{"id":824,"date":"2009-05-12T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T23:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=824"},"modified":"2009-05-12T16:56:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T23:56:20","slug":"the-perfect-moment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"flower-bloom-wilt\"It is no Secret<\/a>, I am not a big fan of the Law of Attraction.\u00a0 Despite my fondness for Ester Hicks<\/a> and others who worked on the movie<\/a>, for those of us with life limiting illnesses it is an offense to our spirit to believe that our situation could be cured with a few carefully chosen positive affirmations.\u00a0 Indeed the whole concept of Ask And You Will Receive<\/em> could just as well be a case of selective amnesia on the part of the masses.\u00a0 The direct experience of those waiting for organ transplants that never come, food or medicine for their dying baby that was diverted by snipers, or political prisoners long forgotten by the crass-media who are rotting away in underground cells, is one that empirically disproves the new age antidote to pain and suffering.<\/p>\n

However dark the picture is that I paint, it is part of the world around us.\u00a0 Even if our experience exists largely inside our own mental story, the societal dream that we each tip-toe in to, contains all of this; the beauty and the beast dancing toe to toe.<\/p>\n

In my experience, when I come face to face with the dark side of the seeker’s crucible, it is my own resistance that causes my suffering.\u00a0 My failed attempts at tapping away<\/a> my misery have led to only deepen my despair when the chasm between what IS<\/em><\/strong> before my eyes is so far from what my mental story believes IT SHOULD BE<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Why SHOULD<\/em><\/strong> it be any other way in this moment?<\/h3>\n

The flip-flop between what we see as BAD that transforms into GOOD and back again, is by the very nature the premise of Form<\/em>.\u00a0 The manure that fosters the seed that blooms into a brilliant flower, which soon withers and returns to the compost pile from which it grew.\u00a0 The shiny new car, that becomes an inefficient smog machine even as you continue to make payments.\u00a0 The terminal illness that spontaneously heals itself only to be followed by a car accident in that gas guzzling relic with fresh cut flowers sent to your bedside.<\/p>\n

You get the picture?\u00a0 There seems to be a never ending flow to life, as the pendulum swings from bad to good; heaven and hell in one hand full.<\/p>\n

When we see life for what it is, fluid, ever-changing and amazing … We may be just a bit more open to allowing the bitter moments to become the building blocks for better days.\u00a0 So no, I don’t practice the Law of Attraction, I trust the Universal Law<\/em><\/strong> that all things are in perfect motion.\u00a0 And even if I can’t seem to manifest my intentions in an instant … at times I am able to trust that inevitable change is already underway and in that I can see the moment is perfect just as it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is no Secret, I am not a big fan of the Law of Attraction.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[39,36,7,38,37],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma","tag-add-new-tag","tag-chronic-illness","tag-eft","tag-the-law-of-attraction","tag-the-secret"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}