Taking a Break from All Your Worries
Written on January 24, 2009 by Tom Stine
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn’t you like to get away?”
Funny the thoughts that will rattle through one’s head, completely unbidden. I awoke this morning and kept hearing the Cheers theme song playing in my mind. I could see Norm sitting on his bar stool quipping one-liners that never failed to make me laugh. One of my favorites:
Woody: How’s life treating you Mr. Peterson?
Norm: Like I just ran over its dog.
If you are asking, “what does this silliness have to do with spirituality and awakening?” then I’m afraid I haven’t got a good answer. In a certain sense I’m not trying to make a pithy comment on spiritual awakening. But I will say one thing: all moments of genuine awakening are in fact the only break you will ever get from all your worries. Awakening is the only answer.
If awakening is the only answer, then what does this mean for all the programs, courses, techniques, etc., that are supposed to help free us from all our worries? What about things like the Sedona Method that I have promoted right here on this website? Don’t they work, too?
Well, in truth, they really are only a step in the right direction. All these programs, courses, techniques, etc., get us to start questioning all of our assumptions about life, so they have a place and often can prove helpful. But in the end, like everything else in this world, they prove to be unsatisfactory.
In the end, to find true relief for what ails us, we might find ourselves, if we are lucky, stuck. The old ways don’t seem to work any more. The old techniques have us feeling lost. We have no idea what to do. And so, out of desperation, we do the only thing we can do: we sit, we reflect, we look within, and we begin to question.
We do what Nisargadatta Maharaj did. We do what Adyashanti did. We do what Ramana Maharshi did. We question. We investigate. We wonder if all of our old assumptions are true. Ramana questioned one assumption: death. Nisargadatta was told by his guru, “You are the supreme ultimate reality. Now go discover that for yourself.” So he sat and sat and sat until he saw through everything that said otherwise.
So simple. So utterly simple. Sit. Question. Let the truth be revealed to you as you question that which is false. And here’s a little hint: no thought, no belief is true! Now go find that out for yourself. And when you do, you will take a permanent break from all your worries.
Namaste.
on January 24th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
True.
on January 24th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Welcome back Tommy! We missed you
on January 24th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Great post Tom! It seems like for each individual, even those very close in nature, relations and direction, there are different approaches. In this case, it is a letting go of a purpose or the ‘I’Me’ trying to get someplace. Grace takes us to where we can reveal what is under the surface, the forgotten part of our true nature, the ‘I Am’.
Grace allows a maturing into awakening that ‘I’ have nothing to do with, just trust it t be so and stop resisting, doing or striving for and end result.
Just posted a new Psiplex video on YouTube , a tribute to Mooji’s book ‘Before I AM’ that has helped a lot. The link is:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj98ryoCBz0
A PDF version of it can be viewed at: http://issuu.com/psibase/docs/lifeseries3
Just saying thanks to Mooji and team for some great pointers coming at the perfect time.
One Love
on January 25th, 2009 at 6:40 am
no thought, no belief is true! Awesome, so simple but so hard to practice.
on January 26th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Tom comes back with quotes from Cheers?
Don’t worry, be happy. No Worries. What me worry?
Doesn’t sound like Tom is.
Feelin’ Groovy?
on January 26th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Nice article – well done!!
I read somewhere a quote that just stuck for some reason:
“dont take yourself so seriously, no one else does”
I think sometimes on our journeys we forget to have fun, to actually just stop being so intense for a minute and sit back and enjoy the ride!
on January 27th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Hi
nice post,, taking a break from all the worries in this materialist world is little tough, as in the present stressful life our brain are subconsciously programmed to be worried about some or the other things all the time , they may either be a matter of concern or be out of our area of concern. To learn the art of relaxing is little tough but not impossible.
Thanks
Padmaja
http://www.p2w2.com/padmajavenkata/
on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Basic fact of life is that we will always have worries. However we can turn worrying in a positive direction when we develop a keen sense of self-awareness; when we look within ourselves to search for answers and solutions which consequently results in feelings of control, empowerment and eventually freedom from worry.
on February 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
@Sharon I don’t know if I agree that we always have worries. We may experience worry, but does that mean it is a given? I really prefer to look at it from the perspective of the person who is worrying, not the worry itself. Find out who is worrying, and you will see there never was worry.