Pay No Mind
Paying no mind shows that I am in harmony with what is happening internally.
What I mean by the “goings-on” is surely related to Now’s impossibility to be different. The “goings-on” is the form taken by the unique moment. Being in cooperation with the “goings-on” means being in a non-resistant relationship with them inside. It is not instilling them with mental labels such as “good” or “bad” but let them be what they are meant to be.
Paying no mind is an harmony that allows life without judgment rather than resisting it, the capacity to lovingly embrace everything with your cognition.
If there is really nothing you can do to change the Moment you are living and you cannot walk away from it, then let go of all inner resistance and accept the moment completely. Then the false, unhappy self that likes to feel unhappiness, resentment, and self-pity cannot survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not a weakness. There is great power in it.
Only a surrendered person has spiritual power.
Through surrender you become internally free from the situation. Then you may find that the situation has changed without your effort. In both cases, you are free.
Or is there something you “should” do but cannot do?
Get up and do it now. Or if that is your choice, fully accept your inaction, laziness, or passivity right now. Penetrate it completely. Enjoy it. Be as lazy or inactive as you can.
If you go into it completely and consciously, you will soon come out of it. Or maybe you just can’t. Either way, there is no inner conflict, no resistance, no negativity.
Well, does this situation mean that we cannot make an attempt to make a difference in our lives? No, on the contrary. If being in harmony with the Now lies behind our actions, the intelligence of Life itself will surely empower them.
Büyük Hintli düşünür ve spiritüel eğitmen J. Krishnamurti, elli yılı aşkın bir süre boyunca neredeyse hiç durmadan bütün dünyayı dolaşarak, insanlara sözcüklerle ifade edilmesi mümkün olmayanı, yani sözcük ve içerik ötesinde olanı anlatmaya çalışmıştır. During one of the speeches he gave in his declining years, he surprised his audience by asking; “Do you want to know my secret?” Everyone was suddenly all ears. Many of his audience had been listening to him for twenty, or thirty years, however, none of them could comprehend the bottom line of his teachings. They believed that their teacher was finally about to offer them the key to comprehending his teachings after all those years. However, the master only said; “I pay no mind to the goings-on.” “This is my secret.”
For surrender, Mevlana says:
The aim of the one who hits the rug with a stick is not to beat the rug, but to remove the dust. God takes away your dust and dirt by giving you trouble. Why are you sad?
Statement of Surrender
The universal mind within me forgives my worries, anxieties, trivial troubles, and I give them to you. I know that you have a mind that can solve problems much better than me. Set up the players in my world so the doors open. Inner intelligence, I leave my sorrows and self-pity to you. For a long time I could not cope with my inner thoughts and actions. I allow you to intervene and offer a higher life that is right for me.
With Love…
