Zen: The Art of Nothing

Today is the first time I cried in a session. During past life regression, this sanyasi (ascetic) saw a deity, who while giving him a message, also mentioned me. So then I asked a question back.

The answer touched me so deeply that I started crying, very quietly so that I don’t disturb the client. In a moment, he said “He says tell her to stop crying”. I felt embarassed that he had heard me. 

But later he told me “I was embarassed to say that ‘stop crying’ bit – were you even crying at all?” He hadn’t heard anything at all, that was a message straight from.. ‘there’. 

It wasn’t even the first time I cried in the session. Earlier on, as another Higher Being had given him a message for me, a part of me had refused to believe it, saying I’ve always gotten stronger proof and this could well be a product of his imagination. The very next statement he made was so powerful that I was overwhelmed and in tears. 

Some sessions can be so, so powerful, it is amazing indeed. Of course, it was very moving for him too. And of course it was so fascinating to have a sadhu come for a session. What was supposed to be 10am to 11.30am went on up to 2.30pm till the next client came, such a continuous flow and exchange of ideas

Deep listening has been the foundation of my work, and it is so hard to explain to people the potential for life-transformation it has, because it needs people to ‘be at it’ for at least a week, and longer if they want to truly experience the magic. But every once in a while I come across someone that puts in their heart. And that makes my day

Life is about LIVING. It is not about how many countries you’ve traveled, how many friends you have, how many awesome restaurants you visit, how often you party, but about how involved you are in every moment. You could have the most blissful life living alone, doing very little, in the eyes of the world, because most of us just live blind and deaf. 

We’re blind to the pain and the joys of the ones we love. We’re deaf to the pleas for help and the expressions of gratitude. (Ever felt like nobody loves you? Well that’s you being deaf to appreciation). 

Deep listening improves the quality of your relationships, it changes the way you approach people and situations, but more than anything else, it changes the way you LIVE. It makes you more alive in every moment, more receptive and more open to life, letting the energy flow in and out of you freely, letting it move you, letting it empower and transform you.

Link to the Inner Child Course mentioned in the message – https://university.reikirays.com/p/inner-child

I once saw a study which looked at what made relationships last, and what enabled couples to remain happy together. They found that contrary to popular belief that a happy couple will have a, let’s say, high bullshit tolerance for each other, actually they had very low thresholds. They’d bring up and resolve the littlest of things, so things would never get big, in the first place. People who put up with each other’s shit separated over time because eventually the mountains got too big to move.

In another story, I remember someone telling me how a Mayor in some US city decide to increase the penalties on minor crime, and that resulted in a huge reduction of major crime – because people didn’t feel emboldened and encouraged to pursue crime after they had to pay a heavy price for the ‘little things that didn’t matter’. 

It is the little things that count, in life. When we say ‘yes’ to the little flaws, which we often tend to, we allow things to get bigger and more painful. 

As people who work on themselves, it is easy to get lost in the big stuff, but truth is, the big stuff is reflected in the little things. So just heal one little thing at a time, and eventually the big stuff falls away on its own. 

Have a beautiful weekend full of beautiful little things

🙂