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July 2009 
Life is a Challenge Every Moment
Posted on Jun 17th, 2009
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Life is challenge every moment. Whatever that challenge may bring, whatever that challenge may unfold, wherever that challenge may lead, it is accepted.
Life is a challenge every moment, and the one who does not accept this is dead - even though he is still living. Many die years ahead of their burial!
Living means accepting the challenges every moment. But this challenge can also be accepted in two ways: it can be with anger, and then it becomes a reaction; or the acceptance can be with happiness, delight and joy and then it becomes a response.
Be ready for the call, for the challenge, that comes from the whole. Your everyday is a calling, a calling to meet the challenge. Be willing, even to fight (!), be willing to live whatever your day as brought as an instrument of existence.
And if you know yourself as an instrument of existence, then it is right even if you meet defeat. You can rejoice even in your defeat, if you are acting as an instrument of existence.
Life is a challenge every moment, and the one who does not accept this is dead - even though he is still living. Many die years ahead of their burial!
Living means accepting the challenges every moment. But this challenge can also be accepted in two ways: it can be with anger, and then it becomes a reaction; or the acceptance can be with happiness, delight and joy and then it becomes a response.
Be ready for the call, for the challenge, that comes from the whole. Your everyday is a calling, a calling to meet the challenge. Be willing, even to fight (!), be willing to live whatever your day as brought as an instrument of existence.
And if you know yourself as an instrument of existence, then it is right even if you meet defeat. You can rejoice even in your defeat, if you are acting as an instrument of existence.
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Beautifully put! We have a choice indeed. Response rather than reaction. I think it's sometimes like peeling away the layers of an onion, realizing ways in which we're still re-acting rather than responding. Thank you for sharing this…
Hi, Centria! Thank you!
It does take a while, yes?, before we work out the complexities of our youth…our repressed emotions and thoughts….
ah! Then…then we can respond!
Thank you, Centria!!!!
love,
Cheyenne
Anger can be a challenge too. I think it's ok to let it be, all we need is to bring our awareness to it and not our judgements and then through our awareness, it'll shift.
Huggies.
Hey Cheyenne, I don't know when you wrote this but when driving today I had a “revelation” about this…
The strange thing is that some of us don't have many challenges so they are looking for them.. in all wrong places.. I think it helps to realize that and direct the energy to a different place so we are more productive (“productive” is a word used mainly by Capricorns, sorry for that :)
@ Centria, I like the comparison to the layers of an onion.. thought I guess I would rather use an artichoke for this purpose:) you peel teh leaves to get to the softer and softer parts until you get to the heart :D
@ Alluvja, I also don't think we should neccesarily suppress anger..
maybe others will have different thoughts on this, but I noticed we can react with anger and at the same time observe it, and at the same time be disconnected from it emotionally? show it but don't feel it.. i think from this stage it is close to its elimination. And any other destructive emotion.
Maybe I made it too complicated.
I tend to participate in something and see it from several different points of view. I am in it and outside of it. But it doesn't feel good to suppress anger if we are really not ready for it.
Good Morning, Lucienne! Ah, Anger! It often comes to me when I feel weak and vulnerable and I desire one thing and something else is the reality. Anger is my pain…it is so good to follow it, to find its source, to become aware, just as you say. It can be a gift too…it can be a wound calling to you, calling for your attention ~ when once it happened, you left, and the wound is still there.
And I also feel there is anger of the soul. This should be expressed. If the anger is not a complexity, not a disease within, then it is anger of the soul…and there are times we will be angry and it is beautiful to be angry, it is beautiful to express it fully and wholly.
I ask myself always: am I angry? or is this a disease calling me to hold it in love?…..if I am angry, then I express it intelligently and forthright…and if I am hurt, I thank the other for bringing my attention to pain hidden..I thank them.
Oh, Joanna! Yes, I understand about the challenges…to train everyday, that is my challenge, training, pressing the soul to deeper levels of consciousness. It facinates me because even having trained my whole life, but still everyday, the edges fold in…and it is the challenge to continually unfold…expand.
Challenges do develop us, and they are necessary. Many are ruined because too much is given, too much is taken care of for them…and they do not have the challenge which produces the growth!
You know, once I taught a very difficult exercise class..very difficult, my goal was to make it nearly impossible to complete the hour. And whenever I saw someone literally sweating blood before they would give up, surrender to the pain, I would say to them, “So, you are a capricorn, yes?” and yes, 100 percent of the time, they were capricorn! I have never met a more determiend animal!!!
Beautiful! Thank you, Joanna!
Much love,
Cheyenne
Thank you for the beautiful, inspiring words. Although I am representing www.realitysandwich.com in efforts that like minded people such as yourself read our magazine, I resonate with your idea. Often in my youth I avoided work or any kind of stress in hopes of feeling good. As I develop over the years I see now that a part of the point of life is to struggle and that hard work feels good after. Doing no work and not facing problems feels terrible eventually. Thank you for the inspiration helping me to face problems in my life with enthusiasm acknowledging that stress, work, or any kind of challenge is completely natural and beautiful in its own way.
Thank you Reality Sandwich!!!
It doesn't help, does it?, to escape work, no. Nothing is developed.
A person grows when there are contradictory situations. In the turmoil, in that clash of the contradictions, integrity is born.
