Weekly Topic: Shocks

Weekly Topic: Shocks

Why is this happening to me? We often hear this question from people who are dealing with health issues and other challenges. As students, when confronted with issues, we are reminded that shocks happen for us and not to us. Shocks are transformational and often jolt a state of prolonged clarity and acceptance for “what is.” We know that some shocks, at first, can often be very grave. Yet they also manifest inner strength and resilience that is needed to transform suffering into Presence. If we believe we are given what we can handle, it is in those moments in Higher Centers where we can find the pearls of wisdom and understanding.

Shocks also are experienced from impressions. Observed by Higher Centers, these shocks awaken us from a mechanical state. Shocks may come as messages from a Conscious Influence or through the art of a Conscious Being. Shocks powerful or subtle, stirs an emotional energy that causes a shift in consciousness. And there true Self exists.

The following is an answer offered by a student of the School when asked by another student about suffering.

The student answered, “Right now, I would say it is when Higher Centers understand that the experience, however difficult it was, was themselves. The experience was not somewhere else or caused by someone else acting upon it, but that it was somehow part of the world of Higher Centers, born of Higher Centers, which were meant to create that experience. Once that is understood, then I think it can be let go of. Of course, we have so many experiences in our life and all of them are necessary.”

“Bring what you will and I will transmute it into good.”~Epictetus

From the teacher, “Let us be touched, but not consumed , by suffering.”

Weekly Exercise:

Weekly exercises are meant to create subtle shocks as reminders to awaken to Presence. Take note of your shocks during the week or reflect upon a previous shock that has been transformative.

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