Is your You in the driving seat?

Your driver is your karma, taking over and driving you all over the place. Some days it’s interesting, some days it’s boring and some days it’s just routine as usual. And, who’s in the back seat?

How do we change this arrangement?

Well, actually we don’t. We merely recognise it. Karma still drive us, but it is just playing itself out…of a job! The closer we look, the more we recognise that the driver is less and less important. It’s now a mere driver, a mere I.

Our route was set up by our past actions and reactions, causes and conditions. If these do not change, then the driver keeps following the sat nav (GPS). When we recognise – meaning that we are aware – from there we can look, see, drop, rest. We remember that we are on a journey to no where…now here!

We lose a sense of direction when our driver goes through the same old routines. Sometimes, our practice feels a little jaded, and we might even want to give up. But that will only invite more suffering. It’s foolish to stop, and we also feel foolish being on the journey to nowhere.

However, being now here allows everything to drop away, and space occurs. It’s not familiar so we are not sure what we are supposed to do in this space. It may sound trite to say, “Just be happy”, but that is your natural state…get used to it! Our karma – our programmed sat nav – has to play itself out while we are not adding to it.

Must go…my driver’s waiting…. 🙂