.
\nThis week I have been feasting of videos of Sadhguru on Youtube.\u00a0 I became aware of this mystic yogi a year or more ago from watching the movie \u201cWith One Voice,\u201d a film of mystics of many faiths and how they all have the same message to tell.\u00a0 He has popped up on my Youtube from time to time but this week he has become my teacher for this course.
\nTwo weeks ago when I wrote about my \u2018lightbody\u2019 I thought I might be guided toward energy healing.\u00a0 Sadhguru does not support reiki and other energy healings.\u00a0 He says first it is working in a realm that we cannot understand. From what I have seen of his messages he puts the emphasis on the individual to go within to find their true selves and to heal.\u00a0 He also says that healing does not serve the other person as it just masks the message the dis-ease is trying to tell the other.
\nThis all made sense to me.\u00a0 I see western medicine, especially medication, just treat symptoms and not address the problem. I understand Sadhguru\u2019s point of energy healing smoothing over what the individual is manifesting in the physical body.\u00a0 I also understand that healing serves the ego by making one feel special for the ability to heal another.\u00a0 It is not being humble.
\nI watched Joel when I awoke this morning.\u00a0 He said \u2018God is seeking you\u2019 and told the story of David seeking out Mephibusheth, grandson of Saul, to do good by him.\u00a0 Joel said Mephibusheth bowed before David, that if he had been hostile that David would have sent him away.\u00a0 I wondered about that – if David was meant to represent God, would he have sent the boy away?\u00a0 I remembered Law of Attraction, if Mephibusheth had resisted his trouble would have persisted.\u00a0 He humbled himself before the Lord, he surrendered to allow the Lord\u2019s plan to play out instead of resisting.
\nI next opened my daily email from \u201cBowl of Saki\u201d with wisdom from Hazrat Khan.\u00a0 The message I posted at the top greeted me \u2013 more to humble me about humility!
\nThe message validated for me that my journey is true \u2013 I am learning of humility.\u00a0 I am brought greater visions of the wonder and magnificence of God so my devotion to the sacredness of All increases.
\nIn one of the videos I watched this week Sadhguru was asked how to begin the journey to awareness.\u00a0 He said to try to pause throughout the day and just take note that you are alive: \u00a0wake up and take note \u201cI am alive\u201d, recognize that a breath ends and another one may not follow. I did this for a few days and it does bring feelings of gratitude and wonder. It does make you feel humble when you take the time to recognize moment to moment your aliveness.\u00a0 Behind the feelings of gratitude is the awareness that your life doesn\u2019t have to be, you are not in control of its existence – it is a gift from God.
\nThis morning I decided to find out what Sadhguru has to say directly about humility.\u00a0 First I found a list on \u2018Isha Foundation\u2019 blog, his organization, of the 5 things you should never forget. Humility was number one.
\nThen a video on \u2018how to live at ease\u2019 was in the Google search list.\u00a0 In the video Sadhguru was asked about an analogy he used about salt.\u00a0 He said salt is good when it mixes with something.\u00a0 If it sticks out, like a big lump in food, then it is bad.\u00a0 That is how life feels if you stick out.\u00a0 I realized this was also about humility. If we stick out then that is bad. We won\u2019t feel happy and part of All That Is.
\nJesus spoke of our being the \u2018salt of the Earth\u201d.\u00a0 Sadhguru says salt as essence of the Earth; that we\u2019ve taken on the essence in the form of our personality, which is all our memories and beliefs.\u00a0 If all of that was wiped away we would just be Life.
\nI think Sadhguru is saying that our personality must be mild to merge with all of life.\u00a0 If it is like great lumps of salt in the sea of Life then that is not good.\u00a0 We are to be at ease, act mild, to merge with All That Is.
\nThis is humility.
\nI read Matthew 5 about Jesus speak of our being the salt of the earth.\u00a0 He ends this teaching by saying \u201cLet you light shine in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.\u201d
\nOur acts should bring the glory to God \u2013 humility.
\nI am alive!
\nThank you, God.
\nNamate\u2019
\n\u201cDo you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.\u201d ~ Saint Augustine
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