Steve, could you provide a specific example? I think I am too tired to understand this fully at the moment... I believe I have harbored much, rigidity... Perhaps you are saying to practice becoming more aware of these moments?? Meditation is a wonderful thing, I feel a fool for having resist such a discipline when in reality, it is a medicine for me and my many insecurities...
https://trustedpsychicmediums.com/spirit-animals/moth-spirit-animal/Sometimes i'm just struck by simiarities we encounter at the sametime eric.....the moth just keeps coming around the last few nites and i let it out outside...but it keeps motivating me...im really trying to get beyond my own will and determination to let divine will take over instead of my will i think that is what i am trying to say about rigidity. Had to post this in two areas because i believe the moth is also sending info. We become trapped in our own will....but what is divine will? I can only share my experiences.
Since u mentioned meditation here i think that once you experience some of the techniques that are available to us today u will find that many people just do not use what is available for liberation. Its like this is the way i have always done it so this is the way i am going to continue to do it....but maybe there is a different approach...for all of us...its being open to that possibility....the mind always traps itself in its own web of difficulty. We are just both seeing our minds at work...occasionally we are able to recognize the traps we have made for ourselves....the we can be free from mind. We often need to listen to our own questions...in them we find that we are being whispered the journey that needs to unfold....rigity arrises out of the fact that people seem to know without being receptive to the fact that kowledge is dependent upon emptying the mind not filling it.....hmmmm its really helpful when we can see our own minds at work....often laying traps for ourselves...to play out the same parts over and over....
It is not as difficult watching others around us and seeing how consciousness works. Most peopl are trying to keep their reality stable....their sense of who they are and they would like to see othwrs conform to that reality. So whether we want to be successful at music or business or with our families we become rigid in our notions of identifying with such 'wants' and do not recognize that there is a divine plan for us that may be quite different then we ourselves presently imagine. With grace though a great master can help us be receptive to a lot larger opening in consciousness that reveals to us who we are and not who we have structured our lives to believe what we are with all our percieved limitations.
