In the darkest times or periods of your life, don’t search as Henri Nouwen did for decades. Instead wait: feel the emotions, run/jog/walk the jitters off and wait till it passes and if you can’t wait then do what feel right but don’t search as we all are taught. In Tibet in the Darkest of Times, The Dalai Lama has taught that the Tibetans in search are used or taught by the Chinese, but if the Tibetans in search waited then they’d feel what they needed or had or should or ought to do. When he suffered, He Taught that we should search, then he felt a tingle in his mind then in his body then in both: don’t wait and you’ll find Tibet sunken in muck but if you wait and don’t search internally so much and not externally but wait for me to surface then you’ll find your way. Don’t suffer mindlessly he heard but with worth or realitically, not as Nouwen taught and searched the globe for meaning–Harvard from his native France, then missionary work, then Harvard again then monastic work in cloister then L’Arche where he was taught to wait. Now wait and see is famous; Do It and see what happens is also famous from the same movie. But the repercussions/consequences/externalities as I have written later on Tee Hee I go back and forth on this blog/and residue as I have also taught later on. Now the repercussions for searching is a busy life and the repercussions for waiting is serenity\weight\and colossal headaches but worth for self and every body else in your life\community\culture\society\and mindset as I have defined later on. All these items fall in to place and happenings\synchronisity as I searched for endlessly, now happen for me. Do it and see what happens is searching and I wait now, lose traction and wait, lose traction and wait and something always transpires sooner or later. I have a fixed income so I can wait but even when I did, I searched; I have steady employment that allows for happenings and I always wanted this type of employment and I own my own home–savings from inheritance or I’d be homeless if I waited. How do we bring this about–take mini vacations from work and see what arises in those microcasms of solitude. If jitters arise then run earrands, do what is appropriate for you but take them and see. Don’t search endlessly for jobs as I did but wait and take mini vacations–not leaving your current locale or town. Search instead for inklings like the Dalai Lama did in his darkest hours: search like Nouwen and you’ll end up barren in someone else’s arms doing for them as they dictate. I found it he said, on his death bed, but I am a scholar and the Dalai Lama whispered, you found it then at Harvard, why didn’t you wait and he died with a smile on his face. Pressure the Dalai Lama asked? Then he thought, no searching was the answer till someone could give to you in the same way you give. Instead I’ll search inside\outside and all around me for an inking and find a different way. You Taught me. You Taught Me. You Taught Me. You Taught Me. You Taught Me. And He says it still to Nouwen in whispers and doesn’t read his book for he gets swept away in the mind hold of wanting. See His Teachings on Nouwen’s Death in His current book of essays, called, Demi-Sweet.
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