Allow ?...

In these reflections or other pointers, you may hear words like, “allow thoughts and emotions to arise and fall.” But do you even have control in allowing thoughts and emotions to arise? Allowing still implies control, doesn’t it? It implies that there is a person who has control over what arises. Is that true?

When you see the word “allow” used in these reflections, the word is pointing to the natural and effortless noticing of what is already happening. The word has nothing to do with personal will or effort.

Thoughts are arising. Emotions are happening. There can only be a seeing that this is already the case.

When you hear, “allow this situation to be as it is,” what that really means is notice that this situation is already happening in exactly the way it is happening.

In that way, noticing is allowing life to be just as it is. Even when there is no noticing, that inattention is also just happening. Life is living itself, whether there is an awareness of what is happening or not. In that seeing, seeking, resistance, and suffering end. Yet if seeking, resistance, and suffering arise again, notice that these movements are also just happening beyond ‘your’ control. That is what is meant by the word “allow.”



~ From: Reflections of the One Life by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com/