There is an old story about a professor of comparative religions who came to a Zen master to learn about Zen that nicely reflects the need to empty ourselves. The Zen master asked if the professor would like some tea. So as they were talking the master was filling the tea cup. Slowly the cup filled, overflowing onto the saucer, flowing across the table on onto the professor’s pants. The professor jumped up and yelled, "You fool, the cup is already too full!" The Zen master put the tea pot down and stated, "And you too professor are already too full. I cannot teach you about Zen until you empty yourself."
There is the need to break the ties to the past. A letting go all that we believe, think, know and have been. We need a thorough cleaning inside and out. We need to empty ourselves of all that does not serve us and what we need to do and become in life. We need to flush out, remove, and/or reprogram all that is not of our truth and allows us to fully expand and grow into the depth and breadth of our true creative ability and creative power.
To truly empty ourselves and clean ourselves inside and out, is a death. We die to all that we have been and die to all that we have thought and believe about ourselves and Creation.
No one can guide us as to how to die before we die: To experience the death required for any creative endeavor and facing the death in any part of ourselves, no one can tell us what to do or how to do it. If we believe another can give us the answer we will only create more pain or put ourselves in a deeper trap. We have to learn to follow our own path.
The recommendation is to go to our intuitive guidance and ask, "How to I die and transform - show me the way to die and transform in the fastest, easiest and gentlest way - not so much for myself but as to what I can learn and share and give to people to help their transformation?" Such a request will take us past our ego. That is the key. It is not about transcending Physical Creation or the body. It is about transcending the limits and barriers of the mind and ego as to how we define ourselves and to surrender to what the universe desire us to do with our life. In acting to do something for the greater common good that is not determined by our mind but Creation Itself, that takes us past the ego, we transcend the ego and open the door for that relatively faster, easier and gentler way for ourselves and others.
It needs to be realized much of our creativity is done nonconsciously. We create in ways we do not understand through what we think, believe and desire. What we read now has been called into our life by us to help us make our journey easier. Similarly, we can be called into the lives of others to help make their journey easier after we have been through it.
We only need to look into our heart and see if what is said here is true.
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