Complacency

What is it that pushes the person to excel?  Excel past what?  Internal apathy, depression, comfort and habit are a few blockades on the way.  What motivation does it take to trigger the real action from inaction to action? Is it discipline?  Is it the desire to grow?  What are we looking for to turn the key of mental stimulus to drive us off the couch of complacency to the track of spiritual growth?

This is a quest of mine.  Where do I seek this eternal flame?  Despite endless hours of meditation I still have not found the key.  But perhaps unlocking what is behind it is more challenging so we all self destruct or divert instead of facing the "Unbearable Lightness of Being."

Many motivational speakers state that we fear the light much more so than the dark.  We fear to take up the Bible's statement that we are "co-creator's with God."  Do we fear our own power or do we fear the consequences of failure or actions that take us out of our comfort zone?

The ego mind has a tendency to thrive off drama and negativity instead of growth and bliss.  Why?  Because if we grow evolutionarily, as is a given, we eventually obliterate the ego's control over life as it sees it.  The ego drags its feet at every occasion not understanding, like cancer, it must die in order for ourselves to truly live.  It isn't so much about willfully progressing as it is unwillfully letting go.  Dr. Hawkins in his book Letting Go makes this clear.

We all must learn to stop defining ourselves as this simply fences in our possibilities.  Living a life of faith takes not bravery or courage but the absence of fear.  The mind/ego revels in some challenges knowing it will get to stroke its heady plumage saying, "Look what I did."  So truly like Lao Tzu said, "True self is no self." , "truly bravery is no bravery".  Another way to think of this is the other Taoist saying, "True virtue is virtue not acting virtuously." Thus, true bravery is bravery not acting brave.

So with non-bravery we step into the light, not knowing where we are going and forgetting where we have been with no illusions as to the future.  Like a Samurai warrior we step over the threshold with, "Life in every breath." When there is doubt, confusion, despair...a simple conscious breath , like Buddha said, "I exist." That in and of itself is validity for a life.