Ezekiel 34:27 · World English Bible
The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
The yoke that binds you is not laid on you by the world but by the compulsive mind that enslaves you to the past and its demands. Those who served themselves of you are the thoughts that feed on your attention and call it living.
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EGO & BEING
The yoke that binds you is not laid on you by the world but by the compulsive mind that enslaves you to the past and its demands. Those who served themselves of you are the thoughts that feed on your attention and call it living.
When that bondage is broken and you return to presence, life flows through you without strain. The tree of the field yields her fruit and the earth her increase, because you are no longer blocking the natural abundance of Being. You feel safe at last and recognize the aware presence that was living your life all along while the mind took the credit.
Ego v. Being lens
How much of your effort today is the work, and how much is the straining on top of it?
The way does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. When the forcing stops, things grow the way they were going to grow.
After the long struggle to catch and tame the ox, the herder puts the rope down and simply goes to the market. The work becomes ordinary and effortless once the fight ends.
The cook's blade stays sharp for years because he cuts along the natural openings instead of hacking. Skill is finding where life already gives way.
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Ego v. Being