The Illusion of A Forced Life

The stress, the struggle. Is it who you are?

Or is there more to you than this?

Imagine you are a stream of water at the end of a watering spout. But you’re not a lone stream. You’re just one among scads of other streams…  and out of each singular hole, a collective alliance of many streams appears when tilted. 

But this particular alliance of streams isn’t an alliance at all.  See, they’re not working as one. 

Take you, for example.  You have no clue that you’re part of the whole. 

Your mind says you are ONE of those streams when you’re really not.

When tilted, you come running out of the spout to water the flower. But here’s what’s so strange about ‘you’ and you’re cohorts.

You feel that it is all up to you – as do they. In essence, you are separate from your alliance of other streams coming out of the water spout to sprinkle that flower. 

Because you feel you are separate and that it is all up to you to grow that flower, there is immense strain, stress, seriousness … after all, you are the only stream that will give life to that flower or so you think. 

The Illusion Fades… Awareness Arises

So you go through your entire life living as if it is all up to you, the single stream to flourish this flower. 

So you work, you plan, you regret, you force.

Sometimes the flower lives and sometimes the flower dies. And this ‘it’s all up to you’ illusion causes you to live your entire life Forced…  after all, remember, you’re are a single stream. 

And maybe you’ll die in the struggle. Maybe you’ll come out of it. But know this – all of your chum streams… they’re all like you.  Going through the same lie. They all struggle thinking it’s all up to them. 

But one day, something happens.

One lucky stream has enough.  They give up.

And as this stream lets go in defeat, the awareness that they are not that single stream arises.

As if reborn, they know now that they are not the single separated stream – they’re the water behind the spout, the one life working together as all. 

And then, one day, you find out that you are bigger than that collection of water behind the spout. In fact, you and the other streams all come from the same source in the sky, in the oceans, in the lakes… it is all one water working together to blossom life all around and not just in the flower you’re nourishing.

Are you immersed in the lie?

Step back from your thinking.  Are you living a lie?

Do you feel you’re the single stream attempting to grow the flower of life? Are you caught up in the past and future not knowing the truth that the present is all you have?

But it’s all a game as long as you feel you are one stream one trickle of water trying to do the work of the whole.  Struggle continues, stress continues and you’ll die. 

But some will become aware that life is happening as a whole… Maybe this awareness is rising within you right now.

In fact, the entire universe works together on your behalf. 

You can’t explain it – no one can, but you’re okay with that. 

You feel, in your depths, that you are the one life working in the background.  You’re not the foreground. 

Here’s the trick.  Life flows when you no longer force it.