The Task At Hand

What makes any given task at hand unbearably, excruciatingly hard? Only our own resistance. Our state of mind is the one thing that stands in the way of us blissfully going about our business. My teacher once asked the question: "What is the difference between good and bad?" and the answer was: "What you think." All of life is like this simply question - what is the difference between something being easy and something being difficult? What you think.

Of course - the one thing we have power over is how we think about things, so to change it is a choice we can make. By stating things over and over again, by allowing our thoughts to circle suspiciously around a single thought is choosing misery in the moment. By refusing to do that, we free ourselves from the sometimes quicksand-like action of the brain that sinks us into an experience of the moment that is pure drudgery, horrid, and yes, unbearably, excruciatingly hard.

Doing things without the emotional drag down of these thoughts really is a rather blissful experience. Instead of all that negative baggage, there is a lightness of being that is simply absorbed in the task. The task comes and goes and that was that. It was easy, effortless, and it was over when the task was over, no need to remember anything in particular and completely free to embrace what the next moment holds.

And when we are free in this way, we can take the steps necessary to find our passion and live it to the fullest extent. We live our greatness. And all because we are willing to let go of having a hard time with the tasks life throws at us! That's an effort worth making.


Blessings.
- Darshan





© 2010 Darshan F Jessop