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Today's
Meditation:
I
love to watch children look around themselves. The
younger they are, the more they look without judgment,
without looking through the filters of beliefs, without
preconceived notions that read personal ideas and ideals
into everything they see. They see with wonder and
with the desire to learn, and it's very inspiring to watch
them watch the world.
Can
you close your eyes and think--very strongly--that you've
never seen the world before, and that when you open your
eyes you're going to see everything for the first
time? Think of the wonder involved in seeing so many
things that other human beings have created, seeing so
many things that belong to the natural world. This
world of ours is an absolutely amazing place, yet we
choose not to be amazed any more. That's sad for us.
What
kind of freedom is Deepak Chopra talking about? I
believe he's talking about the freedom from judging the
world, the freedom of allowing the world to be just what
it is without taking the burden of changing it upon
ourselves. When we can see and accept the world as
it truly is, there's no need to impose our need for order,
our need for control. And once we finally lose that
need that keeps us from being free, then we can taste
freedom.
Learn
a lesson from the kids all around us--see the world, enjoy
the world, be amazed by the world, but don't try to
control the world. Trying to make the world conform
to your beliefs about what it should be only takes you
further and further away from freedom, and is that really
the direction in which you want to be traveling?
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