Early one morning a monk asked his Zen
master, "Master, will you teach me how to manifest an intention."
The Master replied, "Sure. Sit down. I'll show you how to cause a
bird
to poop on that flat stone in the middle of the yard, on my command.
How's that?" The monk said, "Way cool," or something like that. And they
sat down.
As dusk approached, the novice said, "Sir, I don't mean to be rude, but
you said . . ." The Master interrupted him and said, "Yes. And I
will. We're waiting for a bird to poop on the stone. When it does, I'll
command it to poop."
To manifest a stated intention you
must begin by intending what's happening to be happening, to choose
what's so to be so.*
To create something you must first know how to create nothing. Until you
know how to create nothing, the space in which something is created, you
can't be certain you are creating anything. Until you know how to create
nothing life just happens.**
For example: For most divorced
couples "love" at the beginning just happened; it was in fact
a reaction to various chemicals generated within the body due to
external sensory and emotional stimulus. We know this to be true
because during the divorce process neither knew how to recreate the
experience of love—at will, simply through communication. Some, not all,
later discover that they had become stuck, each doing his/her
imitation of communication.
* If you frequently cause someone to be
verbally abusive to you, you must be willing to acknowledge that you
have been intending (albeit unconsciously) the abuse. Your mind will balk at
accepting responsibility for causing (initiating/intending) the abuse
because it (your mind) honestly believes that it wants harmony and
peaceful discourse. The mind most always believes that the other person
started it, that he/she is the more abusive. Not so. Never ever. It's
impossible for one intimate partner to be more abusive than the other—both mirror
each other's addictions to abusing and to being abused and to blaming. To complete your
experience of abuse, of abusing and setting it up to be abused (referred
to as
entrapment), you must be willing to accept responsibility for
causing it. I.e. "What's the genius in me up to? Of all the people on
the planet I attracted, seduced, and conned into marrying me, someone
addicted to abuse, someone whom I could manipulate into abusive
interactions?"
** An excellent example of creating nothing so as
to create space for something is to clean a closet. Donate those clothes
that no longer represent the present-day you. Have in mind a result
you'd like to manifest, else, like a spacious closet, you'll accidentally
fill it with stuff that "happens" to come along rather than
with a clear stated
intention. You'll notice, as with many of your other possessions, that few if any items of clothing are exactly
what you had in mind when you went shopping; when we look in a closet it
either confirms our ability to manifest our stated intentions or it reminds us
of our compromises, all that we've accepted; most often when shopping we settle for
something other
than exactly what what we say
we want. Communication mastery begins with buying only exactly what you
have in mind, of manifesting your stated intention.
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