Angelus Silesius"We used to pray: Let
Your will, O Lord my God.
and behold! He has no will:
He's just quiet. "
So writes the Pilgrim cherub.
But in that case, what we have to do with the great affirmation of Dante: "His will is our peace"?
The answer again is to examine one's place and see how empty of all content is his own, and certainly of any will or intention. And see also how full is in this scene, the world as is now complete with all the feelings and thoughts that are now colorful and alive. Is it not a fact, in his own experience as the source now free-will, his will is perfectly embodied in everything that is now flowing from that source, so that all this is perfectly acceptable just as it is? Who Can I see you, without approving things as they are? Is there any other way, as a last resort, the true self-abandonment, but be aware the One who in himself has no will, but is responsible for everything in the world? See that you are not in the world, and that contrary the world is in you, is reconciled with all its manifestation.
There once was a Zen student so gifted that their Master eventually sent him to a greatest teacher for the last instruction. To the surprise of the disciple, his new teacher turned out to be an elderly poor and very ill, which seemed to have nothing to offer. But at last he pulled out his message. It was this: "I have no complaints." First look at what and who are you, establish your true identity, and then see if you have something to complain about.
Douglas E. Harding
The path of a meter
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