Long but sure.

Whatever the global spiritual industry will tell you, there are no short cuts to awakening. Each one of us must release the emotional relationship to our old story so that it no longer influences the experience of life in this moment. This is a long, beautiful but often difficult process as we meet time and time again the conditions of our unhappiness. But here is our training. We must be brave and dedicated and prepared to go past any and every uncomfortable feeling we will experience.

It is said that the Path is long, but people love to be side-tracked, and this is what we meet so often; diversions from the path of silent investigation and loving acceptance of this old and often painful old story, in the quest for the next interesting and exciting thing that will bring new ideas, new emotional highs and new direction in our spiritual life.

But the Dhamma journey is simple, never easy but always simple. To go past the mind with its endless liking and disliking, acceptance and rejection and sit with things as they are. In the end it is what the Buddha had to do to realise his enlightenment. To let go of the mind and allow it to be.

This is why true disciples of Dhamma are as rare as hairs on the palm of your hand, but if we let go a little there is a little peace, if we let go a lot there is a lot of peace and if we let go completely, complete peace.

Complete peace arising in a mind no longer fighting with the world and everything in it, but a mind now in harmony with itself and so the universe it is part of.

This is the pure Dhamma path. A gradual path so that nothing is missed or overlooked, but a process of loving awareness so that you will be happy and then share that happiness with all beings.

                                        In the world, every day something more is acquired.
                                           In the Dhamma, every day something is dropped.
                                                             (Tao te Ching vs. 48)

                                                         May all beings be happy.