Friday, June 3, 2011

The king and his servant

This leads on from the last post. I felt it necessary to be a separate post.
There once was a King who ruled over the enormity of his entire kingdom, and everything in it.
The interesting thing having read this...is you imagine some medieval king with last amounts of land and millions of people under his rule.
But decide for a second that you are the king, it is your kingdom, being your life. Now re read the same sentence. This is perception at play.
Interesting is though that we go through our lives in various emotional states, and when in trouble we call out silently in prayer, seeking help from beyond our kingdom.
The interesting thing is that this puts us in the kings position. What if, we perceived that we were the servant. That we were here to serve a just, and fair king/universe. Our role, is to experience what the king wants experienced. Here is how it would work.
At the moment we approach an opportunity, and we either a/. wait to see if anything comes out of the opportunity and connects with us. b/. we 'wish' for something to come out of the opportunity so we wait with a sense of anticipation c/. we act with intention to make a result come out of the opportunity. In all of these we do not have any control over the quality.
The opposite is therefore, that we hunt out to be the perfect servant. We look at an opportunity not as a "what can I get from it" but with the universe in mind...."what would you like to get from it? Imagine if we could put ourselves on hold for a day, and live for the universe. This is not the same as waiting. You do not wait for the universe to deliver, it is actively engaging all opportunities that are already there. It may be that I should be saying "soul" instead of universe, but for now, I am sticking with this, and lets see where it takes me.

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