By Guru Girl Dana
I was walking yesterday, lost in the false identity of the fake voice in my head. Feelings of anxiety and resentment were brewing. I was having a hard time coming back to the present moment when all of the sudden, I felt a resistence against my arm. It was as if something was grabbing onto my coat sleeve, impeding me from moving my right arm. I looked- didn’t see anything. I moved my arm again and felt the same sensation of something pulling back. I looked again and saw it: A tiny string from my scarf was getting caught on my sleeve, becoming tense when I moved. My first thought was, “How can such a tiny string impede a whole arm?”
And then I knew that string was no accident and the message was clear: The smallest disturbance, the least bit of resistence to what is, living in the past or future, can impede a person from living to their fullest, from living in the present moment.
I was reminded of the following story I read in one of Tolle’s books:
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Two monks were walking down the street after a heavy rain that left the streets quite muddy. They came upon a a lady vainly attempting to find a dry path across the road without soiling her kimono.
One monk, more compassionate than the other, picked up the woman and carried her across the street, setting her down on the other side of the road. He returned to his companion and they continued down the road. They continued for hours in silence until the second monk could no longer take it. “Why did you carry that girl across the road? We are monks, we don’t do things like that!”
The first monk said, “I put that girl down hours ago. Are you still carrying her?”
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But a few blocks later, my mind started reciting another made up monologue, reliving the past, trying to make up a future. Again I felt the tugging at my arm. The string had reattached itself.
I smiled and said, “Alight. I’m here.”
And this time I snapped the string and continued walking down 6th Avenue living in the Now.
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