I have a crutch on you! Seriously couldn’t resist saying that! But, yes, crutch on you, crutch of mine we all have. It is anything that we need assistance of and when it outstays it’s welcome, then it becomes a very difficult leech to either shake off or to fan off because we can’t we won’t or we simply don’t know it needs to go.
Our “path” can become a crutch that we need to let go of but it’s a very big step for many because it gave us the safety when we most needed it. Well, we didn’t really need the perception of safety, we simply needed the assurance of it – a state we are always when we opt in to relaxation and opt out of hyper arousal hyper vigilance and plain old insecurity issues garbed as lack, borne off inheritances of our past.
Do we need a “path”, “belief” or “ideal” to steer our ship of life? Maybe. But definitely only for a limited amount of time and space. Anything that stays with us for any undefined time becomes us – it starts to take over and create a persona not ours. So, if I follow the Buddha, unless I let him go together with his teachings once I have been ferried across the mind’s hold on me, I will be sat in that boat of Buddha stagnant without any revelation revolution or evolution of any sort. He will have served his purpose in my life but my holding on to him will recreate the spiral of fear disbelief and lack that would once again take us into the hell hole of the mind. Now, the fear would be, what will I do without Buddha? Will he leave me too? If I leave him will he come back?
There has to be a time limit on almost any experience we have as us, because we are at our core infinite. To experience infinity we cannot make each passing thought belief or realisation our home; it is passing. If it stays, we become it, we limit our experience of Self to that.
Some of us might realise that we all carry wounds; we might have come to understand how our brain is developed; we may even know the workings of epigenetics, stellar systems, solfeggio frequencies and more. And we might dwell on these for some time. Or choose to only see the world through the chosen “paths” lens. Once again, we begin to want to own, mark territory, and exercise ownership – all these are markings of the ego of mind. The mind is limiting whereas the spirit is infinite.
We cannot experience the infinite possibilities of us until and unless we let go of our belief systems, and other crutches we have become accustomed to and associate with. We can choose to experience anything as long as we don’t become the experience but merely participate in it.
Anything that limits our potential to be, to create and to exist as masses of promise, is a crutch that needs to go.
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