Practice the Middle Way

The concept of the Middle Way arises as you do not completely deny your desires yet, you also do not succomb to all of them either.  As part of awakening, you rediscover how it feels to live in balance and harmony.  How often do you actually nurture inner being?

Finding that 'happy medium' is not about giving up dreams or ignoring who you are.  In fact, its about remembering how to be centred, patient and spiritually-poised when events run smoothly as well as when they do not.  Its about choosing to see the bright side or blessings in all circumstances.  Its about choosing love over the ego compulsion to be right.  Its about being aware of the compassion in your blood. 

Every choice you make emits energy vibration. As life unfolds, every cause has an effect. Some you choose to see and others you do not. How and what you perceive, any opportunities you notice, result from more than thought. Recognition reveals its Cosmic Synchronicity.

Comments

[Rizal Affif - The Soul Sanctuary]

Ah, the theme of the day: the middle way!

I wonder, is choosing love over ego can be considered as the middle way? Favoring one thing over another doesn't sound like the middle way, more like one way or another :D

[Kaushik]

The middle way, the second mountain, the journey to God...it's the half-awake state, and it can have times of frustration and confusion. Patience and allowing is what I use.

Thanks, nice pointers.

[Davina]

Liara,
The line "you do not completely deny your desires yet, you also do not succomb to all of them either. " really jumped out at me. Tweeted! :-) And, -- Loving over the ego compulsion to be right -- there is SO much in this post. I'm saving this one. Reading it is like turning on a light. Thank you!

[Sara]

Liara,

I enjoyed this post about the "middle way." It's something I haven't really thought about and I liked the way you presented it. I liked how you talked it being balance and knowing your center. I think too often we consider "middle" a way station instead of a place. Yet, it makes sense the way you presented it in this post.

Thank you:~)

[Liara Covert]

Rizal, it is with an objective mind and curious scepticism that one moves earnestly through possibilities. To sense love is forever present and that ego is imagined into being is but one perspective. Awareness is not something one has to do. As you do nothing, it is ever-present. As one moves into a non-judging awareness, things shift by themselves.

Consider this reflection offered by Indian ascetic Tilopa:
It never leaves this place
and is always perfect.
When you look for it,
you find you can't see it.
You can't get it, you can't be rid of it.
When you do neither--there it is!
When you are silent, it speaks.
When you speak, it is silent.

[Liara Covert]

Kaushik, to be aware nothing ever goes wrong is to realize words do not translate the truth of what is. Still, many people are unconcerned with the truth. For some, this truth emerges into conscious awareness. When one has doubted everything and then moved through the doubt, when beliefs are noticed as they are and transcended, when the mind reaches a certain level of understanding and acceptance, only then does reality arise more clearly.

[Liara Covert]

Sara, human beings often view the middle road as an unrealistic mindset or unreachable ideal. Although everything is ultimately impermanent, it is possible to exist in a particular state of being for more than a percieved moment. One moves beyond the mind.

[Liara Covert]

Davina, whatever you read, apply it in life and see if it resonates. If you get something meaningful out of it, great. If not, discard it. Every choice is an opportunity to take quantum leaps in wisdom. As you experience things, discern if faith is grounded in reason.

As you tap into core compassion and loving intention, this brings inner strength as well as direct insight into the truth. As the truth grows more transparent for you, then you have nothing to hide. You are no longer dependent on external opinion. This brings self-confidence and the faith and trust you are dealing with whatever unfolds in the moment to the best of your ability.

[Joy]

Liara,
Thank you...I am including your words in my 'centered-ness journal" as a reminder of all that I Know but sometimes allow Fear to shadow...

[Liara Covert]

Joy, whatever you attain is already within. Fear you allow is itself a teacher. It and other illusions dissipate as awareness grows. Self-love and acceptance also emerge in innate awareness.

[Patricia]

I am in transition and not feeling in balance or in the middle way, but gleaning out the old and making way for the new - I feel centered and test my new pathways, pulling back to the middle if I think it is the wrong way, but the center is very small like a suspension bridge over the raven and I am attempting to hold on to the railings nearly every day. I do not like the feeling of being insecure - and yet I am being with this.

Your writing brought up a great many feelings for me Thank you

[Liara Covert]

Patricia, rest assured, "right and wrong" only exist in the mind. Every experience serves you. Human beings take mental detours from the Middle path, but they never actually leave it. It is part of the healing process to allow oneself to feel all kinds of emotions, including fear and attachment. Only then do you gain insight into what they are, why you engage and how it feels as you learn to let go.

[tikno]

It makes sense the way you presented "middle way" in this post, and encourage people to see the bright on both side in all circumstances. This is similar to the concept of Yin and Yang where both elements have a role in a centred unity.

Just my personal observation: usually this middle way approach is more easily applied by Eastern society. Westerners tend to like logical approach, i.e. the answer of "yes" or "no"

[Liara Covert]

Tikno, imagine perceived difference or separation between any and all things disappears. The Way knows no division, only being in and out of the flow. The more ego has a person's attention, the more that person is doing and the less that person is being in the flow.