And thank you for the invitation to see your site. It is beautiful!!!!
Love,
Cheyenne
Hi everybody, “In the turmoil”, but for how long this turmoil has to last??. Is true that contradiction, turmoil, difficulties, make us grow, maybe awake a little o some people a lot…
But sometimes I get concern and see the addiction that people have to the turmoil, contradiction, difficulties, in the name of grow and them go to therapy, workshops, tantra, spiritual teachers, work, etc And the circle goes around and always some they have the answer. “I'm not jet there”.
Very dangerous, very dangerous the consolations we do when we say I'm not jet there. And the turmoil again…
Hummm, is such fine line an a developed determination is so necesary for this integrity that you talk about, to be born.
Again comes to me this beautiful word call Attachment!!.
Love to all, Chaitanyo
Hi, I have to come back, my mind and my heart and all of me want to share something more about this wonderful carpet that Cheyene have trow to us call it “Meeting Challenge every moment”.
Before I spoke about the addiction that we have to difficulties.
I'm all for doing good therapy, tantra, and a good Spiritual teacher is so essential for humanity to grow.
At the same because we carrier centuries of suffering the mind create again and again that suffering to perpetuate it what hi think
that is good for us and them we go for help. And when the moments come
where harmony, silence, just a cup tea is there, we love it, but, because we
don't know where this feelings of harmony goes, we get little restless and the mind always helpful create a conflict for you to do something about, because this is what the ego knows and feel more comfortable. The ego always try to help responding to this emotions feelings that we create,
Do I talking nonsense my friend??
I have a big challenge in my life now and I don't know how to put it in words,
I have to respect the choice of my daughter of living in a dangerous place
with her son and travelling long distance with the baby very often and how she deal with that. Walking in the edge of no say
what I see and at the same time have the obligation of say what I see.
Waching my self what I'm proyecting, and at the same time trying to feel
what is really truth. Risking to let my passion, love, knowlege and my hara
to speak, and at the same time know that I'm risking to have confrontations,
with te people that I love and life give to take off. Dancing the dance of
respecting their freedom totally, and at the same time watching like lion
that the are Ok. Learning to relax like cat at the same time being totally alert. Have open my eyes no matter what and I see, and sitting in silence
with God that hi can do, because I'm helpless and the only thing I can do
is love no matter what. But is very challenging to live moment to moment
have the courage of cutting through a dried meat, to realize latter that life can be more easy that what the ego is trying to sale every day.
I love my daughter and gran son so much. A year and half I have only a daughter now I have a little beautiful thing challeging me more the any
Master have done. I have so much fun with hin, when I'm with hin.
Sweete Cheyene you have 5 children's, what a wonderful thing, challenging
yes but so wonderful that open to receive all this love and you to embrace
them all. A waterfall of love to you, thank you for this carpet to fly onces more, Chaitanyo
OM Shanti, Shanti OM, all is light even in moment of darkness, we are THAT even in moments of turmoil, we are THAT even in moments of joy.
CHALLENGE OF ALOW SILENCE
Dear Chaitanyo! You have a very special talent at opening my heart! I can feel this challenge as if it were my own.
And Chaitanyo There are only two possibilities; either you surrender and in that surrender you stop thinking about decisions, consequences; in your surrender you have surrendered the responsibility itself, and you are totally free, free to move without any worry, without any burden on your mind - or you can take things in your own hands and do whasoever you like to do.
Of course, both are hard. If you choose surrender, your ego will suffer. We wish to have some control over our lives. Our ego hurts terribly to feel life is out of our hands…and if you chose to do something again there is a problem because we don't know what to do and we are afraid of making a wrong decision.
So these are the two choices we have - we either surrender and the ego has to be dropped - or we have to become more aware, more alert, so that more light is within our being and we begin to move inch by inch, with awareness.
Both paths are good, neither is better than the other. Of course, both are HARD! and you will feel that whatsoever one you chose is harder than the other one not chosen. But nothing whatever can be done to ease the pain of either path.
If we do choose the path of action, then we must be very accepting of the fact that, yes, we will make mistakes! Nothing wrong in making mistakes! We learn from them…only machines do not make mistakes..because YOU are not there, just automatic action…but when a human is awakening and walking in light, they will make many mistakes..and that is a good sign that you are not behaving like a machine! That YOU are there, learning and growing. Nobody learns without making mistakes. So even if we go astray, it is okay. We can always come back.
There are millions of people that just waste their life doing nothing because of fear of making a mistake…just to avoid conflict they go on hiding and escaping from experiences and life.
What I have leanred is this: Making a mistake is never a problem..it is a gift, just don't make the same mistake twice (big smile!)…!!!!
And, o, yes, I have five young children…and my heart aches a pain I could never tell someone of…of what will become of them, where in eternity will they land? Can I do something? Can I light their way? I would die…and do die daily…just to be a light for them somehow! Where will they find a buddha? Will love stay with them? Will they cry for me and I am not there! Oh, Chaitanyo, I can well understand this pain you feel.
I send you all my love! And gratitude for you continued sharing!
and thank you!
OM Shanti, Shanti OM, all is light even in moments of darkness, we are THAT even in moments of turmoil, we are THAT even in moments of joy.
I bow!
Gassho
Love
Cheyenne