Aaron: Sharing the Journey
Q: What I am learning about our spiritual journey is very beautiful. How can I share it with my parents (spouse/children/friends)?
As you find your path opening before you, of course you want to share the beauty with your loved ones. That is fine. Tell them what you are learning, but be prepared for a less than enthusiastic response.
All beings are on a spiritual path, whether or not they are conscious of that path. We are all on our way home. Remember that we travel by many routes and are in different places, each on our own unique path.
You can open a door for another, but you cannot force him through.
You tend to want to give your own understandings to those close to you. Do you see that insistence is a form of violence against your loved one? You can open a door for another, but you cannot force him through.
Trust that each being is exactly where he needs to be. If he does not accept your invitation to enter the door you’ve opened, why can you not let him be? What wants to push? One may quickly answer, “Love for my companion,” but more often it is fear, a natural reluctance to watch the loved one’s pain. But that pain may be an important teacher for your companion.
Examine your own need here. Do you have space for his or her pain? What must you prove? What ego is there that asks for approval of your own path? Explore these questions without judgment of yourself. Simply look at what’s there, with love and compassion for your own human needs. Doing so will allow you the space to see that forcing your beliefs on another is a violence to that being.
We can teach one another and lead one another, but only from a space where there is no ego need. When you lead from that place, you open a passage through which another may follow when he is ready. There is no need within you for the other being to follow. Instead, there is compassion for his pain and a sense of wholeness in yourself that needs no reassurance that you are on the right path. Your faith is strong within itself. It does not need to be bolstered by another.
To share is beautiful, but the only person you can work on is yourself.
From within that space you can truly teach, not so much by your words but by your very being. Your loved ones will see your growing sense of peace and wholeness. They will notice the changes in you. When they ask you, then you may share. Your loving actions will speak much louder than all your pleas of “Try this,” or “Think about that.”
To share is beautiful, but the only person you can work on is yourself. Each being must learn the lessons himself. You may serve as a guide, a road sign pointing the direction, but each must walk the path himself, at his own pace and in his own way. Walk your own path with love, faith, courage, and humility, and you will be a glowing beacon that lights the way for others.
Q: Hey, Aaron, heard any new jokes this week?
If I told you a good one and it was at least nine hundred years old, would you be offended? The beauty of reincarnation is that not only the spirit but the jokes get another chance.
About the Channel
 |
Barbara Brodsky is the channel for the spirit, Aaron, a sixth density entity who has evolved through the earth plane, and beyond the need for further incarnation. Eight books of Aaron’s teachings have been published. The newest is Presence, Kindness, and Freedom. She is also a dharma teacher in the Buddhist and non-dual traditions, and an Interfaith Minister. Barbara and Aaron lead meditation retreats and spiritual inquiry workshops worldwide. In Ann Arbor, Barbara is the founding and guiding teacher of Deep Spring Center, www.deepspring.org which offers non-denominational spiritual teachings and practice. She has been practicing meditation since 1960 and teaching since 1989. Her teaching draws from dual roots in the Buddhist and Quaker traditions. Her Buddhist training is in the Theravadin and Dzogchen traditions. She became totally deaf in 1972; living with silence has greatly influenced her life and teaching, as have years of active involvement in nonviolent action for social change. |